Monday, June 20, 2011
Server's Off
Thomas has come home from college and we're still trying to iron out the kinks that have arisen from him bringing the server home. Hopefully they can be resolved soon!
Saturday, May 28, 2011
1.6 Issues
Since I play on an SMP server, we are having major data corruption issues and basically no progress can be made until the data stuff is resolved. I will update again as soon as I get more information, guys. Thanks for hanging in there!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Entirely Too Long
School has been absolutely crazy, but still, it has been entirely too long since I have posted. I will be finished with classes on Thursday and will have a 2 week hiatus from classes to work on MC projects and updates. Please bear with me until then, guys. I greatly appreciate it.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
I'm Sick
Yeah, the title says it all. I feel really cruddy right now so I'm not playing a lot of MC and I'm not posting as much. As soon as I feel better, though, I'll be back and playing. Don't worry!
Friday, May 6, 2011
Lat's Weeks Hard Work Weekend
Last weekend we did SO MUCH on Big Project X. Things are going so well; I really hope that the project continues to come along at this pace. Over the weekend, we finished the project walls, torching (all of it), Building #2's moat, the train station, and the rail system to get back and forth from Spawn Town.
We went through 4 diamond shovels and a diamond pickaxe gathering sand and other project supplies this weekend. It was a lot of fun to actually go out and work with with someone else, my honey Ian, in the Sand Pit. It goes a lot quicker and is way more fun when you're not out there by yourself.
We also found enough iron and gold to finish the rail system as I mentioned above. It still needs some tweaking and updating to get the rail speeds where we eventually want them, but for now we can at least get back and forth between the continents of Noida and Twinspire without stopping. I love it.
And since the walls of the project are now finished, I've been able to focus more on the inner buildings. My first focus was the Train Station -- Building #1. I finished that on late Sunday evening and it turned out so much better than I could have imagines. It's big and elegant, but not too ostentatious -- a good mix.
This week, now that things are calming down here in regard to classes, I plan to gather a BUNCH of sandstone and do a lot of farming/mining. We always seem to be short on wood and papyrus right now, so farming is a must, but we're also very low on gold, which is an absolutely necessary but absent resource for Big Project X.
In a nutshell, this week is all about gathering resources and getting organized. That way, when Ian and I rev up to build Buildings #2, #3, and #4, as well as other miscellaneous pieces, it will be easier to and faster to build.
We went through 4 diamond shovels and a diamond pickaxe gathering sand and other project supplies this weekend. It was a lot of fun to actually go out and work with with someone else, my honey Ian, in the Sand Pit. It goes a lot quicker and is way more fun when you're not out there by yourself.
We also found enough iron and gold to finish the rail system as I mentioned above. It still needs some tweaking and updating to get the rail speeds where we eventually want them, but for now we can at least get back and forth between the continents of Noida and Twinspire without stopping. I love it.
And since the walls of the project are now finished, I've been able to focus more on the inner buildings. My first focus was the Train Station -- Building #1. I finished that on late Sunday evening and it turned out so much better than I could have imagines. It's big and elegant, but not too ostentatious -- a good mix.
This week, now that things are calming down here in regard to classes, I plan to gather a BUNCH of sandstone and do a lot of farming/mining. We always seem to be short on wood and papyrus right now, so farming is a must, but we're also very low on gold, which is an absolutely necessary but absent resource for Big Project X.
In a nutshell, this week is all about gathering resources and getting organized. That way, when Ian and I rev up to build Buildings #2, #3, and #4, as well as other miscellaneous pieces, it will be easier to and faster to build.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
A Pink Sheep and a Cleared City
I finally found one, a pink sheep! So, of course, I had to film in. There is no sound and nothing else special, but here is the video.
Also, last night, Ian and I completely finished out clearing the inside of the city walls. Now all we need to finish leveling the surrounding mountains for aesthetics and security before we can really get our hands dirty and start building.
I might update again later today if something big goes on, but the moat should be finished by next weekend, I am super excited.
I might update again later today if something big goes on, but the moat should be finished by next weekend, I am super excited.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Big Project X Video Update #2
Honestly, I need to find a better, more ambiguous way to title these posts. I think I might be a little too blunt with my posts.
