Rood -

I wonder if you broke into the back end of the HUGE M-F'ing lava and waterfall cave I've been looking into.

Try going down the pumpkin mine, take the tunnel that is marked with something funny about Lava Lake National Park straight, then up the stairs. Bet it's the same place just the other side.

LOTS of monsters in there. Jon, have at it mang. lol

I already died once, lost a ton of really good shit. Was building a dirt bridge across some lava, thought I was safe but got plugged by an unseen/unexpected skele arrow and dropped to my death in the lava below. (Fuck)

The beds are kinda funky. Try building it without anything 1 square around it, including any dropoffs. Also, it needs to be night time when you set the spawn. If you get the "leave bed" button, you did it right. I went and check out your platforms and yeah, theyre hella dangerous! :)

I found my biggest cave network yet last night and this morning. I've got some tunnels going from my underwater rooms and I broke into a huge cave that basically had every ore all over the place (except diamond which is hopefully just buried nearby.) There's lava and waterfalls down there and a bunch of obsidian. Unfortunately, when I was going around lighting the place up (it just keeps going and going) I got totally LOST and in a panic had to tunnel UP and out - broke into MORE caves (with corresponding monsters) before I finally started hearing chicken sounds and ended up... in the middle of fight island :) That was dramatic. Next time I'm going to clear that place out slowly and methodically.

I'm more looking for dungeons to poke around in, Art -- but I found one! Of course you guys will probably have it strip mined and flooded by the time I log back in, but that's the price I pay for spending time away from the game!

jr0n: Already trashing my shit eh? Sigh.... With regards to the spawn point. That is an annoyance bug that was supposed to be quashed in 1.4_01, but hasn't completely gone away:

Bug fixes:
- Beds now act as a respawn point as intended.

New bugs:
- In certain cases, the bed may still fail to save the default spawn point. Although, this has been fixed for most players.
- On some Macs when you use a pickaxe it will cause the game to crash.

D>M>

Jon, just keep running in a straight line until you hit the end, and then start diggin!!

=)

Alternatively, you can go up 4 blocks and start a new set of 3 x 2 tunnels. There's a good chunk of minerals in the entire 5-18 range. Most of our tunnels so far are right at bedrock.. so around 5-8. Probably enough room to go two whole floors higher and still mine it out like this:

The slight offset allows for visibility on the bottom wall blocks.

edit: blogger deletes spaces at the front of lines? Anyway, the dots are there only to move the X's over. Should only be ONE block shifted.

XX XX XX
XX XX XX
XX XX XX
.. XX XX XX
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.... XX XX XX
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Holy crap! I spent an HOUR looking for a mine that Enron hadn't dug out. Didn't find much except for a couple of alcoves. Finally found something a little deeper... broke through some stone... found myself looking at one of Enron's torches. /sob

Also, the bed hasn't been resetting my spawn point. Anyone know why? So, every time I fall off the Observation Deck, which is frequently... I respawn halfway across the map, on the other side of Fight Island.

| Richard III

I watched Richard III starring Magneato on Netflix last night and it was really good, in a weird alt-universe-Shakespeare kinda way! This is the 1995 version of Richard III and it's set in a fascist WW2-era England. I had no idea that it was a funky alternative history setting, so my sci-fi heart was pleasantly surprised. Ian McKellen is fucking awesome and there's even a young Dominic West (McNutty from the Wire) as Henry Tudor. If can stomach some Shakespeare (albeit, slightly modernized), I'd highly recommend it.

| Humbur, your cock is hurge

There's supposed to be another Humble Indie Bundle coming out tomorrow at: humblebundle

You decide what you want to pay for 5 indie games. The last two were great and I think I chose to pay $1 for the first one then maybe $10 for the second one. You decide which charity it goes to. Nice stuff.

Also, I was just informed that Nether / Hell is now implemented in Minecraft Multiplayer!?

That's gunna be a whole new level of whoa.

Ah, ok. That makes sense. I guess the addition of powered rail is going to do away with the booster concept anyway.

That 2nd post is for people who make texture packs. It's saying what new objects will be in the next patch and where to put them in your package, I guess. So something about minecar stuff, that's appropriate for Eric's Great Space Coaster.

Tell you how burned my brain is.. it took me a good 2 seconds to stop thinking.. WHOA THAT'S AN AWESOME TEXTURE PACK. haha.

Also, some updates from Notch regarding the next release:

MUOAHAHA! Thunder Storms lower the brightness. That means daytime monsters during storms. This is freakily atmospheric.

Next tex pack update: (3, 10) is powerrail unpowered and (3, 12) is powered. Again, coords are from 0 (how hard is that to understand? :P)

I don't understand the second one, hopefully it will make sense later.




Jon, personally, I find ladders difficult and fall off all the time (unless you build guide walls on either side so you can't slide off. When you're building, just make sure you hold down the shift key while working and you won't fall off your current block-level. Unless you get tagged by a skele arrow, anyway. :D

I'm feeling a little lost in MC right now. More or less finished with the castle and creeper tower. Farms are more or less done. What now!? Thinking of getting back to basics, doing some mining and prepping for the next project (whenever inspiration decides to hit me).

That's a rad looking house! Quick tip, build a bed (3 wood planks on bottom 3 wool above) and click it at night. That will now be your spawn when you die. Good if you keep falling or whatever happens to you. Also, if you're the only one on the server, sleeping in bed at night will advance time to day.

Finally crash-free! And my framerate was fine too once Aeryk helpfully reminded me to turn down my settings. I'm building the Observation Deck on the mountain -- you should be able to see it from the cake shop. Right now it looks terrible, but now that I've got ladders built and so hopefully shouldn't fall off it every two seconds, work should come along a little better.

Spent the weekend in Mendocino. I saw this and decided, hey, I should build that in Minecraft:

| Sweet (tits)

Finished the creeper monument in the Castle Slaytanic courtyard. It is.. large. Many hundred cactus gave their lives in the creation process, lol.

More cakes have been made the bakery and are ready for pickup! Thanks to all who donated for the cause. =]

Rood, love the diagonal-build you did on that pirate ship. Way cool.

Aaron. Dood. That tunnel is crazy. I almost got completely lost, lol.

Eric. Fight Island! Finally walked over the bridge .. when are we starting the tournaments?