Gunnerkrigg Minecraft Server

[agasa]

Oh, there are New News. Joy.
1) I installed Voxel Sniper. For now, the only snipers are goofanader and me. It's an exceedingly dangerous tool and i want to give it a test run before anything else. A properly used /cast recur and /cast rewind are pretty much usable already by ops anyways. It's just that nobody bothers learning well.
2) With that video around, I'm happy for the antigrief backup system. Thank god for whitelists too. Are you sure it was a good idea to go public so early?

[Xan]

Tom's tweet

NOW we're public.

Tom, it's an honour. Thank you.

[joephlommin]

Thank you tom! And I have a question is the map on page 5 trustworthy?

[Georgie L]

Me n Aga just found an awesome cave system right beneath the court Greathall
he be terra forming it to look like mars...

Apr 12, 2011 19:38:46 GMT joephlommin said:

Thank you tom! And I have a question is the map on page 5 trustworthy?

as far as I can tell, no.
if at the very least not very detailed if it is.

------------------------EPIC IDEA---------------
The Epic IDEA - TARDIS-like constructions
Right here is where the idea came from- Agasa
To liken this to another idea is quite simple, right then:
In many classic games to make buildings appear larger but still save on space they would make a small not very detailed version from the outside of a building and once one entered the building it would become humongous (This is seen often in the houses in pokémon)

We propose with the use of some kind of teleport-when-enter-door mod
that one builds a small not to scale of a building with very little detailing, that when entered teleports you to a giant full-scale building.

Why bother you ask? Well this will solve the problem of the limit on top build height - one could build it underground or something the large version and have the small version above ground in the correct place.

It also allows the conceptual stages of huge-scale buildings to be done much easier for example, one could make the concept to a smaller scale and then create the real thing to full scale elsewhere.

Me and Agasa believe this idea could really work on our server. Please Discuss it further.

[polifrog]

There is a massive cavern under the year 2 concept that I spent a good amount of time blast mining. Might want to check that out.

[Xaien]

If you were to build a room with windows underground, is there a way for it to get natural light (or even another mod to supply that)?

[joephlommin]

Apr 13, 2011 2:26:35 GMT Xaien said:

If you were to build a room with windows underground, is there a way for it to get natural light (or even another mod to supply that)?

Re read that question. No. Well maybe a mod. You can hide lightstone behind paintings.

[Max]

Apr 12, 2011 3:15:19 GMT joephlommin said:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0j7p4u33No
There it is. Its a bit slapped together. Oh and I would embed it if I knew how.

What music is that?

[joephlommin]

Apr 13, 2011 2:43:47 GMT Max said:

Apr 12, 2011 3:15:19 GMT joephlommin said:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0j7p4u33No
There it is. Its a bit slapped together. Oh and I would embed it if I knew how.

What music is that?

The kind with no royalties. Its titled brilliantly "Emotional Strings"

[polifrog]

Hmm... something broke on the server. Continually timing out. Did someone light the forest on fire again or something?

[goofanader]

Restarted the server. Try it now :>

[polifrog]

Apr 14, 2011 0:44:18 GMT goofanader said:

Restarted the server. Try it now :>

Massive lag bomb then disconnected

[Ender]

I can confirm, I can't connect either

[joephlommin]

That thing that broke the server may or may not have been alot of tnt.

[goofanader]

The server has been restarted to the previous backup. Also, backups happen every 2 hours now.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT USE A LOT OF TNT IN ONE GO. Our server cannot handle it. I'm thinking of banning TNT at this point, but if you guys can show a more proper use of it, I'll keep it going.

And you guys, please don't take down someone's building/work without asking them. Really.

[joephlommin]

Im heading out to the uk today wont be on the server for a week or so.

[agasa]

Apr 14, 2011 2:59:44 GMT goofanader said:

The server has been restarted to the previous backup. Also, backups happen every 2 hours now.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT USE A LOT OF TNT IN ONE GO. Our server cannot handle it. I'm thinking of banning TNT at this point, but if you guys can show a more proper use of it, I'll keep it going.

And you guys, please don't take down someone's building/work without asking them. Really.

Please don't ban TNT altogether, it's useful for sculpting of cliff faces.
i'll post a small part of a TNT mechanics study i did a while ago for another server.

As you can imagine, detonating a solid shape of TNT will initiate an increasing amount of TNT on every explosion stage, while a linear shape (a long "fuse" of TNT) initiates the same amount of TNT at every stage, very stably, especially if said "fuse" is encased in a solid material (for example, you filled with TNT a 1x2 tunnel in a mountain). As it stands, a 1x2 shape of TNT in enclosed space has only around five (rough estimate) charges initiated at any given time, and is thus safe basically regardless of length (total amount of TNT used).

