Everyone's taking a stab at this eventually - Public dedicated MC server

[CatalystiCam]

Hey guys. Figured this made more sense to move here.

First off, I understand if some of you want to bail on the early stages of this because it will be a bit of trial and error, but hopefully all runs smoothly.

Currently, I'm running bukkit on a dedicated server meant for 12 people max. Basically the most basic I could do for now. Trial run and all. (Will upgrade if interest is shown).

It's costing me 4.99 USD a month as it stands.

Please use this thread for all input. I actually know nothing about FTB but I can switch my server to that too, but I have a decent knowledge of bukkit from using it back in the day. Both just mod implementers, no? FTB is just for more advanced stuff?

Either way, looks like with bukkit. My plan is to start with a handful of mods, and add them as we go.

Again, any input on anything, feel free.

Server should be catalysticrew.mcph.co if not 162.244.164.31:60096

It won't be live for a couple hours yet probably as I literally just purchased and installed, but hey, more time for input.

Edit: By public, I just mean it's public. I'll be doing some livestreams on it and YT videos potentially, but I'll make sure to install some means of preventing the classic griefing.

Between all of you guys potentially active here alone there is a good 8 of us, as well as I probably have at max 8-10 friends that'll play. Realistically, probably like 3 of us from RU and 4 of my friends. Should be fine for now.

Edit: FTB costs more and I don't have access to it.

[Kugyince]

Good mods that work well as stand alone:

Thaumcraft
Witchery
Forestry
Tinker's Construct
Botania

[Wolf]

you forgot your bees ten lol

[CatalystiCam]

Good mods that work well as stand alone:

Thaumcraft
Witchery
Forestry
Tinker's Construct
Botania

Are they FTB? Can't use it as of current. If it's bukkit I'll look into it.

Server should be live soon.

[Kugyince]

you forgot your bees ten lol

I said Forestry.

[CatalystiCam]

Server is live. Has been for a bit. Seems all good. Had one random guy join and he was fine.

[Wolf]

i meant your magic bees

[KATZ]

im too lazy to go back to 1.7.9...

[CatalystiCam]

im too lazy to go back to 1.7.9...

It takes 2 seconds. Better than vanilla.

[KATZ]

i already have a server i play on though D:

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i cant even join >.> my MC crashes

[CatalystiCam]

Dat render distance issue. We solved it. Quite a decent number of people coming on now too. All I know but 1 so far.

[Dudebro]

I fully support this idea(well not fully enough to donate) and I'll check it out.

[CatalystiCam]

I literally do not even have a donation thing set up at the moment. It does not bother me, it's 5 dollars and it's worth it to me so no biggy.

I'm talking if it somehow gets to the point where I need to up the server to a ton of slots and get things like FTB. I'll want some help from whoever. Even then though, I'm not expecting anything other than to run a fun server. Upping to 20 slots is only 7.50 and I think 35 slots was 10 a month. I'm not too worried ans I'm really happy with the service overall so far. Very easy to use and affordable.

We already have lots of ideas we want to implement.

Also the mods currently on are:

Essentials
AdminEssentials
InfernalMobs
McMmo
McMmoTowny
Runecraft
WorldEdit
WorldGuard
WorldEditRegions

Of course a number of these are admin tools, the others add things like exp to skills and some temporary powerups to each skill (McMmo), Ability to add teleportals, hidden walls, etc. (Runecraft), Mini boss mobs and random brutal mobs (Infernalmobs), and then essentials is self explanatory. I think we've used a number of these before, but you can look up online guides for them if you need.

I gotta go to work, but I'll be on at 1:30 AM PST. Colby (Other OP) should be on tonight anytime now though. Not sure. If you want to get to where I am, and a few others I can't remember the coordinates but get him to take you there if you need. Or settle elsewhere. No big deal either way.

[RU Joe]

Woo, much thanks to you, JP!
I've connected successfully and have got a good start.
From spawn I went North - West a bit and made a tiny starter hut.

[CatalystiCam]

You guys may have noticed there is currently 2 roads leading off spawn. I believe road south and west as we're calling them. Road west a distance down has this town plot we've been working on and will continue to add to. Not usually a huge fan of these because the plots are tiny, but these are intentionally huge and free. If anyone wants one, let me or Colby know when we're on and we can protect it for you and then you can build away.

Just the 4 plots at the moment. Colby's doing something to what you see nearest. A shop with the Villagers I think he said.

[Dudebro]

1. Nice spot I found while exploring.
2. This one is hard to do justice from a picture. Where I'm standing is already on a high hill or plateau. The formation has a ravine or valley cutting through it that goes to the normal ground level, I think. It's hard to judge. This is right next to the village.
3. The village before any changes.




Does anyone know what is causing this strange tortured screaming I keep hearing? JG and I heard it when were running around and then I heard it again twice near the village. Each time I didn't see what was making the noise. Each time it scared the shit out of me. It sounds as if some horrific creature spots me and then starts yelling but the last two times it was day time and I didn't notice any caves or other monsters making noise. It's so ridiculous I have to turn my sound down. Please make it stop :tremble:

[Dudebro]

@JG- I planted a bunch of those acacia trees around the town. I'm not 100% sold on the idea yet but I was thinking of making a natural looking tree wall. So far it's all natural but because of the crazy way those trees grow some saplings can't spawn, gonna have to fake it. I like this idea because when they're close together they make these cool formations with holes all through it like tree windows. Also it beats making yet another 2-3 high solid wall. I like walls but I'm getting a bit tired of the variations I've tried. Let me know if you think it looks good or not. You shouldn't be able to miss what I've done so far.


@That bowel loosing noise I keep hearing- I heard it again this time very close to the village. I was ready for it though and I tried to figure out where it was coming from but it didn't last very long, 5-10 secs maybe. It was daytime again, no hostile mobs anywhere but there are surface caves in the area. JG lit up a good amount of it though. It kinda sounds like a ghast getting hurt or dying but I'm not 100% it's exactly that. It almost sounds like a messed up audio clip of that, like it's kinda garbled or there's more than one at once. As far as I know there's no nether portals anywhere near us either.


I found that beast of a waterfall near the village. I also found a saddled horse nearby on top of a magic forest canopy. Was that you JG?

[CatalystiCam]

I'll be honest, in the fact that I'm not 100% honest of all the features these mods bring but I have a simple theory on those noises.

Infernalmobs can spawn random boss mobs out of any mob in the game. I've seen the usual hostiles + a flying pig and a normal freaking ghast already. A zombie riding a ghast was something Colby reported too. I think the ghast pain noises are one of these spawning in a wall and dying. My best guess.

I wanted to look more into this modpack, but I enjoy the fear of the unknown. However, I did turn mob griefing off so a ghast or whatever doesn't destroy someone's hard work.

Also. The tree thing sounds sick.

[KATZ]

i wanna play with ya'll but i dont want to start over after logging in over 100 hours in 2 weeks on my current server :|

[Dudebro]

Ghasts spawning and dying seems like it could be it but if so they're dying very fast. Would they be spawning underground in the overworld without a portal? I didn't think to look up but I assume if they were above me I'd hear it differently. I've been around plenty of ghasts and I remember being able to spot them by sound alone. If they're infernal then that seems a little too common, 2-3 spawns in a short time(during the day!) and no other infernals being sighted since I started. It's very weird.

Btw any grief protection we can set up ourselves? I didn't bother reading the rules and stuff yet.

@Katz- I still plan on building on your server too. I just have to think of what I wanna do and the find a good spot for it.

[CatalystiCam]

Oh yes. Colby or I can do that for you. Just gotta let me know the area you want on a corner to corner of the cube and it shouldn't be a problem.

As for the ghasts, weird. I've seen probably 4 infernal mobs so far and 2 ghasts. I've only heard the dying noise however maybe 4 times total. May have something to do with me being on creative mode for making spawn and that first town or that I've had my speakers plugged into my ipod opposed to the computer some nights.

[CatalystiCam]

Would not want to face this guy...

[Dudebro]

One of the servers we played on(Tensers maybe?) had some hardcore infernals with all kinds of nasty modifiers attached to their names. I remember one spawned in my village and basically started nuking the buildings while trying to attack me. It was cool but they were way too strong.

[Kugyince]

Yeah, that was mine. Magic Farm 3 is much, much harder. Mobs that can OHKO you and can phase through blocks. >.>

[Dudebro]

I was running along chopping trees for the wall when I saw something awesome in the distance.

1. A cool village.

2. There's the coordinates. It's really close. I secured a bunch of npcs and put down some torches. It's still pretty unsafe though with all those sinkholes and shit.

[RU Joe]

No, that was not my horse with the saddle hanging around the forest.
I lost all my stuff to a Magic Spider - something you guys may want to take note of.
What surprised me was the fact I was wearing iron armor.

So that's my excuse for not getting anything done.

Admin logged on and asked to /tp to my location {the village} and I refused; there are reasons for this I will now explain:

Not only have I had consistently bad experiences when /tp'ing people to my location {these would be new people on servers whom I don't know, and I'd get griefed or w/e} but later I found out there is a way for people to hack your MC account during the moment you agree to /tp them.

But JP assured me the Admin are nice and would understand me not being 'friendly' by accepting their request.
I didn't mean to be unfriendly toward them, I'm just playing it safe.
Besides, I'm pretty sure DB would be pissed if our village got griefed after searching 5 game days to find it.

ON TOPIC:

The living wall sounds great, but for the fact forests harbour nasties and give them a hiding place during the day.

[RU Joe]

^
Confirmed.
Lit the perimeter up a bit.

The village is really growing!
New businesses are looking to move into town:


{click on billboard for larger billboard}
3879http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2015_06/5547.png

[Dudebro]

You sure about that hacking your account thing? Sounds wrong.

Any wall I make would prevent mobs from coming through at us. It's still gonna be a minimum of two high and solid but it will look more like a dense forest than a plain wall.

No comment on the new awesome village JG?

[RU Joe]

You sure about that hacking your account thing? Sounds wrong.

Real deal.
This was a while back and I'm guessing this has since been fixed but I'm not taking a chance.
Pretty sure it was our old buddy Blazing Fomar who told me about it.
I'd be on a server and a new player logs on:

New Player: 'Hi'

Me: - Hi

NP: 'Will you /tp me to your location?'

Me: - Sure {does it}

NP: * has already logged out!

Me: - WTF is going on here???

If I don't know you, I will NOT be /tp'ing you anywhere, sorry.

Any wall I make would prevent mobs from coming through at us. It's still gonna be a minimum of two high and solid but it will look more like a dense forest than a plain wall.
Sounds like you're turning into a tree - huggin' hippie.:snicker:


No comment on the new awesome village JG?
New awesome village is awesome.
I xpecially love the sunken garden.

[Dudebro]

If I don't know you, I will NOT be /tp'ing you anywhere, sorry.
I was like this from the start because I don't trust strangers. If they aren't trying to grief then they're probably desperate for someone to hang out with and both of those don't appeal to me.

