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News, Announcements & Updates => Server Announcements => Topic started by: Foob on 1 Oct 2013, 13:39:36
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Hey all,
Sorry for lack of updates lately! The machine was finally handed over to us this past weekend and we were able to move all the important data from the old machine. We are now setting up everything, testing and finishing off some development. Our time has been very limited lately due to re-starting studies at University, but alas, we are getting closer now. Can almost taste it!
Just a quick note: We will only release on weekends (Friday-Sunday), so those who are worried about a week release, don't be!
We'll also update you all plenty of time ahead of the release, so you can all prepare and re-schedule some of your time :)
That's all for now, hope you are all doing well and keeping close! We'll see you all again soon.
- Noobscraft Team
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Sounds great! :) How much of a notice will you give us?
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Thanks for the update, great to see that everything's moving along well currently. It's also good that you're not forgetting your studies, it's not so important you need to start failing a class immediately just for this. :L
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Thank you Foob, for keeping us updated, i am looking forward to the challenge of starting over , can't wait to msg my NC friends, Hoppy the ancient miner.
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I assume this weekend, Oct 4-6, is out of the picture?
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So I have time to finish Persona 4, good to know.
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Thanks for the update! Excited! :)
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We'll also update you all plenty of time ahead of the release, so you can all prepare and re-schedule some of your time :)
So I guess it won't be released this week then?... :'(
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I can't wait!
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TY for keeping us in the loop Mr. Foob.
:3
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If it doesn't come out this weekend and is the next we will have been waiting almost a month...and yes ik there's a lot they have had to do. This is depressing each weekend u find out u gotta wait another week...then another..then another.
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When I was in college, I had absolutely no time during the week outside my studies. Running a server would have been out of the question. Summers and breaks i spent working full time. Tip of the hat if you are able to do both. And no, I don't miss it one bit (college that is :P).
Max
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Please release on a sunday so i can join in as i am at college friday day time and at work friday night and saturday so i always miss the events and everything and i dont want to miss the launch
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Friday at midnight BST would be nice for releasing the veterans early access just not on the weekdays I can't play a lot then
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if they release on a friday or a saturday my veteran headstart will be pointless because by time i can get online v6 will be nearly 48 hours old
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Unfortunately they won't be able to cater to every individual person. There's going to be at least one person, no doubt more, that are going to end up not being there for the release. It's just physically impossible to make sure that everyone is able to be there, unless we want to wait weeks and maybe even months for every person's time schedule to open up.
I'm sure they'll take into account when the biggest amount of people will be able to get online and open on that day however.
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i hope v6 will be ready soon. hopefully before october 12. then for me it'll be pokemon X version for the entire weekend...possibly. but i cant wait seriously i can't wait...
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Can wait to restart the fun :) Thanks to all the Admins for all the hard work they have put into updating the server!
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As long as it is released on the weekend, I don't have to work. So yippy!
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As Kaolai once said, "Good things come to those who wait!"
and I am sure that this is the case. Thanks for the update Joe, can't wait to just jump right into V6!
DjDazzy2011,
Daniel,
www.youtube.com/istheedaniel (http://www.youtube.com/istheedaniel)
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Yer its true the cant sort it so nobody misses the start but it always seems to be me who misses everything which is just annoying
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I don't mind waiting another week as long as the pre-1.7 fixes are included right from the start.
The latest snapshots had a lot of fixes and bugs compared to previous ones and most of them involved gamebreaking things (from completely corrupted structures to bugged mobs spawning etc)
The redstone update by comparison was a minor one >_>
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Thanks for the update! I know it's tough trying to do anything along with studying. Keep up the good work, here and in school. I know it will be worth the wait.
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As Kaolai once said, "Good things come to those who wait!"
and I am sure that this is the case. Thanks for the update Joe, can't wait to just jump right into V6!