In other words, solid shapes are not to be used and are tested for safety only up to a cube of 4x4x4 (on this server). Encased fuses of TNT are instead safe regardless of lenght, are equally effective, and more controllable. "sparse" tnt-ed surfaces are useful to create cratered, eroded terrain (like i did with the cliff side), but you shouldn't exceed 40% concentration of tnt VS terrain.

[merfnad]

Wow, Tom just gave us a perfect map for the new dorms in the latest comic.

[polifrog]

Apr 15, 2011 8:01:55 GMT merfnad said:

Wow, Tom just gave us a perfect map for the new dorms in the latest comic.

This.

[agasa]

Apr 15, 2011 8:01:55 GMT merfnad said:

Wow, Tom just gave us a perfect map for the new dorms in the latest comic.

there, every tank is 10 meters tall, excluding the connections between tanks, including the rounded top and bottom; it's also five meters in diameter. If we equate 1m=1block... I'm off to build it in the grass plain. after that, it's cut&paste time.

Thanks, Tom and Lindsey

EDIT: First draft done. it's in a new flat area located after the year two dorms. Feel free to add any details you like. Not to mention, remove any leftover bits of dirt and such. I left signs too, follow them TO VICTORY !

EDIT EDIT: after tweaking out the dorms a bit, i felt bored and left a small treat for you guys. Maybe it's something annie saw in the forest? If you come work on the dorms you'll be able to see it. Good Luck! The gift be erased in no time, so don't meditate too much and come to work

[polifrog]

Okay, the year 3 dorms are just about finished. We will probably have to make the dorms 2 story with a staircase inside. I will work on the moon pool and we should just about be set for that.

[zbeeblebrox]

georgiel said:

------------------------EPIC IDEA---------------
The Epic IDEA - TARDIS-like constructions

That's one possible solution.
A little while ago, I came across an interesting WIP mod for increasing the height limit. You might want to check that out, see if it's stable yet.

(EDIT) Oh, here I found the thread: www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1039&t=178787&sid
Looks like he got really far, but then abandoned it. :\ If it works at all, you'd probably need an earlier version of Beta. Hm.

[polifrog]

Oh by the way. Can we turn off the spawning of animals? they seem to get stupid crazy over by the cliff over the by the year 3 dorms...

[November]

www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=174

If we ever implement aggressive mobs, creepers should be based on these guys.

[agasa]

Whoever did the detailing on the dorms, GOOD JOB! it's wondertastic.
Now what's left to do is connecting the lower to the upper tanks in the part of the dorms with two stacked tanks, and segmenting the tanks in two. I'll try something but i do not guarantee anything. If i can't do it, i ask the anonymous benefactor to do it again!

Ganbatte, minnasan!

[polifrog]

Apr 16, 2011 23:22:18 GMT agasa said:

Whoever did the detailing on the dorms, GOOD JOB! it's wondertastic.
Now what's left to do is connecting the lower to the upper tanks in the part of the dorms with two stacked tanks, and segmenting the tanks in two. I'll try something but i do not guarantee anything. If i can't do it, i ask the anonymous benefactor to do it again!

Ganbatte, minnasan!

hehe that would be me. I got really tired by the time I hit the second section, I will try to get on that asap. done

EDIT: Agasa or anyone working on this project. Check out the to-do signs on the top of the elevator for year 3 dorms. Please and thank you.

P.P.S.: The year 3 dorms are 90% complete!

[agasa]

Apr 17, 2011 0:33:29 GMT polifrog said:

hehe that would be me. I got really tired by the time I hit the second section, I will try to get on that asap. done

EDIT: Agasa or anyone working on this project. Check out the to-do signs on the top of the elevator for year 3 dorms. Please and thank you.

P.P.S.: The year 3 dorms are 90% complete!

The only thing that remains to be built is the triangular part of the dorms, composed of three tanks at the vertices of a triangle, on the side of the moon pool that currently is vacant, opposite to the elevator. Also, some details, but those would be pretty much invisible to normals (aka, those who are not Lindsey) and we can thus just ignore them. I guess. They shouldn't be accessible to the student body in any foreseeable way, so we can cut corners.

[chilari]

So, anyone got any new screenshots?

[agasa]

I moved spawn in the forest side because having it near the entrance prevented people from editing it and rebuilding the missing tower that was destroyed in the transplant of koplee's model. So, when you're finished, please give me a sign so i can move it back.

[polifrog]

Agasa, could you copy paste 3 dorms in that triangle area you were talking about? I can fill it in if you could do that for me