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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Bobberticus on September 11, 2011, 01:45:37 am
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saltw minecraft server (in addition to a few friends of mine who help pay the hosting fee)
server ip: 50.31.23.171
post in this topic to ask to be whitelisted.
people I've never heard of with only like 1 post may be denied unless someone here can vouch for them.
rules/guidelines:
-don't muck up the landscape too much near the spawn (be reasonable, anyway)
-don't modify other peoples' construction without permission.
-and anything else self-explanatory
i'll update the first post as needed.
we are now using the technic modpack (feat. industrialcraft and buildcraft and more.) quarries, nuclear reactors, it's got it all!
Running minecraft 1.0 (not 1.1)
(Last update: 2012-01-15)
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The spawn is really close to all kinds of new terrain features which is nice! :)
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If possible turn off experience orbs, please. Dying after getting tons of them causes huge lag when going near all of those orbs you dropped. :(
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i'll look into it. what do they even do?
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Nothing yet as far as I'm aware.
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Yeah they don't have a purpose yet.
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Who's Chyka? I joined, and as soon as I did, they left, complaining of lag, (likely due to me joining)
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Chyka's a friend of mine, he shares the cost of the server with me. I think he had a brief stay on gamingw but I dunno.
I'm not sure what the lags about but hopefully it'll be straighteneds out with 1.8s official release.
He had framerate issues though, not network lag, so I dunno
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I died in the swamp near spawn and dropped a ton of experience orbs which caused me unable to play as I would get insane lag and 0 fps when trying to approach my shit. Could be what Chyka also had.
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yup, looks like this a common problem with exp orbs, and the only suggested solution was to use a map editor to clear away the orbs manually for the time being.
which i'm not going to do, because it shouldn't be too long before 1.8...
edit: actually someone made a little app that automatically deletes all the xp orbs present on a world, so i'll make chyka do it with that.
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Seems everything's working again. :D
Yet I have not found anyone else's creations yet except for the rest hut next to spawn. :O
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you're all fucks
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1.8 is officially out 8-)
meaning, update the server, please!
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server is now updated to official 1.8 release
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Havnt played Minecraft in a long while, would like to check out some of the new stuff. Can you whitelist me so I can try it out, username Massy2k.
How complicated are the new (pistons?) I think I remember reading about and what can be done with them?
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Pistons are not that complicated unless you want to do complicated things involving many pistons, especially pistons that move other piston blocks.
also you are whitelisted now.
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I did a bit of cartography work. Maxed out a map, with the spawn at center. Took some screen shots.
Red line is the underground tunnel from spawn to Bob's Base. The red dots with numbers are the other bases I encountered.
0 is bob's place, 3 has a sign that says its Vnieminen's place
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/farm7.static.flickr.com/6152/6149392995_80995bfbf1_b.jpeg)
0, Bob's Base: (biggest one I think)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6149934824_23bccabdc9_b.jpeg)
1: (did not get the best picture of this one :P )
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/farm7.static.flickr.com/6166/6149384329_bff1b2c3c2_b.jpeg)
2: (this one is pretty big as well, haven't explored all of it)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/6149384527_edffd3edf9_b.jpeg)
3: (small but cool)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/6149934918_d383b9a826_b.jpeg)
4: (caught this one during a sunrise, with the forest in the background, thought it looked good)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/farm7.static.flickr.com/6165/6149934970_9e7118219a_b.jpeg)
So, who's is who's? I imagine it possible I missed someone. since I stayed generally within the range of what the map was set to.
Exploring with a map to fill out is one of the more enjoyable things to do in Minecraft IMHO. That and in the servers that allow it, player on player violence.
Also, Last time I tried, the server wasn't responding, it down? as soon as I can get on I'm going to make a nether portal. Chyka told me that he's pretty sure nether is on.
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Not been able to login to my minecraft account for over a day now, so stuck using singleplayer. I think it might have something to do with a new patch 1.8.
