2010-10-30, 07:30 PM
Anyone mind taking the cart tracks out of my storage in my tree-house and placing them along the track so that it is obvious what that long line is supposed to be for once the server goes back up? Also, going to be quite a while before I can get in after all. In the meantime, I've made a prototype of the lava castle in classic. Not having ladders or liquid dynamics sucks though. Making a floating "island" is harder than it seems. What I ended up with looked more like a piece of land that was forcibly removed from the ground rather than an island; which is OK too, but not what I had intended. Of course, I suppose it was a hard expectation to get a leveled feeling of a 30x40 piece of land floating on only 7 layers of soil.
Going back to classic made me realize how small it was.
As for the update, sorta glad that the portals aren't working yet for SMP. I had this feeling someone would go exploring then end up spawning portals all over other people's homes by accident coming out of the slip. Quick question: does that improved movement scaling from the slip also work up and down? Would be an excellent elevator to have two portals and a ladder in the slip. I mean, yeah you'd have to load twice, but for some heights it might be worth it.
When it finally does work, someone should make an obsidian "Dark Hall" type structure in the slip and the scaled larger "Light Hall" in the over-world. If you could manage to to the entire thing underground, you could even make it seem like a lab experiment gone wrong (honey I shrunk the kids?) without much impact to the surface.
Going back to classic made me realize how small it was.
As for the update, sorta glad that the portals aren't working yet for SMP. I had this feeling someone would go exploring then end up spawning portals all over other people's homes by accident coming out of the slip. Quick question: does that improved movement scaling from the slip also work up and down? Would be an excellent elevator to have two portals and a ladder in the slip. I mean, yeah you'd have to load twice, but for some heights it might be worth it.
When it finally does work, someone should make an obsidian "Dark Hall" type structure in the slip and the scaled larger "Light Hall" in the over-world. If you could manage to to the entire thing underground, you could even make it seem like a lab experiment gone wrong (honey I shrunk the kids?) without much impact to the surface.