The MafiaScum Minecraft Thread - AllTheMods 9!!! - NEW Vanilla?

[Klazam]

(yes, it's updated to 1.5.2)

huh, I'll have to reread the thread then. from the bit I skimmed, it looked like was talking about the dimenson only. thanks for the warning.

[Klazam]

read over a lot of stuff, couldn't find any overworld changes. I think I'll be fine. if shit breaks, I'll just remove aether the second time I try this.

[Klazam]

Regarding the above thing- I know that i did not do it, and i hope that rob/blake does too, so im not gonna say anything more on that topic. This is a game, for god's sake. Whoever that is the asshole here, just don't do it again, and we'll just forget about it, hmm? Anyway, in the next post i make, there will be the story of my adventures in minecraft land.

[Klazam]

Blocks, Swords, and Wizards

Foreword:

Spoiler:

I'm writing this story as I play a custom mod pack on pesudo-hardcore mode. (Hard, but i play as though it is hardcore. The reason for this is because i want to be able to take screenshots of my death site, and screenshots of my last build(s))

Anyone is welcome to join me in this experience. I enabled Bonus Chests, and I play as though Vanilla Tools are disabled (They are still enabled, because I don't want to risk losing crafting recipes for other mods, but I will not craft any vanilla tools.)

If you want to join me, PM me and i'll send you my mod pack. Used through MultiMC, basically. The only rule- Write a story!

Table of Contents:

Prologue- In the real world: ........................................ Post 15236
Chapter I- Waking up: ................................................ Post 15242
Chapter II- Tinkering, Hunting, and Mining...................... Post 15246
Chapter III- Portals and Ravines, oh my!........................ Post 15264
Chapter IV- Challenging Caving .................................... Post 15293

Prologue- In the real world:

Spoiler:

It’s just another day at college for our hero, John Q. Steve, when his thoughts turn to something he discovered recently. This little computer game, named MineCraft, has been around for some time now. John found it through a friend of a friend, so he bought it, and played it. He found the concept very interesting, a game where he could place blocks and mine blocks and overall build a world of his own. He has became rather addicted to this game, pouring hours upon hours into it, just playing and exploring all the cool places in the game.

John’s email alert popped up on his iPhone. He looked down, and saw an offical-looking email from Mojang. Checking the email, it said;

Dear John Q. Steve “Steve” (of john.q.steve@gmail.com)

I hope this e-mail finds you well! You are hereby invited to a small event, at Mojang headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden this weekend. Details about this event is meant to be a surprise, but rest assured, it’ll be a sssssssss... blast! You received this invitation because you are one of the 10 randomly chosen to participate in this event. If you are interested, please reply to this email with a “Yes” and your city and state so we can send our private plane to your local airport for a pick-up.

Sincerely,
Markus Persson “Notch”

Intrigued by this, John decided to send a reply. Little did he know what he was getting into.... A few days later, Mojang sent him a reply, with a date, location, and time. He went to the airport where Mojang told him to, and saw a small white plane with the MOJANG logo painted on it. Outside that plane, was a stewardess in a white uniform, with curves pleasing to the eye. John thought; “This day can only get better.”

“Hello! You’re Mr. Steve, yes? Please get on the plane, and get comfortable. This will be a long flight overseas. Food and drink will be served on board. Get on, and have a nice flight!” The stewardess was smiling all the while while she spoke. John hopped on the plane happily, and found that the acommodations was first class, nice plush chairs, and all. The stewardess beamed at John, and told him "I'll be back in a short time, with food." After a short time, the stewardess returned with a prime filet steak. John couldn't believe his luck! He wolfed it down, so mouthwateringly juicy, and chatted with the stewardess all through the plane ride.

After the long flight, even though it was as comfortable as could be, John was ready to set foot on ground again, and see what the event was. The plane finally touched down, and John got out, to see a black van. The stewardess told John “Get in that van, it’ll get you to Mojang headquarters.” The van door opened, and John got in. Inside were three burly men. John asked them; “Hello! Are you all here for the event?” One of the men said shortly, “Yes”, while another man grabbed at John. John yelped and tried to get out of the van, but these three goons were too strong for John. They forced him back in his seat, and tied him down with the seat belts, and held him. The van door opened, and the stewardess, no longer wearing a smile, said “Here, this won't hurt a bit, Mr. Steve.” She was holding a long silver needle-tipped syringe. John screamed, then the world went black.

Chapter I- Waking up:

Spoiler:

Black. White. Black. Green. Green? John opened his eyes fully, and saw a strange tree in front of him. This tree was... blocky, and a strange color. He looked down, and saw dark green grass. This grass was also flat. HIS LEGS WAS FLAT AND BLOCKY. “AHHH” John screamed, and walked backwards. Even walking felt wrong. Looking around in panic, he saw that everything was flat and blocky.

“Where am I?”

“Look around.”

“Uh, looks a lot like... MineCraft?”

“You’re Notch’s latest victim.”

John suddenly realized something-

“AHH WHO IS THAT”

John looked around in a panic, to see a blocky white transparent thing, with green eyes, and a crown, floating near him.

“WHO ARE YOU”

“I am Klazam33, the victim before you. I shouldn’t be here, at all, but I think that there was a glitch or bug or something. I’m in the body of a Twilight Wraith.”

“Uh, what is a Twilight Wraith? I played MineCraft, and I’ve never seen one of these.”

“Oh no, don’t tell me that you only played vanilla? I really hope that you won’t just die. I’m not sure how long I’m gonna stick around. Dear god, I hope this body won’t despawn.”

“This is a bit much to process. And why can’t I sit down?”

“You’re basically in a MineCraft world. There’s no sitting in MineCraft. Daylight is a-wasting. I strongly recommend you get playing. I’ll stick around and help you a bit, but since this body is completely unable to do anything, I guess it’ll just be help in the form of words. Oh and one last thing. Think of this as hardcore. I died and did NOT get to respawn. I just woke up here like you. What’s your name, anyway?”

“I’m John... My in-game name’s Steve, so call me that, I guess... So you’re saying that I’m basically a player in this game, but its real and I can die? How did you die?”

“Hello Steve, then. I’d rather not think about it, we can discuss that later. Go and look for the bonus chest, and punch some trees for wood. You’ll need it, of course.”

“Uh, punch trees? Okay, I guess...”

John looked around, and picked a tree at random. Wincing, he walked up to it, and gave it an experimental punch. The familiar cracking animation showed up and disappeared. John sighed in relief, and punched and kept on punching the block until the log dropped. He walked up to it, and it whooshed in John’s body.

“What, where did it go?”

“Oh right, You still haven’t figured out the Graphical User Interface yet. It took me a while to figure out myself. Just think ‘E’ really hard. It’s odd, but... yes it works.”

“Ok”

He closed his eyes and gave it a try. Nothing happened. “Nothing.” He opened his eyes, and WHAT. A massive 2-D gray pane was in front of him. He could see a book and a log of wood in his inventory, and he could see himself looking at wherever his eyes went. So weird and creepy. He experimentally pointed at the book. It began hovering. HE moved it down in what he could recognize was his hotbar, like from the game. Actually, the GUI was the exact same as from the game, but there were some differences, like 12 armor slots instead of just 4, and the crafting portion was pointing down instead of to its side. John pointed and moved the book in slot one, and it went there.

“So... Let me guess, think ‘ESC’ to get this thing down and ‘1’ to equip slot 1 in my hotbar?”

“Yup, you’re catching on fast. Maybe you still have some hope. But don’t worry about that book. time enough to read when we’re at safety.”

“All right, we can do that. Hmm, where’s this chest at? AHA, Found it!”



“Ok, how do I open this chest?”

“Same principle as everything else. Think right click, and punch it once.”

“That makes sense, but it doesn’t....”

The chest opened, and a pane, much like the inventory screen popped up. In that pane, there were some wood logs, planks, and a few items that John had never seen before. He pointed at one of them, and a description popped up- “Atlas‘ Portal Gun”.



Klazam remarked- “Wow, you’re lucky. I’ve never had one of that in my time in this cursed place.”

“What is that?”

“I’ll explain later, put everything in your inventory, and chop down a few trees before it gets dark.”

After what felt like a few hundred punches later, John’s shoulder was hurting. He decided that he had enough logs. After looking around, he noticed a small village nearby. The place he was in had dark green water, and a dismal dark sky, along with cows and pigs. He walked towards the village, when he saw some brown blocks in his path.

“Hold up there, faster if you go around that- it’s mud.”

He detoured, swam across a small river- The feeling was surreal- he kept on sinking, until he tried jumping, and via jumping he swam across. He never thought of the fact that MineCraft had some odd behavior. - then arrived at the village.



This village did not look normal, and John quickly figured out why. Some natural disaster had befell it, and a gaping ravine had spilt open in the middle of the 4-house village.



He looked around, and noticed that the village was half-buried.



He then saw the village priest, and walked around to talk to him.

Klazam33 interrupted to say “Hello priest. Where am I?”

John looked at Klazam33 in surprise.



“That was what you were going to say, yes? You fool, villagers in this world are just like in the game. they only offer you trade stuff, and do you no good. You might as well kill him.”

“No! I just can’t kill the villagers. I need to make sure they’re safe.”

“Ok, this is as good a time as any to teach you about the portal gun’s functions. Equip it, point him at the villager, and think ‘G’. “

“This better not kill him...”

John did as Klazam said, and IT WORKED! Somewhat. The villager started hovering. John moved around, and the villager moved with him. He carried the villager to the roof of one house, and plopped him down again. He captured two more villagers the same way, and put them all on the roof. “There, all safe.” He then went inside a house, and it was like nothing he ever saw before. There was all kind of blocks and stuff. BUT, there was wool on the floor. John happily gathered it all, and replaced it with willow planks.

There was also a crafting table in the place, so he made a bed for himself, and tried to make some tools. But for some reason, the tool recipes that he knew wasn’t working...

“Klazam33, what’s wrong with this thing?”

“Oh, this has Tinker’s Construct. You can’t make regular tools, you have to use these tool tables and such to assemble tools. We’ll cover this tomorrow.”

“Ok...”

John took a last look around his new home and outside, then he went to sleep for the night.




The night was SHORT and uneventful, then John woke up all rested. He climbed up the ladder at the back of the house to check on his 3 villagers. Outside, he saw all manner of nasty mobs burning in the daylight.




“Oh boy, what have I gotten myself into?”

