For those who missed it in the previous thread, the dynmap transport stops layer now shows drawn lines for the entire network!

I made some neat screenshots this week, but am currently on my phone. So I'll post those later.

Had fun on the server past couple days! @TaylorSwiftsPickles showed me a giant region filled with mushrooms. It was impressive, and scary in some ways. We took a boat ride on the blue ice, which was extremely fast (80 blocks per second?) and caused error messages in my mods. Also they fed me some baked potatoes. Very gracious! I felt bad making them stay up late for the personal tour.

Later on, a group of us were gathered in town chatting. I spilled a water bucket and then clumsily cleaned up while @teaearlgraycold stood by and watched. Thanks.

I also built an enclosure that I dubbed my "ball bit minus the balls." Haphazard mix-and-match wood types under a cherry blossom canopy. It keeps out the rain at least! Logging in today, I discovered that @GravySleeve had contributed some balls. The pit looks better now.

A jungle adventure went south when I tried visiting @nemo's house near the volcano. I fell off the cliff when my elytra failed to fully activate, and then fell off another cliff after respawning in town. The transit hub in town is too hard to find! I finally bookmarked it on my map (-42, 125). Thankfully my loot was still there a half hour later when I got back to the jungle. Never again!

1st log after around 2 weeks on the server. Everyone's been very warm and welcoming, thanks.

Built a small shack as a base of operations way south of town, next one is a Suikoden-2-inspired Inn in the forest nearby, it is about 80% done, still need to put in the interiors, decorate the pathway, and rearrange some trees. Progress has been rather slow because I got distracted importing a camel to town and spent an embarassing amount of time looking for lilies to put in front of the inn.

Plans for the future are to use some of the newer building blocks, and maybe put a small estate on the outskirts of the forest.

Sidenote: Apperently Glow Lichens leave a small footprint can be put inside water, and it gives off just the perfect amount of light. They are my favourite thing on minecraft now, and I'm mob-proofing the forest with them (mostly).

Got a nice night shot of my End Temple I wanted to share:
https://duenas.dev/shared/end-temple/2024-10-29_09.22.11.png

I am a good majority of the way through building a ghast farm. It should not create loose ghasts, but it does have the potential currently to spawn ghasts that can shoot if you are nearby. There isn't much in the area nearby, so nobody should stumble across it. The coords are at 80, 400 on the nether roof (south of town's portal) so just try to avoid that area until I finish the spawner and enclose it.

Something fishy is going on in Tildetown...

Thanks for welcoming me to the server and I promise, that hole I made in the jungle plateau will finish becoming a house and garden soon.

Just one question: can we not tame ocelots anymore?

I had promised some screenshots, so here they are:

• I visited the inn @Arknata build and it is lovely!
• I enjoyed the view on my way back
• I found a new (to me) biome called sakura grove
• This is good information
• @IsilidursBane harbour and cliff looks really interesting from the watery deeps.
• I have been working on some new housing for the villagers on my estate, there is still some work to do but it is getting there
• I am not entirely sure what is going on here
• @GravySleeve's spooky house!, I also took inside screenshots but I am not sharing those. It is an experience!
• I added warning lights to a flight hazzard
• The end has some really funky terrain generation

The potion lab is now operational. I am short on some ingredients, so not everything is stocked (my plan is to stock each potion with 1 stack of ingredients). I have added an ingredients donation box, where people can add stuff to be used for stocking the brewer. There will be instructions posted on usage (press the button, and it brews that potion again) and maintenance (so that the brewer does not rely solely on me) hopefully soon. I also need to decorate both the brewing room and continue designing the diner above.

