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twoelk wrote:maybe get one of these
superdupercleaningrobot

Just don't change it from suck to blow! ;)

I think considering all the trouble everyone is having to try to fix this, maybe my evaporator idea (a few replys ago) is not such a bad idea anymore. I have no idea about how easy would be to program such device though. A minecraft sponge scans for water source blocks with in a few blocks around i...

Firefox, can you give me tips on how to do damage control around water? I made the mistake of using a column of water to drop down to my early mine, 2000 blocks deep. Took forever to remove it... Nerd pole from the ground up to the water, directly below it but one block over (not diagonal). Once yo...

That is where you are wrong. Games are fine, I would never say anything like that in real life, in a public place. Its a game, and what people can do, is IGNORE IT There used to be that old set of rules for the Usenet, before the WWW became popular. The most basic rule was "remember that there...

jerrythecairn wrote:Is there anywhere we can find out which mods are running, version, location of source code and so on?

In game type: /mods

https://github.com/tenplus1

TenPlus1 wrote:Sorry for the crashing folks, with any luck the devs will find the cause of the memory leaks soon...

They still haven't found the bug that teleports me to an infinite coordinate or the bug that makes sections of water turn opaque. Both were reported years ago... So ya, luck is required. :)

If I use the /deleteblocks command then any building in that area will be lost also... Typically I used WorldEdit to renew everything in that area in the hope of weedling out the glitch but thankfully the new script goes through the WHOLE map and does the same :) Do you visit the area to worldedit ...

DuDraig wrote:Where did Xanadu go? It no longer appears in the public server list and the last address (98.166.175.89:30000) no longer accepts connections. This has been going on since last night.

Server is being moved to a new locaton, it will be back in a day or two.

lag01: thanks for the script, the Xanadu map is now over 60gb in size and this may indeed help... Will it strip out all bad areas and leave those containing a protector ??? It makes a copy of the database but strips out areas it can't read, which would probably cause a database read error when load...

It's a map glitch error in the game itself... Devs have been informed but when a player is in an area containing a corrupted map block then it crashes server instead of simple displaying an error message... Does it log which area caused the problem or do you have to test with only one player on ser...

Many new players have no idea how to play the game. They don't know how to pick up items, how to replant crops/saplings, how to eat food, how to protect their stuff or how to use stargates to find places to build. Some players have food and die repeatedly because they didn't realize starvation was k...

amadin wrote:Does server will run?

Server changed IP address for anyone who can no longer connect. Find name in public server list to get new IP.

firefox wrote:- no TNT or lava buckets (every server has this feature)

But some players have the same properties as TNT, just look at the ground around some of the spawn areas.

Each cow requires 16 wheat and a little growth time to produce. I made a large walled off grassy area for cows to spawn and be slaughtered at the public flower farm. I was originally killing them at my private flower farms but they kept jumping the fence and falling to their death in the ocean, jus...

Kilarin wrote:

TenPlus1 wrote:This is a MUCH more reasonable number than I thought it was. About 54 cows.

Cows drop 0-3 leather, so probably an average of 1.5 leather per cow, or 108 cows to get the 162 leather for a trolley. And you have slots for 4 trolleys...

Making a trolley is a luxury and is time consuming on purpose, otherwise everyone would have them and dying on server wouldn't have much loss of items... What about 1 palm wax + 1 wool making 1 leather? Still time consuming but no cow slaughtering. Or maybe 1 palm wax + X wool makes X leather, beca...

So I just finished placing rails in my tunnel and find out that rats on the track will stop the cart. I then tried placing stone ladders on top of the stone next to the track to stop the rats from spawning. But it appears rats don't care what they spawn on. Is there any way to stop them from spawnin...

There is a public tree farm, but the leaves yielded too few spalings, so I wasn't able to replant entirely. I just watched a video yesterday from Voxelands where leaves decay and fall to the ground, and saplings or grass is automatically planted. Something like that would solve most of the public t...

Then I discovered the rough onion/strawberry diet. A tomato plant produces more food than an onion plant during the same time period. Onions are second best though. then i spent all my iron and 2 weeks of mining to build a railway to the Burning Lands so that people can visit me I still need to lay...

I joined the server and went to the public mine on red path. A starvation monster attacked me and I had nothing to kill it, lost all my stuff. So I walked 1900 meters away from red path, collecting onions to eat along the way, they taste terrible! I finally found a spot to settle down, made shelter,...

I tidied up the HUD code to remove the grey food/health/armor items speed up hud refresh... also a few new tweaks for ambiance and playerplus... The health and food bars really need those gray icons so you can tell when they are not full without having to count the colored icons. Not showing them f...

Did the gray food icons get removed? It used to show 10 icons, either yellow or gray. Now all I see is the yellow icons.

About the boots and underwater gravity. I am not so enthusiastic about the proposal, but anyway, maybe there is no need to make new boots. I mean, maybe the winged mese boots could includes those properties. The anti-gravity boots would have a big speed penalty to limit their use to building and no...

ideas are welcome... Is it possible to make the screen flash red when you get attacked while wearing crystal armor? There is currently no indication that a hostile mob is hitting you in the back because crystal armor absorbs all damage. What about a water breathing helmet crafted from a crystal hel...

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What are the coordinates of your place?

TenPlus1 wrote:Titanius caught you building underneath spawn waters which was against rules at spawn, so privs were stripped...

Is the water in front of the wooden stargate considered spawn water?

You can only call something spawn if you "/spawn" to it. I heard someone say the new town would become the new /spawn. Why did it get put behind a stargate instead of becoming spawn?

Is it the wood stargate? I have watched many new players try and fail to use the stargates. Any chance the teleporter could be raised up one block and two more put beside it? Six tapestry things (I forgot their exact name) could be placed in front of and behind the teleporters to keep the water from...