DjDazzy2011,
Daniel,
www.youtube.com/istheedaniel (http://www.youtube.com/istheedaniel)
Thanks for quoting me Dj! xD
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V6 probably won't come out until Minecraft 1.7 is released, so they can use the new biomes like the mesa, savanna, birch forest etc. to generate the world. This means they would have to take the time to port the server and its plugins to 1.7.
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If it doesn't come out this weekend and is the next we will have been waiting almost a month...and yes ik there's a lot they have had to do. This is depressing each weekend u find out u gotta wait another week...then another..then another.
Ikr. But hey, longer the wait, the better:P
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Ikr. But hey, longer the wait, the better:P
No. just no.
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*sigh*
"All good things to those who wait!"
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*sigh*
"All good things to those who wait!"
maybe, maybe not. LOL
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V6 probably won't come out until Minecraft 1.7 is released, so they can use the new biomes like the mesa, savanna, birch forest etc. to generate the world. This means they would have to take the time to port the server and its plugins to 1.7.
Waiting for 1.7 would be the safest way, but since there is no ETA on 1.7 (as always with Mojang) it doesn't make a lot of sense. If you start to wait for the next big one, there will be another big one a month later. And then another, etc... you'd be waiting forever.
The main problem is with plugins, since even if 1.7 were to come out today the plugins could take another 2 weeks to be updated.
With previous versions Bukkit had this problem for months (that's also one the reasons I went inactive).
Anyway, there will be customized things in V6 (biome-like stuff) even without 1.7 (that was stated in the trailer) and 1.6.4 fixed existing structures corruption cause by the new world gen when using an older world so... 1.6.4 is the actual best bet at the moment.
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V6 probably won't come out until Minecraft 1.7 is released, so they can use the new biomes like the mesa, savanna, birch forest etc. to generate the world. This means they would have to take the time to port the server and its plugins to 1.7.
I don't know where you got this from, but thats certainly not true.
The switch from 1.6.4 to 1.7 should go should be smooth if Mojang did their job right with the conversion system.
Other then that, imagine IF we would wait for 1.7, that would take weeks and weeks, not only because of 1.7 itself but as Darkwings said, all plugins have to be updated, this can take from a week, to maybe 2 weeks.
So theres just no reason to NOT start V6 on 1.6.4 right?
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I just hope I'm still on furlough when it restarts. FURLOUGH IS SO AWESOME! :D :D :D
Max
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I still have to work, but I don't know when I'm getting a paycheck. I had to borrow money to pay my rent.
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I still have to work, but I don't know when I'm getting a paycheck. I had to borrow money to pay my rent.
I still have a little over a weeks work of pay coming since we have two weeks lag (work to payday). You should too I would expect. I thought you worked for the Coast Guard, no?
Max
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I do, and my payday is the first of the month. Well it's the third and still not a dime, and not a word about when it's actually coming either. They didn't even tell us we definitely wouldn't be getting paid, they just told us we might not be and that wishy-washy statement was a few days before it happened.
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well even if it doesn't start on 1.7 wasn't it going to have its own unique custom generated biomes anyway ? that's what I got from the video at least I might be wrong though
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I do, and my payday is the first of the month. Well it's the third and still not a dime, and not a word about when it's actually coming either. They didn't even tell us we definitely wouldn't be getting paid, they just told us we might not be and that wishy-washy statement was a few days before it happened.
I was furloughed once before around 1995. Actually two times that year I think. The longest was nearly 3 weeks. The nice part (not for the taxpayers) was that they gave us back pay for that time. It was like a paid vacation. I have an emergency fund, so I don't really care if they pay me or not. I'd rather they do some serious spending cuts and kill Obamacare, but that's just my opinion. If it takes a partial shutdown of non-essentials to get moving in that direction, so be it. The last thing we need is to become just another third world socialist/marxist hell hole.
