Minecraft - OWF server

[Splat]

Sorry, I misread Edd.

(Gosh.)

In other news, I watched 'Spirited Away' last week and now I wish I could put minecart tracks in water.

[Wil]

Ench, does your ice house have a roof?

[Havoc]

Currently working on my to-do list, server will offline for a while.

[enchilado]

Ench, does your ice house have a roof?

Not exactly. There are multiple floors, but the top one is open to the sky.

[Havoc]

Exoddus has been lowered and Manco's compound has been imported way south of Ma'spa (across the ocean). I've also done away with the stupid double whitelist. Admins can now add or remove people from the whitelist ingame and the effect will be instant.

[DarkHoodness]

Yay, thanks Havoc.

[Wil]

Woo!

[Splat]

At last! Unlimited power is within my grasp!

*Bans EVERYONE*

Yes, that was a joke.

[DarkHoodness]

Splat - Your tower has been restored using old screenshots as reference. Not sure if it's correct, you may want to check.

Also, so that others know: There seems to be a problem with the view distance not being set correctly - For some reason that causes chunks to load more slowly as well, and I know this because it was like that when the current server was first started up. I've PMed Havoc about this after attempting to fix it myself first without success.

[Manco]

Exoddus has been lowered and Manco's compound has been imported way south of Ma'spa (across the ocean).

I’m stupid and can’t navigate compasses. Which way is south on DH’s map render? I checked out across the desert because I thought that was south, but I couldn’t find anything new.

[Wil]

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. To be travelling south you want the sun to be travelling across the sky from your left to your right.

[Splat]

Your new compound is also far south of Ma'Spa.
I'll check out the tower Edd. As long as you counted right, it'll be right, probably. Thanks dude.

[Havoc]

I’m stupid and can’t navigate compasses. Which way is south on DH’s map render? I checked out across the desert because I thought that was south, but I couldn’t find anything new.

Walk past my house towards your place and keep going until you see it on the other side of the ocean.

[Wil]

1.2 is due to be released tomorrow. Do you know how long we can expect Bukkit to take to support it, Havoc?

[Havoc]

I have no idea. They are working more closely with Mojang now but they cleaned up the code in Bukkit to better support 1.2. As a result a lot of the plugins MIGHT not work from the start and have to be updated by the developers of those plugins.

So yeah I couldn't begin to give you an estimate, unfortunately.

[DarkHoodness]

I think I heard they started work on updating their code a couple of weeks ago - Hopefully that means we won't have to wait as long.

[Crashpunk]

Well that's good. Last time we had to wait ages to play on the server again

[DarkHoodness]

I said hopefully. :P This time you should probably hold off updating until Bukkit is updated - Or at least keep your 1.1 .jar file. However that may not work this time around if 1.2 will change the way savegames are made.

[Manco]

Now that my mountain retreat is back on the map, I’ve gotten back to my supplies and donated three full redstone stacks to the Feeco project. You’ll find them in the formerly empty chest.

e: Also thank you everybody who tried to help me find my way. Unfortunately my sense of direction is completely fucked; I wound up in Exoddus twice, ended up lost in the wilderness several times, and drowned myself out of frustration at least three times until Havoc led me to the place by the nose.

I also saw an amazing rabbit warren of caves and mountains at one point. Looked like someone had explored it as there were a few torches around, but no buildings. Anyone know what I’m on about?

[Splat]

I can think of two or three possibilities.

Ma'Spa Depot now has an interior and can function as a station. It's not finished, but it's working.

[DarkHoodness]

EDIT: This was really fun. We re-set everything so others can follow the clues. Well done for whoever did this! It may be even more fun for those who don't know the server very well.

[Crashpunk]

I don't get it?

[DarkHoodness]

Random signs were found in Ma'Spa opposite the inn yesterday afternoon.

[Splat]

Tried this this morning. I got as far as the signs under a largely glass building in Genesis and got sent to "The centre of exodus" which A. is a place that doesn't exist (unless he meant search the Bible and the prize is salvation, which would be fair enough, but assuming this isn't the case...) and B. is so unbelievably vague that I don't know where to begin. There's a massive abandoned mine down there crossed by several chasms, and a vast cave system, not to mention our own many-and-sundry diggings. There are loads of entrances to that, and none of it is fully lit or explored.

So I've given up until further notice.

EDIT: It's still too vague but I've found it now.

EDIT2: Given up again - been walking around getting nowhere down there for 20 minutes.

[AlexFili]

Iron Golems would be handy in Exoddus to stop the random zombie/skeleton attacks.

[Havoc]

Craftbukkit 1.2.3 Beta has been released. The Beta versions are kind of the new Recommended Builds. Minor bugs might still be around, but it should be stable.

I could update the server now, only issue is that some of the plugins we use might not be compatible yet. I know that the Stargate plugin is no longer supported, so if that breaks with this update we lose it forever. Other plugins will take some time to be updated.

In this case I also can't go back to a previous version because 1.2 changes the way worlds are saved. So I thought I'd run this past you all.

Update the server now with the chance of it breaking (backed up, obviously). Or waiting until the most important plugins have been updated?

[DarkHoodness]

Apparently Stargate works with 1.2.3 . Not sure about other plugins though. Which ones do we use/need and have updates for?

[Manco]

The only plugins on the server I know of are Stargate and the AFK thing. Unless the trading thing that was put in Exoddus is still being used?

[Havoc]

Essentials has a Dev build out for 1.2.3 I think, but so far I haven't been able to download it. The trading is part of Essentials, as are a lot of the ingame commands. Stargate and Essentials are by far the most important ones though, but it looks like that's all covered.

Nice find BTW, Dark. I was unaware they had continued that project elsewhere.

[Manco]

Server’s lagging pretty badly for me right now. Lost 2 picks, 2 buckets and 60 torches because reconnecting decided to spawn me buried underground and then kill me.