[FireSpawn]

Someone has been screwing around with the Fenris.  First they removed a few blocks from the entrance so you fall to your death (someone fixed it) and then someone put a giant Israeli flag on the front of the ship.

Wow. Just...Wow.

[Mongoose]

Considering his current place of residence, the flag might have been Sandwich himself.

(Sorry I didn't say hi, Eishtmo; I'd stepped away for a minute.)

[Sandwich]

Negative. The entrance "missing" blocks is, I believe, the docking arm in retracted mode.

Also, today was Israel's 64th independence day, so I put the flag out front, cuz I felt like it. I'll take it down tomorrow.

[FireSpawn]

Negative. The entrance "missing" blocks is, I believe, the docking arm in retracted mode.

Also, today was Israel's 64th independence day, so I put the flag out front, cuz I felt like it. I'll take it down tomorrow.

Oh it's for an actual reason, rather than some random troll. Go independence!

[Nuke]

i wont touch minecraft with a 10 foot pole, but that is so win. i might give notch a chance when 0x10c comes out.

[Eishtmo]

Ah, okay, as long as you knew about it.  Can never be too careful in Minecraft.

[Nuke]

honestly, last thing i need in my life is another time sink. any game where you can replace part of the name with crack is like that for a reason. really its worse than actual crack i think.

[Colonol Dekker]

Pipedream = Pipecrack?
Tetris = Cracktris?
FreeSpace = FreeCrack?
Sonic the hedgehog = Sonic the CrackHog?
Goeman ninja = Goeman Crack?
Streets of Rage = Streets of Crack?
Golden Axe = Crack Axe?
Road rash 2 = Road Rash Crack?

Nuke, you've set my concious mind on an (almost) 8-bit/16-bit crack binge...

[Polpolion]

i might give notch a chance when 0x10c comes out.

yeah, I'm really looking foward to this game. Engineering: The Game!

[watsisname]

Sonic the CrackHog?

I lol'd

[Sandwich]

Since re-engineering the central hull height after the new world height limit was introduced, we've had a darn-silly "Deck 0" above Deck 1. No longer. I just spent an hour and relabeled all the decks properly. The radar bridge deck is now Deck 1, the airlock deck is Deck 8, and the bottom deck of the central hull is Deck 14.

PhraseExpress was utterly invaluable in re-doing the hundreds of signs on the stairwells and dropshafts. Brilliant little program, that.

In other news, Polpolion recently created a nice Radar Bridge, including redstone wiring to control the radar dish lights. He did a good job, so go check it out! Pol, if things look slightly different, it's because I went through the next day and sorted out some of the redstone tangles, color-coded the 2 lines where possible, etc. Hope you don't mind!

[Sandwich]

Ok, I'm making an executive decision regarding the corridors. Taking a page from the aircraft and ship standards of colored navigation lights, I hereby declare that the fore/aft Fenris corridors will have red and green (possibly lime) wool blocks at regular intervals, to indicate the port and starboard sides of the corridor, respectively.

Additionally, corridors running fore/aft that are not along the centerline of the ship should only have the wall closest to the external hull be curved outwards. Corridor walls towards the center of the ship should be flat and vertical. Fore/aft corridors running down the centerline should have both walls curved outwards, while port/starbord (side-to-side) corridors should have both walls be flat and vertical.

I'm gonna see about redoing the Deck 8 (airlock) corridors in this way, to be used as a reference for the rest of the ship.

[Sandwich]

Ok, did a bunch of sample corridor types on the airlock deck, both flat and curved. Lemme know what y'all think.

[Sandwich]

Added an emergency bulkhead along the forward half of the deck 8 port corridor. It has local override buttons, but the plan/hope is to wire all the bulkheads together to controls on the CIC & Emergency CIC.

[Eishtmo]

Alright, looked through.  The color coding should be more obvious, it's kind of limited with what you've done so far.

I like the Alternate Wall (one with trap doors and glowstone) over the basic wall, but I also like the Strut walls.  I'm thinking they could be alternated, using the Alt Wall for 2 doors and strut wall for 1 door layouts.

I also like the conduit curved wall, though not so much the strut version of the curved wall.  I mean, it makes sense that it should be that way, but I just didn't like how the struts worked with the curve.

It might be just my texture pack, but I'm not feeling the use of slabs.  My pack makes it look like it's a striped wall, and it's kind of distracting.  (Using Dokucraft light, BTW).

Incidentally, I did develop a 4 block high door on another server (it's not flat via itself, but it is flush with top and bottom).  It's a bit large, so probably not good for anything on the ship, but maybe some ideas would work for something.  Then again, you might have an idea how to streamline it I haven't figured out yet.  I can also show it to you if you want to see it in action.

http://www.hexellent.com/files/7/Door%20closed.png

http://www.hexellent.com/files/7/Door%20closed%202.png

http://www.hexellent.com/files/7/Door%20open.png

http://www.hexellent.com/files/7/Top%20circuitry.png
http://www.hexellent.com/files/7/Top%20circutry%202.png

http://www.hexellent.com/files/7/Bottom%20circutry.png
http://www.hexellent.com/files/7/Bottom%20circuitry%202.png
http://www.hexellent.com/files/7/Bottom%2C%202nd%20solution.png

[Sandwich]

For those who aren't on the server, here's the sample corridor walls I came up with.

Basic (Curved and Flat):


Alternate (curved w/ floor conduit; flat w/ different pattern):


Intersections (curved w/ narrow cross-corridor; flat w/ wide cross-corridor):


Single door (curved & flat):


Two doors (curved & flat):


Structural Support Struts (curved & flat):


Structural Support Struts with Single Door (curved & flat):


Emergency bulkhead for sealing corridors (open & closed)

[Sandwich]

So, I'd love to have to help from any creatives out there...

[Legate Damar]

Are their any clear pics of this thing from the outside?

[KyadCK]

Are their any clear pics of this thing from the outside?

[Sandwich]

Those are old, Kyad. You should really drop by one of these years and see what I've been up to.