Minecraft

Don't we have villagers we could just beat it out of? ...I guess it's off to the borders this weekend. Hey LM, can we discover a new village? Or will that make the server whimper?

Or would he be so kind as to just give us some starts and we'll go from there instead of working the bounds?

Would you kindly,
spawn some carrots please.

I planted some carrots and potatoes in the area around spawn to get things started.

Awesome! Thank you very much.

What has Plants vs. Zombies got to do with Minecraft? Dropping a bunch of vouchers for a different game into this thread comes off as kinda iffy.

Anyone ran into any of the new enemy mobs? I haven't spent any substantial length of time in my world, and I'm curious how it's all working out.

I've seen bats! They just fly around in caves, and they'll fly out of caves at night. It's a good atmospheric effect.

I'm playing a single-player world during my train commute every day, half hour each way, and I spent the last two days searching for potatoes and carrots. I'm playing Survival, so I had to run to a new area of the world in hopes of finding a village. It turned into a pretty epic adventure before I finally found a village, and it was the most excited I've been in a video game in a while when I saw the outline of man-made shapes on top of a plateau. It's one of the many things I love about Minecraft - I didn't need to find potatoes and carrots, but I wanted to (carrot on a stick!). The game didn't necessarily have to unfold with no village in my immediate vicinity, prompting a huge exploration, but it did. I didn't have to die when I saw a skeleton with an Enchanted bow for loot, but I did (forgot to check my hunger level, and my cat jumped onto my lap while trying to fight multiple mobs). That death occurred far from home, and I died again trying to get back there to loot my own collection good stuff, and I wasn't even sure I could find it because it was a place I'd never been before.

And again, I'm reminded how easy it is to get lost with no map. I put up five block high pillars with a torch at the top in open areas, and keep to a straight line in jungles, forests, and extreme hills where the pillars aren't as noticeable. Despite those methods of pathfinding, I doubled back on my trail a couple times.

Now that I've found a village, I'm wondering if I'll be able to find my way back to my current base of operations with my new crops, or if I'll be able to locate again the grey or light-brown sheep I saw on my journey. It's another goal for a future day - make a farm of unusually-colored sheep for future wool harvests.

sithload wrote:

I've seen bats! They just fly around in caves, and they'll fly out of caves at night. It's a good atmospheric effect.

I'm playing a single-player world during my train commute every day, half hour each way, and I spent the last two days searching for potatoes and carrots. I'm playing Survival, so I had to run to a new area of the world in hopes of finding a village. It turned into a pretty epic adventure before I finally found a village, and it was the most excited I've been in a video game in a while when I saw the outline of man-made shapes on top of a plateau. It's one of the many things I love about Minecraft - I didn't need to find potatoes and carrots, but I wanted to (carrot on a stick!). The game didn't necessarily have to unfold with no village in my immediate vicinity, prompting a huge exploration, but it did. I didn't have to die when I saw a skeleton with an Enchanted bow for loot, but I did (forgot to check my hunger level, and my cat jumped onto my lap while trying to fight multiple mobs). That death occurred far from home, and I died again trying to get back there to loot my own collection good stuff, and I wasn't even sure I could find it because it was a place I'd never been before.

And again, I'm reminded how easy it is to get lost with no map. I put up five block high pillars with a torch at the top in open areas, and keep to a straight line in jungles, forests, and extreme hills where the pillars aren't as noticeable. Despite those methods of pathfinding, I doubled back on my trail a couple times.

Now that I've found a village, I'm wondering if I'll be able to find my way back to my current base of operations with my new crops, or if I'll be able to locate again the grey or light-brown sheep I saw on my journey. It's another goal for a future day - make a farm of unusually-colored sheep for future wool harvests.

Your cat rides the train with you? That's swell!

sithload wrote:

Now that I've found a village, I'm wondering if I'll be able to find my way back to my current base of operations with my new crops, or if I'll be able to locate again the grey or light-brown sheep I saw on my journey. It's another goal for a future day - make a farm of unusually-colored sheep for future wool harvests.

