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We should make Robin Williams an honorary >XI< member:

http://www.craveonline.com/gaming/articles/741349-rip-robin-williams-8-video-games-loved-play

Thanks, but I don't really do 12 packs.  I'm a microbrew kinda guy and that stuff doesn't usually come in cans...

Hey i know this is coming late Awol, but the power armor (which can have a jetpack installed) can be made invisible.... Thats why you never saw me wearing armor but i was wearing armor

But you still have to deal with keeping things charged and I don't really want to bother. I have just been not flying at all. I've also heard that jetpacks are no good for building which is actually what I'd want flying for. I don't enjoy flying all over the map looking for fortresses to raid. I go mining for materials and build. That's the way I play Minecraft. And I don't really want to go through a thousand steps to get the stuff I need to build what I want.

A lot of games these days seem to think tedium = difficulty. So if an easy quest is "collect 10 x" a hard quest might be "collect 1000 x". This isn't really changing the difficulty. There's a mod that is sometimes included in FTB called GregTech that is a prime example of this. The only thing this does is change recipes so that they are more tedious to build. A good example of this is a quarry. Normally it takes the following items to build a quarry:

• 1 Redstone
• 11 Diamond
• 16 Gold Ingot
• 28 Iron Ingot
• 28 Cobblestone
• 30 Stick

With GregTech this changes to:

• 4 Lapis Lazuli
• 4 Glowstone
• 16 Redstone
• 12 Copper
• 19 Rubber
• 3 Refined Iron
• 11 Diamond
• 16 Gold Ingot
• 16 Iron Ingot
• 28 Cobblestone
• 28 Stick
• 2 Titanium Ingot
• 17 Steel
• 4 Tin

This increases the tedium and makes players build a bunch more machines before they can build a quarry but it doesn't really make it any harder.

Thanks, everyone

will you now? with our money? we have less players supporting minecraft than we did bf3 and look what happened to the bf3 servers

Fir3 started out paying for this server out of his own pocket.  It has become his project and he is the head admin.  And it's not your money, it's clan money and Fir3 is part of the clan as is Chappie.  There may be fewer players supporting Minecraft but those players tend to donate significantly more money.  And if money becomes a problem either Fir3 or I alone can afford to support the server by ourselves if needs be and one or both of us would step up.

I vote for /fly to come back.... its an XI server not a FIR3 and chappie server

I'm not upset that they disabled /fly.  They are the admins and make the decisions on what they are going to allow and what they are not going to allow.  They are trying to set things up that the game is the most fun they can for the users.  The best guide for that is what they find fun for themselves.

If they change something that you don't like, tell them what you don't like and why and if enough people chime in objecting to the change then they'll most likely change it back unless they changed it for performance reasons.  One person logging on and acting like an ass isn't going to influence them to change things.

-edit-

One thing to keep in mind: Minecraft is a game and only a game and there are a crapload of Minecraft servers out there.  Try not to invest too much into it emotionally because it's really not worth it.  If you're having fun, great.  If not let folks know why and maybe they'll fix it.  If they don't there are always other Minecraft servers and other games besides Minecraft.

I don't like jetpacks.  I've played with them before and they are a pain in the butt to build and keep going.  If you don't have fly mode they're great but compared to /fly jetpacks suck rocks.  Most of them you have to keep charged up and the only way to have them charge on their own is with a dorky hat.  Even then you can't just fly all you want without running out of juice because the hat doesn't charge the jetpack as fast as flying discharges it.

Chappie has said he thinks they look cool but I don't even like wearing armor.  I'd rather cruise around in just the skin I always use.  Every piece of armor or jetpack or whatever always looks clunky and lame to me.

I like to build.  Anything that gets in the way of that like having complex recipes that are made of things that all have complex recipes that are made of things that have complex recipes... etc... isn't fun for me.  It's just grinding and a pain.  I don't feel like I've accomplished anything significant by building and upgrading items.  When I first played FTB that was fun for me but now I'm bored with that stuff and don't want to deal with it.

My vote is definitely to turn /fly back on for donators.  Let the non-donators build jetpacks if they want but I'd rather stick with /fly.

Well, it has been an interesting three months.  Several server transitions and staffing changes have certainly kept it from being boring.

Yep, they're adding the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog to Minecraft:

From http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/14w27a

• The killer rabbit of Caerbannog
  • 1/1000 chance of spawning; it is hostile and deals 5 () on easy, 8 () on normal difficulty and 12 () on hard
  • A reference to the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • It is perfectly white except for its mouth, which has a blood red outline
  • It can be directly spawned in with the command /summon Rabbit ~ ~ ~ {RabbitType:99}

There is amazingly little dirt in your dirt hut.

