Here's the texture pack I'm running and recommend:

Misa's Realism:

CLICKY CLICKY

Also, I just read in one of the recent updates that Mojang removed the "eternal burning wood block".. which kinda sucks. That was an awesome way to create mega torches and fireplaces.

:-(

Actually, you might be surprised but it only took me an hour or so.

Instead of boats, I highly recommend just building secure roads and/or rail.

Next up, we'll make some farms for food and paper and the most fun.. monster farms!

Ok, well.. off I go! Time to get with teh buldingz.

Nice! You guys should post some videos! Ideally the first 3:45 would be spent pointlessly running around to build up to 10 seconds of something mildly amusing/interesting.

| In Soviet-Minecraft,

I set it to 2x day, 1x night. Not so much out of fear, but I really prefer building to mining (so far) and it was so irritating for it to get dark so friggen early in a construction project. But 2x shouldn't be too irritating to you guys. We can eventually turn it off too, not biggie (or make the nights longer, muahaha.)

Had to give myself op status, so now my "save-all" actually does something :) Also, ya, the sethome thing isn't a big deal but I think it's cool to have that option, so it's there if you need it.

Gnarly mine, Art! So professorial and clean. I think I'm going to still dig my sloppy sketch-tastic mini-mines out in the world, but its nice to see your super smart design. Can't believe you knocked that out in 1 night!

Our dirt spires are awesome. I was thinking about making a boat canal or at least docks from that first base to the fancy mine - the boat seems kinda buggy though. Getting in and tooting around is fine, but sometimes when I want to get out it flips out. We'll see.

Playing "house" with a bunch of middle 30 jerks :)

Also, I'll do what I can to setup a security perimeter around our spawn-area fort.

Part of the fun of the game is creating safe highways to travel on at night :)

Rood:

Appreciate you taking the time to setup the server. I can't even quite explain how great it is to have a server that isn't populated with griefing a-holes. It was always a huge downer to make a huge castle or other neato construction project and log in the next morning to see it as a huge smoking crater from the TNT-nuke jerks.

I'm not a big fan of the /sethome command and won't be using it myself, because I find the removal of risk / danger takes a lot of the fun and excitement out for me. Risk and reward! :)

Yeah, I'm with Eric on the time of day. I wouldn't even mind it being back to 1.5 or even 1:1, honestly, but I'll roll with whatever you guys want! Just glad to have some Action Team jerks to play with! Yay!

| F That Game

- Up til 2am before the 5:45am alarm goes off is not okay.

- I vote for 2x daylight hours, too.

- We have a giant tree growing out of the top of a second dirt tower on the roof now, which is pretty funny.

- The dirt tower is irrelevant, though it was awesome last night when I was lost, because we now have compasses! Takes some of the adventure out of exploring, but what can you do.

- Art's mine is radicool! I did some digging, and when I went off on a tangent to mine the sweet, sweet ore off to the side I then patched it up with some cobblestone to keep it looking nice and clean.

- Maybe I'll jump in at lunch? Ugh.....

Can't wait to check your stuff out Art! Feel free to use our little dinky house whenever you need too. I'll probably shorten the day back towards the original time in a bit, but it was pretty overwhelming at first. Every night our house was getting blown to bits and it was a hilarious disaster for a while there. I might just bring it down to dbl length day instead of the 4 times it is now. Also added /sethome /home commands so you can set a home place and then be taken there with /home. Never know how lost you might get.

I'm using the Painterly Pack for my textures - I really like the clean look: PainterlyPack - it's nice because you can go in and totally customize what textures you want for everything. I also switched to a cool Guybrush skin :)

Yar, I be shop_vac.

The extra long days are freaking me out, lol. I still have that internal timer in my head for how much time I've got until I have to be in shelter.

In all honesty, I'm fine the way it is, but I kinda prefer the extra danger. Once you get the walls of the fort built up, there isn't hardly any danger anyway. :)

I took a little time tonight and setup a nice starter mine that goes all the way down to bedrock. It's right across the way from the fort you and Elzar have built up near spawn.

Also installed stairs so it doesn't take a month and a half to get back up to the surface. If you go check it out, just promise you wont accidentally bash the glass walkway over the lava. I don't think that will turn out so good for anyone, lol.

Once you get all the way down to the bedrock 'station', the tubes should be mined out at 3x2 patterns, I setup a few sign posts with some guidelines on them, left a crafting table, furnace and big storage box down at the bottom for folks to dump their extra cobble/dirt and make new pick axes.

Now, off to go shop for a texture pack. I'm going to grab a 64x64 realistic texture pack. The stock textures are so effing bad, lol.

love that picture Jon, that show was so friggen good! Don't know if I have any desire to watch it again anytime soon just because it was pretty heavy, but it was really some good tv. I never got through Generation Kill but I really need to give that show a try as well.

Yeah, don't grief us Art! It's just like Action Team only anyways, so we just wanna bro it out, get our duplo-on. Are you "shop-vac"? I saw someone named that came onto our server. Tried running it from work but didn't work :( Oh well, guess I'll have to solve crimes n shit.

Jon, the survival mode in Minecraft that our little server runs is so friggen addictive. I don't know why, but it just is. Night time is scary cuz horrible monsters come out and wreck shit pretty hard. I actually installed a plugin to make the days longer because 10 min days to 8 min nights was just way to stressful. Now you've got plenty of time to hiiiiide.

Minecraft, eh? I never really liked Duplo all that much, but maybe I'll try it one of these days.

Mainly I wanted to post this:

Oh yay!!

Are we going to abide by "no douchebaggery" rules? No griefing people's buildings?

PLEASE?

lol

| Got us a Minecraft server

Ok, El-rock inspired me, so I went ahead and got us a mini minecraft server. It'll be always on, so jump in and build an action-teamy world with us all. It's a 4 player at a time max for now because I doubt more than 4 of us would ever be on at once, but I can change that in the future. That game is hella addictive and fun, do it!

For our Survival Multiplayer server the IP is:
(25x2) . (24-2).(10+7). (103+2) :25598

That's a lot of mathy skullduggery - I'm looking to see if there is a password pluggin, in which case I'd make it be what batman punched the joker into.

Minecraft is totally the new devil. I just played like 5 hours of it! Ugh, I need to sleep. It's pretty rad and weirdly compelling. I got a free app for my phone that has all the recipes on it, so I'm kinda good now at getting my basic needs covered early on in the game.

I was totally thinking about setting up a $4 a month minecraft server too, Elrick, using www.brohoster.com. Chatted with a couple of dudes who used them to setup small minecraft servers for the express purpose of gaming with a handful of friends at a time, and they were really positive about their service. I like their website and bro-losophy too :)

I'm so tired. I'll check out your server Elreeek

PS: if you bought the game you can use custom skins for your dude. Here's a site of some of the best and funniest. I'm currently using the borg-picard skin.
Skins