june gloom on 7/2/2013 at 01:38
Pretty much any server a TTLGer was running is long gone or forgotten. I'm on a private server with some friends but I pop on only for about 5 minutes a day, and I'm not going to share the IP because I don't think they'd want me to and they're very new to Minecraft in general and nobody wants a repeat of The Great Lavaning.
bob_doe_nz on 7/2/2013 at 02:22
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I'm on a private server with some friends but I pop on only for about 5 minutes a day, and I'm not going to share the IP because I don't think they'd want me to and they're very new to Minecraft in general and nobody wants a repeat of The Great Lavaning.
^ This
I'm switching between playing on a private server and a public one (Reddit PVE)
My problem is that once I've finished building whatever, I need to find some sort of inspiration to continue. Otherwise all I'll do is wander around aimlessly.
demagogue on 7/2/2013 at 02:28
Briareos's didn't last long. And it was just me & Bob ever on it -- well we're probably the only ones in Asia / S. Pacific, but even then I don't think many people in the US or EU were on. And then it died.
I'd be interested in playing on a server again. Actually it'd be cool if it were like a Tekkit server, so then we could make crazy machines and contraptions and just have all the good mods packaged together -- so you have something more to do than just building, which helps a little with the issue Bob just mentioned. But it all depends on whoever's initiative to do it.
gunsmoke on 7/2/2013 at 03:47
I am down for whatever.
Renault on 7/2/2013 at 04:34
I'd play. I get the MC urge every so often.
catbarf on 7/2/2013 at 05:11
I recently reinstalled it to give a mod called Mystcraft a try. Through the use of an addon called Forge, it's now about a million times easier to install mods, and Mystcraft is definitely worth it. It basically lets you create and travel to new worlds by writing special linking books, like in the Myst series. Give it a try, I figure you guys would probably appreciate it.
Ironpants on 7/2/2013 at 06:26
My roomate runs the (
http://flyingislands.net/) http://flyingislands.net/ servers and we used Tekkit for a few months in survival. It was a great modpack, except for Equivalent Exchange; all sense of materials progression is lost and there are gamebreakingly powerful craftables. The best mods in Tekkit were Industrial Craft 2 (Build a factory, then automate it!) and Redpower (Logic chips! Insulate, color-code and bundle wires!). I can highly recommend Tekkit but only without Equivalent Exchange, which is totally balls from a game design perspective.
Renault on 7/2/2013 at 14:47
Quote Posted by catbarf
I recently reinstalled it to give a mod called Mystcraft a try. Through the use of an addon called Forge, it's now about a million times easier to install mods, and Mystcraft is definitely worth it. It basically lets you create and travel to new worlds by writing special linking books, like in the Myst series. Give it a try, I figure you guys would probably appreciate it.
Mystcraft sounds interesting, but I guess I don't fully get it. Where does it transport you to? The Nether? Other user created maps/servers?
catbarf on 11/2/2013 at 21:43
Quote Posted by Brethren
Mystcraft sounds interesting, but I guess I don't fully get it. Where does it transport you to? The Nether? Other user created maps/servers?
None of the above. It procedurally generates a new world from the book you write, and then transports you there. If you create a book and then use it, it fills it with random symbols and takes you there immediately. Many of these randomly generated worlds are 'unstable' and are very dangerous to explore, have negative potion effects, and/or start decaying around you and eventually will fall away into nothing or all become one useless block.
Alternatively, once you've learned symbols, you can write them into the book, to determine exactly what sort of world you create. Like, I can write a book with 'single biome', 'frozen ocean', 'eternal day', 'white fog', and 'no weather', and then get transported to a world composed of an infinite frozen ocean with those properties. Since I know it's basically featureless and free of enemies, I use this world as a hub I can use to teleport to and from other worlds, and for rapid transportation across the overworld (overworld -> hub -> overworld).
Some of the generated worlds can have really bizarre features, and there's a lot of potential for exploration. It's a very cool system and is definitely worth a try.
