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    ShelLuser
    11/02/2019 10:01 pm
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    There's always structure blocks. Make take getting used to but they can definitely cope.
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    ShelLuser
    11/02/2019 9:55 pm
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    The difference is that a maze gets visitors something to do, big builds are usually only there for eye candy. You look at it, and that's it.

    I'm not saying it's no longer impressive to pull off a huge build, but I am saying that because everyone is doing it...

    Take EMC... Most players have shops, and most players who want to go bigger have malls. Some of those look very impressive (HSP ("Horse Shoe Plaza") on SMP2 for example) but because there are plenty of malls the size is no longer as impressive as it used to be. It's still impressive but in the end it's a build like so many others.

    Hop onto a server and you get an impressive spawn.. hop onto another and there's yet another spawn. But looks alone aren't enough anymore IMO.
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    ShelLuser
    11/02/2019 9:48 pm
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    Fancy seeing you around here ;)

    But that's just the thing though: hard work? But everyone puts in hard work to make a build. And then there's also another issue: design. A lot of builds follow specific designs which basically means repeating a pattern over and over and over and over again. The effort is still impressive, but everyone is doing it anyway.

    IMO a maze is more impressive than a huge mansion, because a mansion is often a "design" just to look nice. You simply follow patterns and designs and you're done. Yet that doesn't apply to a maze: you need to actually make that 'work' or otherwise people are going to run right through.
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    ShelLuser
    11/02/2019 8:22 pm
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    As a player or admin? ;)

    Definitely night vision for me, I use it all the time when I'm working on my server. f3 - n to switch from creative to pectator (best key combo ever!) but if you then go below ground things get dark really quick. So... /effect give @p minecraft:night_vision 300 and I'm good to go :)
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    ShelLuser
    11/02/2019 4:12 pm
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    A bit of everything, in my opinion you can't really do or have one without the other. Before you can 'redstone' you need to mine, same with building. And before you can build something good you probably need to build small (storage) and mine so that you have mats to use.

    So for me this would be "all of the above" :)
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    ShelLuser
    10/31/2019 8:41 pm
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    I am following the snapshots but so far I think it has been very lackluster; there's hardly anything new to enjoy other than dozens and dozens of bugfixes. Making me sometimes wonder how the heck they managed to get so many bugs into the game ;)
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    ShelLuser
    10/31/2019 5:26 pm
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    If there's one thing I learned over all these years in gaming: almost everyone who got banned claims that it wasn't legit. And if some mods then shed some more info on the whole thing it usually turns into a completely different story. Such a surprise ;)
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    ShelLuser
    10/30/2019 7:22 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    Ender is just like a real cat: right there where you don't need it! :)
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    ShelLuser
    10/30/2019 7:21 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    I play it because PMC forces me to! 😮 That evil community always has some interesting map or game online and then I just can't resist firing it up again to have a look see ;)

    Ok, ok... more serious.. The most obvious reason for me is because it's a sandbox: you can do whatever you want and because you can easily install and set up your own server it's easy to share this fun with some others as well.
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    ShelLuser
    10/30/2019 7:12 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    In my default setup OptiFine is the only plugin I use, the rest is pure vanilla. It's hard to ignore, once you mined using dynamic lighting you never want to go back!
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    ShelLuser
    10/29/2019 7:13 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    A redstone dust which remains lit really sounds like a problem with chunks unloading. At least as the initial cause, because that can indeed happen in those situations. Worst part is that if the chunks get reloaded then the state of the wire won't reset so it remains powered and that can cause problems.
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    ShelLuser
    10/29/2019 7:10 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    You could apply fire protection to the player for a short moment; that effect will prevent them from taking damage.
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    ShelLuser
    10/29/2019 7:08 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    Uninstalling is pretty useless because it won't reset your settings, which is exactly a possible cause for issues. Do you use any mods by some chance?

    Quickest way to check if your settings are involved is to open a file browser and head over to %appdata%, in there you should find a folder called .minecraft, rename this into something else... minecraft.bck for example. Now try firing up Minecrafft again (warning: you'll need to authenticate again).
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    ShelLuser
    10/29/2019 7:06 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    What is the command you use to get the health (and store it)?
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    ShelLuser
    10/25/2019 2:56 pm
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    There are definitely bugs in Minecraft, just check list of updates on the current snapshots, but I sincerely doubt that any could have caused this. Because if it did there should have been issues all over the place.

