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not an idea, but sponges seem useful

lava is the only true fluid 

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i love it yqt. imagine if you walked into afghanistan and it looked like central park. no! it should be utterly destroyed! i would love it if one day you could walk into the battleground and see bases built on top of older destroyed bases and so on, with lava and craters everywhere. wonderful!

i came up with this one:

only fists and snowballs allowed, and armor is unrestricted. weapons like lava or tnt are restricted.

BUT.

there is no respawn on death. when you die, you are out of the battle.

this ruleset can be applied to most battle "types". we could use it with a (it would have to be looong) timer, or just have people fight until all the people on one side are dead

then why would anyone bother finishing off the battleground just to lose the land and everything they've built up?

trade removed

i don't feel a burning need for a better server, this one is fine as is, unless we're expecting more players.

beacon block for 3 nether skulls no longer needed

i kept on thinking

"a record what? a record breaking number of arrows on your head?"

then i quit and realized 5 minutes later what record you found.

vote yes

I JUST HAD INSPIRATION TO START A NEW PROJECT

basing it off this:

of course. after you convert that you can build an info center registry along

can i get a file with just the region borders (no municipalities)? i might be able to hack them into dynmap

i've got this idea to satisfy both short-term and long-term pvp games:

each territory consists of a flag, and a hard task (explained later). when two teams declare war on each other, they can set up traditional capture the flag battles. the team that wins has occupied the zone. an occupied zone is in a state of anarchy and free pvp combat. if the occupying team solves the hard task before the occupied team successfully wins a liberating capture the flag battle, the occupying team now owns the zone.

i'm still coming up with possible hard tasks, here are a few:
guessing the password to a locked chest: too easy to automate and boring
have each fortress in a zone be built out of team-colored clay, and the task is to eradicate all traces of the color: too fast?
rename all items in a chest to the team's name: too boring again

We will estimate it takes 8 seconds to 1 meter of 2m-wide ice road at the current level, and 6 seconds at the ceiling.
Ice mining: 4s
Tunneling cost: 2s
Walling cost: 4s (at current y)

To move a portal takes 60 seconds. 15 to remove the obsidian, 10 to record the coordinates, and 15 to move and rebuild and relight. Also add 20 seconds to dig out the surrounding area and connect it to other portals and the roads

These numbers are on the high side, but then again i've never completed any of my projects in calculated time due to getting materials, food, and a bunch of other complications. I will assume these are correct for now.

I will estimate that there are 600 m of ice roads. 200m on the desertopia side, 200 on aeridani's side, and 200 near yqt. I will also guess that there are around 30 portals (around 10 in the desertopia region and probably similar amounts elsewhere). Therefore, to move everything up currently will require 6*600+30*60 = 5400 seconds. This seems like somewhat of an underestimate but i'll go by it for now.

Smooth tunnel junctions don't make travel faster. The vast majority of the time, I am trying to get to spawntown, not aeridani. A smooth junction would most likely result in overshooting, which would waste as much time as having to slowdown and speed up. And as high speed rail comes closer to reality, it is likely that there will be no difference between a perfectly flat junction and one involving one or two block gradients (because of ejector rails). It is probably the case that all tunnels at the same y level would not save any time nor waste any.

New ice tunnels will save 2 seconds per meter. Assuming two new players join each year and each build 60 meters of ice tunnels (480m overworld), and an additional 180m of ice tunnels is extended(1440m overworld), 300m of ice road is added onto the network each year, saving 600 seconds. At this rate, the costs of moving everything up will be recovered in 9 years.

It's not as simple though. I have a furnace center at y = 30 or so, a wither skelaton farm at the same level, and darvince still uses the blaze farm at y = 60. I make an average of 30 trips to the furnace a year and 50 to the wither skelaton a year. I assume other people take lava from the nether too, or travel down as it is hard to glowstone from the ceiling. If there are 100 trips to y = 60 each year, each taking 60 seconds from the ceiling (and 30 from the current level), then we are set back 3000 seconds per year, which means we have negative benefit.

If we allocate 3600 seconds to build 10 portal elevators to the most commonly descended places, then our total time cost is 9000 seconds which will take 15 years to recover.

If we move downwards, and assume there is no cost for making any trips up or down since we are not as far, then the original estimate of 9 years still stands.

I consider both 9 and 15 years somewhat optimistic for how long people will be playing on minecraft. The doomsday argument suggests something like 4 years. Therefore, I don't think it is worth the time.

I also consider 5400 seconds an underestimate, although some may consider it an overestimate. If they do, then I wouldn't mind them moving my portals and roads up there along with everyone else's -- it'd only take about half an hour of two people's time. I don't mean this in a condescending manner, but it's probably be more efficient than six people running around trying to connect everything.

While the mode of transport may be different (ice road, high speed rail, enderpearl), once the tunnel is built, changing the insides doesn't take different amounts of effort depending on where you are. I will install high-speed rail in my ice tunnels and fiah's when it comes out, so that is not a factor in my decision.

I've never been obstructed, bothered, or blocked by a ice road or similar tunnel before, and i like the aesthetic appearance of human dominance over the terrain, so that is also not a factor in my decision

So a battleground in the mesas? Hm

Personally, I don't like the idea of turning an already rare biome into a place where you destroy the terrain. However, it might make some sense to turn exactly such an area into a place where you fight for terrain, because the terrain has value. Even though stained clay is already common enough that you can't really call it rare I guess.

i agree that it's a bad idea to turn such a rare location into a battleground. unless the terrain there is somehow unique and radically changes battles, it doesn't accomplish anything except ruining the terrain.

i don't agree it makes sense that we fight over terrain that has value because that means battling becomes less of an optional part of gameplay and more necessary if people want clay. of course there is plenty of clay so this isn't as big of a problem (but don't disregard it either), but a similar battleground on the ice spikes would be an awful idea.

can't markers be done in dynmap? if you want to overlay the borders i suppose you'd have to do polygons to get it working officially.

 i could hack together a map viewer that accesses dynmap and overlaps the border layer, though the interface wouldn't be as nice.

requesting another 9000 endstone in the same (nonvisible) quarry.

i suppose you have to specify that the max build height is below the bottom block in the flag or else they'd just surround it with lava instead of putting it above, and that the flagpole is exempt from this max build height limitation

but isn't there that rule that the flag must be visible or something which means the defenders could not cover it in lava anyways so the build height rule is not necessary to prevent that from happening.

mfw i thought deathchest was uninstalled

why do you conduct a poll on every material once a month? wouldn't it be easier to conduct a poll on whatever material you need whenever there is a request in the voting center, which happens like once a year? unless you're just interested i knowing how much stuff you have all the time

multicraft accepts bitcoin payments.

that is all

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