Sounds like you're turning into a tree - huggin' hippie.
For some reason I've always preferred the natural look when it comes to MC. Any non natural structures I've made always felt wrong, I didn't love them. I've loved all my hobbit holes and my camouflaged secret gardens. I even have fond memories of ones I barely started.

New awesome village is awesome.
I xpecially love the sunken garden.
We need to connect the two places asap. It's a short walk but it still takes half a MC day or so I think. That one mystery horse I found isn't very fast either. If you see an abandoned mineshaft nearby let me know.

[RU Joe]

Yes.

I was just on playing for a while and several things happened:

First, I heard 2 different Ghasts dying {like we talked about already} but then I came across the Uber - Witch from HELL!
Not content with destroying me with her magic, she went on to kill another mob.
I began to /back every few seconds only to be killed quickly by the gathering horde.

During this, a Giant Spider attacked and lent a hand to the Uber Witch by shooting webs at me while she attacked.
Naturally the normal mobs enjoyed my predicament immensely.

BUT WAIT = there's more!!

After I somehow got most of my stuff back and put my armor back on, this thing attacked me:

3880< invisible mob, sounds like a Zombaby, poison attack.

Somewhere between the 2 villages I trapped His Highness, the King Pig:
3881< brother of Baron von Bacon and father of Prince Porky.

[Dudebro]

I still haven't seen any special mobs. I wonder if being a King pig does anything?

[CatalystiCam]

For some reason I've always preferred the natural look when it comes to MC. Any non natural structures I've made always felt wrong, I didn't love them. I've loved all my hobbit holes and my camouflaged secret gardens. I even have fond memories of ones I barely started.

To each their own really. I've found fascinations with both. A lot of my work comes from inspiration from someone or somewhere. Not necessarily MC.

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First ghast incident footage that I meant to post earlier.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxu7BUUtL0Q&t=27m1s

[RU Joe]

I wonder if being a King pig does anything?
http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2015_06/5572.jpg
http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2015_06/5573.jpg

[Dudebro]

That video is funny because Cam got seriously rekt by a ghast. MC noob confirmed.

[CatalystiCam]

That video is funny because Cam got seriously rekt by a ghast. MC noob confirmed.

Hahaha. Still, I gotta defend that I've beaten the Ender Dragon and Wither on Hardcore before. I got nothing to prove :P

I'm restarting the server about once or twice a day to keep it healthy. I generally do it when no one's on, but I accidentally booted you on this last one Joe, sorry.

Edit: Also, it's funny. I know how the mentality goes that you guys want to play while others are on, but my chat feed is constantly having you guys miss each other by like 5-20 minutes haha. Be the initiators, then these other guys will see you on.

Moreover. Getting public aint super easy right now. I made a post on the Mc forums, and elsewhere and got little to no interest elsewhere and bumped off in 10 minutes on Mc forums. I should be livestreaming more in a while, but not for a bit, and so it's likely just the 5 (or so) of us for a bit, which is fine. Get things established before some randoms start hopping on. Even if not, whatever. I play single player anyways, so it doesn't bother me. I have more abilities here, and it's a different game from offline.

Still would like to gauge interest in eventual update to FTB? I'm open to do it on my depending on the costs, but I don't want to destroy anything we have. I'd personally rather stay with bukkit, but at least right now, there is only non-official ways of upgrading to 1.8 that McProhosting cannot do (at least that I can figure out). Multiworlds are also possible, but not between different server types (ie: Vanilla/Bukkit at once).

Edit2: Ravine next to giant mountain.

[CatalystiCam]

Updated to spigot 1.8.3. Apaprently it's just a mutated bukkit. Let me know if everything is still okay world-wise? I did make a backup.

[Dudebro]

I'm down with whatever but if we decide to restart the map for a new mod pack we should do it very soon before we really build anything. Has anyone said they really want something else?

[RU Joe]

JP, show them more T&A.
It always works.

I built a long, long tunnel and bridge system connecting the 2 towns.
I heard someone say the 'R' word.
I will stop building now if we're doing a reset.

F the 'F' word, in minecraft it's the 'R' word you have to watch out for.

[KATZ]

now its 1.8 i can tell when people are on haha ill most likely join if i see someone on

[RU Joe]

This is just FYI - /sethome and level - ups for items such as Tree Feller for an axe are reset.

[Kugyince]

If you move to FtB I'd be interested, depending on the pack.

[Dudebro]

I vote we stay with what we have for the time being. The more mods we add the more issues we'll face. Also the last FTB we tried didn't let JG on at all, that kind of thing is a deal breaker for me. Either we all play or the server is lame.

[RU Joe]

Firstly I need to say sorry to Katz who logged on earlier and I gave the wrong damn coordinates to, after forgetting the ' - ' in front of the second set of digits.
In the plus column, she discovered a ocean fortress or whatever they're called.

So I stayed on for a while and mined like crazy to get enough iron to make armor and tools for Katz {she got killed because of my wrong coords, so it's the right thing to do} and then took a break and logged off while still down underneath the South Village ..

But when I logged back on, I found myself standing above ground in South Village by the bridge, and ALL THE STUFF I MINED IS GONE!!!!

I had iron in ovens as well as other items in my inventory I gathered after Katz logged off, everything is gone.
:excruciating:

[Dudebro]

That's weird the server must've rolled back for some reason. Maybe Katz still has her stuff now?

[KATZ]

i died twice on purpose (to get back to spawn) and once by a spider near the 2nd village

[RU Joe]

I just came to say that poor Katz is having a really hard time getting started - help her out if you can - and also to say I found a really neat mob:
A Zombie Horse!

So I trapped it in a cage where I found it under one of the mountains near North Village.
There is an entrance up there with stairs leading right to it.

Will post pics later if I can but right now am getting an error message saying it exceeds forum quota or something.
Probably just a glitch anyway because the bar shows my pics at less than 1/2 full.

[Dudebro]

Bad news JG the north village has no npcs. I noticed it was silent and when I checked the doors were still locked but the houses were empty. Unless it's a glitch I think maybe one house the zombies hit their feet because there was only one block at the top of the door. Resulting npc zombies despawned later. The other house had no torch in it :(. I checked the south village and it's still populated but the church was empty and I know I put some in there, it's all lit up too. Gonna have to either ask cam to spawn us a couple or convert/force two into minecarts. Or just not care and focus on the second village.

[CatalystiCam]

I can respawn you some npc's when we're on at the same time. No problem. Still need to protect your stuff, so just remind me.

As far as server changes. No worries guys. I was simply gauging interest. I am frankly more inclined to stick with spigot/bukkit (whatever it decides its name wants to be) for a good long while. This is the opinion of the vast majority, so I'm sorry to Ten, but we're sticking with this.

I'll make backups every now and then. I know the frustrations of dealing with server resets and changes so I know what to avoid. Worst we'll get under me is an uncontrollable crash on MCProHosting's end that results in a bit of a time rollback, but not much I can do on that one, and not really in my control. Not too worried, it's a stable, well-regarded site. Edit: Also trying to find a way to backup the world files onto my pc, but I think they want me to use their paid storage function... Not too big on this. I get 1 GB free. Hopefully I can delete the old rollbacks for the new ones at least. Not impressed with this portion though.

Mod resets - Yeah, in upgrading to 1.8.3, there was a lot of mods not up to date being that they didn't bother due to bukkit ending at 1.7.9. Some joined spigot and moved into the 1.8's. 1.8.3 seemed like the healthy medium between less-buggy gameplay, and mod support. Some mods even had support already. I had to do a complete overhaul even so and install different yet similar functioning mods for things like /sethome and stuff. That is its own mod now for example, where as it was part of essentials before, which wasn't upgraded. Big loss on essentials. It had a lot of the base commands that made things nice and dandy.

Bottomline. Sticking to spigot, to favour the majority. If we ever have a massive want to switch to FTB, then so be it, but it appears there's not much interest, even in myself.

Edit: I'll try to be on tomorrow. Spent like 6 hours today on vehicle stuff. Got rid of my old 2005 blazer for a 2013 dodge dart, at the same monthly costs with 6 years warranty. Not a big car guy but this is nice, gas is less and the truck needed $5000 in repairs. Dart cost me 13.8K CDN, and it has only 20,000 Kilometers on it. Bumper to bumper insurance. Brother works there, so we checked it out. Didn't expect to sink that many hours into that today, but that's what happens. Big lifestyle improvement. Anyways, I'm taking a day off tomorrow from largely anything.

[Kugyince]

@DB: You can always do it legit and convert a naturally spawned zombie villager into a villager with a weakness potion and a golden apple.

[Dudebro]

Yeah I know but that's not exactly fun to deal with. Also I strongly suspect that one house glitched because I've done that same set up a million times and the npcs never get killed. Maybe the version update reset them outside or something. Either way I think I'll take the spawn offer from cam to save the time and effort.

[Kugyince]

It could be the infernal mobs mod installed.

[RU Joe]

If they're getting killed by mobs then maybe they need to be locked away in some super - protected area.

I know what we should do - make a jail and put them all in there.
Alternatively some kind of setup where you have to pass though multiple doors to get in, with the goal being keeping any possible mob attacks from getting them.

[Dudebro]

Cam protected our towns last night but we didn't bother with the highway/bridge because it would be too huge. He spawned 4-5 villagers, 2 are on the surface locked in a house and the others are in a secret room under the town so they won't die and can be released if we need them. It's not a hard secret to figure out though, I didn't dig it deep enough and zombies still see them.

There are some giant pillars around the towns to show where the protection is. Feel free to remove them once you see the borders JG.

Also I found another saddled horse this time a skeletal one. I was exploring near the first town when all the sudden I stumbled on it. It was hidden on a hill up a tree. I was actually scared at first because all the sudden it was in my face. Looks cool though.

[RU Joe]

Today, an afternoon adventure featuring an all - Canadian subset of the RU Crew: Cam and Joe!

There we were, sundown in the North Village, when a Ghast decided she would spawn directly on the ground near the middle of town.

We quickly discovered that her fires were spreading, so Cam tried to kill her after I got a couple of screenshots.

During this, I noticed a 3rd player standing off in the distance ...
But sadly although I have some screenshots of all this, I am currently unable to post any more because I keep getting a message saying I've exceeded my quota.
I've seen a different screen where you could actually delete old pics to make room for more but I can't find it right now.:search::sidefrown:

[Kugyince]

I've seen a different screen where you could actually delete old pics to make room for more but I can't find it right now.:search::sidefrown:

http://www.retrouprising.com/profile.php?do=editattachments

[CatalystiCam]

Yeah it was interesting for sure. Fighting that ghast was brutal. Anytime you struck it it instantly halved my health and gave me wither II & slowness II. It lit some of the tree walls on fire as well as a corner of a house. I did my best to fire fight it but maybe 8 trees are gone or half gone. Ill have to figure out how to turn fire spread off. Sorry Db.

[Dudebro]

Mah walls?! I should've made them out of stone :(

[RU Joe]

Mah walls?! I should've made them out of stone :(
Once upon a time, there were 3 little pigs ..:redface: jk.

