Bellingcraft!

[dire mirage]

Northern paths completed.

[plush forge]

good busy

[shell mortar]

what’s being put there?

[plush forge]

whatever we need / want

so if you have an idea, go nuts

[shell mortar]

coolio

[dire mirage]

@plush forge @shell mortar Yea, basically it’s just to allow people who want to build in that direction some paths to locate whatever their building around.

You don’t have to of course, but it opens up some “safe”-ish lit paths so being in the area at night isn’t permanently mob misery.

Next plan is paths for the open space between spawn and DaKinks.

Not to make it super developed or anything, but just to give people walking around some route options and maybe justify the building of stuff.

Nothing so close that it will encroach on Dakink’s, but maybe a couple farms, a castle, ringfort or stuff like that. Or whatever whoever wants to build there wants to do.

[whole depot]

lol ive been walking round the map for hours finding all the small things we missed on tour

[plush forge]

I mean, encroaching on my pit isn't that annoying. Just don't be surprised by the loud bangs

[whole depot]

?

[plush forge]

something something farms with tnt

[whole depot]

lol

[dire mirage]

@whole depot

[plush forge]

I would appreciate it if you could keep the left of that path free a little :)

still planning a city / airstrip in that region

[dire mirage]

so swing wide?

[plush forge]

no, this would be fine

just that between that path and the jungle I had some plans

[dire mirage]

the jungle to the left

[plush forge]

yes

[dire mirage]

so swing as close to the lake as possible

[plush forge]

there's quite a bit of mountains there

so this would be fine

[dire mirage]

gotcha gotcha

[plush forge]

if you swing a little closer to the lake your path will be easier :)

[dire mirage]

yes

[plush forge]

I can work with that

[whole depot]

why am i geting chat validation issues

[plush forge]

it happens

you using an alternate launcher?

[whole depot]

nah it was erredence having hissy over dieing

[plush forge]

Lol, could be

[dire mirage]

@whole depot

Special delivery at your construction site

[whole depot]

ITS CHRISTMAS

[dire mirage]

8 chests full of stacks of acacia

[whole depot]

Thanks man

[dire mirage]

2 chests of oak, 2 chests of birch, 2 chests of spruce

not a problem

i know its being "easy mode"

but this is stuff that is legitimately made (using a farm, not commands)

so doing it the hard way would just be a pain in the ass

want me to build your tower up? @whole depot

[whole depot]

Yes please a bit but I’m using acacia

[dire mirage]

so just use acacia sure

[whole depot]

Yeah for now I’ll go back later and add cool features btw anyone who helps gets a free room in the tower lol

[dire mirage]

@whole depot hey

it's about 75 high

[whole depot]

YO thank you so much that’s great are you on tomorrow

[dire mirage]

at some point i will

[whole depot]

Sounds good see what happens thanks for the help dude would have taken me a couple hours of chopping trees and other stuff

[dire mirage]

not a problem, happy to help

ive left the spare stuff

only needed 1 chest of acacia stacks

so you've got 7 spare acascia chests

and all the other stuff

[whole depot]

Hahah I’ll find somthing for them

[whole depot]

anyone on

[plush forge]

worky worky, and tonight Dune marathon

so won't be on today

[whole depot]

F

[dire mirage]

i'll join shortly

[whole depot]

half done on the towering up and ive made an elivator to the top

[dire mirage]

nice

[dire mirage]

sorry for delay

[whole depot]

Np power just went out lolz

Btw you should try out shaders there op

[whole depot]

@short lynx did you update the server

[plush forge]

seems like it

1.20.4 now

[whole depot]

who wants to fight the wither

[short lynx]

I did! Sorry I didn't let you guys know! I finished quite late

[plush forge]

no worreis, minecraft tells you when you want to connect

lag seems a lot better as well

[short lynx]

We have a safe wither killing spot in the end

Ask dakink as he is the one with the wither skull farm

[whole depot]

Dam you guys have a lot of farms

[plush forge]

I don't mind grinding, but not too much ;)

but yeah

there's obsidian under the end portal and a shulker next to it with soulsand and some skulls

so if you just want a star, that's the easiest way to do it

if you want to fight a wither, i'd appreciate it if you didn't do it near your base ;)

[whole depot]

where is the portal

[plush forge]

Central hallway has signs. If you take my portal and go right it'll be the third hallway left side

[whole depot]

@plush forge is the shulker in the end

[plush forge]

Should be somewhat next to the portak

[whole depot]

4 so far 10 is the plan

[whole depot]

your base looks cool at night

[plush forge]

Shaders help a lot

[vocal ember]

Yooooo what shader is that?

[plush forge]

Bsl?

[whole depot]

rethink voxel beta

[short lynx]

Damn, nice auroras (:

[dire mirage]

@short lynx @raw gale

Observatory dug out.

It's on the hill behind Weebisium.

The grey concrete is going to be changed, I think.

[vocal ember]

I’m gonna jump in that hole

[dire mirage]

hot

In the hole

we discovered a weird cave carvern

with a pig in it

Private Porker is Erre's new housemate.

[dire mirage]

Controversial idea

This swamp area

We've made a semi natural canal through it (you can see the path there)

Controversial idea

#DrainTheSwamp

Bluemap is borked atm, not showing the deforested canal area.

is a big project, but you could probably burn most of it down

[whole depot]

@short lynx can you please roll back the server 1hour from the time of this messagekinda ded and idk when

nobodys been on as far as i know

[whole depot]

what if i like it swampy

[short lynx]

What happened?

[whole depot]

i died to a zombie while afk and i dont rember where i was

[short lynx]

You can /back but I can log in real quick to restore your inv

Ok, I see where you died and the items have despawned unfortunately. Just ping either me or JK when you log in to restore your inventory

I have a busy day but I have the client running, so if you ping me as soon as I see it I will restore it

[whole depot]

@short lynx you on now

[short lynx]

Yes

I have like 20 minutes until my next meeting, I'm going through my emails now (I haven't in all day) so if you log in, I'll restore your stuff

I need you to be in game to do so however

[whole depot]

im in

[dire mirage]

@plush forge @whole depot @rustic oyster @short lynx @raw gale

a canal spur off to the eastern sea was built by knocking through the different swamp lakes and also a couple tunnels

[dire mirage]

also, ok, shrek

[vocal ember]

Gotta play with this thing, sorry

[dire mirage]

awww

[vocal ember]

Here moar

[dire mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/drinking-beer-bird-parrot-drinking-beer-gif-12698533

Cute parrot

[quiet plover]

https://tenor.com/view/look-at-all-those-chickens-gif-20113673

[dire mirage]

#NeverForget

It’s really upsetting when you’re dragging your leashed chicken, pigs or cow and you accidentally set it on fire, and Minecraft gives you cooked chicken/pork/steak.

[quiet plover]

accidentally. that forest was burning itself down

[dire mirage]

Okay Jair

[vocal ember]

Built a bridge 😄

[dire mirage]

Is really a bridge if it’s in the water?

Looks nice tho

Not sure who built it

But

This is also a nice bridge. I was too lazy to deal with the landscape there so just avoided it but a straight road is quite nice.