There are bunch of offline mappers you can use for single player games. I think MC Visualizer is a pretty easy to use one. That'll help locate your start area.

Mixolyde wrote:
sithload wrote:

Now that I've found a village, I'm wondering if I'll be able to find my way back to my current base of operations with my new crops, or if I'll be able to locate again the grey or light-brown sheep I saw on my journey. It's another goal for a future day - make a farm of unusually-colored sheep for future wool harvests.

There are bunch of offline mappers you can use for single player games. I think MC Visualizer is a pretty easy to use one. That'll help locate your start area.

Thanks! But that spoils what I like about single player. I'd probably start building somewhere new if I got completely lost. With the day off work because of the hurricane, I worked my way back with stacks of carrots and potatoes. Took twenty minutes of nonstop running, with just one semi-wrong turn, but now I can finally get started on my pig farm

plavonica wrote:
CY wrote:

What has Plants vs. Zombies got to do with Minecraft? Dropping a bunch of vouchers for a different game into this thread comes off as kinda iffy.

They are kind of similar in a casual game style so I thought I would share the goods for those of us without much money to spend. Sorry for the offense.

That's okay! That was my only explanatory theory, really, other than it being iffy. Just asked as I wasn't sure at the time whether it was in more threads than just the MC pair.

I saw them online.
Thought it was a great idea. Happy to know about them.
Not sure what is iffy about the gesture. If the minecraft thread is your branch of the community, then I can see wanting to share "locally".

Ghostship wrote:

I saw them online.
Thought it was a great idea. Happy to know about them.
Not sure what is iffy about the gesture. If the minecraft thread is your branch of the community, then I can see wanting to share "locally".

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Dakuna wrote:
Ghostship wrote:

I saw them online.
Thought it was a great idea. Happy to know about them.
Not sure what is iffy about the gesture. If the minecraft thread is your branch of the community, then I can see wanting to share "locally".

You're a bot spamming the thread with ad links!! BAN BAN BAN! Just kidding :)

I work in SEO, so that's basically how my brain works. The thread's very on-topic, so it stood out.

What is SEO?

Search engine optimization. It's the craft of getting a site to show up higher in search results.

wordsmythe wrote:

Search engine optimization. It's the craft of getting a site to show up higher in search results.

Mhm. I work as a writer, so I'm versed in all sorts of strategies in getting links into content, so I view everything with a natural suspicion.

CY wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

Search engine optimization. It's the craft of getting a site to show up higher in search results.

Mhm. I work as a writer, so I'm versed in all sorts of strategies in getting links into content, so I view everything with a natural suspicion.

Is that so?

Irongut wrote:
CY wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

Search engine optimization. It's the craft of getting a site to show up higher in search results.

Mhm. I work as a writer, so I'm versed in all sorts of strategies in getting links into content, so I view everything with a natural suspicion.

Is that so?

Ar har har, I see what you did there. :P.

I've been playing with custom magic items for my dungeon generator. The fact that this actually works in vanilla minecraft makes me giggle, and giggle, and giggle:

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You can enchant a fish to use as a sword? Or you can enchant a fishing rid?

Efficiency says fishing rod.
Marlin sabre, so needs to be a weapon.

More like enchanting a fish and using it as a pick or shovel. You don't get the proper drops (because it's a fish) but it breaks things REALLY fast.

I've not tried a combat enchant like sharpness yet. It might work. I went for E-FISH-ency... on a fish.

My third grade son and his friends are really getting into Minecraft, and I've setup a server on my PC for them to come together and play on. Up until now it has been the standard Minecraft server, but the events of today have had me at least wonder if I was setting things up correctly. One of the more aggressive kids in his class was given the server IP, and while I was not thrilled, I wanted to at least give him a chance to see how it went. This server has been up for almost a month, and except for some bickering about things taken after someone died, it's been very civil. Today that all changed. F-bombs, calling people stupid, immediately asking of OP control... that was the first 2 hours of his presence. Also, if someone plays for 1-2 hours, and they are experienced players, would two full sets of diamond armor and diamond tools be out of the realm of possibility (remember -- 3rd grade)? Up until now, diamond has not been a regularly discovered thing by the kids that were playing.

