To Minecraft itself? Me too :(

Response code 503?

 

Edit: Oh right, restarted the application and yeah, won't connect to minecraft.net

Yeah, the authentication servers seem to have had a bit of a wobbly. Apparently, someone's trying to fix it at the moment.

The 503 error is because (I think) minecraft.net is down, and the server verifies your user name with minecraft.net to make sure you're not pretending to be someone on the whitelist.

 

I shall turn off that check now and you should be able to log in if you do 'play off line' when you load minecraft.

Well that kinda worked, but stopped me being koswix and turned me into "player" :(

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/minecraft-coming-to-ios

 

But no mention of Android :'(

If you still can't log in, the new launcher (which uses HTTPS) seems to still be working. Can grab it here:

 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/tmp/MinecraftLauncher.jar

Is that definitely the official one?

Notch's blog post only references minecraft.net/download.jsp which doesn't mention that file. :/

That is the beta/leaked one that Notch linked to on Twitter on Friday.

 

The 'official' one came out today, just before minecraft.net fell over :D

Well minecraft.net is back and seems reasonable speed (and was when I posted that).

And his blog article says:


So... maybe the server crashed again and they reverted to the old version? :/


And grrrr:

No! :@ People don't like being forced to eat food in games!

I thought he said he would only add fun things. :(

Still, at least it'll be configurable... just so long as it doesn't required going into peaceful.

I have no idea. But the new launcher i have works and lets me in, so i don't care. :D

No, not on Android please, it'd eat every spare minute I have then.

http://www.mobot.net/official-minecraft-release-coming-ios-android-16774

 

%-)

I apologise for ruining the linearness of the tunnel track, but run away carts should now be collected whichever track they are on and whichever direction they are travelling.

 

There's even a minecart dispenser which may or may not work.

I really must try the track, but there's a bit of me that doesn't want to go on it until the whole tunnel is finished.

Is it going to be a loop?

Fuck no. (Maybe). At the moment it's aiming to join up with the big road which leads off Kos's giant bridge. After that, who knows?

 

Just realised, though, that it's probably going to run into all kinds of underground stuff near the old spawn. Hope no-one minds it just running straight through everything.

So what is going on with the tunnel now then? I've not been on for a few days properly.

It got long.

And getting longer. I dug out the centre line yesterday to get as far as the left-hand bend to take it towards the old spawn. The rest of the tunnel is getting close to the bend, but it depends which side of the tunnel you're standing on as to how far away it is. The right-hand side is probably 500 blocks closer.