Minecraft?

[Bagnaj97]

I still plan on making the old map available in 1.8.1, and if anyone wants a copy I will make it available via FTP or something once the server has been upgraded.

I'm not sure how far people have explored on our "old" map, but new chunks will generate with the 1.8 terrain generator I believe. If that's the case we could continue with our current map. As you can switch people to creative mode you could easily move the spawn to new terrain and run a rail back to our current area. Best of both worlds?

[Pob255]

AFAIK no, it will not, a map generated under 1.7, it will still use the 1.7 biomes.
You'll get 1.8 features such as food & hunger changes and new mobs, but not the new biomes.

[Allen]

Bagna is correct, a 1.7.3 map used in 1.8.* will generate new terrain on unexplored chunks. However, this can lead to problems where different biomes get half loaded next to each other in adjacent chunks.

So you could have a flat open field and then suddenly, a flat mountain sticking straight up.

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/ques...vious-versions

[Allen]

Craftbukkit updated 20 mins ago to say they latest dev build was pretty stable. I think I will chuck a copy up soon.

That said, I need to rebuild the server first. I will shut down the minecraft server and backup the world files at some point today, it should only be down for an hour or so. If it's gonna be any longer I will update on here.

[MadduckUK]

not ideal, but i had imagined worse... the N,S,E,W are quite well explored, but the NW,NE,SW,SE between the "paths" are pretty much untouched, by me anyway. walking diagonally feels weird.

[Allen]

You'd be surprised how little is explored, except the massive path leading off north.

http://77.246.165.130:8123/

So, we can keep this map and just go south, east or west a few chunks and see what we get spawned under 1.8.

Alternatively, I have an idea. Will test it and see what it's like.

[Allen]

The 1.8.1 vanilla server is now running our old map. Please login and see what it's like if you can (am at work).

[Allen]

As a reminder, same IP as the other server, but on the standard Minecraft port.

[Pob255]

ummm what's the standard minecraft port?

I still think it would be good to restart with a new map, as the start is normally the most fun part.

What we could do is hunt down a village and reset the spawn point there to give us a bit of a starting shelter.

[Output]

According to Minecraft Wiki, it is 25565. Though it appears that you don't really have to enter the port if it's on the default one anyway.

I like the fact that the Minecraft client now allows you to have a list of servers, instead of just the one screen for an IP and port, as it means you don't have to be messing about with IPs and ports if you like to visit more than one server. Plus you can name them so that you know exactly what server you are connecting to.

[Pob255]

Yes I looked it up right after I posted that

Just gathering supplies and then I'm off exploring to the SW 9remembering a compass this time so I can get back


edit: when it doesn't crash

[Pob255]

List of current issues:

the graphics for chests is borked, can be fixed by smashing and replaceing it.

same for pictures.

rains underground/inside buildings in some places

[Pob255]

I headed of South west over the ice sheet


Which was part of the original map


That looks like the edge of the old biome to me.


I found a village right on the edge, so it's generateing the new biomes alright.
However the village is a bit messed up, one of the houses is half buried, quite a few have messed up floors, with earth blocks inside them.
And one had an invisible wall, it looked like the end had got cut off, when I tried to walk through it, it blocked me and did damage.

[Pob255]

I found another issue, chameleon blocks.

I was sailing along haveing the old map spaz issue, because map sections seem to be generated underground first before the surface, if you run out into a new area, esp with oceans, you can often see all the underground stuff before it creates the ocean bed.
When I spotted something interesting a good distance down, that had a vertical shaft up to near the surface.
The ocean bed caught up and it was a very small island made of dirt.
So I started to dig down, only to find that about half the dirt is actually sand, it's got the dirt texture, but break it and it's sand, dig under it and it falls and turns into the correct texture.
I started digging into the stone below the chameleon sand and found chameleon coal and gravel in the stone.
it looks like normal rock right up until it breaks.

[Allen]

CraftBukkit RB for 1.8.1 has been released, I will try and get the server updated today.

[Allen]

I am taking the server offline now. I have to migrate it to another host and rebuild it to include a vm tool compatible kernel (something I did wrong when I built it a while ago), should have it back up and running soon.