Chapter II: Tinkering, Hunting, and Mining

Spoiler:

John went downstairs, opened his chest, and tried to make head and tail out of all the crazy parts of tools in there. He couldn’t figure it out, until he remembered that he had a book in his inventory. He opened it up, and a panel with the book’s contents popped up front of him. “All right, I know this is weird, but I’m getting used to this” After a bit of reading, he felt that he understood how to make tools, pretty much. It was at this time that Klazam33 interjected- “You should go over to the other house, there’s more parts there, and theres another villager trapped inside. This is as good a time as any- see your portal guns? Try using it. I suggest this wall.”

John pointed the gun at the wall and used it. A green oval splashed against the wall he was pointing at. “Ok, this is pretty cool, but what can I do with it?” “Shoot the opposite wall with the other mode of the portal gun.” John did that, and a purple oval popped up. The ovals became silvery. “What now?” “Touch one of them”

John walked up to the green oval, and reached out to it. BAM. He was looking at the green oval, but farther away. Turning around, he finally understood what exactly happened. The ovals were portals, and he just went through one. “This is pretty cool.”

“Go over to the other house, and bring the villager here. Use that portal gun to get back here easily.”

John walked out of the house, and tried looking for the buried house’s entrance. There was none- it was fully buried, so he hopped the fence on the roof, and went down the ladders. Sure enough, this house was a exact copy of his current house. He opened the chest, and it had parts aplenty too. He gathered all of them, and then he shot a purple portal at the wall.

“If i use the ‘G’ thing, and bring him with me through that portal, will that work?” “Yeah, it will.”

“That’s pretty cool. I think I have a good idea for how to use this, but that’s later.”

After doing that, John gathered the parts he thought would be best for his tools. He opened the GUI of the Tool Table. “

This is where I make these tools, yes?”

“It is, and there’s a cool trick- when you are happy with your tool, just think a name at the GUI right before taking the tool out. This names the tools.”






Finished with his things, John turned to Klazam33 and asked him what he thought of all of them. Klazam33 shook his ghostly incorporeal head and said

“Making that Limp Rapier was really a bad idea- it’s nigh to useless.”

“I needed a sword, and that was the only sword blade available.”

“Did you read the book fully? You can make stuff out of the patterns, and there’s plenty of patterns here.”

“Oh, I wasn’t thinking about that. This thing doesn’t look that bad, and it has a cool name, so there. I feel sort of hungry now, actually. I think I’m gonna hunt cows and get myself some steak. Steak still exists, right?”

“Yes, and I would recommend you kill them with the frying pan you have, and when you’re ready, you can cook the steak in that thing too.”

After a few hundred Dinner Plate whacks, John had a lot of leather and raw beef. John was also hungrier than ever. He knew that eating the beef was a waste of time, and that it was better to eat steak over that. So John held off his gratification for that. He wandered around a bit, exploring the immediate area around his home for some fuel, when he came upon this strange sight-



“Oh, that’s just zombie brains. Pick it up, you’ll need it for later Thaumcraft research.”

“... What?”

“Never mind that now.”

John picked it up, and stopped off at his home to drop off everything, then he went back outside, and looked in the ravine nearby. There was coal on the cliffside! He dug down to the coal, then started to mine the coal, when an explosive “NO, STOP!” came from Klazam33. Startled, John stepped back, just as he finished mining the coal under him. The coal ore broke, and the coal dropped. And dropped. And dropped. John was this close to a splatter on the ravine bottom

“You fool! You forgot the cardinal rule of MineCraft- NEVER DIG DOWN!”

“Oops. That wont happen again...”

After John mined all the coal in that immediate area, he felt a gnawing hunger, and this hunger was painful. He started walking home, and every few seconds his body would convulse in pain.

“Hurry up and get home! You can actually die from hunger.”

John barely made it home, opened his chest, and saw the raw beef. John couldnt care less about efficiency now, and he just wolfed down a piece. The pain stopped, and he felt slightly better- the hunger was still there.

“Ok, time to cook myself some steak now.” John made an furnace to cook the steak with. When he placed it down, Klazam33 stopped him again. Even if Klazam33 had saved his life earlier, it was still getting annoying.

“What?”

“Use your frying pan, it can cook 14 steak per coal piece, more efficient than the furnace.”

John sighed. This nagging ghost was right as usual, so he just went along with what he said. shortly after cooking the steak, John was able to eat. The steak was surprisingly juicy and delicious, even if it was in a digital world.



With that thought, John started wondering about exactly what were around him. He then remembered the village church had a tall tower, so John went up on the roof and looked around. A forest, some desert, a bog, a hill off in the distance, ocean, and something extremely odd floating in the distance.






This floating thing was green and blue and brightly colored. John asked Klazam33 what it was, and Klazam33s reply was just a shrug of his translucent shoulders.

“Why don’t you go over there, and see what it is?”

“Heard of a little thing called despawning? I’m dead, but I’m still alive in a sense. I’d very much like to stay that way a bit longer.”

“All right, this is usually when I go off to mine. Should I do that? Or are there other things that I need to do first?”

“Nah, I think its time to mine too. But first, make sure you know what the color of your portal on the wall is. That way, you can get out of emergencies with your portal gun.”

After checking, John went outside to find a nice surface cave. He stopped by the library first, to gather all the books. Then he walked outside, and picked a likely direction to wander in. When he was walking, he tripped over a plant, and that plant HURT him. Green particles floated off his body, and it kept hurting.

“What, what’s poisoning me?”

“That plant. Stay away from it and destroy any that you see.”



He destroyed the plant, then kept on walking, when he found a nice little surface cave. In this cave, was easily seen coal, so he went ahead and mined the coal. under one coal ore block was a hole. Inside this hole was a creeper. At first John was startled, but after a bit, he realized that the creeper was trapped with nowhere to go, so John laughed and started mocking it. After a short time of “Yo mama’s so fat that..” jokes, John looked around, and saw a few different ores in the cave’s walls. There was natural iron, there was a orangish ore, there was a metallic orange ore, and there was something that glowed in the dark. John went to mine this one, and was rewarded with sparkles and some Earth Shards.

“What’s this for? And do I need to mine everything that I see?”

“That’s for Thaumcraft, and yes, you need everything you see. You will end up using it all.”

After wandering a bit around surface bright caverns, John saw a zombie hiding in a dark spot. Feeling confident, John enticed it in the sun and started slapping at it with the Limp Rapier. The rapier was able to deal a little damage, quickly. It still took a while before the zombie keeled over, redead, though.

“See Klazam, this rapier ain’t so bad.”

“It’s fine with one on one, but with more than one enemy? Bad idea.”

John spied another zombie, this one with golden armor, in a darker part of the cave. He yelled “Watch this, Klazam!” as he charged in the cave, jumping ver a small hole to engage the zombie. The small duel was going well in John’s favor, when john saw a creeper sneakingly coming up behind the zombie. John yelped, and beat a quick backwards fighting retreat. Step back, slap zombie, step back, slap zombie, step back, wait, there’s nothing there AHHH THUD. John winced, as he realized he fell down the small hole he jumped over earlier. HE looke daround and saw that he was in a cave, sigificantly darker than before. He looked up, and saw the gold zombie preparing to jump after him, and John retreated farther in the cave, as the gold zombie and creeper jumped in the hole to chase John. He desperately tried to find a way out of the cave, but he couldn’t.

“Watch out!” came at the same moment that a severe pain ripped through John’s head. John spun around to see a skeleton aiming at him. “Ach!” when the gold zombie from behind caught up. Spying a cave to John’s right, he limped quickly that way, when a large boom caught him and lifted him up, and threw John a distance deeper in the cave. John was in severe pain at this point. He looked back, to see that the creeper did do him a small favor- the skeleton and the gold zombie was nowhere to be seen. John breathed a sigh of relief... Then another skeleton showed up. “AHH” John quickly panicked.

“QUICK! Use the portal gun to make a getaway!”

“OH RIGHT YES”

John shot a portal in the floor, and jumped in. Safe, at last! But no! A zombie popped out of the portal. John screamed and punched the zombie. the zombie disappeared and reappeared. Another punch, the same thing happened.

“How do I turn this off!”

“I can’t remember! Let me think!”

“Hurry up, please!” as John kept on punching.

“OH RIGHT! It’s ‘R’, HURRY UP AND THINK THAT.”

The portal disappeared. “Whew, that was a close call.”

“For future reference, portals on the floor are bad ideas.”

“I think I got that.”

Chapter III- Portals and Ravines, oh my!:

Spoiler:

John turned to Klazam33 and said,

"That last thing was a bit too close for comfort. My life's really in danger?"

"Yes, as far as I can tell. I wish I knew what the purpose behind this thing."

"How is this even possible, anyway? I've heard about virtual reality games, yeah, but nothing comes even close to this. Is this gonna be my life from now on?"

"I wish I knew. When I died, I was hoping I'd just wake up, but I woke up in this body... It is possible we both are stuck here forever."

John sighed. "Well, I've never been a quitter. If this is going to be my life from now on, I'll just have to make the best out of it. I don't want to walk around without any armor. That's just courting death. But I don't have nearly enough iron for it..."

"Hang on! You recall the mud in the bog where you and I spawned? You can make mud balls into mud armor. It's not that strong, but it's decent."

John put up a portal at home before going back out, which would be what John will always do from now on, and then he went out, made the swim to the bog. He punched the mud, and gathered quite a lot of mud balls. While he was doing this, he remembered that there were a lot of cows and some pigs around. He decided his next project would be capturing some and making an animal farm out of them. But first, John went home and crafted the mud armor. it was not very comfortable- a bit damp and clammy, but it was still protection.



"Klazam33, this here portal gun will make portals that can send cows through, right? If that zombie could come through, cows should be able to, right?"

"Yeah, anything can be sent through portals. They're awesome, and I'm jealous that I didn't get the chance to play with one."

"Want to try my extra one?"

John got the other gun out of the chest, and offered to Klazam33. He floated down, but as he reached out to take the gun, John yelped and jumped away from Klazam33.

"That hurt!"

"It must be because I'm in the body of a hostile mob. I guess I won't get to use that gun after all.. That's the perks of being not alive I guess..."

John went to the roof of the other house, and set up a portal there, then he made the swim back to the bog. He then spent the day merrily shooting portals at animals. After night fell, he jumped through a portal to check on his progress. He caught many more animals than he excepted to.





After that, he went to his bed and slept for the night, then he awoke to see Klazam33 on top of his chests, in as much of a thinking pose that a block-ghost could be.

