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Minecraft |OT2| Punch Your Way to Your Own World
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hey.. I can't play ATM, can someone test something for me:
If you have an unpowered booster rail on a hill, and then drop a cart down said hill, the brake would stop it, correct?
Now, what happens if you then power the rail? Would it get going because gravity itself would move the cart and the brake is no longer in play? Or would the nature of the booster keep it from moving?
If you have an unpowered booster rail on a hill, and then drop a cart down said hill, the brake would stop it, correct?
Now, what happens if you then power the rail? Would it get going because gravity itself would move the cart and the brake is no longer in play? Or would the nature of the booster keep it from moving?
Pinko Marx
Banned
Falt said:
The address is here: http://ccrtminecraft.wikidot.com/
Make sure you read through the wiki as well for player commands and what not. It'll help you out a lot.
Also my game auto updated to 1.5, how am I spose to get on the server? ;-;
webrunner said:
I just tested #2 and it's... well, half-right. The cart doesn't really go faster, but it keeps its momentum for MUCH longer. I was able to go at least 30 blocks on flat track off a single booster, and I only stopped because I ran out of track. It definitely felt a whole lot slower than using the old-style boosters. So, I wonder if the powered rails will work better for moving carts around over small distances (like inside stations), but it'll be better to use the old-style boosters for getting the speed up for long trips, which would be a workable solution.
As far as number one goes, booster-detector seems to be a bit wasteful. I've already seen a lot of people on the MC forums that think that's the best way to have a booster always on. It's MUCH easier to just stick a redstone torch directly adjacent to the booster track.
Yeah, you guessed right. The brake on the incline holds the cart in place, and powering the rail lets the cart roll downhill. It doesn't gain any speed boost beyond what would be given to it on a normal incline, but it does look to be a good way to have some control over the cart direction using these.
DangerousDave
Member
How boosters work with powered-minecarts? They give a boost in speed? They allow to go up in heigh more than 1 each 4 blocks?
old manatee
Banned
No word on making the bed a movable spawn?
Folks, I'm sorry I was tied up all morning with work.
I see 1.5 came out today! Great!
Civil Wars will likely not be on 1.5 for the forseeable future. Please keep a 1.4_01 version of your minecraft.jar backed up somewhere on your PC and DISABLE automatic updates if you wish to continue to play on Civil Wars. It will be at least a day before we're up an running on 1.5, and potentially longer depending on how severe the code changes to MC break our modifications to the server.
I see 1.5 came out today! Great!
Civil Wars will likely not be on 1.5 for the forseeable future. Please keep a 1.4_01 version of your minecraft.jar backed up somewhere on your PC and DISABLE automatic updates if you wish to continue to play on Civil Wars. It will be at least a day before we're up an running on 1.5, and potentially longer depending on how severe the code changes to MC break our modifications to the server.
Anyone have any issues with the achievement pop-up things not disappearing? Everyone on the server I'm playing on is stuck with the default "Press X to open Inventory" message.
EDIT: Well it seems that after about an hour of being logged out the message has vanished for some, but not others.
EDIT: Well it seems that after about an hour of being logged out the message has vanished for some, but not others.
Starting to retrofit my stations.. one set of bosoters leaving, and one booster on the hill.
You know, you could use a detector track to create a super rail switching post, with each cart going to it's own track based on whether there's carts on the other tracks...
Occasionally along the track I have a few booster-track-booster-track-booster setups to keep it going. It seems to go at about the same speed as my previous system so I would say the doomsaying about the new tracks is unfounded: they just need a bit of creativity (far less then you need to make a working glitch booster system..)
webrunner said:
Indeed. The big thing that threw me off was the difference between the boost to an empty minecart and an occupied one. I was so used to the way the old boosters would send empty carts absolutely flying away from you that I didn't realize that there might be a difference with the new implementation.
It's still a HUGE step in the right direction, and I've already thought of a few other interesting uses for the detector tracks. It's still crucial to have a variant that detects occupied empty, but for now, I'm enjoying the new toys.
Ranger X said:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history
Even though they don't have a news entry for the 1.5 release, there's info on that page about it.
I guess I was never near enough to a chicken when they laid an egg to notice the sound before.
