[Morgoth]

It's his most terrible secret.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

CF do you mind the hatch being there? If you want to cover it over I won't mind a bit.

[cerveza_fiesta]

I met DW and can't remember the story as to whether he is actually french or not. Maybe one francophone parent?

Either way, their Citadele is huge.

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Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 19 July 2011 - 09:55 AM, said:

CF do you mind the hatch being there? If you want to cover it over I won't mind a bit.

Heck no. I might even put in a little rail terminal there so I can go visit.

This post has been edited by cerveza_fiesta: 19 July 2011 - 11:08 AM

[Darkwatch]

@ CF we're currently working on a Gateroom for a nether link which will include a functioning iris and control room with blast doors.

I'll PM you the plans.

I'm bilingual by the way.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I want in on some group action. Also, I think we need to compile a directory of the coordinates of important places so we can know where to visit. I would like to see everybody's work if I knew exactly how to get there.

Hey shiara, I put some iron in the chests at the beginning of your tunnel. Would you mind if I connected my tunnel/rail to your tunnel? It would give you direct access to my great north south rail line.

[Wolfy]

Out of curiosity what are the co-ords that the southern rail travels along?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

It goes from 0,0 to something like 3000,550. When I get home I can get the actual numbers for the southern terminus. Actually I just added another 1000 block chunk going from 0,0 straight up to -1000,0. It's deep, on level 16.

[Sammehmander Rake]

I gotta get me some Obsidian so i can mess around with these Warrens.. uhh Portals I mean, Might make it so I have my main base, and a quick link to a place reaaaaaaaaaaallllly farrr away. once I get my head around how these coordinate thingies work.

[Messremb]

RLYs terminus is at X3050 Z541. Would you mind if I joined up to you at X2341? I've put a sign up at my intended entry point and from there I'll either set up a switching station or dual track it back to your hub.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Darkwatch, on 19 July 2011 - 11:26 PM, said:

@ CF we're currently working on a Gateroom for a nether link which will include a functioning iris and control room with blast doors.

I'll PM you the plans.

I'm bilingual by the way.

That is so fucking awesome.

What I was thinking was to just put a temporary one someplace out of the way and build a path back to the main nether hub. That would allow me to get back to my castle in a reasonable amount of time for supplies and stuff. When you build your gate room, it won't matter where the eventual overworld position is, the mechanics of portals mean the same nether-side portal will still be in range.

@ RLY,

My south gate is around 1500, 400 and due west of that is a steep mountain with an archway going into the east facing side of it. The beginnings of my wood fort are inside that. That's the place near your escape hatch. I want that to be my lapis lazuli mine.

My Castle is at -494, 478, connected to Moon Spawn (visible from the spawn point) by an aqueduct.

I also have a valley a ways west and a bit north of the castle. Nothing cool there yet, but it is my intention to make a huge farm there.

@Sammeh,

• Pick the location of your portal in the overworld. Press F3 to get the coords of your position. Divide those coords by 8 and jot them down.
• Built the gate and activate it.
• Use that portal to travel to the nether. Press F3 again to get your current coords when you arrive in the nether.
• If the current nether coords match your overworld coords divided by 8, then you are in the right spot and the two portals will travel to each other reliably.
• If the current nether coords do not match, you probably linked to somebody else's portal that was in range within the nether. To correct this, simply travel to your overworld coords divided by 8 and build a portal within the nether.
• Activate the nether side portal at the divide-by-eight coords and it will track to your overworld portal without fail.

The reason you can track to other folks' portals has to do with nether portal mechanics. When traveling either direction portals always connnect to the closest one. If your coords are, say, 800, 80 in the overworld, that means the equivalent nether coords are 80,8. Portals at those two coords will always go to each other because they are as close as they possibly can be. Problem is...a portal isn't technically "out of range" in the nether until you move a full 128 nether blocks in any direction from 80,8....which is an equivalent of 1024 blocks in the overworld.

In that way, somebody with a base 1024 blocks from yours in the overworld could have a portal nether-side and your overworld portal will simply link to his nether-side portal. When you travel the other direction, you end up in his base since his overworld portal is closest to his nether portal.

This post has been edited by cerveza_fiesta: 20 July 2011 - 11:26 AM

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Anyone can link up, that's great. I'll get a chance to see how to do some of the more technical stuff with the track switching and whatnot. Just put up signs!

[HiddenOne]

Had a weird glitch today.

I saved the game deep underground, around 12-20 blocks high. When I came back about 30 minutes later, I was back on the surface, within sight of my outpost, which could have been the same coordinates as my underground location.


Anybody have a clue here or similar problems?

[Traveller]

No, nothing like that.

Had a go earlier, Tp'd to RLY as I was out in the wilderness. He then made a portal which I was able to get back to my nether portal from - nice link up through there by the way, that's a lot of gates linked in the nether now.

Hope you got back ok RLY - did you build a new gate in the Nether?

[Messremb]

I've had the surface spawning twice now - once locally and once far far to the North of my place in RLYs tunnel. The distant one was really quite annoying to someone who cannot teleport.

The second time (this may or may not be related) when I was going North on RLYs railway the cart had abruptly stopped, chucked me out and refused to let me re-board it or destroy it so I logged out and back in only to find myself on the surface.

[Shiara]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 19 July 2011 - 11:44 PM, said:

Hey shiara, I put some iron in the chests at the beginning of your tunnel. Would you mind if I connected my tunnel/rail to your tunnel? It would give you direct access to my great north south rail line.

Thanks RLY, and yeah, you're fine to link the tunnels together. Mine doesn't go anywhere as yet, though I might eventually get it going all the way out to a nice valley I found while lost

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Traveller, on 21 July 2011 - 07:51 PM, said:

No, nothing like that.

Had a go earlier, Tp'd to RLY as I was out in the wilderness. He then made a portal which I was able to get back to my nether portal from - nice link up through there by the way, that's a lot of gates linked in the nether now.

Hope you got back ok RLY - did you build a new gate in the Nether?

Yes I did. I also started extending that tunnel we were in to accomodade my portal as well, hope that is ok.

[cerveza_fiesta]

No idea what the surface-spawning thing is.

Some lag glitch no-doubt.

Does it just kick you back to the surface or are you seeing work you were doing reset. Just trying to figure out if it's your client lagging out or something with the server.

I've noticed when I'm on a sucky connection, I can play along for quite a long time, go thru doors, build blocks, etc... The game eventually boots me because of lag and when I come back I'm waaaaay back from where I started and all the changes I made are undone. sometimes as much as 1 or 2 minutes-worth.

[HiddenOne]

cerveza_fiesta, on 22 July 2011 - 02:13 PM, said:

No idea what the surface-spawning thing is.

Some lag glitch no-doubt.

Does it just kick you back to the surface or are you seeing work you were doing reset. Just trying to figure out if it's your client lagging out or something with the server.

I've noticed when I'm on a sucky connection, I can play along for quite a long time, go thru doors, build blocks, etc... The game eventually boots me because of lag and when I come back I'm waaaaay back from where I started and all the changes I made are undone. sometimes as much as 1 or 2 minutes-worth.

I wouldn't know about the work, I was way lost in a maze of tunnels, and actually not at all unhappy about being moved to the surface. My loot seemed to be intact.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Damn server. I finally get a couple of hours to jam on some minecraft and here ican't play. Single player holds no interest to me.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Damn server. I finally get a couple of hours to jam on some minecraft and here ican't play. Single player holds no interest to me.