[FlamingCobra]

I dunno... should I explore it? It looks scary as hell.

[Pred the Penguin]

That looks damn cool! Like you're gaping into another world... filled with pigs! Before exploring be sure to prepare lots of wood for extra tools and torches, that's what I would do.

Or you can use Rei's minimap to find slimes:


Easier, and you get a cool minimap.

How do get rid of the hotkeys for the minimap? Like 'm' for example so I can actually type it in the chatbox.

[KyadCK]

Well, in SMP, if the chat box is active, the hotkeys are not. To disable the "key is 'M'" thing top right, M -> minimap options -> Show MenuKey -> disable. If you mean change the key entirely, then M -> keyconfig.

[Killer Whale]

Where is Trashmania.

[KyadCK]

Where is Trashmania.

There it is! Big map. Needed spawn for reference and I zoomed out as far as I could.

[Killer Whale]

Thanks. Just realised just how big the map is. Woah. (not from that image, from panning around dynamap)

[Mongoose]

I like that my work so far no longer looks like a random tan rectangle on the map.  Now it's a random gray rectangle!

[qazwsx]

Thanks. Just realised just how big the map is. Woah. (not from that image, from panning around dynamap)

It's over 800MB in size and over 40km^2 in area.

[Killer Whale]

I start in my mine (a 43*21*14 rectanglular hole with shafts leading down the shorter side) and I want to dig a tunnel to trashmania. I start digging a little diagonal tunnel and end up hitting some cobble, I suspect it could be a dungeon or someone's mine. I figure I can replace it so I dig a hole in it and find myself in a room with a staircase leading down it and concealed behind a lava fall. I shore up my hole, and dig my tunnel around it before continuing. I continue on and after a while I end up in a huge tunnel which looks like it was mined by TNT at bedrock level (I assume it's Sara's), I take a little look down it before getting attacked by a huge slime I can't even hit, after a time I dodge past it and get back to my tunnel. I decide there's probably more likely to be more mines near bedrock (where my tunnel is) so I go up and over Sara's tunnel. I dig a bit further then I hit a massive TNT cavern.
For goodness sake, how much stuff is down here!! I'm just trying to dig a tiny 2 wide (diagonal, 1 wide when straight) underground path with a 2m roof and it can't help but keep on hitting into other projects!

PS Why is this cavern so huge, it makes it hard to circumvent!
PSS ran into 4 more mines and a mushroom farm. Barely half way there.

[headdie]

random thought, it would be cool if you could use the dynamap to place navigation markers both by the admins for all and individual players for themselves

[/random musing]

[JCDNWarrior]

I saw Sara's cave system too, thanks to Trashman I have a shortcut into these enourmous halls. I personally put up a big cave to a secondary project I ran into - a beautiful mountain and a small valley. Couldn't help myself but wanting to build a castle there but it means I have to lower the surroundings massively to make it look much more imposing than it does now. Worked all evening on one side, but I already know that I need Qaz to fix the terrain around it so I don't get RSI from all the block smashing. I have to work another eight hours with a mouse at work every day yknow .

My keep looks much better now, though I still need to fix some things. Also need some help with interior design cause it looks pretty empty.

Man I love this game. To realize Skyrim's around the corner and suddenly i'm happy even if it were delayed by three months.

[TrashMan]

Where is Trashmania.

There it is! Big map. Needed spawn for reference and I zoomed out as far as I could.

FYI - Trashmania extends from that thing below the "s" in Spawn Point all the way down to that wooden pirate ship.

[Grimper]

Or you can use Rei's minimap to find slimes:

No one is ever gonna find slimes

Normal hostile mob spawns are screwed up as is, and slimes are far more rare. Gonna have to fix the issue we have atm before we can find any of them.

[Pred the Penguin]

I start in my mine (a 43*21*14 rectanglular hole with shafts leading down the shorter side) and I want to dig a tunnel to trashmania. I start digging a little diagonal tunnel and end up hitting some cobble, I suspect it could be a dungeon or someone's mine. I figure I can replace it so I dig a hole in it and find myself in a room with a staircase leading down it and concealed behind a lava fall. I shore up my hole, and dig my tunnel around it before continuing. I continue on and after a while I end up in a huge tunnel which looks like it was mined by TNT at bedrock level (I assume it's Sara's), I take a little look down it before getting attacked by a huge slime I can't even hit, after a time I dodge past it and get back to my tunnel. I decide there's probably more likely to be more mines near bedrock (where my tunnel is) so I go up and over Sara's tunnel. I dig a bit further then I hit a massive TNT cavern.
For goodness sake, how much stuff is down here!! I'm just trying to dig a tiny 2 wide (diagonal, 1 wide when straight) underground path with a 2m roof and it can't help but keep on hitting into other projects!

PS Why is this cavern so huge, it makes it hard to circumvent!
PSS ran into 4 more mines and a mushroom farm. Barely half way there.

Sounds like you might have happened upon my 'secret' lair with the lava fall. That place is pretty near spawn so of course you'll run into many, many mines.

[KyadCK]

Or you can use Rei's minimap to find slimes:

No one is ever gonna find slimes

Normal hostile mob spawns are screwed up as is, and slimes are far more rare. Gonna have to fix the issue we have atm before we can find any of them.

What issue? Mobs work just fine, and I can even find slimes every now and again. Ask Trashman to share, I'm sure he'd love to by this point.

Thanks. Just realised just how big the map is. Woah. (not from that image, from panning around dynamap)

It's over 800MB in size and over 40km^2 in area.

Makes you wonder where it all is, because we certailny don't use 40km^2 worth of space. Damn our adventuring ways. 

[Grimper]

Build a mob trap and see what happens, or go check out mine. Trashmans place is the exception not the norm, he seems to be hogging all the mobs.

[KyadCK]

Build a mob trap and see what happens, or go check out mine. Trashmans place is the exception not the norm, he seems to be hogging all the mobs.

So ask him to light up the area, it isn't his fault nor is the server erroring in any way. There is a mob limit, and most of those mobs are taken up by Trashman's area for reasons unknown, and a fair number (annoying squid included) are around the Fenris (Probably 10-15ish at the most at any given time. Add that to Trashman's 40+... lot of mobs). Also, remember that the chunk the trap is in needs to be active for it to work, meaning someone must be in the area.

Also, Fenris Station has a mob grinder (it would be that interesting glass + water + lava thing). It hasn't been 'active' in weeks (see: spawners were removed), but I still see a zombie come up every once and a while.

[Mongoose]

I'd almost forgotten about this spectacular series of outcroppings and cliffs a mountain or two over from where I'm working.  It's probably a better spot for the idea I'm fooling around with, but it honestly looks so cool that I almost think it'd be a shame to mess up.  In any case, what I'm doing now is probably one of the first times in my life I've attempted something creative by plopping stuff down and seeing what happens.  I don't know if it'll come out anywhere remotely near decent, but if it does, I'll drag someone up to take a look.

[headdie]

A few screen grabs near my new area of operation, in an area of the server generated since the 1.8 upgrade.

[Sandwich]

Am I the only one that doesn't like the 1.8+ hill generation code very much? They tend to be very steep and un-climbable, and IMO they shouldn't be in their own exclusive biome, either... there's nothing wrong with a mountainous desert, mountainous snow, etc... obviously some biomes are defined by their terrain (plains, swamps, oceans, etc), but others are more weather-related and should be able to be mountainous.