Server is updated for 1.7.2

All Plugins working, doing a new full map render with the updated DynMaps. Now zoom out works much farther away! Updated all the plugins, and looks like everything is working really smoothly

7/2/2011 4:26:59 AM

Sweet. I'm working on a piston elevator, but it's a bit complicated. Or maybe it's just a bug... sticky pistons cannot pull extended pistons. That makes the elevator one time use unless I can somehow have two timed circuits wrapped around it.

[Edited on July 2, 2011 at 9:17 AM. Reason : asdfasdf]

7/2/2011 9:16:06 AM

I have this really awesome lava/water gate controllable by pistons. The only problem is that the lava doesn't seem to dissipate after its source it cut off. It kind of just hangs in the air.

7/2/2011 10:07:31 AM

^^Yep I hit the same problem in messing with sticky pistons. They are only sticky to one block next to them and you cant chain them in reverse.

^Only water dissipates when its source is cut. Lava stays flowing even when it's source is removed.

7/2/2011 2:20:25 PM

^ ruins my totally sweet lava gate.

7/2/2011 2:41:35 PM

I built a sweet piston gate on my home server. Then added some buttcheeks to make a lava-shitting ass with working sphincter. I wonder what my gf would say if I told her I spent 3 hours building a model of an ass in a video game.

7/2/2011 8:02:19 PM

will the store ever be updated for new items or is there any way to do it manually? I'd be willing to take a look at it if you can link me to the source for it.

7/3/2011 1:27:07 AM

notch really needs to refine redstone, make it right-clickable to determine neighbor connections or something

this whole making a 3d zigzag path so things don't touch is bullshit

[Edited on July 3, 2011 at 12:56 PM. Reason : got my bridge working though!]

7/3/2011 12:56:24 PM

I made one of the hidden doors as referenced in an online tutorial. It's an adaptation of the door in the official 1.7 piston demo video. I've changed it slightly to hide more of the circuitry and to add pressure plate entry triggers, and both a lock switch and hold-open switch on the inside. I added sufficient passageways and tunnels around the circuitry that you can get in and see how it all works.





Located at roughly -238, 68, -26. North on the Diamond road until just before the huge pyramid, then head left. It is located behind the large glass ball on a tower.

7/4/2011 7:38:53 AM

Just realized I forgot the link to the tutorial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52o85NXdvKo

7/4/2011 8:10:30 AM

1) build massive sugarcane harvester
2) realize sugarcane no longer gets washed away by water after completion
3)

7/5/2011 1:47:29 PM

server appears to be down

7/5/2011 4:07:46 PM

still

7/6/2011 8:23:12 AM

7/6/2011 1:19:37 PM

sorry guyz I was out at a lakehouse with no connection to anything (not internet, no tv, no telephone).

Somebody's pistons crashed the server . I dont log shit like that so I have no idea who

Server's back up!

Also, wawebste, I'll add the new stuff to the store, but might not get around to it till this weekend.

[Edited on July 6, 2011 at 9:15 PM. Reason : .]

7/6/2011 9:15:06 PM

sounds good man, thanks.

7/6/2011 9:40:46 PM

If you want someone to pull backup server admin duty, I'm down for it, just let me know.

7/7/2011 7:17:36 AM

fuck, I think I broke it, I /home just now and didn't warp and after a few seconds I got the read timed out of death

[Edited on July 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM. Reason : sorry ]

7/7/2011 1:46:23 PM

stop breaking it

7/7/2011 2:23:49 PM

oddly, both times it broke recently I was in the vault, I don't think I was trying to warp back to /home last time though, I was moving inventory I think

7/7/2011 2:29:58 PM

it's crashing because you're doing something with pistons. Server restarted

Parks, I'd like to see if we can replicate the problem, sounds like a bug in CraftBukkit honestly.

7/7/2011 4:24:01 PM

hey you've got a smokeshop h00thoot.

7/7/2011 4:49:50 PM

aha

think that's the creeper pic normally

7/7/2011 5:46:36 PM

Which texture pack is that, and is it good for the latest update? Vanilla is getting kind of old.

7/7/2011 10:06:13 PM

Photorealism.

http://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/lb-photo-realism-pack-256x256/

It works with the latest server version. Just make sure to use the HD pack and you might want to run 64 bit java too. Seems to run more smoothly. It's awesome though. Can't go back to the default pack.

7/7/2011 11:42:24 PM

There's a bukkit 1.7.3 update out there for the latest server update. Should fix the piston issues.

7/8/2011 4:07:25 PM

thanks for the heads up

7/8/2011 4:39:50 PM

^^^what kind of rig/video card are you running Photorealism on? I take it my 8800GTS512 probably won't cut it? I have 32-bit Win7 installed on it, AMD64X2 2-core2.6Ghz, 4GB RAM (yeah, yeah time to upgrade)... anyway I'm contemplating putting 64-bit Win7 and giving it a try... but I am thinking I will probably be disappointed.

