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  1. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I can think of nothing more thematically appropriate for Greek myth than to grant invulnerability just to spite someone who wants to die.

    I can think of nothing more thematically appropriate for Greek myth than to grant invulnerability just to spite someone who wants to die.

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  2. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Thank you for this! As for the unwanted guests, they paid as much as anyone else to stay there. I hope you didn't hurt any of the other inn customers!

    Thank you for this! As for the unwanted guests, they paid as much as anyone else to stay there. I hope you didn't hurt any of the other inn customers!

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  3. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    @bo0tzz, I don't know if you've done any more tinkering, but I managed to make something out of minecraft's bespoke water physics. With the aid of 50 separate flying machines one can create a...

    @bo0tzz, I don't know if you've done any more tinkering, but I managed to make something out of minecraft's bespoke water physics.

    With the aid of 50 separate flying machines one can create a "mountain" of water over the entire 128x128 block area of the glass map art platform, thereby breaking any and all carpet placed over its surface. It barely works, but it does (mostly) work.

    This is the device, surrounding the glass map art surface covered in yellow carpet. First, it releases a curtain of water right in front of the banks of flying machines. The flying machines travel at the rate water spreads, so are able to pull the water forward, but only so far.* But, by chaining 10 machines together, they can pull the water along the entire platform. Then they return to their original positions leaving behind 50m tall semi-permanent mountains of water. All the water can be made to slowly drain by closing off the original water source blocks. Then, the platform would be clear and ready** for the next design!

    It's very fragile, a little lossy (Expecting about 7 carpet lost to the void per flush cycle), unwieldy, would be difficult to build, and I hope a much more elegant system of moving source blocks exists to solve this problem instead. But if moving water source blocks proves untenable, then at least we have a weird solution.

    * In most of these shots, it will look like entire sections of the machine are horribly broken, but rest assured, those are graphical glitches that happen on my computer whenever I try to run this machine. Bodes well, right?
    ** Current designs leave exactly 50 carpet unbroken on the platform, and another ~160 carpet to be manually picked up from the corners and other naughty places that catch carpet for no reason at all, but the other 98.5% of the carpet is picked up by the hoppers surrounding the platform. The whole flushing procedure takes about 4-5 minutes.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Definitely shows more promise than most of my designs. I'm going to download the world file from that video, but right now I'm trying out a stationary water column pushed out by a simple flying...

    Definitely shows more promise than most of my designs. I'm going to download the world file from that video, but right now I'm trying out a stationary water column pushed out by a simple flying machine. We'll see how it goes.

  5. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    So, thanks to the efforts of @Evie and @bo0tzz, the glass platform is complete and open for (manual) business!* If you'd like to make some transparent map art, go right ahead. The intention is...

    So, thanks to the efforts of @Evie and @bo0tzz, the glass platform is complete and open for (manual) business!*

    If you'd like to make some transparent map art, go right ahead. The intention is mostly for carpet map art, but as long as you clear up after yourself, feel free to use whatever blocks you want. The hopper collection system and carpet sorting system is finished, and all that I need to add is the flying machine water system to flush out all the carpet.

    However! it turns out that making a moving water source block is less trivial than I first thought it might be. Water sources must be 0-tick pushed (not pulled) by a sticky piston or are destroyed. This complicates even further when it comes to 2-way flying machines. Most flying machines with water components are seeking to create a linear curtain of water, and not just a moving waterfall.** The only video I've been able to find close to what I'm wanting to build is this, but it'll take a lot of tinkering and altering to get it to work for my purposes. If anyone who has more experience with flying machines (I built my first one yesterday) wants to do some tinkering to try to get a 2-way source-block-moving flying machine, let me know, I'd love some help.

    * We'll talk later about whether to translate or transliterate your names into hieroglyphics soon

    ** The curtain idea might work, if it can be made 2-direction and so that it destroys the source blocks on its return journey, but this also seems tricky

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    A Plea for Help with an Eternal Reward! If anyone is willing to fill in the glass platform in the end with glass (all materials in a chest just to the south), and mine all the endstone bits...

    A Plea for Help with an Eternal Reward!

    If anyone is willing to fill in the glass platform in the end with glass (all materials in a chest just to the south), and mine all the endstone bits underneath the glass, let me know. For, then I will build unto you a mighty tomb! A vast mastaba tomb near my pyramid complex, complete with a custom made slab stele to commemorate your deeds for all eternity!*

    A Listing of the Gods!

    Who all has ever been given admin privileges for any amount of time? @teaearlgraycold and @creesch obviously, and I think @Evie ran the shutdown command on season 1 or 2, but I feel like I'm missing a few others who've run a command or two on the server. I'm looking to create a pantheon of other minor deities, so has anyone one else ever been "Elevated" in some way?