"You know, you said that you didn't have enough iron, right? How would you like to double your iron and all other metal ores? If you want to do that, read the Tinker's book again, specifically the section on the smeltery."

Intrigued, John went to do that. He read that there was a structure that basically melted metals and doubled the output. The components of this structure were pretty cheap to make.

"I saw some clay and gravel out in the bog, and I live near a desert. This thing seems to be easy to make."

John made a shovel out of stone, unburied the farm house, and went to dig a lot of clay, gravel, and sand. That task took awhile, so he had to go home and sleep a few times.




Finally, after a long day, night was approaching again, but John had plenty of the three components, so he made grout out of them, the second step to a smeltery. John tossed the grout in his two furnaces, and started cooking.




Cooking the grout, John realized he didn't have nearly enough coal, so he sighed, because he knew he'd have to go caving again for the coal. He quickly made a stone pick, and went out. This time, he went to the ravine near to his home, because he knew it had a waterfall. He jumped in the water and went to the bottom. there was some exposed coal, but not nearly enough. Looking around, John noticed another cave nearby. Recalling the recent debacle, he sighed, but it wasn't something he could not do, so he went in bravely. He remembered that portals give off a bit of light, so he shot portals out ahead of him and ventured in the cave carefully. He constantly checked all around him as he mined. It seemed pretty safe...



This went on for quite a while, then finally John spotted a solitary zombie ahead of him. He took out the Dinner Plate, and proceeded to bash Mr. Zombie in a pile of rotten flesh. There was nothing around him, so John kept on mining until his stone pick broke, and he had to go home. Once home, John put in the second batch of grout in the ovens. John read the book again, and he realized he needed to find lava, to be able to use the smeltery. John decided to explore the area, and to look for any surface lava pools. Hopefully he'd get lucky on that and find some nearby. After a while of exploration, John saw many interesting terrain features.



In his travels, John came across a huge gold deposit on the surface, exicited, John tried to mine it, but his pickax was sticking in it, like it was gravel. Confused, but then he realized it was gold gravel ore. He tried to use his stone shove, but it was too hard for the stone shovel to work. Logically, John figured, he'd need a metal shovel, which he needed a smeltery for. So John just made sure he memorized the location of the gold, and he went on.



After traveling, John saw a beautiful shiny blue tree.

"Ooh, what's this?"

"This is a Silverwood. Leave it alone. You'll need to come back here eventually, for Thaumcraft."

"What exactly is Thaumcraft?"

"Magic, basically. You'll be able to make things and do magicial things."

"That's pretty cool I guess. Let's do that after I find some lava, ok?"

"Sure. I like Thaumcraft myself."



John went on, exploring, with not much luck, but he did find a few strange things. Things like a chilly icy wasteland, and a crater with water levitating over it.




Eventually, John came to a marshy land, with trees that had massive canopies. John was able to get up on top! and jump around the foliage of different trees.

"I feel like I'm in an kungfu movie! "

"Watch out! There's a ravine under that jump!"

"What, NOOOO"

John screamed as he missed a jump, and missed vines, to fall.

Thud.

John woke up, groaning. His body hurt so much. Looking around, he saw that he was still in Minecraftia, and alive! It turned out there was a ledge midway in the ravine, and John somehow landed on it! John looked down, from his perch.



Looking up, there was a shelf of stone above him. John had no idea how he managed to land on the ravine. Looking back down in the ravine, John saw Klazam33 floating back and forth in a state of panic.

"Hey! I'm up here!"

"Oh thank god! I was so afraid that you died. I saw you jump and fall. Then I couldn't see you anywhere."

"I'm done looking for lava pools. It's obvious there's none nearby. I'll go home and look for them in the earth's depths."

Chapter IV- Challenging Caving

Spoiler:

John arrived to his home, via portal. He started gathering everything necessary to go mining, but Klazam33 had an observation to make-

“Uh, Steve, did you forget about torches? It’ll make your mining marginally safer.”

“Well, yeah. I sort of forgot about them. I’ll make some.”

John made a couple hundred torches, then cooked iron to make buckets for lava, when he found some.

“You know, Lava being held in metal buckets and being fine makes no sense, really.”

“Like everything makes sense in MineCraft? I’d recommend you use one of these buckets for water. Safety and all that.”

John agreed with that, and went out to the nearby well and filled a bucket.



John thought, since he was all loaded out, he might as well as check out the bottom of the ravine under his adopted village. He used the water to make a waterfall of sorts down the ravine, then he went down. There wasn’t any mobs to be seen, but there were some ores and stuff, which John mined out. John also lit up the bottom of the ravine some.




John also found several adjoining caverns, which he blocked off. There was one cave that looked promising, so John didn’t block that one off. He went int he cave, to explore a little bit. Three zombies shambled to attack him, but unfortunately, for the zombies, John was slightly too high for them to attack. Whack, Whack, Whack. Dinner Plate put them all out of their misery.



Descending farther in the cave, an angry zombie charged John, but with his proficiency in wielding Dinner Plates, it was easily beat back. After that, John saw a skeleton training his sights on him. John beat an hasty retreat, and jumped through his portal, to mentally prepare for skeleton combat. After a short time, John was ready, so he stepped through the portal. OW.

The skeleton was right there, machine-gun firing at John. He was able to barely get back to the portal and hop back through. John whirled around, ready to bash the skeleton, when it came out behind him. That skeleton was a smart one, though. After a couple tense seconds, John realized that the skeleton was probably set up, with his damned bow pointed directly at the portal, ready for John.

John steeled himself, and ran out swinging. John was able to catch the skeleton unaware, and killed it before it could get off many arrows. He groaned, and waited a bit to recuperate, then he set off through the cave again.



After a short time, John spied a dark portion of cavern, but there was very clearly lava at the far end of the cavern. There was one slight problem with this, though. There was a large horde of monsters between John and the lava. This included skeletons, creepers, and whatnot. And some cows too.



John sighed,

“I wish I had an bow and enough arrows to deal with this.”

“I’m wishing that too. Do you think you could build something to get you enough arrows to deal with this?”

“Actually, I might have an idea.”

With that cryptic statement, John turned back and went to his adopted village. John grabbed the spare portal gun, and did this:



“What are you planning to do with that?”

“Oh, you’ll see.”

John went back to where he was. Sure enough, mobs started closing in range.

“C’mon, tell me what you’re gonna do. Or are you giving up?”

“Don’t worry. I know what I’m doing.”

Suddenly, John brought out the spare portal gun, and started shooting portals at the feet of all the monsters in the cave.



One by one, they disappeared, without causing harm to John.

“Wow, that was a really brilliant idea. I never thought of using the portal gun as a offensive ranged weapon. But what about the other end? That’s right in middle of your village?”

“Yep. That’s the point. What else is in the middle of the village?”

“Oh, the ravine?”

John laughed, and proceeded on to light up the entire cavern, and to collect the lava. He felt good, like he was on a roll, so he decided to keep on mining and going on with this adventure. A lot of one on one combats ensued, which John won with his trusty Dinner Plate. Suddenly, an angry zombie attacked John from the back. John was pretty badly hurt, but he managed to kill it. It was at that moment when John decided he had enough, and that it was time to go home.

John stepped through his portal, and took a look around. Something was wrong with his home. A skeleton was prowling right outside, then it caught sight of John through the glass, and walked in the house. The door was missing for some reason. John was able to beat it off. Right outside the house, he found the door on the floor. John re-installed it, just to watch as an angry zombie promptly broke it down again.




John fought it off, and rebuilt the door. John then tried to go to sleep again, but he was way too jumpy to sleep, because of the constants sounds of monsters around.



At last, dawn came, and then John ran outside and lighted up the entire village. He did not want to deal with all the mobs again. After that, John went to chop down trees. He chopped down quite a bit of them.

“Why are you doing that?”

“I’m gonna have to move out pretty soon. The ravine’s making me nervous, and it’s getting slightly cramped within home. But not right now. I want to have decent equipment first though. I guess it’s time to build that smeltery thing.”

John busily set up the smeltery, and poured his first few casts of aluminum brass.

[Klazam]

NEXT PART IS UP! (please read the preceding parts first- link is in my siggy)

Chapter I- Waking up:

Spoiler:

Black. White. Black. Green. Green? John opened his eyes fully, and saw a strange tree in front of him. This tree was... blocky, and a strange color. He looked down, and saw dark green grass. This grass was also flat. HIS LEGS WAS FLAT AND BLOCKY. “AHHH” John screamed, and walked backwards. Even walking felt wrong. Looking around in panic, he saw that everything was flat and blocky.

“Where am I?”

“Look around.”

“Uh, looks a lot like... MineCraft?”

“You’re Notch’s latest victim.”

John suddenly realized something-

“AHH WHO IS THAT”

John looked around in a panic, to see a blocky white transparent thing, with green eyes, and a crown, floating near him.

“WHO ARE YOU”

“I am Klazam33, the victim before you. I shouldn’t be here, at all, but I think that there was a glitch or bug or something. I’m in the body of a Twilight Wraith.”

“Uh, what is a Twilight Wraith? I played MineCraft, and I’ve never seen one of these.”

“Oh no, don’t tell me that you only played vanilla? I really hope that you won’t just die. I’m not sure how long I’m gonna stick around. Dear god, I hope this body won’t despawn.”

“This is a bit much to process. And why can’t I sit down?”

“You’re basically in a MineCraft world. There’s no sitting in MineCraft. Daylight is a-wasting. I strongly recommend you get playing. I’ll stick around and help you a bit, but since this body is completely unable to do anything, I guess it’ll just be help in the form of words. Oh and one last thing. Think of this as hardcore. I died and did NOT get to respawn. I just woke up here like you. What’s your name, anyway?”

“I’m John... My in-game name’s Steve, so call me that, I guess... So you’re saying that I’m basically a player in this game, but its real and I can die? How did you die?”

“Hello Steve, then. I’d rather not think about it, we can discuss that later. Go and look for the bonus chest, and punch some trees for wood. You’ll need it, of course.”

“Uh, punch trees? Okay, I guess...”

John looked around, and picked a tree at random. Wincing, he walked up to it, and gave it an experimental punch. The familiar cracking animation showed up and disappeared. John sighed in relief, and punched and kept on punching the block until the log dropped. He walked up to it, and it whooshed in John’s body.

“What, where did it go?”

“Oh right, You still haven’t figured out the Graphical User Interface yet. It took me a while to figure out myself. Just think ‘E’ really hard. It’s odd, but... yes it works.”

