First - Bumping is bad practice. You may get away with a single bump from time to time.
Don't do it.
Second - The IRC channels are actually an extremely valuable resource, they are always filled with many people who know what they are doing.
Try joining #mcp, #mcp-modding or #risucraft on irc.esper.net
The mcp channels have a bot which stores a knowledgebase of all the obfuscated classes, methods and fields, populated by users, filling out their description and what they do within the code.
(once in #mcp or #mcp-modding say '!dcc' to open a chat with the bot, then 'help' within the private chat (or !help if you aren't in private chat) to display the queries it supports).
I guess what I'm really trying to say is that Minecraft in itself is a LOT more work than any mod... people are saying that there are "mods releasing all the time" yea... by different people, I'm sure if Mojang was as big as it's fanbase it would be developing it's 5th game by now. You can't clump modders together into one effort "Every time something new comes out, another 6 mods come out for it" .
I say Minecraft has 500+ classes - because it does. Notch/Mojang has written FIVE HUNDRED classes. Who cares if it's standard for a game? Is it standard for a mod? I think you are losing grip on comparable variables.
Just sayin', Notch/Mojang has put in a lot more work than any single or even team of modders has (...as of yet!).
Just putting it out there - Minecraft has over FIVE HUNDRED class files within it's singleplayer source alone. How many mods have even 1 fifth of that? Not to mention that when modding minecraft, Mojang has seriously implemented everything you ever need to add anything fitting of the game; that is to say, If you want to expand on something in the game, ie, blocks, entities, mobs, even map generation, all the code is there for you. A lot of the time, coding for Minecraft, you are using methods already defined in Minecraft's code that are VERY useful. The only realy code you have to write yourself is something that isn't in the game at all, i.e an Entity that works in a completely new way, like a cannon or something. Even then, you would still use a lot of built-in functions/methods.
Modding also usually has a single, rather close goal. Minecraft was from scratch - quite a difference!
That isn't to say that some mods (*cough* Aether *cough*) aren't insane
It's not caused by the new lighting, instead you have to make sure in your graphics driver that AF (Anisotropic Filtering) is set to "application controlled" (might not be the exact naming).
However you might find that faraway textures flicker more when AF is not used, so ultimately it's a matter of taste.
So I've been playing minecraft for a few months now, and I've got this weird graphics thing going on in my game. I just updated and it's still doing it, so I thought I should throw it out into the open.
I don't remember noticing it when I first started playing but I don't remember when this started.
When I look at the ground, it looks normal, like this, with the block I'm looking at outlined:
But if I look at something slightly distant, suddenly everything seems outlined, and you can distinguish each individual block:
so what's up? Is this totally normal? or is it just me?
also; thanks, forum, for cropping my images, lawl.
I'm writing this thread because I need some advice on the technical side of hosting a minecraft server.
I host a server that my friends and I play on (neighbourhood map - yes!), and since we are now dedicated to a specific map, Ive been thinking a lot about upgrading the stability of my server setup.
Currently we are ALL running entirely Vanilla versions of Minecraft.
I am running minecraft_server.jar from a bat file with nogui and then running a VB script that runs the .bat without any windows, so the server is running entirely silent.
I've done a bit of research and it seems this is about as easy as I can make it run silently. I've seen a few programs out there but none seem to claim this so this is the setup I am currently running.
Oh and also this VB script is set to run on startup.
What I want to be able to do now is to, ultimately, implement the following:
save and back-up the world on an interval (say, 30 minutes?, 10 minutes?)
save and back-up the world when the server shuts down (ie, i turn my computer off) I have a sub-note here. I'm lazy and actually have a script in system32 called "u.bat" which just has shutdown -s -t1 in it so I can shut down my computer fast (ctrl+r - "u" - enter), so I could edit this script to send an input to the server if this is possible... this is where i'm getting to what i'm asking
maybe some other things too
I figure the basic premise of this is that I would like to be able to send commands to the server from some kind of external script. Now I haven't spent a million years thinking the logic through on this one so there may be a fairly simple way of doing this (I'm hoping).
I know Java and some batch, as well as various scripting tid-bits (and of course, how all of the minecraft filesystem works), so I am looking to put this into as neat a package as possible. I would like this to be simple (totally silent!) and easy to use (after finishing it, I mean).
So what are your thoughts on going about this. Remember I have NO other applications aiding my minecraft experience, and I'm not looking into getting any, but I would so long as they were silent enough or you were to SCREAM at me about how you can not play without them (or if they are exactly what I am looking for!)
Here are my original thoughts:
I could write a batch or java file that would back-up the world folder into a subfolder and name them sequentially, or to a single backup (or say, a log of the last three backups etc.) and have this run on a timer.
-However with this solution I again have the problem of a command window or multiple instances of programs (as in this doesn't solve all my goals in one program)
I have a friend who is learning C, and i've helped him with a few things; it's pretty similar to Java and I could attempt to get an .exe going that could sit on the tray and manage all these tasks. I think this would be the ultimate solution, regardless of feasibility. Could have a speech-bubble alert to say when it's backing up the server etc. Much potential comes from a solution along these lines.
