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Edminster posted:Not really! Isn't it the other way around? The real side portal would end up thousands of blocks away.
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Oct 20, 2013 07:53
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Kamrat posted:Isn't it the other way around? The real side portal would end up thousands of blocks away. It is late and I haven't played Minecraft in a while, but I am fairly certain that if the nether coords to the portal is 480, -320 then the real side should be placed at 60, -40.
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Oct 20, 2013 09:01
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Edminster posted:It is late and I haven't played Minecraft in a while, but I am fairly certain that if the nether coords to the portal is 480, -320 then the real side should be placed at 60, -40. One block in the nether is eight in the overworld. One of the intended purposes of the nether is for fast travel between two places in the regular side. My server has a similar setup where the nether fortress is 300 blocks away from the original nether portal and putting a new portal inside the fortress brought us out thousands of blocks away from spawn.
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Oct 20, 2013 11:41
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Well I guess it turns out I am incredibly retarded v vIn which case yeah the massive pain in the rear end dodging ghasts and firebats to build a highway through hell is the way to go.
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Oct 20, 2013 12:02
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Edminster posted:Well I guess it turns out I am incredibly retarded v Get up to the Nether roof and just plow your way through up there above all the caves.
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Oct 20, 2013 12:27
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Notch and Dinnerbone are both playing on the Minecrack server live stream right now, just digging out land. Kind of weird and interesting in its own way.
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Oct 20, 2013 13:21
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That all sounds amazing! Any chance there is a recording of this? I'm assuming that the various players will have their own videos for their channels, but it would be interesting to see it in its raw, undistilled form.
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Oct 20, 2013 13:43
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It was really bizarre. Notch and SethBling got addicted to the Haste 2 that Doc had for mining out his mountain, then they all played Seth's Building Game together.
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Oct 20, 2013 16:15
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Klungar posted:That all sounds amazing! Any chance there is a recording of this? I'm assuming that the various players will have their own videos for their channels, but it would be interesting to see it in its raw, undistilled form.
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Oct 20, 2013 16:26
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Edminster posted:Well I guess it turns out I am incredibly retarded v Eventually, when I'm ready to actually go to the Nether, this is what I'll end up doing. I'm not a person who likes to just build lovely bridges and stuff to get from Point A to Point B, so I'll take my time to create a whole big thing out of the Nether and slowly work my way over to the fortress. Oh and aside from the inconvenient fortress, this map also doesn't have any horses closeby, which kinda sucks. Still, this seed is the best fit I've found so far for what I want in a world, so I think I'm going to stick with it.
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Oct 20, 2013 19:20
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Word of advice for anyone planning on buying a new license for Minecraft just to change your profile name. Don't do it. Every name in the universe has already been taken. 
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Oct 21, 2013 00:03
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Jamesman posted:Word of advice for anyone planning on buying a new license for Minecraft just to change your profile name. Don't do it. Every name in the universe has already been taken. Why would you buy a second account when their account personnel are working on allowing you to change names for free?
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Oct 21, 2013 00:14
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poo poo, seriously?
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Oct 21, 2013 00:29
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Updating a value in a database is quite difficult, I'm sure we will get several related but not quite what we want features in the next decade to compensate for the lack of a simple in-game name update form.
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Oct 21, 2013 00:31
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In two versions you will have the option to add and remove punctuation marks and a checkbox to convert all your spaces to underscores and vice versa.
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Oct 21, 2013 00:43
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Enzer posted:Why would you buy a second account when their account personnel are working on allowing you to change names for free? I had my reasons. I don't anymore. Back to playing with my blocks.
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Oct 21, 2013 00:44
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Enzer posted:Why would you buy a second account when their account personnel are working on allowing you to change names for free? Haha yeah man, just any day now. Their account personnel are working on all these great new features that'll come aaannnny day now. I'm pretty sure they've been promising this for 3 years.
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Oct 21, 2013 01:33
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Jamesman posted:Word of advice for anyone planning on buying a new license for Minecraft just to change your profile name. Don't do it. Every name in the universe has already been taken. I discovered this when I bought an account for a family friend the other day, I think we must have sat there are tried something like 50 combinations before one got accepted...probably didn't help that they were all related to Zelda, Batman, or various dinosaur breeds though. (She legitimately has Asperger's, and unsurprisingly has been obsessed with the game ever since I showed it to her...now I get my computer back, and the addiction becomes her mom's problem.  )I'm glad I got onboard with the game early and all, but sometimes I feel bad about snagging a cool name like 'Legendary' when I am objectively bad at building things and play only sporadically. (on Peaceful because I'm a big baby and gently caress spiders and that horrible sound they make) v v...of course then I remember how terrible the Minecraft community is and quickly get over any misplaced feelings of pity.
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Fallom posted:Haha yeah man, just any day now. Their account personnel are working on all these great new features that'll come aaannnny day now. True, but one of the strange things that seems to be happening lately is poo poo actually getting done.
