Blacraft Forum

The reason Blacraft has been so inactive is because no one is playing it. I personally have no time to play it, despite interest in playing. Other people are just bored and what's the point of playing if no one else is on?

As far as collective storages go; yeah I have gotten really lazy with updating lately. I haven't played enough to change the amount of resources in there much, but enough that I've taken out maybe a dozen iron ingots and not counted it. I agree with doing it monthly personally, I doubt many people would forget. I like the idea of a safe buffer as well. Good excuse for another building. Unfortunately for me that would increase my different storage buildings in Capital up to 5 from the current 4. As far as the private economy goes, I am not too bothered either way.

The inactive regions around Spawntown have been adding up quickly. The idea is: convert some regions close together into a community region with developed plots for everyone? Spawntown is so Bla, what is the fun in that? Why not convert a region close to spawn into a glorious region where everyone can get a few decent sized plots and we can have a true spawntown community there.

Just an idea.

i swear to god if we crop for 1.6 i am going to flip my sh­it

Bla will do it if it happens, I won't.

Yeah I know the poll only went up a few hours ago, but the opposition seems minor and I won't have time in the next few days to set it up. Besides, it will be a great change from vanilla for a change and if necessary I have a backup and copy of all the dimensions.

Welcome to Blacraft FTB! MindCrack modpack.

To get into FTB:
Download the .jar file here
Load the .jar file and select a directory for the FTB files.
Go under modpacks and select "MindCrack" for version 1.4.7.
Log into your usual Minecraft account at the bottom right corner.
Download the modpack and wait for the game to load.
You'll have to re-add the Blacraft server. The IP is: 85.236.109.31:29565
Welcome!

Protip:

You will want to make sure that Not Enough Items is enabled for sure. Press the "O" key to make it on by default.

http://feed-the-beast.wikia.com/wiki/Feed_The_Beast_Wiki - Use the wiki!

I will be open to mod changes if they sound beneficial overall.  Also, I may have to do a map update if something goes wrong or there is a big mod change. I'll try to give more notice than what happened here today for that.

RULE CHANGES
As I mentioned before, in FTB you can easily crash the server. I will ban people who crash the server regularly and repeatably!
Lag will be a big problem, so minimize the chunk loaders and anything else that is server heavy. Having thousands of entities loaded will cause lag, and multiple offenses of this will get you banned!
Don't go to crazy and try to do some research on CPU intensive things.

Have fun!

not to spoil the idea but this just came to mind

http://xkcd.com/1205/

if there is one ride to spawntown per day (and i think one per week is more accurate)

the distance can be estimated at 1600m (desertopia is 1km, kaeshar a bit farther, aeridani too).
that is 200 m by nether

sprint is a bit over 5m/s, rail is 8m/s
40 seconds vs 25 seconds
15 seconds saved, and probably less because of minecart getting on and off

so it is worth around 2-12 hours (5 hours geometric mean) to build the netherrail and stations and move portals and dig tunnels
else you should just walk

and this assumes blacraft continues at this activity rate for five years

I was never actually going to make the rails, just make it so that if you want to put in rails you can. I just want a ghast proof way to travel.

The enderman exp farm is nearing the point where I can make the cost estimate for it, so here it goes.



About 9 stacks of logs (2300 wooden planks)
About 1.5 large chests of cobble (5000 cobblestone)
About 3 stacks of coal to make stone and torches (180 coal)
About 18 stacks of redstone (1200 redstone)
238 iron
238 slimeballs
About 100 cobweb

This does not include the costs for the interior design, enchantment table, anvil and rail line.

like will bla replace the end with some magical mcedited multi-island complex or is the current end island here to stay

For now the current one is staying.

Yay



Some people disagree but I think I got the last shot at it with my sword. I was the closest to it when it died anyways, I was the only one who got 50+ levels from it

Ok I'm including the nether quartz ores in the nether quartz count from now on.
The reason I didn't was the same as for coal ore, because people are using it for decoration/different purposes than the actual coal items. But I'm including the quartz ore from now on.

Some people use iron blocks for decoration, so we shouldn't include those.

Not sure why you added nether quartz ore but not other ore?

^ We'll do the above then. Bla you should probably make the netherrail station in the nether for the sake of you doing it and not me doing something you hate and rebuilding it anyways.

Rail line ideas:
Spawntown - Oasis City - Chromasheep Farm - Amazonis
Spawntown - Revolt City
Spawntown - Desertopia - Guodesia/Forssa maybe?
Spawntown - Matolony - Mystic Marsh
Spawntown - Capital - Mojikit Stronghold + Vrus - Kinar/Nunatriche
Spawntown - Swamphold - Darvwnse-a - Blaze Farm (some order of this, can't say for sure)

Any complaints or ideas can go here

Saturday, March 30th at 18:00GMT (2pm EDT) it is then! Unless someone else has a different idea, I'm still open.

Swamphold or Mojikit Stronghold?

Mojikit Stronghold isn't ready yet so if there is a demand to have it there I'll have it done for Saturday.

Benefits to Swamphold: it's actually built up and ready for this.
Benefits to Mojikit Stronghold: Rail Route 5 goes there already and a nether portal is going to be set up. Mojikit Stronghold is also like 100 blocks closer to spawn.

