I'm giving some thought on how to do it and prototyping in SP. Or at least I was until I got into a fight with a pig-man and I lost all my obsidian, glass, grilled pork and diamond tools.

I'm hesitant to being though. We have to figure out the intricacies of these portals before they all get planted about willy-nilly.

Note:
Never, EVER pick a fight with a pig-man. I'm pretty sure they're all on the same team, so if one gets pissed off, they all get pissed off.
Wherever you build the your gate is not where you come back. It duplicates your gate for some reason.
Not much of a problem in MP, but watch out anyway: http://games.on.net/article/10630/Minecraft_Update_Includes_Inventory_Destroying_Bug

Emperor's Texture Pack was just updated, it's now compatible with the Halloween update. I think it's the only texture pack that is compatible right now.

I hope AaGeOn updates his pack today... definitely the best 'HD' pack available.

now, back to working on my own texture pack... it was 95% done when the Halloween update was released <_<

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2597/39239031.png

Is the server up? I'm trying to connect but I keep getting refused.

I have got my real life friend fully hooked on MC. He now promotes it to all my other friends as the best game he has ever played. I get asked each day what I was up to in MC yesterday, it's quite funny. Anyway at the moment I'm just playing single player I'm trying to build a very advanced spawn defense system and then have of an underground metro that link to everything else with minecarts. I'm trying to work it so that when enemies are around my spawn area I can pull a lever and a slightly depressed ring around my spawn area which is slightly raised will fill with lava. It's very hard to explain but if it gets finished I'll try and make a video of it.

No. It went funny after the update. Wampbit is going to try fixing it once he drags his sorry carcass out of bed (:P).

These portals are odd to say the least.

I create a portal and go through easy enough. Then I take a portal back again and find myself standing on top of a hill outside my mine. I go back through a few times and always come back to the top of the hill. Then a creeper disables the hill portal. I go back to hell, come back through and find myself on top of another hill. They all go to the same portal in hell, but coming back only takes me to the last one. I disable the first portal, then whichever portal I went in through is the one I come out of.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5021/manyportals.png

I theorise that it's not fond of underground portals. A precaution so you never find yourself in a portal buried under a hundred metres of rock.

I'm sure I read somewhere that it would approximate which portal in the "real" world would would lead to which portal in the Nether, rather than there being a direct link, so portals close together would lead to the same place in the Nether.


I played around a little myself. Built one portal on an island, stepped through, ran forward ~20 metres, built another portal, and came through in a cave. I would have tried digging up to see where I'd got to, but this computer objects to Java's memory demands, and Minecraft crashed.

That part I was expecting. I just didn't think it would make a whole new portal in the "real" world. I expected it to take me back to the one I entered through, as logically it should have been close enough. Seems my theory about underground portals was short-lived though.

Right, I'm working on getting the server working now.

Please bear in mind, there will be no ability to enter the 'hell' worlds on the server. Notch has not yet implemented this.

There is, you just need to dc/rc every time you want to switch worlds

really!

http://twitter.com/notch


I'm not sure if that means the players just have to dc/rc, or if the server has to be reset every time I'm actually starting to think it's the latter, since...

Oh for the love of...
I generated a new world, found a fantastic base that was high up and was already half carved into the mountainside. I go up, place ladders and build a balcony. Just as I'm enjoying the views, the bloody clouds come and cover the whole base. I now have to build up another level or bear with the clouds.

Yeah, someone should really get onto Notch about that. Clouds look pretty from a distance, but they're just damn annoying when you're building around cloud height.

OH NO I MISSED EVERYTHING.

I'll play some SP later then!

EDIT: Just remembered that I've never found obsidian in my single player games dammit. I'll probably die if I try to make lava and water meet. :@

http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww283/xuerebx/Untitled-7.jpg [spawn point]

Indeed, building at cloud level at night with lava pits below can become something of a health and safety hazard.

There is a mod that raises the clouds above the maximum build height, (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=58904) but I'm not sure if it'll work after the update.

Wamp, get it. And make it work.

Yes, please do!

Guys, that mod doesn't work with the Halloween update, I'm getting a black screen.

My first experience into the Nether!

-I killed a ghast by mistake. He set himself on fire.
-I created another portal and emerged in a cave. I exploded my way through and water engulfed me.
-I emerged out of the middle of a lake.


Also, has the landscape been tweaked when it's generated? I seem to be getting much cooler, random landscapes.

Clay appears to be a lot less rare now!

I tried Emperor's pack but it just seems to turn everything gray.

Step 1 is just to get the server running, once that is done I'll have a look into that mod

Also Notch changed clouds with the update to my knowledge, which may be why it doesn't work.

Ugh... How do I send a twitter thing to Notch? I just signed up for it so I could ask him questions. I'm lost. Twitter is confusing me.

Also Wamp, I sent you some messages on Hamachi about the server, I got some emails from jest, you may want to check out your Hamachi.