I'm there, redoing the near-spawn house thing :-$

 

edit: there are at least 6 creepers in that area :C

you build so fast!
(or I'm lagging bad ;-)

What's a googletalk?

Good building work people, the base is starting to look really good. Fishbob was dead impressed with the additions to his tower that you've done :D

Jake went over in the hills to mine a bit, made his own place and also built a hiding place for anyone caught out when it gets dark

I think one of us might've been lagging, I'm not that fast... I'm tempted to build a proper house inside that courtyard, the current one is a bit meh.

 

Also, I put overhangs on the outside of the walls, because spiders kept climbing over :-@ All sorted now, we even have a tree farm :D

I see the farm, we have a lot going on, Im trying to tidy up the walls, floor, etc.

Could the server take another player if I was to jump on in a bit?

people are coming and going all the time

if it lags too much I just drop out for a while

So Minecraft is all Java.

 

And Android is all Java.

 

:?

An Android Minecraft client? You'd never do any work.

It would probably be shit anyway.

Server's looking nice :D

I have a weird bug (I presume) where I always instantly die on the first time I connect. Then second time is fine. Very strange.

Also there's crazy numbers of monsters in recent versions. And spiders are fuck-hard now. It's a bit toooo much. Hard to get any work done.

Apparently spiders can climb now.

I get that 'die first time' thing too - just assumed it was me standing in the wrong place

patch: that's why serg built an overhang on the outer wall, I've seen a spider climb right up the face of that sand cliff

I will see if I can change the difficulty level.

 

Also, I'm going to turn animals off as that is supposed to.improve performance loads.

Could turn monsters off too...

(it used to be that turning animals off also turned monsters off anyway, dunno if it still is)

Have you seen my mine? :-$
There's a few passages which I blocked off because they led to scary dungeons, I'm not tough enough to go in there :C

is your mine the one inside the base? that goes for miles!
did you check out the one in the sand cliff? (I think patch dug it)

They are seperate options now, but I figured that turning monsters off would lose part of the fun of it. I've built a few things in Peacful mode on singleplayer, and it's just not the same as with monsters.

 

I read up on a bunch of stuff last night and this morning I have rebooted the server with some tweaked java settings that should help things. Also, I've added entire directory that Minecraft Server is in to the exclusion list in Avast's real time scan - and that instantly saved about 10% of CPU time :O

 

Now we just need Bukkit, a method for moving the existing world to an SQL backend, my new PC and virgin to either install my 100Meg line or complete their free upgrade that they're also doing that would see my upload go up to 2Mbit.