Minecraft

[crocos]

Good point. We should fill your tower with lava instead.

Lazy so-and-so

[A Corpse]

I'm on now, what's your excuse?

[A Corpse]

OK I added [Vault] to the cobble chests. It's 21 double chests full, go nuts.

[Chocobunnygirl]

Shit load of sand we placed down this evening in the mob tower base.
That lava down in the water is deathly.
Cool thanks AC for cobblestone contributions.

[A Corpse]

Scoop rather than sand/gravel the lava and you can use it in smelters. It's actually viable now that buckets aren't consumed by it.

[Cowboy]

Right, so I've updated the server to a dev build of 1.4. It might be buggy so give it a go and let me know if there's any problems.

Try it out.

[Rince]

played a bit yesterday - seems stable.

[Rince]

done about half of my underwater railway linking mine/ubu's home to the start of the trap....

very tedious, but once done should be pretty cool

[A Corpse]

Like the seafloor rail to the fruitbowl on a previous WMS incarnation?

[pxpx]

About to start moving all my stuff closer to everyone else, have been feeling a little isolated!

[A Corpse]

There goes the neighbourhood.

[Cowboy]

Originally Posted by A Corpse

There goes the neighbourhood.

Put away all the nice things..

[crocos]

Need to make a wall of Locketted chests &/or furnaces around pxpx...

[Chocobunnygirl]

Had a busy wknd so will be on tomoro prob arvo or evening to make more of the trap. Is the trap gonna be a cylinder shape?
Welcome closer pxpx just not too close to our choco area cos we want space to build out other future things, thanks.

[crocos]

I kinda like ChocoFish's idea with the square shaped trap.

[pxpx]

:~(

[Chocobunnygirl]

Originally Posted by crocos

I kinda like ChocoFish's idea with the square shaped trap.

Sweet bout the sq shape mob trap. Extending the timeframe for a workable mob trap hopefully in operation by end of the week. What other materials do we need Crocos? Keen to have others help with their manpower (time), resources or expertise...

[pxpx]

Originally Posted by Chocobunnygirl

Sweet bout the sq shape mob trap. Extending the timeframe for a workable mob trap hopefully in operation by end of the week. What other materials do we need Crocos? Keen to have others help with their manpower (time), resources or expertise...

Happy to help with digging stuff, can go on tonight - just need to know where/when/what etc

What resources are needed?

[Chocobunnygirl]

Sorry waldo was afk before lookin at the MC map

[Waldo]

im always afk, its like a thing I do

[crocos]

Originally Posted by Chocobunnygirl

What other materials do we need Crocos?

Chests, Torches, Signs & Ladders
Cobble: I'll work on raiding A Corpse's stash tomorrow night (I'm out tonight until ~10pm at least)
Buckets (for water and lava): I've got a couple dozen blocks of iron that could be used here for increasing the lava-bucket collection

Tools: Shovels & Pickaxes mainly. Need to do a power of work to remove most of that lava as well as light the non-trap underground caverns to maximise the spawn rate.

If anyone has any thoughts on "maintenance mode" lighting + trap layouts, keen to hear ideas. I'm also going to be raiding YouTube and the MC forums for other ideas.

I'm actually quite keen to get a mob-sorting mechanism going so that we can use zombies just for XP, skellies for toggable XP or arrows+bones, creepers for just gunpowder, and spiders togglable also. Any squids that spawn are just for lulz or ink.

[Chocobunnygirl]

Good to have you on board to help pxpx

Brilliant sum up Crocos.
Maximising the mob trap design and separation of mobs will be awesome.
Will try get some of chests, torches, signs, iron shovels, iron pickaxes and ladders made later today; placing them at mob trap entrance in chests.
Need some bones tho?

[ChocoFish]

You know I've always wondered about the mob traps we've built in the past, whether or not they're actually as effective as they could be? Because in MC don't the mobs only spawn only 100 something metres away from you? so were there actually mobs spawning at the top of our towers in the past?

I would imagine ideally a square or a sphere would be ideal? assuming it is even feasible. Why is the reason we make them rectangles? is it just because it makes it easier?

[crocos]

Yeah, in theory you'd have mobs spawning in a wide ring around the central collection point. Would be a sod to design though.

[verve_rat]

Can I get white listed please Cowboy. User name is over there <--

Thanks.

[crocos]

Originally Posted by verve_rat

Can I get white listed please Cowboy. User name is over there <--

Thanks.

Added verve_rat

[crocos]

I'm sure Cowboy will be happy to add you to the vault group when he's next on here

[Waldo]

Originally Posted by ChocoFish

You know I've always wondered about the mob traps we've built in the past, whether or not they're actually as effective as they could be? Because in MC don't the mobs only spawn only 100 something metres away from you? so were there actually mobs spawning at the top of our towers in the past?

I would imagine ideally a square or a sphere would be ideal? assuming it is even feasible. Why is the reason we make them rectangles? is it just because it makes it easier?

there was a code change in 1.3 where mobs after x distance from you no longer move.

[verve_rat]

Thanks for that crocos, I forgot you had the power.

But I have an issue with the dynmap. I get blank spaces all over the place:



Any one else have the same thing? It's doing the same thing on 4 different browsers and my tablet.

[A Corpse]

That's because Cowboy erased the dynmap a while back. Someone was exploring way beyond the realms of reason and filled up the server HDD.

[Cowboy]

Yeah that map is just too big to render at high res (as it is now) for the entire map. Dynmap itself is 15gb. I think it was about 30 before I pruned it.

It is ugly though with all the patches but it's either that or I render the full map at reduced resolution. Which looks worse imo.

[pxpx]

Is it possible to tidy just the area near us?

[Cowboy]

Originally Posted by pxpx

Is it possible to tidy just the area near us?

Yep, that's what I've been doing. Gimme your coords. Have you moved yet or same place as you were?

[ChocoFish]

hey Cowboy could you please add albapater to our vault list please?

[Rince]

just found out I'm not in the vault group, so can you please add RinceyNZ and ubupuppy to Vault? ta.

[Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Rince

just found out I'm not in the vault group, so can you please add RinceyNZ and ubupuppy to Vault? ta.

Hmm, you were actually but I put Rincey and not RinceyNZ.

All fixed now.

[crocos]

Please add verve_rat to the vault list also Cowboy. Thank you in advance

[Cowboy]

Originally Posted by crocos

Please add verve_rat to the vault list also Cowboy. Thank you in advance

That was already included in the "All fixed now"

[Rince]

Originally Posted by Cowboy

Hmm, you were actually but I put Rincey and not RinceyNZ.

All fixed now.

awesome!

[crocos]

Originally Posted by Cowboy

That was already included in the "All fixed now"

Eeeexxcellent