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vnieminen's Swamp Manor is mine, as is the small cliffside hideout (1?) and the wooden cottage (4?) on the last screenshot. When I go out and look for awesome stuff I tend to make some kind of a resting place nearby once I find something. Yesterday I found a sand filled spawner in a desert and a sunken spider spawner on the lake below that wooden cottage (you can see the dirt area used to dry the place). 8-)
I've been thinking of making a video of the "Chasm" that is under the swamp. There's like two different abandoned mines there and 7 or so underground ravines right next to each other.
Oh and there's someone's base just north-west of the spawn (when looking at that map above).
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you might mean mine, though it's not that close to spawn. if you look at the forest above #4, it's directly to the right of that, on that blob of grass. it's pretty well-hidden in a cave and under some trees. he probably walked by that area before I started building, because I planted a lot of trees on the one side. I wanted to go farther away from spawn but i couldn't pass up those overhangs nearby. probably not gonna be my permanent base
this game is really a lot better now
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the tunnel to my place now extends to the place with the big diagonal cobblestone walls (which is chyka's place)
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Says cant reach server, is that something from my end or the server?
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Nevermind, works now!
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how can you get into this...is this free... IS THIS FREE...
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You need to pay for the game, pirate copies cant connect to legit servers online.
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how can you get into this...is this free... IS THIS FREE...
it's like $20. I think drule and chef had the purchased version, maybe you could use theirs
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I tried to play last night but there was way to much lag, I spent 3-4 times cutting down the same tree or smashing a block before it would actually stick. Had to just give up on it, maybe Ill try again today sometime.
Also I was playing alone.
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found an npc town in the east a while past bob's fjord resort btw. if you take the one portal in the nether and head across the ocean back towards the spawn point, it's on a large desert island there. nothing's in it but it may have npcs after a future update
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I made a nether portal only for it to transport me to the original nether portal marked as 'home portal' at the spawn point. Dont the nether portals create a new instance of themselves on the other side rather than connect to 1. At least thats how I use to remember it.
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If the game can't find a nice spot in the correct area to create a new portal, it might just link it up to another portal.
to fix this, you'll have to build a portal in the nether in roughly the right coordinates and it'll link up to your portal.
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(thankfully because our existing portals are all underground in the nether it is very easy to dig tunnels to new spots for portals
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thanks
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1.9 pre-release is out now btw.
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Do you guys want the 1.9 prerelease server up? before we keep exposing new chunks
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Do you guys want the 1.9 prerelease server up? before we keep exposing new chunks
Would that mean starting over with a new map cause I havnt really done much to care.
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There were also some minor changes to terrain generation when going from 1.8 pre to 1.8 which caused some odd chunk borders around the world. And the lack of snow in 1.8 probably means we have to move a long way to get to a winter biome... not to mention mushroom biomes, updated abandoned mines and such.
So either update to 1.9 asap or even restart the map, I don't mind either way really.
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i'm down for another restart for 1.9 proper.
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gimme resources next restart
hopefully at some point we can keep the same map and just keep expanding
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I'll re join next reset
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does cracked mc work?
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nope but it's pretty cheap.
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When will the next reset take place, I dont want to bother on the current map if a reset is coming.
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I assume it will be sometime around when 1.9 official comes out.
I might need to take a break from this stuff, so I don't mind if it takes a while before the next reset. (Although I really shouldn't have wasted all the time I did playing after the previous reset)
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I think we're best off to wait for 1.9 proper, 1.9 pre seems kinda screwy.
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well, i'm a guy who's living in a 3rd world country who has no money to spare.
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well, i'm a guy who's living in a 3rd world country* who has no money to spare.
*Newly Industrialized Country ; Lower unemployment rate than U.S.
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(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Makati_skyline_mjlsha.jpg/1000px-Makati_skyline_mjlsha.jpeg)
A "third world" country.
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Every 3rd world has its corrupt insanely-rich leaders.
And look we got 2 places of the ten most corrupt leaders ever, http://www.tiptoptens.com/2011/05/05/10-most-corrupt-leaders-in-recent-history/
just shows you how much of a history we have.
Newly Industrialized Country
pfftt.. what a misleading description for people who isn't experiencing the country itself.
I live ins omething like this:
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.mamalisa.com/images/misc/nipahut_lge.jpeg)
no it's not a dirt house in minecraft, it's real life.
