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Boards.ie Survival and FTB

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  • #2402
    Rachel_Ann
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭Rachel_Ann


    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Update the map to 1.8.x!!!! I'm so feckin excited!!!! Please!!!!


  • #2403
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,033 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Server's been totally dead for the last week. I've logged in a few times, never saw another person. No point anyone building anything if it's all about to be wiped, I presume.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #2404
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Is it? Ender chest solves the valuables issue up until someone griefs the ender chest, and speaking of which... one griefer, and the whole map is doomed. Anyone remember Beta 1.9? Our only ever map without bukkit? All the griefing left the server deserted anyway :(


  • #2405
    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,281 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    Without any sort of server protection, upgrading to 1.8 is just not an option.

    Block logging and other anti-grief plugins serve two purposes. They catch people who grief, but they also stop people from griefing in the first place as they know they will get caught.

    It also stops cheating, in the form of fly-hacks, item spawning cheats etc. It's just not viable to run a server without any sort of anti-cheat and anti-grief.


  • #2406
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    What if we closed down the whitelist to people we know and trust until bukkit gets set up?


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  • #2407
    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,281 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    What if we closed down the whitelist to people we know and trust until bukkit gets set up?

    Well there's 233 people currently on the whitelist. How do you decide which of those are trustworthy or not?


  • #2408
    AirBiscuit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭AirBiscuit


    deconduo wrote: »
    Well there's 233 people currently on the whitelist. How do you decide which of those are trustworthy or not?

    Srap the whitelist, enforce a new entry requirement: They must undergo a hazing.
    Congratulations, you have now formed the Boards Minecraft Fraternity :rolleyes:
    Beta Rho Delta Sigma 4 lyfe!


  • #2409
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    deconduo wrote: »
    Well there's 233 people currently on the whitelist. How do you decide which of those are trustworthy or not?

    Anyone who played regularly on any of the last couple of maps or so who didn't thieve or grief? Most of the people who signed up for the whitelist last time never really played.


  • #2410
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,033 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    So the current server isn't going anywhere soon, but what about a map reset? I don't think one is needed, but other posters here are clearly expecting one, and I think that's why the server is so quiet. So some clarification might be helpful! That's all I meant, not trying to tell the mods what to do.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #2411
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    deconduo wrote:
    It also stops cheating, in the form of fly-hacks, item spawning cheats etc. It's just not viable to run a server without any sort of anti-cheat and anti-grief.

    Bukkit isn't coming back. Is the choice is an empty server while we wait for a Bukkit replacement to be created or a non-empty server but plain vanilla Minecraft with no griefing protection?
    deconduo wrote: »
    Well there's 233 people currently on the whitelist. How do you decide which of those are trustworthy or not?

    I thought that the ones on the whitelist were supposed to be trustworthy or at least given the benefit of the doubt?


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  • #2412
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Ponster wrote: »
    I thought that the ones on the whitelist were supposed to be trustworthy or at least given the benefit of the doubt?

    Not really the idea behind the server, and thus not the way our whitelist is being used.

    The whitelist is there to prevent random non-Boardsies from just logging on and getting up to mischief, as it would quickly prove impossible to police, plugins or no plugins. Instead anyone with a Boards.ie account can request to be whitelisted, with the knowledge that if they go rogue it could have repercussions for their Boards.ie account on here as well as their Mojang account's ability to access our servers. Even then its not a guaranteed deterrent, and occasionally there will be malicious behaviour on the server and the perpetrators will have Le Banhammer swung at them.

    tl;dr Whitelist is meant to be the first line of defence, not the only one.


  • #2413
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Dinty's been robbed and somebody messed with Rachel's underground tunnels.


  • #2414
    john the one
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    Let's set up an in game police force to track peoples movements and lay some mother trucking smack down!


  • #2415
    welchy
    Registered Users Posts: 288 ✭✭welchy


    Needs more prison builds :P


  • #2416
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    :D

    Been a while since we've had one of those...


