I tried to log in a few days ago and couldn't get in. It kept saying the server was gone.

Just tried to log in with 1.2.5 and was told "outdated server".

Downgraded to 1.2.3 and got on ok.

Been busy, but I should be able to upgrade tonight.

Cool. No rush though - whenever is convenient. :)

Updated.

I just built a nether portal in the new world, but it doesn't teleport me anywhere - just sits there with the swirling purpleness until I step out of it.

Guessing this is due to the multiverse plugin, so I looked at that site and it seems it might be because there's a netherportals sub-mod to install, and/or because a nether needs to be manually created (see "Behaviour" section).

Can you check it out when you get a chance?

I shall do. I've had a read and it seems simple enough.

 

One question. Would you like portals in the new world to go to a new nether or the original peaceful one?

Definitely a new nether. Thanks. :)

I'll get that sorted soon.

If you could also find a plugin to force other people here to come play every so often, that would be great too. :)

I'll see if there's one in the plugin repo ;-)

Have you had a chance to look at the Nether stuff yet? Portal still doesn't work.

Oh shit, no, sorry. I will do tomorrow hopefully.

 

I opened the links at work but forgot when I got home. I'll just do it at work tomorrow.

Cool. Got some stuff I want to do with lamps, which of course needs glowstone. Plus it'll be handy to make some speed potions too, which I think need netherwart.

Jake and I have a portal built in the 2012 world too, so make sure you get your netherworld portal in the right place to connect back to yours

I might need help with that - not done it before - it's a process of de-activating then building another then re-activating isn't it?

Yeah. You take the coords from the real world, then divide by 8 in the nether.

So, make gate in real world, remember x and y. Go into nether, destroy the gate you came through and then build a gate at x/8 and y/8.

That's the simplest form, a few complicating details are:

When you make a gate, the game looks for a valid gate to link to in the other world. A valid gate is one within 128 blocks of the 'target' position (i.e. within a square with a side of 256, centred on the target). This is why gates fairly far apart in the nether will link to the same gate in the real world.

If no gate exists the game looks for a suitable spot to create one in a square with a 'radius' of 16 centred on the target location, regardless of the direction of travel.

Assuming I remembered all that correctly you basically just need the first bit, unless other nearby gates exist then it gets a bit more complex.

*x and z -_-

(y should stay the same ideally)

Is that 256 blocks in normal units or nether units? Pretty sure we're more than 256 blocks away in normal world, so should have independent gates if it's the former.

It's 256 blocks (128 distance - the 'cube' it looks within is 256 ont he side, with you in the centre) regardless of whether you're in the nether or not.

 

i.e.:
Create a gate in the real world, game scans for a gate in the nether within a 128 block radius of derived target position (real world x/8, real world z/8) in nether.

 

Create a gate in the nether, game scans for a gate in the real world within a 128 block radius of derived target position (nether x * 8, nether z * 8) in real world.

 

So yeah, if your places in the real world are more than 128256 apart, you'll need two separate nether gates. But you could position those two nether gates as close as possible in the nether. I mean if your places are just over 128256 apart, you could have two gates in the nether virtually right next to each other.