5punk

With walls to keep the scary crying jellyfish out.

Site is back up.

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That's a bit good that

Yay!

Updates are up. Tonight we shall mine in hell.

The warp gates work, you can pass through them or wait a few seconds to be teleported. It creates a new exit gate somewhere in the world close by, which you come out of when you go through the gate in hell you entered through. Also you only need 10 obsidian to make a gate, you don't have to supply the corners.

Destroying the exit gate (by removing an obsidian block) can grant you unlimited obsidian, as it recreates a new exit gate next to the broken one when you re-use it. It only seems to work in pairs, though and another gate built nearby in the normal world will take you to the same gate in the nether.

There's some stuff you can mine from new blocks in the underworld.

FatherJack wrote:Tonight we shall mine in hell.

Portals don't work in multiplayer. But I tried it on an old save and the game made a route from my spawn to almost right next to my main base, handy. Unfortunately I've pissed already off the locals in the Nether so I have to be fast with the 'porting.

Thankfully still no damage or MP survival. He says he's working on that next though. At least I have a few more weeks to live.

The fishing rod is awesome. Try zombie fishing from on top of a tower.

Sorry guys, but I'm going to need to hand over the multiplayer hosting on to someone else in the next week or so. I'm going to be moving out of my flat and the new place doesn't have a very good internet connection. Any volunteers?

Apart from a couple of rather old laptops, my only half-decent spare machine is my devbox. I don't mind leaving it on or running it from that, but I do need it a couple of times each week for programming stuff.

Better would be if anyone else has a spare box, or a spare place they could leave a box on, I might be able to throw something together from spares - my office is getting a bit crowded and I'm having some major gasworks done soon and need the space to store my crap from the other room.

What kind of specs are required? And bandwidth?

Stoat wrote:What kind of specs are required? And bandwidth?

Depends on the OS from my testing, a Linux server can happily run (even virtually) with <256MB and little impact, a Windows one will eat up to 1GB and make anything else run slow.

The new cheapo E3300 dual-core Celerons cope admirably, indeed may be overkill. Bandwidth-wise it only sends a burst when someone connects, so the faster up-speed the better, but uses little just sitting there as far as I can tell.

A spare dedicated box, built within the last three years or so, with average broadband without a monthly cap should suffice.

I might be able to sort something out using my laptop, can't use tukkake as my electricity bill is high enough as it is.

I can take over hosting again. So long as people were happy with the performance when I hosted previously? I was thinking about adding an admin wrapper to gives us more commands and control. Perhaps even MCAdmin, despite the recent drama.

How many people are actively playing this now?

(ish)

I will again on a new world

What aspects, if any, of the last update were implemented in SMP?

I've not really done multiplayer yet so would like to give it a proper go

Same here.