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Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly
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Server host: tildes.nore.gg
Dynmap: https://tildes.nore.gg
Playtime Tracker: https://tildes.nore.gg/playtimes.html
Tildes website extension (shows online status & location): Firefox (Desktop and Android) - Chrome
Verification site: https://verify.tildes.nore.gg
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TildesMC
The server operates on a soft whitelist. Anyone can log in and walk around, but you need a Tildes account to gain build access.
I have now implemented what should be a proper fix for the server connection issues some players experienced. I set up a
haproxyEC2 instance that routes around the bad hops and acts as the MC endpoint. Hacky, but cheaper than other hosting options and better than hosting locally.I am not playing on this server as I am in one with some IRL friends on a measly Realms server, but I have to say, this server's been an inspiration. I check the thread every week to see what you guys come up with and sometimes build upon those ideas. @teaearlgraycold seems like a great admin, too. Have fun!
Feel free to also just hop on to get ideas by walking through the builds in person
Don't encourage him
:D
I haven't had much time to play this week. But I have started work on the last leg of the road towards the PVP arena. I still need to figure out how to connect the last bit.
Heads-up: I'm currently working on a blue ice "boatway" at bedrock level between the village, @Noox's area, and Shroomlandia. I'm currently digging the staircase next to the blue line (perpendicular to it) so I apologise for any temporary ugliness or inconvenience.
Reason is I tend to crash a lot when moving between dimensions & my slow internet makes flying with an elytra a game of russian roulette, so this sounds like a lovely choice instead.
(P.S. Nooxie, we miss you)
Edit (September 29th 2024): I've now dug a tunnel and staircase from the village to Noox's area. Haven't placed ice yet.
I finished building the community stables right beside the transit hub. Feel free to claim a stall if you want. There is also the communal pasture outside, with horses to breed. I am hoping to get around to breeding some fast horses in there. My goal for this was to provide a convenient spot for your horse if you are leaving town by a metro line. I wanted to make it so that there are viable alternatives to get around town that isn't using an elytra.
The dynmap is currently down and has been for maybe 20 minutes. Not sure if something needs to be done to bring it back up.
Oh, thanks! Forgot to forward that through the proxy.
Edit: Well now I need to update my HTTPS termination. So consider dynmap down for the moment.
Less urgent, but I realized the same service is hosting the playtime tracker so that is also down
NOOOOO! How will I know how much time I've spent being unproductive IRL?
Fixed!
@Bront and I have been working on expanding the Lime Line towards the PVP arena and the last stretch was just finished!
Computer is back up and running! Super glad to be playing again!
For those who like to use mods, I found another really amazing one called Bridgify Mod. It let's you place blocks like in bedrock edition, which means you can place blocks underneath the block you're standing on, or you can place blocks in front of you similar to how you can with scaffolding. Hard to explain with words, but makes building way easier!
I think that feature is available in Tweakeroo as I've seen SciCraft members use it, but never got around to doing so myself.
I don't remember who was asking about it the other day, but I built a decently sized kelp farm. It's a bit ugly at the moment (improvements welcome!) but it gets the job done pretty well. Coordinates are in the book
Well, here we go again. Computer is right back to giving me the same fan error I had before and overheating. I cannot catch a break.
Have you ever thought that maybe your computer's overheating because you spend most of your time INSIDE A VOLCANO!?
But in all seriousness, that blows hard, and I'm going to test a few old laptops I have around to see if one would be a real MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for you!
Ha! Funnily enough, that had crossed my mind. And thanks!
I agree with John and blame the volcano heat
Okay, I thought I bricked my old laptop but I have it back online. It's a little screwy (touchpad not always working) but it should work just fine otherwise.
When I re-assembled it I reapplied the thermal paste. But the only stuff I had on hand was liquid metal. I applied too much and it shorted out some stuff around the GPU :| But I cleaned that up and surprisingly it's not permanently fried!
So I'll ship that out in a few days.
Oh tea! You're my hero!
