[Traveller]

Yeah, Notch mentioned changing the server again today, to cope with the demand etc.

Not sure how long it will take, either...

I still can't get on anyway.

This post has been edited by First Tiger: 18 January 2011 - 09:29 PM

[cerveza_fiesta]

I PMd jim

It's just a server update, which will happen whenever it happens.

MC has been totally stable in-game since the weekend. No problems here.

The only thing is trouble logging in to the client itself (not the Malaz server....the main login). I assumed it was due to high demand on the MC main server or something. Hopefully that will be fixed soon too.

[Aptorian]

High Mage Quick Ben, on 18 January 2011 - 09:24 PM, said:

Ugg i ahvent been able to get on for a while, i've tried dailey but theres ALWAYS some error, like jim not updating yet or right now minecraft being down. So Stuiped.

Sounds like you need to download a new client.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

I finally got on, it is definitely a server bottleneck. There are a million users, you know.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Well the game is not 100% glitch free yet.

Fell in one of those gaping holes-in-the-world last night, couldn't get out and then disconnected. When I logged back in, dead, inv gone. Suck.

If that happens to anybody else, let me know and I can do an inventory/tool replacement.

Oh, does anybody have stockpiles of coal that I can have? I'm perpetually out of the stuff and it's a pain to mine it during a big construction project.

EDIT:

Got a good start on the gatehouse of Castle CF last night. Building that is a lot more fun overall than building moon spawn was. Something about building proper fortifications is just way cooler in my mind.

@apt

I noticed another squid in the killing room while you were in there gathering, apt. Will walls made of cacti pop on contact with water too? Those squidses are perpetually running into the walls so it might help kill them. Also, the double doors leading to the killing chamber seem iffy to me, like a monster might glitch through them. Zombies can hit you and skelly's can shoot you through them.

This post has been edited by cerveza_fiesta: 19 January 2011 - 12:06 PM

[Traveller]

Once the collecting mechanism is working, would it be worth replacing the major structural elements with obsidian?

At present it would only take one creeper to glitch through a wall slightly into player range to cause quite a bit of damage... which isn't so easy to repair when it's raining mobs. As we've seen.

The new painterly update is good, the rippled sand looks way better.

This post has been edited by First Tiger: 19 January 2011 - 12:47 PM

[cerveza_fiesta]

Does the new painterly include the new multicolored tree textures or are they all mono-green like before. In the base texture pack the trees now look much, much nicer with leaves that vary between light and darker greens.

[Slippery Jim]

Server updated.

Jim

[Aptorian]

cerveza_fiesta, on 19 January 2011 - 11:59 AM, said:

Oh, does anybody have stockpiles of coal that I can have? I'm perpetually out of the stuff and it's a pain to mine it during a big construction project.

I've told you, plant a forest and use it to fuel your furnaces.

cerveza_fiesta, on 19 January 2011 - 11:59 AM, said:

@apt

I noticed another squid in the killing room while you were in there gathering, apt. Will walls made of cacti pop on contact with water too? Those squidses are perpetually running into the walls so it might help kill them. Also, the double doors leading to the killing chamber seem iffy to me, like a monster might glitch through them. Zombies can hit you and skelly's can shoot you through them.

I saw a thread on a way to farm squid on r/minecraft today but I didn't quite understand it. It was something about "soul sand" making the squids beach or something which I don't know what is.

Well, the double doors are just a back up safety measure. The monsters very, very rarely glitch through solid blocks. As for the doors, that's why I put the one door in the center up against a wall so that the skellies can't shoot at you.

[cerveza_fiesta]

World of notch had some very good news yesterday.

They are migrating their main server to an Amazon cloud server that will have the ability to scale itself automatically to the demand from users. They are also putting a bunch of other stuff on bigger, better servers which will reduce lag times.

Basically means all the troubles logging in to MC and our lovely malaz server will end relatively soon.

Sweet these guys keep winning awards too. They should.

