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Voting closed: November 05, 2010, 09:56:20 pm

[Jay]

Tomorrow is 12/21/12.
The winter solstice.
Or perhaps you're a believer in that doomsday theory?
We might have something going on for you if you are. Come join us!

[Empty]

So I noticed redpower updating.

Is the map reset? Is the map reset? Is the map reset?

[Jay]

So I noticed redpower updating.

Look at the version number.

Then look at the version number of all our other mods.

*Sad trombone*


What's this?

[Jay]

1.4.6.0.0 with RedPower launched!

A lot of mods are still missing, as noted on the spreadsheet.
Updates from here should be seamless, however.

[Djohaal]

So I found a fix for this problem:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Apparently we need to turn off marsh biomes. I though I could do a seamless transition by copypastaing the built area from one world to another, but disabling marsh biomes causes the worldgen to completely change...

EDIT: It is like a raging storm of... Updates! Twice in a day because we are all dying of treecapitator withdrawal.

[Empty]

The end is near!

All fear the Chickopocalypse!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[dragonshardz]

Working on a thing that will make installing Jaycraft modpack dead easy.

Who wants to overwrite Technic's "Vanilla" with Jaycraft? I do. Yay custom modpacks.

E: Looks like there's actually support for up to 3 Custom Modpacks, which is nice. Now I just need to know how to edit the modpack selector label and the title of the window when the modpack is launched.

E2: Initial testing (game loads and I can log into to Jaycraft) is promising. this is the link to the Custom ZIP file you should use (includes Optifine!). Open up your Technic Launcher, select a custom modpack (I picked the blue one), then hit "Options" and paste the provided URL into the field. Launch, enter in Jaycraft details, bam. Dead easy install of Jaycraft.

Too bad I'm banned from the Technic IRC, or I could get details on overriding the window title and modpack selection icon a bit faster.

[Jay]

Update time! 1.4.7.0.0 is a go. Dynmap is down for the time being, while we work out how to keep it from keeping chunks with automation loaded and RAM-crashing the server.

Also, in the interest of transparency --
The server's analogy to a phoenix is more to do with my own interest in playing the game.
While the server was hosted on my PC, I couldn't really justify running it at all when I wasn't going to play it.
While the server was hosted on Tylui's VPS (wow, that was a long time ago), it ran until the VPS itself committed suicide (those of you who were around know I'm not even joking)
While the server was hosted on Logical2u's PC, it ran until..  uh, I don't even know. Until it was too far behind in updates because I stopped caring, I think?
In all of those cases, it went offline for large periods of time, ie burning to ashes. And then I would resurrect it when I got the urge again, ie rising from said ashes. A phoenix.

Now, it's on a different dedicated server. It can run as long as the $15 a month gets paid up, and somebody updates it.
I'm appointing Djohaal as a "co-owner", to hopefully do the latter while I'm not around.

As far as that payment goes, so far, we've been mostly funded by the generous donations of Djohaal and olemars.
I can't justify it totally out of my own pocket when I'm not even playing the game, so that essentially means that the server is donation funded. $15 a month is negligible at best when you split it among multiple people. In the todo list is ingame compensation for donation. All previous donations will be honored once it's worked out, assuming I can trace your ingame name from the donation info. I just changed the button on the website back to allow you to enter your own "purpose" -- I would advise your ingame name. To opt out of ingame compensation, use Anonymous or something.

At this point, though, I'm hoping that whole phoenix analogy can stop being Jaycraftian and just be me, because that's what it is. But I'll need your help.

[LoSboccacc]

Too bad I'm banned from the Technic IRC, or I could get details on overriding the window title and modpack selection icon a bit faster.

 

[Sergius]

How lasting are the maps in your server, Jay? I stopped playing in another one because I was making a ridiculously big 6x6 chunk fortress made entirely of construction foam... and I didn't even get one third done before the map was reset.

I would like to restart that project somewhere more permanent.

EDIT: And in the case the map DOES get reset... some way of preserving said project.

[frostshotgg]

Unless there's some serious bug or something, this map could easily go half a year. Last map there was a bug with worldgen, and before that they were waiting on redpower to come out. Now that we have all of that, there's really no need to make a new map. Although there was a bug with chunk updates and forge and redpower wires or something, I think that was fixed.

[Jay]

Although there was a bug with chunk updates and forge and redpower wires or something, I think that was fixed.

Aye, but even that didn't harm the chunks -- it just made it obnoxious to be near them. It is very fixed now.

This map will probably be going away with the 1.5 update, given that there are worldgen changes there, but I haven't the foggiest when that'll happen.
In any case, the map will be backed up and made public when it becomes necessary to move away from it on the production server, unless something corrupts it (not very likely).

[Sergius]

Well, wiki says 1.5 is planned for january or february, so I don't know.

Guess I'll join and go easy on the big project, unless I can convince you to do some copypasta afterward

[Jay]

Near as I can tell, we haven't had any activity at all for upwards of two-three weeks.
Jaycraft without Jay doesn't work, apparently. Sorry, guys.
I've posted the world as it exists right now on the spreadsheet.
The server is set to die on the 26th unless somebody happens to donate enough to keep it running for some reason.