[-Sara-]

Also if you've noticed the cobblestone patch by your sky island portal, that was me having to mine through. A ghast was chasing me and my only escape was up the ladder and through the stone. Some of the ladder got destroyed too.

NP, try and patch it when you're on, or I will if you can't.

[TrashMan]

His house wans't TNT'd. The empire took it over.

The house built with crafting benches was TNT'ed, by corpsepuppet or one of trashman's citizens or someone else a week later. It looked like a small pyramid.

Oh, that one? That wasn't a house, more like a workshop.
But that one was fugly and people wanted to tear it down for ages.

[-Sara-]

And they did, with a vengeance.

[Flipside]

Pece's server is down, else I'd be working on my farm

[qazwsx]

are we up? hell, I don't even know anymore.

[pecenipicek]

Pece's server is down, else I'd be working on my farm

rebootin the server and checking the router right now. send me a pm as well, as i'm more likely to notice a pm than anything else


running cmd -> ipconfig /flushdns  might be neccesary. basically, my router didnt update the dyndns properly...

[-Sara-]

X 2481
X 791
X 613

are we up? hell, I don't even know anymore.

It still worked well 2 days ago. I assume it's up, let me check. RHX came to quickly look and was pleased you kept things running so well while he was doing other things.

edit: yep, server's running and purring like a kitten.

[TrashMan]

Hrm...getting code 503 when attempting to join the server

[qazwsx]

The server is up and running perfectly, the problem is the minecraft authentication servers, it's an issue with mojang.
And seeing how they're all at PAX dining and being merry, oh dear.

[pecenipicek]

The server is up and running perfectly, the problem is the minecraft authentication servers, it's an issue with mojang.
And seeing how they're all at PAX dining and being merry, oh dear.

* pecenipicek grins like a maniac

[KyadCK]

The server and authentication work fine, I just logged in on the 1st try. What are you going on about qaz?

[qazwsx]

They were down earlier, mollstam has since sorted it.

[Pred the Penguin]

Have you been digging up all the clay on the map? O_o

[Commander Zane]

She's digging up the world.

[qazwsx]

The tunnel D:

[-Sara-]

Have you been digging up all the clay on the map? O_o

Last clay deposit I dug up was close to 150 blocks of clay... they can spawn in huge numbers. It's like an iceberg, only 10% sticks above the water, if you dive and light up the place or remove the water, you'll see sometimes half the lake bottom is made of clay. ^___^ So plenty of clay left!

She's digging up the world.

And blowing up the world! With TNT, lots of TNT... where no-one lives so I don't visually polute their landscape. I must be the long lost lovechild of Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters. xD

The tunnel hiding place of WMD's D:

[achtung]

Decided to move further north, start on a new place:



There are some excellent mines nearby. Managed to gather ~128 iron blocks in about 20-30 minutes, and there were two dungeons. The place is only accessible by boat, or on foot. I had to do some "ice breaking" to get boat access (sorry for the narrow routes, in advance). The route through the water is marked with torches. To get to the route, you have to go to the "Northlands", and go to the dock under my outpost there.

[Sandwich]

FYI, I kinda stopped visiting the server due to my lag issues... I haven't tried throughout the night like I used to do, though. That lag really takes out any drive I have every time I log in. I'll get all rearing to go about finishing this or that, log on, and find that only the initial chunk loads and that I get that timeout error after a few minutes. Really frustrating.

In any case, I really want to come back - I just am unable to these days for some reason. Perhaps I'll try later tonight.

In the meantime, I made a couple of MC videos and put them on YouTube. One's a full tutorial on what I termed the Spawning Pad Integrated Lighting System (SPILS for short). The other is an overview on how to modify Etho's Simple Piston Elevator to add a floor selection mechanism. Lemme know what you think in the comments, like, subscribe... *runs*

[-Sara-]

If RHX for whatever reason has to close the server somday (let's hope not soon!), I may consider renting a high-speed server to accomodate people from parts of the world who ordinarily are more lag-sensitive. Alternately if I get my optifibre (seems to be soon! 50mbit up and down) I may host it on an old PC (that's still a quadcore with 12GB) myself. I'm afraid though that in the current setting, people not somewhat centralized in Europe or with a fast connection from the USA will suffer lag on most MC servers which don't cost 500-1000 dollar/euro/diamonds/notches a year. It's the current state of online hosting services.

[pecenipicek]

If RHX for whatever reason has to close the server somday (let's hope not soon!), I may consider renting a high-speed server to accomodate people from parts of the world who ordinarily are more lag-sensitive. Alternately if I get my optifibre (seems to be soon! 50mbit up and down) I may host it on an old PC (that's still a quadcore with 12GB) myself. I'm afraid though that in the current setting, people not somewhat centralized in Europe or with a fast connection from the USA will suffer lag on most MC servers which don't cost 500-1000 dollar/euro/diamonds/notches a year. It's the current state of online hosting services.

ooor, do it my way... my puny 16mbit/896k link can sustain 7-8 remote players without unplayable lags. The pc i run it on is a C2D E7500 with 6 gigs of ram.

cost of the link? 45€ per month, and something minor in electricity. the server itself barely draws 30 watts.



btw, minecraft is primarly a single-threaded app. its extremely heavy on the RAM use, but relatively light on CPU.

and i think there might be bug with craftbukkit RB1000 and its memory management. every time someone went exploring, we ended up with a laggy-like-**** server, complete with ram usage spikes, leaving the machine in deaththroes with only like a 100-ish MB of RAM free...