[/quote]I just hope I'm still on furlough when it restarts. FURLOUGH IS SO AWESOME! :D :D :D
Max
When the shutdown happened, I was wondering about whether or not you were still working.. I know they kept a skeleton crew, but I wasn't sure if you were on it
I'm "non-essential". Very few at NASA are essential.
Max
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Hi 86maxsmart. Haven't seen you in a while. Whats the first thing your gonna do when you log onto v6? :)
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Hi 86maxsmart. Haven't seen you in a while. Whats the first thing your gonna do when you log onto v6? :)
Hi OMG :D
Go straight to the mining world portal.
Max
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Hi 86maxsmart. Haven't seen you in a while. Whats the first thing your gonna do when you log onto v6? :)
Hi OMG :D
Go straight to the mining world portal.
Max
lol nice
(but didn't u say that u weren't going to join v6 ?)
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I don't remember saying that without condition, but I may have. Condition being wilderness land. I don't know how wilderness land will be purchased, or how much it will be. All I know is that I need about 50 chunks. If I can't get that small amount of land, then I'll have to decide what to do next. As of right now, I'm planning on giving it a go, but that may change.
Besides, I have lots of points that have been locked out since April. I'd like to use at least some of them or give them away.
Max
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I don't remember saying that without condition, but I may have. Condition being wilderness land. I don't know how wilderness land will be purchased, or how much it will be. All I know is that I need about 50 chunks. If I can't get that small amount of land, then I'll have to decide what to do next. As of right now, I'm planning on giving it a go, but that may change.
Besides, I have lots of points that have been locked out since April. I'd like to use at least some of them or give them away.
Max
50 chunks? a small amount of land? thats like...800 blocks of land, mine a hope did that math right, but yeah YOU KILLED PHYSICS! LOL
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800 blocks of land isn't much when you're working on a big project.
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Exactly what they said, 800 isn't much, considering I'm going to need to need about 400 wilderness plots for my own project, which is about 100.000 blocks of land.
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Exactly what they said, 800 isn't much, considering I'm going to need to need about 400 wilderness plots for my own project, which is about 100.000 blocks of land.
Yep. The only thing I have heard about land is that we will get 11 chunks. I won't bother building anything with such a small amount. The plot I need for my project is about 120 by 120, which isn't much. Here's some pictures of what I'll be building if I can get the chunks I need (~50).
(https://embed.noobscraft.com/6148523063446f764c326b304d5335306157353563476c6a4c6d4e76625338795a5449786254566a4c6e42755a775f5f)
(https://embed.noobscraft.com/6148523063446f764c326b304d5335306157353563476c6a4c6d4e76625339794e7a52314e4773756347356e)
(https://embed.noobscraft.com/6148523063446f764c326b304d4335306157353563476c6a4c6d4e766253393361334275615855756347356e)
The basement and sub-basement:
(https://embed.noobscraft.com/6148523063446f764c326b304e4335306157353563476c6a4c6d4e766253393261445a77625751756347356e)
(https://embed.noobscraft.com/6148523063446f764c326b304d6935306157353563476c6a4c6d4e76625339325a473833644755756347356e)
Not a huge project compared to the size and complexity of what other more skilled people will want to build.
Max
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What the hell do you guys need that many land for?
Unless you are gonna rebuild the V6 spawn, I can't really imagine what else you would wanna build thats giving you a use. Also by the time you even have the materials to start building, you will probably have enough land to make your project, because if these projects are as huge as your guys say, then you'll need alot of materials right...?
Also a very very big note... Make sure to plan your projects well, and ofcourse make sure you can keep your motivation going, because a small finished and amazing looking project is better then 1 huge ugly unfinished project.
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Exactly what they said, 800 isn't much, considering I'm going to need to need about 400 wilderness plots for my own project, which is about 100.000 blocks of land.
Err no. 50 chunks is not 800, it's 800 squared = 640thousands blocks (not counting vertical space)
I doubt you actually need 400 chunks either:
400x16 = 6400. That's a 40960000 surface. Almost 41 Millions blocks. Not 100k.