So I found out that my laptop has diagnostic tools if I hit Esc during startup. I ran a fan test and it said cpu fan 1 passed, but cpu fan 2 failed. There isn't a second cpu fan in the manual, but there is the gpu fan. So I swapped out the gpu fan as well (kit I bought came with both luckily), then I ran diagnostics again. This time cpu fan 1 failed when it got to the max fan speed part of the test, but cpu fan 2 passed. I watched the fans during the tests, and both seemed to be operating fine. I haven't had a chance to do a test running minecraft cause I had to leave for work, but when I booted into windows my cpu speed was back to normal again. So who knows what events will unfold in this chaos. I don't feel confident.
Edit: Yeah, still running hot. HP doesn't seem to have any driver updates that might be relevant. I'm out of ideas other than maybe it being a Windows issue.
Edit 2: So maybe it's fixed? I lowered my chunk render distance from around 30 down to 20, and I uninstalled a few mods I added recently. My temps still spike to around 80 when I first boot minecraft, but it's been cooling back down to below 70 most of the time with only occasional spikes up to 80. Still seems hotter than it should be, but I set my fans to be always on in the BIOS settings, so I'm not sure there's anything else to do but hope it keeps working.
This video popped up in my YouTube feed today and I thought this might resonate with many of you. It definitely put words to why I love this silly block game so much.
I'm still having a blast building massive production facilities in Satisfactory, but I imagine I'll want to hop on Minecraft again very soon.
Oef, the one about having build and lived an entire lifetime in a couple of weeks really resonates with me. It is exactly how I experienced this server so far and past servers as well. The previous server I was a bit late so it felt a bit more detached, but the feeling was still there.
Thank you for sharing the video!
I just was recommended this the other day, and I, too, considered sharing it here. Great video that captures more of the simple core of what makes minecraft special!
@Bront, I expanded the outline for the Lime line and put down a few shulker boxes with materials in case you also want to work on it.
I decided to run it next to the road once I managed to go around the tree farms and such.
Is there a need for a larger piglin bartering farm? I said I was going to tackle the project, but I haven't needed any of those materials, so I've been procrastinating. If there are folks out there who are in need of those materials, I can take care of it. It'll be a good break from my tower/landscaping.
I used the existing setup to get a ton of gravel and I feel like it works well enough that we don't necessarily need a better setup, but having the loot auto sort would be nice. It wouldn't be too hard to add autosorting to the existing machine. Having said that, if you think you'd have fun building a new one, go for it.
@eyechoirs, I finished the road towards the arena. I was not quite sure on how I wanted to connect the last bit of road. So for now I settled on a big square. Feel free to rip some of it out though if you have other ideas :) I just wanted to have it at least connected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHEQY3ua_uY
New biome and mob coming soon
Oh man I have been wanting a white wood set in vanilla for years. This is great.
I need that pale hanging moss for my petrified trees!
Would we be able to access the new wood type/biome on the current server? Since the world's pre-generated, there'd be nowhere for the new biome to generate, right?
It comes out in a couple months. We’ll see what the situation is. We’d also need Terralith to update. But I can always expand the world border.
Culling unused chunks is probably better storage-wise - we should be able to cull and regenerate any chunks that weren't used by anyone for, say, more than 5 or 15 minutes, and are outside the dynmap's range. Maybe excluding chunks around Evie's base just in case, as it's slightly outside the dynmap.
I think I could only cull based on location and whether it was edited
I recall using some kind of offline tool that allowed me to automatically and manually pick chunks to delete. I do that a lot on my private Aternos server because of storage limitations & shitty upload speed. I can look up the name of the tool if you're interested
MCA Selector?
Yeah that's the one I use. It's super easy to filter based on how much time users have spent in a chunk. I usually delete chunks where users have spent less than 5 min and have never had a case where it deleted something important.
Yup, that's it
OOOOOOOO... tea done messed up!
I logged on for a few minutes for my lunch break today. I didn't have any particular goal in mind, but found myself checking out all the new stuff I could find. :)
I did complete the emerald collection at the museum, though, since I happened to have a stone emerald block on me.