[vocal ember]

Yea, fair

[dire mirage]

I was thinking also

There’s no quick way onto the islands directly south and west of the map circle

There’s the big black bridge but you can only get off that very far west

And there’s the bridge south to the weebisium

But to get to the storage area/elevator

You have to wade across

And also to get to the completely deforested area

Would have to be tall enough to not interfere with the canal of course

[dire mirage]

Also furthermore.

Curious what people think.

Was thinking in some cases a tunnel under the river might be interesting.

[vocal ember]

Ok updated :3

[plush forge]

River tunnel with glass roof can always be interesting yeah

Would be nice to have sponges then

[short lynx]

I got a few sponges (if no one yoinked them) in my storage

[vocal ember]

Leave ya boi alone for like 3 mins and this shit happens lol

And ey someone forgot a wolf around -497,87

[dire mirage]

Not completely removing it, of course, just broke through into the natural large lake and then removed the trees which were obstacles for boating around.

Comparison to before

[vocal ember]

Nice!

[whole depot]

fuck i just drowned all the cows in the peta hole

[dire mirage]

Is this a good thing?

Or a bad thing?

Are you an animal murderer

Or did you end the animal rights violation?

[vocal ember]

Who doesn’t occasionally commit acts of mass murder on occasion in video games?

[whole depot]

effical triviality's

[whole depot]

@short lynx i know it takes away from the hole vinila esc of the server but can we have a 24/7 kill command on those things that fly out of the sky when you havent slept enough

[raw gale]

@plush forge, I think this is about your farm.

[plush forge]

well, better start replacing them then ;)

could always switch to golden carrots. Leather is done via the gold farm anyway

[short lynx]

I know phantoms are annoying but they're staying, it encourages people to be a bit careful when they go afk

Said by someone who died from phantoms while afk yesterday lol

[whole depot]

bruh

[raw gale]

Seriously though, if you kill or destroy someone else's stuff (please don't), it would be appreciated if you fixed it afterwards.

[whole depot]

i havent not done that for my entire time on the server going to need to look else where for people who would randomly destroy things and not repair them

[raw gale]

Just to clarify, I was referring to the cows you mentioned earlier.

[whole depot]

yeah and i spent 20 minutes finding new ones they were suprisingly hard to find

[plush forge]

they will spawn naturally in the plains eventually

getting them in the hole is another matter

if you have two in that hole it's fine

they'll breed up again

[whole depot]

ive converted one of the mob farm falls to do drowns

[raw gale]

Uhh, why?

Please ask before you change other people's buildings.

[whole depot]

to obtain tridents

there rather useful

its an easy repair its the removal of 4 water source blocks i did it in under 30 seceonds when i was testing how reversable it was

[short lynx]

Hi, while it is very appreciated to show proactivity and to test things around, we work on this server through consensus and respecting other people's work.

So I'd appreciate if you would ask before taking actions like this one, thanks!

[whole depot]

well its fully reversed now

[plush forge]

But, drowned zombies don't get tridents

Only naturally spawned drowned

Unless that is what you were trying

[short lynx]

All cool, my goal was just to provide a clear picture (:

[whole depot]

F no i didn’t know that

[whole depot]

@short lynx why is the ping so bad lately im on 1000 ping

[plush forge]

you in asia? :)

[short lynx]

I'm afraid that is on your side, there is no ping issues from anyone else afaik

Granted, the server is in Germany so it's a bit far from you, but 1k ping is def unusual

[whole depot]

maby its just spiking on my end internet is bad down under

[plush forge]

there's also a been a big cut to some cables between asia and europe through the red sea

might have something to do with it

ping 16ms over here

[raw gale]

the server is in Germany
Found the problem

[short lynx]

You recommended me the host 🫣

[dire mirage]

You'd think given what I just posted in #chit-chat

Germany wouldn't have any issues with internet connectivity

😏

Damn you Bill Gates! ||/s||

I was promised 5G

[whole depot]

beginings of an epic base

[dire mirage]

you giving up on purple tower?

[whole depot]

no just keep nearly dieing from the fall and i got a bit fed up with the lag

[dire mirage]

lol

want to get rid of it or?

[whole depot]

no

its being finished just not today

[plush forge]

well, the peta hole is full up and producing again

pure free range beef

[vocal ember]

Which hole?

[plush forge]

well, Someone murdered my cows

but they are now back

there's 24 cows in a hole next to my base, people nicknamed it the Peta hole

[vocal ember]

Ohh

[dire mirage]

[vocal ember]

Also what happened to the iron farm of yours? Was fun grabbing some iron and trading with the villagers

[plush forge]

Something broke with spawn finding every time it spawned a golem. Which lead to the massive lag we had recently

I'll try and set it up somewhere higher where it can't spawn or try anywhere else but the kill chamber

I've got three shulkers of iron blocks though, so we should be good for a bit

[vocal ember]

Alright. Got everything ya boi needs (so far) from the traders incliding the chainmail chestplates so im chillin for the time being

Plz lemme know when the updated farm is ready :3

[plush forge]

that's probably going to be a bit ;)

I was planning villager food first tbh.

[vocal ember]

Up to you :3

[dire mirage]

was fun to watch it drain

[short lynx]

Rude to take pics without my consent

[plush forge]

doesn't this fall under the "public person" part as the admin? :)

[short lynx]

I don't like your rationality and common sense

[whole depot]

50$ and i wont post mine lol

[dire mirage]

@short lynx @plush forge @vocal ember @raw gale @whole depot

Tried my best to give everywhere a name.

[short lynx]

We can add those to bluemap (:

[vocal ember]

"potato containment zone" lmfaooooo

[short lynx]

I also thought of doing it, but setting the areas with bluemap is a bit tedious

[dire mirage]

Some of them may need better names.

[short lynx]

But I can try to find a time for it

[dire mirage]

I mean it's primarily just in case people are wondering what we're talking about

So it just being a image is probably fine.

[vocal ember]

ISTG if yall rename muh potato contaminant zone imma be an angi boi

[dire mirage]

We probably do need names for things tho.

Not sure what @plush forge calls his area for example.

And unknown village, what do we call that.

[vocal ember]

like the "potato contaiment zone"?

[dire mirage]

Well that was because the only things built there were by you.

[vocal ember]

tru

plz dont touch the name tho

[vocal ember]

hell yea, and how did you get it to night?

[short lynx]

Top righ there's the option

[vocal ember]

Oh

Oh

[whole depot]

Looks nice

[plush forge]

You've added Copernicus tower to my zone ;)

So far my "zone" is just the hill a and up to the portal. The green bit next to it is free range

[vocal ember]

https://www.ddinstagram.com/reel/C4Ky9nSRwl9/?igsh=OHcwYXAwb3V4M2Zv

[plush forge]

terra is freaking beautiful in it's generation

[whole depot]

coliniser lol

[plush forge]

I mean, VOC right :)

nice land, shame if someone... Colonised it

[whole depot]

just lost a bunch of stuff f

should be replaceable but the time i spent getting out to the far reaches of the end isnt

[plush forge]

ouch

[short lynx]

Hey everybody. You may have noticed some additions in the browser map (Bluemap)!

I started adding names and markers for areas and points of interest within the server. These are toggleable so if you want or don't want to see them, you can turn them on and off.

I would appreciate naming suggestions, just like Lotte did above, for naming different stuff in there. Just that implementing this is tedious so it will be done slowly (:

[plush forge]

cool!

