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Absolutely adore this texture pack!!

Nice seed - could make a pretty cool survival base in that bay.

I'm kind of upset by the introverts on here saying they'd rather be extroverts. I'm an introvert, and completely happy with that fact. I don't think I've ever 'wished' I was an extrovert just to be the focal point at a club or to pick up. I do get slightly annoyed that people confuse being introverted, with social anxiety or rudeness - it usually comes up when I'm not joining into small talk. I don't find it necessary to sit there and talk for the sake of it. So, I'm not sure one is better than the other - they just thrive in different circumstances.

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I've heard all this before. You could pretty much substitute London for Melbourne - it's exactly the same argument that's been used over and over again. Funny how people are suddenly worried about 'the Arabs and Pakistanis'. Pre 9/11 it was the Vietnamese who were trying to 'steal our jobs and create a little Hanoi'. It's an argument that is based on nothing but fear of anyone that isn't white.
If people actually checked the numbers, they'd realise the number of people seeking refuge in Western countries is huge, yet the number we actually accept is bugger all. Those that are accepted, don't create communities because they're part of a takeover conspiracy, but because they're driven to do so but instilled racism, fueled by political discourse.

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It would be like a hetrosexual man having sex with another man (Imagine they could make a baby). It's not worth it in their opinion.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Did you mean in your opinion?

Quote from Kyte314

Well...I don't know. Popularizing some details about who the shooter was are kind of important in order to figure what made him do what he did; lest someone see similar conditions in someone else they know but not do anything to prevent them doing something radical themselves. But then of course covering it would also encourage such a person to do said radical action.

Bit of a paradox there.

I know what you're saying - but I'm not sure the media has ever been useful in assisting to figure out the motives of a killer - that's always concluded by professionals.

Quote from Rageincantation

Nobody is asking for your help. Its not wanted or needed.

I don't think this is true at all. I'm sure a lot of people would accept the offer of spiritual guidance or assistance from a church. I personally know of a few reformed addicts that received a great deal of help to overcome their problems after a kindly encounter with a few Christians. In my town, Christians are always the first to offer assistance to the homeless and the elderly. I don't think it's all about converting people - many Christians dedicate their lives to assisting people in need because they think it's the right thing to do.

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One of the major reasons I don't think I could make it as a vegan.

I have made the attempt to go vegan a couple of times but I always end up caving when I spot the block of Mainland Tasty Chedder at the supermarket. I can't help but admire vegans.

Quote from pooch12

I'll have you know "social justice" is the derailment, and YOU are attempting to derail the conversation. You are clearly a bigoted idiot, so stop replying to me because nobody likes a hypocritical, self-contradictory, devil's advocate, extremely condescending in all the stupidest ways, in-one-ear-and-out-the-other bigot. I will have no more of you or any other SJW full of hogwash.

You are the only one who has been condescending and rude. My last reply only addressed a clear lack of understanding of the issues. I make every effort to stick to the topic, and address the arguments - you argue with false assumptions and have now resorted to personal attacks. EDIT: I've noticed you removed the sections referring to me as an 'idiot'.
You're actually a shining example of why the trend exists..You've managed to take a platform for women to share their personal experiences of misogyny, sexism and sometimes revolting sexual behaviour, and responded by loudly claiming the discussion is 'blatant misandry' - choosing to ignore those that oppose your view. It's wrong.

I'll stop this discussion now, but only because I feel my posts haven't helped Azem's topic.

Quote from pooch12

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Yeah, you clearly don't understand the message. You claim you have an 'IQ above room temperature', but clearly don't know the meaning of sexism, discrimination, misogyny OR misandry. I know you're happy to throw the terms around, but it always helps to have some understanding. So, ignore me and everyone else and go back to your efforts of derailing conversations regarding social justice. Good luck.

Quote from AzemOcram

I would love to hear the opinions of all Minecraftians on the effectiveness, usefulness, and enjoyability (or annoyance) of Hashtag Activism. On facebook, one person responded saying that we should all go out and be active; on Simtropolis, people are arguing about what to call the # symbol (I personally pronounce it as pound but number works as well); and here, we have a side-conversation about "feminazis."

--Ocram

Apologies Azem. My posts didn't exactly attempt to answer your question.

Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders [compatible with Minecraft 1.12.2 via OptiFine]

Please read this entire post before attempting an install or posting about a bug.

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SEUS Renewed screenshots!

SEUS Renewed is an on-going project! Feel free to report any issues you encounter.

Setup (PLEASE READ)

OptiFine has taken over shader support for Minecraft. Go download and install OptiFine first! ALWAYS USE THE LATEST VERSION

You need to install this mod to use my shaderpack!

Download OptiFine

Once you've got OptiFine installed, to use a shaderpack, follow these instructions.

Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders


Downloads

LATEST:

SEUS Renewed 1.0.0 (DOWNLOAD)

SEUS Renewed is a re-imagining of SEUS and is an ongoing project. Check the links at the very top of this post to follow its development!

Make sure to always use the latest version of OptiFine!

-Improved GI and SSAO
-Super smooth Temporal Anti-Aliasing
-Completely reworked system for day/night cycle based on atmospheric scattering
-Accurate sunlight color via atmospheric scattering
-Accurate ambient sky lighting from atmospheric scattering via Spherical Harmonics
-New atmospheric scattering on distand land for a natural sense-of-scale
-New underwater rendering
-Normal/bump mapping from torch/artificial light
-Screen-space shadow tracing for better contact shadows
-Vastly improved performance with long render distance settings
-Physically-based specular highlights from sunlight
-Improved 2D clouds
-Improved rendering of stained glass

-New rain/wet effects

-End and Nether shaders

-Improved POM and POM self-shadowing

-Improved shadows

-Many more, too many to list here!

OLDER VERSIONS

LEGACY VERSIONS:

Tweaks

Once the mod is properly installed, there are a few things you can do to ensure maximum performance.

-Run the game in a smaller resolution in full-screen
-Lower your render distance
-When OptiFine is installed, try toggling "Options > Video Settings > Performance > Smooth FPS:". "ON" gives more responsive input and more steady fps, but likely lower maximum FPS.



Reporting an Issue

If this mod is giving you unusual results, please make sure that you installed everything correctly first.
If you are using this mod on a Mac, I'm sorry to say that I am powerless to provide Mac support. I apologize.


I can't help you if you don't provide these details:
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-Describe your system specs. If you forget this step, I cannot help in any way.
-Include the output log along with your issue report.
-Describe the shaderpack, OptiFine mod version, and Minecraft version that you are running when encountering this issue.

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Using AuraCraft Textures:



You have permission to use these textures in your texture pack as long as you:

Do:

• Give credit.
• Send me a PM on your creation (don't worry I won't stop you from using my work)
• Post a link to your creation in this thread so we can all enjoy it.

Do Not:

• Claim credit. (I'll hunt you down)
• If you have 60% or more of AuraCraft in your remix pack, I'd prefer if you didn't use an Adf.ly link. However, if you only have a few textures, feel free to add an Adf.ly link. Note that some texture artists won't like this if you're using an Adf.ly with their work.

If you have any questions, just PM me!

So ever since I started playing I had began to conceive of a city-sized palace erected mainly for functionality, filling it at minimum with every conceivable automated process of acquiring items that I could, and the rest for artistry, fun, etc. It began with the idea I had for the core of the establishment that would involve having options to go either to the nether or the end quite simply, that the portals are right next to eachother. This journal will illustrate my progress with the project and where I am with it.

It began with a concept of three things: beacon beams, nether portal, and an end portal. This was soon after I had just read about beacons and began to learn about them. One thing I want about this place is that its actually multi-dimensional, and that beacon beams establish the center of the structure within each dimension, so I decided that covering 3 different mineral blocks for each pyramid that supports the beacons to represent each dimension would be cool. Diamond Blocks (And Iron Blocks in the surrounding beacon beam pyramid structures) for the Overworld, Gold Blocks for the Nether dimension, and Emerald blocks for The End.

So this project began with establishing that core, of which I first legitimately mined the diamonds required to build the pyramid to support the 6 beacon effects/beams that would establish the center of the Overworld segment. That's right, I spent weeks mining over 2000 diamonds merely for an aesthetic concept. Am I crazy? Maybe. We'll see.

This was the next part of the concept of the core of the structure I'm building. The beacon beams shine through the end portal, because I thought that would be really cool. I think the concept turned out neatly, in addition to this 3x3 area that represents the center of the square.

