Evening Reading: All Because Myles Standish Was a Bad Shot
Whether or not you're celebrating the holiday, we hope you have a chance to enjoy some of these things. It's going to be a fairly quiet rest of the week from here on out. For tomorrow we have a couple things lined up including a preview of the Shacknews Holiday Guide, some exclusive new DC Universe Online screens, and a special holiday edition of Weekend Confirmed. And then on Friday we're breaking down holiday gift lists platform by platform as we give you the place to point anyone who asks the dreaded, "so, what do you want for Christmas?"
Here's a look at today's highlights on the Shack:
- Axl Rose Sues Activision Over Slash in Guitar Hero 3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops - 2D vs. 3D Stat Comparison
- NBA Jam Review
- Epic Shows Off the Newest Unreal Engine 3 Tech Trailer
And here's a couple things for when you need a break from the fam;
- This way over-the-top take on a Turduken is A bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig
- Aliens came for Thanksgiving, mistakenly arrived in Turkey
- Pretty much ridiculous, but awesome, Tomahawk in CoD: Black Ops
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Dong Patrol
replyWednesday Evening Minecraft Thread!
Patch Night Edition!!!
I want to thank whoever owns Fort Frostdick on foo’s test server; I spent the night in it after getting trapped outside my house. It saved my life and my equipment!
Multiplayer Servers!
MercFox1 : shackeast.sytes.net / se.shkn.ws / shackeast.shkn.ws
foo1 (PvP, Mobs on): 75.101.148.242
Shadowdane : shadowdane.shacknet.nu / sd.shkn.ws / shadowdane.shkn.ws
Chicken Fur : 69.169.149.253 / cf.shkn.ws / chickenfur.shkn.ws
m0rfus (PvP/Mobs on) : morfus.dyndns.org / morfus.shkn.ws
Haxim (TNT Server) : asplode.dyndns.org / haxim.shkn.ws
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com:9987
I threw some items into your storage chest as payment. I hope you like meat and rocks!-
Server Renders!
MercFox1
Angled: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/angle.png
Shadowdane
(updated every hour!)
Bird's Eye View: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-birdseye-current.png
Oblique: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-oblique-current.png
Angle: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-angle-current.png -
Guides and Utilities
- Oizomapper! Map your single player or multiplayer levels! By mroizo40
http://www.digitized-e.com/mroizo/OizoMapper.zip
- Shackwiki Minecraft page!
http://shackwiki.com/wiki/Minecraft
Video Guides!
- (Series) X's Adventures in Minecraft! Linked by zuff!
http://tinyurl.com/2ah7sex
Lots of useful info in here!
- (Series) Minecraft Minecart Tutorials! Boosters! Track switches! Et cetera!
http://tinyurl.com/2udl2lt
- Water Physics Tutorial by Arctic Fox!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24127669#itemanchor_24127669
Written Guides!
- Beginner’s Guides to Minecraft, originally linked by at0micgarden!
(Work in Progress) Guide to Alpha: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17021
How to Survive Your First Night: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19065
Shacker Help!
- Things I Wish I’d Known, a retrospective by Ebu!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23608826#itemanchor_23608826
- Linkmania! By zuff!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23514788#itemanchor_23514788
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23533536#itemanchor_23533536
- Ores, and How to Find Them, by Fooldozer and CodeRedBeard!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23582115#itemanchor_23582115
- Multiplayer Tips from BlackCat9
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23641449#itemanchor_23641449
- Circle guides! More useful than they sound!
http://www.agentpothead.com/minecraft/sphere.html linked/hosted by AgentPothead!
http://www.shackpics.com/files/radii_even_to_100_pgzh2n77iabkgcmee93q.png hosted by Arctic Fox!
- Beginner’s Guide to Redstone, links by The Grolar Bear!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24044649#itemanchor_24044649
- And some generally useful keys to press!
F11 - full screen!
F3 (hold) - CPU/ memory usage bar! Spikes for CPU/ red box for memory, I think!
