Madness? .. THIS. IS. ..AN OLD MEME!! *kick down a hole into the arms of Creepers*
Ok, well. I needed a break from Wurm. In ways I wish I didn’t. But angry did it again by ‘dragging’ me back into Minecraft Alpha. We were playing this “Minecraft Adventure” map where you gotta do certain tasks and escape these towers.
I wondered how in the hell the map was made. You would need a shitload of resources. Then mentions the guy used a map editor named ‘MCEdit’.
I started to think “What if I was able to get my old Mynecraft maps into a Minecraft Alpha map?” and asked angry. He said it sorta does.
I then thought “Hmm.. well, it’s not that hard to make a road. But I would need alot of resources” and angry told me about this “/give” command. How I could type “/give benie 1 64”.
Later on angry tried to get one of his maps into an Alpha map, and got his first indev map into it. He then gave me OP and I saw I could spawn rock blocks. My brain started to click wildly after angry went to bed.
The next day, I got to work making a subway system in my map after getting my own server installed and going. I decided to invite RimShooter, one of the members of The Tavern. Wanted to see if others could join and he got right in.
Problem is, the server (my server) didn’t like this and started to give him lag. Later on I got angry to join and my FPS tanked.
He told me that SMP is resource-intensive, and he’ll host my map on his server. If I knew what would happen in the following days, I would’ve said “Nah, that’s fine”. But I did say “ok sure”. And now I regret that.
So angry’s hosting the map on a server he calls “Turivelk”. And because of the way the server is setup, he cannot give me a copy of the latest work. Some kind of archiving thing. His server is ran in Linux.
To move this along, angry’s doing his “Eww tacky! Must change!” thing without asking me first. Eventually he finally sees this is my map and I can do what I want. Just because he’s hosting the map, doesn’t give him the right to change my work.
Yet our fights escalated to the point I’m demanding for the map back, and he won’t give it to me back. So yesterday I started taking pictures with Fraps. My idea is to use these pictures to do the work, MY way. I’m not stealing their ideas. I just want my own copy.
If angry can’t give me that map, then I’ll make an identical one.
Of course this got even uglier. Yet it was my fault that caused it.. sorta. Thinking angry didn’t care, I said I was going to start filming everything. He tried to stop me but I ignored it. Did a few tests and was ready to start.
As I recorded, angry teleported me elsewhere. The conversation and actions were like this;
Me: “DAMN YOU ANGRY… I was recording!!!”
Him: “good”
*kicks angry out*
*gets banned*
*server goes down*
But angry wasn’t intentionally pissing me off. His real life was bugging him. Because he’s normally not that much of a dick.
Back with the original map on my server, I wondered if it was even worth continuing. But something in my head said to keep going. And I’m glad it did. Now I have completed the track section I made all the way to the third station. Now I don’t need that other map anymore.
.
Today, I was putting the finishing touches on the third station when my system froze. That damn lock up issue again. Came back and fired up both the server and client with no problems.
I didn’t lose that much too. Just this and that which I was able to easily fix.
There was something missing, though. Something big. When I started walking over to the platform and heading in the direction of the mountain that the subway runs through, and I noticed what look like a bomb was dropped. A quarter of the face of the mountain was… GONE! You can easily see what looks like someone carved a nice square into the side of the mountain.
After some calculating and asking other people, I found out the freeze caused the map to corrupt at that spot, and tried to re-render itself. Why, I dunno.
The only way to put it back to normal, is to learn and use this MCEdit program. I still got my original map. So all I have to do is copy and paste that part of the mountain face into the latest one. Yes this means I’ll have to re-tunnel the subway tracks, but that’s a small inconvenience from this.
Well, I played around with it. Trouble wasn’t the fact I didn’t know how to copy a section of one map to the other, it’s.. where it is on the map. The location in the original is mixed with other blocks, making it ohh so confusing to pinpoint exactly where the crater is on the other map.
I then tried the Brush tool, and saw I could make a ball of rock and place it in the area of the crater, and notice I could possibly fill it up. So I tried Dirt and made it huge, and covered up half of the crater. Then I tried smaller ones to fill up the gaps.
Satisfied with it, I made a backup of level.dat just incase something goes screwy and then saved it.
Tried it out ingame and was happy. I’ve successfully fixed it!
Re-tunneled the subway tunnels and covered them in rock, and used the remaining dirt to seal up the remaining gaps that I missed.
And already that big ball of dirt is getting grass covering it. Quite a good “patch job” I did.
With that out of the way, I can continue construction of this subway. My main plan is to make a system of subways, linking to major points of view. Maybe throw in a city and a residential area, as a memorial to ‘city_portal_hub’ and ‘residential’.
I can see it now. Creepers walking in the subway tunnels. Pigs walking around the roads. Chickens in the buildings.
Some of the pictures in MCEdit actually feature a large city. So someone HAS done it in Minecraft Alpha!