Linux Minecraft; Official Bit-tech server

Cacti arent to bad as monsters bounce off them when they die saving most of the loot.

Finally a proper reason to build something *runs off to build castle/arena*

 

Ehm yeah, i think so..

 

ARGH!

So, I'm testing my door trap theory in SP and it doesn't work. Water doesn't flow through either one door or two doors opening at the same time (thanks to redstone) - it just stays behind it So there goes my "open the lever, wash them away" trap. Serious Boo. Back to the drawing board.

Also found this out: Monsters won't spawn on half steps!

 

I've found 2 monstor spawners in the first 2 days on playing on the server, although I had to drop TNT on both of them

 

Whyyyy.. you can farm them for items, just place a bunch of torches and it prevents mobs from spawning

 

That's valuable information, especially if, ot rather when, Notch desides to implement the torch-go-out-after-a-period-of-time feature..

 

They'll be replaced by glowstones and/or lanterns when he does

 

Hopefully the nether will work perfectly on SMP by that point. Lanterns would be such a drain on minecart resources.

 

Monsters don't spawn on glass, or leaves either.

 

I know that, but where do you get glowstones from? The nether, and I don't think I have the guts to go down there - I feel it's creepy enough in peaceful-mode..

That's good to know too, but glass takes time and resources to make (sand and coal) but step-stone uses cobblestone and we have that in abundance!

 

Yea, and also, there's no Nether in MP unless XM wants to move forward with the dual server idea


The Nether would be awesome.

 

Found my first cavern on the SMP server. Anyone else want to go adventuring in it with me some time? Caverns are actually quite scary >_< seriously I jumped a frickin' mile when I heard a skeleton the other side of a wall and I knew it was there (SP) anyway so yeah...

 

theres a mob spawner in the mine under my house, but its quite deep. for now i just encased it to keep mobs from flooding my tunnels.

bindi, in case you havnt already experimented and found your answers: yes levers hold doors open/closed until flipped the other direction. and you can control as many items with a single lever as you wish. keep in kind redstone signal needs to be inverted every 15 (?) blocks or else it stops.

 

Well if you make a double door + simple lever please show me!

My monster trapper v1.5 is working perrrfectly now hehe, shame no creepers have dropped records yet

 

They only drop records if a skeleton shoots them AFAIK

 

Really?? :S bugger it

 

I had a monster spawner in my caves, but I destroyed it :/ Shouldn't matter too much, it only spawned spiders.

 

Anyone seen any skeletons riding a spider yet also?

 

Shoot a creeper 4 times with a bow, then trick a skeleton into shooting at you with a creeper in the way.

 

Anyone else having trouble logging in now?
An update went out, and now I get the error message "malformed input around byte 8"

"malformed input"?
WTF? Is it mutated? How is it malformed? :S

Edit: Aw crap! After checking Notch's blog it seems this is a mandatory update for servers. However, there is some good stuff included in it! Wool dyes and working paintings finally! Yay!

And crap! This means we'll have to wait for an update to hmod as well as minecart mania... Oh well...will be a couple of days of MC abstinence then...