If you count vertical space multiply by the sky limit >_>
Anyway there is no static limit. Most probably they will enforce a limit later on to avoid a ghost-town sprawl.
I hope the wilderness won't become just a dump for ginormous statues.
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Exactly what they said, 800 isn't much, considering I'm going to need to need about 400 wilderness plots for my own project, which is about 100.000 blocks of land.
Err no. 50 chunks is not 800, it's 800 squared = 640thousands blocks (not counting vertical space)
I doubt you actually need 400 chunks either:
400x16 = 6400. That's a 40960000 surface. 40 Millions blocks. Not 100k.
If you count vertical space multiply by the sky limit >_>
Anyway there is no static limit. Most probably they will enforce a limit later on to avoid a ghost-town sprawl.
I hope the wilderness won't become just a dump for ginormous statues.
Er no. Each chunk is only 16x16 or 256 blocks. 120x120 is 14400 blocks (not 640thousands). Divide 14400 by 256 and you get approx 56 chunks. I said ~50 which would suffice.
What the hell do you guys need that many land for?
Unless you are gonna rebuild the V6 spawn, I can't really imagine what else you would wanna build thats giving you a use. Also by the time you even have the materials to start building, you will probably have enough land to make your project, because if these projects are as huge as your guys say, then you'll need alot of materials right...?
Also a very very big note... Make sure to plan your projects well, and ofcourse make sure you can keep your motivation going, because a small finished and amazing looking project is better then 1 huge ugly unfinished project.
I hope that comment wasn't to me, cause I don't appriciate your tone. 50 chunks is NOT a huge amount of land. Did you see my photos? I don't like you telling me how to plan my work either.
Max
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Exactly what they said, 800 isn't much, considering I'm going to need to need about 400 wilderness plots for my own project, which is about 100.000 blocks of land.
Err no. 50 chunks is not 800, it's 800 squared = 640thousands blocks (not counting vertical space)
I doubt you actually need 400 chunks either:
400x16 = 6400. That's a 40960000 surface. 40 Millions blocks. Not 100k.
If you count vertical space multiply by the sky limit >_>
Anyway there is no static limit. Most probably they will enforce a limit later on to avoid a ghost-town sprawl.
I hope the wilderness won't become just a dump for ginormous statues.
Er no. Each chunk is only 16x16 or 256 blocks. 120x120 is 14400 blocks (not 640thousands). Divide 14400 by 256 and you get approx 56 chunks. I said ~50 which would suffice.
What the hell do you guys need that many land for?
Unless you are gonna rebuild the V6 spawn, I can't really imagine what else you would wanna build thats giving you a use. Also by the time you even have the materials to start building, you will probably have enough land to make your project, because if these projects are as huge as your guys say, then you'll need alot of materials right...?
Also a very very big note... Make sure to plan your projects well, and ofcourse make sure you can keep your motivation going, because a small finished and amazing looking project is better then 1 huge ugly unfinished project.
I hope that comment wasn't to me, cause I don't appriciate your tone. 50 chunks is NOT a huge amount of land. Did you see my photos? I don't like you telling me how to plan my work either.
Max
Honestly thats pretty rude, i'm just giving advice and my opinion.
Yes I have seen pictures of your house, have you ever seen v6 spawn in the total?
Please stop complaining about the ground you get, you start with 10000 freaking times more land then you did in v5, just play do your thing and earn more land simple as that.
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What? We start with 10000 times more land than you did in v5? Where do you get that? Wilderness land was free and there was no limit on how big you could build.
Stop talking down to me, I don't appreciate it one bit. I have just as much right to express my opinion as anyone else.
Max
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What? We start with 10000 times more land than you did in v5? Where do you get that? Wilderness land was free and there was no limit on how big you could build.
Stop talking down to me, I don't appreciate it one bit. I have just as much right to express my opinion as anyone else.