Actually I was a useless tit during the Battle of North Village; it was Cam who kicked her arse while I cowered behind a house.
When the battle stopped and the smoke cleared, he put out the remaining fires with water, and I have done some replanting in the meantime.

Enough BS, it's picture time!

A Ghast decides to spawn on the ground in the middle of North Village:
3883

Blow us a kiss darling:
3884

... if you're over here, then who is THAT? - a mystery man watches the battle from afar:
3885

A Zombie Horse I captured, the cow is in there for when it gets hungry:
3886

[Dudebro]

You can't kill ghasts? It wasn't infernal right? Too bad I wasn't there to take care of business. I ain't afraid of no ghast. Here's a clip that demonstrates how I deal with MC mobs-
300 - Slow Motion Fight Scene [HD - 1080p] - YouTube

Did you figure out who the figure was? I know I've seen "echoes" of a player before but not in a long time.

I moved one of the horses to just inside the tunnel. I wanna move all of them in there but I started making the wall more and now they can't fit. I'm gonna have to remove some of the wall or run them around the long way. Painted myself into a corner with that one.

[Kugyince]

You can't kill ghasts? It wasn't infernal right?

Fighting that ghast was brutal. Anytime you struck it it instantly halved my health and gave me wither II & slowness II.

;)

[Dudebro]

I'm confused. Is he saying when JG struck it those effects hurt him(cam) or did he just word that poorly?

[RU Joe]

I'm confused. Is he saying when JG struck it those effects hurt him(cam) or did he just word that poorly?
LOL.
Posts people poorly word provide pronounced punch.

Cam did all the fighting, and it was he who suffered the effects of the Ghast's attack.
I had no bow at that time and in fact gave Cam my single arrow in my inventory to use against her; luckily he had a bow with Infinity so it was enough.

Even so, those Infernal Mobs are brutal sometimes, especially when they team up with regular mobs.

Anyway here's a Spider Rider I'm glad I haven't run into yet; THIS is why we don't play around outside when it's dark:
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This second pic is to show how those 'sparks' were flying off the Creeper:
3888
She's a real hottie.

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[Dudebro]

We should have an escape plan in place for future town shattering attacks. If something flammable is attacking you and you're in town RUN AWAY. Or teleport to spawn. Anything but have an epic battle in the town square. I'm not mad, seriously, just saying.

[RU Joe]

We should have an escape plan in place for future town shattering attacks. If something flammable is attacking you and you're in town RUN AWAY.
http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2015_06/5613.jpg

Or teleport to spawn.
:(
It's gone, along with /sethome, /home, /back, etc.
All of it disappeared with the upgrade to 1.8.3
On the good side, I'm glad you're learning this now rather than thousands of blocks away from the nearest village, like what happened to me.
So maybe write coordinates down or F3 then F2 to get a screenshot?

[Dudebro]

Nah I remember that but I thought /spawn and /tpa still worked. Oh well we'll just have to kick it old school.

[CatalystiCam]

I just haven't had time to figure the mod out. Its there, but it wont give you folks permission to use it.

[KATZ]

thats why i just kept killing myself haha

[Dudebro]

The server is telling me the remote host is forcibly kicking me. That's not very nice.

[CatalystiCam]

Rebooted it. Overdue probably. Busy busy right now...

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sethome and home should be working. got a plugin for ranks and did about 50 lines of text setting all those in coding. *Fingers crossed*

[RU Joe]

sethome and home should be working. got a plugin for ranks and did about 50 lines of text setting all those in coding. *Fingers crossed*
While the effort is no doubt universally appreciated by all of us, I am very sorry to have to post this:

{click on bad news for more bad news}
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RU Crew, we have a new enemy {this spawned right outside Sumo's place, just West of North Village}:
:o
{click on enemy for larger enemy}
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NEWS:

I made a path leading from the base of the Tower to the {newly discovered} Desert Village, and while there I locked in some stubborn Villagers who refused to take shelter when night came.
I'm still smoothing the pathway a bit but it is complete and ready to use.

[RU Joe]

More pics:

Here's a view of the pathway crossroads, looking up at the Tower:

{click on Tower for larger Tower}
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Looking down at the crossroads from the top of the Tower:

{click on crossroads for larger crossroads}
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[Dudebro]

1. New village? You mean the one with the half house right? I blocked in some bros but the others just wanted to wander around. Maybe they miss the rest of their house?

2. Or maybe they're out searching for the lone mooshroom wandering the nearby desert.

3. So I was out riding around exploring and marveling at how safe I was but then I saw this chasing me. He was FAST. Thankfully I was able to jump a fence and lose him. A baby zombie riding a chicken? I'm out.

I also found King Squid under the bridge to South Village. I caged him in the shallow water. Go find him. Also there's a second village not far from the desert one. Hopefully the NPCs are still alive. It should be due southish near some wild horses.

[RU Joe]

DB:
New village? You mean the one with the half house right? I blocked in some bros but the others just wanted to wander around. Maybe they miss the rest of their house?Yes, that's the one; I'm pretty sure it was you who mentioned it forming like a triangle with the other 2 villages.
Those are the stubborn Villagers that I tried to save, but I think there's still one that was wandering around who I couldn't corral into a house or anything.
One was so bad that I just blocked him in a corner with dirt outside the church.

You are right, the villages do make a pretty neat triangle, if a road leading pretty much straight North from the Desert Village/ Temple of Bast is made over to Sumo's place.
The problem is the terrain is bad through there so maybe some more tunneling is in order.

[Dudebro]

It's funny how they line up like that. With the fourth one being due north of the desert it's like the triangle is pointing us north. We should go north more.

I was thinking we could just smooth the sumo path out more and make it a horse path. Make it still annoying for people on foot to travel. With a good horse it's already so quick to get from his place to the desert, like 30 secs? The only problem is you need a good horse, the weak ones have to go around.

Also the town north of the desert has lots of horses around it. Also a big pack of donkeys.

[Dudebro]

I haven't been on much recently but I did finish my tree wall. By finish I mean mobs can't get in and npcs can't get out. It still needs a little more decoration on the outside. I like how this turned out but it was not easy and I think the next few walls I make are gonna be very simple :sweat:

I did see one skeleton in the middle of town at night though. I know it didn't get over the wall but I can't find a dark area it could've spawned from. I've also spent a few other nights there without spawns so I'm a bit confused. I wanna try freeing the npcs but I need to figure this out first. If anyone sees any dark spots please light it up and let me know where it was. This is bugging me.

[RU Joe]

I've noticed monsters spawning in places they shouldn't have too.
It could have something to do with that increased difficulty mod.

[Dudebro]

I guess we're gonna have to test it. We should drop some iron golems first though.

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I was standing in the middle of town and saw a skeleton standing near that cave entrance. There was a small dark spot nearby so I torched it up. I ran all around the edge of town without seeing anything else. In the morning I found a baby zombie humping my house above where my npcs are stashed. I didn't hear him until I got close to the area so he probably spawned nearby. I'm gonna fix up the torches more and keep trying. I think it can be spawn free.

Server went down also, booooooo.

[RU Joe]

DB:
I like how this turned out but it was not easy and I think the next few walls I make are gonna be very simple :sweat:I want to remake the wall I built on Ten's server ; of course I'll have to substitute some materials but I would like to try on one of the other villages.

I made good progress on the new road leading from Sumo's place through the mountain, which will eventually link up with the one leading to the Temple of Bast and Desert Village.
Then the server booted me.

:\

[Dudebro]

Make your wall at any of the remaining villages. I am certainly in no rush to make another wall.

[RU Joe]

I keep getting this message, since last night:

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x/

[Dudebro]

Yeah same. Cam has been busy and as of this post he's not online so we'll just have to wait.

Btw if mobs are spawning unnaturally I was thinking we could counter it by using fences to divide the town up. Put a couple npcs in each and an iron golem or two. Not perfect but it would slow down the carnage.

[CatalystiCam]

Server crashed due to running for 7 days straight without a reboot. Should be live again. Away for 5 or so more days.

[RU Joe]

^
Thanks for the reboot:cute:, and come back safely Soldier!

:soldier:

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Well, DB and I were on building like mad, linking villages together, corralling horses, etc. when all of a sudden:

LAG took control of the situation!

Our first suspicion was it may be Sumo's redstone extravaganza, ala 100 aminals - but even after we went in and slaughtered a bunch of chickens and cows {and maybe left a block of dirt or 2, sorry about that Sumo} the situation persisted and now it seems the server has crashed again.

Oh well, at least we got a few things done before it did.
Linked Desert Village/ Temple of Bast with Oceanview, on the East coast.
When the server comes back on I'm going to link Desert Village with Maredale, then work on linking North Village to Spawn and the main crossroads.

In the meantime, I'm fine - tuning my observation tower, working on a fancy entrance to Sumo's Pass {which will link up with the road to Spawn eventually} and much much much much more!

[Dudebro]

I just hope the server reset doesn't make you lose any work.

[CatalystiCam]

I'd say the usual things that cause lag spikes/crashes to a server still apply here. Especially since it's a cheaper server. Try to keep that stuff to a minimum if you can. I think I should schedule auto reboots. Servers need them ideally every 8 hours on a server with low activity such as ours.

[Dudebro]

Sumo hasn't been on in a couple weeks or so. Unless the server being reset the other day caused his stuff to lag I don't think it's anything he did. Also I noticed a huge lag spike on the way to south village, away from his place.

[Kugyince]

What version of MC are you running?

[RU Joe]

what version of mc are you running?
1.8.3

DB:
Sumo hasn't been on in a couple weeks or so. Unless the server being reset the other day caused his stuff to lag I don't think it's anything he did. Also I noticed a huge lag spike on the way to south village, away from his place.
This is strange.
The only reason I first suspected redstone devices is because we've seen this so many times before.
South Village?
I wonder what's going on out there.

[Dudebro]

Sumo said he has one thing that might cause a little lag but he said it didn't mess with his server on the 360 so he doubts it would cause the kind of lag we were having. He also said someone would have to turn it on and leave it on, he left it off. I think it's the circuit connected to the chicken egg drop thing. Pretty sure it was off when I got there and I turned it off when I left. Either way he said he'll be back on soon to fix up stuff and play.

I get confused with the N/S villages. I got lag at the second village, not the forest wall one. I rode there to drop my horse off and I almost fell off that bridge. Again the lag is only noticeable for me when I'm on a horse. Also I had this same kind of horse lag on other servers, that's why I never bothered using them. Hope it gets sorted out here I had big plans for my horses :(
Also, I haven't been on since cams post so I dunno if it's better now.

[Kugyince]

Maybe I should join and have some redstone shenanigans with Sumo. Is there a nice ravine around? I've only built in a ravine once and that was under the ocean. I'd like to play with slime block launchers.

[Dudebro]

Actually there's a ravine really close to sumos place. I'm not sure if JG has developed it though but I know he built some stuff around the surface of it. There's probably more nearby since the biome is kinda swiss cheesey.

Sumo is obsessed with Don't Starve atm but he's burned through pretty much all the content so he'll be back soon to obsess over MC.

[CatalystiCam]

Yeah its been rebooted.

[Kugyince]

Well where is everyone?

