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Quote from Beccyboo101

Many people are having this issue,
It is because of the new entities causing more lag and the new launcher, which is not anywhere near finished.
As the game updates, the lag will fix itself, and I strongly suggest that when the Optifine mod (optifine.net) for 1.6 comes out, get that as it really reduces the lag. You can also try making your Minecraft window smaller instead of all the way fullscreen, which also really helps. Set all your Video Settings to quite low settings, (ex. Graphics should be Fast, not Fancy, Smooth Lighting: Off). This also reduces lag. But yes, most people, unless they have the most stellar computers out there are experiencing an increased lag spike due to all the new additions 1.6.1 brings us.

Hope I could help!
-Beccy

The lag won't solve itself.

The game's been horrendously laggy since before 1.5.1 and not a damn thing's been done about it so I highly doubt it's going to get any better any time in the near or distant futures.


And to make myself more useful: avoid large herds of horses and other new mobs as well as you can.

I was playing on some 1.6 world that came with the launcher (???) and I spawned right next to this MASSIVE herd of horses and proceeded to lag into eternity even with everything set to their lowest settings. (On a computer that can run the Arkham games, Half-Life, etc. flawlessly, no less.)

What this game REALLY needs is to be properly optimized.

I'm not usually big on PvP servers, but I might just have to check this one out. Sounds interesting.

Anti-aliasing and modern graphics.

Let's see...

1.5.2 (Before Standard OptiFine, Default Settings, Forge, and Rei's Minimap)

FPS: 5-14 standing still, 4-8 moving

1.5.2 (After Standard OptiFine, Default Settings, Forge, and Rei's Minimap)

FPS: 8-10 standing still, 8-17 moving.

Aw. :c
I was hoping I would do better than that.

Better than nothing, I suppose.

Quote from Berwout

"Improved performance"

Best joke I heard in months.

Indeed.

Especially since Jeb thought we were all complaining just to complain because HIS machine can run the latest update at 150 fps. :I

Yeugh.

I won't be updating until the servers I play on do, but if the Play In Browser version on the main site is 1.4.4, I do NOT look forward to having the Menu popping up randomly while I'm trying to mine. :I

Quote from bruno199

look I want to ask you something: if anyone knows how I shoot the mistake of drivers and directx.Antes I could format the pc to play games without error now ñ the more someone knows I do oq?

How you.... what? If none of us can understand what you want, none of us are going to be able to help you. And unless it's related to 1.4.4, you would probably get a better answer from someone in one of the forums/subforums.

Quote from GoodPotato

Sorry for no pics right now I'm having computer issues will post pics as soon as possible.

So, uh, why didn't you just wait to make the thread then? Serious question.

Hello, people of the Minecraft Creative Board. After originally just being a thread to show off my first work of pixel art in Minecraft, this is now officially my pixel art thread. Feel free to check 'em all out. I'll be adding pictures to the OP as I work on projects so be sure to check back every once in awhile to see if I've added something new.

Newly-completed projects will not be in spoiler tags and will be moved to a spoiler tag for completed work when I finish a new project. There will also be a spoiler for WIPs so if you want to see how I'm progressing on a new project, be sure to check there.

Newest Project: Sollux Captor (Homestuck, official sprite, WIP)

Newest Completed Project:
GLaDOS:




I was working off of the original file for my icon, which was made by GasMaskMonster on deviantArt (you can find it here).

Estimated Time For Build: ~2+ hours, maybe less. Probably not, though.

WIPs


Edited for typo in the credits and an additional picture for the lower details that got distorted in the first one.

Quote from lego123

In-game Name:legrosboy
Who were you banned by? Not sure i think taken
When were you banned? (Date and Approx time, use -5GMT)Saturday 3/3/12
What was the ban reason? Xraying.
Do you admit fault? Yes i did xray.
What was your current rank (Block)?: I was b block.
Why should you be unbanned? I should be unbanned because i regret what i did, I am a terrible person for xraying.
I've meet a lot of cool people on this server an i would like to get back to playing with them i promise i will not
cheat any more.I just hope i get unbanned i really like this server and it is the best Prison server around.
Any other information: There should be more guards at b-block there is always 5 people in full diamond camping.

Didn't you just post this a few pages back?

Quote from nether-dude

you obviously have no life, so you go around trying to talk down to people.......
if it was to a person in real you would get smashed up!
do not comment if its not nice..................................................

I'm not trying to talk you down. I'm honestly not sure how a pre-generated village getting blown up is a 'creation'.