F5 - third person mode! -
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Are we doing multiple towns or just the skull tower?
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No no, don't worry about it! I thought it was funny when it happened; the only reason I was anywhere near you was because I'd been building a house to make respawning a bit safer for players.
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How'd you get stuck outside your house?
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The main problem with foo1 is that the map so far is horrible. Like, the worst map I've ever seen. It's just flat and void of interesting terrain at this point..
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i tested my server for a minute on a fresh map, spawn was in the middle of a forest biome!! It was fucking cool.
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The first mercfox server had a forest spawn like that.
Because nothing can modify spawn without permission the leaves that tried to expand into the area would instead drop as saplings, and this'd repeat indefinitely. Inevitably people pick up the saplings and plant them on their travel away from spawn, so the forest grew dense and wide.
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yah i remember the great spawn fire :)
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Yeah, theres another massive forest I'm in as well. Nice.
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Shadowdane's Server
Ok... as PvE is basically broken with all the bugs, Mobs are OFF right now. Once Notch gets things working properly. I'm turning on Mobs so get your shit ready as you'll be fighting off mobs soon enough!!-
FYI- you're probably going to die when you try to join the server. You can thank Notch for that :(
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is this just the first login (since he saves height or whatever) or every time you /home or /spawn?
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it only happens once... no way around it afaik the 3 people that have joined since i updated have all died including myself.
I might be able to warp everyone to the spawn actually-
ok... everyone's player positions have been moved to the spawn! :)
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Well that explains that. :\
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yah I'm definitely doing PvE once the bugs get worked out... its basically Peaceful for now.
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Thing is, it's really not that broken. Its still better than no pve at all.
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yah i want to give people a little time to get there stuff ready before i turn on mobs though... I'll turn on mobs pretty soon though. :)
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meh fuck it... mobs are getting turned on! :D
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just flipped the switch... Mobs are on now! :D
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Sent you a SM, let me know if it's not too much hassle
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Using the towny mod that we'll have on foo1, you can also set your 'nation' to be PvE only, or even completely peaceful so that no-one can grief your epic tower of awesomeness.
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btw.. the LeafDropper plugin works fine on hey0 v126 so leaves still drop when you cut trees! :)
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new map
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So, is Foo 1 staying? Or is it still a "test"?
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Given how hilariously broken mobs are at the moment I would consider it a test server for the time being
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OK, regarding the Towny plugin. I assume you must have admin to form a new town. I'd like to form my own town, can I get admin? I've tried /town new [name] [lord] using that format to no avail...
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cool. If you need a user name, I'm rwillmore.
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Interesting Minecraft waterpark with a prick ending.
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i've enjoyed watching everyone get their hopes up yet again, rushing headlong into this clusterfuck. Seems people are having fun regardless, so that's cool :)
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If you have build on Merc1 you're already sorted. Otherwise, just log in and ask for a mod
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TOWNY MOD DOCUMENTATION: http://sites.google.com/site/townymod/
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More specifically, check out http://sites.google.com/site/townymod/walkthrough
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Just posting to confirm I'm who I say I am
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I'll sort you out as soon as the server is back up, just log back in
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Lies.
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lol, listening to everybody on teamspeak right now.
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foo1 is back up, you can now also find it at nastygood.sytes.net
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Well that is a fucking huge joke, gg Notch
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login to nastygood.sytes.net and see for yourself
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super lag?
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The block lag, is, at the very least fixed. I'll give him that
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Invisible mobs, invisible players after they die once, you're almost guaranteed to die the first time you re-log into Merc1 from falling damage, no warning that creepers are going to blow, can't cancel creeper explosions by running away, arrows do nothing, skeleton arrows work but you can't see them, crazily high mob spawn rates at night... should I go on?
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Jesus, really? Is this a real serious post of you complaining about this stuff? These all sound like pretty reasonable bugs for a first implementation of multiplayer damage. It's an entire category of gameplay that never had any netcode whatsoever before now. What exactly were you expecting to happen?
