Minecraft Talk

Might take a while

I went on a big exploration last night

500 are done now

I've never gone very far from spawn..

3:56 PM

I don't usually in my single player worlds but here i have /home and /spawn so I don't mind getting lost

true

first 2000 chunks were done in 3 minutes 18 seconds

more than halfway done.. this is exciting. lol.

4:13 PM

I'm responsible for some underground exploration too. I close off areas I'm done with, however.

got a while to go.. didn't realize after the chunks, it renders 8 zoom levels.. it's on level one. 15000/65536

I demand instant gratification!

fdotm.com/mc

lol there are a lot of signposts...

this is the output folder of the process, so it will just get better as it finishes layers.

hopefully we can turn those signposts off as we view

otherwise we won't be able to see anything

user30

Zoom in a bit, you can see parts of the map it's rendered

4:19 PM

@Fosco <3

yeah zoom all the way in.. that's the layer its almost finished with. awesome!

oh man, the mothership is going to be huge

user30

It doesn't show height too well though

I wish you could still dye cloth.

I need a way to show the different shade of blue...

I guess I'll have to use water

im going to grab some lunch.. be back in a bit.

its 80% done with zoom level 1

4:24 PM

@Brant is it that bunch of lava around glass?

Thanks for running the server and everything, Fosco.

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No, it's south of spawn. I dare you to miss it.

user30

That's me, another unfinished project ;)

I don't know who's doing the heart, except now I do!

user30

@badp Cheers for clearing that tunnel out yesterday man, got loadsa space in there now

@ThomasMcDonald I wasn't done even.

user30

4:27 PM

Hmm, I'd like to take another block off the other side, but it looks pretty done.

Man, this map is cold.

Yeah, too much damn snow. :(

and not enough damn cactus.

user30

@StrixVaria went to get some cacti yesterday

@badp /give 81 64

4:30 PM

I did find some on the map but it's soooo far.

WOW, that mothership truly will be massive.

1 pixel = 1 block

The diamond is a bit excessive but...

Diamond and water are the only blueish blocks :(

Water is bluer.

Although it does need ugly glass around it.

Oh well, will dye.

Yeah, and if I glass part of it, I'd have to glass the whole thing so it doesn't look goofy.

4:32 PM

@ThomasMcDonald the ship is an interesting stop for the minecart :D

user30

Yeah, i wouldn't want to touch it until after Brant is done with it though

user30

This bridge is going to be massive if I decide to carry it on

Go ahead and build up the surrounding area if you want, I don't care.

user30

Literally, huge. I was going through the carto I did last night and it doesn't look like there's another hill that will match it for another 4 arch spans

I did make a tunnel through the mountain already (follow the row of double torches)

4:34 PM

@Fosco how many gigs of memory does that map take?

user30

The map and associated files were 41MB yesterday, I've no idea how much that rendered image would be though. (or RAM, for that matter)

now you just need to run it in a loop so it continually updates.

user30

I came across an interesting problem yesterday - I've been working on a Git-backed web versioning system for MC maps, and it turns out it's going to be horrible bandwidth wise because the map data is gzipped, whenever a small part of the map changes the entire file corresponding to that area

Hmm, I wonder if I could use ice.

user30

Isn't it just a small block height?

4:38 PM

no, it's a full block

user30

Oh

but if there's a light source nearby it changes to a water spring.

which is a colossal pain to tidy up

still, it beats glassing in water...

keep diamond for now

when cloth comes, we'll change it I guess?

to something bluer.

also because the downward lasers should totally be made of lava.

user30

Bridge is going to get a lot bigger then

Looks like there's plenty of cacti in that big desert far to the west of spawn.

4:47 PM

plus, once you have one cactus it takes about an hour to get as much cactus as you ever need

ok im back

the full render is complete

@StrixVaria lies. You never have enough cactus.

took about a half hour total

now at minimum zoom it does look like we've explored jack shit :(

@badp I walked in a straight line for what felt like forever last night and it turned out to be barely anything

4:50 PM

the /mc folder is 303MB

@StrixVaria Need moar minetrack!

@badp ram? the server only has a gig

@Fosco oh, okay. I've seen screenies of the server taking 9-10 GB

although that screenie used TNT abuse.

the one where it took 9 hours?

it would probably take 3 days on our server lol

@Brant no prob at all, i enjoy it...

4:56 PM

haha

this area looks small, but it takes forever to clear all that land!

@Fosco I actually just clicked on the sign in that picture expecting it to work...

@Fosco What is this anyhow?

@JavadocMD I really dont know.. just made the dome, then decided to flatten out the land below and build up to it..

Heh, okay then. :)

5:04 PM

it will be huge, whatever it is.

@StrixVaria lol

im going to make it render a lit version at night

Wow, how often does that "google map" refresh? That is sweet.

it doesn't refresh.. would need to be re-run

Well right. I mean do you have it set up to re-run every X time period?

not at this time.. just got it going for the first time.

Fair enough.

5:11 PM

i will look at scheduling it, just not right now :)

Still cool. What is the program you're using to generate that?

@JavadocMD github.com/brownan/Minecraft-Overviewer

Oak

@badp !

user30

@StrixVaria If you're up for something to do when you're on later I've basically started the framework for the next lot of arches

5:26 PM

@ThomasMcDonald If I end up playing tonight I'll check it out and see what I can add

6:06 PM

oo, the night version is going to look cool.

Night version google-map of our server: fdotm.com/mcnight

took ~51 minutes to create

have to poll.. which version should be run nightly.. day or night?

6:23 PM

Hiya

Anyone care to reccomend a graphics pack for me?

Preferably with proper transparent glass, and bright-ish blocks

Night version is cool, but daytime is certainly more useful.

@Oak um?

@Macha I was thinking it would be nice if there was some listing of graphics packs and mods that are compatible with Notch's new feature.

oh lookie, I now have italic here too.

Done.

you just refreshed everyon?

6:26 PM

@Fosco nope, just you.

oo, im italics too!

Enjoy your italic.

You run the server after all ;)

@badp What good is it? :)

@JavadocMD Yeah, like the skindex maybe

oh, I can pin messages

6:27 PM

You can pin, migrate, unstar messages, put up events, manage the room.

@badp Thank you sir

Anyone else have trouble placing stuff on the server?

Haven't been on since last night, didn't have any trouble then... what are you trying to place?

Torches

And this has been ongoing for like a week

odd.. anyone else had that issue?

6:30 PM

Like, 90% of the time, nothing happens

@Macha are you updated to the newest version and running in online mode?

Yes

I haven't, but I've had BIG trouble mining.

It's really annoying.

have to release the mouse button after each block

it works 99.9% of the time

that's boring. I've found a kinda better strategy, which involves placing yourself and the mouse just so you can mine in a row.

Basically it's a problem with lag prediction

6:33 PM

It appears reconnecting helps for my problem

Client: "I've mined this block!"
Server: "No you haven't! You should've been done by now, but you've turned away!" *block reappears*
Client: "Oh, right. Nevermind."

vs

Client: "I've mined this block!"
Server: "No you haven't! You should've been done by now, but you're turned around!" *block reappears*
Client: "Tsk tsk, I'm still mining it." *block vanishes again*
Server: "Oh, right. Nevermind." *block is dropped for pickup*

hope he fixes that soon, but until then, i release the mouse after every block.

Day version google-map of our server: fdotm.com/mc

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@Fosco The day version is much better. Orders of magnitude better.

We're so getting screwed when baddies are added.

If you update the nightly version, people will use stuff that emits light.

Like, yknow, LAVA.

Did I mention lava is also broken currently?

Non-source lava tiles fail to go away without a source.