  • #2417
    Rachel_Ann
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭Rachel_Ann


    john the one wrote: »
    Let's set up an in game police force to track peoples movements and lay some mother trucking smack down!

    I'm for this. I think I''l become some maverick type bad ass who stalks the unsuspecting at night. Then WHAM! Take that you tunnel destroying badger.


  • #2418
    Rachel_Ann
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭Rachel_Ann


    Welchy, Deirdre is gone. Presumed dead :/


  • #2419
    Renegaid
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭Renegaid


    Hello all!

    Just wanted to chime in and apologise for my absence in-game! Ive jetted over to Vancouver, Canada so Im trying to get settled in with a house and a job first!

    I hope all is well?


  • #2420
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Hey Ren! Cool place to move to! All's good here, let us know whenever you'll be online again! :)


  • #2421
    welchy
    Registered Users Posts: 288 ✭✭welchy


    Rachel_Ann wrote: »
    Welchy, Deirdre is gone. Presumed dead :/

    :eek:

    Who would harm an innocent pig?


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  • #2422
    john the one
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    Even the discussion of server activity brings this thread back alive! Its glorious! I can give dayz a break for a while!


  • #2423
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Watch out everyone, there's scary ghosts at spawn village!

    Also, it may have snowed a little...


  • #2424
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Suggestion:

    Minecraft Realms versus a Vanilla 1.8 server. Realms has the sort of tracking and logging we'd need for tracking down problems and with the smaller number of players we seem to have ATM, it might be a better and more cost efficient fit.


  • #2425
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Shiminay wrote: »
    Suggestion:

    Minecraft Realms versus a Vanilla 1.8 server. Realms has the sort of tracking and logging we'd need for tracking down problems and with the smaller number of players we seem to have ATM, it might be a better and more cost efficient fit.

    Sounds pretty much ideal! Might set one up tonight myself regardless :)


  • #2426
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Well I can set one up now, I'm happy to pay for 3 months as a trial for us and see what's what.

    I'll start a seperate thread for it now :)


  • #2427
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,033 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    i figured out what happened when that TNT went off: some blocks got thrown towards the audience before they exploded, and ... the wreckage was large. If anyone wants to try again, I've got four stacks burning a hole in a chest ... :cool:

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #2428
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    I loved using TNT "flowers" to cause primary explosions to lob the rest of the newly-primed TNT all over the place before detonation... so much devastation... ^_^


  • #2429
    john the one
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    Any news on an update yet? I gots the bug again


  • #2430
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    john the one wrote: »
    Any news on an update yet? I gots the bug again

    No news, we're all playing over on Realms now though - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057316110


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  • #2431
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Just realised it must be close to a year exactly since I started playing minecraft on PC. I've come a loooong way :D

    My first PC single player base

    329827.png

    My current PC single player project (ongoing)

    329828.jpg


  • #2432
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Working on draining the ocean monument in my single-player world...zzz...


  • #2433
    EoinHef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭EoinHef


    ^^In creative or survival?

    Lot of work either way!!


  • #2434
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    EoinHef wrote: »
    ^^In creative or survival?

    Lot of work either way!!

    I started doing it this evening in survival...I hope I don't give up patience and resort to creative. It will definitely look awesome when I'm finish, I hope I stay the course and finish the job legit!


  • #2435
    EoinHef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭EoinHef


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    I started doing it this evening in survival...I hope I don't give up patience and resort to creative. It will definitely look awesome when I'm finish, I hope I stay the course and finish the job legit!

    Best of luck with it man,it sounds like a worthy quest!!
    Im still playing modded 1.6.4 so havent even seen a monument or guardian!!

    Throw up a few pics when your done if you can:)


  • #2436
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    I started doing it this evening in survival...I hope I don't give up patience and resort to creative. It will definitely look awesome when I'm finish, I hope I stay the course and finish the job legit!

