Togglesworlh
Banned
Oooh, yes. But then we also need like coral reefs and stuff! X:
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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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Oooh, yes. But then we also need like coral reefs and stuff! X:
I'm guessing it's a bug. The lighting system is all kinds of screwed up now. Even areas underground are completely lit.
legacyzero
Banned
Hey, it's easier to see clay 
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I agree, it's actually kind of nice. I'd like to see ocean biomes, where the water color / transparency changes. Kind of like how the water changes for swamps now. Have like a normal ocean biome with the water the way it is in 1.1, a tropical ocean biome with this clear water, the swamp biome water, etc. It would make certain biomes better for scuba diving and clay hunting and such.
It would be awesome to have an opacity that depends how deep the water is. Along the coasts it would be clear as in the latest game image. If you'd go further into the ocean, it would get deeper and more opaque.
legacyzero
Banned
Oh hey, hows those redstone lights treating everyone? Need pics!
The problem is that since the lighting engine got screwed up in the snapshot, it's hard to tell how much light the redstone lamps put out, since it's hard to find an area that's actually dark.
EDIT: Duh, or I could just wait until nightfall and check it that way... Pics on the way..
Okie dokie, as requested, the new Redstone Lamps:
An inactive and active redstone lamp during the day.
Nighttime. Active redstone lamp on the left, and a torch on the right for comparison.
I really like them. They work as advertised, and they're pretty plain looking, so they should hopefully fit into a lot of builds.
My only complaint is that it really highlights the need for more ways to activate redstone. Having toggleable lamps really cries out for some sort of light sensor or even a time-of-day sensor.
An inactive and active redstone lamp during the day.
Nighttime. Active redstone lamp on the left, and a torch on the right for comparison.
I really like them. They work as advertised, and they're pretty plain looking, so they should hopefully fit into a lot of builds.
My only complaint is that it really highlights the need for more ways to activate redstone. Having toggleable lamps really cries out for some sort of light sensor or even a time-of-day sensor.
Has anybody been able to successfully get minecraft to run from internet storage sites like dropbox?
Ideally id like to enable my own "cloud saving" so that I can access my minecraft world saves from any computer that I can log into dropbox with. I copied my ".minecraft" folder and the exe over to dropbox but that doesnt seem to be enough. Minecraft tries to access the C: by default. Has anyone been able to figure out how to reroute this, or is the data path hardcoded into the program?
Ideally id like to enable my own "cloud saving" so that I can access my minecraft world saves from any computer that I can log into dropbox with. I copied my ".minecraft" folder and the exe over to dropbox but that doesnt seem to be enough. Minecraft tries to access the C: by default. Has anyone been able to figure out how to reroute this, or is the data path hardcoded into the program?
Orbis Tabula
Member
I can't wait until 1.2 actually hits. I never really use the snapshots. I pay attention to them, but I don't really download them, so I'm so excited for all the new stuff. Particularly, the Villager AI changes make it look like I can now occupy my towns by throwing a few villagers until they breed to carrying capacity. How exciting!
No, lol. Not autistic. Just have some classes in school that are reallllyyyyy boring. Either that or I'm watching or listening to something that occupies my eyes, ears, or brain and just need some busy work to keep my hands busy. The plan is to build a giant castle city inside those walls. It's gonna be a whole ordeal. Working on a bit of moat right now whenever I get bored of working on the walls. Once I finish that, I'll start working on the interior.
And what will happen there?
Also, are your autistic?
No, lol. Not autistic. Just have some classes in school that are reallllyyyyy boring. Either that or I'm watching or listening to something that occupies my eyes, ears, or brain and just need some busy work to keep my hands busy. The plan is to build a giant castle city inside those walls. It's gonna be a whole ordeal. Working on a bit of moat right now whenever I get bored of working on the walls. Once I finish that, I'll start working on the interior.
I hope you'll be able to pull off this awesomeness. I would certainly visit that.
Orbis Tabula
Member
Well, it'll be a while to wait. lol.
But how does it work? I still don't understand!
I've been trying to decontstruct that damn thing for the past couple hours, scouring Youtube videos and such, and here's where I've gotten so far.
There's basically three components to the light sensor:
1. The BUD switch. A BUD switch is a redstone and piston construct that will send out a redstone pulse (a quick on/off signal) when a particular block is updated. Block updates are things like furnaces starting and stopping smelting, pumpkins and melons appearing in a given spot, wheat growing, or grass growing and dying. The sensor that spuit posted uses grass growing and dying as the trigger for the sensor.
2. A T Flip-Flop. I haven't made one myself yet, but from what I've read, a T Flip-Flop will toggle its output for every pulse received on its input.
3. The water over the grass block. Apparently, grass will die when there's water over AND the light level falls too low.
So, here's what looks like what happens:
1. Night fallls.
2. The grass block two below the water source turns back to dirt, due to it not having enough light to survive under the water.
3. This change from grass to dirt triggers the BUD, sending a pulse to the Flip-Flop.
4. The flip flop toggles its output to ON.
5. The ON output is routed to anything that someone wants controlled by the light sensor, and also to a piston located one block below and to the side of the water source block.
6. That piston activates, blocking off the water source, and leaving the grass block below it no longer in contact with the water.
7. Once the sun rises, the grass block that is now no longer underwater is able to be re-grassed from adjacent grass blocks.
8. When the grass regrows, it triggers the BUD again, sending another pulse to the Flip-Flop.
9. The Flip-Flop toggles its output to OFF, turning off the main sensor and retracting the piston below the water source and resetting the sensor back to its original state.