Potions currently out of stock:

• Leaping (rabbits feet) (currently have some rabbits for breeding at 970, -1390 (near the witch farm))
• Regen (ghast tears) I am starting to work on a ghast farm, so hoping to get this one done soon
• Water breathing (pufferfish)
• Turtle master (turtle shell, not too hopeful on getting this one up and going)
• Slow falling (phantom membrane)
• Wind charging (breeze rods)
• Weaving (cobwebs)

Things to add:

• Instructions
• Ability to add modifiers
• Better bottle refilling system as my way is janky

Undecorated brewing room: https://imgur.com/a/mTNgJA1 (you should come check it out now)

Edit: I forgot to add, if you need potions, feel free to grab some, as the machines are working. It is in the terracotta abandoned house just south of the transit hub. The brewing lab is in the basement, behind the counter there is the door to the storage room. The stairs down to the brewing lab is in the storage room. If the potions are not labelled out of stock, press the button to brew a fresh three bottles (do not spam the button, wait for it to finish brewing).

Bonemeal farm is complete. It behaves slightly differently on the server than in my test world, but 99% of the time it's fine. I added some signs for debugging the most common problem I noticed (items other than bonemeal entering the crafter). Once warmed up (takes a few seconds), it produces about a bone block per second, which equates to something like 32k bonemeal per hour. :)

Portal is at -62 -72 on the nether roof.

After much searching I finally found an instance of my favorite Terralith biome, the Mirage Isles. It's located in the Northeast of the map, and in person it is quite lovely. It's special because no hostile mobs spawn there (like vanilla mushroom islands), it has one of the prettiest foliage colors IMO, and the air actually sparkles! Some screenshots:
Aerial shot
Sparkles

I claimed the big island in front on the aerial shot, and I think I'll build a nice house on the plateau I cleared. The smaller island is unclaimed, and anyone is welcome to join me. I have a portal on the nether roof at 538 -433.

The Cubic Cabana has its first actual jungle villager resident! Look at this cute little hamburger:
https://ibb.co/sKPHX2Z

@GravySleeve I know how you love Glow Lichen in favor of torches, so I made a change to the Cyan line ;)

Been working on a End-inspired temple on my floating islands way out east. My goal was to only use materials farmed in The End, and with the exception of some glow lichen (to subtly light some dark corners), it's gone really well so far.

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@teaearlgraycold Just learned there is a server plugin for DH. Not sure how mature it is, but figured I'd bring it to your attention: https://gitlab.com/distant-horizons-team/distant-horizons-server-plugin

I followed @teaearlgraycold's advice and used the logicalincrements website to put a computer together. I picked the Very Good tier and upgraded a few things since a lot of the items in the Great tier list were sold out. I know these items were chosen to go together so everything should be compatible, but do any of you more technically minded people see any issues with the items I've picked? Total price: $866 USD (good deal?) Also, I won't be paying M$ for their shitty OS, any issues running Linux Mint on this you think?

GPU: GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7600
CPU: Intel Core i5-13400F
CPU Fan: Pure Rock 2
MOBO: Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX
RAM: Crucial 32GB DDR5 5600 For the RAM, logicalincrements recommended this 16GB stick instead, but I was recommended by @creesch to upgrade to 32GB.
RAM: Team T-Force Vulcan 32GB (2 x 16GB)
SSD/HDD: I already have two SSD's I can install and several HDDs for my media, so no purchases for this.
Power: EVGA 650GQ
Power: EVGA 750w
CASE: Antec Dark League DF600 FLUX

Edit: Made changes to RAM and PSU based on @Evie and @Mendanbar's recommendations. I assume the RAM choice is ok?

Edit 2: Order is in! Should all arrive by Nov 5th! :D

I took matters into my own hands and erected a big T on top of the Transit hub. I made sure it's visible from the town message board: It's the stone T with 6 torches on top.

If I knew how to, I'd probably have used different materials. I'd also be okay with the transit hub building itself being enlarged for visibility.

@GravySleeve how is this for a hall of heroes statue? ;) Leaned a bit into the lore @TaylorSwiftsPickles created about me :P

I just checked out the haunted house @GravySleeve , it looks great! I love the special effects and the maze in the back.

Someone asked about phantom spawning rules in the Shdowlands (terralith/nullscape biome in the end). I dug into the code a bit and have some info.

