I discovered this a while ago. A bug exists where, after the creation of the first nether portal and the genning of your world's nether world, any nether portals built in the real world are at risk of getting connected with a pre-existing nether portal. As such, you'll need to build all subsequent nether portals in the nether world itself to ensure it doesn't happen. To find north in the netherworld, look at the top of a cobblestone block. There is an L. The L stands for left.

Some has to explain to me about the nether and fast traveling. I still don't get it. How do i know which direction im going towards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aPpowMHoko

Could those wishing to play on the SMP server please respond to the 'Rollcall' thread on the server-discussion forum listed in the OP, or PM me. I would advise the first of these two, so you can see what decision is made regarding the map, and other important aspects of the server. We will be constructing the new whitelist of those who respond to our Rollcall, via pm or post (on the other forum), and after this point you will have to request to be added at your convenience.

why do mobs keep spawning in my house/mines even though its fully lit up?

The most likely reason I can think of is that your "fully lit" isn't quite enough. If you have your torches spaced too widely apart the light might get dim enough for mob spawning, even though it looks like the space is lit up. I like to keep my torches 10 blocks apart in all directions at maximum - in my houses it's closer to 6 blocks apart.

Also, the deeper you go in mines, the more light it takes to stop mobs from spawning. I'd consider shortening the distance between torches by 1 or 2 as you approach bedrock.

I thought I've seen all that Minecraft can do.

Apparently not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8xs53VmFjc

You so funny.
No really read the OP

Honestly, I laughed so hard at the door machine. I want one!

Now I know how I spend my time in our server

Has anyone ever found deep caves in the Nether? I've been on the hunt for some but it seems they don't exist. Every time I think I see one it turns out to just be a few yards deep...

You can conjure up a deep cave by placing your portal deep in the regular world... Sometimes I go that route just to be sure I won't have to deal with Ghasts until I'm ready.

Deep caverns aren't naturally occuring in the nether world, and the nether world has more in common with creative mode caves than anything. (big, open spaces, flooded at the bottom, etc.)

@Mr.E, build a nether portal in the wrong place inside the Nether world, and the real world exit for that nether portal will be inside a cave deep beneath the real world earth!

Yes, what I did was to build my first portal just above sea level in the "real" world, with all future portals built in the nether at at least the same height as this reference portal. Everything I've put up has come out in a good location so far.

The Nice thing about accidentally ending up beneath the earth itself when coming out of a nether-built portal is that you can occassionally find yourself in the figurative motherlode. and the idea of a circular room, with a nether portal in the middle of it, hidden inside some cave deep beneath the earth is cool. I'm eventually going to build a temple at the surface above my underground nether portal. (assuming I ever go back to that part of my nether portal system, I always hide my nether portals in the side passages you occassionally see in the nether-rock, and that was one is very far from anything else I have)

This is the only good thing that will ever come out of Kinect.

http://www.orderofevents.com/MineCraft/KinectInfo.htm

Click the link, and keep spare pants next to you.

Wow, that is nice!


I wonder if someone makes one day tool, which can be used to export heightmap data.
Then we could export Nirn as our world

Time is money people! For every second the election lasts we lose server time!

http://www.jamieep.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22

I believe there is a mapping program out there that does that already - at least, I recall some such feature while I was browsing for programs. Since I didn't really have an interest in mapping I just dismissed it all. And indeed, making a Minecraft map from Cyrodiil or Vvardenfell (I don't think heightmaps exist of Nirn...) would be sweet.

Minecraft has been purchased over 1 million times now

A few more questions :biggrin:

Where can i find a portal to the nether?
Where can i find a pig spawner for my farm? (if there is one)
Is there anyway i can make a mine cart accelerate up hill while riding in it?

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/The_Nether
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Monster_Spawner (short answer: there's no way to get a pig spawner without exploits or mods)
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecart_booster (scroll down to uphill auto reset booster)

The new update has so much new stuff. and you can http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7154191/Pictures/sheep.png

:D

Also:


Yay!

I can't wait to play Minecraft again!

Full list (as far is the Minepedia is concerned):

* Note blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)
* 15 wool dyes
* A new water dwelling mob (squid)
* New tree types (Birch)
* Reeds magically turned into sugar canes. They still make paper.
* A bunch of new crafting recipes
* One secret useful block (Dispenser)
* One secret pretty block (Lapis Lazuli Ore/Block)
* Cake
* Sugar - Crafted from Sugar Cane
* Default furnaces given new look
* Bones added on drops (possibly only skeletons)
* Bones can be crafted into Bonemeal.
* New gray, light gray, and black sheep. Drop correspondingly colored wool.

Bugfixes:

* Paintings work in multiplayer
* Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world
* A bunch more state is properly synched in multiplayer
* Fixed colors going weird on PowerPC
* Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer
* Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated SMP maps
* Falling sand behaves better in SMP
* Fixed a few crash on load level bugs
* Jack-O-Lantern now has correct tooltip.