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Oct 21, 2013 02:06
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Fallom posted:Haha yeah man, just any day now. Their account personnel are working on all these great new features that'll come aaannnny day now. Sylink posted:Updating a value in a database is quite difficult, I'm sure we will get several related but not quite what we want features in the next decade to compensate for the lack of a simple in-game name update form. There is a lot of things they need to take into account. Firstly, they have to get users to switch over to a new log in system, which they have been doing with Mojang accounts. This ties your login to an email instead of a username since they have been using your ingame name as your account login for years, with millions of sales that is a loving ton of people to get migrated over. That said, it is not too big an issue, your are correct, but it does make the actual implementation messy when not everyone is on the same goddamn account system. However, the biggest hurdle they have been working on is multiplayer server security. Most servers rely on a whitelist/graylist/blacklist system to allow/augment rights or ban players. Giving players the ability to change their name not only subverts this security feature entirely, but also invalidates important lists such as MCBans which a lot of public server owners rely on. The MC dev team has been working on a UUID format as well as a system that will auto convert peoples pre-existing ban lists. There is strong indication that this system is almost done, in fact Dinnerbone stated last month that the 1.7 snapshot includes part of the UUID system. My bet is that if it isn't part of 1.7, it will be part of 1.8, or released as a standalone thing. We will probably hear about it next month at Minecon at the very least since it gets brought up every year. Either way, waiting a bit for this feature is probably better than buying the game again. I really don't know why people keep bashing the dev team, they've been kicking rear end in regards to doing massive loving overhauls of the game (render engine, sound engine, lighting engine have all been rewritten from scratch in the last few months for example).  VVVV That is what I assumed. Just seems funny sometimes, like people still think we are back in the days of Notch going "gently caress it" to actually implementing something correctly because he is either poo poo at codding or, as he has admitted before, doing it properly was such a "daunting" task that it triggered his laziness. Enzer fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Enzer posted:I really don't know why people keep bashing the dev team, they've been kicking rear end in regards to doing massive loving overhauls of the game (render engine, sound engine, lighting engine have all been rewritten from scratch in the last few months for example). I think it's just a holdover from a year or so back when meaningful updates were slow. This thread saw frequent and legitimate complaints. I don't think anyone could deny that they've done a loving barnstorming job recently. All the poo poo people used to moan about has been addressed one by one, many of the features people have requested endlessly have been added one by one. Sure there is still some fundamental stuff on the to-do list, but god drat Jeb and Dinnerbone and co have been doing solid work. Huge respect to them, they are good people.
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There was a website, I think I saw it around when minecraft 1.1 was being released, where you could enter two minecraft versions and compare them. It went basically as far as you could to compare them without actively decompiling the source files, including not just new textures and block/item ids, but full diffs of the class files. You could put in every version from beta 1.0 and above, even pre-releases and snapshots. Does anybody know of anything like this? I swear it existed but never wrote down the name.
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Would anybody be interested in setting up some games of Seth Bling's The Building Game? It's basically broken picture telephone in Minecraft. You can get the map here: http://sethbling.com/TheBuildingGame
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Enzer posted:There is a lot of things they need to take into account. Firstly, they have to get users to switch over to a new log in system, which they have been doing with Mojang accounts. This ties your login to an email instead of a username since they have been using your ingame name as your account login for years, with millions of sales that is a loving ton of people to get migrated over. That said, it is not too big an issue, your are correct, but it does make the actual implementation messy when not everyone is on the same goddamn account system. Yeah man you're right Minecraft is so revolutionary with its 'ability to change name but keep the internal user ID the same so ban lists don't have to be updated' feature, I'm sure that no other program has a system like that so its understandable for them to take 3 years to develop it since its all new technology!
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AllisonByProxy posted:Would anybody be interested in setting up some games of Seth Bling's The Building Game? It's basically broken picture telephone in Minecraft. You can get the map here: http://sethbling.com/TheBuildingGame This is absolutely hilarious and a great idea for a minigame. Would probably have to add a rule of no phallic objects once the first game of 7 dongs finishes 
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ChewyLSB posted:Yeah man you're right Minecraft is so revolutionary with its 'ability to change name but keep the internal user ID the same so ban lists don't have to be updated' feature, I'm sure that no other program has a system like that so its understandable for them to take 3 years to develop it since its all new technology! Or, you know, its taken them about a year from when the current devs stated they started developing it alongside major revisions, refactors and rewriting of core engines. Notch saying that it will be a feature in the future never meant he actually looked at it himself, same poo poo as his promise of an API. God forbid the current devs have had their hands full trying to fix his mess and god forbid it takes time to develop and implement systems. Nah, lets just continue to be angry about poo poo some guy promised who hasn't worked on the game in two years, because making GBS threads on people who have to clean up the mess makes us edgy and cool. 
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Oct 21, 2013 17:04
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So this just popped up on steam. How is this not exactly just a Minecraft mod?  
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Oct 21, 2013 19:09
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By virtue of not being a Minecraft mod? You question doesn't make any sense.