The next part of the process involved digging out all the stone and stronghold that occupied the area around this 3x3 square from which the beacon beams and end portal resides. They look really pretty at night. One vexation was that in my world, my portal had missed taiga generation by only 20 blocks or so, which sucks because it would've looked so beautiful during snowfall. That entire concept was eradicated by a further frustration, however, when in the update to 1.7, minecraft changed all taiga biomes into non-snowing biomes, and added snowy taiga, effectively making all previous 1.6 taiga biomes depressing places when it rains over all the snow that exists from the snowfall they experienced in 1.6. Bad move, Mojang.

As you can see here, much terraforming work has already been completed. I was not thorough in taking screenshots for all my progress, but all that gravel and sand that you can see obviously used to be ocean, filled in by gravity-blocks. The hoppers were my failed attempt at a vanilla chunk loader for an infinite obsidian machine to update the end portal continuously.

Now, this swirly structure in the center happened quite by accident. I got the idea for it in a dream, woke up all groggy, and decided to start building it. Took me about 45 minutes, and was surprised by what I had at the end. The packed ice really came in handy because it looked awesome, glad I had gone hunting for rare 1.7 biomes the day before.

A view of the core from the inside, looking up.

A look inside the core, looking down into the end portal. Ignore the chest, it contains snowballs for my infinite obsidian generator, once I've gotten a ton of double chests of it, I'm just going to clear all that redstone around there out. I chose the stained glass because it looks very futuristic, just behind me is the nether portal.

You can either choose to enter the nether dimension of the city-mansion through that portal, or walk through it, fall through this hole, with which vines stop your fall, and puts you into The End dimension of the multidimensional structure I'm building.

A final version of the bedrock level of the core. Redstone lamps are hidden under those sections of black wool carpet, rest are coal blocks. Added the additional light because there's a slime chunk in here, I keep finding slimes bouncing around down here when I come down. Apparently its still not enough lighting. Will consider a solution later.

I've taken many breaks during different phases of this project to build other things, and when my friend started taming horses en-masse from a plains biome we discovered that had well over 50 horses, I decided to create this general horse field, and through taming/breeding create all 35 permutations of horse variants. Next to it you can see an oak tree farm with a field of hoppers under it designed to capture all apples. Both of these things right next to the land marked for digging to bedrock to free up all space to begin building.

I wasn't sure how far out I was going to mark and dig completely to bedrock, the land centered around the core. I decided to make it slightly ambitious in my own view and do a 200x200 area marked out in the pictures of below. I had marked this out a long time ago, cleared out all trees a long time ago, and eliminated the ocean/river sections within this marked out space quite a while ago. No pictures of that progress, but you can see me eliminating the natural dirt, and the sand I used to eliminate the water in the progress below.

After the dirt was cleared, I realized that the beacon effects emanating from the core weren't enough to cover the entire area with Haste 2, the power I need in combination with Efficiency V that allows Stone to be mined spontaneously, like you can do with dirt and efficiency IV diamond shovels. I needed 4 more beacon pyramids, and wanted them to give you all powers just like the center one does.

Unfortunately, since the showmonsters mod hasn't been updated to 1.7 yet, and I really wanted to get this project on the road, I decided to run around a nether fortress and only acquire 12 wither skulls without creating a wither skeleton farm (yet) so I can have 4 beacons that covers the rest of the area with haste 2 so that we can mine with the benefits of that power in the entire area.

Thanks to some help from some guys here on the forum, I figured out something I should've known months ago, Anvil mechanics. I calculated how many more pickaxes with Unbreaking III it was going to take to get myself to bedrock, which was something around 320 diamond pickaxes that I would have to fully enchant. Fortunately, now that I know that the repair cost of a pickaxes freezes when you rename it, I found that you can repair Efficiency V Unbreaking III pickaxes while keeping the enchantment. So instead of making 320 individual enchanted pickaxes, I'll be restoring the same double chest of Efficiency V Unbreaking III diamond pickaxes you see here, around 6 times. Then I'll be at bedrock level, which is great. I restored the entire chest today, it only took 5 or 6 hours, and that's great.These next pictures depict my progress this week and last week of digging through the stone.