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-snip-*
*Lives in a house with electricity, an internet connection, and enough free time to troll forums
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so anyway I haven't been able to connect for several days now, "can't reach server"
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so anyway I haven't been able to connect for several days now, "can't reach server"
hmm might be a coincidence but 1.9 was pre-released about a week ago, maybe the server was moved over to that or you updated your minecraft to 1.9 beta?
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I didn't update. tried on a second computer/connection too. is it just down
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i'll have it fixed at some point tihs weekend, somethings gone screwy
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For some reason or another, our world is causing the server program to crash upon startup now.
it's looking an awful lot like something has become corrupted.
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FYI the server is up for now, but the map is pooched, so with 1.9 proper I'll put up a new map, until then you can go on and screw around if you so desire, but i don't think it'll be too long.
I think I'll start doing some occasional level backups when we start again.
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the abandoned mineshafts have disappeared/are no longer in the same location. spooky
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very spooky. maybe it's because the old map was generated in the prerelease version and he toned down the mines a bit.
on an slightly related note, i tried the same seed in 1.9 prerelease 2 and it's barely recognizable, but seemingly still related to the map we had.
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there's no longewr plans on any official releases before the final release a month from now. what do you guys want to do as far as starting a new map is concerned?
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Would be up for starting fresh until then.
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geez. this is the dubai of the video game world somehow
doesn't matter to me, too much work + rsi in my mousing arm to play until then anyway
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here's the deal, the server is now running 1.9 prerelease #4 with a fresh map, i'll be taking occasional backups just in case, and we'll evaluate when the time comes whether or not it's worth starting a new world when the final release comes.
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whoever broke/took my enchanting table please replace it those are expensive
1.9 pre5 is out btw
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When you said that, I had to go and check if mine was still there.
If you have a nether portal, you are free to use my enchanting table for the time being since it's set up right beside my over-world portal.
If you don't have a portal yet, I can craft some more buckets and help build you one. I know how to get them to match even in close overworld proximity, as long as I have enough obsidian to build the corresponding nether portal. (But I'm down to my last three diamonds, and I seem to have terrible luck with diamond pickaxes since I lost two in a row less than 10 minutes after enchanting them. My luck at getting diamonds seems to be inversely proportional to my luck at keeping them)
I would just give you my table, (all it's done is brought me terrible luck) but I have little to zero confidence at being able to dismantle it without destroying it. (I don't know what happened to yours, but just so there is nothing between us, all I took was a bit of gunpowder. Once I start getting more slimeballs *I know they are spawning somewhere in that chasm under my ranch*, I'll let you have at the first helping at them.
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are you saying you took gunpowder from my base? I don't care about that as long as it's not a common thing
enchantment tables break with one hit, making them very easy to accidentally destroy, and they don't drop a block unless you use a pickaxe
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Well now that I can fast-travel to your base, I'll only grab the mob swag I see drop from your trap when you aren't logged on to grab it yourself.
Just be careful my table doesn't break also. I used up my last diamonds to get the obsidian to make that portal.
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that's probably ejack's trap, I live in the desert! I thought you meant took from a chest. take anything from my farm or future mob trap
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the mob trap is now significantly moar productive! rotten flesh for everyone!
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I fell into the spawner and a creeper exploded. I felt pretty bad about it but there was no way I could fix it. feel free to take whatever you want from my base!
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haha don't worry, that little water stream at the bottom was a very very poorly executed plan.
the idea was for it to keep stuff alive with one hit worth of damage left and then funnel them into one spot for exp farming.
except the mobs could escape alive.
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D:
how did another live creeper get down?
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creepers are more annoying than fun or challenging, especially now that they can't be killed with only two diamond sword hits. really there's no reason they shouldn't be killed with one hit, because the "appeal" is supposedly having them sneak up on you and explode. having to hit them multiple times with a sword only to have them blow up anyway is singularly frustrating.
maybe it'd be best to seal off that chasm except for one entrance
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but i mean, everything landing in my pit should die from fall damage :/
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Is your spawn pit the one that has the ladder going both up and down?