[KATZ]

im playing the same server that i've been playing

[Kugyince]

You derp on one server, you derped on them all?

Today I spent about 4 hours on the server without a soul logging on. Team RU represent.

Also, I'm setting up shop in the covered forest directly West of Sumo's. Hope I'm not stepping on any toes because it's too late now.

[RU Joe]

OVER HEATED to the point of ridiculousness, my computer is barely functional atm.

Where I was/ am: shit out of luck and pretty much fucked; that LAG we've been talking about turned deadly and I lost all my stuff not to mention my goddam bed which I had brought with me while exploring.
So I'm not entirely appreciative of the situation, being back at Spawn all naked and defenseless, all because of that ASS - BRAZING LAG!

:at-wits-end: 3/4 of a ton of ASS!

And on that note:

While I have enjoyed my time playing on this server so far and do intend to play more if possible, if the lag continues to be as bad as it was the last time I was on, I will have to leave to preserve my own sanity.
:(

[Dudebro]

Funny you say PC problems I think my graphics card is dying or something. Hopefully I can figure it out soon and it's nothing big/expensive.

@Tenser- It's just been JG and I on the server really. Sumo was on for a few days and Cam drops in and out when he's around but other than that it's very quiet. Cam says that when he is less busy in the coming weeks things will change though. If you can't take it then maybe wait a bit and try again.

No one is using that forest as far as I know. I found a couple saddled horses in there though, not sure why.

[Kugyince]

In the four hours I spent on the server I noticed very little to no lag. The only time I noticed anything at all was mob A.I. lag.

[CatalystiCam]

I'm trying to resolve some things and free up time now that I'm home. Basically drop a job. Also finish the play I'm in. If all goes well, I'll be loaded with free time come August.

[Dudebro]

We have another small issue. Because of the grief protection Tenser(and any other new people) can't even enter our towns or buildings. Not sure how to get around that.

[Kugyince]

Put a bunch of time on the server today. Got a lot built. My house is going to end up twice as big as I originally planned. I took a look at Sumo's redstone. Doesn't seem to be anything at all that would cauee lag. Nothing's autmated or forcing any block updates that I could tell.

@DB: Since Sumo doesn't visit the forums, will you ask permission for me to shear his sheep occasionally?

[Dudebro]

Don't worry about it I'm sure he won't mind. He wants people to use the stuff he makes or gathers*. If he doesn't want people to use something he hides it. Also he has a fondness for you since you taught him about redstone. Of course he would never call it a fondness but that's how I see it :in-love:


*I'm not saying loot his regular chests or anything I just mean he doesn't mind if we take stuff we need now and then.

[Kugyince]

Loot his chests. Got it.

[Dudebro]

Do that and you might find traps in your house.

[Kugyince]

Trapping my house isn't a bad idea.

[Dudebro]

Speaking of traps I think I heard TNT isn't enabled and I know cam turned off fire spread because of all the flaming infernals we saw. Just an fyi so you don't waste your time.

[CatalystiCam]

I think Explosions are non-damaging to the environment, yes. However certain infernal mobs get around this rule, so careful.

Kind of on a whim, but Colby's coming over tonight, and we will be livestreaming and/or playing the game tonight. Would be cool if we could get a lot of people on tonight.

[Dudebro]

Not a great night for me to be on. We're going to fireworks now and by the time I get back it might be late. Also Starbound is cool again.

[CatalystiCam]

All good. We've added some mods. We added an economy shop mod which I'm not positive on the details of how it works, but I'm sure it'll be cool to have.

Also finally found a working Essentials mod, which is fantastic! This has all the bear basics a server normally should have, such as the almighty /sethome should finally work (I hope).

Anyone interested in any sorts of games, pvp or waves mods/locations. If we work on designing some, it could be a fun thing to do. It would be arenas we create that have pvp enabled or that are for fighting waves of enemies. That sort of thing.

[sabby]

So, yeah. Newbie MC player here. Just barely started playing and went on the server. Spawned on top of a very impressive tower. Then walked a bit and found a small town. Built a cobblestone shack to save my arse, but went on this afternoon and it was gone. Sorry to build on someone's "vacant lot".

Yes another instance of sabby being late to the party.

[CatalystiCam]

Oh, sorry sabby yeah. That land was left unprotected after the update, and we re-protected it. You're free to claim any of those plots if you so wish.

Not at all late to the party, things just getting started slowly.

[Kugyince]

Oh crap. Hey Shawn, you can camp at my place until you get settled in. Welcome to the party.

I'll give you coordinates when I'm on tonight.

[Dudebro]

Yeah welcome to the party.

[CatalystiCam]

Yeah probably best you settle around the rest of the RU crew. Those plots in the village you found are going to be filled with random people.

[Dudebro]

If you wanna build near villages with npcs just follow the torches JG put up. I think we found five towns all relatively close to each other. Only one is settled by us so feel free to take over any of the others.

[Kugyince]

@Sabby:
X = 544
Z = -1387

Make yourself at home, feel free to loot my chest for anything you might need.

[RU Joe]

Cam wanted to know about the 'Hunger Games' map I mentioned last time we were on together, turns out the name is The Survival Games, by Vareide.
Pretty interesting in Singleplayer too.
Big map.
Much loot.

The Survival Games 2 Minecraft Project (http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/the-survival-games-2-848118/)

Good to hear others are joining in, I can't wait to see what you guys come up with.

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[Dudebro]

Lol JG is still a newbie and Cam was killed by a pig.

[CatalystiCam]

Yeah, I was showing Colby the suicide pit haha. It's full of Creepers and infernal pigs.

[Dudebro]

Wait, who made that pit? I thought it was sumo but I don't know how he'd get it to be full of those.

[CatalystiCam]

I made it for kicks. It's only harmful to those who enter.

[RU Joe]

A new player joined for about 3 minutes tonight:

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Just a suggestion but maybe it would be a good idea to place a chest with some wooden tools and leather armor for new players at Spawn?
Also I'm guessing the sign leading them to the Jeep Jeep Ville should have an accompanying sign telling new players that Grief Protection is in effect for that and other such developed areas; I really got the impression 'Danger Toast' rage - quit because of a crappy start.

[Slime Slayer]

Minecraft BTFO:
Ã£Æ’â€°Ã£Æ’Â©Ã£â€šÂ´Ã£Æ’Â³Ã£â€šÂ¯Ã£â€šÂ¨Ã£â€šÂ¹Ã£Æ ’ˆãƒ“ルダーズ | SQUARE ENIX (http://www.dragonquest.jp/builders/)

[Dudebro]

Too bad it's only on Sony systems. Exclusives are great for marketing but terrible for gamers.


@People playing on the server- I hope you guys are having fun and staying active. I'll be back on soon I've just been side tracked with Starbound.

[Kugyince]

Infernal hunting has proven fun. Some nice drops to be had like a helm with protection 5 and unbreaking 5. Both enchants unavailable in vanilla. I've actually got two of them now. Interested if I can combine them.

[CatalystiCam]

Work in Progress, but how does this look?

Plan is for 4 of these towers to have both underground and skyways attaching them. Inspiration is tree top town from DKC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZM7ATysht8

Obviously with a lot of tweaks here and there to make it unique. Green glass thing worked out quite nice I think.

[RU Joe]

Hey, wait a second .. that tower looks awfully familiar .. could it be ???

http://www.retrouprising.com/attachments/other/minecraft/everyone-s-taking-stab-eventually-public-dedicated-mc-server/3909d1436430683t/2015-07-09_01.30.26.pnghttps://s15-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fts3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3 Fid%3DJN.hv4OnXLvq7TICF4OpsXiFQ%26pid%3D15.1%26f%3 D1&sp=83d1bbe24e4e43f436cb5ef99a3315dc (http://www.retrouprising.com/attachments/other/minecraft/everyone-s-taking-stab-eventually-public-dedicated-mc-server/3909d1436430683/2015-07-09_01.30.26.png)

[Kugyince]

It'd be much more impressive if it was done legit.

[Dudebro]

Looking good cam, hope you're having fun making it.

[sabby]

Hey!!! I passed by there on my way to Tenser's place. Couldn't find a gate and didn't want to destroy the fence.

[Kugyince]

It kind of reminds me of a tribal voodoo mask. Its looking much better with the added details.

[CatalystiCam]

It kind of reminds me of a tribal voodoo mask. Its looking much better with the added details.

Indeed. I just started picking away at it last night. Being very meticulous, but I'm having fun with it. I wasn't sure what to peg it as, but it does remind me of some cultural thing I can't put a name to. The big window at the top kind of looks like an eye of some sort. wasn't digging that look as much. I used to have a bit of stone brick in the center of the window, but it obviously especially looked like an eye after that detail. Decided to just leave it as a more basic round window.

Having to figure out how the other 3 towers will work out. I really don't want the exact same thing for them, probably, at least definitely not on the inside of the buildings. Might try different colours for different buildings, but we'll see. Green went really well with the wood. Blue might work well too I think.

[RU Joe]

I still say it's Garterbelt, he's even holding his bible if you look closely.

[Dudebro]

Honestly I think it looks like something you'd see in a Mario game. The forest Toadstools live there and will give you a mushroom if you help them. Or something.

[Kugyince]

@Shawn: I left a chest for you with your name on it in the house.

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@Cam: Bukkit plugins for consideration:

FireworkBuilder - Bukkit (http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/fireworkbuilder/)
SilkSpawners - Mechanics - Minecraft Bukkit Plugins - Curse (http://www.curse.com/bukkit-plugins/minecraft/silkspawners)
Creative Gates - Teleportation - Minecraft Bukkit Plugins - Curse (http://www.curse.com/bukkit-plugins/minecraft/creativegates)

---------- Post added 07-11-2015 at 05:16 PM ---------- Previous post was 07-10-2015 at 02:02 PM ----------

Server started lagging last night with block lag. Today it got to where the mobs were teleporting and the moon and sun were jumping until the server finally crashed.

[Dudebro]

It seems like the server was reset a couple hours ago and now it's working fine. Just figured I'd update.

[CatalystiCam]

Perhaps I should set the server to auto-resets in case I forget to do it every now and then?

[Dudebro]

Yeah that seems like a good idea.

Also we need some path from spawn to our place. I can just warp people but that's not fun and then they can't get back. /spawn doesn't seem to work for me is there a different way to do it?

[CatalystiCam]

Auto-resets were pretty easy to rig up. Set to every 59 minutes, that it'll check for a reboot. It'll only reboot if no one is on. This might need to change to just a set interval if we get busy enough.

Speaking of which. If anyone wants to help advertise the server, it would be much appreciated. We've had a couple randoms check out the server so far. One has kind of stuck around I think.

The path to our place... I want a yay or nay on this? Perhaps not everyone wants such easy access to our area? Just trying to be mindful of everyone.

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Ten:

Mods/Runecraft – Minecraft Wiki (http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Mods/Runecraft)

Thanks for the mod suggestions. I'm absolutely encouraging suggestions. The portal one you wanted already coincides with runecraft (see above), in a similar fashion. Portals are available in that mod. Send>receive style portals.