    I did it on the realms server. It didn't take too long but it certainly helps if you have 80 sponges :p


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  • #2437
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Pompous wrote: »
    I did it on the realms server. It didn't take too long but it certainly helps if you have 80 sponges :p

    You mean the inside? I want to clear all the water around the outside too, it's fairly near some land so I want to be able to walk down from the beach all the way into it.


  • #2438
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    EoinHef wrote: »
    Best of luck with it man,it sounds like a worthy quest!!
    Im still playing modded 1.6.4 so havent even seen a monument or guardian!!

    Throw up a few pics when your done if you can:)

    330659.jpg

    Here's my progress after one evening of work on it :)


  • #2439
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    Oh gawd O:

    Yeah I mean the inside. What you're doing is a far greater task. I am planning on doing that too though, starting as soon as I conquer the 3rd monument. Seeing that screenshot has made me realise how much work it's gonna take :I

    This is my plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_nbfK5luE


  • #2440
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Day 2 of excavating ocean monument..

    330717.jpg


  • #2441
    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    What you are doing is a much more efficient method that I'm using.. I never thought about using sand to make a wall.. For the past week, I've been just diving under the water and build blocks up to the surface...

    You don't wanna know how many times I've drowned from doing that :o


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  • #2442
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    jamo2oo9 wrote: »
    What you are doing is a much more efficient method that I'm using.. I never thought about using sand to make a wall.. For the past week, I've been just diving under the water and build blocks up to the surface...

    You don't wanna know how many times I've drowned from doing that :o

    Yeah the sand method is definitely better than that way, although it's still slow.

    Another option is to make squares of sand all the way down to the seafloor, and then put a few dry sponges in it. It's more fun and possibly faster, I'm not quite sure yet. If you make squares 4x4, about 3 sponges will get you all the way down to the seafloor.

    Funny that there's basically three of us doing the same thing at the same time independently :)


  • #2443
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    Day 1 of excavating ocean monument.. :D

    331117.jpg

    (Welchy is helping)


  • #2444
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Nice work! I saw in a YT video that if you dig out a big space below the Ocean Monument (once it's dried up), you get pretty crazy mob spawning rates. Great for mob farming, I think I'll be doing that afterwards. I take it you're using the sponge method Pomp? Definitely seems to be the fastest way


  • #2445
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    Thank you :) Yep, I'm using sponges. 6x6 holes then spam sponges on each wall all the way down. I can do it with about 15-20 sponges depending on the depth of the hole.

    Once it's drained I'll be demolishing the monument and lighting all nearby caves to stop all mob spawning. Gonna make a ridiculous exp farm.


  • #2446
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    Day 2

    331270.jpg

    Draining the interior of the monument is proving somewhat difficult. I made the mistake of lighting up all the caves nearby first (there were a hell of a lot). Now the remaining pools of water in the monument are spawning armies of guardians.

    Welchy is too manly to wear his depth strider boots, but not manly enough to face the army without them :D


  • #2447
    Rachel_Ann
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭Rachel_Ann


    Wait now, what sever are you doing this on? Boards or Shim's? Did Boards update?


  • #2448
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    I'm doing this on Shim's server, Dg is doing it on his single player. Sorry Rach, false alarm :p


  • #2449
    Pompous
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Pompous


    Day 3
    331380.jpg

    Bonus aquarium shot!

    331381.jpg


  • #2450
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Nice job!

    I think I'll keep the outside of mine, but hollow out all the middle for the prismarine and make it look nice with quartz and spruce wood. Maybe put a glass dome around it, and grow trees and stuff on the inside, like an eco-dome. I'll put some kind of mob grinder in it, not sure if it'll be guardians or a mob farm below the monument, we'll see what happens


  • #2451
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    I just played on this UHC server and found it pretty good - http://uhc.eximiusgaming.com/

    Who'd be up for getting a gang of us on one of their maps some night? If there's enough of us we could make teams of two even :)

    I'm probably going to play on it again at some point tomorrow afternoon, if anyone wants to join me?


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