It's currently running YogCraft (References: http://ftbwiki.org/YogCraft_Pack http://yogscast.wikia.com/wiki/YogCraft and http://atlwiki.net/Yogscast_Complete_Pack) which recommends you use the ATLauncher: http://www.atlauncher.com/

Tim Bedore talked about moving his daughter to NYC for college where he saw a guy with a sign saying "Will Tap Dance for Weed".  He said "only in New York" but I could totally see that same thing happening here in Madison.

Alex

All I do is build. Alone.

For a sec I read this as "All I do is bud. Alone"

My response to that is: Talk about putting the "lump" in Manlump.

Just went through the challenges on SkyBlock and figured I'd post how many times I'd done each one:

Rank: Easy
cobblestonegenerator: 6 times
applecollector: 90 times
wheatfarmer: 146 times
cactusfarmer: 364 times
sugarfarmer: 67 times
melonfarmer: 381 times
pumpkinfarmer: 143 times
 
Rank: Medium
monsterslayer: 1 time
expertfarmer: 5 times
fisherman: 1 time
lumberjack: 9 times
cookielover: 1 time
adeptbuilder: 1 time (non-repeatable)
homeowner: 1 time (non-repeatable)
 
Rank: Hard
netherportal: 1 time (non-repeatable)
pearlcollector: 1 time
slimefarmer: 0 times
baker: 56 times
explorer: 1 time
expertguilder: 1 time (non-repeatable)
 
Rank: Master
woolcollector: 1 time
maestro: 0 times
emeraldcollector: 1 time
topchef: 1 time
skylord: 0 times

So I have completed a grand total of 1279 challenges.

Alex

If you build something in single player and want a picture of it, but taking a screen shot in game just isn't pretty enough you should try Chunky:

Chunky - Minecraft mapping and rendering tool - Minecraft Forum

Alex

the shop needs to sell glowstones

and also crackled stone bricks, well all the special stones

If you place a piece of stone brick and with an empty hand right click so that it says "**YOU READY YOUR FISTS**" and then left click the stone brick twice quickly in succession it turns into cracked stone brick.  If you right click on stone brick with seeds there is a chance of turning it into mossy stone brick that depends on your mcmmo herbalism rank.

Alex

Congrats!

I go between hysterical amusement and chills:

[edit] Oh, and yes, I *DO* have a daughter and a step-daughter...

lol!  that's the rejected-cartoons guy right?

 

Pretty dark humor..

 

Yep, that's him.

I would join you but I lost my mine craft game lol.

 

So what your saying is sort of like scroll shooting in COD lol

If you still have access to the email you used when you signed up for Minecraft you should still be able to go through the "Forgot my password" process to get your account back.  If not it gets more complicated.  You can still email their support department but they might need to do something like verify the credit card you used to pay for it or something.

I don't know what scroll shooting is, so I couldn't comment on that though.  There have always been macro enabled keyboards and mice so Auto Hotkey is no more cheating than those would be.  If you have moral objections nobody is going to make you use it though.

Optifine is a mod that can really significantly improve your Minecraft experience.  My experience is after I install Optifine it makes Minecraft run as smooth as butter.  The easiest way to install Optifine is through MC Patcher:

Minecraft Forums MC Patcher Topic

Alex

I was not able to figure out what language this is, but it's pretty amusing:

Wisdom Teeth by Don Hertzfeld

This site is pretty sweet if you're looking for a specific enchant:

Minecraft Enchantment Calculator

Alex

Is your middle finger worn to a stub or have you resorted to resting bricks, books or beer cans on your mouse when harvesting your cobble generator in SkyBlock?  There is an alternative:  AutoHotkey.

AutoHotkey is a little program that allows you to create a script to bind keys to certain behaviors.  In my case I used the following script so that when I press the "Z" key my left mouse button goes down until I press the "Z" key again:

z::

Toggle:=GetKeyState("LButton")

Send % "{Click " . ( Toggle ? "Up}" : "Down}" )

return

I first came across this utility in this forum post:

Minecraft, hold left mouse button

Later I also found these additional Minecraft related scripts:

Minecraft Scripts!

Alex

This is, in my opinion, the best review of Minecraft ever but it is definitely not safe for work, children or people without a sense of humor:

Zero Punctuation: Minecraft

Alex