    *Offer valid only once I actually start the pyramid complex, and contingent on time/dedication/sleepiness.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    @bo0tzz What external decor were you thinking of for the sand duper on the End side? I'm wanting to make a path to the map area, but don't want to interfere with any tentative plans in the future.

    @bo0tzz What external decor were you thinking of for the sand duper on the End side? I'm wanting to make a path to the map area, but don't want to interfere with any tentative plans in the future.

  8. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I've started to build out the End map art platform just NE of the central end island. I was thinking having it close would be convenient, but should I move the platform further out into the void...

    I've started to build out the End map art platform just NE of the central end island. I was thinking having it close would be convenient, but should I move the platform further out into the void (for mob spawns/lag/interfering with the duper)?
    Figured I'd ask before I built the whole thing...

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    @Ethinolicbob I was smelting some shulkers of sand at the smelter, and after 4 shulkers perfectly processed, the 5th run output 6 hopper minecarts one at a time over the course of the smelt. I...

    @Ethinolicbob I was smelting some shulkers of sand at the smelter, and after 4 shulkers perfectly processed, the 5th run output 6 hopper minecarts one at a time over the course of the smelt. I also lost a little over 5 stacks of blocks somewhere in the machine. Not a big deal for me, but I fear they may be gumming up the works somewhere. My glass smelting has been paused so that I don't further bork the smelter.

    1 vote

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    Yeah, I've restarted it a few times just to make sure. But, hey, at the moment, afk'ing on the platform and occasionally collecting the stock blocks has netted me more than enough sand, so it's...

    Yeah, I've restarted it a few times just to make sure. But, hey, at the moment, afk'ing on the platform and occasionally collecting the stock blocks has netted me more than enough sand, so it's still technically working!

    1 vote

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    Oh, perfect. Where is the overworld side of the duper?

    Oh, perfect. Where is the overworld side of the duper?

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    Does anyone happen to have ~4.5 shulkers of sand and/or glass lying around? I realized my furnace design demands a bunch of map art, so I thought I'd try to get started on the End map art...

    Does anyone happen to have ~4.5 shulkers of sand and/or glass lying around? I realized my furnace design demands a bunch of map art, so I thought I'd try to get started on the End map art platform, and wanted to get a head start on sand collection!

    2 votes

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    Applause!!!! You are a true blessing on the server, Isil.

    Applause!!!!

    You are a true blessing on the server, Isil.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    This looks great! I'm going to try to find time today to log on and check it out, but it's a crazy day, so we'll see. For now: Does it have an ON indicating redstone signal anywhere?

    This looks great! I'm going to try to find time today to log on and check it out, but it's a crazy day, so we'll see.

    For now: Does it have an ON indicating redstone signal anywhere?

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    Thank you for immediately understanding my mistake! I'm been gone for so long that I was indeed loading up last season's instance. I should be on shortly.

    Thank you for immediately understanding my mistake! I'm been gone for so long that I was indeed loading up last season's instance. I should be on shortly.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Have any Paper version settings changed in the past few days? I'm trying to log in, but I'm failing to connect: "Outdated Client! Please use 1.21.11" I just want on soooo bad!

    Have any Paper version settings changed in the past few days? I'm trying to log in, but I'm failing to connect: "Outdated Client! Please use 1.21.11"

    I just want on soooo bad!

  17. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Project idea: 128x128 glass platform over the void in the End for carpet-based map art. The issue with these is resetting them to blank is a hassle and takes forever. The solution? An activatable,...

    Project idea:
    128x128 glass platform over the void in the End for carpet-based map art. The issue with these is resetting them to blank is a hassle and takes forever. The solution? An activatable, water-dropping flying machine that spans the platform and would break all the carpet on command. It might also be possible to push all the broken carpet to one side so that it could be automatically collected and sorted back into a chest system for the next map art.

    I'm away-from-computer for a while and haven't been able to test such a device, but do you think just a thing is technically feasible? And if so, does anyone want to help with this project eventually; I have no experience with flying machines, nor the design time atm.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Public transport inside your house!!! This is what those Euro socialists want!

    Public transport inside your house!!!
    This is what those Euro socialists want!

    4 votes

  19. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Oh, yeah, if the keep farms already under construction over there, I think auto-fueling trumps most things. Would that I could log on now, but alas, not until Wednesday/Thursday.

    Oh, yeah, if the keep farms already under construction over there, I think auto-fueling trumps most things.

    Would that I could log on now, but alas, not until Wednesday/Thursday.

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