Goes for everyone, check that wiki to see the extra things you can do. I seem to remember hidden walls too. It all works :)

Tens request mods were added, minus the gates one as we have something for the same purpose.

[Kugyince]

Pretty sure you didn't add the SilkSpawner plug in correctly. I silk touched a blaze spawner and it just broke, didn't drop the actual spawner.

[CatalystiCam]

Not all bukkit mods are compatible with spigot unfortunately.

[Dudebro]

Sumo and I did some infernal hunting and we found some good stuff. The best one I got is Excalibur. I forget the stats atm but sumo was pretty impressed by it and he's already got some good stuff. We tested it out and it one shots normal enemies and 2-3 shots a player in good armor. Sumo tried to run after the first hit but I cornered him and put him out of his misery(screenshot 1). Then he tried to go invisible and ambush me but my admin powers screwed him over. His character was invisible but his name was still greyed out when he crouched. I think his armor got sick of being beat up so it armed itself(screenshot 2).


Also I'm still getting random spawns in my town. I spend like 3-4 nights there without a spawn and then two more after I let out npcs. Then I heard zombie noise and found meat by my golem. I have no idea what's going on. Can someone please double check my town to make sure I'm not just missing something? If it's a glitch I'll be very disappointed but either way I'd like to be sure.

[Kugyince]

If you want to be 100% certain it would require checking the block lighting one block at a time.

Zombies can spawn at light level 7 or lower. Remember when counting light levels, you also have to count the y axis.

http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2015_07/5755.png

If your village has a population of at least 20 a siege may also occur.

Zombie siege – Minecraft Wiki (http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Zombie_siege)

[Dudebro]

I've never had this problem before. I'm worried it's a glitch because it doesn't seem to happen every night even with villagers loose. Would you mind just giving the place a once over? I'd pay you but I dunno what you'd need.

[RU Joe]

DB I still think these random monsters inside the walls at North Village are related to the increased difficulty in MCMMO; Cam said something about the difficulty increasing with time played.
This would explain why it seems to take a couple of nights in town before monsters will start to spawn there.
I'm no expert but this is the best theory I've come up with so far.

So after breeding a bunch more Mooshrooms {please do not kill them, but lead away 2 or more to a different location if you want some} on top of the hill near my Observation Tower, I went exploring to the East past the lavafall.
At first I was disappointed to find even more desert but then noticed this is only a thin biome and on the far side past it is a nice Spruce forest.
On the way there I found another Skeleton Horse so I grabbed it and parked it with a Zombie Horse in the middle of the tunnel under the hill.
I think my other zom horse, 'Grun' has died; he had a thing for falling into holes for some reason.

[CatalystiCam]

DB I still think these random monsters inside the walls at North Village are related to the increased difficulty in MCMMO; Cam said something about the difficulty increasing with time played.
This would explain why it seems to take a couple of nights in town before monsters will start to spawn there.
I'm no expert but this is the best theory I've come up with so far.

So after breeding a bunch more Mooshrooms {please do not kill them, but lead away 2 or more to a different location if you want some} on top of the hill near my Observation Tower, I went exploring to the East past the lavafall.
At first I was disappointed to find even more desert but then noticed this is only a thin biome and on the far side past it is a nice Spruce forest.
On the way there I found another Skeleton Horse so I grabbed it and parked it with a Zombie Horse in the middle of the tunnel under the hill.
I think my other zom horse, 'Grun' has died; he had a thing for falling into holes for some reason.

The increased difficulty is a general minecraft feature. It can be tracked in the f3 menu, but it caps at a certain point.

Someone remind me to pay next month of the server. Got a 14 day notice today, which is nice, but I can't at the moment.

[Kugyince]

Regional difficulty is a vanilla Minecraft feature at Cam has stated. It effects how often mobs spawn with armor/items and how powerful those items are enchanted among other things. It does not affect at what light level a mob can spawn at.

It's cap depends on the difficulty setting the server is set at.

[Dudebro]

I think my other zom horse, 'Grun' has died
Saw it last night penned up by north village. Pretty sure I parked it there.

[Dudebro]

I went to check out sumos skeleton spawner and I saw a well in the distance. Love my viewing range. Turns out it's just two houses and a well. I've never seen one so small and so underped. I didn't stay too long but from what I saw it was perfect. We checked out swamp close by and he found a spider and a zombie spawner. They're so close the walls of their rooms were touching or even shared, sumo said it's like 10 blocks between them. Overall it's a pretty awesome spot. Also there are lots of mountain ranges nearby if anyone is interested in those. They have some nice plateaus.

[sabby]

@Shawn: I left a chest for you with your name on it in the house.

That's great. How do you get in? Every time I try to open the door it says "HEY!! You can't use that here!"

[Kugyince]

Someone must have protected my house without me asking them to. I told them not to until I knew your MC name so I could add you to the permissions.

[CatalystiCam]

That was me, sorry. Slipped my mind to ask the name.

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Db, you'll probably be on before me. Type "/region addmember <sabbys name> Tenser"

The tenser and sabbys name might be swapped.

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wow, no edit button already? I just deleted the region for the meantime.

[sabby]

You guys have some impressive structures. I hope I can come up with things half as cool as you do. Sumostomp gave me a grand tour of his facilities, just amazing.

Thanks for the helmet J. I'll probably bunk in that spare room of yours if you don't mind until I get my own place.

I have SOOOOOOO much to learn.

[Dudebro]

His spelling is atrocious sometimes and he's randomly afk but sumostomp is always willing to help and he's online a lot. Also feel free to take stuff you may need from his chests and mine. My house is in the forested village nearby, orange roofed house.

[Kugyince]

I'm about 90% finished with a direct tunnel from my place to the skeleton grinder. It's all underground, spawn-free, and large enough for a horse. My next project will be a slime farm.

On that note though, I've discussed the issue with Sumo and we both would like to see the Infernal Mobs plug in removed. While the drops are equal to the difficulty, the fact that they can destroy player creations ruins any chance to do some amazing work for the server where farms are concerned.

[Dudebro]

Sucks to remove them but if we can't disable their explosive rampages it might be for the best.

[RU Joe]

If Infernal Mobs are going to be removed, can we have something non - destructive in their place?

[CatalystiCam]

If it's a general concensus, I have no problem removing them. I too was running into issues with the mob arenas when they'd spawn.

I'll see if the plugin has any way to stop the land destruction.

Edit: I went through the plugins config and set their ability to cause explosions to false. This should help I would imagine. Rebooting now for the change to take effect. Monitor it for now, and let me know.

It also looks like I can disable very specific mobs from being able to become an infernal.

[Kugyince]

Absolutely.

I enjoy adding challenge to the game. Its just we've all done the Minecraft grind for hundreds of hours now, I don't think there's any reason to add to it with random destruction.

[Dudebro]

Sumo also wanted me to mention that he'd like something done about the infernals that make items disappear, not sure what the ability is called. It kills his fun because it wastes all the time he spent making and maintaining his weapons. He said it's more annoying than the explosions.

[CatalystiCam]

Care to elaborate more? Making items in your inventory disappear, or having blocks disappear?

[Dudebro]

Like when you attack it your sword/bow will disappear right out of your hand.

[Kugyince]

Some infernals have the ability to "steal" your weapons.

[RU Joe]

Some infernals have the ability to "steal" your weapons.
https://s3-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3 Fid%3DJN.mlYlFqm8WPCzr1U%252bW0Fraw%26pid%3D15.1%2 6f%3D1&sp=e852787da31c5652f50bfab2a21d3fd5
Then they swallow your soul.

[Dudebro]

I found an invisible infernal right behind that two house town(Call it Dos Casas maybe?). It didn't go hostile and when I hit it I'd go flying in a horizontal direction with enough force to slightly hurt me. It dropped a feather and raw chicken so I assume it was a chicken but the other neutral infernals didn't have that force push so I dunno. Oh and it also dropped something called a wither charm. A quick google search says it's a FTB item but it doesn't look right. Any ideas?

[Kugyince]

Its a wither skull. With three of them you can summon the Wither.

[Dudebro]

Yeah but why is it called a wither charm?

[Kugyince]

Because the Infernal drops are named. I have a couple of Murder's Axes, a Rusty Helm, Strong Boots, and Water Logged Boots.

Its flavor text.

[Dudebro]

Well that's weird. It's in my house if anyone wants it.

[CatalystiCam]

I had to force reboot the server. There was a clone of joe by the name of "Backfromvancouv: Okay I need to take a break I've been playing forever and" or something long like that, and I couldn't kick it.

Anyways, all is well now. How do you guys feel about some accessible dungeons if I made them? Something Akin to doom for grinding I have in mind. Like a facility you guys walk through and find switches to open the new areas, etc. Certain things will also spawn monsters like where you walk, or what you press. Just brainstorming that at the moment.

Other idea is a graveyard themed area full of zombies from spawners. My problems with the spawners opposed to switches and dispensers is that the spawners will keep spawning as long as someones around making it difficult.

The former will serve for grinding and adventuring with a prize at the end maybe. The latter will just be for grinding and fun.

Any ideas, let me know. By accessible I mean within walking distance, or with a runecraft portal to them. Let me know.

[Dudebro]

That JG clone thing is funny. He said that to me like two days ago I think. I've been on since then and didn't see any clones.

I think anything you wanna make like that will be cool. It doesn't sound like it'd have much replay value though so I'd design it with new people in mind. Maybe make them along the spawn roads? That way if we still wanna keep our area protected from newbs we can just teleport RU people there to check it out.

[Kugyince]

Doesn't sound like anything I'd be interested in.

[Dudebro]

Sumo is back and building like crazy again. He said he likes the stuff JG has been building along that railway. The lights give me some lag but it looks cool. Also we saw an infernal creeper riding a donkey. I took a picture but I'm exceeding the forum limit again so I'll post it later. Best infernal ever.

[RU Joe]

Still working on renovating the top of Sumo's boxy - looking haus.
More of a challenge than I thought - but Ten was nice enough to give me his expert advice.
Watch where you step on Ten's lawn, btw - I suspect it's a mine field in disguise.

[Dudebro]

Here's an infernal riding a donkey and a zombie riding some flying infernal. JG suggested it was a ghast but it was silent and it was moving pretty quickly through the air which isn't ghastlike. I'm thinking maybe a bat? I didn't hear any squeaks but that's easier to miss than those horrific ghast noises.

[RU Joe]

Here's an infernal riding a donkey and a zombie riding some flying infernal. JG suggested it was a ghast but it was silent and it was moving pretty quickly through the air which isn't ghastlike. I'm thinking maybe a bat? I didn't hear any squeaks but that's easier to miss than those horrific ghast noises.

Thanks for posting this, and not to tell anyone what they should do but, my policy is:
when I see mysterious mobs shooting off sparks, it's time to either take cover, run, or break out your bow for some long - range attacks.

Here's an item that an Infernal Skeleton dropped from my spawner {under the hill where my tower is, one entrance is under the large Oak with the custom roots, the other is beside DB's haus in North Village}
I was really laughing at this.