Max
I am trying to be nice with you, but you are not letting me.
I rather quit this discussion before it gets out of hand and one of us might get a ban, so please be that mature as well.
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Sorry, I was thinking in terms of a square with a side of that number of chunks and ended up squaring the size twice.
I probably need a coffee XD
I doubt anyone would need 400 (not squared) chunks anyway.
That would be already enough for a decent town.
Anyway, Baatus made a valid point:
256 _flat_ blocks (1 chunk) means you need a few stacks of materials.
A build isn't just a flat square, so you need more than that.
102400 blocks as a footprint means you need a LOT of materials to complete a build of that size.
So while my initial numbers were wrong you still need more blocks than that unless you're just building a mosaic, easily reaching the Million range >_>
To be honest 50 chunks is a medium sized complex.
It's not huge but the villa in those pictures could be built in something like 12, including water.
400 chunks is huge.
I wouldn't embark on such a project without having at least 75% of what I need beforehand. Just saying.
(edited for clarity)
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Batuus,
I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from San Diego State University. I have worked at NASA for over 20 years. Not saying I can't be wrong from time to time, but I do know math. I was only referring to the horizontal footprint (or plan view, if I may) I need to build my house (with a small buffer) which is roughly 120 x 120 or approximately 50 chunks. Although I have not seen much of the V6 spawn, I would imagine it is probably on the order of 1000 chunks (horizontal).
That's all I got to say about that, so I'll step off.
Thanks,
Max
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Batuus,
I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from San Diego State University. I have worked at NASA for over 20 years. Not saying I can't be wrong from time to time, but I do know math. I was only referring to the horizontal footprint (or plan view, if I may) I need to build my house (with a small buffer) which is roughly 120 x 120 or approximately 50 chunks. Although I have not seen much of the V6 spawn, I would imagine it is probably on the order of 1000 chunks (horizontal).
That's all I got to say about that, so I'll step off.
Thanks,
Max
Im talking about a square, the actual footprint, but anyways lets be nice and polite against eachother again?
It makes the world a better place really.
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Im talking about a square, the actual footprint
The actual footprint of 50 chunks is 12800 blocks. (256*50)
You also can't make a square with 50 chunks, it was just an estimation of what he needed.
Okay so, a chunk is 16 by 16 blocks, you have 50 chunks and we are gonna make a nice square. So 25x25,
25 = 400 blocks long, so you get a square of 400 by 400 blocks
25x25 != 50. 50 isn't even a square number to begin with but the side would be ~7 chunks anyway.
I had huge numbers because I thought of a 50 by 50 chunks square (the word "plot" put me off).
Same goes for the 400 chunks, I thought of a 400x400 chunks square.
So... yeah. Multiplications.
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Sorry, I was thinking in terms of a square with a side of that number of chunks and ended up squaring the size twice.
I probably need a coffee XD
I doubt anyone would need 400 (not squared) chunks anyway.
That would be already enough for a decent town.
Anyway, Baatus made a valid point:
256 _flat_ blocks (1 chunk) means you need a few stacks of materials.
A build isn't just a flat square, so you need more than that.
102400 blocks as a footprint means you need a LOT of materials to complete a build of that size.
So while my initial numbers were wrong you still need more blocks than that unless you're just building a mosaic, easily reaching the Million range >_>
To be honest 50 chunks is a medium sized complex.
It's not huge but the villa in those pictures could be built in something like 12, including water.
400 chunks is huge.
I wouldn't embark on such a project without having at least 75% of what I need beforehand. Just saying.
(edited for clarity)
Hey np :D We all make mistakes and my numbers were approximate. Magicman is the only one who did the math exactly correct. He's one smart dude :)
This project took me a couple weekends to do in creative, but in doing so I have it completely all planned out. It is going to take lots of resources as you say. That's why I said the first thing I would be doing is going straight through the mining world portal. My only real concern is how much land will cost and how you get it. The answer to that will determine if i proceed with my project or not.