This. Is. Sparta!!!. Injustice!!

Don't use that quote wrong, Sparta was one of the most just societies in the ancient world.

i don't get it yqt; a silk touch is much rarer than a fortune why do you carry the ore blocks back

I still collect glowstone so I get an extra inventory slot by just carrying one pickaxe.

Some 1.5 block changes that Bla might want to add tomorrow:
9 redstone = 1 redstone block
4 single nether brick (smelted from netherrack) = 1 nether brick block (irreversible)
4 single nether quartz = 1 nether quartz block (irreversible)

After messing around with the essential config file I finally fixed the chat. 

The server is ready for the restoration of the normal map, excluding the loss of rollingminecarts.

Alright, I am finalizing the plugin changes for 1.5.

DeathChests requires a permission plugin (PermissionsBukkit), so I set it up. LWC has its own permissions, so for now it is only used for Essentials and DeathChests. (operators have access to all commands still)

I'm sure I got all the commands which are useful in Essentials, if anyone has any complaint about a command not being here, tell me.
- afk command
- getpos command (of yourself not others)
- ignore command (maybe?)
- compass command
- book command? (bla?) it allows opening and resealing written books
- itemdb command
- list command
- motd command (viewing, not changing)
- msg command
- realname command
- suicide command
- whois command

I still can't get EssenialsChat fixed. 

Yeah a public deathchest would be reasonable, but what if you die and respawn in wherever you set the home bed, but the stuff ends up in the public chest which is in Spawntown. Or am I misunderstanding it a bit?

Alternatively, instead of (or in addition to) putting a chest that says ______ Deathchest, you can set it up to spawn a chest or a sign on death.

You are misunderstanding it. I can set up deathchests to require that a chest be registered to LWC before it can become a deathchest, or not.

i agree with Bla... you wouldn't lose ANYTHING right? that would suck, like losing stuff here and then is okay

The only reason I want to add it is because of all the bugginess that happens during a new minecraft version. In 1.4 there was like a solid 2 months where daily people died to bugs, I don't want to deal with respawning all that stuff. It's totally optional, if people think it is unlegit, don't use it. Simple.

Bla has "pluginphobia" and the state of Blacraft plugins has been pretty outdated, especially lately. So I've spent some time going over every plugin and updating everything.

Only LWC has been updated for 1.5, so everything here might change if I find certain plugins to not work. I'll take the temp server down tonight and try out some plugin stuff before making the server live. I'll update the below list with my findings.

Notable changes:
1. TNT can now destroy blocks
2. You can't (some bugs still) place hoppers near a protected chest
3. Endermen griefing should be resolved
4. CHdistantfarm unofficial update for potatoes and carrots
5. Death chests (more info below)

Problems:
1. Rolling minecarts broke. Storage minecarts no longer travel 30 blocks and keep chunks loaded.

Death Chests
Assuming that it works in 1.5, here is quick guide to the death chest plugin:
1. Make a chest.
2. Put a sign above the chest.
3. You must type "deathchest" on any line of the sign
4. Die

Image tutorial

The pre-1.5 nether is only 884 chunks now. 884 chunks is roughly the amount loaded when you go forward in one direction for a minute or so. Finding quartz should be no problem.

the mining decentral is in the correct place so no complaints there

do you see the line of torches in the nether stretching from my base going left? can you include that.

Is that the portal to the mining decentral or guodesia? Nonetheless, yeah I realized it was a portal after I made the red lines.

Did someone take stuff from my chests between when I was on last night and this morning? Because I'm missing at least a stack of redstone and four diamonds.

I was having some kind of inventory glitch with the diamonds when I logged out last night to fix it (but didn't log back in), so I could have lost them due to the glitch.

I don't care that much about the redstone (you could have just asked), but I do want the diamonds back.

Edit while typing: Wait a minute, my gold bars and the ore is gone, could someone check the full log of interactions with that chest?

It's fully vanilla, there is no log plugins. I can give you the stuff back, but if you want any punishment or anything you'll have to investigate further. Also, hide your valuables.

1.5 will be released tomorrow it seems. (hasn't been delayed yet)

I'll be busy quite a bit tomorrow visiting family, so I'll set up a temporary 1.5 map when I get back here tomorrow night. Assuming I figure out how to. I dunno if Bla wants to do map cropping, if no I'll do it for both the nether and the overworld. I'll make maps of areas that I will crop so if you guys have any complaints tell me then. I'll also do new political and isometric maps.

Then once Bukkit 1.5 is out I'll probably shut off the server for a bit so I can update all the plugins and make some changes, this depends though. Bukkit took weeks to update for 1.4 and I only have a few days of free-time to actually do the plugin changes.

i never knew we had an enderman plugin.

anyways they only touch dirt gravel and those types of blocks so it shouldn't matter (they don't move soil)

They move grass, dirt, mycelium, clay, sand, gravel, netherrack, melons, pumpkins, cactus, tnt, roses, dandelions and mushrooms.



I keep finding griefing all over.

After a bit of research, enderman griefing is off on the safecreeper plugin, but still happening...

Mudkipz keeps thinking that he can store anything he wants in his collective storage (and he does also ). Bla, your opinion?