[plush forge]

what did you loose?

[vocal ember]

Oh hell yea! 😄

Some suggestions:

“Farmlands” for the tater farm area

“DaKinks mansion” for that overall area

[plush forge]

it's my hobbit hole

[vocal ember]

Still a mansion lol

[dire mirage]

@short lynx Hobbit Hole is a good name

[short lynx]

Yeah

Maybe a way to pun "Hobbiton" into some Dutch word that suits it?

[dire mirage]

Hobbithuisje

https://youtu.be/1Jq_WrhDXUk

Leaked footage of @plush forge

[plush forge]

Oi! No consent!

[whole depot]

Doxxed

[whole depot]

2 pickaxes a shovel and a set of lightly enchanted armour left my stuff at your base ps hope you don’t mind

[whole depot]

@plush forge the villagers staged an escape when i was trading with them and some emralds got stuck in there pen i should have left the emralds but i desided to get them i got stuck inside so i mined outbut they followed me ive got them confined to boats rigjt now idk how to get them back in

[plush forge]

I'll wrangle them back in tonight or something

[whole depot]

jk

i got them back in

[vocal ember]

Any updates on that iron farm as well?

[plush forge]

Haven't been on much tbh :)

Thanks jk.

Also @whole depot getting out should be just crouching. There's a slab to keep the villagers inside.

[whole depot]

it was a wierd glitch where i got stuck with the villager

and couldnt move no matter what i did

[vocal ember]

Aight

[plush forge]

Ah well. Villagers are easy to come by so nothing of value lost

[vocal ember]

How are villagers easy to come by…..?

[whole depot]

i didnt kill them lol thort about it they where quite annoying

[plush forge]

Villagers breeders are cheap.

And villagers are annoying yes ;)

[vocal ember]

Just how cheap is it?

[plush forge]

Two villagers, more beds and couple of stacks of food

[vocal ember]

Well fuck

Aight

[plush forge]

It'll make villagers as long as there are unclaimed beds

But! They are lag machines with pathfinding. And golem spawners

[vocal ember]

For the food, you can snag whatever from the chest under my bed at my place

[plush forge]

They do carrots, bread, beets?

[vocal ember]

Should be some bread, I guess? Gonna head home and check

[plush forge]

Carrots is easy, villager farmer will gather those by itself :)

[whole depot]

btw if your looking for a good paper farm theres 4 of them under my tower

[plush forge]

I was thinking of expanding mine but I only need it for rockets now

[whole depot]

if you want ill make it take items over to where you are

[plush forge]

Nah, I'm fine at the moment :)

[whole depot]

reward for the first person to find the 1 percent chance super rare smithing tablet is currently set by me to 1 block of nerthite

dupe it and do what ever you want with it but if you find it and give me a copy ill give you a block of netherite

[plush forge]

I thought erredece had some

[shell mortar]

yall have netherite?

[plush forge]

It's on the Todo pile

[short lynx]

Ya, I did find it, you could have asked me for it :p

[plush forge]

I didn't need it, Copernicus did ;)

[short lynx]

Only a sword and a chest plate (kinda pointless since I'm always using the elytra)

Haha

Fair

[shell mortar]

ohhhh ok

[whole depot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdR8KBT7Nek this mod looks so cool

[plush forge]

yeah, create is super fun

especially with the upgrades with rails and such

but it's so laggy for the clients :)

TangoTek also did a create thing with some hermits. Was also pretty interesting to see how it works

[whole depot]

how bad is it

[plush forge]

my 2080 really started to struggle when having ~20 machines running at the same time.

without shaders but with alternate lighting engine and memory upgrades

[whole depot]

not bad ive got a 4060 ti so might give it a go

[plush forge]

but is it a really fun modpack yes

what's that combined with in terms of cpu? :)

[whole depot]

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor, 3600 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)

not the best 5th gen cpu but its pretty decent

[plush forge]

5800 here, I know what you mean :)

should be fine until you get really into automation

[whole depot]

im looking falward to playing with the mod i want to have a city with cars and things moving around its always annoyed me how dead minecraft can be at times

[plush forge]

jup

and enclosing everything and letting villagers roam is a pain as well

there's also a resource pack that makes mobs have better expressions etc.

can't find it readily though

[whole depot]

maby but they can be down right scary sometimes

[whole depot]

nice dungeon @short lynx lol walked right in

[plush forge]

huh, nice

[dire mirage]

@whole depot @plush forge

Yea it’s the northern village

Erre and JK upgraded it.

Added a port, promenade, castle, market stalls, stuff like that.

[plush forge]

villagers in there as well then?

[whole depot]

its looking good imo

[dire mirage]

Believe so

[plush forge]

cool! I need to hermit less i guess :)

[plush forge]

so, whoever sheared my sheep in one of the peta holes has fubarred the wool output of that.

[shell mortar]

I've also messed around with it, super fun mod. if you like the look of it, give it a go.

building a bunch of huge windmills to power a lift has never been more fun

its that or like, a row of water turbine things

[plush forge]

don't forget steampower though

that can get super powerful

the rail stuff is fun, get a sheep and give it a hat to make it run the train :)

[whole depot]

…..

[whole depot]

What did I foobar about it

[plush forge]

They can't eat, so wool doesnt grow back

Which means it will take untill all sheep have been randomly killed by breeding new ones for it to produce wool again.

[plush forge]

Someone loose a horse? :)

[vocal ember]

Does horse have a name?

[plush forge]

nope

[fathom fulcrum]

Is that a desert?

[plush forge]

ocean, between raid farm and The Purple Unspeakable tower

[vocal ember]

Doesn’t belong to this account then

[dire mirage]

http://78.47.185.37:8123/

I struggle to find the map on my mobile so I'm posting it again.

https://tenor.com/view/penguin-hide-you-didnt-see-anything-penguins-of-madagascar-gif-15123878

[plush forge]

so, new iron farm. If anyone sees spikes again this one can be turned off easily ;)

it's also fairly far from normally loaded chunks

[vocal ember]

ayo what coords?

oh wait nvm i see you in the BlueMap

[plush forge]

it's got a portal in the main nethertunnel as well

-1680 300 ish

[vocal ember]

Hype

[vocal ember]

Where’s it in relation to the other portals?

[plush forge]

beyond the end portal tunnel

[vocal ember]

Nvm I think I found it?

[plush forge]

towards the netherack

[vocal ember]

Found it

[dire mirage]

https://vxtwitter.com/Lupe_Od/status/1770727001931882638

@short lynx @plush forge @raw gale @vocal ember

Can this be added to the server?

[vocal ember]

Would make things wayy harder for no reason

[dire mirage]

lol

[vocal ember]

Would be baller for single player tho

[dire mirage]

"sorry, my furnace is screaming"

[vocal ember]

“Goddamnit not again”

[dire mirage]

lol

[vocal ember]

“Shut up, i need to hide while smelting but youre over here screaming like i snapped your femur”

[plush forge]

What the fuck did I just watch...

[whole depot]

btw @plush forge if you want me to go all the way past where those big 4x4 trees in front of your base i would be willing to do that as it stands im not going any further

[plush forge]

Kinda hard to see what you mean :)

Reforestation?

