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NB Minecraft server?
Zayl
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don't know if any of you play Minecraft. But if a large enough group of you do. Perhaps we should start a nice little private server for us all? There we'd be able to play the game with each other and set up towns, forts, amazing monuments, and explore the world together in a peaceful fashion. I don't know how to create a server myself, but I'd be willing to help out anyone that does. Plus I think it'd be kind of cool, we all know each other from here so we could all just hang in the server from time to time, and chill.
Anyway post your thoughts if you have any. I'd be interested to hear any ideas you might have on it.
Anyway post your thoughts if you have any. I'd be interested to hear any ideas you might have on it.
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Bazinga!
You can honestly play the game without harming a thing if you so choose. You can even re-plant the forests you cut down (forests grow back in time on their own, but it takes longer) And with very simple and easy to install texture packs, you can make the game look very pretty. I think it would be nice to share a community. Literally build a nice walled village together where we can explore an untouched, wild world. While showing our artistic and philosophical side in the process.
You can do anything from run a store or a blacksmith, to build outposts and homes for the needy, or what have you. Everybody needs items and food to survive if you have that option turned on, so it is a good practice of compassion. Someone shows up on your door bedraggled and starving to death, do you invite them in for food and a bed, even though they may be wielding a rather disconcertingly large sword?
Natural events occur too, completely at random due to other events. Forests fires may occur due to a volcano or simply a battle getting out of hand, or a misplaced torch. Will you strive to save the forest with buckets of water, or let it burn itself out as a process of the natural order of the world? I want you to understand these worlds are MASSIVE you can walk for hours in one direction and not reach the edge, if there even is an edge. There are massive underground cave systems, abandoned mines filled with treasure or monsters. Old forgotten fortresses containing arcane secrets... In a world like this, with a community like ours, how would we handle it? would we have intrepid adventurers going out into the wild, bringing back rare items that will benefit the community? and what of those that stay in town? they can work as cooks and healers, builders, repairers, item crafters, etc.
Just something to think about. You can check it out at
www.minecraft.net
As you see it, night is just starting to fall, and it is raining. Outside of these walls lie legions of monsters not far away. So I seek shelter here at night, and only return during the day to craft items or add on more to the island.
I tried the free older version. It is creepy when you dig down and find caverns and just keep going down until you get lost...
@RichardH Yeah that happens in some online servers where anyone can join and it is more widely known. If we managed a private server we could set up a whitelist. Which is a list of allowed players, everyone else who is not on that list can't join. Or we could apply a password for entry. And I hardly think anyone here would grief, at least not too terribly. But hey if they do we can remove them from the server for however long we want.
Here's some more screenshots from one of my games. Here I'm building a stone city on the edge of a very large and treacherous jungle. I'm building it out into the ocean a bit since clearing out the jungle would take way too long unless I burnt it down. Plus it is much easier to defend against mobs (monsters). It's a work in progress and is still expanding. But not bad considering there was just open water there before.
And a closeup of my temple/palace
I'd be interested in a NB server. But I wouldn't know how to setup servers.
The current server I play on is generally "nice". Good Moderators and Admins, has a bunch of mods (commands and extra functions), reasonable rules and policies. They have some grief protection. Moderators and Admins can roll back your "blocks" if you've been griefed.
I'm not very good at building stuff, but I still enjoy it. I like exploring, and I like how mining is so unpredictable.
Jadon's MC server
http://jadon-mc.net/
I told him he isn't allowed on unless he is studying the Pali Canon. He said " I don't see you studying the Pali Canon". Little smart-ass, I can never win.
Mention you're from NewBuddhist if you decide to participate.
cool, I'll definitely look for you in the server, my mc name is benderbot5000.
Currently, I don't think the "permanent" map is up yet, so a lot of the server add-ons and commands aren't available yet. As a warning, when the permanent map is up, you'll have to start all over. A permanent map generally lasts for 2 or 3 months, or the next significant mc update.
...brainz!