Mountain-Top Stronghold
- Andrew C
Work progresses slowly, but surely.
The Minecraft of Moria
Contributors
Il Torre!
- Marcin M
A new world approaches ...
This is a natural formation that I found after spawning in the desert next to a village (woo!) and walking just a wee bit until I hit Ridiculous Mountains(TM). Naturally I delved into its side and started to hollow it out. Currently there is a water-level dock, a slightly higher main chamber with the bridge heading to the left (at some point a powered railway to the village for farm supplies); the main chamber has a shaft to the main quarry which has hit one interesting cave system and an underground ravine, and leads all the way to the top as well. Near the top there's a relaxation chamber (bed, bookcases, couch and chair) and at the top a small observation bubble. I tried to keep to the natural shape, but in some cases smoothed things out or added overhangs to reduce spawning on the outside of the tower. I briefly thought about exposing the ravine to light, but it'd have to be a longer term project. It's probably ~20 deep and that's a lot to dig across an entire ravine length and width.In the Fortress of the Creeper Moon
- Andrew C
Cool scene I happened to catch in my desert base. I will say, I haven't played many games where you are sorta surprised by the cool scenery.
TG reports in
- Marcin M
A fortnight of mining later...
oh and while I was making a road to the main base, I saw this...
Server shenanigans
- Marcin M
First there was the planned outage followed by upgrades. Then there was
the unplanned flicker that took everything out. And finally, the
whitelist suddenly started taking effect - before, the players.txt file
was still working I guess! I haven't touched anything in the Minecraft
directory (apart from server update files) since I started running the
thing :) I have now copied the contents of players.txt into the new whitelist
file. Hopefully this fixes access issues for everyone.
the unplanned flicker that took everything out. And finally, the
whitelist suddenly started taking effect - before, the players.txt file
was still working I guess! I haven't touched anything in the Minecraft
directory (apart from server update files) since I started running the
thing :) I have now copied the contents of players.txt into the new whitelist
file. Hopefully this fixes access issues for everyone.
Creepers got the Server
- Andrew C
Don't worry - you weren't banned. Apparently (correct me if I'm wrong, Marcin), Marcin was crafting some updates for the server...and suddenly...ssSSSBOOM!
Sigh.
- it is down at the moment. Marcin will follow up with more details I'm sure.
TZ SMP: Reese's Chasm
Reese is one of the mechanical engineers on our server. While we were all busy constructing useful gadgets and structures he decided to just build a massive chasm with elements extending from the absolute top of the world down to bedrock. Then he added loads of glass and torches because "it looks cool". I have to agree. It is one of my favorite creations in our world. It looks fantastic at night from a minecart.
I'm the map!
- Andrew C
Hey, here's a map of what I have seen so far. Jon's lair and stair is really the only landmark so far that shows up. Also, there is a completely safe base established on the other side of the spawn point Nether portal. You can travel through with very little fear. However, if you think to - take through glass, wood, stone, flints, torches...basically - any materials that we may need to build a safe network.
Also, be sure to sign things really well in there...cause it could be easy to get lost.