You would beat me up. Because I wasn't being nice. How very mature of you.

Not everyone is peaches and rainbow, kid. Throughout your life, you're going to get nice comments and not-so-nice comments. I'm one of the not-so-nice comments. You, my friend, need to grow up a little if you can't take a little honest criticism.



To whoever was wondering if I was a troll, I'm not, actually, though I'm flattered that you would even consider that.

Welcome to Jefferson County.You have no memory of how the world ended. No one does. You don't know when it happened or why. Sometimes it feels like everything fell apart centuries ago. Sometimes it feels like it was only yesterday. Only the ruins know for certain.Hidden among the detritus of a fallen civilization, scraps of paper detail the days preceding the fall and the hell that followed after. Gathered together, they tell the story of what went wrong, and perhaps elude to a deeper mystery that only the keenest of mind might gather from the whispers, the voices of the ghosts of this dead earth.

This map is a free-roam survival map with quests and a ton of secrets. There are no rules! If you can break it, it's yours! Place blocks, mine, farm, break things, grief-- this map is designed so you can do whatever you want in it. Feel free to run it with mods or snapshots too!


Letters From A Dead Earth brings over 100 "book" notes to bear, all scattered throughout a massive (almost 4,000 x 4,000) map featuring 8 cities, 10 towns, five "large vehicle crash sites" and more secrets than you can shake a Mayan calendar at. What happened to the Dead Earth? Find out by collecting numbered books (1 - 100,) piece together the story and decide for yourself. Lots of other (non-numbered) books exist to give the map more character. Can you find them all?

Generated with Minecraft version 1.3.2, the world upon which everything is built still retains most of its ores, dungeons, strongholds and other secrets. Play is open-ended and non-linear. Mine, explore, build, conquer, mod or grief by yourself or with friends in this huge post-apocalyptic map. Whatever your playing style is, there's something in Letters From A Dead Earth for everyone.

BOUNDARIES:This map is open but limited. There is no stockade, no guard towers, no electronic frontier, no bedrock walls or sudden dropoffs into endless void to keep you inside the "dead earth" area. If you walk far enough in a given direction, the map will start generating brand new terrain for you to explore (useful if you're playing on a later version than 1.3.2 or running a mod that generates structures (like Ruins,) ores (like IndustrialCraft) or plant life (like LCTrees.) How will you know when you've crossed into new terrain? The main area of the map is bordered by a lopsided ring of cratered wasteland (no grass, no leaves on trees) that serves as a sort of boundary for "Jefferson County." Go beyond it, and new terrain will start generating. That being said, there are a few secrets in the wasteland, so don't be afraid to venture into the unknown, if you feel so inclined!

BUY THE BOOK TODAY FROM THUNDERUNE PUBLISHING!
Official site: http://www.thunderun...dead-earth.html

Find out more about the author of the book here: http://www.eswynn.com/



Originally designed to look best with Santiago3's texture pack "The End Is Extremely Nigh" Get it here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/resource-packs/wip-resource-pack/1259199-32x32-1-6-x-the-end-is-extremely-nigh-revolution

Letters From A Dead Earth V.1: (121MB zipped) [mediafire link]

So, we can make complicated redstone contraptions, craft armor made entirely out of diamonds, enchant them by reading spells off a book, build portals to travel to the Nether, and defeat a freaking dragon, but we don't know how to make a saddle?

Hello! It would be useful to add a function for many reasons.
Here are just a few:

1) hardcore. For example, to extract the seeds of watermelon and pumpkins will be possible only through trade with the residents, if you disable the abandoned mine shafts.To do so will find the village, to develop it and to defend the first time from the zombies.What will make getting some potions somewhat more complicated than a simple jog on the abandoned mine shafts.

2) Comfortable Mining. Canyons and abandoned mine shafts serious barriers to obtain resources, let the study of caves and is a more simple method of extraction of ores, but is not for everyone.

3) Maybe it's just my problem, but ... abandoned mine shafts are so common that go down into the ground and did not find them simply unrealistic. This is a very spoiled gameplay component. It's like when you go to an electronics store, and to you for the thousandth time flies shop assistant with his useless advice. That is, I mean the fact that some of the specific structure of an eyesore and too common.

In the end I want to add, you can do either an optional trip as I suggested at the beginning, or to make the structure much more rare.

Thank you for your attention. Sorry for my English, Google translator helps me

It all sorta makes sense, considering Mojang's development philosophy.