I had plans with the small plains part, but I don't know if / when they will happen so if you want to do something with it, go nuts. There's a big plot to the east and north that's empty as well so enough space for projects

[whole depot]

its a birch forest im putting in it plays well with the tower also cool for othere builds

any way if your on later we can mark out where i can go with it beacase in an ideal world i would go all the way out to render distance but to be fair to othere players that might want to build there idk if that will happen

[plush forge]

Go nuts my man

The dark oak is there because I can't use them in my farm

But I can do those everywhere

[whole depot]

lets go

[plush forge]

if you need more saplings, theres probably a few stacks in the tree farm

[whole depot]

nice didnt know it did sapplings to

[plush forge]

it normally produces more saplings than it uses, so there some overflow

[whole depot]

nice ill take advantage of that

[dire mirage]

The future of the server

[plush forge]

yeah, no :)

[dire mirage]

You cannot be all high and mighty about animal rights

https://tenor.com/view/sad-dont-care-animals-peta-gif-10384269

[plush forge]

there is a difference between farming animals and SHEARING LEGS OFF

at least in my case they are killed semi instantaneously

[fathom fulcrum]

The "semi' reduces the superiority of that statement by a lot.

[vocal ember]

Still better then burning the animals

[plush forge]

you did watch the clip right?

that's just barbaric

plus my way helps with lag

no pathfinding going on

[dire mirage]

I dunno why Mojang didn't add the feature

It would make the shears way more useful

Not necessarily animated bricks

But certainly shearing the arms off a mob would be cool

[vocal ember]

Imagine getting bullied by some idiot in netherite armor and shears in the End lol

[plush forge]

https://tenor.com/view/scratch-hurt-no-big-deal-sarcasm-monty-python-gif-8464114

[whole depot]

lottos able to see the future

[whole depot]

@plush forge do you know where i can get alot of chains

[plush forge]

Well, that's why we have an iron farm

Should be ~2 double chests of ingots.

[whole depot]

whats the ow cords for that ?

[vocal ember]

Head west on that nether highway, though if you wanna leg it in overworld, its approx -1688,361

[whole depot]

thx

[plush forge]

*swim it in overworld

it's pretty bang middle of an ocean

[vocal ember]

Not if you have frost walker and some stacks of taters

[raw gale]

Please don't use frost walker again.

It messes up the BlueMap

[vocal ember]

Understood

[whole depot]

ive got an elytra now

[plush forge]

I meant to do another round and gather them up sometime

it could be an idea to prune the chunks of the end (aside from the shulker farm please) to reset the end cities

[short lynx]

I mean, it's ok to frost walker, just make sure that the track you leave behind melts (:

[vocal ember]

Wouldnt risk it lol

[shell mortar]

oops

[short lynx]

Hey everybody! Hope you've been well, I've been a bit busy and disconnected the whole discord server as a whole. But I have been checking this channel every now and then and I noticed some people were sharing some modded stuff, most notably Create

And well, that's a good coincidence because I maaaaay have been doing some experiments in the meantime:

You may recognise that area in our server

[vocal ember]

What mod(s)?

[short lynx]

So, I've been preparing a modpack that is based on the Create: Perfect World, which I find a quite simple one and that adds mostly cosmetic stuff on top of the basic Create content. Yes, now the spawn village has a functional water mill!

[vocal ember]

UwU

so thats the building!

[short lynx]

There are some changes. From that modpack I removed a few mods (the extra mobs one, waystones, probably backpack too). In exchange I added a few tech mods, as well as biomes o plenty

[vocal ember]

Pretty fuckin exited

[short lynx]

These tech mods have been added thinking on having an equilibrium between game balance and functionality. These would include:

• Mekanism (including Meka Generators)
• Thermal Series
• Applied Energistics 2
• Computercraft

I'm limiting the number of mods because 1 - too many mods can lead to bloat, as well as mod creep, so the purpose is to add a set of mods and not update for a while

[vocal ember]

Can you give a TLDR on these mods? Only played vanilla MC up until now

[short lynx]

But more importantly 2 - Mods that are compatible with 1.20 and therefore we don't need to generate a new map

Now, before I answer that question, I first need to ask: introducing mods has consequences: that is, to start with, we would not be updating to newer versions of minecraft, at least for plenty of time until the mods are updated to new versions of MC

Modded servers have higher requirements, both user side as well as server side. We will have to upgrade things server wise, and also it makes that there's a lesser accessibility for those wanting to join. That is that you need to take extra steps to be able to play. And those with lower end equipment and laptops may be constrained if they're not powerful enough (I would not recommend playing with less than 8GB RAM, and I still feel that's quite low)

The reason why we went vanilla in the first place was because of access to users, so that is something to keep in mind

But, I still support mods, with a measured amount, because I do believe they provide much further possibilities and options

And besides, the fact we're limiting ourselves to play on 1.20 (technically 1.20.1, so we're actually downgrading from the current 1.20.4 version but aside from a visual bug in Bluemap that affects some chunks and goes away when such chunks update again) also limits the amount of mods we can add. And all the work we have put in the server thus far is not lost, we maintain that server, we just have to explore a bit to find new ores, landscapes, etc

So, in a summary, these are the main mods added:

• Create: a steampunk themed tech mod, we take a step into the industrial age
• Rechiseled: a fork from an older mod, Chisel, adds variations of existing blocks, allowing for further details in builds.
• Framedblocks: Decoration mod, allows for half blocks, slanted blocks, etc to make your builds much nicer. Still no rounded blocks for anyone wondering, science is not there yet!
• Mekanism: Electricity powered machines with different options. From as simple as an electric furnace to the ability of obtaining powerful (but very expensive too!) functions such as building teleporters, jetpacks, power armours, etc. Much easier automatisation of processes.
• Mekanism:Generators: provides generators for the production of electricity. From humble windmills, going into thermal plants and leading towards nuclear fission and fussion power plants
• Thermal Series: a combination of mods mostly known for it's machines for item processing, transporting and crafting. Most of the functions are actually covered by Mekanism so it may be a bit redundant, but I have a lot of love for this mod so I went for it. And a lot of mods use components from this so if we decide to add something before getting started, it's added compatibility
• AE2: A very powerful and complex storage and item management system, allowing for the creation of very complex systems combined with the other mods (Crates is also available for those who want a simpler item management)
• Computercraft: Want to run a computer in a computer? Well, this allows you to, including an api to run your own Lua scripts within Minecraft for multiple functions
• Biomes O' Plenty: Adds a whole set of new biomes, rewarding much more exploration

I am also considering adding another exploration mod, I'm divided between Deeper and Darker or the Aether. Both are available in 1.20.1. I will only add one of those two

But before that, I have to ask: Do we go ahead with mods, or do we stick to vanilla? That is your choice now

It's up to us to decide, do we step ahead into new horizons?

[vocal ember]

Might have to outright stop playing in the server if this modpack stresses the computer too much

[short lynx]

Go with ✅ to go ahead, or ❌ to remain in vanilla

[short lynx]

What are your system specs?

[vocal ember]

Its cool and all, though

[vocal ember]

an IMac from 2012, and i fear that the computer is too old to properly play the server with all the mods

[short lynx]

Hmm, how much ram does it have? That's definitely old by now 😦

[vocal ember]

Here system specs

[short lynx]

Oh, that's plenty

[vocal ember]

It is...?