I'm still not entirely sure how the .jar works and how much I could interface with it (if at all). I'm wondering if there's a way I can write an addon to minecraft_server.jar that would allow me to exectue admin commands ie stop or save-all, while also using this to back up the world. This in conjunction with the previous idea I think would be an awesome solution.
I've written a lot - it's late and I'm not entirely thinking straight so please correct anything stupid I have written.
I want to hear if there is a way I can do any of this, I really need to make sure I can save and backup the world automatically.
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Don't do it.
Second - The IRC channels are actually an extremely valuable resource, they are always filled with many people who know what they are doing.
Try joining #mcp, #mcp-modding or #risucraft on irc.esper.net
The mcp channels have a bot which stores a knowledgebase of all the obfuscated classes, methods and fields, populated by users, filling out their description and what they do within the code.
(once in #mcp or #mcp-modding say '!dcc' to open a chat with the bot, then 'help' within the private chat (or !help if you aren't in private chat) to display the queries it supports).
Good luck with your modding efforts.
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I guess what I'm really trying to say is that Minecraft in itself is a LOT more work than any mod... people are saying that there are "mods releasing all the time" yea... by different people, I'm sure if Mojang was as big as it's fanbase it would be developing it's 5th game by now. You can't clump modders together into one effort "Every time something new comes out, another 6 mods come out for it" .
I say Minecraft has 500+ classes - because it does. Notch/Mojang has written FIVE HUNDRED classes. Who cares if it's standard for a game? Is it standard for a mod? I think you are losing grip on comparable variables.
Just sayin', Notch/Mojang has put in a lot more work than any single or even team of modders has (...as of yet!).
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Modding also usually has a single, rather close goal. Minecraft was from scratch - quite a difference!
That isn't to say that some mods (*cough* Aether *cough*) aren't insane
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GLaD to see somebody has done it properly =)
Next up- custom shaders to make the portals work visually! Lol
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THANKYOU!
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I don't remember noticing it when I first started playing but I don't remember when this started.
When I look at the ground, it looks normal, like this, with the block I'm looking at outlined:
But if I look at something slightly distant, suddenly everything seems outlined, and you can distinguish each individual block:
so what's up? Is this totally normal? or is it just me?
also; thanks, forum, for cropping my images, lawl.
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I'm writing this thread because I need some advice on the technical side of hosting a minecraft server.
I host a server that my friends and I play on (neighbourhood map - yes!), and since we are now dedicated to a specific map, Ive been thinking a lot about upgrading the stability of my server setup.
Currently we are ALL running entirely Vanilla versions of Minecraft.
I am running minecraft_server.jar from a bat file with nogui and then running a VB script that runs the .bat without any windows, so the server is running entirely silent.
I've done a bit of research and it seems this is about as easy as I can make it run silently. I've seen a few programs out there but none seem to claim this so this is the setup I am currently running.
Oh and also this VB script is set to run on startup.
What I want to be able to do now is to, ultimately, implement the following:
save and back-up the world on an interval (say, 30 minutes?, 10 minutes?)
save and back-up the world when the server shuts down (ie, i turn my computer off)
I have a sub-note here. I'm lazy and actually have a script in system32 called "u.bat" which just has shutdown -s -t1 in it so I can shut down my computer fast (ctrl+r - "u" - enter), so I could edit this script to send an input to the server if this is possible... this is where i'm getting to what i'm asking
maybe some other things too
I figure the basic premise of this is that I would like to be able to send commands to the server from some kind of external script. Now I haven't spent a million years thinking the logic through on this one so there may be a fairly simple way of doing this (I'm hoping).
I know Java and some batch, as well as various scripting tid-bits (and of course, how all of the minecraft filesystem works), so I am looking to put this into as neat a package as possible. I would like this to be simple (totally silent!) and easy to use (after finishing it, I mean).
So what are your thoughts on going about this. Remember I have NO other applications aiding my minecraft experience, and I'm not looking into getting any, but I would so long as they were silent enough or you were to SCREAM at me about how you can not play without them (or if they are exactly what I am looking for!)
Here are my original thoughts:
I could write a batch or java file that would back-up the world folder into a subfolder and name them sequentially, or to a single backup (or say, a log of the last three backups etc.) and have this run on a timer.
-However with this solution I again have the problem of a command window or multiple instances of programs (as in this doesn't solve all my goals in one program)
I have a friend who is learning C, and i've helped him with a few things; it's pretty similar to Java and I could attempt to get an .exe going that could sit on the tray and manage all these tasks. I think this would be the ultimate solution, regardless of feasibility. Could have a speech-bubble alert to say when it's backing up the server etc. Much potential comes from a solution along these lines.
I'm still not entirely sure how the .jar works and how much I could interface with it (if at all). I'm wondering if there's a way I can write an addon to minecraft_server.jar that would allow me to exectue admin commands ie stop or save-all, while also using this to back up the world. This in conjunction with the previous idea I think would be an awesome solution.
I've written a lot - it's late and I'm not entirely thinking straight so please correct anything stupid I have written.
I want to hear if there is a way I can do any of this, I really need to make sure I can save and backup the world automatically.
+Cookie for reading wall of text.