[Pred the Penguin]

I'll get on some tower building as soon as I get bored with playing mods. Besides, I've already completed 1 tower.
Furniture not included.

[-Sara-]

Work in progress... an exciting project by Qaz and Sara.

[Commander Zane]

Nice!

[Mongoose]

Unobtainium!

[KyadCK]

Quadruple Helix anyone?


Each level got a glass floor after this for obvious safety reasons, and each floor is planned to have 8 mines assosiated with it, 2 from each corner.

[Pred the Penguin]

I have 2 mines in a SP with a set-up but on a smaller scale. Not fun to make but very cool looking!
I suggest having a water-vator or a rapid descent zone for easy access to the lowest level.

[-Sara-]

Update on Enderman: Wearing a pumpkin will prevent Endermen from attacking you.

[Pred the Penguin]

So endermen are apparently more stupid than most mobs?
Current 'hud' for the pumpkin is kinda annoying though...

[Commander Zane]

You can change the blind area you get from wearing a pumpkin (Or make it completely transparent).

[CommanderDJ]

Must be something to do with them only attacking upon direct eye contact. Would be interesting if things like glass interfered with that too.

[rev_posix]

Update on Enderman: Wearing a pumpkin will prevent Endermen from attacking you.

So they are relatives of The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal? 

[-Sara-]

If they're tasty!

[Sandwich]

For some reason the Endermen's sensitivity to eye contact reminds me of a genius idea/explanation I read in a sci-fi novel called "Blindsight" By Peter Watts. In his novel, vampires had been (ironically) brought back to life through genetic engineering. His explanation for their traditional aversion to crosses/crucifixes was what fascinated me:

Another deleterious cascade effect was the so-called "Crucifix Glitch"— a cross-wiring of normally-distinct receptor arrays in the visual cortex, resulting in grand mal-like feedback siezures whenever the arrays processing vertical and horizontal stimuli fired simultaneously across a sufficiently large arc of the visual field. Since intersecting right angles are virtually nonexistent in nature, natural selection did not weed out the Glitch until H. sapiens sapiens developed Euclidean architecture; by then, the trait had become fixed across H. sapiens vampiris via genetic drift, and—suddenly denied access to its prey—the entire subspecies went extinct shortly after the dawn of recorded history.

Basically, the vampire's visual cortex had a bug in processing right-angles that caused seizures. Perhaps the Endermen have a similar bug that freezes them when they're looked at directly, but also triggers the fight response when the eye contact is subsequently broken.

[IronBeer]

... "Blindsight" By Peter Watts.

Ridiculously good piece, that. It's available free online- I'd endeavor pretty much anybody who hangs around here to dig it up. It's actually quite unsettling, but a very, very good way to spend an afternoon.

On-topic: The Endermen don't seem like that big of a threat. Avoiding conflict is simple, and [naive assumption] surely they can't be more dangerous than Creepers, yeah?

[Pred the Penguin]

You should see creepers ont the server. They're less menacing than sheep... heh.

[qazwsx]

... "Blindsight" By Peter Watts.

Ridiculously good piece, that. It's available free online- I'd endeavor pretty much anybody who hangs around here to dig it up. It's actually quite unsettling, but a very, very good way to spend an afternoon.

I swear there was a thread in gendisc about it, it should have links to read it online...

[KyadCK]

So finaly, after all this time, I have put a dome over the platform:





At it's highest point, the inside of the dome is 10 meters tall, while the base is almost 40 meters from the ground. The 3 'rings' of cobble make for cool shadows on the platform's floor during the day and for an intresting ceiling during night.

[-Sara-]

Lovely! 

But can it be taught to sing and dance? 

[Commander Zane]

I've never found that place yet.

[-Sara-]

And the server's down again, d'oh.