“Ok”

He closed his eyes and gave it a try. Nothing happened. “Nothing.” He opened his eyes, and WHAT. A massive 2-D gray pane was in front of him. He could see a book and a log of wood in his inventory, and he could see himself looking at wherever his eyes went. So weird and creepy. He experimentally pointed at the book. It began hovering. He moved it down in what he could recognize was his hotbar, like from the game. Actually, the GUI was the exact same as from the game, but there were some differences, like 12 armor slots instead of just 4, and the crafting portion was pointing down instead of to its side. John pointed and moved the book in slot one, and it went there.

“So... Let me guess, think ‘ESC’ to get this thing down and ‘1’ to equip slot 1 in my hotbar?”

“Yup, you’re catching on fast. Maybe you still have some hope. But don’t worry about that book. time enough to read when we’re at safety.”

“All right, we can do that. Hmm, where’s this chest at? AHA, Found it!”



“Ok, how do I open this chest?”

“Same principle as everything else. Think right click, and punch it once.”

“That makes sense, but it doesn’t....”

The chest opened, and a pane, much like the inventory screen popped up. In that pane, there were some wood logs, planks, and a few items that John had never seen before. He pointed at one of them, and a description popped up- “Atlas‘ Portal Gun”.



Klazam remarked- “Wow, you’re lucky. I’ve never had one of that in my time in this cursed place.”

“What is that?”

“I’ll explain later, put everything in your inventory, and chop down a few trees before it gets dark.”

After what felt like a few hundred punches later, John’s shoulder was hurting. He decided that he had enough logs. After looking around, he noticed a small village nearby. The place he was in had dark green water, and a dismal dark sky, along with cows and pigs. He walked towards the village, when he saw some brown blocks in his path.

“Hold up there, faster if you go around that- it’s mud.”

He detoured, swam across a small river- The feeling was surreal- he kept on sinking, until he tried jumping, and via jumping he swam across. He never thought of the fact that MineCraft had some odd behavior. - then arrived at the village.



This village did not look normal, and John quickly figured out why. Some natural disaster had befell it, and a gaping ravine had spilt open in the middle of the 4-house village.



He looked around, and noticed that the village was half-buried.



He then saw the village priest, and walked around to talk to him.

Klazam33 interrupted to say “Hello priest. Where am I?”

John looked at Klazam33 in surprise.



“That was what you were going to say, yes? You fool, villagers in this world are just like in the game. they only offer you trade stuff, and do you no good. You might as well kill him.”

“No! I just can’t kill the villagers. I need to make sure they’re safe.”

“Ok, this is as good a time as any to teach you about the portal gun’s functions. Equip it, point him at the villager, and think ‘G’. “

“This better not kill him...”

John did as Klazam said, and IT WORKED! Somewhat. The villager started hovering. John moved around, and the villager moved with him. He carried the villager to the roof of one house, and plopped him down again. He captured two more villagers the same way, and put them all on the roof. “There, all safe.” He then went inside a house, and it was like nothing he ever saw before. There was all kind of blocks and stuff. BUT, there was wool on the floor. John happily gathered it all, and replaced it with willow planks.

There was also a crafting table in the place, so he made a bed for himself, and tried to make some tools. But for some reason, the tool recipes that he knew wasn’t working...

“Klazam33, what’s wrong with this thing?”

“Oh, this has Tinker’s Construct. You can’t make regular tools, you have to use these tool tables and such to assemble tools. We’ll cover this tomorrow.”

“Ok...”

John took a last look around his new home and outside, then he went to sleep for the night.




The night was SHORT and uneventful, then John woke up all rested. He climbed up the ladder at the back of the house to check on his 3 villagers. Outside, he saw all manner of nasty mobs burning in the daylight.




“Oh boy, what have I gotten myself into?”

[Klazam]

NEXT PART IS UP! (please read the preceding parts first- link is in my siggy)

Chapter II: Tinkering, Hunting, and Mining

Spoiler:

John went downstairs, opened his chest, and tried to make head and tail out of all the crazy parts of tools in there. He couldn’t figure it out, until he remembered that he had a book in his inventory. He opened it up, and a panel with the book’s contents popped up front of him. “All right, I know this is weird, but I’m getting used to this” After a bit of reading, he felt that he understood how to make tools, pretty much. It was at this time that Klazam33 interjected- “You should go over to the other house, there’s more parts there, and theres another villager trapped inside. This is as good a time as any- see your portal guns? Try using it. I suggest this wall.”

John pointed the gun at the wall and used it. A green oval splashed against the wall he was pointing at. “Ok, this is pretty cool, but what can I do with it?” “Shoot the opposite wall with the other mode of the portal gun.” John did that, and a purple oval popped up. The ovals became silvery. “What now?” “Touch one of them”

John walked up to the green oval, and reached out to it. BAM. He was looking at the green oval, but farther away. Turning around, he finally understood what exactly happened. The ovals were portals, and he just went through one. “This is pretty cool.”

“Go over to the other house, and bring the villager here. Use that portal gun to get back here easily.”

John walked out of the house, and tried looking for the buried house’s entrance. There was none- it was fully buried, so he hopped the fence on the roof, and went down the ladders. Sure enough, this house was a exact copy of his current house. He opened the chest, and it had parts aplenty too. He gathered all of them, and then he shot a purple portal at the wall.

“If i use the ‘G’ thing, and bring him with me through that portal, will that work?” “Yeah, it will.”

“That’s pretty cool. I think I have a good idea for how to use this, but that’s later.”

After doing that, John gathered the parts he thought would be best for his tools. He opened the GUI of the Tool Table. “

This is where I make these tools, yes?”

“It is, and there’s a cool trick- when you are happy with your tool, just think a name at the GUI right before taking the tool out. This names the tools.”






Finished with his things, John turned to Klazam33 and asked him what he thought of all of them. Klazam33 shook his ghostly incorporeal head and said

“Making that Limp Rapier was really a bad idea- it’s nigh to useless.”

“I needed a sword, and that was the only sword blade available.”

“Did you read the book fully? You can make stuff out of the patterns, and there’s plenty of patterns here.”

“Oh, I wasn’t thinking about that. This thing doesn’t look that bad, and it has a cool name, so there. I feel sort of hungry now, actually. I think I’m gonna hunt cows and get myself some steak. Steak still exists, right?”

“Yes, and I would recommend you kill them with the frying pan you have, and when you’re ready, you can cook the steak in that thing too.”

After a few hundred Dinner Plate whacks, John had a lot of leather and raw beef. John was also hungrier than ever. He knew that eating the beef was a waste of time, and that it was better to eat steak over that. So John held off his gratification for that. He wandered around a bit, exploring the immediate area around his home for some fuel, when he came upon this strange sight-



“Oh, that’s just zombie brains. Pick it up, you’ll need it for later Thaumcraft research.”

“... What?”

“Never mind that now.”

John picked it up, and stopped off at his home to drop off everything, then he went back outside, and looked in the ravine nearby. There was coal on the cliffside! He dug down to the coal, then started to mine the coal, when an explosive “NO, STOP!” came from Klazam33. Startled, John stepped back, just as he finished mining the coal under him. The coal ore broke, and the coal dropped. And dropped. And dropped. John was this close to a splatter on the ravine bottom

“You fool! You forgot the cardinal rule of MineCraft- NEVER DIG DOWN!”

“Oops. That wont happen again...”

After John mined all the coal in that immediate area, he felt a gnawing hunger, and this hunger was painful. He started walking home, and every few seconds his body would convulse in pain.

“Hurry up and get home! You can actually die from hunger.”

John barely made it home, opened his chest, and saw the raw beef. John couldnt care less about efficiency now, and he just wolfed down a piece. The pain stopped, and he felt slightly better- the hunger was still there.

“Ok, time to cook myself some steak now.” John made an furnace to cook the steak with. When he placed it down, Klazam33 stopped him again. Even if Klazam33 had saved his life earlier, it was still getting annoying.

“What?”

“Use your frying pan, it can cook 14 steak per coal piece, more efficient than the furnace.”

John sighed. This nagging ghost was right as usual, so he just went along with what he said. shortly after cooking the steak, John was able to eat. The steak was surprisingly juicy and delicious, even if it was in a digital world.



With that thought, John started wondering about exactly what were around him. He then remembered the village church had a tall tower, so John went up on the roof and looked around. A forest, some desert, a bog, a hill off in the distance, ocean, and something extremely odd floating in the distance.






This floating thing was green and blue and brightly colored. John asked Klazam33 what it was, and Klazam33s reply was just a shrug of his translucent shoulders.

“Why don’t you go over there, and see what it is?”

“Heard of a little thing called despawning? I’m dead, but I’m still alive in a sense. I’d very much like to stay that way a bit longer.”

“All right, this is usually when I go off to mine. Should I do that? Or are there other things that I need to do first?”

“Nah, I think its time to mine too. But first, make sure you know what the color of your portal on the wall is. That way, you can get out of emergencies with your portal gun.”

After checking, John went outside to find a nice surface cave. He stopped by the library first, to gather all the books. Then he walked outside, and picked a likely direction to wander in. When he was walking, he tripped over a plant, and that plant HURT him. Green particles floated off his body, and it kept hurting.

“What, what’s poisoning me?”

“That plant. Stay away from it and destroy any that you see.”



He destroyed the plant, then kept on walking, when he found a nice little surface cave. In this cave, was easily seen coal, so he went ahead and mined the coal. under one coal ore block was a hole. Inside this hole was a creeper. At first John was startled, but after a bit, he realized that the creeper was trapped with nowhere to go, so John laughed and started mocking it. After a short time of “Yo mama’s so fat that..” jokes, John looked around, and saw a few different ores in the cave’s walls. There was natural iron, there was a orangish ore, there was a metallic orange ore, and there was something that glowed in the dark. John went to mine this one, and was rewarded with sparkles and some Earth Shards.

“What’s this for? And do I need to mine everything that I see?”

“That’s for Thaumcraft, and yes, you need everything you see. You will end up using it all.”

After wandering a bit around surface bright caverns, John saw a zombie hiding in a dark spot. Feeling confident, John enticed it in the sun and started slapping at it with the Limp Rapier. The rapier was able to deal a little damage, quickly. It still took a while before the zombie keeled over, redead, though.

“See Klazam, this rapier ain’t so bad.”

“It’s fine with one on one, but with more than one enemy? Bad idea.”

