Iskandar's Travels in Minecraft: The LP and the MP Server Thread MKII

[3SecondCultist]

Sorry for the double post. I'm'a be gone for the next week or so with little to no internet access. In the mean time, someone want to set up a gmail account and corresponding Youtube account for this? I'd suggest IskasMP or something similar.

I will do it tonight. I am leaving for Mexico myself tomorrow morning, and will be unavailable for the next week. Once I get back, though, we can coordinate all of the recording.

[Iskandar]

Ahem, I am doing a rehearsal for tomorrow's livecast in 5 or 10 minutes. Anyone who wants to watch me fumble about trying to get things working, and playing a bit of minecraft for a bit, stop on by. A behind the scenes peek, as it were.

Edit: Rehearsal done. Things are a go. Tomorrow, 4 pm EDT.

[Zain]

In sever news, It turns out it is possible to create Snow golems automatically. It follows then, that Iron golems will be creatable in the same way. Once 1.2.3 hits, I'm planning on building a Industrial district, for the construction of a Spawn town defense force. This will not only releave the stress on The knights and Phill, but allow for more jobs to be created. Also, we need to build some more NPC housing.

[Landis963]

In sever news, It turns out it is possible to create Snow golems automatically. It follows then, that Iron golems will be creatable in the same way.

The official advertisement for 1.2 tried to make an Iron Golem with pistons and it didn't work. Thought you ought to know.

[Zain]

Indeed, however, It turns out you can make them using Build-craft builders

[Iskandar]

Livecast will be, well, live in a few minutes.

Setting things up now.

This should be interesting.

[Iskandar]

And the livestream is over. The show is archived on my page, check it out if you like. It was fairly rough in the beginning, but once I settled in, I think it went okay.

I'm going to make this a weekly thing. Saturdays or maybe Sundays, 4 pm Eastern, ish.

[KillianHawkeye]

And the livestream is over. The show is archived on my page, check it out if you like. It was fairly rough in the beginning, but once I settled in, I think it went okay.

I'm going to make this a weekly thing. Saturdays or maybe Sundays, 4 pm Eastern, ish.

Hey, Iskandar. I've watched about half the video now. I was planning on watching it live, but I was sick and didn't have the willpower to get out of bed.

[Domochevsky]

You also have this habit of streaming when i'm busy, so that is unfortunate. >_> (But that's what recordings are for.)

Unrelated to that, where is our research team, compromised of Detrepid/Sagitus? Haven't seen them in quite a while.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Missed your Livestream, but caught the recording. Must say, I rather dislike the Technic Pack, mostly because of how they treat the modders and the lack of permissions obtained to put mods in the pack, but I'll definitely try to catch your next livestream.

[Iskandar]

eh, the Technic Pack has changed considerably.

It is now the Technic Launcher, capable of switching seamlessly between the Yogbox, Technik, and Tekkit mod packs as well as Vanilla minecraft without messing with multiple configurations or any manual mod work yourself.

http://www.technicpack.net/

[ShneekeyTheLost]

eh, the Technic Pack has changed considerably.

It is now the Technic Launcher, capable of switching seamlessly between the Yogbox, Technik, and Tekkit mod packs as well as Vanilla minecraft without messing with multiple configurations or any manual mod work yourself.

http://www.technicpack.net/

Magic Launcher also allows you to switch seamlessly between mods and vanilla without violation intellectual property of mod creators.

The only difference? You need to download the individual mods themselves. Why? So the mod creators can get credit. Screw the mod creators, they might decide to stop making them.

Again, that's just a personal preference thing. I'll still try and make your livestream this weekend, if you have one, regardless of the modpacks you use.

Also, a lot of things you were wondering about were from the Forestry mod, which can be used to automate some boring grinds like wheat or tree farms or even IndustrialCraft rubber tree plantations. Pretty nifty when you get it set up.

[Sagitus]

The coming of spring like weather has lured me out into the real world for a while, although my running shoes don't give me the power to super jump, and my bicycle is a poor substitute for quantum speed, so I am sure I'll be back soon.

In the meantime I've also managed to catch up on the Gengame story, although I still have no idea what's going on most of the time.

[Destro_Yersul]

Magic Launcher also allows you to switch seamlessly between mods and vanilla without violation intellectual property of mod creators.

The only difference? You need to download the individual mods themselves. Why? So the mod creators can get credit. Screw the mod creators, they might decide to stop making them.

Technic actually has permission from a lot of them now.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Technic actually has permission from a lot of them now.

'A lot' does not equate all, which they should have had *BEFORE* including mods in their pack in the first place.

