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 From:  graphitone   18 Jul 2011 20:37 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      2229 of 3934 
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This is the map at full zoom for me, flying over what I think is Xen's masterpiece. So, does each square represent 1 block in the game world?

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 From:  JonCooper   18 Jul 2011 20:50 
 To:  graphitone      2230 of 3934 
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dunno, but that messes up my theory about the grey areas
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 From:  graphitone   18 Jul 2011 21:01 
 To:  JonCooper      2231 of 3934 
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Aye, there be people in there - though the grey bits could be areas /you've/ not explored recently.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   18 Jul 2011 21:18 
 To:  graphitone      2232 of 3934 
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Impossible, the online map is essentially anonymous.
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 From:  graphitone   18 Jul 2011 21:26 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      2233 of 3934 
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Hmm - so why block out large areas of the map at all - what purpose could it serve? :-/
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   18 Jul 2011 21:36 
 To:  graphitone      2234 of 3934 
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No idea.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   18 Jul 2011 21:37 
 To:  graphitone      2235 of 3934 
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Nah, it's just the updated map plugin draws darker than it did before. So as people re-explore areas they'll all get darker until it's all the same.
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 From:  graphitone   18 Jul 2011 21:41 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      2236 of 3934 
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Right you are.

 

Carry on. :|
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 From:  JonCooper   18 Jul 2011 22:32 
 To:  graphitone      2237 of 3934 
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the black bits? chunks don't exist until someone goes there
Jon
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   18 Jul 2011 22:35 
 To:  graphitone      2238 of 3934 
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Yes and no. :S

That yellow 8px square in the center is the size of a 1x1 block... but it's actually representing a torch (which is much thinner than a block).

I guess you can say, every coloured square on the map is a single block, but it's colour may be different to it's actual colour based on having something on-top of it which is actually smaller than one block (torches, signs, doors, ladders, flowers, etc).

Oh, and also in-game the blocks are not solid colours, or sometimes not even close to those colours.

Still it looks like the new darker map images are improving things - if you head north from the Citadel until you reach another shaded area - the dark green in there is grass, which used to be coloured purple as you'll see if you look at the surrounding areas.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   18 Jul 2011 22:41 
 To:  JonCooper      2239 of 3934 
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To be slightly more accurate, chunks don't exist until somebody goes nearby (at which point they are generated from the game's current algorithms).

However, the black areas on the map might exist as chunks, but haven't been rendered because they've not yet been visited/modified by players.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   18 Jul 2011 22:43 
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Oh, and sometimes a black area is just your browser/connection not loading the image for some reason - can generally be solved with a force-reload.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   18 Jul 2011 23:14 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      2241 of 3934 
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Chrome (here at least) gives different results to IE and Firefox (when zoomed in), the blocks are blurred instead of square so some scaling/blending thing going on.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   18 Jul 2011 23:22 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      2242 of 3934 
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Bloody browsers! :@
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)   18 Jul 2011 23:26 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      2243 of 3934 
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We've lost the /time ability!


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 From:  af (CAER)   18 Jul 2011 23:47 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      2244 of 3934 
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Firefox has a CSS property you can use to affect the rendering of scaled images (something like image-rendering: mozOptimizeSpeed), which obviously isn't supported in Chrome. I think IE does nearest-neighbour interpolation by default. It caused me a lot of grief when making piXY :C
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 From:  Oscarvarium (OZGUR)   19 Jul 2011 00:29 
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I want to connect a few places I have built/am building with railways, possibly connecting them to the network if that's possible. How is the best way to go about that, and how many of each kind of rail should I start stockpiling?
Also, I can't think of a signature, any ideas?
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   19 Jul 2011 00:52 
 To:  Oscarvarium (OZGUR)      2246 of 3934 
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How long of each piece of string should you start stockpiling?

It depends how far you want to go! :P

Without major hills, two powered rail per 64 normal is probably enough, but with hills then you'll need power just before the hill and I think every other piece going up it.


If you want to build it yourself, just gather as much gold and iron as you can.
six gold + one redstone + one stick = one powered rail.
six iron + one stick = sixteen normal rails.

Oh, and powered rails are only powered when they're receiving power, so you'll need redstone torches or levers to turn them on (or pressure plate rails, but I find them a bit buggy).

Of course, you can probably just ask Xen or Kev and they'll give you as many rails as you want. :)
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   19 Jul 2011 01:06 
 To:  Oscarvarium (OZGUR)      2247 of 3934 
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What PB said, and ask Kev (HardWork) he seems to be the railway expert.
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 From:  Oscarvarium (OZGUR)   19 Jul 2011 01:09 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      2248 of 3934 
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Is each large square section of the map 128 blocks? I tried to count them on the screen but my eyes started bleeding halfway through. Assuming they are, it looks like about 10 squares of land to cover, which means 1280 pieces of rail. :| I have plenty of iron so I could probably do it, this is going to be a nice big project.

 

So I should be going: Powered Rail > 32 (31?) Rail > Powered > 32 > Powered > etc? What's the best way of laying it over water, just on top of a line of blocks sticking out from the shore?

Also, I can't think of a signature, any ideas?
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