Minecraft (online Lego essentially)

Darg · 2 Jul 2009 at 09:43

Good work Rroff.

Sorry droony but your claim was just way too large. Another vote here for no claims boundaries, if you want to do a big building then set foundations for it so no one builds on it. There's no need to claim a massive chunk of land then leave it.

I also liked the idea of a flattish map with street layout and each person getting a reasonable sized plot like 30x30 or so.

EDIT: Server seems to be down atm.

MrKnifey · 2 Jul 2009 at 09:49

Gonna add a bit more to the sky scraper later.. maybe make a tower next to it.. One question my land is currently surrounded by peoples claiming? Anyone doing anything with the yellow blocks ? can i move them a little? if not all is cool

Wizzkidy · 2 Jul 2009 at 10:16

I just get this error when I try and connect to the server via the URL

"org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated"

Maybe this laptop can't run a Java app :/ I have no idea.

EDIT - by the look of the game I cannot see why a GM945 intergrated intel card cannot play this game.

google suggests its a graphics driver issue but im using the latest windows 7 drivers for this lappie.

JIM_BOB7813 · 2 Jul 2009 at 11:24

Anyone know how high the current map is from ground to ceiling?

Jonny L · 2 Jul 2009 at 11:48

Is the server down, I've followed the link in roff's trust as I did before but this time it just loads up a single player game

MrKnifey · 2 Jul 2009 at 11:57

JIM_BOB7813 said:
Anyone know how high the current map is from ground to ceiling?

Not that big. Seems the ground is really high up as ive managed around 10 storys under my sky scraper lol

prUnE · 2 Jul 2009 at 12:31

Jonny L said:
Is the server down, I've followed the link in roff's trust as I did before but this time it just loads up a single player game

yeah same here mate. must be down

shipinabottle · 2 Jul 2009 at 13:58

noo, servers down! must dig plot! arghhh. made some great progress last night on getting it flattened.

Tr Insanity · 2 Jul 2009 at 15:13

Yep , server had crashed , it didn't restart itself either , but rroff should have more info. I just restarted it so it should work for now

Server is online

Rroff · 2 Jul 2009 at 15:52

Looks like its crashing quite a bit with the larger map

- a few people have the ability to restart the server tho.

EDIT: The minecraft developer is suggesting that the map will need 1024Mb of free RAM to have any guarantee it will run crash free - which I don't have - my main server only has 700Mb free, the rest less, and the VPS less than 200Mb free.

What I will probably do is move the big map back to the original server and people will have to live with the odd crash (or host it themselves

) and use the new VPS for a smaller themed map and a teamspeak server.

Darg · 2 Jul 2009 at 16:30

I like the idea of the themed map. Maybe we can get the realistic city going there?

Rroff · 2 Jul 2009 at 16:36

That would be nice.

I prolly won't get around to setting it up until after work on Friday tho.

Tr Insanity · 2 Jul 2009 at 16:36

Darg said:
I like the idea of the themed map. Maybe we can get the realistic city going there?

/signed

With equal blocks for people , so no more land grabbing

Cr0fty · 2 Jul 2009 at 16:53

Be good if you could get cars on minecraft ...

Tr Insanity · 2 Jul 2009 at 18:17

Just found a program which shows map files , here's a top view of the old old map :

and the old map :

D D Danneh · 2 Jul 2009 at 18:37

Darg said:
I like the idea of the themed map. Maybe we can get the realistic city going there?

Agreed. Even if it's not over the ENTIRE map, I'd still like it somewhere. No doubt someone would make something that doesn't fit with the theme though.

mistercrabb · 2 Jul 2009 at 19:04

Id like a themed/realistic map too, it would be a lot more interesting to build.

Also, the server seems to be down for me. Is it really down, or have I missed out on a new URL?

Rroff · 2 Jul 2009 at 19:28

Server for a miracle is still up - check my trust for the latest URL (its under location).

D D Danneh · 2 Jul 2009 at 20:00

Rroff said:
Server for a miracle is still up - check my trust for the latest URL (its under location).

That's a very clever way of giving the server out to OcUK only.

Markopolo · 2 Jul 2009 at 20:03

A themed map would be much better.
I won't be around for a few days, but will be back to help the digging soon

Looking at that old old map brings back some good memories, remember the mushroom cloud cowell?
The bloke that is developing this earned my cash there and them tbh