Because the last time I was there, a creeper landed on the ladder instead and failed to die from falling. (mobs must be capable of moving short distances while falling, but will only do so if they have something to follow.)
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oo, didn't think they could reach the ladder. guess i'll move it.
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can i get a whitelist my ign is atomicshell
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whitelisted.
the server is now running minecraft 1.0.0
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hopefully the worst bugs will be fixed soon, mainly the memory leak which causes problems on my computer and might be crashing the server every hour or so. I think all the mojang employees are on vacation now tho. it's a pretty bad official release but that's really no surprise! here's some minedrama from the creator that I find kind of funny, and obviously I agree with the quote in the third tweet
notch Markus Persson
Wow. Hate, insults and threats are flooding in from Yogscast fans. I'll stop biting my tongue now.
notch Markus Persson
Yogscast repeatedly insulted people, talked behind their backs, refused to cooperate, and acted like total spoiled divas nonstop.
7 hours ago
They called us "a bunch of nerds who don't know how to run a company", demanded that we pay them to come here (nobody else got paid).
7 hours ago
And they claim they're the reason minecraft is big and that we should thank them more than anyone else in the community [EDITORS NOTE: they actually are a huge part of minecraft's success, apparently did some pretty huge free advertising]. They're total dicks
A kid wanted them to sign something I had signed, and they said they'd cross it out and put "fuck you" there instead.
Everyone else in the Minecraft community is all about respecting and caring. They're not. They're an isolated island of egos.
And as of a few hours ago, I am officially on vacatio. #skyrim
I'm super grateful for your server else I probably wouldn't play this game at all, the minecraft community seems pretty terrible and single player isn't fun
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Okay I think I need to put my input here as well. I've been playing MC SSP and I visit their forums as much as I visit SW . I'm also huge fan of Yogscast their vids are great I actually downloaded all 3 seasons of their shadows of israphel adventures. I was surprised when Notch first tweeted about people he said they were not working anymore with, supposedly because of them f-bombing children on minecon. At first it wasn't quite sure who it was and the mc community was left speculating who notch was talking about then af ew hours later he said it was yogscast (as most of the community already guessed).
Right now the community is pretty torn with all kinds of debates and speculations, some even think this is yogs and notch trolling them. Yogscast haven't made n official statement as they are still on their way home and said that they'd make a vlog issuing their reply to notch' statements once they get back home.
Now my initial reaction to this was that notch handled it too unprofessionally. Whether the yogscast was at fault or not tweeting about it without first handling it privately with th other party is kind of immature and he should know that will cause some friction towards his followers. I think he wants it anyway, he just made a drama out of it. I can't think why he'd be too angry t yogs to twit all those comments and the community was then left waiting for yogs' side of the story.
I'll be following the story more and maybe post updates on this thread for those interested.
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/i.imgur.com/ZUf0D.jpeg)
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yogscast is surprisingly good, but only in consideration of the majority of narrated gameplay youtubes, which are ultra boring and generally terrible
did you make that image or is this really that big of a thing? I should have known better than to combine the words mine and drama, it's probably almost a meme by now. I dunno if anyone else here has ever watched yogscast or knows what we're talking about. I'm not really in on the drama and I don't care about it, I just saw the tweets and posted them here because I found them funny, and I really liked that notch published to virtually all minecraft fans that someone theoretically important thinks mojang is "a bunch of nerds who don't know how to run a company". thanks for getting the word out there, I've been trying for months
I agree with you, notch did handle it particularly unprofessionally, but again, that's no surprise. for a long time I've been wondering if there's actually something wrong with him or if he just likes to portray himself with a childish, naive net persona.
and he probably blew it out of proportion too. "dropping f-bombs to kids", undoubtedly, refers to the mentioned signing incident, which was less directed at the kid and more towards notch and mojang. and don't doubt for a second that we'll see a long, awful rant about this with profuse apologies and dimwitted statements on notch's tumblr soon
mojang really deserves to go belly up, but that will never happen because of how much money they made. they're the dubai of games I'm telling you
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Internet conversations now include everything and stories keep spawning from supposedly 'witnesses' on minecon. Yea I think maybe yogscast got some explaining to do.