As Jesus said (Luke 14:28) “28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? 29 For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, 30 saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’"
Max
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Im talking about a square, the actual footprint
The actual footprint of 50 chunks is 12800 blocks. (256*50)
You also can't make a square with 50 chunks, it was just an estimation of what he needed.
Okay so, a chunk is 16 by 16 blocks, you have 50 chunks and we are gonna make a nice square. So 25x25,
25 = 400 blocks long, so you get a square of 400 by 400 blocks
25x25 != 50. 50 isn't even a square number to begin with but the side would be ~7 chunks anyway.
I had huge numbers because I thought of a 50 by 50 chunks square (the word "plot" put me off).
Same goes for the 400 chunks, I thought of a 400x400 chunks square.
So... yeah. Multiplications.
I am confused now, how many chunks does he need... Forget my first math piece. But if he nees 50 chunks that is 12800 yea... This is all confusing the hell out of me.
EDIT: I need SP world edit badly NOW xD, makes live alot easier.
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Although I said approximately (120 by 120), let's do this with exact math. Each chunk is 16 width by 16 length (a square). Let say I need 112 blocks in width and 112 blocks in length (again a square) to complete my project. 16 times 7 = 112 blocks in both length and width. Therefore, I would need a 7 chunk width and a 7 chunk length plot of land. 7 times 7 is 49. I would need 49 chunks to be exact.
Max
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I'd still like to know what Citebafla wants to build in 400 chunks anyway :P
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Max, 1 Chunk is 16x16 or 16 by 16 blocks in Minecraft, please explain to me how you have managed to get the house under to be 50 Chunks... cause I am just as confused as Batuus, that house is maybe +/- 4 Chunks...
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This was meant to be an update on how V6 was going, NOT an argumentative thread on how many blocks are in 400 chunks and how many chunks you will need in V6. If you want to argue about this, please take it to private messaging, or make another threshold in other for you to argue on.
~HarryX11
Also, if you guys are doing the math on what 400 chunks of surface area is, you can find it like this:
16×16=256
256×400=102400
(256×4=1024, so just add two zeroes to that and you get your answer)
I hope this resolves any issues you guys are having :)
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This was meant to be an update on how V6 was going, NOT an argumentative thread on how many blocks are in 400 chunks and how many chunks you will need in V6. If you want to argue about this, please take it to private messaging, or make another threshold in other for you to argue on.
~HarryX11
Also, if you guys are doing the math on what 400 chunks of surface area is, you can find it like this:
16×16=256
256×400=102400
(256×4=1024, so just add two zeroes to that and you get your answer)
I hope this resolves any issues you guys are having :)
You are kinda late with that, since we pretty much figured that out already, the argument is basicly just about what he would need so many chunks for really.
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that house is maybe +/- 4 Chunks...
I think, and this bring it back in-topic again, that he just needs the surrounding chunks to be empty to make some sort of scenario and avoid other people building too close.
That's kinda the reason why I've said that the wilderness could become a dump for giant statues.
(a stretch of imagination, but still possible)
Building in the towns world requires permissions. Building in wilderness does not.
The wilderness could become way less wild than the towns world and the unlucky guy that get there later could have to travel hours to reach a free spot only to find out it's too small and surrounded by giant builds.
Nothing remotely similar ever happened before with towns, right? :-|L Mmm, oh wait... :P
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The wilderness could become way less wild than the towns world and the unlucky guy that get there later could have to travel hours to reach a free spot only to find out it's too small and surrounded by giant builds.
Nothing remotely similar ever happened before with towns, right? :-|L Mmm, oh wait... :P
Yeah that happened with me I bought a town in V5 called Coldstone (you most likely knew it as Snakevenom) and then realized it was not expandable, so I had to buy an outpost, reset the HomeBlock, and then expand from there. It wasn't fun and took a floris more work than it needed to.