[Minecraft] General Dig-scussion Thread 2

[tinning3]

I think rainbow factory could be a legitimately scary place for trolls, it's like calling a place a blood factory for humans (which we are).

I think the updates are definatly better for survival mode, more stuff to work towards... hell, even for creative, considering the gui overhaul, though I can see how that would probably confuse people. And unlike Apple, the changes to minecraft actually involve more content and gameplay improvements, as opposed to looking asshiny as possible and making it...I dunno, bigger, smaller, whatever the hell scale they're trying to go for now.

[Kiilek Rekaur]

Looks pretty okay so far, just remember to play down the pony references. Too many and you could turn away a majority who would want to play an otherwise interesting map. The biggest flaw right now is that you seem to be overrelying on Ghast spawners in the areas you've recently shown, may want to cut down on the number as, even in great numbers, Ghasts are easy to deal with. Its okay to have a bunch in one area but having a ton constantly becomes more of a chore and less fun. Besides, remember theres more to a Vechs map than just tons of monsters all the time.

I put up a sign saying "If you don't like pony references...""You're gonna have a bad time. " hopfully to make it clear that this is not "pony CTM"
Aside from the Scootaloo painting (which was made just for trolling purposes) most of the references are either just in name (so you don't have too actally know what I'm talking about) or for trolling both non-bronies and bronies combined (The RF and "Mine Little Pwny"[cave full of ghast spawners] is an example of the later.) 6 (of 22) areas are "more or less" MLP. ["Mine Little Pwny" is on the "less" side, built on the punnitiveness of Pwning the player]

It's actually funny though, because I have only used Ghast's in two of my areas (I plan for three, the Black wool will be a horror-fest in more than one way...)
If I'm overrelying on anything... it's cave spiders.... lots and lots of cave spiders...
(And I have some rediculous loot)

@troll rainbow factory.... Have you ever wondered.... how is FAYGO made?

And to anyone who says that 1.4 added nothing to the game, half of the update was to help vanilla mapmakers. (Command Blocks, Custom Spawners, Custom Mobs, Custom Potions, Custom Beacons, Custom Item Names.... (best update ever))

Oh, and I probably won't release this map until I beat it.

[Catbread]

Geez, I'm trying to use modpacks to avoid having to deal with stupid mod conflicts!

I'm trying out the AMCO 1.2.5 modpack again, but the HD textures are all busted up.
It says it comes with Optifine, but Optifine doesn't show up anywhere. (Neither does NEI but that's a different problem.)
Installing Optifine does fix the textures! ...But then the game crashes because of "missing forge hooks" on "entitydamage" which makes it seem like Optifine somehow prevents damage sounds from working?

At least I can use default textures. Still, mods

[Kiilek Rekaur]

100,000 meter rail with lava pit at the end whiile player is carrying Brown, Green, Red, and Black Wools and Emerald Block? yes.

Now I'm just being cruel.
(by the way, while I have the basic "skeleton" of the map done, (ie, the intersections) I still have to finish most of the dungeons, and do touchups on the completted ones. I will then go back and do the final touches (like proxbombs, I don't want those implemented until the final stage... actually I just thought of a placeholder workaround for that...)

[Catbread]

Careful, there!

Real game difficulty only works if the player knows basically what to expect. Sudden, instant deaths are both unfair and unfun.

[Kiilek Rekaur]

Careful, there!

Real game difficulty only works if the player knows basically what to expect. Sudden, instant deaths are both unfair and unfun.

I sort of have to disagree, suprise is a major part of these maps. There is usually some sort of warning though.
Take the bonus area from nightmare relm for example
Aaaand the entrance to West Commons from Legendary
those maps were HARD.... and nerveracking
I'm planning on putting a sign that says there may be a potential danger, maybe even turning the area into a cart based mine of sorts (like: shoot the buttons to change track... type thing)
Basically the whole idea is to troll the player into having to actually sit through the ENTIRE trip, because players love nice, peaceful, long minecart rides....right?

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Yeah... I might give an alternative route back... This is pretty rediculous. (I think the trip takes over an hour.... I need a good way to time it. E: I just calculated approximatly two hours.) Thing is, I intended for I6 to be in The End, but I had some prolems with that, so I had to make it in the Overworld, so then I decided to make an end portal to send......

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I AM SUCH A DERP. (i just relized that a player can set a bed at I6 to spawn their, then break the bed and go back to spawn through end portal........ DANGIT, I JUST TROLLED MYSELF. I think I might be about to cry...)

Iv'e decided that for I6, I will go with a more laid back aproach to playing for all except the final dungeon (ie, mostly derping around with villagers in the afterlife to get equipment for the battle with the "Big Bad") The Black Wool will be a chalenge though.... (I have a few ideas....)

MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE EVER mobs spawn with pumpkins in high frequency on Halloween. It is awesome.

Okay this post is getting long, but are there any ideas for a map/series name for this, it's kinda like a loosely structered story feel to it.

[williamcll]

humpkin land?

[TaichiWind]

MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE EVER mobs spawn with pumpkins in high frequency on Halloween. It is awesome.

They spawn with what now?

[Kiilek Rekaur]

Did none of you play at all yesterday?

Okay 1.4.3 may have a critical bug. Broken void.... gamebraker for survival/adventure

E: who want's to join my steak out?