Anyway I think the issues is getting pretty serious.
Totalbiscuit twitted:
Just heard from Simon and Lewis, they got back to Gatwick airport and were met by a crazed Notch supporter who repeatedly insulted them, IRL
that's quite scary and hell notch is partly responsible. that guy needs to learn an d be responsible on using twitter to convey his thoughts. anyway, still no vlog from yogs but this is an interesting watch I guess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK3kpBlhDa4
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This was posted on reddit earlier this day:
We’re sure many of you have seen or heard about Notch’s post-Minecon tweets, which were not what we expected to see when we got off the plane from Minecon – we’ve had a sleep now and recovered a bit, so this is our response:
We are very disappointed by these tweets from someone we admire and respect. We can understand that it was the morning after the deadmau5 party and Notch was very tired, but we are still fairly upset. The quotes and actions that Notch attributed to us were not said by us or published anywhere by us. Therefore we are surprised and confused about where this stuff has come from - especially since the only time we spoke to Notch was at the interview.
Regarding dropping f-bombs at the show - we apologise for this, but had rehearsed the whole show in front of the organisers and half of Mojang and they had approved it. We were given no guidelines or oversight in the weeks leading up to Minecon and there were ample opportunities at the rehearsal for Mojang to inform us of problems, such as being careful about swearing, which is pretty common in our youtube videos.
Out of all the tweets that Notch sent out, most hurtful was the accusation that we told a kid to “fuck off” and crossed out another signature – which is something we would never ever do.
We loved spending time with fans and were overwhelmed by how many people were there to support us and give us gifts. Simon has enough Jaffas to last him until the middle of 2012. The problem was that Minecon is a new show and organisation was pretty bad, and when we came to the scheduled signing sessions, nothing had been set up for us and we had to scrabble around to fetch tables, ropes and pens ourselves. With some younger kids around, it was our priority to make sure everything was safe, as we have seen injuries in the past.
This lack of organization contributed to long and confused lines and we were heartbroken to have to turn away so many people when we ran out of time. Simon can only handle a certain amount of time between cups of coffee and nicotine tablets before collapsing, but we made a real effort to get out there and managed to do about six hours of signing. Although we were frustrated, we would never have treated fans in the way that Notch suggested we did.
We were also unhappy and surprised that a week before Minecon, Mojang informed us that they had sold the rights to livestream our show and content to IGN – they hadn’t asked us, they hadn’t spoken to us – they just sold it. Because of this, we nearly cancelled the trip, but decided to say “balls to it” and come anyway, because we felt we owed it to the fans. Hannah actually spoke with IGN directly earlier, and they agreed to take their video down and let us put the videos up on our channel, so a big thanks to them for that.
We were not paid, and never demanded to be paid. We asked for some support, and Mojang said they could offer us two hotel rooms for the duration of the stay and a small boardroom to rest in. We spent a huge amount of money on flights, rooms, food and equipment for the 10 people that we brought along to support us, act as security, make videos/posts and generally help out. We also gave away 100 special t-shirts for free.
The reason we came to Minecon is because we wanted to thank you guys and meet the community that we love and are a part of. We couldn’t have gotten to where we are now without you guys, and so we decided to eat the costs of attending and just have fun. This is why we spent our panel giving a voice to loads of talented people that couldn’t attend but have made Minecraft what it is today.
We’re not gonna stop making videos, not going to stop loving you guys, and hopefully we’ll see you at more gaming conventions in the future.
Lewis & Simon & Hannah
EDIT: Video linking to this post http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddMANh3Xis see, it is really me after all. Hi mother!
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my last post on this dog doo
It's likely the entire Yogscast scenario is just stress related misunderstanding. I apologize for bringing it online before talking to them.
yeah, something's wrong with this guy. and uh why did he wait (well over 24 hours) until yogscast released their reply before saying "hey maybe I was wrong..."
just think of the thousands of minecraft fans who quoted notch and unsubbed yogscast in martyrdom (this is no exaggeration, the most enraged gamers I've seen since gamesmasterjasper). what will they think now that he tweeted this?? I only hope it makes em realize this guy isn't anyone to idolize or look up to. he's just a big dummy who stumbled upon a commercially successful game and is currently the frontman of an astoundingly inept company
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Absolutely right. Also, some stupid fans ddosed the yogs' site to the ground. I hope Notch learns more about maturity and responsibility, he doesn't know how people react to public statements. He's very unprofessional and is a stubborn retarded being.