Anyway, this are going really well. I think within the next ten days or so--fingers crossed--that we will actually be able to begin construction. That would be awesome. Anyway, the following video shows off the work that Ian and I have managed to do over the past week or so and it shows the rail system that takes you from Spawn Town to Big Project X. Also, it shows off the progress that we've been working on in regard to excavation. I hope you like it!
Anyway, this are going really well. I think within the next ten days or so--fingers crossed--that we will actually be able to begin construction. That would be awesome. Anyway, the following video shows off the work that Ian and I have managed to do over the past week or so and it shows the rail system that takes you from Spawn Town to Big Project X. Also, it shows off the progress that we've been working on in regard to excavation. I hope you like it!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Progress Report for April 27
So my first item of business is that of the 'crappy lappy'. Crappy Lappy, my old laptop, as finally replaced with a shiny and new HP dv6 which has been a HUGE upgrade. I now play Minecraft in Far render distance and zero lag. It's amazing.
Also, Thomas installed a new map feature which allows us to view coordinates and aerial images of the server. I love it, but it caused me to realize that Big Project X is on the same continent as Thomas and Helen's castle. Ian had previously named the continent Twinspire, so we're renaming Tylandia and going with the cooler name. I just wish I could hide the Big Project X on the map so that no secrets would be given away until the final unveiling.
Everything is going well, though. Since I started playing MC on my new computer I have dug up almost 16,000 blocks of dirt, though, and it feels like there's almost no end in sight to the process of excavating the area that Big Project X is to be built on. I don't even want to talk about the process of torching. I have used so many torches. Like I said, though, all minor gripes aside, the project is moving along at a relatively fast and steady pace. This is the plan of attack until further notice:
Also, Thomas installed a new map feature which allows us to view coordinates and aerial images of the server. I love it, but it caused me to realize that Big Project X is on the same continent as Thomas and Helen's castle. Ian had previously named the continent Twinspire, so we're renaming Tylandia and going with the cooler name. I just wish I could hide the Big Project X on the map so that no secrets would be given away until the final unveiling.
Everything is going well, though. Since I started playing MC on my new computer I have dug up almost 16,000 blocks of dirt, though, and it feels like there's almost no end in sight to the process of excavating the area that Big Project X is to be built on. I don't even want to talk about the process of torching. I have used so many torches. Like I said, though, all minor gripes aside, the project is moving along at a relatively fast and steady pace. This is the plan of attack until further notice:
- Finish excavation inside the project walls
- Contour the land directly outside the walls so that invasion (or peeking) isn't possible without land damage
- Begin construction on Building No. 1 and then subsequent others
Saturday, April 23, 2011
The Official Ground Breaking
So, this week has been incredibly busy. As probably all of you know, Beta 1.5 was released on Tuesday, which accidentally coincided with the groundbreaking of Big Project X. It's pretty neat to have pure statistics for the project, though, and because I was on Spring Break this week, things were just FLYING. We moved about 90% of our currently collected building materials over, built a full over-land bridge, completed approximately 65% of the rail to get there, and built approximately 75% of the basic Project X walls. I have never had so much dirt that I needed to keep!
Below is the video that I took last night of what's been done so far. If you are a member of our SMP server, please do not watch, but other than that, go for it! Thanks for watching, too!
Below is the video that I took last night of what's been done so far. If you are a member of our SMP server, please do not watch, but other than that, go for it! Thanks for watching, too!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sandstone, Dedicated Servers, & Real Estate
So, this post is pretty crazy, and will probably be my first relatively large post, but here it goes. I even have a couple of pictures, too, so hang in there if you're having some issues loading.
First off, we finally have a dedicated server. And while it is still extraordinarily glitchy, at least we have one that can be up 24/7 once all the kinks get worked out. Right now, since the update, I've been having nothing but issues with Sprocket Errors. Thomas will have to help us get things fixed so that I can build my epic Big Project in the near future.
As for the epic Big Project, things are coming along, quite well, although I am EXTREMELY tired of grinding out bookcase blocks. I have about half of the required Sandstone (ss) for Building 1 at this point and slowly but surely I am gathering the building's required mats.