[short lynx]

Yeah, bit low when it comes to processor and graphics, but ram wise you're more than set

Probably playing with lower graphics and that's it

[vocal ember]

Aight fair

[short lynx]

Think that most processing is done at the server

[vocal ember]

Then in that case, im not too worried, although Ill initially enter the server with hesitation

Not 100% sure how my computer will manage, so at minimum ill tinker with the settings a whole bunch

[short lynx]

Something I have to say: you can always stick to vanilla minecraft if you wish: there's nothing gone from it, we're adding on top of it, not changing things out

[vocal ember]

Aight fair. Is there anything to download on my end?

[short lynx]

You can test by playing the modpack on your own, and if that goes well enough, then surely you can play on multi

Yes, I will provide instructions on how to play on modded if we end deciding with modded

But I guess we can do some testing while people decide in the meantime

[vocal ember]

Was mostly wondering is mods will be managed server side or player side

[short lynx]

Most need to be on both sides, but some remain server side, while others are optional and remain client side

[vocal ember]

Already less stressed out already. The optional ones have no major impact on gameplay?

[short lynx]

No, they're visual stuff. Things like minimaps, shaders, etc

[vocal ember]

Actually on second thought: how does the minimap work? Will it show other players locations too?

[short lynx]

Yep

[vocal ember]

0.0

[short lynx]

But that's something that's available already as client sided mods

And we have bluemap too

Available on browser

This is not a manhunt, player locations are not meant to be secret 😄

[vocal ember]

And fuck, can’t sneak up behind someone and /home like half second after the person looks behind

Lmao

[short lynx]

Well, you still can

[vocal ember]

It’ll be harder?

[short lynx]

Just a bit easier to notice

Depends on how focused the person is

Or you know

Use an invis potion lol

[vocal ember]

lol fair

Pulled that stunt once and probably made the person flinch lol

[plush forge]

Hmmm, create is freaking cool but it does add a lot of things. And a lot of data to the server

[vocal ember]

Another good point

[short lynx]

Yeah, the server will be upgraded, I mentioned that

[vocal ember]

Muh farm 😦

Muh taters 😦

[short lynx]

The map remains, so the farm doesn't go away 🙂

[plush forge]

Especially if we need to explore further to get the ores. If that can be done with a little upgrade, sure

[vocal ember]

OH HELL YEA

MUH TATERS REMAINNNNNNN

[short lynx]

Precisely the goal was to make it compatible with the current map

[vocal ember]

WHOOOOOOOOOO

Witcwogxwoycwyoceyoecoyecyeoycwyowfoywfuwguegodhdohfkvsucsoycaoycwoycys

[short lynx]

The only problem is, indeed, that we need to explore out to find the new materials

But that shouldn't be too much of an issue

[vocal ember]

Remember the one time I went like 40k blocks out in overworld lmao

[plush forge]

Might be an idea to not have biomes oplenty and purge chunks that aren't built in?

[short lynx]

Upgrading the server will give quite a bit more of space so no issues with exploring a bit, just don't do crazy shit pls 😛

[plush forge]

...

[vocal ember]

Or purge all chunks past the farms?

[plush forge]

You've played create right? Trains, ships, airplanes ;)

[short lynx]

I know lol

[vocal ember]

UwU

[plush forge]

Tunnelbores

[vocal ember]

Time to go 40k blocks for no fuckin reason then

[short lynx]

I know that the map will become "smaller"

[vocal ember]

How so?

[short lynx]

Easier ways to travel far

[plush forge]

Yeah def, travel times reduced a lit

[vocal ember]

Oh

[short lynx]

But then elytras can cover a lot of distance in little time too

And the map we currently have unexplored is big

[plush forge]

Yeah. Well, I'm all for it tbh

Create is fun

[short lynx]

We would have more space, like easily duplicate the area of the map we have now without any issues

[vocal ember]

Thought there was gonna be a “hard limit at 30k blocks because fuck you @vocal ember you aren’t doing that again”

[short lynx]

There is a world limit lol, but I doubt we'll reach it

[vocal ember]

“Doubt”

[short lynx]

I can make it smaller tho

😛

[vocal ember]

https://tenor.com/view/what-are-you-challenging-me-scooby-doo-shaggy-matthew-lillard-gif-17770189

[plush forge]

Tbh, a world limit of 10K is pretty big

[vocal ember]

Fair

[short lynx]

Yeah

[vocal ember]

Maybe make it 15k for the hell of it?

But yea, 10k is more then enough

[short lynx]

And yeah, I can just delete chunks easily

We could keep it simple and decide to maintain just some part of the map

[vocal ember]

Start with anything past those farms way far from spawn?

Keeps the old map we all know and love, and provides a hard reset for the mods?

[short lynx]

Depends, if we include biomes o plenty the deleted chunks may regenerate with new biomes

I'd actually do that for the sake of simplicity

Ofc, that would be at a radius around

It would be deleting the orange stuff which is our map (plus a bit I have generated on my internal tests)

I'd go a bit more in detail with the borders, but I'm showing this to have it visualised

[plush forge]

The iron farm wouldn't be needed most likely. So that could be cut out. Then there's just the fishing hut

[short lynx]

We could copy the fishing hut with world edit before doing the move

[vocal ember]

and plz dont forget about those chunks like 40k blocks to the south too?

[short lynx]

Yeah, those will be gone too

I mean, on this test I'm doing now locally they got yeeted (:

[vocal ember]

Yay 😄

[vocal ember]

Would still be cool if the iron farm exists in some form at least. Its basically a renewable resource for trading

iron --> emerald --> whatever you need

[plush forge]

With create, you get iron from stone basically.

[vocal ember]

???

[short lynx]

You can crush stone to get iron nuggets

[vocal ember]

Is that a mod…?

[short lynx]

Ah no, you get iron (as a chance) from tuff, crushed stone becomes cobble, crushed cobble gravel and gravel becomes sand

Yeah, one of the ones I listed

The steampunk one

Ah, but you can wash gravel and get iron from it (12.5% chance of a nugget)

[vocal ember]

"Washing gravel"

The fuck.....?

Really interested in the mods now

[short lynx]

Yeah, good mods really make your creativity go nuts

[vocal ember]

Does the gravel despawn or can you abuse the fuck outta the mechanic with a single gravel block?

[raw gale]

I think I built outside that range.

[whole depot]

you could regen the far away sections i disagree with spawn island being touched

[shell mortar]

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t touch spawn

[whole depot]

so long as a thew of my hidden bases dont disapear im good with it i guess

[shell mortar]

idk where your hidden bases are but if they’re even vaguely near spawn, they’re probably fine.

[plush forge]

Normally these chunk clearers can do it based on time. If you spent more than x minutes there they would be saved

[shell mortar]

that might be what its done? would explain the weird shape.

[raw gale]

idk where your hidden bases are
That's because they're hidden

[whole depot]

my hidden base laying claim for the russians to alaska with a submarine

but the subs hidden

[short lynx]

If you see the area, it is far beyond spawn island. And this is just an internal test for me, if we move ahead with mods, we then decide the actual cut off area

[short lynx]

I know you had some stuff that I did include, but in any case this is for my internal tests, for the real deal if we proceed, then we of course keep that in mind

[whole depot]

do the mods work on a server i thort create was just a local mod

[short lynx]

No, most mods need to be installed both on client and on the server as they add completely new mechanics

[shell mortar]

I’m down to do mods, but yeah - Should probably make sure to not reset people’s stuff + maybe an install guide.