Also this is Notch's reply to the reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/mnau9/yogscast_response_to_notchs_twitterings/c32bh82
Fair enough.
edit: I meant this in a positive way.
Seriously??
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i think the annoying as hell problems logging into the server are fixed.
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yes., yes they are. logging in works properly! how exciting
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Absolutely right. Also, some stupid fans ddosed the yogs' site to the ground. I hope Notch learns more about maturity and responsibility, he doesn't know how people react to public statements. He's very unprofessional and is a stubborn retarded being.
Also this is Notch's reply to the reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/mnau9/yogscast_response_to_notchs_twitterings/c32bh82
Seriously??
I've never played Minecraft (well, except for about two minutes) but even to me it's surprisingly clear that Notch is a gigantic manbaby.
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Gigantic manbaby? I don't get it, can some one explain? I get that he was a bit stupid and didn't think what would happen when he made that comment, but .. or is that all there is to it?
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i don't know a thing about minecraft/never played it once but i love gossip. can someone summarize this for me? it sounds absolutely insane. isn't minecraft just some indie game? how the fuck do they have such a fanbase where one of these people even recognizes one of the creators irl let alone actually assaults them at the airport over some internet beef. jesus christ.
Someone else can explain it better but he basically made a big rant about Yogscast (a big Minecraft community Thing) about something that turned out to be false. Not just in private but on his Twitter account. Mind you he has like a billion followers and it's basically the company's account. Apparently this also led to some dude hurling profanities at the Yogscast guys at the airport, and some other people DDoSing their site.
And afterwards basically refused to apologize for it too.
Aside from that the Minecon convention was also set up shoddily, Mojang sold the rights to air Yogscast's show without their consent even though they didn't even get paid to go.
Mojang are basically a bunch of misogynistic nerds who care only about making as much money as possible off of other people's work, and Notch is an extremely unintelligent manchild.
(Someone tell me if I'm wrong here, I don't play Minecraft and I'm certainly not part of the community but this is how I understand things.)
edit: Funny though that one of Notch's tweets was him complaining about how the Yogscast guys act like "spoiled divas".
edit: here's a good reply http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/mnau9/yogscast_response_to_notchs_twitterings/c32cei0
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On the topic of notch owning mc. he has stepped down as the primary dev and handed the magic wand to Jeb (the secondary dev of mc) and it's also said that they'll hire a new ai programmer so i guess the next updates would be fun. also i hate the direction notch was heading with mc, the end etc..
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I've lost interest in Minecraft, they have changed it too much.
Maybe eventually try to get back into it, idk yet... It seems like a constant battle to keep up with all the new shit.
Reminds me of the days I would play Everquest, I spend forever trying to reach the lv cap or get through a new expansion before a new one was released.. spend another few months trying to play through some of the newer expansion before another release, it was a fucking constant battle that I couldnt be bothered to fight.
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I could go on for hours about what I think of minecraft and mojang. immensely successful game by an incredibly awful company full of complete imbeciles. maybe jeb will be better I don't really know anything about him besides that he's some nerd who got hired because he's notch's friend. at least he doesn't seem like a totally incompetent and dangerously immature and unfunny man-child like notch
Mojang are basically a bunch of misogynistic nerds who care only about making as much money as possible off of other people's work, and Notch is an extremely unintelligent manchild.