    Note that you don't necessarily need redstone to trigger command blocks. For example: how big is your map and what is the maximum amount of chunks you're loading? Depending on the size of the map it is possible that parts get unloaded over time, and if those parts contain command blocks then this will definitely have its consequences.
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    ShelLuser
    10/22/2019 7:02 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    On Windows go to %appdata%, there you'll find a folder called .minecraft. Rename it to something else and then try again, you will need to log on again so keep your account details ready.

    That'll fix it.
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    ShelLuser
    10/20/2019 10:31 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    As someone else already mentioned you can use The Gimp for editing the graphics, it's a very good program to do so.

    But a resourcepack also often includes new audio snippets and if you're looking for a solid audio editor then get yourself Wavosaur. I strongly recommend this one over the more commonly known Audacity.

    Audacity is a fun toy to play around with, Wavosaur is a freely available editor with some very useful professional features. The most important feature is VST support. VST is short for Virtual Sound Technology and it's a standard developed by Steinberg (a very familiar name within the field of digital audio). A VST can be a virtual instrument or audio effect and the best part is that those devices can be used in any software you'd like which supports this standard. Which includes Wavosaur.

    Also fun to know is that there are plenty of free VST's available. I highly recommend the TAL plugins, several can be downloaded (and used!) for free which can help you to generate (or process) your own sounds for your resource pack.
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    ShelLuser
    10/19/2019 8:41 pm
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    Ward.

    Why? Well, I am glad you asked! 😎

    Here's why:

    Ward in Ableton Live

    Something tells me you're now wondering what you're looking at and why this should get you excited. The last part is easily explained: it doesn't.

    The first part otoh... I am an audio freak who specialized in digital audio design. What you are looking at above is 'ward' being loaded into my de-facto to use audio environment called 'Ableton Live' in which I added the spectrum device (the cyan stuff you see in the middle), loaded an analyzer device I build myself using 'Max for Live' called the M4lScope (the blue stuff at the bottom) and just to show off I also added the 'Ozone 9 Imager' device; Ozone is pretty much a defined standard when it comes to audio processing (often referred to as 'Mastering').

    So reason #1: I love this music, I love it. The why is easy: it was the first disc I managed to get on the first server I played on :)

    Of course there's more because I can definitely agree that there's plenty of good music within Minecraft!

    (warning: audio freak bias follows!): Notice how the lines in my screenshot go down from left to right? In both the spectrum device (middle) as well as Ozone (top right)? See.. low notes / tones are shown on the left whereas high notes / tones go on the right. I dunno about you but high notes tend to stand out a lot more with more than lower stuff. Oh, did I forget to mention that the vertical axis represents volume? ;)

    There's logic applied here and I enjoy that.

    Of course there's not much audio depth to be explored here (notice the straight line in the vector scope?) but ey ;) the bass can really stand out.

    And am I the only one to notice the weird drop in the high end spectrum? That's plain out bizarre (and no, it wasn't me!).
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    ShelLuser
    10/19/2019 9:42 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    Of course I believe in Herobrine. Who else would have removed that 'e' in your title? Surely, that can't be a typoe ;)

    Anyway, unlike some others I actually have proof:



    See? He's real 😎

    If you want to know more about this then you might like my Herobrine datapack.
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    ShelLuser
    10/19/2019 9:39 am
    Level 61 : High Grandmaster System
    None of them, not even 'other'.

    Some youtubers are fun to watch but as soon as they become more popular things get commercialized really quick and they often drop fun stuff for things which "most people" would like. So I kinda gave up on youtube for that, let alone pick out any favorites. In the end they're pretty much all the same IMO, there are some exceptions of course but nothing related to Minecraft for me.

    My problem is that I've seen too many "famous" Minecraft redstoners display their complete ignorance of the observer block back in the day it got out. Even several months after the official release plenty of them would still resort to using circuits which could have been fully optimized with one (or more) observer blocks, and that made me realize the obvious...

    Plenty of people who use redstone don't know exactly how things work but they know all the best when to use a specific circuit ("setup") in a specific situation. But they hardly try to think 'outside the box' and try to optimize their work even further. At most their optimization would result in exchanging one (existing) circuit for the other.

    So when a new block came out a lot of them were still stuck in their line of thinking. Circuit 'a' was best used in situation 'z' because that's the way it was, never bothering to try and see how that could be done better (or rather: more efficient).

    Nothing wrong with that perse, but it sure made me lose a lot of interest for some more technical Minecraft youtubers. And these days I hardly watch Minecraft youtubers at all.
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