John spied another zombie, this one with golden armor, in a darker part of the cave. He yelled “Watch this, Klazam!” as he charged in the cave, jumping ver a small hole to engage the zombie. The small duel was going well in John’s favor, when john saw a creeper sneakingly coming up behind the zombie. John yelped, and beat a quick backwards fighting retreat. Step back, slap zombie, step back, slap zombie, step back, wait, there’s nothing there AHHH THUD. John winced, as he realized he fell down the small hole he jumped over earlier. HE looke daround and saw that he was in a cave, sigificantly darker than before. He looked up, and saw the gold zombie preparing to jump after him, and John retreated farther in the cave, as the gold zombie and creeper jumped in the hole to chase John. He desperately tried to find a way out of the cave, but he couldn’t.

“Watch out!” came at the same moment that a severe pain ripped through John’s head. John spun around to see a skeleton aiming at him. “Ach!” when the gold zombie from behind caught up. Spying a cave to John’s right, he limped quickly that way, when a large boom caught him and lifted him up, and threw John a distance deeper in the cave. John was in severe pain at this point. He looked back, to see that the creeper did do him a small favor- the skeleton and the gold zombie was nowhere to be seen. John breathed a sigh of relief... Then another skeleton showed up. “AHH” John quickly panicked.

“QUICK! Use the portal gun to make a getaway!”

“OH RIGHT YES”

John shot a portal in the floor, and jumped in. Safe, at last! But no! A zombie popped out of the portal. John screamed and punched the zombie. the zombie disappeared and reappeared. Another punch, the same thing happened.

“How do I turn this off!”

“I can’t remember! Let me think!”

“Hurry up, please!” as John kept on punching.

“OH RIGHT! It’s ‘R’, HURRY UP AND THINK THAT.”

The portal disappeared. “Whew, that was a close call.”

“For future reference, portals on the floor are bad ideas.”

“I think I got that.”

[Klazam]

Turn this into a mafia game ^

how

[Klazam]

thanks. that will depend on if he lives that long, however.

[Klazam]

I'll be taking care of everything for that. so far we have 4 participants- dav, you, me, and etl.

I'll build the map for 6 participants just in case.

[Klazam]

it's modded skyblock, jsyk.

I'll still put you down on the list

[Klazam]

I'll make the map, for 6 players, so that everyone can get on and play competitively.

The modpack will be the FTB Unleashed pack. I'm gonna set everything up tonight then figure out availability of everyone so that everyone can play.

[Klazam]

(Read the preceding parts first- the link's in my siggy)

Chapter III- Portals and Ravines, oh my!

Spoiler:

John turned to Klazam33 and said,

"That last thing was a bit too close for comfort. My life's really in danger?"

"Yes, as far as I can tell. I wish I knew what the purpose behind this thing."

"How is this even possible, anyway? I've heard about virtual reality games, yeah, but nothing comes even close to this. Is this gonna be my life from now on?"

"I wish I knew. When I died, I was hoping I'd just wake up, but I woke up in this body... It is possible we both are stuck here forever."

John sighed. "Well, I've never been a quitter. If this is going to be my life from now on, I'll just have to make the best out of it. I don't want to walk around without any armor. That's just courting death. But I don't have nearly enough iron for it..."

"Hang on! You recall the mud in the bog where you and I spawned? You can make mud balls into mud armor. It's not that strong, but it's decent."

John put up a portal at home before going back out, which would be what John will always do from now on, and then he went out, made the swim to the bog. He punched the mud, and gathered quite a lot of mud balls. While he was doing this, he remembered that there were a lot of cows and some pigs around. He decided his next project would be capturing some and making an animal farm out of them. But first, John went home and crafted the mud armor. it was not very comfortable- a bit damp and clammy, but it was still protection.



"Klazam33, this here portal gun will make portals that can send cows through, right? If that zombie could come through, cows should be able to, right?"

"Yeah, anything can be sent through portals. They're awesome, and I'm jealous that I didn't get the chance to play with one."

"Want to try my extra one?"

John got the other gun out of the chest, and offered to Klazam33. He floated down, but as he reached out to take the gun, John yelped and jumped away from Klazam33.

"That hurt!"

"It must be because I'm in the body of a hostile mob. I guess I won't get to use that gun after all.. That's the perks of being not alive I guess..."

John went to the roof of the other house, and set up a portal there, then he made the swim back to the bog. He then spent the day merrily shooting portals at animals. After night fell, he jumped through a portal to check on his progress. He caught many more animals than he excepted to.





After that, he went to his bed and slept for the night, then he awoke to see Klazam33 on top of his chests, in as much of a thinking pose that a block-ghost could be.

"You know, you said that you didn't have enough iron, right? How would you like to double your iron and all other metal ores? If you want to do that, read the Tinker's book again, specifically the section on the smeltery."

Intrigued, John went to do that. He read that there was a structure that basically melted metals and doubled the output. The components of this structure were pretty cheap to make.

"I saw some clay and gravel out in the bog, and I live near a desert. This thing seems to be easy to make."

John made a shovel out of stone, unburied the farm house, and went to dig a lot of clay, gravel, and sand. That task took awhile, so he had to go home and sleep a few times.




Finally, after a long day, night was approaching again, but John had plenty of the three components, so he made grout out of them, the second step to a smeltery. John tossed the grout in his two furnaces, and started cooking.




Cooking the grout, John realized he didn't have nearly enough coal, so he sighed, because he knew he'd have to go caving again for the coal. He quickly made a stone pick, and went out. This time, he went to the ravine near to his home, because he knew it had a waterfall. He jumped in the water and went to the bottom. there was some exposed coal, but not nearly enough. Looking around, John noticed another cave nearby. Recalling the recent debacle, he sighed, but it wasn't something he could not do, so he went in bravely. He remembered that portals give off a bit of light, so he shot portals out ahead of him and ventured in the cave carefully. He constantly checked all around him as he mined. It seemed pretty safe...



This went on for quite a while, then finally John spotted a solitary zombie ahead of him. He took out the Dinner Plate, and proceeded to bash Mr. Zombie in a pile of rotten flesh. There was nothing around him, so John kept on mining until his stone pick broke, and he had to go home. Once home, John put in the second batch of grout in the ovens. John read the book again, and he realized he needed to find lava, to be able to use the smeltery. John decided to explore the area, and to look for any surface lava pools. Hopefully he'd get lucky on that and find some nearby. After a while of exploration, John saw many interesting terrain features.



In his travels, John came across a huge gold deposit on the surface, exicited, John tried to mine it, but his pickax was sticking in it, like it was gravel. Confused, but then he realized it was gold gravel ore. He tried to use his stone shove, but it was too hard for the stone shovel to work. Logically, John figured, he'd need a metal shovel, which he needed a smeltery for. So John just made sure he memorized the location of the gold, and he went on.



After traveling, John saw a beautiful shiny blue tree.

"Ooh, what's this?"

"This is a Silverwood. Leave it alone. You'll need to come back here eventually, for Thaumcraft."

"What exactly is Thaumcraft?"

"Magic, basically. You'll be able to make things and do magicial things."

"That's pretty cool I guess. Let's do that after I find some lava, ok?"

"Sure. I like Thaumcraft myself."



John went on, exploring, with not much luck, but he did find a few strange things. Things like a chilly icy wasteland, and a crater with water levitating over it.




Eventually, John came to a marshy land, with trees that had massive canopies. John was able to get up on top! and jump around the foliage of different trees.

"I feel like I'm in an kungfu movie! "

"Watch out! There's a ravine under that jump!"

"What, NOOOO"

John screamed as he missed a jump, and missed vines, to fall.

Thud.

John woke up, groaning. His body hurt so much. Looking around, he saw that he was still in Minecraftia, and alive! It turned out there was a ledge midway in the ravine, and John somehow landed on it! John looked down, from his perch.



Looking up, there was a shelf of stone above him. John had no idea how he managed to land on the ravine. Looking back down in the ravine, John saw Klazam33 floating back and forth in a state of panic.

"Hey! I'm up here!"

"Oh thank god! I was so afraid that you died. I saw you jump and fall. Then I couldn't see you anywhere."

"I'm done looking for lava pools. It's obvious there's none nearby. I'll go home and look for them in the earth's depths."

[Klazam]

8 PM EST Skyblock tomorrow. Use the FTB Unleashed 1.1.4 pack with every mod enabled. I will be posting the server IP then.

[Klazam]

mhm. Starting on Bedrock. (I think we should make it "First to Kill Enderdragon AND Wither" because the ender dragon is a little bitch.

Dav, once you kill the end dragon, nobody else can...

How about this: first to obtain dragon egg, nether star, naga trophy, hydra trophy, ur ghast trophy, and Lich king skull.

[Klazam]

That might be too complicated, actually. I think that just "kill da end dragon" is good enough for this thing

[Klazam]

it is possible to macerate books for paper I think. But i execept that it'll be a twilight portal that gives us the stuff we need.

[Klazam]

(Read the preceding parts first- the link's in my siggy)

Chapter IV- Challenging Caving

Spoiler:

John arrived to his home, via portal. He started gathering everything necessary to go mining, but Klazam33 had an observation to make-

“Uh, Steve, did you forget about torches? It’ll make your mining marginally safer.”

“Well, yeah. I sort of forgot about them. I’ll make some.”

John made a couple hundred torches, then cooked iron to make buckets for lava, when he found some.

“You know, Lava being held in metal buckets and being fine makes no sense, really.”

“Like everything makes sense in MineCraft? I’d recommend you use one of these buckets for water. Safety and all that.”

John agreed with that, and went out to the nearby well and filled a bucket.



John thought, since he was all loaded out, he might as well as check out the bottom of the ravine under his adopted village. He used the water to make a waterfall of sorts down the ravine, then he went down. There wasn’t any mobs to be seen, but there were some ores and stuff, which John mined out. John also lit up the bottom of the ravine some.




John also found several adjoining caverns, which he blocked off. There was one cave that looked promising, so John didn’t block that one off. He went int he cave, to explore a little bit. Three zombies shambled to attack him, but unfortunately, for the zombies, John was slightly too high for them to attack. Whack, Whack, Whack. Dinner Plate put them all out of their misery.



Descending farther in the cave, an angry zombie charged John, but with his proficiency in wielding Dinner Plates, it was easily beat back. After that, John saw a skeleton training his sights on him. John beat an hasty retreat, and jumped through his portal, to mentally prepare for skeleton combat. After a short time, John was ready, so he stepped through the portal. OW.