Current list of known identified bugs for 1.5 SMP:
1. booster rails sometimes stay powered even though source is gone
2. detector rails crash client when other rails are placed nearby
3. grass side fix doesnt work- the color is stuck the same - Xun, maybe that's what you're seeing?
4. advanced opengl broken- does nothing noticeble
5. rain and snow go thru glass, stairs and leaves on fast graphics
6. if you jump on a fence you get kicked for flying
7. playing 1.5 servers will send lots of unknown packets to 1.5 clients
8. sometimes rain can crash client
9. for some people new items will look pink
10. for some people weather never shows up
11. oclusion culling non existant - Questioning this one, any feedback from GAF on 1.5?
12. sometimes chunk generating causes chunk render failures
13. for some people the message of "press i to see inventory" wont go away
14. some people cant get achievement at all
15. /list only shows first 2 lines
16. you can no longer place blocks directly on snow cover, except flowers saplings and mushrooms
17. weather effects are extremely rare in general
18. grass side fix stops working completely on fast graphics
19. advanced opengl creates many more chunk render issues
20. for some people updating to 1.5 and playing without restarting client will disable sound and music partly
21. 1.5 clients playing 1.4 servers will error servers greatly due to unknown packets
22. if you are alone on SMP/first that logs on/own the server (1 of the 3) achievements will work on SMP
23. you are unable to turn booster and detector rails
These are bugs that have been identified by the development team of the CraftBukkit modification platform.
To all GAFfers on Civil Wars - the lead developer of the CraftBukkit modification platform has announced today that they will not be releasing an updated build until after the expected "patch storm" over the next few days comes in. There are gamebreaking bugs present in 1.5 (you can't build on snow?!), so Civil Wars will be staying at version 1.4_01 for at least the next day or two.
There are instructions on how to roll back the client out there on the Googles.
1. booster rails sometimes stay powered even though source is gone
2. detector rails crash client when other rails are placed nearby
3. grass side fix doesnt work- the color is stuck the same - Xun, maybe that's what you're seeing?
4. advanced opengl broken- does nothing noticeble
5. rain and snow go thru glass, stairs and leaves on fast graphics
6. if you jump on a fence you get kicked for flying
7. playing 1.5 servers will send lots of unknown packets to 1.5 clients
8. sometimes rain can crash client
9. for some people new items will look pink
10. for some people weather never shows up
11. oclusion culling non existant - Questioning this one, any feedback from GAF on 1.5?
12. sometimes chunk generating causes chunk render failures
13. for some people the message of "press i to see inventory" wont go away
14. some people cant get achievement at all
15. /list only shows first 2 lines
16. you can no longer place blocks directly on snow cover, except flowers saplings and mushrooms
17. weather effects are extremely rare in general
18. grass side fix stops working completely on fast graphics
19. advanced opengl creates many more chunk render issues
20. for some people updating to 1.5 and playing without restarting client will disable sound and music partly
21. 1.5 clients playing 1.4 servers will error servers greatly due to unknown packets
22. if you are alone on SMP/first that logs on/own the server (1 of the 3) achievements will work on SMP
23. you are unable to turn booster and detector rails
These are bugs that have been identified by the development team of the CraftBukkit modification platform.
To all GAFfers on Civil Wars - the lead developer of the CraftBukkit modification platform has announced today that they will not be releasing an updated build until after the expected "patch storm" over the next few days comes in. There are gamebreaking bugs present in 1.5 (you can't build on snow?!), so Civil Wars will be staying at version 1.4_01 for at least the next day or two.
There are instructions on how to roll back the client out there on the Googles.
Mikor said:
Wasn't the fix that the side grass texture now matches the top texture for the different biome shades? Seems to work fine, unless I haven't seen the shades where it doesn't work yet.
Those are probably related, and I don't know if I'd call them "bugs", per se. I've only had one occurrence of weather so far, and I like how rare it is. If anything, I think if I had to deal with rain/snow coming down every five minutes I'd get a little sick of it. It's a nice little event that happens every so often, I imagine the rarity is by design.
Oh, and a note on the powered rails! It looks like they CAN be used as launchers after all. You just have to have the powered rail be up against a block (so it has to be the last track in a line) and it'll get the cart moving on its own.