Apparently that version of the sensor suffered from long reset times at sunrise, due to the grass not growing back that quickly, so the guy made another version of it (viewable here)
And as far as the BUD goes, this is a great video explaining how that particular design works.
The one thing that I really don't like about it is that it does rely on what I personally consider to be glitchy behavior with pistons. Basically it's possible to get a piston stuck in an extended position and then be unable to retract unless a block next to it is updated. It seems to work great for now, but it could be like the old minecart boosters and a future bugfix makes this method useless.
CharmingCharlie
Member
It has finally happened the nether has been reset. So grab your picks and shovels and nick all that glowstone.
I did something!
Hey mineGaf, finally broke down and decided to buy the game, so i hope to see you soon on the server. But i have a question before i do. Is there anyway to change your user/display name after register? Most of the ones i normally use are taken, and the one i finally got i'm not totally happy with. Would i need to register again to get a better name?
legacyzero
Banned
You could try e-mailing the developers, but outside of that I don't think there's any way.
legacyzero
Banned
Skycity is free to build on, and there are probably some open plots in Domecity as well.
THIS! Dont hurt them!
Lol Lucille is my role model. I have a folder full of gifs of her.
I kind-of have the same problem
I found a place to start a little mining operation somewhere that seems to be mostly unexplored not too far from Skycity, and was able to grab some essentials to start with, but yesterday I just walked randomly around existing constructions and in more wild areas to find a spot to settle down my first main shelter, and damn it's hard to find a place, it always seems like you are stepping on someone's toes xD
I'll definitely build something in Skycity at one point, but my first idea is really to start building some sort of 'main base' with a little bit of everything in it.
Well I kind of have an idea of a tower that I started working-on in creative mode but it doesn't fit the style of actual cities, could fit with Skycity in a sense that, if build nearby, it could be linked to it when reaching the same height, or 'plugged' in a floating island but first, I don't know it that would be alright with everyone, and second that may need some crazy amount of terraforming, or island building to be able to start, so i'm kind of torn, will need to think about that a little more ...
Speaking of Skycity I guess that there will be a 'South' island built at some point, but as I was looking at the free plot, right of the spawn, i was asking myself if the square-medieval looking tower that was built there wouldn't be in the way.
You're like a weirder version of fistful. May he rest in peace.
Also, you guys should have waited for the height bump to create sky city. Would be soooo much cooler way up in the air.
Nothing preventing us from keeping building when the limit is raised.
legacyzero
Banned
Dude, just the thought of seeing islands built that high, makes me all tingly.
The new terrain generation version with added height and jungles is really fucking cool. I can try to put pictures here tonight if you guys want, anyways, it's the best Minecraft ever been.
There are cliffs in jumgles that are really tall. In fact it's in all the biomes, even the plains have some little hills. What's best is that the biomes sometimes are mixed a little. You can have plains with a very small region of forest for example. The biomes also blend pretty well and this gives mutiple different colors than biomes don't normally have.
Right now there's a bug that prevent ravines and caves to generate but it will be fixed for release and it will become the best terrain generation Minecraft ever fucking seen!
There are cliffs in jumgles that are really tall. In fact it's in all the biomes, even the plains have some little hills. What's best is that the biomes sometimes are mixed a little. You can have plains with a very small region of forest for example. The biomes also blend pretty well and this gives mutiple different colors than biomes don't normally have.
Right now there's a bug that prevent ravines and caves to generate but it will be fixed for release and it will become the best terrain generation Minecraft ever fucking seen!
Barnaby_Jones
Member
jumped back into the server, saved myself what I think's a reasonable plot on East Skyland. If there's any problems please let me know and I'll do what I can. Can't wait to get to building on it! Much respect to those who built the base too, must've taken ages.
Oh boy. I hope we're getting ready for a good shave of unused areas in the server map now if that's possible. That sounds better than what we reset for at launch, and I don't want another reset.
legacyzero
Banned
The first and the third one weren't too bad because they were built from the bottom up.
However, with the North Island, a few members had suggested that we build it from top to bottom.
WORST IDEA EVER. Especially since I wanted the island to be so thick. (like 5-6 layers)
The East island was the quickest though, mainly thanks to Charlie.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
We aren't resetting again. Charlie would have a dome sized seizure if we did! Besides, now with our nether reset and with the new biome data changes coming in 1.2 we really shouldn't have to reset again for a very, very long time.
No, Neocraft is only going to grow in it's current world until one of two things happen:
1. we get bored of it and all WANT a reset
2. the map file size grows so incredibly large that we have to reset and start over (currently Neocraft is around 830 MB)
We are going to have to explore outward though after 1.2 in order to find some jungle biomes though.
I was suggesting that we removed some unused but explored areas of the current map file to leave room for closer jungles and new biomes, not that we were to have another reset.
This could be done, though we would have to cut the file size down by half to be able to easily upload it to Multiplay again... If I get time, I might try to look into it, see if it's possible.
CrAzYLeGzLU
Member
Is this the MC version of the LEGO set?
Raijin_Cain
Member
Im coming down with a heavy dose of procrastinationlitis. I seem to want to do a lot of Minecraft project but have not the time or the patience to see the through.
So I start some but dont come even complete to complete them.
PS - Could someone tell which site you guys use here on GAF to upload images? Thanks.
So I start some but dont come even complete to complete them.
PS - Could someone tell which site you guys use here on GAF to upload images? Thanks.