And for those of you who will say that you can see I'm cheating because you can see that I'm in creative mode for a lot of these screenshots, calm yourself, I don't. I'm a mod on the server I play on, I switch into creative mode when I want to fly up and get a good shot of what I'm building, and thats it. I'm going to cut that habit out and just pillar up from now on, though.This will be continually updated.

UPDATE

Its only subtly revealed, but I have been reaching many levels of the stronghold by now, and have eliminated the top of it. You can see by those moss stone bricks and random doors in the area. I added a massive item elevator nearly 100 blocks high that transports all my full loads into storage so that I'm not going up that ladder, across the bridge, and up the stairs every time. I'm at y:30 now, I had been hitting just iron and coal forever, I have just started to touch lapiz lazuli and gold ore, which is really exciting.

UPDATE

I'm at y:20 now. Just erased the last traces of the floors of the lowest levels of the stronghold. RIP

A picture of my pickaxes when they're spent, and require a trip to the exp farm to refresh. Costs me 162 diamonds every time to refresh, but I think this is the last tool restoring trip I need to take before I reach the bottom. I'm so close now! This is also the very first round where I didn't accidentally break any of them.

UPDATE

y:12. I've exposed the bottom overworld lava ponds, my outer-beacon pyramids, and the base of the core. There's a double slime chunk outlined, and dug to bedrock on the left, that I'm going to turn into a slime farm. Bedrock is just around the corner . . .

UPDATE

Bedrock looks interesting from this high up. Its like you were playing minesweeper and you just lost.

So yeah, I'm done. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some hardcore sorting to do.


UPDATE

So I finished sorting. There are 512 double chests here.

64x54 = 3456 cobblestone per double chest.

3456x512 = 1,769,472 cobblestone

After that, I got started working on the floor. I used a slime chunk locator, and marked out the chunks. I then cleared all the stone/dirt/sand/lava within the tangled bedrock, and replaced it with green glass, (to match slimes so that the floor is now spawnproof from slimes during the day. The double chunk on the left I will make into a slime farm.

Next will be the rest of the floor, the same process. Making it completely spawn proof, but with a different colored glass. I think I've decided on red glass. I'll get started on that tomorrow, going to sleep for now.

BIG UPDATE.

I know its been a while since I've updated this, but trust me, I haven't stopped on the project. A LOT has happened.

First, I began ripping the stone, sand, gravel, dirt, and occasional lava out of the pockets that they resided in until there was nothing but bedrock. Then, when an entire horizontal section was completed, I'd fill the top layer with glass to make a bedrock/glass spawnproof basement floor.

I hated this work the most because it was monotonous and much more difficult than the previous removal of stone I was experiencing. But after a few days of hard work, and a revamping of the external beacon pyramids, the finished product was finally here.

I took a break for a few days after that, and came back with a much bigger goal than my 1.7 million cobblestone. I plan on farming over 3 million obsidian. It started with this chunk loader, which I JUST finished now. My first attempt at this a month ago failed, but I just went into the end, the platform does indeed refresh, which means the redstone in this area is operating even with me being out of the dimension. Next is to get a lot of snowballs. I'm not sure how many snowballs I'm going to need, but I want to get the amount of obsidian in one fell swoop, so I'm going to need to figure that out . . .

Looking to do a walkthrough on these on my youtube channel at some point, but pictures will suffice for now.

My house

I'm surprised nobody here has mentioned half slabs. If you cover your floor in a layer of half slabs creeper explosions won't do anything to them. Not sure how well that works for walls but for floors and roofs it works great. As was said before water also all but nullifies a creeper explosion. Obsidian is immune to blast but ugly and hard to obtain. Any solid blocks are good such as stone, but snow, sand and dirt not so much. Another good method of prevention is lighting up the area around your base. Also creepers are terrified of cats so if you tame some cats you can breed them and set up a perimeter of cats around your base and/or have some follow you around.

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This is by far the most generic idea I've ever heard. So many people have already built Atlantis and even more have built underwater bases. It's completely not original and the idea has been around even before minecraft came out. No support

Just because it's "generic" doesn't mean it's something that sucks. If the person building it is having a good time and has something to do then it doesn't matter. Is it such a big deal what they are building?
I love the gate design you used