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Oh kol.

Well, something that's easier than having to run through all the usernames in-game would be nice, but that does solve it. Kol.

I'm looking for a nice login time plugin. Its most important task is to make you see how long has passed since the last time a player was online.

Secondary tasks are making it possible to see more info such as total time online, time online over the last period of time etc.

The plugin should be as lightweight as possible.

I am also thinking of the idea of making it automatically issue a command which rewards players for being online for an amount of time. Such as giving players some xp every 60 minutes they have been online. Giving items doesn't seem like a good idea imo, but xp seems reasonable. If it were items, I think consumables would be best, like potions, and the time intervals should be much bigger.
It would be better to reward players for building/killing/digging etc. instead of just being online though, that would need a stats tracking plugin.

This plugin looked interesting, last updated 3 days ago, feedback/other ideas are welcome:
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/ontime/
It also has this cool option, it could be fun to have a place where we coul go to see all players' online time in the world (maybe somewhere else than Spawntown to give more travelling incentive):
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/onsign/

Another option which doesn't look very finished:
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/activityhistory/

Kolkolkol, finally found horses. In a ravine in some far away plains.
One of them has 10 hearts, is very fast but doesn't jump very high. The other one has 12 hearts, is a bit slower, but seems able to jump maybe 3-4 meters up.



I lead them back to Epicland, near Border Hill, the unused building, and set up a small stable, which is meant to be mostly temporary. I have thought out a plan for a stable hub and horse infrastructure at Spawntown, since the town isn't very easy to navigate with horses. The plan is here:



The green island is a large artificial island for keeping horses, surrounded by a fence. It will have spots for horse storage, possibly tower/underground areas to keep additional horses if the island itself is too small.
A bridge might connect the horse island to the peninsula with the spleef arena, since that is a relatively open part of Spawntown for horses.

The orange ring is a tunnel/elevated road which is 3-5 blocks wide which is made for horses.

The red-white circles are rail stations. The orange ring for horses is made to intersect the stations so that the horses can move onto the already built minecart tunnels.

The pink lines are rail lines, the light pink one a future planned rail route.

The red-gray squares are points where the horse road connects to the world's surface. I tried to find the most open spaces in/around Spawntown and areas with roads which I consider upgrading to be 3-5 blocks wide.

The yellow lines are alternative, additional horse roads. I think it would be reasonable to build a horse road west beyond Yukitown, because the terrain/road there isn't very good for horses. Same goes for the area south of Spawntown, where it is hard to expand the road without destroying a lot of nature as well.

The big yellow R symbolizes my idea to build a horse racing track, probably in Earthquake Forest, possibly elsewhere, Idk yet.

You can use this topic to anything you want which is horse-related, but you're very welcome to give feedback to the plans.

But if we want underground horse tunnels, we should consider something like a standard y-height for them. I plan to deviate a lot from such a standard though and as said maybe even have elevated parts.

People are also encouraged to make their rail stations horse-friendly (connecting the stations to a staircase to the surface which horses can use).

Thanks vh.

I have seen in the logs that several people have taken items from Spawntown in order to duplicate them for when Spawntown is reverted. Burn EVERYTHING you have taken or mined from there within 24 hours or you will be permanently banned from the server. I will check the logs.

Griefing is NEVER ok.

Kol, that story was 87.37% nostalgic, and 98.13% informative about who I should ban now for all the crimes you have just admitted!!!

I realized the main reason I don't play Blacraft atm is that I spent some xp naming a diamond pick I think or I have some diamond tools that I'm not sure what to do with, and the thought of getting on and having to put them into the tool library and swap to iron tools or something like that is just making me tired. It is very absurd yes but.............sigh.

But yes I need to play something, Blacraft would be very nice. For the past several days I've spent all my spare time going back and forth between computer and thinking of what to play and lying down and thinking, it is really making me........ksfdllthfg frustratedgfkgj lksfga I need something to play or just waste my time on so I can avoid all those stupid thoughts all the time extremely much.

and anyways can you explain what a buffer is

The buffer chest would be an intermediate between public and collective chests. You don't have to graph it (like public), but it's locked (like collective).

Ok, complete anarchy.

I like the grace period idea. If people aren't active for 12 entire months, it seems fair for someone else to take over. But we need a plugin to measure the logins.
Quontex and Deoxy I can say with 99.9% confidence will never accept to give up one square meter of land.

Plaidania seems like a good option for the anarchy municipality. I think I like a municipality to be anarchy more than an entire region to begin with at least. People will interact more in the smaller space.

Updating the sheet once pr. week is clearly unneeded. We could change to first Saturday each month for all I care. Do people like that idea? The problem is just that if it's more rare, it's probably easier to forget. If it means people will just forget to update I don't really like the idea.