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This Zombie stole someone's horse then hid inside Sumo's doorway where it proceeded to take pot shots at me as I walked by, setting everything on fire in the area.
Since I've been playing silently {no sound} lately I first thought there must be a Ghast flying around and circled the building a few times, watching the sky, before I finally figured out what and where it was.
Don't approach this guy.

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[Dudebro]

Sumo and I spotted that donkey rider at the same time. He was dead very shortly after that ss was taken. That ghost rider in the sky disappeared. I saw him while I was on my horse and I didn't wanna dismount where I was so I rode a little further after the ss and came back on foot. I looked all over but he either despawned or kept on flying.

[RU Joe]

There I was, making trips into the Nether to collect materials for the new portal stage you will see outside of Sumo's place, taking every precaution to NOT agro the Zombie Pigmen and everything was going fine until a Blaze decided to shoot at me.
Unfortunately her aim was a bit off and she hit one of the Pigmen instead .. and so they went after ME!!
:excruciating:

This would have been fine but, now I cannot return to the Nether at all because the Pigmen won't allow me even to materialize on the Nether side before I get killed again.
So in case someone has an extra couple of stacks of Netherack, I would greatly appreciate if you could leave them in one of the chests down under the new portal stage I made so I may finish that project.

Some more funky items dropped by mobs:

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[Kugyince]

I killed all the pigmen on the other side for you yesterday. Left a note saying so. I think your issue was there was not one but two infernals among the group.

[Dudebro]

I got you a few stacks of netherack and some quartz JG. If you need anything else, minus blaze droppings, let me know.

Btw the portal looks great.

---------- Post added at 03:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:35 PM ----------

Also I saw a sign that said some funland or something was coming soon, is that real or just flavor text?

[RU Joe]

I got you a few stacks of netherack and some quartz JG. If you need anything else, minus blaze droppings, let me know.

Btw the portal looks great.

---------- Post added at 03:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:35 PM ----------

Also I saw a sign that said some funland or something was coming soon, is that real or just flavor text?
Yay!
Thanks very much for the supplies; that prevents me from having to die yet again in the Nether.
I have a blaze rod if you need it.

By the way, Ten, I left a note near the portal but in case you didn't see it, I still cannot go back and who knows if they'll ever calm down - there is no reasoning with them at all.

That sign North of the village says something like: 'Happy World Land coming soon!' - with this being the inspiration for the project:

http (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7bB56z-yF8)://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7bB56z-yF8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7bB56z-yF8)

[Dudebro]

I'm all set with Blaze stuff. I'm just saying I'm not doing farming runs on mobs that will probably kill me. Sumo probably will though. He's a glutton for punishment.

Glad I noticed the sign then I almost starting making something that would ruin your view.

[RU Joe]

I'm starting to feel like a land - hog, having built so much over such a wide area.
So right now I'm waiting to see where you guys are going to start some new projects - Sumo's huge project near the new village with 2 houses, DB's view - blocking project on the former {joke} site of Happy World Land, etc.

Build ALL the things!

https://s17-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth% 3Fid%3DJN.o1T9lJq3rQzTW%252f%252f03j3%252bmw%26pid %3D15.1%26f%3D1&sp=7b563f195d534a101a3353883d57fddd

{but I'm guessing most of you are currently playing that new retro RPG you mentioned a while back}

I have a plan for something HUGE but I don't want to stand in the way of other players by just going ahead before you guys get your chance to choose some prime locations for yourselves.

[Dudebro]

DB's view - blocking project on the former {joke} site of Happy World Land, etc.
I didn't build there. I have a rather large project in the works though, see if you can find it. I went up like 300 excavation levels in a couple days.

[CatalystiCam]

I don't have a happy medium. When I go big, I go big and things get very calculated and "Perfect". Blech, drives me nuts sometimes.

Anyways, the progress! Nothing's filled or complete, but I plan to do that in survival. Not sure what exactly I'm leaving for survival, but it's probably most of the building and furnishing that doesn't involve plummet to death or air-building risk.

Red tower even more-so incomplete. 4th tower relatively untouched. Will be blue.

Only tower that has a direction is purple that has a nice divided animal farm in it.

Pics all below.

[Dudebro]

It's been pretty lonely on the server lately, please tell me it's not gonna be shutting down soon. I feel like I jinxed it by starting work on a large project.

[RU Joe]

It looks like someone really cleaned up a huge area - at first I thought it was just a glitch but no, all the dirt has been removed!

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[Dudebro]

Thanks for spoiling the surprise JG! I'm taking before and after screenshots to show the transformation, I'll post them when I'm done. Btw feel free to help it's taking a long time even with the digging special ability and my level being like 500. When the dirt is gone I was hoping you guys would help me plant some strategic TNT to break up that stone. Also there's a large abandoned mineshaft at the bottom, feel free to explore it.

[CatalystiCam]

I made a last minute decision to head to university now so money's pretty tight, but again 5 bucks a month is nothing. It would actually be cheaper to renew 12 months at a time in the long run. Is that a safe bet however? I'll always be jumping on randomly as I saw last year with SP.

Vacation is almost over here, hence why it's crickets on my end.

[Dudebro]

I think we all know we can't support a server with just RU players and sumo. If we want to keep this server open, and we do, then we need to get new blood to join. I'd take up the responsibility of posting and maintaining a server topic on minecraft.net if I knew it's what everyone wanted and I knew that the server is ready for potential trolls. I know how to kick and ban people and I've read about how to do other admin stuff but I'm not very confident about all the commands yet. Also I cannot be online during the day really and I'm not on super long at night either. We'd need someone else to help police things. Since JG is the only person who's very active I'd nominate him for OP. I know he may not be on board, at least at first, but I think it makes sense.

Brainstorm bros, let's hear it.


Edit- I can't be on during the day but I can be reached through Steam usually so if something bad was happening I should be able to jump on and drop the hammer.

[KATZ]

pssst dont forget, theres always the server i play/staff on ;P

[CatalystiCam]

Personally, and this is just me. Please by all means invite people, this is me telling you I'd appreciate the help there. But I'm not going to be unhappy with it being a bit dead, as long as it's used. I'm a very big loner when it comes to this game (unless it's hardcore). I'm more about build about and have some show and tell back and forth later. That's cool with me. Knowing others are helping build a metropolis around me is awesome. I'm content at that as a minimum.

That said, I would love to have a few people always on. For occasional adventuring, group projects and conversing. Although I find I cant concentrate on building while talking. Not as well at least, but eh... I enjoy the company.

As far as admins. Not really anyone I don't trust here. No need for a whole bunch of you to be "guests" along with the other public that we'll hopefully add. Anyone willing to take on the admin role, just say so. It only entails keeping baddies away and protecting land. What you do beyond that too is probably fine within reason, and by that I mean creative mode stuff. Though if we are discussing this, maybe we want to limit that sort of stuff though. I'm open to all input.

As of right now though, barring some newer people that may pop in here, this is an official invitation to (listing off top of my head),

Katz
Sumo
Joe
Db
Seahawk
Wolf
Ten
Sabby if he wants to learn

(sorry if I'm forgetting any regular players) if you want to help in the admin regards, just give me the word.

Any input or help on anything is appreciated. This is the ru server as far as I'm concerned. Anyone else want to voice anything, I'm all ears!

[RU Joe]

I appreciate you thinking of me for Admin, but I'm not on consistently enough.

About the server, I think we're doing just fine by ourselves; the stuff you guys have made so far is excellent and as I told Ten, this high quality work is making me feel like I have to build a bit better in order to keep up.
NO MORE BOXES!

http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2015_08/5804.jpg

^ UNFORGIVABLE!

Yes maybe it is a little lonely sometimes but I would rather be lonely and not have to worry than have a bunch of new people who I'd have to wonder what they're up to all the time.
I'm a Xenophobe (http://www.retrouprising.com/arcade.php?act=Arcade&do=play&gameid=6672) » Coin Op (http://www.retrouprising.com/arcade.php?act=Arcade&ssearch=2) , I know.

[Kugyince]

Most of my Minecraft playing is done in single player worlds. When I'm on the server, I like the interaction.

I havent been on in awhile due to lack of inspiration. I have what I think is a great idea now so I should be popping on more to build that.

[Dudebro]

this is an official invitation

Db
Uh, you made me an admin a while ago bro.


Can you explain how to protect land? You told me before but having it written down will help me. Also we need to do something about the player rank names. It's obviously not working right if JG is still a newbie. I think he's been on more than anyone else and he's certainly been actively playing more than anyone else. Also sumo is the highest ranked on mcmmo but he's a newb too. It just looks lazy in the current state.

[KATZ]

i wouldent mind staff, im on minecraft 24/7 and i always pop in and out of my server looking to see whoevers on yours

[Dudebro]

@Campandering- I was wondering about the problem where people can't use doors, plates, ect in protected zones and I found this-Example: Allowing everyone to use doors, levels, buttons, and pressure plates even in protected regions
The use flag concerns these types of items:
/rg flag __global__ use allow



From this page about WorldGuard-
What’s Protected? � WorldGuard 6.0 documentation (http://docs.enginehub.org/manual/worldguard/latest/regions/scope/)




1. I almost fell into this weird formation while riding my horse. I think it looks so cool I'm tempted to build a road to it and make a house that I don't need.

2. I turned around while excavating and I saw this nice view. Sunset with Sumos beacon in the distance.

3. North village barely visible from a nearby mountain. JGs mountain fortress thingy is to the left.

[CatalystiCam]

DB, by all means do it. Anything like that I'm looking for help on programming in.

Speaking of which. The ranks I was going to get rid of. Can't get them to work or have different permissions anyways. They are not part of Mcmmo. They're their own thing meant for permissions. May as well just have the default 'op' and 'user', unless anyone wants to figure this coding out. Too much of a headache for me and my focus issues.

Katz & Ten Op'ed (talked to ten earlier about helping with the technical end of things. Just say no if you don't want to be an Op). Thanks guys

Protecting land - You can find a lot of tutorials under worldguard/edit which will be available to you as op. Typically it revolves around having a wooden axe as a wand. Protecting a cubic area right, you right click the first corner of the protected area and then left click the second corner (doesn't matter which order). after that's labeled (using joey and bob as an example username), type

/rg define <region name> Joey

to add a user /rg <region name> addmember bob.

Something like that.

Joe - I hear ya, but there is means in place to stop any shenanigans.

[Dudebro]

I tried the mineshaft run and it doesn't work. It triggers the oracle rune which is useless if you know how to alt tab and google for a wiki.

The faith rune works though. I made the island in the screenshot with glowstone(tier 4 out of 7) so it could be bigger and higher up but I think it still looks pretty cool. I was gonna say we should disable the rune but then I saw that there's a few ways to deal with it. You can make a rune that disables other runes or just use the doubt rune to undo the uplift. I haven't tried any of those yet but they should work if faith does.

Mods/Runecraft/Faith/Faith – Minecraft Wiki (http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Mods/Runecraft/Faith/Faith)

[CatalystiCam]

oh yay, somebody is trying out the runecraft stuff. It's been a mod that's been going since alpha I know, so I think it may still have some runes that are less compatible with updates, ya know.