Well, ok guys, we decided to finally improve the outdated core systems, the
ugly graphics, and add some of the stuff that everyone has wanted in the game
for years!...APRIL FOOLS!! We'd develop some of that stuff, but we're too bussy
with experimental April Fools Day joke overextension rendering.

One time, I convinced someone, via chat, that my account had been "hacked by herobrine" and that herobrine would hack random peoples' Minecraft accounts who were on that server. And better yet, read what I said to them:

Me: gha;lhgsa;lalh;agahh;hwag;ohirin
Dumb Person: wut r u smamming 4? lol
Me: What the... I just saw Herobrine! He told me that he was hacking my Minecraft account!
Dumb Person: w8 u RILLLY saw herobrin!!!!!!!!!?????
Me: He's taking over my Minecraft! It's glitching so much!
Dumb Person: dude f*** i leavng!!!! i not gtng hkd hrobrin wil pwn ur computr lol!!!!!!!!!!!

Or at least something along those lines. (Honestly, it's not much of an exageration.) I never saw him on that server again.

There's one server that I'm Admin on, along with 2 of my friends. Most of the kids on it are between 9 and 12 years old. One of the other ops decided to pull a prank on the children.

He used the Disguise Plugin, alongside the Nickname Plugin, to become Herobrine. He then started terrifying a group of players, and they genuinely thought they summoned Herobrine. Then I joined in, pretending that Herobrine had corrupted my account, and joined in the other op with destroying their house and killing them all while speaking in broken English.

The prank went on for 3 Hours. Never saw those players again.

Did it cause massive destruction? Yes. Did I irritate the owner? Yes. Was it worth it? F**k yes it was!

If you were to catch a glimpse of this world you would figure that someone got out of control with TNT and made a giant scar of the whole world. The results look very similar. It’s something even scarier though. Something worse. What you’re looking at is the result of human interaction with limited resources. In a very coordinated experiment 30 players spent 2-5 hours playing in a 350x350 world trapped in bedrock. To keep everything fair the server was only running when everyone was available to play. These screenshots come from 2 months after the experiment started. I would personally like to thank everyone that participated (who wished to stay anonymous). To make things more organized world chat use was discouraged unless you had a global message. Communication was to be minimal and done through third party programs. The limited/restricted communication made groups/clans/guilds possible.


The players were unaware of what I was testing; they went into the server with the following rule: “Never leave the bedrock walls”. Some players realized the challenge at hand immediately, but most were unaware of how devastating the consequences of their actions would be. First resource to go was clay, clay became completely depleted in three days. Brick houses did not last long and in most cases were impossible to complete. The loss of a resource such as clay was a small warning most players missed. In the first week trees became rare. Trees never left the map completely but wood being an essential part of game progression in Minecraft made saplings worth more. This is the point in the game where players banded together into smaller groups with the goal of working together to build stuff. Four large clans emerged. “The Brotherhood”, “The Axe”, “The Dwarves” and the most successful “Merchant’s Guild”. During this time they co-existed peacefully with minor fights over trees and saplings, most did well with their own tree farms. Strip mining began. Resources like iron were abundant and most got wasted into weapons and armor. During this time iron was running out and the only practical use of it was buckets/pickaxes for diamond and doors were plausible due to the need for protection. It should be obvious that Diamonds only use was obsidian which would be a great for protection. Diamonds being extremely rare made them already valuable, but the players being aware that the supply was limited made it a rush to find them as fast as possible. Within 2 weeks production was flying. There was a local Nether Portal which was useful because it supplied an endless resource to build with that had no repercussions upon the map. The portal didn’t make it a week, soon the obsidian was stolen by The Brotherhood and used in there castle. The Merchant’s Guild made a quick profit off of this by having the only optional Nether Portal while resources like diamonds became rarer. The Merchants Guild was efficient and used trade to strive in this harsh world. They would trade netherack/cobblestone/rare ores for usable materials such as saplings/wood/dirt/string/wool/sand/etc.