[whole depot]

yeah i just didnt know there was a server version of create as it would cause so much desync

[short lynx]

Absolutely

[vocal ember]

Friendly reminder that QR codes in the wild may contain a Rick Roll

[plush forge]

would JEI / REI integration be on the list as well? It's kinda handy to have when figuring out create and how machines work

[short lynx]

JEI is included, yeah

[plush forge]

awesome

[short lynx]

Only issue is that there's no Configured for 1.20.1

[plush forge]

what's that?

sounds like modmenu

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/configured/files/all?page=1&pageSize=20&version=1.20.1 seems to imply there is

up to 1.20.4 it seems

[short lynx]

Istg I checked this like 3 times

Thanks

[plush forge]

:)

[whole depot]

@short lynx would it be good to a play test on the server with the mods

[short lynx]

Yes, later this week I will make sure everything is properly backed up (and if you want to play the vanilla map, let me know) and I will implement the mods, I will consider it a test run for a few days and only make the transition definite if everything goes well

[plush forge]

awesome.

let us know about the extra costs right?

[plush forge]

Hmm that does mean that I should start getting andersite I guess ;)

[short lynx]

I'm going to need tons of iron, redstone and quartz lol

Copper too

[vocal ember]

Can’t you trade for copper with the villagers?

[short lynx]

Yeah but I get far more real quick mining the ore with a fortune pickaxe

[plush forge]

Create means fabric server right? Hopefully zombie reinforcements work properly then ;)

By default villagers don't have copper. But it is a very abundant resource.

[vocal ember]

As far as im aware, trading means a renewable resource at least for some things instead of mining a whole bunch

[plush forge]

Jup

There's no way to get copper from renewable resources, aside from the drowned.

So yeah, zombie reinforcement is still best bet

You can crush copper ore to get more out of it than just smelting though

[short lynx]

Nope, it's going to be Forge/Neoforge

[plush forge]

Aah k

[vocal ember]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX3To8fzawY

[whole depot]

the far lands are fansinating when you start digging into them

[whole depot]

dose that mean we will have an easy download pack on curse forge

[plush forge]

i'd sooner expect on the server itself. Curse forge requires some hoops

[short lynx]

Nah, I will provide a link to download from directly, of course this is something that needs to be vetted with bcat mods to show that it's a safe download

[whole depot]

f

[plush forge]

supply chain attacks are a real thing unfortunately, so curseforge wants to check any uploads for malware. It's not that weird :)

[whole depot]

still it makes it hard on us

also the create lag is realhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vdT7XwhHY

[plush forge]

yeah

it's very heavy for the client

but uploading to curseforge is an option, but it will take time

afaik, you can setup the server in a way it points to the modpack to download. Or you can use an alternative launcher to make an instance via the link / zip

ATlauncher and multimc both have the option

I think the curseforge one has as well

[short lynx]

I definitely need to look into this, thanks for noting it out

But yes, the modpack will be provided as a zip by default

[plush forge]

I vividly remember being able to but an url to the zip in the config somewhere...

but there's a high chance of that being for the server to download the modpack when starting...

[short lynx]

For atlauncher I'm sure that's an option

[plush forge]

yeah. server.config it's a resourcepack url. Don't think that's the same

that's for custom textures etc.

[short lynx]

Yeah, I will probably build a small resource pack but that's for small changes I want to do to some recipes

[plush forge]

https://vanillatweaks.net/picker/crafting-tweaks/ ? :D

universal dying is pretty cool

[short lynx]

Flesh to Leather is already implemented in the mods I'm adding (4 flesh for 1 leather in a furnace)

The other ones I need to check, probably the charcoal to dye is there too

Later this evening I'll check, I'm not home now

[plush forge]

no rush :)

more in the spirit of not reinventing the wheel as well

[short lynx]

Yeah, I don't want to commit too many changes anyway, I want the mods to feel like additions rather than a change

So if someone wants to go full hermit and still play vanilla, they definitely can

[vocal ember]

Might as well try, and see if the computer even survives lol

[short lynx]

I'm still waiting for you to get back at me 😉

[vocal ember]

Got that application installed, no idea what to install from there

[short lynx]

That's what I was waiting for you to get back at me lol

I'll message you when I'm home

[vocal ember]

Lmao my bad

[plush forge]

well, i've got 5 double chests of iron ingots and 4 shulkers of blocks I think. should last a little

redstone and quartz are village and gold ;)

[short lynx]

Takes a moment to get the redstone by mining too

[plush forge]

plus redstone can be gotten by washing... gravel I think

[plush forge]

ah, netherrack leads to redstone

so should be very doable with some light mining as well ;)

[short lynx]

I'll just get some basic electricity production, build a fluxbore and start mining before I eventually automate things a bit more

I have done a handful of changes for recipes, for instance I made Hyperbox (Compact Machines clone for 1.20.1) far more expensive, and I disabled Thermal's ducts because they're currently very glitchy

[whole depot]

@short lynx i think it might be rate limiting me or somthing beacase lag increases the longer i play started at 87ms kicked me at 2000 ms

[short lynx]

I'll check in a bit if there's an issue with lag or anything

[short lynx]

Yeah, from the log it seems to be a network issue I'm afraid

[vocal ember]

Aaaaaa the damn ping

[plush forge]

Aaah, the start of automation. Producing cobble, diorite and andesite. Need to add a quartz generator and we are on the way to renewable redstone :)

[short lynx]

If certus quartz from ae2 works for the recipe, then that's easily automated

Just please, and this goes to everyone, do not mine a flawless certus quartz buds if you see any, not even with silk touch

Because it will still break and not become an infinite source of certus quartz

There are ways to pick one using meka and create, however

Anyway, I'm quite happy with the testing, I have been adding a few more mods so we have a proper modpack that shouldn't need updates. The only one that worries me is Valkyrien Skies, which allows for realistic physics and building vehicles (we can build some ships to make all those canals to use)

But it's a bit prone to instability

[plush forge]

sand > haunt > wash > quartz :0

instability isn't nice

[short lynx]

The instability is of random crashes at startup, sometimes it happens, sometimes it won't

We could probably leave it out and then add it in 3m or something like that

Once that it gets another update that hopefully brings some stability

Another issue is that shaders via embeddium+oculus is in theory supported but I removed them because one mod conflicts with it. Also I was testing with a couple people here with lower end computers and it also causes them to crash. The latter is simple, just don't use it (you can have the support in the server but clients don't require it), but the former is due an update from that mod

I can't recall which one was the one interfering

But it was a general interference with sodium which sucks since it's meant to improve graphics performance

But anyway, I'll probably roll out the modded version on the following days (might even late tonight if I feel about it, but there are things I should prioritise ahead)

[plush forge]

ugh, sodium is quite necessary these days :)

[short lynx]

Ya I know

That's why I hope there's an update soon, a lot of people have complained

But as for now, when testing locally the server has been otherwise quite stable and doing well performance wise, even when I have been running both server and client on the same pc (and pushed it with a lot of terrain generation and stuff)

[plush forge]

that's good

was looking at neoforge, and that looked nice with pre-generation etc.

but you will be loosing the buckit things like rollback I guess?