The skeleton was right there, machine-gun firing at John. He was able to barely get back to the portal and hop back through. John whirled around, ready to bash the skeleton, when it came out behind him. That skeleton was a smart one, though. After a couple tense seconds, John realized that the skeleton was probably set up, with his damned bow pointed directly at the portal, ready for John.

John steeled himself, and ran out swinging. John was able to catch the skeleton unaware, and killed it before it could get off many arrows. He groaned, and waited a bit to recuperate, then he set off through the cave again.



After a short time, John spied a dark portion of cavern, but there was very clearly lava at the far end of the cavern. There was one slight problem with this, though. There was a large horde of monsters between John and the lava. This included skeletons, creepers, and whatnot. And some cows too.



John sighed,

“I wish I had an bow and enough arrows to deal with this.”

“I’m wishing that too. Do you think you could build something to get you enough arrows to deal with this?”

“Actually, I might have an idea.”

With that cryptic statement, John turned back and went to his adopted village. John grabbed the spare portal gun, and did this:



“What are you planning to do with that?”

“Oh, you’ll see.”

John went back to where he was. Sure enough, mobs started closing in range.

“C’mon, tell me what you’re gonna do. Or are you giving up?”

“Don’t worry. I know what I’m doing.”

Suddenly, John brought out the spare portal gun, and started shooting portals at the feet of all the monsters in the cave.



One by one, they disappeared, without causing harm to John.

“Wow, that was a really brilliant idea. I never thought of using the portal gun as a offensive ranged weapon. But what about the other end? That’s right in middle of your village?”

“Yep. That’s the point. What else is in the middle of the village?”

“Oh, the ravine?”

John laughed, and proceeded on to light up the entire cavern, and to collect the lava. He felt good, like he was on a roll, so he decided to keep on mining and going on with this adventure. A lot of one on one combats ensued, which John won with his trusty Dinner Plate. Suddenly, an angry zombie attacked John from the back. John was pretty badly hurt, but he managed to kill it. It was at that moment when John decided he had enough, and that it was time to go home.

John stepped through his portal, and took a look around. Something was wrong with his home. A skeleton was prowling right outside, then it caught sight of John through the glass, and walked in the house. The door was missing for some reason. John was able to beat it off. Right outside the house, he found the door on the floor. John re-installed it, just to watch as an angry zombie promptly broke it down again.




John fought it off, and rebuilt the door. John then tried to go to sleep again, but he was way too jumpy to sleep, because of the constants sounds of monsters around.



At last, dawn came, and then John ran outside and lighted up the entire village. He did not want to deal with all the mobs again. After that, John went to chop down trees. He chopped down quite a bit of them.

“Why are you doing that?”

“I’m gonna have to move out pretty soon. The ravine’s making me nervous, and it’s getting slightly cramped within home. But not right now. I want to have decent equipment first though. I guess it’s time to build that smeltery thing.”

John busily set up the smeltery, and poured his first few casts of aluminum brass.

[Klazam]

I AM THE GOD OF SKYBLOCK

[Klazam]

Dav i wont be home until 7.

Not like anyone can get ahead of you and i within a hour anyway.

[Klazam]

Are all of these ran on a Vanilla server, or do I have to have the client to play?

This particular skyblock event is on unleashed 1.1.4

BUT Most events on this server will be vanilla.

[Klazam]

Weekends will be fine for you.

[Klazam]

cookies, cake, bread

heh

[Klazam]

RobCraft is dead.

[Klazam]

...No it isn't, and I'd prefer if you posted actual information instead of sensationalist statements that make other server users come panicking into IRC thinking they've lost all progress.

Sorry, not my intent to cause any panic.

I'll need to fix that issue. :-/

Did you turn off spawner while you was at it too? (Thanks)

[Klazam]

dear god

[Klazam]

I dont think they cause any problems. or at least i did not notice any in the past. what's their spawn rate, im curious? Soul shards can go up to 6 mobs 2 seconds.

[Klazam]

[11:22pm] Rob13: OH NO
[11:22pm] Rob13: FETCHY DIED
[11:22pm] Rob13: HOW
[11:22pm] Klaz: WaitWHAT
[11:22pm] Klaz: !players
[11:22pm] RobCraft: Players currently in game: OsoHP
[11:22pm] Rob13:
[11:22pm] Klaz: How did he die
[11:22pm] Rob13: he died in the most ironic way possible
[11:22pm] Rob13: as a wood golem
[11:22pm] Klaz: and how did you know about it?
[11:22pm] Rob13: he was set on fire
[11:22pm] Rob13: it's in the console
[11:23pm] Rob13: 10.10 23:06:28 [Server] INFO [Thaumcraft] EntityGolemWood['Fetchy'/993, l='world', x=853.50, y=66.95, z=1048.60] was killed by null (inFire)

[Klazam]

I SHOWED UP

[Klazam]

Steam Codes:
Cities XL Platinum, Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition, Divinity II: Developer's Cut, R.A.W. Realms of Ancient War, Game of Thrones, and Confrontation:
787CL-JZRK6-MRPT2

Wargame: European Escalation, and The Testament of Sherlock Holmes:
329DN-I723C-63KH6

Whut

[Klazam]

Tbqh, i doubt the tome will have the same issue. The mechanics for both is completely different. For the alkahest, it is the output of its own recipe, with bonus stuff appearing based on how much it is crafted with, while for the tome, it is a normal crafting indrigent recipe.

[Klazam]

.. Orb? I always saw the alkahest as a magical coin of some kind.

[Klazam]

davroe19 and rob13, in relation to your guys' earlier IRC chat, rob13 is right dav. Remember KlazCraft? And how it took over MafiaCraft? And then how it basically became the new main server? (Y)

It was KMP not klazcraft. js.

[Klazam]

Jesus. Just realized i got the game on oct 3. More than a year of being addicted to this shit. 0.o

[Klazam]

Is anybody?

Well, i was much better at mafia in the past.

[Klazam]

http://imgur.com/gallery/aZHgK

Epic

[Klazam]

Was fun until creeper blew me up and tossed all of my coal over the side of the mountain. I'll be back on tomorrow i think.

[Klazam]

I'm sstaying on RobCraft.

[Klazam]

Happy birthday Tierce!

[Klazam]

Izak has a easily accesiible end portal- i remember where it is

[Klazam]

whatever works.

I'm gonna start anew, most likely.

[Klazam]

No problem. Maybe tomorrow night? 9 ish pm est

[Klazam]

I dont consider myself a person who uses server enough for that.

Its up to bluba, tierce, and rhino

[Klazam]

Map restart would make me come back!

Can I bring a friend? He's reliable.

Of coursse.

If a restart happens i'd play for a while.

[Klazam]

it speaks to me

[Klazam]

So nether portal up, full enchanting library + table, godpick, and oodles of everything within 3 hours of playing. I dont know if i should be proud or horrified.

[Klazam]

Guys, I'm not whitelisted. It's My_Milked_Eek with the underscores.

Whitelisted

[Klazam]

I've seen claus, tierce, bulba, etl, xalxe, mme, kc, izak, and myself online

[Klazam]

There were a 3x3 hole wehre slimes kept on divebombing him

[Klazam]

My house is a bit far, but i have a tunnel from bag end to there. It is still being railed, but it is walkable. Just follow cobble.

[Klazam]

Can I be whitelisted?

My acc name is RadiantCowbells.

Done

[Klazam]

Veto'd as owner of said server.

[Klazam]

<3

[Klazam]

It can be like America- No official national language, but everyone uses it. I'll just be the illiterate spanish-speaking president.

[Klazam]

The variety of English spoken in the United States is known as American English. English is the de facto national language of the United States, with 80% of the population claiming it as a mother tongue, and some 95% claiming to speak it "well" or "very well".[5]

However, no official language exists at the federal level.

There have been several proposals to make English the national language in amendments to immigration reform bills,[6][7] but none of these bills has become law with the amendment intact. The situation is quite varied at the state and territorial levels, with some states mirroring the federal policy of adopting no official language in a de jure capacity, others adopting English alone, others officially adopting English as well as local languages, and still others adopting a policy of de facto bilingualism.

[Klazam]

Ok klaz i am dumb k

Nah, its not an commonly known fact, thats all.

[Klazam]

yes

[Klazam]

Pagetop!

I'd like to be a part of this.

[Klazam]

Anyone have a netherwart to spare? That'd be really awesome as I feel I die in the nether as much as mist does in the overworld.

>_______<

AREYOUCOMINGBACK

[Klazam]

Oye.

I didnt know >.<

[Klazam]

If you use my carrot farm- PLEASE replant. It was lucky i had a single carrot left, but now i have no food source... Whoever did it, please return, and replant.

[Klazam]

I vote stome brick. Let me know if any help is needed to procure materials

[Klazam]

A nether railway station?
Aren't we going to build one in the overworld? I love riding through the scenery

I'd honestly prefer this.

I already started one from my place to spawn.

[Klazam]

I am not op. I do not cheat stuff in.

Tierce, I'd love to make skel farm. coords?

[Klazam]

Awesome! I'll give them to you when I wake up.

I'll give them to you when I wake up.

I wake up.

wake up

0.o

SLEEPOSTING?

[Klazam]

Skelly Grinder is functional.

Just go to Bag end and follow the road inland.

[Klazam]

I finished my skel spawner!

<3 I know what you mean.

[Klazam]

All right. I was worried that might happen. I'll fix it.

[Klazam]

Xalxe/pizzadudes

I AM SORRY.

Mist and i were riding to her home and your sheep pit trapped mist. It was night, so all the zombies and creepers attacked. I didn't have time to fix it yet, but mist said she was going to.

Not sure if sheeples still alive. If you want, i'll round up more for you and/or breed/dye em.

[Klazam]

responded in IRC

[Klazam]

Back to the skellie farm--

I suspect skeletons are getting backed up in the system, Klaz. I can see drops at the bottom of the water elevator, and there are never really more than ~10 skeletons dropped. They are dying up there. It's no longer a mob cap limit (wooo, thanks!), but there's some failure in the system somewhere.

Also, I'm pretty sure the water setup you're using is limiting the efficiency.

I noticed when I went to visit it yesterday that sometimes skellies would get stuck going into the elevator - might be possible some are drowning right at the bottom before they even go up.

Uhm. That haven't ever happened to me.

I'll look it over when I'm not busy (Sunday)

[Klazam]

Kcda

: can you extend the road from the skelly spawner through your area? I want to be able to connect our house to it but I don't want to cut through your area where you're planning on building.

Also, whoever has the Death Games armor, please return it.

I think that's mist.

