Steelfeather's Enchanted was the pack that made me decide to go to using HD texture packs. I still love it, but I wanted a more complete texture pack for a while. I can't use the default texture pack anymore. The graininess of the textures makes my eyes hurt.

I'll have to clean up Dragon Keep before the server goes live... I was a complete and total ass and felt like pranking Dragon. However this prank came in the form of... well, I'll just let you look, Bio. It makes the mooshrooms in your tower incredibly tame by comparison.

Being unable to earn mcMMO points in Creative sounds like a good thing, to be honest. But I will tell him. It is a good thing to know, too.



Also, regarding the server, I'm hoping to have it open to all of you as of sometime next week. To help with some of the confusion, the server has been running in an official capacity for ... a week? Two? while we tested and debugged the mods as best we could. There may be some yet unforseen bugs because of our differences in play styles, but hopefully they won't be too bad. At the same time, we also set about building things, like Bio's Kurast and Dragon's Dragon Keep... and me doing the spawn city. That's how we've been able to build things that will be on the server.

Anyway, everything should be in a functional and well-designed capacity very soon. I have one more shop to finish, Mikage's shop, which is a bit hidden and Easter Egg-y, and was also mostly built by Dragon. There's a couple other things I need to do, but just about everything else, like my own personal build project, can wait until after the server is released to everyone.

I saw the prank earlier today, mainly because I like taking my aggression out on the hostiles around Dragon Keep. I'll say this, though, Aine: if we need to throw birthdays for all the forumites, we won't be lacking in treats.

EDIT: Oh, oh oh oh! I know not the Dueling Arena, but will splash potions be allowed in other PvP venues?

Last edited by BioKraze (04-21-2012 04:34:54 PM)

Aine Silveria wrote:

I do warn you guys, I am a prankster. Dragon is too. You may sign on some day to find your bedroom full of small slimes. Or chickens. Or I might do something I have yet to think of. I generally attempt to do pranks of a humorous & non-destructive nature. (even if I do want to fill your build with water). I kind of imagined this would be something that was not frowned upon. Please correct me if I am wrong.

That doesn't bother me, I don't think, as long as it's not something that's going to take me forever to clean up -- bearing in mind that I'll be in Survival mode and do not have enough empty buckets to bail out all that water.

And if you prank me, I reserve the right to put a random pressure plate on your doorstep and make you freak out. 

Last edited by satyreyes (04-21-2012 10:34:12 PM)

I cannot wait for this. 

Also, need build Akio's Cathouse and fill it with ocelots.

You know you guys want to join.

We've singing Little Mermaid parodies.

Do it.

It's been great fun so far! Even if I didn't know what song was being parodied.

Aine and Bio, thank you so much for doing all this.

(Let's try not staying up until seven in the morning most of the time though, ok?)

On the non-forum member thing, I personally don't care either way. Back when Dragon and I were kicking around the idea of a server privately because we were getting a bit tired of the server we were on and wanted the POWER AND CONTROL MWAHAHA- *ahem* wanted more flexibility and all, I had envisioned it as a public server. Then you guys came along and fulfilled my desire to be able to have a server as well as make people happy with it, and seemed to want a bit more of a closed server. I was cool with that too. As the server sits now, it's pretty much semi-private whitelisted with the ability to see if you like the server and the people. If you guys want to open it through the power of friend referrals, that's fine. My main desire is that the server not die for a goodly amount of time. Anything that fulfills that desire is fine by me, but I wouldn't mind hearing the rest of the members' opinions on it as well. I'm admin, which means I might get a heavier vote than most of you, but I do not want to do something that makes most of the people unhappy.

I tried logging in, manged to the server welcome message, and then got disconnected. Minecraft gave me the following error message: Internal exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

So do I just have bad internet or are their other problems at work?

I got it twice in quick succession yesterday (I think). Will try again later then.