[short lynx]

No, with mohist you can combine bukkit/spigot/paper plugins and (neo)forge

[shell mortar]

almost done. need to finish the inside, and the gardens

and clean up some bits + banners

but almost

then I can make space for power generation when create happens.

[plush forge]

nice!

[shell mortar]

@short lynx so which version of create are we using?

just so I can do some testing and clear some space.

[plush forge]

1.20.1 it seems

eh, create right

the modlist for create:perfect world says the lastest: 0.5.1f

[shell mortar]

I might actually be too dumb to work out mods

[plush forge]

nah

but using anything but the default launcher really helps ;)

[whole depot]

once we get the ball rolling on create we should setup a building to teach new players and to store machine parts under the diffrent demonstration machines

[short lynx]

Mods often have in game tutorials and I added a few in-game manuals too

[plush forge]

it's also that create isn't the easiest thing though. Although the ponder system works quite well in explaining basics

[shell mortar]

I’ve used create before, but not in a while. Gonna be making a steam engine in my basement.

[whole depot]

I was just thinking it would be a nice project to work on as it would be cool room to have at spawn for newbies coming in with no information

[vocal ember]

Is there improved furnaces in the mods? If yes, how fast can they cook taters?

a farm must be attended to

[plush forge]

Fan over a campfire can cook a stack every twelve seconds

Spread out as needed

[vocal ember]

And can you put hoppers on it to automate?

[short lynx]

There's tons of automation and with electricity you can make some really fast furnacing

[vocal ember]

UwU

[short lynx]

Btw, I'm going to need from everyone to count for their entities (animals, villagers, etc) in case some get lost in the conversion to the modded server.

I also need to know of anything you want to preserve that's beyond the areas that I want to regenerate

[vocal ember]

All the account has is the horse leashed infront of the house

[shell mortar]

what does the current map look like of whats being regenerated?

[short lynx]

Vaguely this #1155615471484284981 message

[vocal ember]

hype

[dire mirage]

New canal connecting near Puca statue (egg) to the jungle canal network

[vocal ember]

hypeeeee

[dire mirage]

Longer term

My aim is to canal out these 3 things.

I know the map is gonna be constricted a bit.

Would make the big lake by spawn a lot more useful for getting around towards the north east

specifically the eastern two with @shell mortar's base.

cos that big eastern river is completely disconnected from the water network and requires you to go through puca egg north and all the way around to get to its entrance

[shell mortar]

sounds good to me

[vocal ember]

Hype

[short lynx]

The shape of the landmasses will be the same, just new biomes

(and new ores under it blabla)

[dire mirage]

Ah even better.

[short lynx]

I'd refrain from doing big canal works until we migrate however, unless you enjoy being a masochist

[dire mirage]

Why so?

Will it add a canal digger?

[short lynx]

There will be new tools and means for terraforming, don't want to spoil the surprise 😉

[vocal ember]

UwU

[vocal ember]

How intense are the tools?

[short lynx]

Quite, of course they will cost resources to produce them and use them and so on

[vocal ember]

Oh hell yea

[short lynx]

(Reason why I didn't add something like RFTool's builder because that shit is broken af lol)

[vocal ember]

Imma leave all that to you all, imma just make taters

[plush forge]

Contraptions are so much fun :)

[shell mortar]

you could probably make one fairly easily

[plush forge]

Straight lines are easy yes

[whole depot]

im making a creeper farm im mad about having to sit there for hours to get enough for rockets ill be building it far away so its not loaded and ill make sure its able to be turned off

[plush forge]

Did you light up caves etc?

[whole depot]

will do

[plush forge]

Otherwise you're filling your mob cap with stuff in the cave. Everything 24 - 128 blocks from you can spawn mobs

So either stand high up or light up the caves :)

[whole depot]

thx i was probs going to forget

i am at y 250

[plush forge]

And the bottom of your farm?

[whole depot]

y250

its there up

[plush forge]

Second thing: mobs wont spawn within 24 blocks

So if you are at the same level, rates will be very low indeed.

[whole depot]

I'm good I've had a little experience

but im still stupid beacase i used glass instead of tinted glass

[plush forge]

Heh, yeah that would do it

Unless there's a big roof on it

[whole depot]

@short lynx can you revert my inventory to when i was alive i some how randomly suffocated in a wall while looking at youtube at a tutorial

[short lynx]

Sure

[whole depot]

any issues

@short lynx im ready to be rolled back

[dire mirage]

Gonna try to make it slightly wider on the western end

[vocal ember]

UwU hell yea

[plush forge]

now that's a nice looking bridge

[dire mirage]

Yea, I knew I couldn't canal out and break the lake ring road without putting something legitimate in its place

Also ties @vocal ember's riverside house into the lake.

I was discussing cutting through there as a canal

Inspected it in Bluemap.

Certainly impossible to do an "Open cut" canal, just far too wide and deep and whatnot

But making a tunnel canal like south of spawn (that goes over weeb caves) might be possible.

Also the red rectangle area

East of @shell mortar's mountaintop hideout.

Cut through there to make the first river connection from the lake to the northern sea

and also maybe make a river harbour side of dan's base

[vocal ember]

Nice view out into the river, right?

[dire mirage]

Yep, nice connection too.

Map of all the canals and river connections.

[raw gale]

There are also two canals through spawn island.

Good work though!

[vocal ember]

3.5k ping to brrrrrrrrt

[vocal ember]

Fffuuuccckkkkkk

[short lynx]

Yeah, your net is cooked

[vocal ember]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-gif-24177057

Brother is in some online class, grandma is on Netflix or summ, bodies dad is working remote

Vuscosyfwitcsitxticw

[whole depot]

@short lynx

[vocal ember]

Probably Erred migrating to the modded server. Mentioned something about that earlier today that was gonna happen within 72 hours, iirc

[whole depot]

ahh i see

[short lynx]

Nope, that's not it, I will let you know when I start moving things, but I am not now

But from the time it seems you tried to log in when it was restarting

[plush forge]

so, whoever keeps harvesting the farm in my base please stop.

[raw gale]

@whole depot?

If it wasn't you, I can go check who it was in a few minutes.

[plush forge]

I get it's coming from a good heart probably, but just no

[whole depot]

Only 4 things I’ve taken from his stash about 3 stacks of cherry trees 3 leads I plan on returning 2 stacks of stone and a stack of snow or that’s my best memory of what I’ve taken oh yeah and a sheers

And I think I took half a stack of oak saplings

[plush forge]

that I don't mind, I said you could take them

but my food farm in my base keeps getting farmed and replanted half / wrong

[whole depot]

I’ve done that twice from your base but I replace in full

[plush forge]

just

don't

don't touch it

please

[whole depot]

Okay

[raw gale]

Since this kind of thing keeps happening, let's do it this way: Do not touch anything that someone else built without asking them first. Okay?

[vocal ember]

gonna open message this: the tater farm over at 252,427 is free to use. Just please plant after yourself, and plant new taters after yourself. the furnaces outside are for cooking

[dire mirage]

@plush forge

You were just killed by a Zombie according to in game

[plush forge]

.. yeah, very likely indeed

thanks for the headsup :)

was standing outside while getting the kids to bed

[raw gale]

Need a rollback?