I've been on and told him that the aggressive behavior and language was not going to be tolerated, and that I was logging everything (which I am only doing in a partial sense -- I see the chat log of what is going on), but this kid has considerable more freedom on his PC than any of the friends that used the server up to this point have. It would not surprise me if he could implement some of the cheats and hacks if it is possible to do so. Is there any way to lock down a standard server short of just outright banning him? I want to give him a chance to prove he's able to abide by the rules of the server, and I'm willing to wipe everything and start fresh with a white list if I have too, but looking at things like bukkit, it just seems like extreme overkill for what I am trying to do. Everyone is on 1.4.2 now, and apparently bukkit hasn't reached that point yet. I downloaded a copy of the beta 1.4.2 compatible version, but could not get any of the pluggins I downloaded to even register they were there. I'm guessing that until it becomes an official release, it is best to approach bukkit with the older version?

So are there settings I should check with the standard server setup to help ensure that this kid does not come in and ruin the experience for everyone else at a time where I'm not monitoring what is going on, or is banning the only real way to prevent this?

sheared wrote:

Also, if someone plays for 1-2 hours, and they are experienced players, would two full sets of diamond armor and diamond tools be out of the realm of possibility (remember -- 3rd grade)? Up until now, diamond has not been a regularly discovered thing by the kids that were playing.

No way. Definite hack.

So are there settings I should check with the standard server setup to help ensure that this kid does not come in and ruin the experience for everyone else at a time where I'm not monitoring what is going on, or is banning the only real way to prevent this?

If you really want to let him on - I'd check with your son to see how he feels about it - then maybe implement access control on the server? You should be able to do this with a simple firewall. Just block his IP when you don't want him on.

Just create a whitelist and make sure he's not on it.

sheared, you'd have to look at third party mods for that kind of control. If bukkit was up to date, that'd be the way to go. However, there's no telling when it'll be up and running, so I don't know if there are even any mods/plugins that work with 1.4.2.

Bukkit does work with 1.4.2, though there isn't a recommended version yet.

For anti-griefing and logging, the CoreProtect plugin I normally use needs an update. WorldEdit/WorldGuard are both updated though. I don't use those, but they look like they could do the job of protecting areas from the worst stuff.

The other plugins I'm using on the neighborhood server (Multiverse with Core, Inventories, and Portals; MineBackup) all work properly without having been updated yet, though I see on the forums there is a lesser-used portal function which has a problem (old nether-style portals work fine).

Moggy wrote:
sheared wrote:

Also, if someone plays for 1-2 hours, and they are experienced players, would two full sets of diamond armor and diamond tools be out of the realm of possibility (remember -- 3rd grade)? Up until now, diamond has not been a regularly discovered thing by the kids that were playing.

No way. Definite hack.

So are there settings I should check with the standard server setup to help ensure that this kid does not come in and ruin the experience for everyone else at a time where I'm not monitoring what is going on, or is banning the only real way to prevent this?

If you really want to let him on - I'd check with your son to see how he feels about it - then maybe implement access control on the server? You should be able to do this with a simple firewall. Just block his IP when you don't want him on.

I got lucky once, and came out with 21 diamonds after only about an hour and a half of creating a rigidly structured branch mine. That's the most I've ever found in three years. One set of armour is 26 items if I recall. Two full sets of armour and even just one full set of tools? Not possible in my opinion.

Ban the turd. Not only is he cheating, he's being disruptive. Privilege revoked.

Just watch for playground repercussions, and tell the teachers of the potential bullying incident, because that will almost certainly follow. I see why you're being lenient, even though he doesn't deserve it.

The guy might not have been hacking, he may have simply been stealing from other players' chests.