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Quote from Tainted Kril

I used to not have a problem with minecraft. I used to play in Far distance but now i cant it gets to laggy. Now i have to toggle fog every 5 seconds. Help?

On October 18th Notch is going to put a halt on adding anything to the game and do an entire month of nothing but performance boosting and bug fixes. Just wait for that.

Quote from tlishman

I was honestly only coming to this thread to mock you for using an unoriginal joke... Now I'm here to say +1 for you. If Minecraft left block land and creepers ended up like this, I would NEVER play again. Scary scary isht bro. Good F'ing Work.

Quote from callmejeed

I'm admittedly still pretty new to MC, but I don't know why so many people have thee elaborate systems to automatically harvesting one thing or another. I mean, props to whoever develops one of these systems (not so props if you just looked it up on the wiki), but I'm lost as to why. I play on a server that is only three people so far, and we have a small village (I run the tavern, Endermans' Drinkery and Eats) and handle the farming there and at our mansion further away. I have two wheat fields with a yield of one stack per harvest, and sugarcane fields at both locations, as well as two cows at the mansion, and I just planted melons in the village. I don't even harvest as soon as the wheat is ready half of the time, and yet we have no shortage of food.

Is it simply a scale thing? Are people feeding whole cities here? Or is it simply to say "I made a wacky device that automatically harvests cacti?" Inquiring minds want to know.

It's the last one. People do it just for the hell of it. Some people like to build huge citites and castles while others just like to build redstone devices.

Quote from Saxguy101

CPU around 54% and memory 2.32gb.

Sorry dude. Sounds like your in the same boat as me. If I find a solution I'll let you know. And I hope you'll do the same :smile.gif:

Quote from Saxguy101

15-20 FPS.

Okay. And out of the game, press ctrl+shift+escape. Go to performance and tell me what your memory usage and cpu usage is at.

Quote from Saxguy101

Kinda hard to tell. It seems somewhat better, though not near as smoothly as my old computer rendered it.

Edit: I'm really not noticing a difference at all.

Hmm... while your playing press F3 and tell me what your fps is.

Quote from atomicpiegamingmc

I go exploring every day. D:

You might have to go far. It took me 3 [minecraft] days to find a chicken, but when I did holy isht... There was like 30.

Quote from atomicpiegamingmc

Okay, so when I was playing in 1.7.3 I didn't have any sheers, and was too lazy to make any. There was ALOT of sheep. I mean A LOT. So I killed sheep to get wool which only gave me 1. Which was really dumb because sheering gives 2-4. I updated to 1.8 and started playing. There has been one sheep that spawned. One. I read in the minecraft wiki that they show up in larger groups, and only one has spawned. Is there something wrong with my game? I'm near dirt, water, sand & trees. I'm also on peaceful because i'm more interested in building than killing. I'm so confused, because I only have 1 white wool left and i'm making a carnival. So if anyone can, help! D:

Just go exploring. You will find a flock.

Quote from Saxguy101

I had tried that also, but still the same results.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-jre-7-download-432155.html

Download the x64 version and install it. That should help a bunch! If not write me back :smile.gif:

Quote from my nose

way is the rain purple

Because rain is evaporated water. And the lake outside his window is clearly purple. So, purple lake evaporates, purple rain falls.

Hello everybody,

This mod adds support for HD textures and a lot of options for better looks and performance.

Doubling the FPS is common.

You can follow the OptiFine development here: reddit.com/r/OptiFine, sp614x@twitter or http://optifog.blogspot.com.

Resources: translations, documentation, issue tracker.

Get the Magic Launcher for easy mod installation, compatibility checking and more.

Donate to OptiFine and receive the OptiFine cape as a sign of your awesomeness.

The cape is visible to everyone using OptiFine. Thank you for being awsome.

Download OptiFine

Get all OptiFine versions here: optifine.net

Features

Editions

Even Older Versions

If you have previously used MCPatcher for HD Textures, HD Fonts or Better Grass (important)

Compatibility with other mods

Installation

For Minecraft 1.6.2 and newer

For Minecraft up to 1.5.2

Please test and report back, include CPU, GPU and FPS before/after. Feedback is always welcome.

