Whoa, I can send someone mail?

I don't want any kit. I wouldn't dream of asking for a kit.

 

Or going near lava, when I've found some diamonds. That would just be silly.

You can, but it's all effectively done by command line. And, speaking as a Cisco engineer, that's a pain in the arse.

Hmm, plus we'd need to craft a mailbox and I don't know how to do that!

Yeah we can but let's not. Pain in the arse as Patch says.

Just for that I'm sending you love notes from the US!

Keep that between you and PB.

haha!

Assuming it's possible (it's not in that "essentials" list), would people be in favour of either:

* disabling rain completely

or

* restricting it to just a few hours, not days?

?

http://plugins.bukkit.org/

 

Plugins are there if anyone can be bothered searching.

I'm underground a lot, but when I'm not, it's raining!

 

I'm not opposed to limiting the rain. What's it good for anyway? Doesn't put the damned lava out!

With mobs turned off, it does nothing useful.

Well, apparently it makes fishing more successful, (but Minecraft fishing is even duller than real fishing, so nobody actually does it, and certainly not with auto-heal enabled).

It makes farmland wet, but ... so does a dumping a bucket of water in a hole, and that lasts longer (i.e. indefinitely).

The only benefit I've seen is that it covers things in snow in snowy areas.

I have been working underwater - taking advantage of the not-dying thing

now I'm dying! - what's different?

Not dying under water? What do you mean? I thought we could die.

up to now you got hurt, but it repaired as quickly as it happened, I guess cos it was peaceful?

now much harder

actually, I like it better now

Is that the same with falling and stuff?

 

I'd never gone underwater, though thinking about it, now essentials is installed I haven't been able to get out of Lava and survive like I did in the past.

Oh no, is it not peaceful anymore? I die enough without monsters eating me!

Is there monsters?

No.

The drowning things seems to be hit and miss. I've had both things, where I can drown and where I can't. And this was during the first few days of the server before you went down the tried and tested path of ruining it with installed mods. Might be latency related or sommat.