Another option could be to make it easier for the lazy people to keep always updated. That could be done by having a safe buffer between the collective and public resources, that is locked but not graphed. But then we would have to set limits on what it can contain, such as 10 diamonds, 20 gold, 50 iron etc., so it's not used for storing everything.

A third option could be to allow actual private property and a sort of gift economy, where we would request stuff from each other. But this would mean we would not have any cool graphs, which is very hard for me to accept. Aren't the graphs nice and cool at all? And planning projects requires that we know approx how many resources we have if we vote, there would definitely have to be a mechanism where we could find out how many resources are stored in UBSR.

Kol, yes, sometimes when I hear about the complaints people have for the server or even more the things they suggest to fix them I often think of just saying I did something random without actually doing anything and see if they notice any change.

The most recent map is, uhh, I have no idea what has even been explored kol. No way to judge whether the world needs cropping.

.......and make it lava

From server.properties:

# Tells the server to load a specific number of chunks in a radius around each player
# Lower settings will decrease your RAM usage
view-distance=7
Increasing view distance will cause more lag, atm it'll load 225 chunks around a player, if I set it to 10, it'll load 441 chunks, so it'll require almost twice as many server resources pr. player.

Anyway I have tried setting it to 10 so you can try and see if anything has changed. It has been 7 ever since we changed to Multiplay (the option wasn't even editable for a long time if I remember correctly).

For how long have you experienced that? I don't see how the hostile spawn rate could possibly change.

For the traincarts one, look in the incompatibilities, it mentions that that plugin has a chunk persistence part of it.

Is the traincarts one ByteCart/the third one?

The rest of the links though I simply did a search for carts/minecarts and looked if they said anything or implied chunk persistence or if I thought it MIGHT have that feature, and if they were recently updated. Traincarts and ForgePlugin really were the only hits that I got which were matches and were updated recently.

Neither of them are called Traincarts or ForgePlugin in the title. It hope you will use their titles so it will be easier to understand.

As for the minecartmania, sure the farming automation would be turned off. For the jumping thing, that could be fun to have (railguns, literally!) and the speed parts of it would allow the overworld rails to be used without having to build the netherrail (actually, the netherrail would still be useful, if you've seen how the area between spawntown portal and capital portal looks). We could keep most of the automation that is useful.

I think all of those things should be off, but that's just my opinion.

I didn't see the word "chunk" mentioned anywhere in the first two links. The third one has an option for minecarts to keep chunks loaded in the configuration file it seems though, so that one seems like a good option, although it also seems like a somewhat big plugin that would need a lot of features disabled before it could be used.

But if you afk on the rails for a while, wanting to do something else while waiting, then it's tedious.

What do people think of alternatively updating the collective storage statistics every 2 Saturdays or every 4 Saturdays or something? Since people seem too lazy to update it once a week or all the time. Would that help much?

You can make different station types as long as I approve them. Generally just don't make all sorts of rail branches with starters etc. We need the stations to be modular so the rails can be extended in the future.

I personally have never had any problem stopping at a station. You can hit the minecart once with a diamond sword and it breaks, and the diamond sword takes no damage.

Bridges would be the way to get to them.

B-ong, your main reason for being banned currently is no longer what you did in Blacraft. It is how you continue to treat Yqt. Example are threatening with killing him in Blacraft, spamming him on IRC and accusing him of rude things without stating any reason.

Please change this immediately if you want to ever get unbanned.

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.

So who is expecting to join tomorrow at 18:00 UTC and join us in killing the ender dragon?

Me, Yqt, Smjjames and who else?

Won't whitelist before he has an user. We don't know if another user has taken the username.

Should we do the wasteful 3x3 track layout like the overworld? Or just a single track set up?
We should have a 3x3 layout because it looks so epic.
I vote yes.

Netherack isn't super strong, enforce the walls or at least tracks in cobble or something else?
The whole tunnel should be made of unghastblastable material yes. Cobble would be a start.
I vote yes.

Same redstone torch positioning as the overworld system?
If we make a 3x3 tunnel, yes.
I vote yes.

Also follows a multiple of 20 on the x/z axis like the overworld system?
If we make a 3x3 tunnel, yes I think so.
I vote yes.

Kol Deathchests are so noobish!!! Death to deathchests!!!
I propose disabling deathchests while fighting the boss. If everybody are in The End near the mob the others should be able to pick up items which would've been lost due to bug deaths anyway.

Anyway so yes Yqt's time proposal works for me I guess, well I always eat dinner at that time so postponying it 30 minutes to an hour would help. Unless you're attempting to enstarve me...!!!
Maybe I could set up a temporary automatic oatmeal machine and oatmeal pipe to my mouth.