[Edited on July 10, 2011 at 5:32 PM. Reason : jank]

7/10/2011 5:29:48 PM

I'm running W7 64 bit with an AMD Phenom X4 3.2Ghz quad core, 8Gb RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD 5700 card (50?, 70?) with 1Gb dedicated video memory, and it runs the 256x256 pretty solid. The only issue I seem to be having is that there is some flickering of the textures as I look around - not a framers issue, but more of maybe an AA issue. Any mods for that?

The 64x64 and 128x128 packs look pretty good too, so you can always try those.

7/10/2011 6:03:35 PM

my i5 2.5Ghz/4GB/Radeon5470 handles the 256x256 smooth as butter

[Edited on July 10, 2011 at 6:27 PM. Reason : z]

7/10/2011 6:26:34 PM

Quote :

"^^^what kind of rig/video card are you running Photorealism on?"

i7 at 4ghz, 12 gigs ram, 2x460's in SLI.

Minecraft is all about the CPU though.

Quote :

"The only issue I seem to be having is that there is some flickering of the textures as I look around - not a framers issue, but more of maybe an AA issue. Any mods for that? "

I think I ran into similar issues when I first installed the texture pack. Switching to 64 bit java for Minecraft solved that right off the bat. Takes up about 1.2 gigs of ram but runs smooth. Completely worth it.

7/10/2011 6:57:45 PM

yeah you definitely want to get 64bit java and change the mem parameters, i think i have mine using 3GB

7/10/2011 7:00:08 PM

dammit! you guys just cost me $500

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131654
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121419
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231416

7/11/2011 9:22:38 AM

That looks like it's going to be pretty fun for new parts! Have fun, and glad we could help spend your money!

7/11/2011 10:15:22 AM

Your build is really similar to mine thx, cept i got the 3.2 ghz Phenom II and 2 6850s in crossfire , even with cf disabled this rig is minecraft beast

7/11/2011 3:27:50 PM

[Edited on July 11, 2011 at 9:04 PM. Reason : ]

7/11/2011 8:44:40 PM

Bump for being on the second page.

Anything cool being built by anyone? Noen gave me motivation to build a laboratory for all sorts of testing, including explosives.

7/16/2011 7:33:55 PM

I'm looking at the possibility of using my own hardware for the server. Not saying it will happen at all or anytime soon, but something on the back burner.

It would mean we could run super-zany mods and plugins, because there'd be no memory cap or HDD shared access. Probably be a couple of months until I can really look into this though.

On a side note, how is everyone doing? I'm probably going to update the server to Bukkit build 1000 tomorrow, so there may be a little downtime.

Just restarted the server for the first time in two weeks. Seems to have been pretty stable

7/23/2011 6:41:12 PM

That'd be pretty cool! Server seemed to be a little laggy a few days ago, so I think a two week reset cycle might be the limit. My lab is done, so if you want to test huge redstone circuits or blow up lots of tnt in a big obsidian hole, let me know!

7/23/2011 8:27:41 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaGa-2aq11c

haha ziplines. Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqO2Iaa2FdA&feature=related

and the Spider Queen mod is neato.

[Edited on July 24, 2011 at 6:46 PM. Reason : s]

7/24/2011 6:38:11 PM

the aether mod would be a neat addition whenever it gets all it's quirks sorted out, but I bet it would be a bigger resource hog than the nether

7/24/2011 8:31:01 PM

Noen, can I get my Town destroy/build priv's back please? I want to put some more work into my underground pvp area now that we have pistons

7/26/2011 9:31:14 PM

so, um, why is the center of the spawn town all iced?

[Edited on July 27, 2011 at 8:52 AM. Reason : elemental creeper attack?]

7/27/2011 8:52:07 AM

Haha, my bad

7/27/2011 6:52:12 PM

Just found this at the bottom of my sugar farm, I'm surprised they don't die out of water

7/27/2011 7:49:49 PM

^what texture pack is that?

7/27/2011 7:55:04 PM

LB Photo Realism 256x256

http://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/lb-photo-realism-pack-256x256/


To make it work you'll need to patch minecraft with this:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/232701-611-update173-compatible-mcpatcher-hd-fix-210-02/



It probably wouldn't hurt to use 64 bit java and allocate some more memory to it:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/350344-allocating-more-memory-to-java-windows/page__gopid__5036240#entry5036240

[Edited on July 27, 2011 at 8:12 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on July 27, 2011 at 8:16 PM. Reason : Sugar farm at -550, 70, -582 if anyone wants to check it out]

7/27/2011 8:10:56 PM

Quote :

"Failed to connect to the server. Connection timed out: Connect"

What happened?

7/28/2011 9:03:54 PM

Looks like brohoster.com is down. And possibly the entire company is down/gone

7/28/2011 10:23:26 PM

So it's official. The company is gone.

There's still a good chance we'll get the server (and all data) back within the next day or two. Fortunately I upgraded to bukkit #1000 over the weekend, and did a full local backup.

So worst case, we lost 3-4 days of the server and I'll put it somewhere else

7/28/2011 10:27:47 PM