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Once again, minecraft.net is more popular than the poor old server can keep up with, so we’re upgrading. I’m not quite sure how long it will take to get done as it’s mostly Tobias doing the work (thank you, sir!). We’ve got a huge amazon cloud server which we’re moving the main server to. We’ll be able to replicate this as demand grows, and we’ll have a load balancer set up in front of it all. Skin downloads will almost certainly be migrated to S3 downloads instead of going through resin as it does now, and we’ll have a separate server just to handle game logins and auth requests.

For Minecraft development, we’re working on the new file format, and a new game launcher. The file format is still in early testing, but it’s looking somewhat promising, except for it taking up a bit too much space. It’s faster, though.
The new Launcher will be a bit prettier, will show release notes and other news, will send login requests over https (finally), and will ask if the user wants to update to the latest version or not. In the future, we’ll add support for playing the previous installed version (after warning the player that there might be unexpected bugs) and the ability to choose what work directly to save the level files, but that’s not coming in this version.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Jenisapt Rul, on 19 January 2011 - 06:39 PM, said:

I saw a thread on a way to farm squid on r/minecraft today but I didn't quite understand it. It was something about "soul sand" making the squids beach or something which I don't know what is.

Well, the double doors are just a back up safety measure. The monsters very, very rarely glitch through solid blocks. As for the doors, that's why I put the one door in the center up against a wall so that the skellies can't shoot at you.

Cools. Sounds good. Maybe change the configuration a bit to put in an "airlock" so that if a monster glitches through a door, they at least have a secondary barrier in the way of them getting out. Might actually be a good idea to do that for access to the main azath spawning floor. Would help avoid left-open doors and such.

RE squids,

I catch them often underneath MS at the arena entrance. Anywhere you have an underwater entrance to a structure, like the arena, it makes a waterfall at the bottom of the ocean. The squids spawn on the ocean bottom, so when they move by the waterfall, they get snagged in it and concentrated at the bottom. When I go down there, there's often 2-3 squidses stuck.

[Slippery Jim]

Server's back up.

Jim

[cerveza_fiesta]

yay!

[D'rek]

Soul sand is the sand-like material in the Nether that slows you down when you touch it. From the pic (below) it looks like it pulls the squids out of the water?

[HiddenOne]

Egad, whatever they're doing with the servers is awful, I had every problem in the book tonight -

Lag, random moving, reappearing material, no login - my computer updated TWICE in an hour...

My whole compound disappeared, and I was trapped outside at night, that was fun - building a bunker

Tried to visit the Azath and it was gone except for the tops of the trees - should have taken a screenshot - Apt would have a fit

I tried to re-log per normal fix for missing chunks, only part came back - I made it inside but THERE ARE MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE IN THERE - I saw creepers & spiders at the bottom of the stairs, waterfalls, Doors were opening, got tagged through a wall(!) so I ran away (almost into the spawning room) Got to post a sign for people that haven't learned their way around.

Looks like the move to the cloud is going to be a pain in the butt

[cerveza_fiesta]

If it's really messing with existing structures, might be a good idea to close down the server entirely for a few days??

Usually re-logging fixes the missing chunks 100%.

[Aptorian]

from this thread:

http://www.minecraft...p?f=25&t=148257

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Want.

[Aptorian]

This is an interesting read.

Spoiler

[Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast]

HELP!

Right, let's say I have a circular tower with a 33 block diameter, built using the chart of circles posted at the beginning of the thread. Now let's say that I'd like to put a dome on top of it, using the generator also posted at the beginning of the thread. HOW THE HELL DO I GET IT TO FIT?

Seriously, if I start at the middle layer (in order to create a dome, as opposed to a sphere), the circumference is totally different (bigger) than that of the actual tower, so how do I get it to work.

Also, what I'm actually trying to do is create a domed ceiling but on the bottom floor of the tower -- brief illustration:

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Therefore, it would be a tad disasterous if the largest circumference were to be larger than the tower itself, as it's not actually supposed to be visible from the outside (obviously).

So how do I get the two (circular tower and apparently mismatching dome) to fit together?