[Klazam]

lmao

[Klazam]

My fault.

[Klazam]

It should be back up

[Klazam]

I need help.

My tree is nearly complete, but i have no idea how to go about making an canopy for it. Any suggestions?

[Klazam]

That was.. two servers ago.

[Klazam]

Oh and I'm tempted to build the whole thing out of obsidian and leave it dark

Do it.

Put a chest full of ladders beside it, let people reladder as they play.

[Klazam]

That's pretty recent. Wonder if my floating stronghold is still there.

(No clue how to get to it or where it is)

[Klazam]

Cooooooool.

[Klazam]

Found this in my Google Drive. I'm not sure when it's a backup from, but it says MAFIASCUM OLD MAP BACKUPS.zip, so I think it's RELEVANT?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_fc9 ... sp=sharing

Klaz: -1306 67 10055
[11:10pm] Klaz: Thats where Clamtown is
[11:10pm] Klaz: On the backup you posted

Mistopia is -4950, 63, 4340

For anyone who cares.

Does anyone know where Ourathanos is in relation to Clamtown?

EDIT:

NEVER MIND

I FOUND THE HOLY GRAIL

MY HOME

IN WHICH THERE IS A BOOK OF COORDINATES TO ALL RELEVANT PLACES

http://imgur.com/a/x93SO

That's an album of screenshots of my floating fortress. Book of coordinates screenshots in there if anyone is interested.

If anyone wants me to screenshot something for them, i can.

Of special interest is the maze coordinates. Whoever wants to can go through and replay these.

[Klazam]

MISTOPIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Know how i found my floating fortress?

Your mooshroom waypoints!

Thank god for these. I was able to follow the trail and get to my home.

[Klazam]

Anyone having an issue getting on the server?

The server is down.

M is looking into it now.

[Klazam]

MME

WOW

[Klazam]

1) don't build ugly shit
2) no seriously please don't

Those are the rules.

3) Dont be an ass

[Klazam]

Also Tierce, I shut the spawner off by filling the room with torches, removing them will turn the spawner back on. Doing this has greatly reduced the lag on the server though.

Uh. My skelly spawner? I wasnt aware it was causing problems

[Klazam]

I don't like the wall either.

It encloses bag end and tierce's place too.

[Klazam]

Yes

[Klazam]

Im more interested in why you're nei-ing for a fish

[Klazam]

(I know, twas a joke)

[Klazam]

Modded or vanilla and what name?

[Klazam]

MadScience2

done

[Klazam]

Post it here so i can WL you

[Klazam]

JAW DROP

[Klazam]

LOOK AT DOSE COOL STUFFS I BUILT

Thats the point, haha

[Klazam]

I need a op to get me out of the nether- i'm at like 1 fps there and its horrendous

[Klazam]

LOLMAOLMAO


In other news, i'd like to do an end dragon run asap on Modded. I really need a shitton of endstone so... When can we do this?

[Klazam]

HAPPY CAKEDAY ETL

[Klazam]

Modded server

****IMPORTANT****
Mod Dimensional Doors has golden doors that load pockets within pockets and keep the outer pocket loaded. Placing them in OW will create a pocket you can use HOWEVER this is not the intended use and as such, has a pretty horrific consequence.

PLACING A GOLDEN DIMDOOR ANYWHERE

EXCEPT INSIDE A POCKET

HAS A CHANCE OF COMPLETELY REVERTING THE CHUNK TO IT'S ORIGINAL WORLD GEN.

Do not put them anywhere but INSIDE a pocket or you will probably lose everything in the chunk.

Are golden doors rare? Is it possible to abuse this by mining diamonds, placing a golden dimension door in that chunk, reverting the diamonds, mining them again, placing a dimdoor again, etc.?

In our pack this takes more work than finding more diamonds. Diamonds are that common

[Klazam]

Vanilla has been paid for another month

[Klazam]

Vanilla has been paid for another month, and with that, the total donations i've gotten just ran out, so unless if you want this month to be the last, somebody needs to step up.

[Klazam]

Thanks to a generous donor(i dont know if you wabt to stay anonymous lol), vanilla stays open another 3 months.

[Klazam]

All day on saturday, Early evening on sunday

[Klazam]

I'm now back in the world of having a computer that can cope with minecraft, so hopping on the vanilla server now and hopefully a fair bit from now on.

EDIT: do I need to be re-whitelisted or something? I just get "Connection Lost - End of Stream" when I try to connect.

Hooray, I can connect now!

I'm slightly nervous from recent pages about building something cool and then having the server disappear from under me. If we do discontinue because of lack of interest, presumably whoever's running this show will pull out the world file and could send it around?

Speaking of which, does anyone know if the world file from the last vanilla server I played lots on is kicking around? It would be nice to do a trip round going "oooh, I had a lot of time on my hands in those days".

The server will last for 3 months, guaranteed. It'll be longer with more donations but thats something i'll be bringing up in 3 months.

And yes, that file is still around-

Spoiler: My post

Found this in my Google Drive. I'm not sure when it's a backup from, but it says MAFIASCUM OLD MAP BACKUPS.zip, so I think it's RELEVANT?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_fc9 ... sp=sharing

Klaz: -1306 67 10055
[11:10pm] Klaz: Thats where Clamtown is
[11:10pm] Klaz: On the backup you posted

Mistopia is -4950, 63, 4340

For anyone who cares.

Does anyone know where Ourathanos is in relation to Clamtown?

EDIT:

NEVER MIND

I FOUND THE HOLY GRAIL

MY HOME

IN WHICH THERE IS A BOOK OF COORDINATES TO ALL RELEVANT PLACES

http://imgur.com/a/x93SO

That's an album of screenshots of my floating fortress. Book of coordinates screenshots in there if anyone is interested.

If anyone wants me to screenshot something for them, i can.

Of special interest is the maze coordinates. Whoever wants to can go through and replay these.

In that post, it quotes the file, and also has an photo album of coords that i saved- feel free to use it

[Klazam]

oh, just fyi- The nether was regenned in that file, so nothing exists in the nether.

[Klazam]

Vanilla paid for another month

[Klazam]

Two for two monitors

[Klazam]

We're all technologically advanced enough to do an EndDragon run, can we plan to do it next weekend?

Poor end dragon. We all are slightly more than "technologically advanced"

I'm in

[Klazam]

does anybody play vanilla anymore?

[Klazam]

Any chance we can update the OP with full information for all servers? The only one listed there is the vanilla server.

We're at 661 pages in this thread, too many to scroll through for info.

Specifically I'm interested in the Ag skies server.

msmodded.blogspot.com has info for agskies

[Klazam]

AFAIK, M flaked fromt he site, so feel free to request something

[Klazam]

Yeah and 9 iron hammers

(I know it was that one, im glad that it broke nothing big)

[Klazam]

(Pulverizer requires power this doesn't)

[Klazam]

Vanilla is now dead

[Klazam]

It was survival

And no, Cracked versions wouldnt work.

and yes, vanilla is very dead

[Klazam]

it's really not

[Klazam]

you google yourself every day don't you?

[Klazam]

they tweeted within the last month about sending some customers to an LA-based hosting company (but didn't explain why)

And this also didn't happen. Pyto basically lied about that

And i endorse the above idea

[Klazam]

They were good, until they were not.

https://exileservers.com

[Klazam]

I hold no opinion on vanilla server coming back or not. Does t matter to me.

Im posting because i feel compelled to say it shouldnt take much time from m and i, and we're already paying for the server space anyway.

Although, from what i see so far, it seems to be a negative response to vanilla so..

[Klazam]

uh, what person is still active on MS servers and like that? The usual threat of a ban, and have a reroll to a backup takes care of that.

(assuming stupid UGLY COBBLE LINES drama doesn't start -.-)

[Klazam]

Fair point.

[Klazam]

Huh.

[Klazam]

I hold no opinion on vanilla server coming back or not. Does t matter to me.

Im posting because i feel compelled to say it shouldnt take much time from m and i, and we're already paying for the server space anyway.

Although, from what i see so far, it seems to be a negative response to vanilla so..

the reason nilla is so boring is that we don't have a sense of community do we?

I propose we do what the mind crackers are doing. that is start out with a smallish world border and have it increase about 6 or 7 or 8 blocks a day. it compels teamwork and community. and more peeps would want to comeback to help in projects.

any thoughts?

I would love this ! I really miss this community

uh, what person is still active on MS servers and like that?

Another consideration is accidents that could be prevented with some kind of protection... I'm thinking about certain people who have a knack for dying, sometimes near structures and in ways [read: Creeper] that fuck up other people's shit.

*awkward whistling*

You generally clean up your messes soooo

[Klazam]

...is no more.

You know that i read that as

"The Offical Mafiascum Minecraft Server Thread ... is no more."

[Klazam]

Spoiler: WTF?!?

Modded. Anything goes

[Klazam]

Well, that's not how it used to work, because I built a melon farm on the old vanilla server and would just stop by to harvest it every hour or so and they grew fine on their own.

Around a 5 chunk radius around spawn is loaded all the time

And etl is wrong, its more like 64-128 block horzional distance that you need to be within for plants to grow

Or you could make a vanilla chunkloader. Resource intensive though if you live far from spawn

[Klazam]

I was wrong too. Its actually a 10 chunk radius around the player. So be within 160 blocks or so

[Klazam]

Amd spawn is 12x12 permloaded chunks

[Klazam]

its in this thread bro. I have all the points of interest coords screenshoted earlier if you want to explore

[Klazam]

Found this in my Google Drive. I'm not sure when it's a backup from, but it says MAFIASCUM OLD MAP BACKUPS.zip, so I think it's RELEVANT?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_fc9 ... sp=sharing

Klaz: -1306 67 10055
[11:10pm] Klaz: Thats where Clamtown is
[11:10pm] Klaz: On the backup you posted

Mistopia is -4950, 63, 4340

For anyone who cares.

Does anyone know where Ourathanos is in relation to Clamtown?

EDIT:

NEVER MIND

I FOUND THE HOLY GRAIL

MY HOME

IN WHICH THERE IS A BOOK OF COORDINATES TO ALL RELEVANT PLACES

http://imgur.com/a/x93SO

That's an album of screenshots of my floating fortress. Book of coordinates screenshots in there if anyone is interested.

If anyone wants me to screenshot something for them, i can.

Of special interest is the maze coordinates. Whoever wants to can go through and replay these.

[Klazam]

WHAT RESORT

[Klazam]

My. Brain. Fucking. Hurts.