I did find something really neat yesterday, though, at the Sand Pit. (That's our dedicated area to just destroy the biome and take as much sand as we need.) In the next couple of posts I'll show you what damage I've actually done. But yeah, yesterday I found a whole bunch of naturally occurring ss. I had NO IDEA that it spawned naturally and thought that some crazy person on our server had decided to waste some perfectly good blocks. The more I dug, though, the more blocks I saw randomly spread out. Here's a screenshot. I still need to go back and tear that entire area up, but my hand gets super zonked!
First off, we finally have a dedicated server. And while it is still extraordinarily glitchy, at least we have one that can be up 24/7 once all the kinks get worked out. Right now, since the update, I've been having nothing but issues with Sprocket Errors. Thomas will have to help us get things fixed so that I can build my epic Big Project in the near future.
As for the epic Big Project, things are coming along, quite well, although I am EXTREMELY tired of grinding out bookcase blocks. I have about half of the required Sandstone (ss) for Building 1 at this point and slowly but surely I am gathering the building's required mats.
I did find something really neat yesterday, though, at the Sand Pit. (That's our dedicated area to just destroy the biome and take as much sand as we need.) In the next couple of posts I'll show you what damage I've actually done. But yeah, yesterday I found a whole bunch of naturally occurring ss. I had NO IDEA that it spawned naturally and thought that some crazy person on our server had decided to waste some perfectly good blocks. The more I dug, though, the more blocks I saw randomly spread out. Here's a screenshot. I still need to go back and tear that entire area up, but my hand gets super zonked!
Outside of sandstone and server news, though, not too much has been going on. The only big news item I can think of is that I found a location for the Big Project to be yesterday. So now, I'm in the process of leveling off part of a continent, but it's really fun to explore and imagine what the Big Project will look like finished. Here's where the project actually is in comparison to what we can Spawn Town.
That's all for this post, though. I'm leaving a post it note on my laptop to put up pictures of our compound soon, but at usual, the Big Project takes up A LOT of my time when I'm not at school. Hope you're having a great week and I will post again soon.
That's all for this post, though. I'm leaving a post it note on my laptop to put up pictures of our compound soon, but at usual, the Big Project takes up A LOT of my time when I'm not at school. Hope you're having a great week and I will post again soon.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Sorry for the Delay!
Sorry that I haven't posted this week. Things have been pretty hectic with classes and my schedule conflicted a lot with when the server was up. I would have had everything finished and screen shoted for you yesterday, as well, but our friend who runs the server came over super late (i.e. midnight-ish) and I was so zonked I forgot to take screenies.
Hopefully, I will have at LEAST screen shots of the compound up by Monday, but no promises. I'm on Spring Break, but I don't go to a state school at the moment. Like I said, fingers crossed that everything will turn out.
Have a great rest of the weekend if I don't post again.
Oh! One more thing: Ian and I finished mapping out Buildings #2 and #3 this week for the Big Project. Even if I can't get onto the server tomorrow, I'll number crunch. It'll be good!
Hopefully, I will have at LEAST screen shots of the compound up by Monday, but no promises. I'm on Spring Break, but I don't go to a state school at the moment. Like I said, fingers crossed that everything will turn out.
Have a great rest of the weekend if I don't post again.
Oh! One more thing: Ian and I finished mapping out Buildings #2 and #3 this week for the Big Project. Even if I can't get onto the server tomorrow, I'll number crunch. It'll be good!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Papercraft Minecraft!
So, I haven't had server access for the weekend. That's okay because I still had Minecraft. Aren't these little real life blocks just adorable? I can't wait to make more, but I figured that these first six would send some good joojoo and proper inspiration these next few weeks as Ian and I continue to gather materials for the Big Project.
Here's the picture. You can probably tell what everything is already, but on the left there are sand, gold ore and diamond ore blocks and on the right is a chest, wood (tree) block, and a plank block.
If you are interested in making any of these cute little papercrafts, the link and how to information is here--it's a link to the Minecraft forums, just so you know. Enjoy!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
The Numbers Are In
Just like the title says and as promised, I have the numbers for my big project with Ian.