Copyright

As of the 12w39a snapshot, the 7x/12x/14x models are broken. However, I've got them working again with a few modifications. I'm going to hold off on a tutorial for now, in case Mojang makes more changes to the lighting engine.

These are day/night sensors. They switch a redstone signal on and off at dawn and sunset. There are currently five models: Pico (1x), Nano (1x), 7x, 12x, and 14x. The 12x is the newest model and the one I recommend for compact and reliable day/night detection.

The Pico and Nano use a single grass block to detect the outdoor light level. They have 23 grass source blocks, just under the maximum possible of 25.The Pico is a bit smaller than the Nano, but requires an ice block. They use the same basic mechanism as but they are considerably more compact. They are very easy to build, but slow to react. They can easily take a couple of minutes to detect daybreak. The Pico is, IMHO, the smallest practical light sensor in existence right now. You can't get any smaller without sacrificing source blocks, which will slow the machine down a lot.

The larger models use 7, 12, and 14 grass blocks respectively to detect light and they will react roughly that many times faster than the small machines. At the same time, they are much more compact than simply chaining 1x sensors together. The 12x and 14x models typically react within seconds. They usually notice the sun rising before I do.

These machines can be tricky to build, even from instructions. Getting the smallest detail wrong can make them not work. If you're having trouble, describe the problem here, prefereably with some screenshots, and I'll help you figure out what's wrong.

Light Sensor Pico (3x5x3)




Light Sensor Nano (3x6x4)





Light Sensor 12x (18x6x8)



Video Tutorial


Light Sensor 7x (12x5x11)



Video Tutorial

Build Instructions (revision 2, for all versions of Minecraft)



Light Sensor 14x (12x5x20)



Build Instructions (revision 2, for all versions of Minecraft)



Troubleshooting

If your machine doesn't work, look for the following:

• Repeaters set to the wrong delay
• Missing/misplaced redstone dust or torches
• Missing blocks that could allow light to leak into the machine
• External light sources reaching the window
• Obstructions between the window and sky
• Grass where there shouldn't be
• No grass where there should be
• Chupacabras

If you can't fix it, post the symptoms and some screenshots in this thread and I'll help you out.

Note: up to Beta 1.8, Minecraft had a "sticky light" bug that affected this machine, but the bug is fixed in Minecraft 1.0



Schematics

Light Sensor Nano
Light Sensor Nano (underground)
Light Sensor 7x
Light Sensor 14x

(schematics for the newer models coming.. uh.. soon)

So, how does it work?

The nano/pico models use a single block of grass/dirt to detect light. During the day, the grass block is under water/ice, causing it to die as soon as it gets dark. This is detected by a T-BUD switch and the sensor block, which is now dirt, is moved out of the water/ice. It will stay dirt until morning when there is enough light for grass to grow on it. This is again detected by the T-BUD and the grass block is moved back under the water/ice.

The 7x, 12x, and 14x models actually contain two rows of sensor blocks: the one directly under the window detects nightfall, and the one on the other side detects daybreak. The night sensor has 7/12/14 grass blocks. When one of them dies, it switches the machine to night mode. It then spends the night regrowing grass on the block that died, and any others that might have died somehow. Meanwhile, the day sensor waits for one of its 7/12/14 dirt blocks to grow grass. When that happens, it switches the machine to day mode and spends the day killing off any grass that grew.

Each sensor spends half the day waiting and the other half resetting itself. If one of them doesn't fully reset, for whatever reason, the machine is just less sensitive for that cycle, and it will fix itself for the next cycle. For the machine to break, all blocks on one side would have to grow/die before any of them could be killed off/regrow.

But how exactly do the 7x/12x/14x sensors work???

Ok, but first a quick review of the light/grass rules:

• Sunlight is level 15 (or 10 during a storm), moonlight is level 4, torches are level 14
• Light decays by one level for every step up, down, or sideways.
• Light decays by an additional two levels for every water or ice block it passes through. The height of the water doesn't matter.
• Light from the sky doesn't start to decay until it hits the first block that isn't fully transparent.
• Grass can spread one block up, one block sideways, and three blocks down.
• Grass can spread to a dirt block only if there is light 9+ above the grass block, light 4+ above the dirt block, and the block above the dirt does not decay light by more than 1.
• Grass can die if there is light 3 or less above it and the block above it decays light by more than one.