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Not surprised, but answer me this, NotchFan01. What does he have to gain by releasing this patch to the masses this early, besides ill will?
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What would you have him do instead? We're his alpha testers. It's the job of a developer to test internally to the best of their ability(which is not very much for a game) and then release it to the testers. Yes it would be cool if he had alpha-alpha testers to get the rough builds first, but it sounds like the game pretty much works fine now with mobs turned off anyway.
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So what, you think he just wrote a bunch of code and then just dumped it out without checking it at all, and it's a simple coincidence that damage actually works a lot of the time and there aren't any crashes? He probably doesn't have a full server worth of internal testers to work with, and yeah he probably should, but it's stupid to claim he does no testing. It would probably take him hours just to test all the cases the public can test in 5 minutes.
Most of you paid for the game when it was singleplayer only, which 99% of the time does not break in any significant way. Multiplayer remains a work in progress. I don't think the site even advertises it.-
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How about release a patch that people will actually play so he can get feedback on it? It's so hilariously broken at the moment that I can't see anyone leaving mobs on except as a joke. Yes, it is better than what we had, but it ain't a releasable milestone.
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I wouldn't necessarily say he's a bad programmer - for example, the terrain auto-generation uses some pretty neat algorithms it seems. He just clearly has some strengths and weaknesses, and netcode is among the latter.
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honestly fixing this is gonna take weeks. And he needs the bug tracker
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mods for m0rfus' server, could i please get build access?
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nm, apparently i have it
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I don't think you need it for m0rfus', do you?
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mind the invisible creepers!
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IMO that just doesn't sound fun. Build a base and pray noone finds it?
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Mario Land graphics? http://www.worldofminecraft.com/node/4520
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No problemo man :)
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Wondering how long it will be before we switch to the long-term Foo1 map?
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Nothing is permanent at the moment. We'll make an announcement when it is, will probably coincide with somewhat-working mobs etc in SMP.
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Alrighty. It's just hard to get the urge to build anything worthwhile while the state of the server is unsure.
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Maybe I'm crazy, but I'd bet most of us, despite having *preferences* as far as PvE, resets, PvP, etc, would rather play with the largest possible number of Shackers.
I kinda wish we had less servers so there was more chance of having a bunch of people on.-
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haha i know... inventory gets wiped when you go through the portal. lol
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haha insant world reset!
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Well he wiped my inventory with this latest patch (I fell because the world hadn't loaded, then died, and crashed on the way back to my stuff) so what's one more time?
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I WILL YAY PORTALS :D
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ya i'm gonna leave my castle the way it is before it gets blown up or i die.
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haha... the spawn area on my server has seen better days, looks like some creepers went boom!
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hmm... so is anyone even interested in a PvE server? I switched over my server tonight and it has been empty all night. I know stuff is a little buggy, but I at least expected a few people to be online. I think I've seen 2 people other than myself actually login since I updated the server.
I'm going to keep things going here for a little while, but if interest doesn't pick up at all... no sense is paying the higher electric bill to run my server 24/7 if no one is playing on it.-
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honestly, all i really want to do is kill monsters and build stuff. so PVE is good for me.
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Yes this is the permanent map, I didn't change it from the existing one.
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Honestly, given player feedback from this last patch, I think PvE is going to be the most popular mode. It's just hilariously broken at the moment.
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Foo are you around?
Kazlor got hit with an invis a bug after death and needs help to be restored to normal
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Yeah, I fell in lava and got melted. Thegrimjack accidentally dumped lava on himself.
Both of us are perma-invis. :(
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Okay MercFag1 residents:
ToMzorz_hu: what about making 'physical' flags to set PvP areas and hostile mob spawning areas? + a 'favourite servers' menu would be great :)
http://twitter.com/ToMzorz_hu/status/7672832804786176
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Land claim flags are one of my most-wanted features in this game, behind working mobs.
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