BioKraze wrote:

Spawn shouldn't have been affected, given our load distance and Elizea's distance from spawn.

Little-known Minecraft fact: spawn is always loaded. I'm not sure what the radius is, but the chunks around spawn just don't unload, which makes them an ideal place for certain kinds of farms and such that you want to always have running.

Hope you and Aine get everything sorted out!

Oh man, I didn't even realize that the server went down.  How did I miss this?

I'd say I'd take up the task, but… I don't really know how.  I suspect it isn't too difficult to find out, so… maybe someday I will.

I miss meeting up with people on the server.  I miss sinking way too many hours into building a nonexistent city.  I miss seeing what other people built.

So, I'll see.  Maybe.

The server was fun, and I do miss it, in truth. That said... I was rather the one who'd convinced Aine to bring it offline, though they were the one who chose to upload the files to Dropbox. There was a lot of stress there, and as one of their best friends, I couldn't really bring myself to watch them under that stress without doing something.

I'm pretty sure there are other hosts out there – perhaps not as inexpensive as Fluctis was, but likely also much more stable and reliable than Fluctis had become. I know I won't say "no" to anybody picking up where we left off and finding a server.

...in truth, managing a server is a lot easier than it might seem. Or, at least, it seemed that way to me (yay for having back-end access!).I do have two Drive docs up, one for our last known whitelist population (with UUIDs to boot) and a co-ordinate listing of all interesting places and builds that were last on the server (or, at least, everywhere I knew of when I updated said list). I can link them here if anybody wants to take a crack at resurrecting it?

Wow, not gonna turn down that offer.  After playing Minecraft with other people, playing it solo feels like, what's the point?  I could build a really huge spectacular thing, but no one's gonna see it.  Plus, I miss running into people and being able to chat in real time.

Also, looks like I could just pay for server hosting where other people do all the really difficult stuff, and… it would probably be about as much as the Hulu and Crunchyroll subscriptions that I pay for and never use.  Have I mentioned that I'm kind of terrible at money?  Except that I manage to be terrible in ways that are small enough that they don't get me in any trouble, so… does that make me not terrible at money?

So who would be interested in a highly modded server?

edit: So, it was Funimation, not Crunchyroll, and a dedicated server would be… more (like, a little less than twice as much more) but given how long I paid for those two, not so much more that I would really mind.

Last edited by Kita-Ysabell (06-30-2016 05:27:28 PM)

Kita-Ysabell wrote:

Aright, Minecraft username is Kita_Ysabell.

Went thread spelunking, found this.  Have no reason to think it's changed.

Also, I was gonna do internet things and get back to people, maybe get the FTB Infinity server up and running, but we had some folks working in the yard, and they cut the cable cable, so… the only internet I get is through my phone, and a) it's slow as heck and b) I'm a bit worried about using it too much.  Repair should be in tomorrow, though I'm actually working a fair bit tomorrow as well, so… I have no idea when I'd be able to get it up and running, it really depends how much work it'll take and if the repair guy knows how to do his job properly.

In the meantime, I've got a map I'd like to see if I can upload for the server, and I'm trying to make starter backpacks for people.

Also, here's what I'm thinking for rules and setup:

1) Survival only.  Don't worry, after you get yourself set up a bit, you're much more powerful than in vanilla Minecraft.  I've got a set of tools, not that advanced, which work nearly as quickly as creative click-to-delete, and have durability in the hundreds.  If you get far enough into the right modpacks, you can even fly.

2) No mob spawning.  Partially because of the above, partially because there are some really tough mobs.  Again, this doesn't mean there aren't any mobs, mob spawners still produce them, and there's definitely more mob spawners about than there are in Vanilla.  For instance, I was wandering about, and I seem to have found a fucking spider tree.  Why.  Why would such a thing exist.  Plus you can summon stuff.  I just don't want to deal with the zombie hordes or what-have-you of a blood moon, or not being able to get a build properly under way because I'm constantly running away from creepers.

3) I'm thinking I should turn mob griefing off, that was rather nice.  Granted, less mobs, so it should be less of a problem, but still.  I think those Gaia guardians might have attacks that can affect blocks or something.

4) PvP in marked areas only.  Because I am a pacifist wimp. (see above)  But if you don't want to be, then feel free to mark areas otherwise.

5) No resource collection in other players' claimed chunks unless given express permission.  Wilderness?  Fine.  Your chunks?  Fine.  But if it's someone else's territory, take only pictures, leave only footprints, so on and so forth, unless you contact them and they say it's okay, or put up a sign, or leave a book, or something.  And yes, the whole chunk claiming is a mechanic of the mods.  It's really nifty.

6) I'm thinking I'd claim spawn, build a greeting hut with starter backpacks, (BACKPACKS!!) maybe leave some edifying literature around or something, but if someone else wants to, I'll just provide the backpacks.  Seriously, I've got like, three already.  It took a while to breed the cotton up to a level where it wouldn't take an age to produce enough for the cloth, but it's done now.  And most of the food is prepared, and I pretty much have the materials for tools, tool benches, and beds.  Need more wool for scoops though.  But that should be pretty much everything for starter packs.

7) General anti-jerk rules: don't mess with people's builds, clean up any pranks, don't write slander in 50-block-high neon lights unless the target doesn't mind, you know the drill.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions?

Status update:

Server is live.