[Dudebro]

From what little info I could find the mineshaft rune was changed to make it easier but now it conflicts with the oracle rune and doesn't work. I assume they'll fix it eventually but who knows.

[RU Joe]

Dudebro, you went and RUNEd it~!

[Dudebro]

Well at least I runed my own stuff, right?


In case anyone isn't aware you can summon pets. 10 Bones for wolf, 10 fish for cat and 10 apples for a horse. You just hold them in your hand, crouch and swing like a melee attack. This is great except for the horses. They come pretamed but unsaddled and with random stats. If you lose it or just resummon it because lazy you'll lose the saddle and armor.

Btw the first horse I summoned could jump so high it took damage when it came down. I've never seen a horse jump that high before it was fun. My current one is slow and can barely jump :(

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I looked for spawn and found that one of Cams roads would lead right between our two desert villages. It crosses a bunch of deep ocean but with the bridge building rune(untested still) it could be as simple as getting enough blocks to add to the rune. I think it's too perfect to ignore. If we protect all our stuff we shouldn't have any problems with strangers wandering around, right? This could be a cool project and give us all a reason to feel motivated about playing MC again. Let me know what you guys think.

Also I found a water temple and sumo got rekt trying to explore it. It's not far from where the future bridge would be.

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I've been trying out some runes and I'm not having great luck. Bridgemaster seems to be broken and the wiki lists it as the same pattern as wallmaster. Wallmaster says it works but when I try to place the blocks it does nothing. I was counting on bridgemaster for that spawn bridge idea and wallmaster was my backup :(

Good news though phaseblock works. Now we can make walls that can be right clicked on and they'll disappear, right click on the ground where one of the blocks is to bring them back. It's really cool. Don't make anything huge out of them though I read it can cause crashes.

[CatalystiCam]

Alright. I'm really kicking things into gear now. I've got a few more friends playing now, and I'm making videos for the server. My best form of advertising being that I suck at actual advertising.

Hasn't yielded anyone new yet though. If you want to advertise on the MCforums DB, that would be great.

Now is a good time for all of this. My friends and I are all playing fairly regularly. Good time for people to join.

I also added a few more mods, as well as sebb and colby have access to the server database for the coding and those kinds of things I can't figure out. The mods I've added (or trying to add in one case) are:

Server Signs
Sign shops
Multiverse (use of multiple worlds)
SkyStone - Not working (Adds skyworld region)

Any of the Ops can look up the wiki's on how these work.

Even if I can't get Skystone to work, I may add a creative world, Hardcore or a superflat should anyone be interested?

[Dudebro]

Hasn't yielded anyone new yet though. If you want to advertise on the MCforums DB, that would be great.

Now is a good time for all of this. My friends and I are all playing fairly regularly. Good time for people to join.I'd like to make sure everyone has their stuff protected and the exception is added so strangers can use doors and stuff. I linked it before and you said go ahead and do it but I don't think I can alter anything about the mods, right?
What’s Protected? — WorldGuard 6.0 documentation (http://docs.enginehub.org/manual/worldguard/latest/regions/scope/)
Scroll down to exceptions. Without that people are gonna get stuck and annoyed.

Once that's all sorted out I don't mind posting a topic on the forum. I'd just need an updated list of all the mods and any specific rules you might want.

[CatalystiCam]

Alright, so no Skylands... exactly, however I did find a way to mimic it pretty good through conventional means and loopholes, as well as some of our current lovely plugins and mods.

What we have is a secondary world I'm thinking might be dedicated to PVP in a very similar area to the skylands. What we have is a Caves of Chaos world generation I input in single player and then found a way to string it into the server.

If you type "/mv tp extreme" you can access the world now.

Nothings rigged up to work in any specific way yet, but what is the world like? Deadly terrain. Terrain can spawn up to the 256 block limit and does. Giant sprawling floating islands everywhere, and just honestly unpredictability in the terrain gen. It's absolutely nuts what generates there. You'll have to see for yourselves. The world can generate down to bedrock in normal means as well. Meaning you have small land at layer 20 for example. Modified the world to have an ocean at layer 15, and I modified all the ores to be able to spawn at higher levels for actually serving a purpose in mining up high for example. Do note that things like diamond still are rather lowdown. Here's the rundown off of memory to what I set:

Coal layers 0-250
Iron layers 0-200
Gold layers 0-200
Diamond layers 0-50
Lapis layers 0-100? (Can't remember)
Grass/stone/gravel/andesite/etc. All layers.

There is a hub base I built at spawn. You carry your stuff over from the regular world though I'm not sure we want to keep it that way.

Let me know if you guys want to use this world for anything specific. Like move PVP just to that world or something. That's what I'm thinking.

Have fun folks!

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I'd like to make sure everyone has their stuff protected and the exception is added so strangers can use doors and stuff. I linked it before and you said go ahead and do it but I don't think I can alter anything about the mods, right?
What’s Protected? � WorldGuard 6.0 documentation (http://docs.enginehub.org/manual/worldguard/latest/regions/scope/)
Scroll down to exceptions. Without that people are gonna get stuck and annoyed.

Once that's all sorted out I don't mind posting a topic on the forum. I'd just need an updated list of all the mods and any specific rules you might want.

I think we'll need a mod called lwc to modify that, as far as the doors go. Perhaps not. You should be looking through worldguard wiki to find that kind of stuff I think. Perhaps worldedit. I'll look into it as well

Have you protected anything. I know the first 2 villages are protected, so let me know what else needs to be protected.

[RU Joe]

Cam:
I know the first 2 villages are protected, so let me know what else needs to be protected.
Significant structures?

[CatalystiCam]

Cam:

Significant structures?

I need to know specifically if there is buildings I don't know about hiding off in the distance is all. I can do everything I see, but it's a bit easier if I get some snapshots and coordinates of any outliers.

[Dudebro]

All I can think of is the villages that are connected by the path/roads and sumos spawner area at the end of the railroad by his house.

My pit too but I'll try to protect it myself so I can learn how to do it.

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I think we'll need a mod called lwc to modify that, as far as the doors go. Perhaps not. You should be looking through worldguard wiki to find that kind of stuff I think. Perhaps worldedit. I'll look into it as well
Have you looked into this? To be honest this is confusing for me and I'm lucky I stumbled on that page. Either way I think we need to figure it out before we invite any new people to the server.
Speaking of the server it's down atm. I forget what the error said but it was basically saying it got no reply.

@JG - Would you mind if I experiment with the village near king pig? I always forget which is north and south. I wanna try some runes on it and make something connected to my pit.

[RU Joe]

^
Go right ahead, and it's South Village near King Pig.
I'm pretty sure I put up a sign or two along the path and near each village; North Village has signs above the entrances.
While we're talking about signs and names, these names were merely so players can easily identify the different areas, so for example, people can say:

'Where are you ATM?'
- ' Oh, somewhere near North Village'
That sort of thing.

I know we could just use F3 coordinates, but derps like me often get them wrong, or forget to mention negative '-' values.
Just ask Katz, I sent her thousands of blocks in the wrong direction once because of this.
{sorry again for that Katz}

So that's why I started giving places names instead, and began building the roads and paths connecting these locations.

[RU Joe]

I thought I couldn't connect {last night} due to a server reset, but I still can't connect today, and this message is displayed:

{click on Exception for larger Exception}
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[CatalystiCam]

Sorry guys. A bit of a schedule catastrophe again at the moment, University costs and all that fun stuff hitting me hard. Servers back up, and I'm not sure why it went down.

[RU Joe]

Thanks Cam - I really appreciate you keeping the server up and running for so long, and I know I speak for all of us when I say that.

[RU Joe]

INSPIRED by DB's enormous 'pit', as he called it, I have embarked on a massive project of my own: enhanced biome re - assignment.
The areas we've discovered so far are either Savannah or Desert, and I got bored of seeing the same thing over and over so I decided to transform the small desert just East of North Village, past the monolith and dual lavafall.

Behold:
Morningwood Forest ~!
:curl-lip:

{click on Morningwood for larger Morningwood}
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I know it doesn't look like much from up on the mountain but I've been working on it for some time now.
It features custom trees and fallen logs, so far.
I have to decide on some other unique distinguishing features .. it'll come to me.

[Dudebro]

We did get stuck in a very bland area huh? I'm starting to wonder if any of the more exotic biomes even exist.

[CatalystiCam]

Thanks Cam - I really appreciate you keeping the server up and running for so long, and I know I speak for all of us when I say that.

Thanks. Appreciation goes both ways.

I'll actually level with you guys at the moment. Barely scraping by at the moment, at least for the months of August-September and probably half of October will be the case. School fees, cell phone and insurance giga-payments... My financials aren't great to the point of cancelling things like netflix, not ordering NHL center ice again this year... Not even affording my own food at the moment. Literally, I don't have more than a loonie and some nickels at the moment.

Any help on funding the server for this month would be appreciated. I believe the payment is due in the next week or two, but I actually can't credit it even. Bunch of surprise payments and unforeseen stuff are absolutely wondrous right now.

I know I said I wouldn't be asking for donations, but this is unfortunately the case at this moment in time.

Edit: Costs 4.99 us and is due September 29th. I actually MAY have the surplus 5 bucks by then, and if I do I'll snag it.

Don't worry about it too much. As far as pressure to keep it going or what have you, as I'll reiterate I want the server as much as the rest of you, and I don't mind paying it, and it's not a lot of money (other than right now lol). I'm cancelling netflix as we already have 2 copies floating around the house and don't need mine (obviously as the extra cost, but also because of the other 2 accounts in the house). Having minecraft, as well as other sandbox games is my best method of de-stressing right now, and at any point generally.

[Dudebro]

My pc went down on friday and I have no idea when it'll be working again. I probably can't donate for this month without pc access but I could cover 10 bucks for the next couple months. How would I get those funds to you though? Also did you look into that thing I linked about allowing exceptions like doors and buttons? If it's resolved by the time I get back online I'll post a topic and try to populate the server.

[CatalystiCam]

My pc went down on friday and I have no idea when it'll be working again. I probably can't donate for this month without pc access but I could cover 10 bucks for the next couple months. How would I get those funds to you though? Also did you look into that thing I linked about allowing exceptions like doors and buttons? If it's resolved by the time I get back online I'll post a topic and try to populate the server.

No, sorry I haven't looked into the plugin. Been busy, but I'll give it a glance and install now. Don't have time to mess around with programming it though.

Yeah a couple months should have us in the clear. I'm going to credit this month probably, but waiting until pay day to see if I can maybe debit it.

Plugin details:

https://github.com/Hidendra/LWC/wiki

Edit: It is installed. I'm heading to bed soon now. I Work tomorrow maybe and the next 3 days after for sure.

[Dudebro]

Thanks cam. Now we just need someone to test it. I think jg, tenser and sumo were all added to all protections, we either need to make a new protection area that excludes everyone or have someone else try exsisting ones. Wish I could help more.