[plush forge]

nah, it was just laying there

only lost ~300 levels

[dire mirage]

Oh whoops.

New canal tunnel built.

[dire mirage]

Current network looks like this now.

The north west spur will be connected in that choke point eventually.

[vocal ember]

aUwU

[dire mirage]

It's not terribly tall, just a shovel with efficiency and stuff on would probably cut it out reasonably quick

Another day's job anyways.

[whole depot]

Lottes a satist

Lol

I would wait for create to bring drills

[whole depot]

are we alowed to use tnt duper machine in farms or is that a no beacase ive built the stone factory right next to creeper farm if im not allowed to use the tnt to explode the stone ill use creepers

[plush forge]

as long as you aren't rate limiting the server with massive amounts it should be fine

i've used two dupers for the stone and tree farm as well

[whole depot]

did you already have a stone farm

@plush forge

[plush forge]

yeah small one next to the iron villagers

[whole depot]

okay well ill have a big one then beacase i keep running out once create comes in we can rework them any way

on seceond thorts ive just looked at what youve done might just leave mine on the drawing board mind if i add furnances onto your one so it turns it all into stone then onto smooth stone or splits it equaly into to cobble, stone ,and smooth stone

else ill go make that else where

[plush forge]

just make a small smelter with like 8 furnaces and grab a shulker at a time or something

with create it's probably going away to make place for a cobble generator that will convert into a lot of other things

just don't make changes to my generator please

if you break a wrong block the clock will be fubar

[whole depot]

dont worry took me long enough to get my clock running

[whole depot]

@short lynx can i get a roll back

fell in lava

[short lynx]

Yeah, give me a moment, I'm quite busy rn but I guess I can log in real quick

Btw, modded server will have the bodies mod, so if you die you will have to go find your body and you will recover your items from it

Very much like any grave mod if you're familiar with them

[whole depot]

yeah sounds like a good thing except for when your lost

[short lynx]

It syncs with mods that add waypoints like xaero (included by default) or journeymap

[plush forge]

Yeah, by default you should have a message with your death coordinates and with xaero you'll get a bright beam pointing in the right direction.

[short lynx]

Alright friends, I think tomorrow evening (CEST) will be the big day:

Here the final list of mods, excluding dependencies, graphical and performance mods:

• Ad Astra
• Applied Energistics 2
• Better village
• Biomes O'Plenty
• Bookshelf
• Callable Horses
• ComputerCraft (CC: Tweaked) with Advanced Peripherals
• Chipped
• Chunk Loaders
• Clumps
• Comforts
• Corpse
• CosmeticArmorReworked
• Crafting Station
• Create, including: Big Cannons, Bitterballen, Chunkloading, Confetionery, Crafts & Additions, Deco, Diesel Generators, Enchantment Industry, Recycling, Slice & Dice, Stuff & Additions, More Recipes, Steam n' Rails
• Eccentric Tome
• Farmer's Delight
• Fast Leaf Decay
• FramedBlocks
• Guard Villagers
• Hyperbox
• Immersive Paintings
• Iron Jetpacks
• Macaw's Bridges, Doors, Fences and Walls, Trapdoors
• Mekanism, including Ad Astra Ores, Generators and Tools
• Rechiseled
• RFTools, only Base, Power and Utility
• Storage Drawers
• Straw Statues
• Tesseract
• Thermal Series
• Villager Names

I am also including by default some client side mods like JEI, Light Overlay and Xaero's Minimap. Embeddium (fork of Rubidium, a Sodium fork) and Oculus are supported but I am not including it by default as it has made some people crash

I didn't end including Valkyrien Skies for now as it is too unstable, but I will add it in a future. I don't intend to add any other mods beyond that one and Create Clockwork as it works together with VS

Most of these mods are building on existing mechanics, as well as a couple of tech packs. The rest of mods are quality of life. The only vanilla mechanics changed are that tree leaves fall faster, xp balls clump together and sunflowers are now grown as seeds (these seeds can be used as food or to make cooking oil)

So yes, in principle tomorrow evening I will close the server to proceed with the transition, of course keeping a backup of the current vanilla world, which if anyone wants I can provide a copy of it. Big parts of the world will be regenerated in order to allow for the new ores and biomes to spawn closer, but I will make sure that nothing valuable is lost in the process

Once the transition is done, we will be testing for a bit, making sure that everything is fine, if everyone's happy we remain, but if there are major issues we will revert to vanilla of course

Of course, now is the best time for ideas and suggestions (:

There's also the option of editing recipes. I so far only modified the hyperbox recipe (it's too cheap by default) and disabled the thermal series ducts because they're glitchy. If you have any suggestions for further balance with recipes, let me know

[whole depot]

can we get the mod zip

[plush forge]

Ad astra? You sure about that one?

Since we already had issues with just the normal dimensions, adding space into the mix will grow maps and such pretty hard

[plush forge]

And with better village, will the existing villages be pruned? To allow them to regrow?

[short lynx]

Yeah, I will provide everything in due time, including instructions as how to play of course

[short lynx]

The server will be upgraded not only in ram but in space too

[plush forge]

alrigh :)

to the mooooon

[short lynx]

So I am not worried about adding extra dimension, just let's not go crazy with terrain generation

[whole depot]

Now that’s going to be a dream come true

[short lynx]

Not the ones in terrain that will not be regenerated

[plush forge]

in case I hadn't specified, if you wipe away the slime farm i'm alright with that

[short lynx]

Re:ad astra: if when you enter a new dimension it doesn't load properly, just relog

[whole depot]

How do we get there via rocket right

[plush forge]

jup

need to build a rocket, a platform, fuel and get some gear so you can breath / not freeze

[short lynx]

Rockets for the first time, there are ways to teleport after

[whole depot]

I rember the first series I watched space race by stampy long nose and a thew otheres

[short lynx]

Of which I recommend RFtools matter transceiver, mekanism teleporter sometimes fails

[plush forge]

as far as i'm concerned, iron farm can go as well

got almost 4 shulkers of blocks so should be good for a while

[whole depot]

i would like to report being bullied

by creepers

[plush forge]

then light up your builds :)

[whole depot]

4 explosions

[plush forge]

since 1.18 it's never been easier to prevent spawns

even subtly with glowlichen

[whole depot]

im putting in glow stone lamps just havent gotten to level 9 yet

[shell mortar]

@short lynx what time will the server close/be downloaded for mod stuff?

[short lynx]

Since 1.18 mobs spawn only at total darkness (light < 1)

[short lynx]

Eh, evening? Depends on when I get home and so on

[shell mortar]

ah ok

[short lynx]

I can't provide with the zip just yet because I'm on my laptop and the modpack is in my desktop pc

[plush forge]

don't sweat it

tomorrow is fine as well

Lotte will just need to find something else to do tonight instead of digging canals

[short lynx]

When I go home and do some final tests, I will zip it and ask a mod to review that the zip is fine before sending it

[plush forge]

go outside, touch grass and polder a small lake or something

[short lynx]

And don't worry, I'm the one who also wants to play asap too

Really excited to build Black Mesa

[plush forge]

I was planning a hole in the ground to mimic Orthanc in wartime

[whole depot]

DIG I TELL YOU DIG