Okay, now. When I was building Kurast, I included an admin-operated enchantment shop; if you've already warped there to see the big fuss, you may have seen it. This shop will, for a suitable fixed fee of many, many Rosettes, allow you to get the enchantments of your choice on a piece of armor or a weapon you provide to the admin. However, there are only three levels of enchantment you can get from this shop; the level 1, 2 and max level enchantments for a given type. The prices are deliberately prohibitive, because with PvP enabled just about everywhere except spawn city and Kurast (maybe others, I donno), we admins can't afford to have everybody whacking everybody else with overpowered gear. After all, that's our job, isn't it? (Isn't it? )

So. Anyway. Here is a list of all the prices, in Rosettes, of every enchantment type, what kind of gear it's for and how high the game naturally allows you to have an enchantment. I don't know about Aine or Dragon, and I don't know if the command we use caps it automatically, but I won't be selling enchantments that break the game's natural caps. Be warned that for successive enchantments on an item, there's a compound tax. For one enchantment, you pay no taxes. For two, you pay an additional 1,000 Rosettes; for three, you pay a total tax of 3,000 and for four, a max of 6,000. Admins will NOT be selling five enchantments or more on the same gear, no matter how much you bribe them. Even for a notorious modder of saveflles like myself, that's just going too far. :/

Keep in mind, the first number is in Rosettes for a level 1 enchantment, the second number is for level 2 and the third is for a max-level enchantment. Please don't ask about other levels right now; I'm working on the conversion rate, such as it is, for those.

=== Sword Enchantments ===
*Sharpness -- Increases damage against all foes [max level 5]
  3,000 + 1,500 --> 90,000
*Smite -- Increases damage against undead foes [max level 6]
  2,000 + 1,000 --> 60,000
*Bane of Arthropods --> Increases damage against insects [max level 5]
  2,000 + 1,000 --> 60,000
Fire Aspect -- Allows weapons to set foes on fire [max level 2]
  4,500 + 0 --> 30,000
Knockback -- Increases knockback distance on hit [max level 2]
  6,000 + 0 --> 60,000
Looting -- Increases quantity of mob drops on kill [max level 3]
  4,000 + 2,000 --> 120,000
*Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive enchantments.

=== Armor Enchantments ===
*Protection -- Decreases damage from all sources [max level 4]
  4,000 + 2,000 --> 120,000
*Fire Protection -- Decreases damage from fire [max level 4]
  2,000 + 1,000 --> 60,000
*Blast Protection -- Decreases damage from explosions [max level 4]
  3,000 + 1,500 --> 90,000
*Projectile Protection -- Decreases damage from projectiles [max leevl 4]
  2,000 + 1,000 --> 60,000
Feather Falling -- Decreases damage from falling (Boots only) [max level 4]
  1,000 + 500 --> 30,000
Respiration -- Decreases oxygen meter depletion and drowning rate (Helmet only) [max level 3]
  3,000 + 1,500 --> 90,000
Aqua Affinity -- Increases underwater mining rate [max level 1]
  5,000 + 0 --> 0
*Protection, Fire Protection, Blast Protection and Projectile Protection are mutually exclusive enchantments.

=== Tool Enchantments ===
Efficiency -- Increases speed of mining [max level 5]
  3,000 + 1,500 --> 90,000
Silk Touch -- Obtains blocks directly [max level 1]
  4,000 + 0 --> 0
Unbreaking -- Reduces rate of tool depletion [max level 3]
  6,000 + 3,000 --> 180,000
Fortune -- Increases drop rate of certain blocks [max level 3]
  3,000 + 1,500 --> 90,000

=== Bow Enchantments ===
Power -- Increases damage of arrows [max level 5]
  3,000 + 1,500 --> 90,000
Punch -- Increases knockback distance of arrows on hit [max level 2]
  2,000 + 0 --> 60,000
Flame -- Arrows set foes on fire with hit [max level 1]
  1,500 + 0 --> 0
Infinity -- Limitless arrows with only one arrow in inventory [max level 1]
  6,000 + 0 --> 0

The KING OF ALL DUCKS and I broke into The Tower of Zakarum and managed to ascend to the top floor!



Unfortunately, this is as close to the treasure as we could get. The magical seal on the teasure chest would not be broken despite our best efforts.

Supposedly the password is "Two words, one line" and is what Bio received his forum title for. As we all know, satyr dubbed him the Faceless Master in recognition of his long running RP "The Faceless Masses." Unfortunately Faceless Masses did not unlock the chest. Nor any variation of punctuation we attempted. Shinobi Dreams did not work, neither did Story Keeper nor Masanori Kojima.

Ultimately we left empty handed, after OITL had banged her head against the wall and then moved in.

Nope, we're just out of town would-be tower thieves. First I scaled the roof, then OITL managed to slip through the door at ground level. Relatedly, did you know throwing an Ender Pearl will teleport you to the place where it lands?