If I did all the calculations correctly, I need the following for the first building that we are designing:
15 Beds, 538 Bookshelves, 60 Chests, 2 Crafting Tables, 1,504 Dirt/Grass, 4 Door - Iron, 26 Door - Wooden, 100 Flowers, 6 Furnaces, 280 Glass, 77 Half Stone Blocks, 17 Iron Blocks, 10 Lapis Lazuli Blocks, 8,506 Sandstone, 36 Signs, 120 Stairs - Wooden, 65 Buckets of Water, 72 Wooden Planks, 324 Green Wool, and god knows how many Torches.
Yeah, that's just the first building. See why this project is going to take so long? I think it comes out to something like 133.5 stacks of Sandstone and 24 stacks of Dirt. The rare blocks will also be very hard to come by.Thank goodness that we can now make charcoal now! I would be doomed without it, ha ha.
After seeing the numbers, though, I think that my focus for now really needs to be on mining, collecting sand, and farming wood and cactus. Cactus will be the most difficult out of everything, though. I completely need to redesign my cactus farm. And it's always easy to make them work well, you know?
This project is going extraordinarily well, though so far and it goes without saying, but so far it has been a very, very fun experience for Ian and me. Let's just hope that in the future Ian and I can find a never ending vein of iron. It's our most scarce resource, now.
If I did all the calculations correctly, I need the following for the first building that we are designing:
15 Beds, 538 Bookshelves, 60 Chests, 2 Crafting Tables, 1,504 Dirt/Grass, 4 Door - Iron, 26 Door - Wooden, 100 Flowers, 6 Furnaces, 280 Glass, 77 Half Stone Blocks, 17 Iron Blocks, 10 Lapis Lazuli Blocks, 8,506 Sandstone, 36 Signs, 120 Stairs - Wooden, 65 Buckets of Water, 72 Wooden Planks, 324 Green Wool, and god knows how many Torches.
Yeah, that's just the first building. See why this project is going to take so long? I think it comes out to something like 133.5 stacks of Sandstone and 24 stacks of Dirt. The rare blocks will also be very hard to come by.Thank goodness that we can now make charcoal now! I would be doomed without it, ha ha.
After seeing the numbers, though, I think that my focus for now really needs to be on mining, collecting sand, and farming wood and cactus. Cactus will be the most difficult out of everything, though. I completely need to redesign my cactus farm. And it's always easy to make them work well, you know?
This project is going extraordinarily well, though so far and it goes without saying, but so far it has been a very, very fun experience for Ian and me. Let's just hope that in the future Ian and I can find a never ending vein of iron. It's our most scarce resource, now.
Just found out...
That there really won't be any server up time this weekend, so I'll just have to do without MC for the weekend. It doesn't matter. I have an absolute ton of homework to get done, but I was really hopping to get video and pictures up of my compound that I made with Ian on the SMP server. (I don't play SSP anymore since Thomas made his own SMP.)
I should have some numbers about the Big Project (BP) this evening, though, if I can get through all my homework. Let's just hope that I can figure out some new plans to attain more of the following: sand, planks, cactus.
I should have some numbers about the Big Project (BP) this evening, though, if I can get through all my homework. Let's just hope that I can figure out some new plans to attain more of the following: sand, planks, cactus.
Friday, April 8, 2011
The Big Project, Part I
Hi, everyone. This being my first post, I figured that I would start things off with a bang. Recently, my boyfriend and I started a project on our friend's SMP server to top all the current projects. Now, I don't want to give away the project just yet, but so far, it is a huge project and if all goes to plan, it will take over three months to finish--and that's if we work on it everyday.
Our most limiting factor right now is time. My boyfriend Ian and I are always either at school, doing homework, or on Minecraft. If we want to work on the SMP server everyday, then we have to balance everything else out. And while it's difficult, it's doable.
Personally, I look forward to getting this project completely flushed out on paper so that Ian and I can get cracking on it. As of this moment, I know that we need over 15,000 sandstone blocks and 500 green wool for carpeting. Like I said, it's a BIG project.
Our most limiting factor right now is time. My boyfriend Ian and I are always either at school, doing homework, or on Minecraft. If we want to work on the SMP server everyday, then we have to balance everything else out. And while it's difficult, it's doable.
Personally, I look forward to getting this project completely flushed out on paper so that Ian and I can get cracking on it. As of this moment, I know that we need over 15,000 sandstone blocks and 500 green wool for carpeting. Like I said, it's a BIG project.
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