(Someone tell me if I'm wrong here, I don't play Minecraft and I'm certainly not part of the community but this is how I understand things.)
nope you hit the nail on the head!! though actually I don't get the misogynistic part. there's no way I could possibly know everything awful they've done though
and that comment you linked is pretty good, but he is a little too quick to praise mojang. minecraft is essentially an adaptation of an earlier game by someone else, called infiniminer. very little creativity--at least, DECENT, insightful creativity--went into it since minecraft classic.
yogscast is a group of gamers who do playthrough videos and stuff. in that vein, they're actually pretty decent, and seem to have a pretty good taste in games. they are responsible for huge part of minecraft's popularity. notch never gave a shit, and even sold the rights to their minecraft playthroughs without their consent. snd if they actually said any of those things about mojang, they were all apt and well-deserved
edit: obviously I enjoy playing minecraft but that's not the point
edit: here's the former "devblog" of minecraft just for a sense of how annoying this guy is, don't read any of it though it's all just him prattling on about absolutely nothing http://notch.tumblr.com/ previously, while waiting for update information, readers would have to sift through posts upon posts of him making exclamations about how good Dragon Age is or what kind of super expensive vacations he was going on and you just generally got the sense that this guy has no idea how to run a business even before you knew it to be a fact
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and that comment you linked is pretty good, but he is a little too quick to praise mojang. minecraft is essentially an adaptation of an earlier game by someone else, called infiniminer. very little creativity--at least, DECENT, insightful creativity--went into it since minecraft classic.
When I read that part of the comment I thought "ah, he's just raking in some fairness credz so people will take his rant more seriously". Because yeah this is rather important, the whole concept is basically stolen from something else. Now that Notch has a burlap bag full of goldcoins he can go on a long vacation while someone else takes over.
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What a shit fest. I'm reserving my personal judgement for Notch though till something more happens on either end. (or if it doesn't)
Wont stop me from continuing to play Minecraft. I like what they've added thus far really. *shrugs* With maybe the exception of how enchantments work (and how not-worthwhile the the "higher tiered" ones are). But since Minecraft constantly updates I assume that shit will get fixed.
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Wont stop me from continuing to play Minecraft. I like what they've added thus far really. *shrugs* With maybe the exception of how enchantments work (and how not-worthwhile the the "higher tiered" ones are). But since Minecraft constantly updates I assume that shit will get fixed.
Don't count on lots of updates now it's released. Notch was lazy as is, and now the vast majority of Mojang's time is focused on Scrolls (which looks like an excuse to sell lots of DLC)
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yeah, I'm thinking any future updates are gonna be pretty minor aesthetic shit, like the majority of the updates from the start of alpha up to the adventure updates. and scrolls sound really bad but it will probably make them a ton of money
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looks like the server is undergoing another move.i will post the new IP when it's up.
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50.31.23.171
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How do you play this video game? How do I illegally download it?
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you punch trees.
Also, it's gotten dull. Notch lost it and the lack of updates is demotivating.
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ya, I think one of the reasons the game managed to stay interesting and exciting is because we always knew something more was coming. unfortunately that 'something more' ended up being lackluster and unfinished, and now we've only got minor improvements and bug fixes to look forward to
I'll try it again whenever my RSI heals, but until then I really hope everyone starts to realize this isn't that great of a game. positive feelings towards it were like 40% hype, 40% development excitement
minecraft and creeper should be among the banned words for 2012
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ya, I think one of the reasons the game managed to stay interesting and exciting is because we always knew something more was coming. unfortunately that 'something more' ended up being lackluster and unfinished, and now we've only got minor improvements and bug fixes to look forward to
You forgot texture packs.
At this point, I`m just waiting for the open source engine built only to directly rip off minecraft`s engine to come out. It seems the only way to keep the ability to look forward to things alive indefinitely, is to put more control in the hands of the group of people that originally fooled us into thinking this game was fun to begin with.
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i dunno, i think i'd still have more fun if the server were busier.
are there any interesting mods out or anything people would like to see?
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If only cracked mc could connect to the server.
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i dunno, i think i'd still have more fun if the server were busier.
are there any interesting mods out or anything people would like to see?
ya it's only fun playing on the server. haven't tried out any mods tho
I can't do the controls until my arm heals, else I'd hop on.
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i dunno, i think i'd still have more fun if the server were busier.
are there any interesting mods out or anything people would like to see?