IP address: TheOutsideWorld.playat.ch

How to Connect: Download Minecraft Infinity Evolved through Curseforge or the Feed the Beast launcher, and add the version of Iguana's Tinker's Tweaks from Regrowth.  Boot up the game through the launcher, click Multiplayer, add server, and input the IP address.  Let me know if it doesn't work.  Or does.

Things I need to know:  If territories and waypoints show up for people, what folks think of the settings, who wants to claim a town, if anyone has any questions or comments that I can in any way deal with.  Also where spawn is, but I think I can find that out on my own.

Note: I have no idea how any of this works, aside from "there are files on a server somewhere, it plays Minecraft."  I followed instructions until it looked like it was going to do what I wanted, and it turned out it did.  Honestly Sat and Bio know way better than I do what's going on, but damnit, I'm running this thing, and it hasn't broken yet.

Hope to see you there, Sat!

I can give you the worst introductory tour ever!  "Over here we have some trees, and over here we have... some more trees, and over there we have some blood cultists or something honestly I don't know, don't get too close or they'll attack you and neither of us has a weapon."

The Welcome Pavilion might be the laziest spawn build anyone's ever bothered to make, but a) I didn't want to add doors or anything in case spawn protection made them un-usable, b) I'm in survival, so that puts a damper on the grandiosity of everything (so long as I let it) and c) I really haven't gotten into the creative potential of this mod pack.

Also: as of speaking, any town with a Roman numeral in the waypoint name is up for grabs.  If waypoints show up for everyone.  And you can use them to teleport properly.

And if anyone can find water bees for me (that's why the starting packs have scoops) I can work on getting free infinite (albeit slow) diamond production set up.  Until then, I'm getting started on bee breeding, I'll see how long it takes to get a decent stock of starting breeds.  And the industrial infrastructure necessary to do so.

Status Update:

Too Many Mods server is still running.  Theoretically.  I haven't checked it in a while, but one time it shut down and I fiddled with it a bit and got it working again, so I'm fairly sure if that happens again, I can fix it again.

HOWEVER, I'm about to pay for the third month of this service, and as far as I know, I'm the only person who's ever logged on.  If I'm mistaken about this, please let me know, and if you've been meaning to but haven't… I would appreciate an ETA, though I do understand that real life comes first.  I got a deal on hosting, so I'm a little reluctant to cancel it if there's going to be interest in the future, but if I'm really the only person who's ever going to be on, then… I'm paying for nothing, and that's pointless.

Heck, if you know someone else who might play but they're not on the forum?  Fine!  Lurking on the forum, don't want to become a member, but interested in checking out the server?  Great!  Might be hard to get feedback to and from you, but I'm willing to roll with it.  Have an objection to the rules that prevents you from hopping on?  Let me know, I can work with that!   It's not whitelisted, so anyone can join, but I'm not going to post info about it anywhere but here, or send info to people I know personally who might join, so it's probably always be a fairly small, more-or-less select group.

Anyway, not going to take any action on this anytime soon, it's not a particularly urgent concern.

DIAMOND BEES!  WOO!

In other news, Mystcraft is horribly broken.  Which is okay-ish, I was leaning on the side of forbidding it anyways, given that it can take horrendously enormous amounts of memory, given that it creates entire new realms on the scale of the regular ones.  Maybe I can disable it?

Double-post sorta-edit: I have everything but one specific structure finished. I take credit only for decorations and formatting. Most everything else was made on deviantART by a specific user. I just cleaned things up a bunch.

Here's an elegant and finely-crafted link to the blueprints. ZIP format instead of RAR, because not everybody uses WinRAR. Each folder is a set of blueprints for a specific building.

Too Many Mods Server Update:

The modpack updated and I did not.  If it is/becomes a problem, I can go through that process, but someone's gotta want it, 'cause it is a process.

I think you can still access the server through the regular version of Infinity Evolved (see instructions above) or even regular Minecraft, though then you wouldn't have player-side mods like Not Enough Items or whatever it's called that makes crafting all the millions of things not impossible.  Or the map including the waypoints and chunk claiming feature so really maybe it's better if you don't.  If you try and something does or does not work, or you want links or files or help troubleshooting, let me know.  I'm generally on IRG at least daily, PMs are a good way to get in touch.

I've already started building roads to random towns, I'm going to start fixing them up to generally be… walkable and not buried if no one says otherwise.

Edit to add: Jetpack acquired!  I thought I'd take a shot at flight, so I made a tier 1 (leadstone) jetpack from Simply Jetpacks.  Once I figured out how to make it hover it was quite nice, beforehand it was borderline suicide to use the thing, and on its own it'll make building much easier, but I'm definitely ready up for an upgrade or two to make flight less terrible and less short-lived.  Also maybe make a solar-powered charging station (for jetpacks and other things) over by the spawn pavilion.

Last edited by Kita-Ysabell (03-15-2017 01:22:17 PM)

Server Update

Server is still running, and functioning just fine.  I added Iguana's Tinker Tweaks, and Creeperhost has made adding mods much easier, so that was not a fraction of the nightmare it was last time.

Since joining the server is now very slightly more difficult, I created a set of instructions here.  Aside from a minor cropping incident, they should be pretty straightforward and easy-to-follow.

Last edited by Kita-Ysabell (06-15-2017 10:48:48 PM)