Got it? Good.

So, the inside of the machine is light-proof, except for the window on top. During the day, both sensors are covered by a layer of water. The night sensor is directly under the window, so there is only one water block between the sensor and the sky. That means it gets light level 15-3=12 during the day (or 7 during a storm), which is not dark enough to kill it. At night, it only gets light level 4-3=1 and one of the blocks soon dies, triggering the switch to night mode. The day sensor is shifted 3 blocks away from the window, so skylight has to go through 4 water blocks to get to it. Even in daylight, it only gets light level 15-3-3-3-3=3 and so all the blocks die.

At night, the water shuts off. Now the night sensor is getting light 4 from the moon, which is just enough for it to regrow. The grass is spreading from the surrounding grass blocks, which are getting at least light 9 from the torches. The day sensor is still 3 blocks away from skylight, so it only gets light level 1 during the night, but when day comes it goes up to 12 and one of the dirt blocks quickly grows grass and switches the machine to day mode.

Infographic

This is a cross-section of the 7x and 14x models, looking down the length of the machine. The night detector block is on the left and the day detector is on the right. The numbers represent the light level at that block.



XBox360 Version

DewRadley explains how to make the 12x work on the XBox version of Minecraft, with a few small modifications:

http://www.minecraft...aynight-sensor/

In the Year 2009 Minecraft Was Created
In 2010 Minecraft Went Into Beta
In 2011 Minecraft Continued to Be a Sucsess

While I Make this Map I will Also Be Working On another Map Called Pokemon Unova Minecraft Version So Please Forgive me If it takes A Long time for this Map to be released

However In the Year 90 Billion X5 The Minecraft Universe Is Ending

This Adventure Map will Have You Exploring Caves and Dangerous Rifts Across the Void In a Race to Find the Levers To Open the Door Outside Of The Universe
MINECRAFT: END OF TIME

Message From Professor Sky
(This Storyline Has Nothing to do with actual Minecraft)
Prologue: The Minecraft World Has Finally started To Collapse In On its Self World Generators Slowly Generating Less and Less Each Time All But 1 Player Has Left the Universe In Search of a New home where They can Build and Have fun However this 1 Person Happens to be you. The Door To Leave the Universe Has Closed Before you were able to Escape and Now you Must find all The Levers Scattered About the Remains Of this Collapsing world To Escape In search Of a New Home

Plot: There are Many Levers Scattered About the Remains of this Corrupt and Collapsing Universe and You Must find all of them To Open the Door to the Other Side To do this you will Need to Explore Dangerous Caves Jump Across Death-Defying Rifts and Most Imporant Of all To Survive
The World Does Not Have Much Left In It However The More You Explore the More Chance you have Of Getting Erased From Existance along with the Rest Of the Universe


This Is the Final Message we Could find From Professor Sky It was Hard Enough to Find And we Finally Managed to Decode It Here it is

My Last Words My Freind: You are Bound to get Lost In the Slowly Collapsing world So I Built this Invention For you
It will allow you to Get back To The Main Island Easily I Call It the Tesla-Transport 3000 It Is Very Well Made Invention But It Requires Power For It to work Hopefully If there is any left you May Find some redstone In the World which will Allow you to Activate The Power Source to Open the Tesla-Transport Once Inside It You Can Then Use it to Walk Back to the Main Island without Getting Attacked By Those Corrupt Enemies

A Final Message That Was Written By an Unknown Person we Found it Deep Underground
Near a Cave Of Lava

Anonymous Person: By The time You read this I will have Either Died Or Left the Universe By Now However I found A Lever That may Be Connected to Escaping the Universe It Is Inside a Cave called The Cave Of Misfortune. Be Warned there Are Many Traps In this Cave One Wrong step and You will End Up Trapped Forever Never to Be Heard From Again Be Careful. AAAGH Im Trapped Noooo Come Save Me If you Dare Im At The Lever at the Deepest Part Of the cave