I think the Technic pack mod would make things indeed busier, if it was something that could work on a server without major trouble (it seems like it has trouble at times even with the default mc), although really any of the individual mods in that pack are good enough on their own (especially the Equivalent Exchange mod, at least when it comes to building/destroying at the most useful rates imaginable). It's basically all I ever play when it comes to single-player minecraft.
MedievalCraft also looks like it has a chance at being really fun, but it's PvP based, so it could only do well if there was already a good amount of activity going on.
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i'm going to experiment with stuff right now. since there isn't really any other active members right now lol. I'll make a backup of the map in case all hell breaks loose..
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I installed technic to test (because everything there looks totally sweet)
There are a few ID conflicts I had to manually correct on the server side, I'm not sure if they need to be adjusted somewhere at the client side too... (that would suck.)
http://sa-technic.googlecode.com/files/Tekkit_1.0.0_Client.7z if you want to try.
our world is backed up in case the mods fuck anything up and anyone is really attached to the world in its present state
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I'm testing it out right now, and it looks pretty cool so far. The only concern is that since the map is a copy of the one we were already on before, finding materials critical to playing with some of the mods (actually, just industrialcraft) looks to be very difficult. (It might be obtainable in chunks not yet spawned, but I wouldn't know which direction to start checking for those).
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if you're interested i can start a fresh map. there isn't really anyone else active who'd be negatively affected lol
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if you're interested i can start a fresh map. there isn't really anyone else active who'd be negatively affected lol
might as well. Even without the philosopher's stone, I'd rather start fresh than trade all my future batteries and copper wires for a pair of big dumb buildings. (IC was my favorite part of the whole pack anyways)
but if we do have to abandon the whole mod route at some point, you bet that'll be the map I want to start back on
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there's a new map up. the original (before i installed the mods) is backed up
to anyone else:
http://sa-technic.googlecode.com/files/Tekkit_1.0.0_Client.7z (http://sa-technic.googlecode.com/files/Tekkit_1.0.0_Client.7z)
run the installer here to apply the mod to your minecraft so you can play with us. (you may need to clear out your minecraft of other mods)
google minecraft technic pack for details.
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Alright, I finally got my base going well enough that I have a surplus of basic resources and can start testing all the new stuff.
At the moment, the only thing I see that clearly doesn't work are the machines provided by the MineFactory mod. I thought it might have been a smp issue, (since they do require input in the form of redstone pulses, in order to count out the steps) but the devices are just as unresponsive in singleplayer, and the page about the mod claims it usually does fine in smp.
EDIT: Turned out to be an issue with me underestimating how compatible the mods really were. Redstone engines apparently work with everything and there was no issue.
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Do I just put the whole zipped file into my minecraft folder?
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Nope, there's an installer somewhere in there you need to run
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Cant get to grips with all the new sh*t, its too complicated now. Minecraft seems to have turned into a really bad rpg as opposed to a game about building sh*t.
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I guess the problem is that Notch tried to force his original view of the game into the current mc. he planned to make a dwarf fortress like game which is obviously an rpg and thus the Adventure updates however the thing that attracted lots of people is it's sandbox capability.
imo, he should have concentrated on giving more 'god' controls to the players. And add capabilities to make adventure maps. I mean there is adventure maps but it could use some great additions like message boxes, maybe a simplified coding system to free from too much redstone, etc. Not exactly to turn it into a game maker but it could have been nice for people to make maps and add interactibility by their own choosing when giving it to players. Imagine being easily able to create star trek npcs on that famous gigantic uss something ship. Or adding pirates and custom stuff and gfx on pirate boat builds without the hassle of downloading texture packs and all that.
anyway that's just my opinion and what i would have wanted for mc to turn to. There is already mod capability but I think it should all have been incorporated and all that rpg and adventure mode left to people to make and play if they want to. it sucks because we know future updates would now revolve around enchantments, bosses, and that crap meta storyline that is too corny and pretentious.
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poop
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are you still playing edc? i'm considering cancelling the service because i don't have time to play and chyka's broke.
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Today's the due date. I'm backing up our files and taking it down
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Yeah I wasn't playing. No worries. (I was trying to get back into DF anyways)