[Kugyince]

;)

[CatalystiCam]

Thanks cam. Now we just need someone to test it. I think jg, tenser and sumo were all added to all protections, we either need to make a new protection area that excludes everyone or have someone else try exsisting ones. Wish I could help more.

Same. I wish I could do more too. I had added lwc, but then it locked every chest pre existing to the world individually and that seemed like a headache. Must be something in code to default to unlocked unless locked, but programming 50 storage chests to ourselves is something I'm sure no one wants to do.

[RU Joe]

Immediately after winning an epic battle against an Infernal Mob, the server kicked me off and I haven't been able to reconnect since.
Oh and of course I had the most epic stuff in my inventory when this happened.
:excruciating:

[CatalystiCam]

Server reset. Not sure why it's going offline permanently like that more and more.

[RU Joe]

:act-up: I am very happy - I finally got to log in and, after running over to where I died, I got ALL my stuff back, and also a new chestplate~!

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Maybe it doesn't make sense, since I told you I won that fight with the Infernal Mob, but what I didn't mention was that he had the Wither effect.
So even after I killed it I still withered away .. luckily I recently moved my bed to the place I've been working lately, very close to where the battle took place.

Actually the whole story should include the fact this mob startled me with a sudden attack in the middle of the day, it being protected from the sun by diamond armor, but it was nice enough to get caught in its own web directly in front of me {something notable since I was standing at the edge of a cliff at that time} and I cut him down~!

:sk:

[CatalystiCam]

Bad news guys, due to the exchange rate, I'm short on debiting the server, and my credit card is not in use until I can make the minimum payment in 2 weeks. Not sure what this means for the world, but the server will be going offline in 2 days.

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Edit: Colby has covered the payment for this month. False alarm. We have him to thank for sure.

[RU Joe]

Many many thanks, Colby~!
I'm having a lot of fun in our little world we've created, and I'm thrilled to know it will continue.

[KATZ]

once again Cheese has saved the day


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[RU Joe]

I'm unable to connect for teh past couple of days.
The fact no one else seems to have noticed the server is down, combined with the fact I seem to be forever alone on the server when it is up and running, makes me think MC is finished and had its time and people have moved on to other games.

[Dudebro]

I'm actually really wanting to play but my PC is still offline. I think it might be back online soon(within a couple weeks) but I can't be sure. That being said though I was thinking it might be best to put it in hibernation for now due to cam being busy/short on funds, my pc being kaput and a general lack of interest from everyone else. Thoughts?

Btw I think all this is my fault. It seems like every time I start working on a huge project our server dies :(

[KATZ]

wellll.... i havent even been giving my own server attention :| i've been working alot lately

[CatalystiCam]

I'm unable to connect for teh past couple of days.
The fact no one else seems to have noticed the server is down, combined with the fact I seem to be forever alone on the server when it is up and running, makes me think MC is finished and had its time and people have moved on to other games.

I don't think that's happening. This server is just... Well us largely. A friend and I did a test Ultra hardcore on a different world (within this server). that mod may be running for another day making normal gameplay off. Nothing major.

[Kugyince]

I've been spending most of my MC time in my single-player world or on a private modded server for youtubers and twitch streamers (no idea how I got invited).

I gave it a try, I just can't go back to vanilla or even vanilla-ish. Sorry.

[RU Joe]

The server is back up, and thank you!
:lashes:
I hope I didn't come across as bitchy - I can see how my post could be read that way.
I'm merely making observations, and one of the things I've observed is a dropoff in player activity lately, which is what made me assume people must be playing something else.
The whole point about that was, MC is getting old now and there are lots of new games to be played.

Right now, there is something new happening on the server:

'Episodes'

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and the sun is stuck at high noon {for days of game time} .. maybe Gojira is going to appear???

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[CatalystiCam]

it's all good, ten, joe. It's running the Ultra Hardcore Mod right now, but don't worry it won't ban you or nothing for dying. Health just won't regen for the moment.

[RU Joe]

... and everyone's sayin' that there's nobody meaner
than that little Gojira from Hiroshima
Go - jira, Go - jira, Go - jira, GO~!

[Dudebro]

As much as I hate to say it maybe we need to restart the map and add lots of cool mods. I'd hate to lose all the effort I put into my unfinished project but I'm not seeing any hope on the population front. It's very hard to get strangers to stick with a server and I think our current set up will be a tough sell. Not vanilla enough for vanilla fans and not moddy enough for mod fans.

Like I said I hate bringing this up but I figured we should consider all options and get things sorted asap. IF we do this though I'd suggest testing the mods with JG since he tends to have issues the most and he tends to contribute to every settled part of our servers. If JG can't join us then who will beautify our common areas and post helpful signs along our footpaths?

[Kugyince]

I suggest server resets every 3-4 months with a new pack to keep it fresh. That's what the current server I play on does.

If you're looking to start off simple, maybe Vanilla+.

Minecraft: Taking a Look at FTB Vanilla Plus + - YouTube

[CatalystiCam]

As much as I hate to say it maybe we need to restart the map and add lots of cool mods. I'd hate to lose all the effort I put into my unfinished project but I'm not seeing any hope on the population front. It's very hard to get strangers to stick with a server and I think our current set up will be a tough sell. Not vanilla enough for vanilla fans and not moddy enough for mod fans.

Like I said I hate bringing this up but I figured we should consider all options and get things sorted asap. IF we do this though I'd suggest testing the mods with JG since he tends to have issues the most and he tends to contribute to every settled part of our servers. If JG can't join us then who will beautify our common areas and post helpful signs along our footpaths?

I think people are more into the mods than not. You're talking probably a 90/10 split.

I'm not... Opposed to a reset, but let's definitely leave it open for discussion. Please bring Ten, Wolf, etc. (people probably not in on this discussion anymore), here for their take.

Here is a big thing for me personally. I just don't have a whole lot of time or patience for things like figuring and programming mods into a server. It is imperative that I have some second hands on this one figuring these things out. That or someone else running the server?

FTB is the notable option route. I do want to try this, but this also costs more. Right now it's about $6.50 CDN for me, Bare minimum FTB on this site is $19 CDN. It may be sad, but I don't even have this to add on to my monthly costs. The thing that bothers me here is that the only reason it costs more is that it doesn't give you the same plans for FTB. The cheaper ones that is. Minimum plan is designed to hold an easy 30 people without issue. The plans for a regular server have plans that cost $3 CDN a month and support about 5 people stably.

I suppose that what I'm saying was the plan was to increase the size as we needed, because you can do that, but starting out paying for 30 slots at any given time seems extreme for what we may realistically be getting.

I really would like to open the floor in this regard to this discussion. Other people funding this or a pooled fund (which hasn't really worked in the past for Seahawk).

My idea-pitch. I'm currently on the Dirt plan as they call it (rank it by blocks). I could drop the regular server to the Air plan (supports 5 people stably, vs. Dirt's 12 which we've never needed), and keep this server very vanilla (even more than now). I could still find use for this with my little livestream or youtube things I do now and then. Additionally could run little events like we used to for super hostile maps or what have you. I don't mind keeping the server at the Dirt plan either. It's a 3 dollar difference.

On the side we fund the FTB server collectively. Again I know we want a population, and it would almost feel necessary with the 30 player slots at any given time. To do this, I feel like we need a bunch of us to look into controlling the server with whatever mods, as well as funding it.

We could also look elsewhere for FTB hosting obviously.

Floor is completely open. Personally not using the current world much, and when I am it's a burden to try and figure out hardcores and stuff without messing up the mods on it.

[Kugyince]

Honestly, if I'm going to chip in for a server then I'd just rather pay 100% and have it my way. I'll probably be hosting a very private Regrowth server when the modpack has an official release, anyways. If one or two people are seriously interested in playing it. If not I'll just play it SSP as I normally do.

That being said, most people are not going to want to play Regrowth. JG's computer can't handle it. DB will hate that there's no villages or exploration. And so on...

So you guys decide what you want to do and how you want to pay for it. If it interests me, I'll join until I get bored with it. You guys should try to get rid of the notion of persistent multiplayer maps though. As "neat" as the concept is to some of you, its not the way to keep the game fresh for a steady population. If you want persistence, play single player.

[CatalystiCam]

Honestly, if I'm going to chip in for a server then I'd just rather pay 100% and have it my way. I'll probably be hosting a very private Regrowth server when the modpack has an official release, anyways. If one or two people are seriously interested in playing it. If not I'll just play it SSP as I normally do.

That being said, most people are not going to want to play Regrowth. JG's computer can't handle it. DB will hate that there's no villages or exploration. And so on...

So you guys decide what you want to do and how you want to pay for it. If it interests me, I'll join until I get bored with it. You guys should try to get rid of the notion of persistent multiplayer maps though. As "neat" as the concept is to some of you, its not the way to keep the game fresh for a steady population. If you want persistence, play single player.

Not an unreasonable way of looking at things. The idea is always cool, but never pans out for me.

As for Regrowth, that's one of the one's I'm most interested in.

[RU Joe]

I think this issue of players wanting vastly different mods is key.

Not many seem interested in Vanilla anymore - not saying that MC is bad in its unaltered state - but if it were a bowl of noodles, then mods would be the vegetables and sauce that go with it {maybe some hard boiled egg, meat, tofu, etc.} and make it all the more appealing.

Or in Ten's case it would be a dry block of uncooked noodles still in their package which you must first figure out how to open using complex technical and magical processes.
The flavor packet would be hidden elsewhere in the world, and in turn have its own set of complex rituals and prerequisites to locate and acquire.

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[Dudebro]

Ok I'm back online and wondering what we are gonna do with the server before I play anymore. I'm fine with continuing and trying to find new blood to join or starting over with lots of mods. Sumo said he'd need something new to entertain him, either more people or a new server with new toys. So what is everyone else thinking?

[RU Joe]

Ok I'm back online
:D
Welcome back~!
and wondering what we are gonna do with the server before I play anymore. I'm fine with continuing and trying to find new blood to join or starting over with lots of mods. Sumo said he'd need something new to entertain him, either more people or a new server with new toys. So what is everyone else thinking?
Honestly I left the moment I read about a possible reset.:stop:
Also, the fact people are saying they're bored and need more content, makes me feel as though this session has come to its conclusion.

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To date, the most enjoyable modpack for me was Drahexxy, which I still play SSP.
Second choice would be Magic Farm 2 or alternatively Magic World 2*.
:search:
*Note: Magic World 2 has very interesting world gen and mods but sadly, no Tinker's Construct.

[Kugyince]

I suggest server resets every 3-4 months with a new pack to keep it fresh.

Still my opinion.

[CatalystiCam]

So where do we stand on this? I think I'm ready for a break from the game for a good while, but want to come back to something modded heavily.

[Kugyince]

You guys do what you want. I'm already playing on two private servers that meet my needs and still love single-player.

If you do something that interests me, I'll join. If you don't, it's all good.

[Dudebro]

Sumo and I wanna play on a server but we haven't been on this one because we don't wanna waste time on an empty server that will disappear soon. If you're not feeling it then we can pursue other options. If you're just waiting to play on a more modded server then let's light that candle and test some shit out asap.