How would you like it if you put weeks of free time into developing a mod, only to have someone yank it, put it in their pack, then profit* from the distribution of said mod pack, without your permission? Yea... didn't think so.

* either through adfly download links, donate buttons, or other sources. They do not charge to download.

[Iskandar]

Because of the prior history I did a fair amount of checking before using the Technic Launcher. They really have cleaned up their act, getting permission from the mod makers and such, and they aren't profiting from this. In fact they don't accept donations for themselves, merely linking back to the mod creators' instead: http://www.technicpack.net/donate/

Anyway, there will be a livestream tomorrow, 4pm EDT. And I really need to sit down and record some for my youtube channel as well.

[Destro_Yersul]

'A lot' does not equate all, which they should have had *BEFORE* including mods in their pack in the first place.

How would you like it if you put weeks of free time into developing a mod, only to have someone yank it, put it in their pack, then profit* from the distribution of said mod pack, without your permission? Yea... didn't think so.

* either through adfly download links, donate buttons, or other sources. They do not charge to download.

They don't use adfly, either, far as I'm aware, and when the technic pack was initially created, it was for distribution amongst a small-ish group of people for no profit. Then the Yogscast did a spotlight on it and the thing became huge beyond the creator's initial expectations. Which were, I believe, to make a bunch of cool mods play nice with each other so he and his friends could play Minecraft with tons of fun enhancements and minimal mucking about with java files. Once it went bigger, he started getting permissions. I completely fail to see how this is evil.

[Iskandar]

And the second livecast begins shortly. I'm running a little behind, please bear with me. 5 minutes, maybe 10.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

And the second livecast begins shortly. I'm running a little behind, please bear with me. 5 minutes, maybe 10.

Relevant wiki links:

IndustrialCraft, which you are probably already familiar with

Forestry, which is all about beekeeping and automatic growing and harvesting of several types of natural resources, plus the backpacks which I highly suggest

Redpower

That'll get ya started

[Iskandar]

And sone. Slightly larger audience this time. Which means 3 to 5 people instead of 1, but hey. Still a bit laggy, but I am working on that. A lot of fun, I've got a volcano base set up and everything.

It is saved, so come check it out.

[Sen isSaqqara]

And I'm back! So, what has been done regarding that youtube channel, Cultist?

[3SecondCultist]

And I'm back! So, what has been done regarding that youtube channel, Cultist?

I was waiting for your return, in order to decide on a proper name and get started on the recording. I have looked into several options for recording for Mac, but I think it might just be easier to get Boot Camp and then use FRAPS. I figured if we are going to do this as a team, then we need to do some actual coordination. Tomorrow morning?

[Sen isSaqqara]

Done. I found a nice cheap solution, I haven't really tested it yet though.

[Iskandar]

Right, I am heading out. While I am gone, I am deploying a surprise. Check my youtube channel in about an hour.

[Sen isSaqqara]

OK, a youtube channel is up for those of us wanting to make MP let's plays. It's called Iskas MP, the email youtube uses for a username is [email protected]. I'll send the password to Iska, Domo, and 3sec now, and anyone else who wants access to post stuff send me a PM to ask for it.

A Finely Crafted Link To The Channel

[Detrepid]

The coming of spring like weather has lured me out into the real world for a while, although my running shoes don't give me the power to super jump, and my bicycle is a poor substitute for quantum speed, so I am sure I'll be back soon.

In the meantime I've also managed to catch up on the Gengame story, although I still have no idea what's going on most of the time.

I have much of the same outside urgings. Also with spring coming early I've had to start the lovely yard/garden work much earlier than usual.

I have my qualification exams next week so I've been studying for those pretty hard for the past month keeping me busy. Once they are done I imagine I'll want to do something less thought related. Perhaps making large structures out of little cubes?

[3SecondCultist]

I have my qualification exams next week so I've been studying for those pretty hard for the past month keeping me busy. Once they are done I imagine I'll want to do something less thought related. Perhaps making large structures out of little cubes?

Always a fun activity!

[Iskandar]

And my RPG LP is updated. I'll post a link as soon as it has uploaded, or just check my channel in like 30 minutes.

Edit: linky

[Sen isSaqqara]

Similarly, 3Sec and I just filmed the first of our new LPs on the server. It will be up soon (probably about half an hour). I'm putting the channel link in my signature.

[3SecondCultist]

This first episode is more meant as an introductory session to the new world. As such, the episode offers a look at some of the iconic projects and a little bit of insight into the 'roleplaying element' of the new server, as well as a little bit of exposition.

We hope you guys enjoy it!