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Tildes Minecraft Weekly
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Data Packs:- Age Lock [Vanilla Tweaks]
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- Cauldron Concrete [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Cauldron Mud [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Custom Nether Portals [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Husks Drop Sand [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Mini Blocks [Vanilla Tweaks]
- More Mob Heads [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Nullscape - End terrain upgrade
- Player Head Drops [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Renewable Dragon Stuff
- Silence Mobs [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Terralith - Overworld terrain upgrade
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- BlueMap - Provides a live 3D rendering of the game world
- Clickable Links - Makes http URLs in chat clickable (only for registered players)
- CoreProtect - Records all block/container/mob changes (Anyone can look up changes with
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- EasyArmorStands - GUI for editing armor stands
- GSit - Sit on stairs/slabs!
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- hsrails - Allows for 4x speed rail travel
- LuckPerms - Locks down unregistered users
- Otherside - Fix for mob farms involving Nether portals
- Rapid Leaf Decay - Increases the speed of leaf decay by 10x
- WorldEdit - Used for occasional admin stuff
- WorldGuard - Prevents unregistered users from changing anything in the world
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I really need to login again.
Do it!
OR ELSE
I'll be back soon - perhaps this weekend. Until then:
I have been slowly refining the first bridge. I have struggled with getting the arches looking correct, so I have been doing the process of taking a break, then coming back and trying something out, then letting it sit before taking another look with fresh eyes. Part of that is because I built the tops of the arches out of half slabs, so that it prevents mobs from spawning, but also makes the support cables awkward to join up. I think last night I finally solved the arch, so need to replicate it throughout the rest of the bridge. Building with smooth red sandstone has been a fantastic block to build with, and makes me frustrated on how rare the block is in the game.
As for the ruined bridge and the planned future bridge, a lot of my reasoning behind it was that it seemed unrealistic that the old town district only had a single modern bridge to access it. My inspiration for the ruined bridge foundation is that at least in my experience in western Canada, it is not uncommon to come across a bridge (especially in more remote areas) where you can see the ruins of the previous bridge nearby. The ruins that I have seen IRL have consisted of parts of the bridge foundation still standing, as well as you can normally see where the road used to run as an approach to the bridge. So I thought it is a simple way to build up history in the area. I also am thinking of making an older looking bridge somewhere else. I want to help create a sense that this city has a history and has evolved over time.
If you're not worried about duping, we have infinite red sand to make more.
Yeah, if there wasn't an area that j0hn needed terraformed so the red sand needed to be removed, I would have gone that route
I know you felt part way through building the new town district that you were annoyed that you built it to perfectly align with the N/S grid. The old district might be a good opportunity to disrupt the grid, by having streets at weird angles to each other
Sadly if I try to do nonorthogonal builds in the district composed mainly of kamienice I'll probably never finish my base
I updated my nether tunnel! I did my own redstone for the station and it worked out better than expected. To use this track all you have to do is walk up and get into the waiting minecart, a sculk sensor will detect that you've gotten into the cart and power the rails to get you moving, then shortly after you leave the station, a new minecart is autocrafted and dispensed onto the track to wait for the next use. At each end of the track the minecart is automatically broken by a cactus and disposed of in lava. The redstone is my own design and it's about as small as possible I think, so I'm pretty proud of it. Feel free to copy for other stations if desired.
That last pic of the redstone over lava stresses me out. Very cool design though. I like the bright colors. :)
Also sidenote: I love seeing honecomb blocks used effectively in a build. It's one of my favorite blocks, but it can be hard to integrate the texture without it being too overwhelming. It looks great as a contrast to the very flat concrete!
Trust me, if hadn't been constantly making sure i had a fire res potions in hand, it would've been a bad time. Had to use two of them to not die.
The honeycomb block works really well with the stripped spruce and yellow terracotta. I like using the minecraft block palette website to help make good combinations of blocks for a build.
Honeycomb in general is such a great but underrated block. It needs to be used relatively sparingly as a detail block, not as the main block. However, it is also such an uncommon block that it is something I rarely think of using
I love that website. I used it to find blocks to use for distressed sections of my terracotta buildings in Pitch.