3 weeks into the expirment flowers were gone forever, sand was deplete making glass rare and hard to replace, and obsidian was un-minable for most players due to a lack of diamond. The players resorted to war to find diamonds. The four clans raided each other bases and griefed each other. This war went on for a few days and The Axe had lost their castle completely. The Brotherhood had to rebuild a very broken town. The Dwarves took minimal damage due to their underground sub-systems and the difficult nature to destroy caves. The Merchant’s Guild took no damage because they won over their fights with complex trade agreements and treaties. At this point The Axe had disbanded. Their members took to their own trying to make it on their own. This left a lot of griefing for trees and trade with the Merchant’s Guild abundant. Only two people were clearly ahead at this point, (aside from the merchant’s guild doing well too). They earned the name (pardon the language), the ****-ass griefers. These two players had immediately realized what would happen to the map on day one and began to construct an easily defendable a base that was self-sufficient and renewable. They built there base on a giant dirt platform in the sky. They made it come off of a mountain so the grass would grow onto it. When the grass had grown onto their base (A few days in), they had already acquired the needed materials for sticky pistons and buckets. They created a water elevator that could be toggled with the pistons and began destroying the mountain. They dug all the earth out from around them and made their base impossible to reach without the use of the water elevator or towering up. From the first week in they began systematically depleting resources in a way that would set the other players behind. Glass windows were broken, trees and saplings were stolen, massive amounts of dirt were farmed (the importance of this will be revealed later) and they used their power to persuade the other players. The Merchant’s Guild paid an anti-griefing tax by supplying the ****-ass griefers with materials that were rare or hard to find. It started with trees/iron/diamond and by the end of the experiment it was things like arrows/flint/string. Four weeks in strip mines had torn open a lot of the land, water was running all over the place (most people lacked buckets) and the most game-breaking element occurred; dirt was being lost. Well not dirt itself in entirety, but the good surface dirt. The dirt with GRASS on it. At this point players forgot about trees and mining but wars over surfaces with grass broke out. The Dwarves even showed interest and tried to create establishments on the surface but had trouble handling holding ground. The Merchant’s Guild had not thought ahead but began gathering as many drops from animals spawned on grass to be traded as rarities in the future. The brotherhood held a small section of grass off from griefers the most successfully. The ****-ass griefers had no trouble with this because there base was situated upon a giant floating chuck of grass, so they made it their mission to destroy all grass on the map and reserve the power of food to themselves only. The Brotherhood held their small piece of grass but were defending constantly and as a result their base became very broken and they rebuilt in a way to defend the dirt only.


Five weeks into the experiment a lot of players had lost the will to play. Most players resorted to staying underground and endless 2x1 tunnels were formed, giant chasms were found by players overmining and ultimately a large majority of cobblestone was lost through lava and the players fighting each other. Due to massive mining to and strip mines the corner of the map supporting the ****-ass griefers base sunk farther and farther down to the bedrock, leaving a noticeable drop in elevation between the two corners of the map. Buildings made out of dirt started showing up on the torn earth because most players lacked the resources to make pickaxes and couldn’t meet the prices of the Merchant’s Guild. These buildings were built with the only purpose of protection from monsters at night since the map became un-survivable during the night. At this point the large loss of land in the bottom half the map did one purpose. Eliminate the dwarves who were housed there. (I still can’t believe the amount of stone removed and lost in that area, It’s a devastating amount and continued until the 2 months were up). At this point a cycle was emerged, the players were fighting for the last bit of grass on the map (disregarding the griefers base that was inaccessible). But most of them were either trying to mine cobblestone for more trade with the Merchant’s Guild for sticks for more pickaxes or trying to survive the night in dirt houses. It was a vicious cycle that was barely profitable. But a pattern did emerge. The players were effectively working together to survive the night. While there was still rampant war and grief the players that had little had banded together to try to survive the harsh environment.


The experiment was up before more testing could be done, but I ask you. If the walls were torn down one day and the players were free to the unlimited resources of Minecraft how would they react? Do you think they would work together and try to keep all the resources balanced or would they play the same way without regard for their environment or each other? Though in Minecrafts infinite world it would be impossible to destroy everything, do you think the disaster would slowly re-occur? I think this experiment has been a successful statement on the human condition and human interaction with the environment.

The picture above is the Merchant's Guild with it's iron doors open.

The above view with the only glass on the map.

The only bit of grass open to the whole map at the remains of The Brotherhood

The remains of "The Axe"

****-ass Griefers base

The broken nether portal

One of the few strip mines that didn't disappear in the loss of the world.

A picture depicting the large scale of difference in elevation.

This experiment had unbelievable results.

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It would be preferable to have as a modification, rather than default game material.

It also sounds highly overcomplicated, and new weapons, as always, would be underpowered, overpowered, or redundant. Additionally, what sort of "modern materials" do you refer to? It would be nice to have details, here. When suggesting a new dimension, it is advisable to specify at least vague details about what you want IN THE DIMENSION.

tl;dr: New weapons are useless, this would be better as a mod, needs more detail.