re: OFFICIAL TD.COM MINECRAFT SERVER: PART DEUX

You mentioned having to eventually wipe the server soon for a perma fix to the problems, is that still going to happnen, or has your recent adjustment fixed everything?

Wondering before I put alot of time into possibly recreating my castle or vault system.

Well, it was less that and more of a personal want to start a fresh world with plugins from the getgo

No, I will not unilaterally wipe the world though.

That will be up by a majority vote of players who.

Looks like we'll be needing to start a new world in 1.9.

Nether specific:

Nether blocks: Nether brick, Nether Fence, Nether Stairs LINK
Nether brick is flammable, it will stay on fire regular than a regular stone block but not indefinitely like Netherrack. Nether fences cannot be lit on fire.
Nether Terrain Features: Strongholds & bridges of Nether brick (can be MASSIVE complexes) LINK
Blazeman- Nether mob, A sort of Fire Elemental that comes from spawners and shoots fireballs LINK
Magma Cube- Nether mob, look like a slime but upon jump they uncoil like a spring. They also will split apart into smaller versions of themselves when hit like slimes. LINK
Nether items: Blaze Rod (dropped by new mob), Nether Wart (new crop) , Ghast Tear, Gold Nuggets (dropped by zombie pigmen)(put 9 of them together to craft into a gold bar)
Farm-able Nether crop (Nether Warts), only plantable on soul sand.
Ghast fireballs do not damage new Nether materials.
Other than the gold nuggets, no uses for other new Nether items are known yet.


NPC Related:

NPCs in villages, one main model with different colors for different "jobs." Pics here: LINK
NPCs will not react to attacks on other NPCs
Hostile mobs will not go after NPCs, but can kill them while coming after you.
NPCs do not have any specific purpose of actions yet, they kinda just walk around.
NPCs will only appear in towns newly generated in 1.9; if you have villages generated in any stage of 1.8 there will be no NPCs


Other features:

Swamps: darker colored water and lily pads LINK LINK
The shade of the water seems to depend on the biome the water is located in: If you pour "swamp water" into a non-swamp biome, you get normal-shade water. If said water flows from a non-swamp biome into a swamp biome, it changes colour at the biome border.
Red flowers and Snow Biomes are back!
Mushroom Biome! purple tinted grass and large mushrooms growing. LINK
"Mooshroom" cows appear in Mushroom biome, can be sheared to get mushrooms and then turn into regular cows LINK
Snow "Golem"- can be crafted by placing two snow blocks vertically on the ground, and then placing a pumpkin head on top of them. NOTE: They are crafted by block placement not a crafting square! LINK LINK
Rain is re-textured.
Water and Lava leak through adjacent blocks. LINK
Chests now make no sound at all.
Holding space no longer allows sustained jumping; must tap jump key for each jump.
Lava and Water Interactions: (to be clear)
When flowing lava hits flowing water = smooth stone
When flowing lava hits still water = smooth stone
When flowing water hits flowing lava = cobblestone
When flowing water hits still lava = obsidian

Bug Related:
FIXED-

Stair lighting issues Except with smoothstone stairs
Experience bar changes every time the player jumps (Jeb tweeted that it's not a bug, it "is to test SMP exp orbs... ;)"
Swamp water and regular water appearing side by side for bad visuals. LINK (left side)
Reports of a lot of players having major FPS problems. Lag spikes of death are not yet defeated :(
Bow sometimes has extra-long melee range?
Swamp Grass blocks have improper grass coloring on their sides.
Shearing "Mooshroom" cows gives the "getting wood" achievement
Shift clicking items when you craft doesn't get tracked in your stats properly
Preexisting light sources (lave, flaming netherrack, etc) might not give off light properly.

That's fine as well. Whatever you guys want to do.

I would then just dissuade anyone from going "exploring" or wandering about...we want to save any new chunk generation for 1.9.

Hopefully people don't. If we have to go out too far to get to new things, I guess we could start a new server. Just sucks to remake a map every time a patch is released when we make so much progress.

There is a middle of the road solution possible....

I am looking into it.


Right now I am looking at and debating what I am going to do with the server. Expect fairly decent changes in the next day or so. Not to the core mechanics of course, but add ons and the like. For instance, mild-RPG elements where you get XP for mining, fighting, etc, which in turn makes you more efficient at that. Instances/dungeons to clear, etc.

The goal is that I want the server to be a little bit more than just single player played with other people.

Bump

To lazy to go find a good texture pack for 1.8

I was using FutureCraft but does not support 1.8

Where do you get the melon seed from?

Yeah we found it the other day. I traded 15 bread for one seed and now I have enough melon growing for everyone. I'm thinking about building a really really large greenhouse outside the village for about 100 watermelon plants.