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Minecraft |OT3| Dig Your Way to Fortune! Build Your Way to Glory!
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dmosher
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In my recent flirtation with Creative, I found myself building pretty much the same way I do in Survival, just without having to do all the boring mining. I stuck to realistic materials and structures, and didn't really feel the temptation to cover everything in gold and lapis blocks (cough dry cough 
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I felt no shame building this way, but the sense of satisfaction was less. It took a couple of days to do what would have taken weeks in survival. Like gobbling down a 500g slab of dairy milk compared to savouring an assortment of handmade belgian truffles.
)I felt no shame building this way, but the sense of satisfaction was less. It took a couple of days to do what would have taken weeks in survival. Like gobbling down a 500g slab of dairy milk compared to savouring an assortment of handmade belgian truffles.
-Minsc-
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In my recent flirtation with Creative, I found myself building pretty much the same way I do in Survival, just without having to do all the boring mining. I stuck to realistic materials and structures, and didn't really feel the temptation to cover everything in gold and lapis blocks (cough dry cough
I felt no shame building this way, but the sense of satisfaction was less. It took a couple of days to do what would have taken weeks in survival. Like gobbling down a 500g slab of dairy milk compared to savouring an assortment of handmade belgian truffles.
If I had a kid and stuff I don't doubt I'd be playing creative. As for Dry's modest railway... Oddly enough I find it works.
I'm not a fan at all of NeoCraft now being a mixed server. Was a lot better when it was 100% Survival.
WhiskeyDiver
Member
It's easy to get over the fact that the server is now a hybrid of creative and survival modes. I have separate builds I want to do in creative and those I do strictly in survival mode. It's the best of both worlds.
Speaking of which when laying down rail I came across a random pen of horses of yours and Ark's on the western continent.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yep, for me the challenge is building huge awesome things by doing the hard work. And the hard work is the fun for me. It's almost like playing an RTS where you need to manage your resources to get stuff done.
Eh, it isn't bothering like I used to think it would. I still play the way I want to, and I'm just glad to have others playing online too and enjoying themselves playing the way they want to. For me most of the fun of playing online is sightseeing, looking at what others are building. And whether the things I'm looking at were made in survival or creative only really affects how impressed I am by it, but I still enjoy looking nonetheless.
-Minsc-
Member
I'm not a fan at all of NeoCraft now being a mixed server. Was a lot better when it was 100% Survival.
One of the sacrifices of having a more general server. Considering the population of the GAF server it really isn't feasible to pay for separate servers.
I like having a mix of both. Dry's over modest rainbow rail really has no impact on the enjoyment I get out of my own survival build. Those types of creative builds can be impressive in their own right. While it is closer to the new town than I'd like I do like the combination of blocks he used. At least I liked it the last time I saw it a week ago.
-Minsc-
Member
Image should be clickable to a tweet. We updating in a week or so?
We update when 1.8.1 stable is released.
"It was only sleep-griefing, I didn't mean to!"
I'm not a fan at all of NeoCraft now being a mixed server. Was a lot better when it was 100% Survival.
Well, not to break your bubble or anything but when the server was "survival only", people were given creative rights so there was still a shitload of creative stuff being built and many passed as survival buildings lol
Basically, Neocraft didn't change much my friend.
vas_a_morir
Banned
Moria!
How? I can't find any rail line.
I've found a couple to the east of new spawn. They're pretty common, actually.
Sorry for the confusion earlier. The area I connected to rail wasn't Spookyville, but an area west of spawn.
I did manage to contribute towards connecting Spookyville, however! I put down the rail and got a base powered rail going, so the line is now functional. It's not as smooth as it could be--as Fuchsdh pointed out to me, it needs more frequent powered rails.
Thanks to the folks who built the tracks for the rail to go on!
I did manage to contribute towards connecting Spookyville, however! I put down the rail and got a base powered rail going, so the line is now functional. It's not as smooth as it could be--as Fuchsdh pointed out to me, it needs more frequent powered rails.
Thanks to the folks who built the tracks for the rail to go on!
Hmm if you have the (general) coords id appreciate it, id like to stay 'pure' if i can lol.
I tried making a Spookyville station last night and failed horribly at it. So if anyone would like to make one, feel free.
EDIT: I've moved the Spookyville rail, it was running right through the middle of where I wanted to expand the town. I'm going to lay down some paths and such then we're good
EDIT: I've moved the Spookyville rail, it was running right through the middle of where I wanted to expand the town. I'm going to lay down some paths and such then we're good
-Minsc-
Member
It has been a week since I was last on Minecraft. This Spookyville will be a distant memory before I get back around there. D:I tried making a Spookyville station last night and failed horribly at it. So if anyone would like to make one, feel free.
EDIT: I've moved the Spookyville rail, it was running right through the middle of where I wanted to expand the town. I'm going to lay down some paths and such then we're good
Performance tuning tip:
For folks headed out towards Spookyville, make sure your JRE max memory usage is set to use at least 768MB. I first visited with it set to a max of 512MB and it started chugging due to all the garbage collection. I bumped it up to 768MB and now it's smooth.
For folks headed out towards Spookyville, make sure your JRE max memory usage is set to use at least 768MB. I first visited with it set to a max of 512MB and it started chugging due to all the garbage collection. I bumped it up to 768MB and now it's smooth.
I completely forgot about any possible line extensions, sorry
Spookyville is basically open for everyone to build in now! I had planned to expand the town to the hill behind Liz's pumpkin head, but yeah feel free to build wherever.
Can't see yea pics =S..can yea use http://www.abload.de/?
Or, you could take the orange line to Minsc's Fortress, and see it live
Looks very cool, Iso.
-Minsc-
Member
Looking awesome! Far better than anything I'd have come up with. Definitely the right choice handing over the keys.
Isobelise
Member
Can yea get Dropbox?
Odd I can see it on my phone. Must be a browser thing but on my pcit doesn't show in any browser not even in ie even in compatibility mode. My phone is chrome is that matters.
-Minsc-
Member
He should be good to go.
Cheers m'dears
What wasn't working about it? Aside from the... side effects.. from actually making one, I don't remember having any issues. From what I remember, you can check what requirements are or are not met by right-clicking on an enchantment table with an unactivated sigil.