Rules Of The Map
No Breaking Blocks Unless You Have The Permission to Do So
No Jumping Across Rifts Until You Have The Abillity To Do So
No Hacking
No Mods
No Flying
Do Everything your Told to do (Unless It says Permission Required)
You Can Place Redstone Wires In Front Of another Piece Of Redstone Wire to Power The Tesla-Transport But No Where Else
(You May Not Use It to Make Obsidian Using The Lava and Water Glitch as It May Ruin The Map)

This Map Is A WIP and Is Not Yet Released


This Map will Feature Many Things that I May Find Impossibly Hard to achieve but I will
Complete this Map

Also Feel Free to Send Me Ideas By Private Messaging Them To Me



Areas In End Of Time
There will Be 6 Areas In Total 5 Of Which will Contain Levers They will Be Very Large When all 5 Levers Have Been Pulled You Shall Escape This Universe Forever (There Will Be An Epic Ending)
These Areas Are Listed In The Order I Thought Them Up and Can be Played In Any Order to Some Extent

Area 1: Cave Of Misfortune
Description: A Dark and Dangerous Cave Full of Traps That could Keep you there For all Eternity
Permissions Required: None (This Can be Done From the Start)

Area 2: Rifts Of Chaos
Description: A Large Island with Chaotic Rifts Inside It A Very Dangerous Mystery Lurks Within The Chasms
Permissions Required: Rift Jump (Required To Jump Across Rifts)
Sub-Area: Chaotic Chasms (Deepest Area of The Rifts Of Chaos)

Area 3: Infected Forest
Description: A Forest Infected By Many Things Alot Of Zombies Live Here And Will Attempt To Kill You they are Said to Be The Reamins Of The Town Of NatureLife
Sub-Area: NatureLife Town (Deepest Section Of The Infected Forest)
Permissions Required: Soft Smash (Abillity To Break Wool Blocks)

Area 4: Chaotic Ruins
Description: The Ruined Remains Of a Secret Cavern Very Well Built and Very Dangerous Without A Light Source To Guide You. Many People Use to Believe That In the Deepest Part Of The Ruins Was a Portal To Another Dimension With a Dangerous Enemy Lurking Inside
Sub-Area: Chaotic Corruption
Permissions Required: Bright Eyes (Permission To Place Torches (YOU ONLY GET 1 TORCH))


Area 5: Corrupted Islands
Description: A Large Group Of Islands Near The End Of the Universe Or Where the Universe Has Collapsed To So Far Anyway Not Many People Lived In these Islands As They Believed a Deadly Enemy Was Watching From Below Ready To Kill Them At Any Moment (However This Is Not True But Something Does wait Below the Islands Ready to test anyone to The Most Impossible Tasks)
Permissions Required: Rift Jump, Falcon Punch (Abillity To Break Golden Blocks with Your Fist)
Sub-Area: Spiraling StairCase Of Doom


Area 6: Universal Rift
Description: Believe It Or Not When the People Of the Minecraft Universe Escaped The Universe as It was Collapsing The Universal Rift Was Created and Nobody Lived to Tell The Tale However There are Stories Of The Universal Rift that It is the Most Dangerous and Most Deadly Place of all and will Kill You Very Quickly Unless you have the Ultimate Skills

Sub-Area: None (However The Universal Rift Goes Into the Final Section)
Permissions Required: Rift Jump, Soft Smash, Falcon Punch, Bright Eyes


Final Area: Vortex Of Fate
Description: Anyone Who Entered The Vortex Of Fate Was Killed Instantly By The Deadly Virus That Lurks About this Vortex Killing Wanderers If you want To Escape the Universe Then you will need to Show The Ultimate Skills Of Minecraft This Vortex will Change Your Abillities Alot and You may Not Be able to Do things You could do Before Likewise You May Be able to do new Things

Sub-Area: Dimensional Rift (GRAND FINAL AREA)

Permissions OverRide: In the Vortex Of Fate You will Be able to and Not BE able to