I just finished work on a pretty huge maze... I think it's something like ~4000 blocks? I ended up blocking myself in while finishing it and it took me 25 minutes to find my way out. Lol. I'm going to finish the roofing/cosmetics/victory room tomorrow...

@MODS: Any way we can get some sort of prizes put in chests at the end of the maze?

That's what we did on the old server and it was really great

bestmaze. let me know when its 100% ill crush it


then ill make my own

[Klazam]

The new version has made many of the blocks that were prizes in the previous server obtainable legally. Here are a few ideas of simple, but repeatable/consumable prizes:

- 16 or 32 Cobwebs (still not obtainable)
- 1 or 2 Villager Spawn eggs?
- XP pots (XP is easy to get now, mostly convenience)
- Player heads (it would be cool to get the head of the maze maker as a prize, lol)

Also, I'm still looking for someone with a full enchanting setup (or a bunch of cows that I can borrow to make my own)

Incorrect- cowebbies can be gotten with silk touch shears (enchant book then anvil with shear)

Village spawn eggs would be awesome

I think it should be up to maze maker though.

[Klazam]

That is mine.

New Honeypolis

[Klazam]

Did you drop the second "O"? I liked Honeyopolis.
Also, that's my Horse that's there, Klaz, just so you know.

>.< youre right. Time to go and correct a couple signs lol


I figured that you'd stop there.

The dirt's to outline some buildings and such im planning to build.

[Klazam]

Ice Spike Biome @ -1250,600

-
-

This is only one i know of

[Klazam]

I make my return soon. Klaz, what are the chances of there being a gauntlet?

its happening AS LONG AS i actually do it. I'm not on that often.

[Klazam]

experiencing horrible lag

[Klazam]

Spoiler:

Heh. noticed your horse was gone from my stable.

[Klazam]

i saw the discussion in irc.

Get a mod that lets you change recipes

[Klazam]

(But will it still enjoy mac support?)

[Klazam]

HEY I WANT THAT. WHAT DO YOU PRICE IT AT?

[Klazam]

yesss I'd be much more likely to play modded if I could watch Mist fuck up with nuclear power at spawn:P

[Klazam]

K not playing then loll

[Klazam]

Planning out the gauntlet- just thought up of several new absolutely evil sections.

[Klazam]

Planning out the gauntlet- just thought up of several new absolutely evil sections.

GAUNTLET!

Can we get the original built in the meantime?

Ill have the all star sections making a return. You'll have to clear em before you can proceed to the newer sections.

Spoiler: Some of the stuff im bringing back

Cacti parkour
Choochoo floor
Angle jump
Disorientator
Out of the frying pan (lava jump)
Fence jump

As an aside, m, jmj, dav- i'd appreicate it if you were to pm me your opnion on relative difficulty of each of the above , from 1-10. If you dont recall, just say so.


I think it might take me 3 days to a week to build it, depending on how much time i have.

Also, the gauntlet is gonna be under the Hotel Gaunt (still need to be built). Guess who the royalty penthouse suite is dedicated to? Yup, the very first winner of the gauntlet. It is the jmj3000 suite.

[Klazam]

As an aside, m, jmj, dav-

You beat the old gauntlet? I forgot

[Klazam]

Oh! It was the one i had on modded. Ya. Send me your opnions too.

(I want it so that it ramps up in difficulty, not have the hardest thing at the beginning then the rest easy)

[Klazam]

Tc spawner under that tree

[Klazam]

immibis' mods and Dimensional Anchors in particular do not work well.

Klaz can attest - it is a useless mod from a hack of an author.
He copies other mods for a living and we should not support his work.

Attested.

Railcraft on the other hand is wonderful. You can config it so that their regular loaders dont need fuel also. 3x3 chunks loaded is p much enough for whatever you could need it for.

[Klazam]

Ground has been broken on the gauntlet.

it should be open in 2 weeks or so, though. IRL issues

[Klazam]

Are you building near honeyopolis or somewhere else entirely?

In new honeyopolis.

Hotel Gaunt

[Klazam]

no.

[Klazam]

Ill be on the road...

[Klazam]

I don't know wjat my situation will be like so no, dont hold stuff up for me

[Klazam]

Rougelike is in 1.7.10
Forge microblocks is too

[Klazam]

>.<

[Klazam]

the ender chests KNOWS

[Klazam]

*spooky noises*

not that i'd know what that would be like

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Glowstone wire seems cool, and m wont let me have it in High Seas lol

So thats one

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May i make a suggestion?

Make a fourth column to gauge interest- just have "0" in that, people add one if interested/will use. That way you could hypothetically trim the fat off the modpack

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Maybe even a -1 if a person is strongly opposed to the mod's presence- only if the person feels that mod will create a negative experience for that person

<.< mystcraft

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yeah bad suggestion lol

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went in, added a BUNCH of mods

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Just eschew warp books completely, keep mystcraft, but make people add intralinking and following the intended way, and dont creative in the link modifier. Thats incentive to use ep3

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A) why are you testing 1.7 now? B) Adding those modifiers via ink mixer. is sufficiently costly enough that the EP would be primary solution. C) I was envisioning that the EP3 would be configged to work without power which would make it awesome and not a hassle.

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Is now an especially bad time to test? Depends on the definition of expensive, and is that a config option? I have downloaded but not launched yet...

Etl has said that we're not moving to 1.7.10 soon

not terribly expensive, but annoying as fuck and depends on rng. not a config option last i checked.

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Ignore us crotchety old players then

Geroff me lawn

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I can't stop thinking about that Water-Based pack that Maestro and Klaz are making/testing.

Some custom generation, add in HQM and I'm thinking 3rd party FTB there. Make it a true challenge map in the AgSkies, Crash Landing tradition. Although, because of my limited imagination, the best I can come up with so far is basically Crash Landing with the desert replaced with water.

Lol.

We can discuss this over irc when m and i finish the pack. Its not intended to be a challenge map per say, but its purpose is to get you to live on/off the ocean and utilize certain things that has not been used before.

One thing though, a third party ftb pack wouldnt be allowed for the pack we're working on. Mo' Creatures's author is an asshole and refuses to give permission for modpacks, unless he gets paid $500 a month. Also, we went through all of this before, compiling permissions for the modpack is the worst thing ever. If you want to do it that way, feel free to use our pack as a base, but i will not be doing any legwork for it afterwards.

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Its intended to be a true survival pack that changes the paradigim of what you normally do in vanilla minecraft

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(I know, i'm just saying)

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Doesn't all modded change what you normally do in Vanilla anyway?
(Not saying it's a bad idea, just curious as to what you mean by that).

I misspoke. I meant to say modded not vanilla.

change the way you approach teching up, change the way you build a base, and all that.

Pedit: LOL OSO

Pedit2: Always

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Klaz is expecting that we will live entirely on Archimedes' Ships, which may be limited only because what we can put on a given ship is limited. We'll see what happens, I'll probably run a port town or something. We'll keep you all apprised.

False. I'm excepting that we'll live in at least a small island or something, with a port, and Archiships will be primary mode of travel. I'm hoping that we'll be more focused on things we can do with the ocean than ever before.

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i got that. got all the mods. now I'm booting it up to gen config files.

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ETL, PM me when you're around. i wanna talk about server and such.

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high seas complete

whoever interested in the mod pack can pm me for it

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Changing accounts?

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I just flaked.

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TAINT

MOVE OUT

YOUR BASE WILL BE OVERRUN WITH THOUSAND WISPS IN LESS THAN 2 DAYS. (Taint spreads. when it covers a 25x25 area or cannot spread further, it starts spawning 4 wisps per 2 seconds.)

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It is taint. I was just trolling. Its nothing to worry about. Just pit in am assload of candles and skulls, shouldnt be a problem.

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You add modifiers via the inkwell, it consumes materials, and is at an reasonable cost

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Regular chunkloaders work also, no periphals is needed, but i can check for some.

If your porgorsm fails based on chunk unloading and loading they you have bad programming.myou can have the program write a save state to computer's memory between each action/change/etc at no cost, so if you program the program to save itself, its no issues after that.

Turtles are godly

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If you have that, its not a issue. Although you might still want to stick around because mobs can get annonyng.

Ill still check for my usual periohal mods, thiugh. I want my xp turtles.

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Looked up oc. Its a clone of cc, but with stuff that is annonying. For example, the computers need constant power, and there seems to be no support for pastebin programs, so you have to rely on their ingame interface to write programs which is a pain.

Rabblerabble cc

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rabble

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Thats not flower field, thats the garden biome.personally i like it, and has unique mob.

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Gold is between y=1 and y=30

If you dont wanna find diamonds, go mining over y=15. Slightly better chance of gold there

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Im a mac user, most of you are windows users, we play on the same thing just fine. Xbox is a different version of the game so thats separate, yeah

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Yes

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maaaan

just visited old vanilla. fishy's jungle temple still best MS build

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I haven't had tons of time to do testing, so it's going pretty slowly. I'm doing SSP, and haven't reached any of the tech stuff yet.

• Iron seems a little more plentiful than before.
  
• Coal looks like it's seriously down from SP3. Maybe just unlucky though.
  
• Tin and copper are way down but that's to be expected with trying to limit oregen to one mod per ore.
  
• If tin and copper are really this scarce, then bronze will be a bottleneck. Not saying that's a bad thing, we need a bottleneck now and then. The plentiful amounts in SP3 were crazy so maybe it's just by comparison.
  
• Diamonds may be up slightly from SP3, or I might just be luckier this world.
  
• AE grinder is acceptable for early ore doubling, and the pain of having to stand there holding down the button is a good motivator to get some kind of power running.
  
• Was yellorite nerfed compared to SP3? I haven't found a single vein yet.

Iron is standard
Finding coal at normal rate
this is fine imo
^
haven't found a diamond vein
Agree
Found some veins of yellorite

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Nitor's perfect. Does it link to the spot outside where i used to have my spawn portal?

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Im fine with my nitor

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I'll take care of it when server is back and you're back

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dav, we know the issue with the server. we exceeded the space somehow.

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i have a fully enchanted Tri-Bow for yes.

I can supply easily:
3 diamond dollies
100+ levels
Bag of holding
tool station
crafting station
Sojourner's sash

whats the other stuff I should make?

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also, what computer?

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Bonnie storage also a option. With some ender io to automatestorage, that might be a nice way to do storage

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Clatifying- ages 29 andup haven't been deleted?

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it looks like a reasonable pack. a bit harder than usual packs

which translates to a death every 2 mins for you, mist