I am making good progress on the end portal cathedral! I've finally gotten the water cleared out, for real this time. In the last thread I claimed I had done this, but it turned out I was one block short and needed to clear out one more layer around the entire perimeter.
The entire footprint is complete, and most of the lower level walls are done. The only remaining part of the clerestory is the curved section around the choir. Currently I'm focused on getting the ceiling and windows done, but it's late tonight and I've run out of diorite.
It's almost mob-proof, except I've accidentally left some space under part of the clerestory in which spiders can spawn, so that's a bit annoying. You can see one clipped through the shelves in the "Facing north" screenshot. I will need to go under there and place some slabs or something. Torches cause strange lighting glitches in the vaulted ceilings below.
Once I have everything but the north, east, west walls complete, I'll need to hop back into creative and finalize the designs for my rose windows.
Since I've got so much of the columns and clerestory up, I'm getting a bit worried it's too much white. I experimented in creative a bit with replacing some of the blocks with different grayscale/off-white colors but everything has too much contrast to my taste. I want things to feel "pristine" or something, but any texturing I try just comes across as "dirty" to me. Maybe I need to lean harder into contrast, but I really like things being bright. It makes the daylight effect really pop when someone sleeps through the night. So I think I will keep the color palette as I'd already decided and just accept that maybe contrast/texture isn't perfect.
As promised, although severy belated, I have started working on a tiny base campsite aptly named "gnawky's crib", but will have to rename that to "chewy's crib" or pull off a Tom Hardy twin bamboozler and have two (IGN and Tildes) names on the same sign.
There is a chest next to the building with the nice facade, but filled in doors from which I have acquired a handful. Some may even say a pinch of bonemeal which I will return when I set up a fire. A spit. And a lamb on a spit.
I do have to commend the spacious trading hall. I can almost feel the soft wind caressing my blocky onion head as I enter its bowels.
If you are looking for supplies, there is community storage built straight west of town, across the river. The main east/west road in town extends all the way to storage, or in the basement of town hall there is a train station, and that rail line goes directly to the transit hub, which is in the basement of community storage
I did manage to find it after the fact. I was disoriented at first.
Update on the City of Pitch
Bit of a smaller update this time, since a few other games have been holding my attention for the past week+.
This week I created a map for Pitch. Maps don't work underground, so I decided to do a map art. But I also wanted to place markers and have the map work like normal. So the solution was to build a 1:1 scale map at the city's coords at build height. It turned out OK, but it is off center and I'm planning to fill in the extra space once my tolerance for tedium returns.
Semi-finished product
Previous update
You didn't want to dig out the entire ceiling of the city, make the map, then place all the blocks back? Weird. :P
So I have added a small 8x furnace array at community storage. I went with a smaller array to be convenient for small jobs of a stack or two of items, since we have the 64x array at the industrial district (which there is now a dedicated transit stop for). Building the furnace array was quite tricky to squeeze in in an aesthetically pleasing manner, since storage is starting to become packed full of various utilities that were not initially planned.
Thank you for doing this!
I felt that after expanding the transit infrastructure to service the 64x industrial one, having a small scale one at storage would be convenient for small smelting operations. It would have a lot of potential if I expanded the input/output storage and tied it into the chunk loaders, but I do want people to use the existing 64x smelter for large operations
So I noticed that the storage system in the industrial district has broken again. My theory on the culprit is that the item sorters and the shulker loaders are too close together, so occasionally they interact, clearing the sorters filters. I have started raising up all the item piping to achieve this. The other benefit of raising up the piping is that now I will be able to extend the express line, adding a stop at the furnace array across the river.
I have fixed the industrial district storage system. Hopefully I have solved the issue to prevent it from happening again.
I have also extended the Town High Speed line, so that it extends past the industrial district to include a stop by the super smelter across the river. @creesch would it be easier for me to provide coordinates for the bluemap changes of the rail line or have you use your mod to get the coords?
Since this is a short bit above ground with few corners and no elevation changes I'll be able to grab the coordinates from bluemap. I'll try to remember to do it today.
There is also the west section that needs to be added, that goes into the transit hub, with the following coords:
26.2 update when
so... how're we feeling about pagan cults this season? asking for a friend
Haven't you already made a cult hq this season?
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