You May Break Cobblestone with a Pickaxe
You May Craft Items
YOU MAY NOT LEAVE THE VORTEX OF FATE
You May Not Cheat
You Can Not Place Blocks Unless It says You Can
You Can Place Water From A Bucket (ONLY 1 BUCKET ALLOWED)
No Bucketing Up Lava
No Using Your Old Permissions Unless Stated In the Area
You Can Only Place A Torch In an Area with Glass Around It
MORE COMING WHEN I MAKE THE VORTEX OF FATE

try F3+S

(it reloads sounds)

According to you pretty much every game dev is the "anti-Christ"

That was incredible. I salute you !

Hi Bethesda,

I grew up in the 90s, just inside the border of DC. I had a friend whose older brother worked at Bethesda, and I became a fan early, around the release of Daggerfall. This is long before all the glitz and glamor and money that now surround the gaming industry, just after a CD-ROM drive was impressive, and when a modem was still a luxury. Every summer, I went to TIC camp (on the Georgetown Visitation campus in those days) to take classes in computer programming and animation, and it was the most inspiring thing to me that just across the Maryland border, the team at Bethesda Softworks was doing the same thing, but with such skill and innovation. I had taught myself to program in BASIC on an Apple II clone when I was 5 or 6, and I remembered the frustration of finding the right words to speak with a computer, and to ask it to do what you wanted. Knowing they were just miles away, I grew up in awe of the software engineers at Bethesda.

Over the years, I've been glad for your company's success. I myself left my childhood behind, got my degrees, started a life in a new city, and very much in the same way, Bethesda has matured, made a respectable name for itself with a long string of excellent games, and grown into a powerhouse of the industry. I am impressed, so congratulations.

However, when I heard you were suing Notch for using the name "Scrolls," I had a physically sickening reaction to the news. I idolized your company when you were small and just starting out, when the quality of your products and the originality of your vision distinguished you from the rest, much as Notch has done with his own work. Will you really, Bethesda Softworks, publisher of the "game of the year" Fallout 3, take an indie developer to court? Have you really forgotten where you yourselves started as a company? And, from a legal perspective, do you really believe that a single strategy game from an emerging publisher poses ANY threat whatsoever to Skyrim?

I can't tell you how disappointed I am, in all of you. I really mean it that your company, along with Cyan and LucasArts, were idols to me when I was young. And why "Scrolls"? Was that a lawyer's suggestion, so you could make a few bucks? Why not sue J.K. Rowling, for including "The Elder Wand" in her stories? Surely that's even closer.

Beyond your treatment of Notch and implied contempt for those who are only now entering the business, there is a close second thing that upsets me. I'm sure that, at this point, you have a team of robots scanning the emails mindlessly, deleting this and that, and I know that I'll never get a response. In the old days, I would have just asked my friend Lucas to ask his older brother, and I would have had almost direct interaction with the company I respected so much. But now it doesn't matter. It's not about the fans anymore. And so even if I refuse to buy a copy of Skyrim, it will sell millions of units, and someone will make a lot of money, and no one will really care one way or another what I think.

I hadn't realized until now that this is what success has done to your company, and now that I know, I resent it. But to everyone who founded Bethesda Softworks, and to everyone who trudged through the early years, who earned the studio's deserved success, I salute you, as I have always saluted you, since hardly anyone knew who you were. I promise to keep those memories, long after you have forgotten.

Eliot.

With the addition of the mountain biome I went on a voyage in search of food scaling the mountains when I stumbled upon a sort of cave, that actually had a lighting bug that made it very dark even though it was shallow. That is when it hit me!

The mountain Biome should have mountain lions, a day mob that is semi nutral. Meaning they either attack or they might not unprovoked (depends if they are hungry :wink.gif:) And at night you can sneak into their den and slay them for food.

Are they attacking you? Hurry! drop a piece of meat to distract it and run away!

Support the mountain lion!

minecraft

On a server I use to play on, I started making a Colloseum with bangaa3, he left, I spent the entire night making the Colloseum. I had some fun building experiences. Texture Pack is Scuttle's LB Photo Realism.