For someone that hasn't heavily invested in mine carts, is the new system simpler/better than the old boosters and/or something like craft book? How about resource requirements? Seems to need a lot of gold. And this might seem a silly question, but how do you actually get in - do you have to push it and jump - no way to get in while stationary and then push a button to go?
Love that shift-click thing though, will speed up inventory management a lot.
Love that shift-click thing though, will speed up inventory management a lot.
mrklaw said:
Well, keep in mind that this is only from a little bit of experimentation so far...
Right now I'd say that the two new additions add a little bit of an improvement to the old setup, but it's still nowhere near as convenient or powerful as Craftbook's minecart system.
With the old minecarts, your options were rather clunky as far as getting the cart started go. You could rig a button to a track switch that would send one of two perpetually-moving carts towards a THIRD cart which you'd be sitting in, boosting that one on its way. Alternatively, you could just give it a little nudge and hop in, hoping that you didn't miss and have to watch the empty cart take off without you. My stations in my SP map went with the second approach, and I used stone pressure plates to rig up an empty cart return system (stone pressure plates don't trigger on empty carts, only full ones).
The new powered rails make the initial launch a LOT cleaner. You don't have to rely on another cart to get your cart moving. You can either have the Powered trails run up to a block with a button nearby (hop in cart, push button), or have the powered rails on an incline. The cart will stop on them when they're off, then you can hop in and press a button that's wired to the track to release the cart down the hill.
For empty cart checking, that remains unchanged. Since the new Detector Rails can't differentiate between a full and empty cart (they'll trigger when any cart goes over them), you still have to rely on stone pressure plates. As far as I know, you need a secondary booster cart to push the main one over the pressure plate to maintain the primary cart's speed and to keep it on the rails, so those systems remain unchanged.
As far as the trip between stations go, you could go either way. The old-style boosters still give a much higher top speed than the powered rails do (so fast that carts won't stop on unpowered powered rails if they're traveling at the higher speed), but the powered rails still provide a decent push to an occupied cart, so you could use those if you didn't want to bother with booster carts.
Minecraft DEMO: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/04/19/download-the-minecraft-demo/
90 minute time limit.
90 minute time limit.
Could be correct about that, Vlad. Regardless, the chunk render errors related to advanced OpenGL and the broken snow is enough to be considered gamebreaking, from a server-admin standpoint. Imagine if it started snowing on a Faction's territory? You'd be prevented from building on your own land. Not good.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Notch says he is not paying attention to any bugs until after he finished Portal 2... I think you are supposed to keep those things to yourself...
Would be different if he was not charging for the game.
http://twitter.com/#!/notch/statuses/60338131517444096
Would be different if he was not charging for the game.
http://twitter.com/#!/notch/statuses/60338131517444096
bengraven
Member
So my single player save, all 2-300 hours of it was destroyed on accident. I was trying to move the GAFLand save file into my folder and over-wrote it.
I was seriously upset for 30 minutes.
Then I logged into GAFland and took an hour to run home to East point (I explored a bit there in North point where I spawned) and suddenly felt at home again.
People are causing a tiff on Metacritic over the length with some kid(s) saying they beat it in 4 hours. I don't know.
I was seriously upset for 30 minutes.
Then I logged into GAFland and took an hour to run home to East point (I explored a bit there in North point where I spawned) and suddenly felt at home again.
Suikoguy said:
People are causing a tiff on Metacritic over the length with some kid(s) saying they beat it in 4 hours. I don't know.
Willy105 said:
The owners did not update to 1.5 yet. That's why. I suppose you can revert your minecraft to a previous version somehow.
Mikor said:
It snows only in snow biome. If you did remove the snow overthere, it would comeback.
As for building, like McLaw or Vlad said, you need to remove the snow before building. It might be intended behavior.
Vlad said:
The size of some of the snow biomes on the Civil War map still make that bug kinda annoying. Seriously there's at least one snow biome that's larger than most of my single player maps.
Eccocid said:yeah servers are not working and singleplayer is so boringi feel like alone in a mmorpg :/
Servers work fine. Go back to 1.4 and play all you want. Simple enough.