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andi*pandi · Oct 5, 2011, 10:30 AM

I'll take the cocoa, I already have a spot for it. I'm hoping it becomes needed for potions.

I guess I'll be logging in tomorrow night to make the rounds!

sek929 · Oct 5, 2011, 05:29 PM

Well I had more lapis stashed away in a long lost chest. Andi took 30 blocks, leaving 27 blocks for you Dakar.

Jawbone54 · Oct 5, 2011, 06:22 PM

I wish the update would finally go live -- I have Monday, Tuesday, and Friday of next week totally off (this week is Hell Week).

andi*pandi · Oct 7, 2011, 08:32 AM

I had some spare track I wasn't taking, so I added to Dakar Railway.

BLAZE_MkIV · Oct 7, 2011, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

I had some spare track I wasn't taking, so I added to Dakar Railway.

Is is still a loop or did you fix that?

andi*pandi · Oct 7, 2011, 10:50 AM

Still a loop I think. I will try to fix it tonight. Need to learn more about switching. I like sek's switching stations but there's no way to go down a block without intruding on dakar's basement lands.

The Final Dakar · Oct 7, 2011, 10:53 AM

Dakar Railway? What am I missing here?

BLAZE_MkIV · Oct 7, 2011, 01:05 PM

Did you decide on a seed for the new world, I want to do some scouting and generate a creative mode private world for tinkering.

The Final Dakar · Oct 7, 2011, 01:10 PM

The 1.9 version of Oasis was kinda similar to the 1.8, only the left side of the map is a giant ocean now.

I thought I posted pics but I've been so swamped at work lately I obviously haven't.

andi*pandi · Oct 7, 2011, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar

Dakar Railway? What am I missing here?

The sek > dakar > andipandi railway I guess you could call it... I finished the rail you'd started from my mine to your basement, and attempted to make a stopping point in your basement.

The Final Dakar · Oct 7, 2011, 02:39 PM

I believe you're referring to The Hub. I have to say completion rate on rail projects was abysmal. Too much worrying about fusing aesthetics with functionality... it was headache inducing.

Then Jawbone moved his base and things got weirder.

BLAZE_MkIV · Oct 7, 2011, 08:51 PM

With the "Oasis" seed I spawn on the edge of a valley / forest with a river, crevasse and village nearby. And just a little further way a fairly large ocean with an island perfect for my medium term plans. No desert in the immediate vicinity though.

Jawbone54 · Oct 8, 2011, 11:06 AM

I'll trek through and find the desert.

...and claim it all as Jawbooine.

andi*pandi · Oct 8, 2011, 11:11 AM

rather than make our own town, should we just take over the village?

Jawbone54 · Oct 8, 2011, 11:32 AM

Let's slaughter the natives.

andi*pandi · Oct 8, 2011, 01:40 PM

bad karma! Plus they don't appear to drop anything useful.

BLAZE_MkIV · Oct 8, 2011, 02:44 PM

They don't respawn either.

My attempt at a vertical launch TNT arrow cannon isn't working out so well.

The Final Dakar · Oct 8, 2011, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

rather than make our own town, should we just take over the village?

I swear I suggested this before.

Originally Posted by Jawbone54

Let's slaughter the natives.

Originally Posted by BLAZE_MkIV

They don't respawn either.

We need the next level. Notch needs to add NPC breeding.

BLAZE_MkIV · Oct 8, 2011, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar

We need the next level. Notch needs to add NPC breeding.

Where does it end? PC breeding? I don't think he wants it to be that kind of game.

Jawbone54 · Oct 8, 2011, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by BLAZE_MkIV

My attempt at a vertical launch TNT arrow cannon isn't working out so well.

Oh, but I wish it was...

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar

I swear I suggested this before.

It definitely sounded familiar.

We need the next level. Notch needs to add NPC breeding.

Nahhhhhhhhh...

However, don't be surprised if a ton of little Dirks start appearing all over the map.

Originally Posted by BLAZE_MkIV

Where does it end? PC breeding? I don't think he wants it to be that kind of game.

Giggity.

The Final Dakar · Oct 10, 2011, 09:32 AM

...and, that's a wrap!

Jawbone54 · Oct 10, 2011, 10:50 AM

Looks like I'll be carrying a bow on me at all times now.

andi*pandi · Oct 10, 2011, 10:56 AM

we better be able to tame and ride them.

Jawbone54 · Oct 10, 2011, 12:05 PM

Ooooooooooooooo...

Jawbone54 · Oct 10, 2011, 12:12 PM

I graphed out plans for my new large-scale "fortress," for lack of a better term. Let's just say my love affair with glass hasn't ended, but I'm looking into some new materials as well.

The Final Dakar · Oct 11, 2011, 09:55 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/123685334306390016

My design guidelines for the dragon: If I can beat at all, it's too easy.

andi*pandi · Oct 11, 2011, 10:21 AM

The dragon is invulnerable.

Well hell.

BLAZE_MkIV · Oct 11, 2011, 10:27 AM

Sarcasm my dear, sarcasm.

The Final Dakar · Oct 12, 2011, 08:44 AM

I don't know where I read it, but notch is talking continual weekly Pre-releases of 1.9 leading up to Minecon.