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I will need your MC user name if you want me to use your head.
hehe.
(Just so you know, the lens guy is me)

[JordanTH]

You should throw Notch and Herobrine in there.

[williamcll]

Turn them into robots.

[Kiilek Rekaur]

Turn them into robots.

... what now?
I want heads to populate the later areas with.

[Reecer6]

Awww man, yeah, let's be a disembodied head in a map about SMALL HORSES agh of all things! (It's Reecer6 in MC)
But wow, I have basically ignored Minecraft for a month or something and it sounds like I have to play a million custom maps that are going to be pretty awesome now from this update.

[curiousTerminal]

My safety drop.

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[Kiilek Rekaur]

Yeah it's not really ABOUT ponies, just so you know. just, influenced by them.
just a bunch of ideas I had floating around in my head that I wanted to see come to life, one of which was the RF, Everything else (involving ponies) just kinda evolved from there [to help establish some form of continuity].

Here's a WIP area name list and a breakdown of the difficulty I'm trying to achieve in each area. [left#= combat difficulty, middle#=special skill/navigation difficulty, right#=mental anguish difficulty] *represents a WIP name

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| 1, 2, 1 | Twisted Tunnel
| 0, 0, 1 | Home of Wool*
| 2, 2, 1 | Arachnadia
| 3, 2, 2 | Nova Cavern
| 0, 4, 3 | Flight School
| 3, 2, 2 | Everfree Castle
| 3, 3, 2 | Everfree Forest
| 2, 4, 3 | Core of Heat
| 1, 4, 3 | Sink or Swim
| 3, 3, 2 | The Great Mines of Onu-Koro
| 4, 3, 4 | Martial Training Camp*
| 1, 5, 4 | Sands of Time*
| 5, 4, 4 | Mine Little Pwny
| 0, 1, 1 | Boardwalk
| 5, 3, 4 | Imperial Vaults
| 6, 6, 6 | RainboW FactorY
| 1, 3, 3 | The Furthest Ring
| 0, 0, 1 | Memorial Shrine
| 0, 3, 4 | Dream Bubbles
| 6, 6, 6 | The Final Battle* / "Battle Against an Unfathomable Enemy"*

I love MCedit....

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Welcome to death....again.

I'm also open to suggestions for custom loot (including custom potions, though there is a max cap at level IV on those for stability reasons. I also refuse to put anything greater than Fortune III on items)
Here is a small list of items that I've got for example

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Magic Wand Lvl. I - Blaze Rod | Knockback III, Sharpness I, Fire Aspect I, Looting I |
Diving Kit - potion | 10:00 Water Breathing, Night Vision |
Anti Matter Deflector Unit - Nether Star | Knockback X , Efficeincy X, Unbreaking X (lol?) |
webbane - wooden sword | Efficiency X, Unbreaking X | + Iron Sword | Bane of Arthro V, Looting III, Knockback II | <---- Very Helpfull

[Ace Rimmer]

So after taking a break from minecraft because of a mental breakdown of stress from being an admin, I'd like to know what you guys' favorite creative servers are.

[Kiilek Rekaur]

So, I think I might "restart" my map. (not in the sense of "I hate this and want to start over", but I have better tools at my disposal now than I did when I started. I will simply export certain thing to schematics, like my progress on the RF. All of the content I've posted screencaps for will for the most part remain, but I will not be redoing the uber-long rail.... that just wouldn't be worth it. All of the area names will also remain the same.)

I just want to be proud of myself when I do this, and right now it feels kind of rushed.
So yeah, it'll be awhile. In the meantime I now have an MCforum account, so I can have interaction with other big time mappers.

E: The maps name is.....

The Spectral Curse

Like it?

[Wacom Guy]

Do any of you know a good survival server with a friendly community that hasn't been ruined by factions yet?

(preferably not people who abuse the username changing plugins)

[TaichiWind]

Did none of you play at all yesterday?

Okay 1.4.3 may have a critical bug. Broken void.... gamebraker for survival/adventure

E: who want's to join my steak out?

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I will need your MC user name if you want me to use your head.
hehe.
(Just so you know, the lens guy is me)

1. How is this done?
2. CreepSheep, nuff said. If it looks too much like a villager, THEN THAT'S GOOD AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.

Also, "They spawn with what now?" was a joke. We ARE on the MSPA forums, for Huss's sake.

[Kiilek Rekaur]

1. How is this done?
2. CreepSheep, nuff said. If it looks too much like a villager, THEN THAT'S GOOD AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.

MCedit filters. It's kinda like magic.

[tinning3]

I dunno if anyone can get in on the bandwagon, but I would be up for you sticking my head on a pike for peoples amusement

Minecraft-wise ofc.

[Karhs12]

My first thought upon finding out about heads was that I should build a giant throne with skulls on spikes, so I guess it's only fair that I get decapitated as well. Username is karhs12.

[tinning3]

Oh right yeah, my username is tinning3 (I'm imaginative)

[ASBusinessMagnet]

And of course I had a genius idea of turning my PC on for the night just so people from America could access my server on a reasonable time, despite not being able to sleep with any sort of light OR sound in my room.

I need to be less idiotic.

[Wacom Guy]

Do any of you know a good survival server with a friendly community that hasn't been ruined by factions yet?

(preferably not people who abuse the username changing plugins)

I would very much enjoy this!