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Oct 21, 2013 19:11
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It seems more like a roguelike with MC-like visuals. I'm not seeing any mining or crafting, at least.
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Oct 21, 2013 19:16
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No don't you see, pixels + first person is always a minecraft mod/clone! Dumb questions aside, the video for the game looks pretty interesting so thanks for alerting it to me in a roundabout way.
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Demiurge4 posted:So this just popped up on steam. How is this not exactly just a Minecraft mod? Dude I know right? It's like back in the day how every game that involved a character moving from left to right and jumping on platforms was a Mario mod!  Eldritch is fun, if very very short. I hope the developer adds more content. Also, The fact that you lose all 3 gems if you die in the 4th world is loving brutal and I haven't played it since this happened to me.
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Early snapshot this week. Things of note: -Jukeboxes now loop and the game can now properly handle multiple songs playing at once. -Saplings for Acacia and "Roofed Oak" are now available. They currently use copied textures of Jungle and Spruce, but they still separate textures (meaning that even if the devs do not give them more unique textures, texture artist can). They also have their own leaf blocks. Roofed Oaks grow similar to jungle trees (minus the jungle tree mini version) in that you need to put the saplings down in a 2x2 area. Currently they now turn into oak planks, unsure if they will change that before 1.7 is out, in the future, or not at all.   -Added /setworldspawn <x> <y> <z> to set the world's default spawn point. -Ton of bug fixes. Enzer fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Oct 21, 2013 19:23
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I think a blocky ode-to-Lovecraft dungeon crawler sounds pretty neat, actually. Minecraft didn't invent the "everything is blocky voxels and pixels" art style y'know.Enzer posted:-Saplings for Acacia and "Roofed Oak" are now available. They currently use copied textures of Jungle and Spruce, but they still separate textures (meaning that even if the devs do not give them more unique textures, texture artist can). They also have their own leaf blocks. Roofed Oaks grow similar to jungle trees (minus the jungle tree mini version) in that you need to put the saplings down in a 2x2 area. Holy crap more tree types. 
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Demiurge4 posted:So this just popped up on steam. How is this not exactly just a Minecraft mod? Bought this the first day it was available from the developer and beat it from start to finish on my first try. Enemies have sight cones and can hear sounds and have other basic behaviors, crouching puts you in stealth and allows you to move through 1-high passages, crouching while sprinting lets you power slide a la Mirrors Edge, you can mantle over objects you can jump and reach the lip of, and attacking unaware enemies deals double damage. You've got slots for equippable artifacts that change your abilities or grant you new ones, and you can pray at shrines to receive magic powers. It's a first person roguelike that replaces turn-based high stakes strategy with the means to steamroll everything in your path via entertaining but ludicrously powerful abilities. There's only one "building" power in the game, and it's a spell you can use to make magic blocks for stepping across gaps and stuff. The only thing it has in common with Minecraft is the 3D developer art. Even then, Eldritch has a better sense of design. It's a shame it's so short/small/easy. Edit: If Minecraft borrowed the traps and movement mechanics from Eldritch I'd be pretty pleased. They'd be wasted without massive complex ruins being generated basically everywhere though. Cephalocidal fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Enzer posted:-Added /setworldspawn <x> <y> <z> to set the world's default spawn point.
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Kind of bummed that all of this overworld stuff is being added without any changes to underground terrain generation. I hope adding random dungeons and other underground biomes is still on the table (since I thought above ground changes were off the table to begin with.) The game needs some more mobs for all these biome expansions. Villages also need to be more useful.
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ToastyPotato posted:Kind of bummed that all of this overworld stuff is being added without any changes to underground terrain generation. I hope adding random dungeons and other underground biomes is still on the table (since I thought above ground changes were off the table to begin with.) They'll add new underground generation and ores and biome mobs and stuff in 1.8, and then you'll have to make a new world again. Don't worry.
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Jamesman posted:They'll add new underground generation and ores and biome mobs and stuff in 1.8, and then you'll have to make a new world again. Don't worry. Why would I have to start over instead of just walking into the distance and finding the new stuff like always? That's what I am going to have to do in 1.7 anyway.
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ToastyPotato posted:Why would I have to start over instead of just walking into the distance and finding the new stuff like always? That's what I am going to have to do in 1.7 anyway. It causes ugly world tears in generation that a lot of people do not like. Also if you plan to do this, make sure to load your world in 1.6.4 first and let it save. They changed the world save format in 1.7 and if you don't save in 1.6.4 (not 1.6.2), you'll have structures disappear from your save file. Also, 1.7 is slated to be released Oct 25, this Friday. Also on that list: "Lots of hidden preparation for allowing name changes." Looks like a 1.8 status for name change. Edit: I'm so proud of the dev team, they added planks slabs and stairs (and also seemed to have tweaked the bottom of log blocks to be separate textures).  From left to right: Oak, Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia and Dark Oak (was roofed oak). The giant spruce trees you can see in some biomes can now be grown as well using 2x2 spruce saplings. Enzer fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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