Also, I'm not sure if this is in addition or instead of the Aether, but we're getting some type of Enderworld. Which I have to say, is the right solution if you would want to restore most of the Endermen's powers.

sek929 · Oct 12, 2011, 03:54 PM

Well my character's inventory is loaded and I dropped off the remaining lapis (30 blocks) in your chest, Dakar, the one near the double doors leading out to the courtyard. So now all there is left to do is wait with baited breath until 1.9 drops and we start the new map.

The final take.

The Final Dakar · Oct 12, 2011, 03:56 PM

Feel free to take three silk strings from my upstairs chest.

Mushrooms?

sek929 · Oct 12, 2011, 04:03 PM

Mushroom soup has replaced wheat for my food care package. Among the dozens of things I'll be crafting right off the bat, a double chest of mushroom soup is one of them.

Regains more health than bread, only two mushrooms needed to craft soup versus 3 wheat needed for bread, mushrooms grow underground easily and will pretty much be an unlimited food supply for me for a very large amount of time in the beginning of the new map.

andi*pandi · Oct 12, 2011, 04:17 PM

Cumbersome thing about soup is always the bowls to store etc. Maybe they'll stack in 1.9 like pork chops do?

Good plan. I'm debating bringing sugarcane, if it will or will not exist where we land. I'm also using up one of my diamond pickaxes gathering obsidian, but getting pretty bored!

sek929 · Oct 12, 2011, 04:27 PM

Even if they don't stack, a full bowl of mushroom soup taken on a journey with spare shrooms to make more soup is what I'm planning on. I used them for the last couple of adventures I've had and it worked out very well. You can't make bread without a crafting table anyways.

The Final Dakar · Oct 12, 2011, 04:32 PM

If they don't stack that'd make them worthless in comparison to everything else, so I'd assume they stack.

BLAZE_MkIV · 08:38 PM

Food stacks, (edit)mushroom soup doesn't. I find steak being my number one food, chicken the second but I need more chickens to reach critical feather mass. Steak is 4 hearts at least so thats 1 ever 4 days. I even managed to light myself on fire, and put it out, all said and done I didn't expend any food at all because regenerating health doesn't consume extra food that I can tell. So if i'm mining I use more food but not much considering my tendency to jump off heights and the lack of sprinting. Any kind of real damage and I come out ahead.

andi*pandi · Oct 12, 2011, 08:28 PM

More about dragons:
Why Ender Dragons won't spawn in the main world - YouTube

Goodbye gazebo:

In my wanderings found this, looked cool:

Final Inventory. I did some mining hoping to find more iron etc, but alas.

The Final Dakar · Oct 14, 2011, 05:50 PM

So, Notch decided to turn the Sun & Moon into circles. Then he got a lot of complaints because, hey, that's the charm of a block world with block characters. So he opened up to voting. After a day the poll closed and square won by small margin. So Notch announced that all the undecideds were on his side and said the new circles were staying. I hate Notch.

andi*pandi · Oct 14, 2011, 06:17 PM

I saw that, voted square, but the idea of moon phases intrigues me.

BLAZE_MkIV · Oct 14, 2011, 07:01 PM

And then someone instantly published a square texture file.

sek929 · Oct 17, 2011, 04:45 PM

This update cannot come some enough.

Jawbone54 · Oct 17, 2011, 05:07 PM

Nooooo freaking kidding...

I'm in need of some serious distraction.

The Final Dakar · Oct 17, 2011, 05:32 PM

Eh, I've lost interest. Between it dragging out, impending FPS tsunami, and Notch's direction, I'm pretty apathetic.

sek929 · Oct 17, 2011, 05:43 PM

The Final Dakar · Oct 17, 2011, 05:48 PM

I mean, I'm sure I'll log on to play when everyone meets up the first time, but I know I'm going to have to basically learn a new game if I want to build up again.

BLAZE_MkIV · Oct 20, 2011, 08:08 AM

So I'm in my hardcore world and I found a dungeon that was 1m below the surface of the desert. So I'm digging a tunnel to it from the tower I spotted it from. I go out to dig a vertical shaft to mark a turn. I'm digging out the sand block in front of me as I make stairs down and suddenly everything around me collapses, ravine. I fell far enough to out run the sand. In wouldn't be surprised if it went all the way to bedrock. It's hard to tell thru the water and the red haze. Oh, armor doesn't reduce fall damage any more.

Jawbone54 · Oct 20, 2011, 10:27 AM

Love the last sentence.

The sand collapsing was not something I was prepared for. Caught me totally off-guard.

BLAZE_MkIV · Oct 24, 2011, 10:50 AM

If were gonna do the server reboot in a reasonably time frame its gonna have to the pre release version

jeb_: The next official release will be at Minecon

Jawbone54 · Oct 24, 2011, 10:56 AM

Am I the only one here impatient enough to vote an okay for that?

*looks around nervously*

sek929 · Oct 24, 2011, 01:06 PM

Not at all, I vote yes as well.

I was playing through New Vegas again when my savegame became corrupted, next viable save was 15-20 hours before. Needless to say that game is shelved for the time being.