As far as I can tell, there aren't many special rules. I've copied the relevant nullscape datapack section below. Phantoms basically spawn about half as often as enderman in Shadowlands biome, and only in groups of 1 (vs 4 for enderman).

    "spawners": {
        "monster": [
            {
                "type": "minecraft:phantom",
                "weight": 5,
                "minCount": 1,
                "maxCount": 1
            },
            {
                "type": "minecraft:enderman",
                "weight": 10,
                "minCount": 4,
                "maxCount": 4
            }
        ],
        "creature": [],
        "ambient": [],
        "underground_water_creature": [],
        "water_creature": [],
        "water_ambient": [],
        "misc": []
    },
    "spawn_costs": {
        "phantom": {
            "energy_budget": 0.12,
            "charge": 1
        }
    },

Other than that detail, I think the normal rules apply. I would guess that means that they still need sky access and sufficient space (hitbox) to spawn.

I wonder if they need a solid block below to spawn. If not, it might be possible to cause only phantoms to spawn in an area and effectively start to create a farm.

The Mirage Isles are coming along nicely:
https://ibb.co/KFGGqtd
https://ibb.co/gJ5ZyYN
https://ibb.co/rpyZjSV

Thanks to @creesch for connecting everything via bridge (and for being my partner in crime magic). :)

Finally decided I should upload some screenshots of my own!

Volcano Base:
The approach to the volcano via the Cyan Line prominently displays the dangers of traveling nearby!
This is the location for changeover to the rail line into the volcano.
The view as you approach the volcano's entrance.
There's a secret entrance inside this cave which is occupied by a drunken vagrant.
A couple pics of the exterior of the volcano.
A few pics of the interior of the volcano.
Some pics of the minecart tour.
Night shots. The volcano has erupted!
My buddies Andrew, Tom, and Tobey.
My allay xp farm, my incinerator and dogs, my work area with map, and my turtle farm.

Other stuff:
The Hall of Heroes
Godzilla! Can't remember who made this, but it's awesome.
@eyechoirs built this amazing arena! I hope they come back soon cause I wanna try it!
Transporting some ocelots!
Transporting some armadillos!
Baby turtles are the cutest mob in the game.
Wrangling the Warden wasn't too difficult, but giving him a hug did not work!
Warden on the roof!
Riding this guy up a lava column was cool very hot.
Found this neat underground mushroom biome a while back.
Bastion at the end of the world. Over a dozen raided and no Pigstep disc. :(
A mysterious thing happened with the dragon egg in town a while back. It seemed to have teleported away from its pedestal.

I looked at this article for visual mods: https://screenrant.com/minecraft-best-visual-mods-install-guide/ (from 2020).

I suppose I'll try something like CreatorPack and Dramatic Skys this weekend. Hopefully won't mess up the style of the stuff people here have built.

Here's more updated for 2024: https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/minecraft-shaders-best-graphics-mods — Funny to see AAA graphics effects in Minecraft. Looks like there's a lot to play around with, and I'm sure performance will be a big consideration.

Back from travel, so I was able to hop on and check on the moss farm that was having some trouble last week. All seems to be working as designed once more, thanks to everyone else chipping in. As noted, the single hopper line to the overflow bonemeal composter is a bottleneck/design flaw. I'm already scoping out a location for a proper bonemeal farm, and I'll try to get it built in the next few days.

If we were to update to 1.21.2, we'd get access to the new ender pearl chunkloading mechanic, which might be pretty awesome.

@mintysaurus For some reason, the observer at the sand duper doesn't eat the block anymore. The duper still seems to work fine if you just remove the block and continue the rest of the steps as normal. I don't know if it will cause some problem long term, so I thought I'd give you a heads up.

@GravySleeve, I added a little something to your haunted mansion

Do we have a source of wither roses yet? I am looking into creating a ghast farm, but the design I was looking at requires using wither roses

@teaearlgraycold after taking a break, which I should have done sooner, it does look better without the trees.
Found a new tree when I logged back in, appreciate the gesture :)