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Help/JavaEdition I dont have anything to make my own resource pack
ShelLuser
• 10/20/2019 10:31 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

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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Minecraft/Discussion What's your favourite music Disc?
ShelLuser
• 10/19/2019 8:41 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Ward.

Why? Well, I am glad you asked! 😎

Here's why:



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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Discussions/Gaming Do you belive in herobrine?
ShelLuser
• 10/19/2019 9:42 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

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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Discussions/General Who's your Favorite Youtuber?
ShelLuser
• 10/19/2019 9:39 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

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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PMC/Introductions How Did You Find Planet Minecraft?
ShelLuser
• 10/17/2019 9:43 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai
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Amazing, I've been around for quite a while and I never noticed this thread before... it's actually quite a bit of a story and has everything to do with the 'competition'.

I enjoy Minecraft, I usually enjoy communities and thus I became part of the 'official' Minecraft community, obviously no direct links nor advertisement here. For starters I never enjoyed the interface, being used to regular forums it was plain out annoying not being able to quote posts (I suppose you guys are "guilty" of this too, but it's much less annoying, which I'll get into), finding new posts was rather difficult and well... I never enjoyed the help section all that much because you had a few guys who - in my impression - were more busy copying and pasting ready made templates (snippets from previous posts) in most responses rather than actually trying to think about what bothered people and thus trying to help them. It's been a long time ago but at some point I figured that I was just wasting my time there, in the end it felt like one giant commercial media circus to me, an opinion which I believe got proven once they got bought by Twitch.

Anyway, getting fed up I decided to leave and even formally requested my account to get removed. Which sort of happened. Which left me without a community, sorta. At first I concentrated on the community linked to my favorite Minecraft forum server and then I suddenly remembered that I was registered with PMC as well, so I tried logging on again (this was a few years back, I recall already having a badge for being registered for one or two years ;)) and that was basically the beginning of the end. Or the start if you will ;)

About that quoting: one reason I'm not too bothered with it over here is because replies get clearly placed underneath a message, neatly indented and all, so it's plain out impossible to mistake posts for other things.
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Help/JavaEdition Launcher won't open
ShelLuser
• 10/16/2019 4:52 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Try to rename your game folder. So open a file browser, then go to %appdta%, you should now see a folder called ".minecraft", try to rename that into something else and then try again.

Careful: this resets everything back to default so get ready to log on again. If this works you can then copy your data over from the old folder, the most important directories would be 'saves' and 'screenshots', optionally mods too if you use those.
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Minecraft/Discussion What to gain with Premium Minecraft
ShelLuser
• 10/12/2019 7:51 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Welcome to the Planet & Minecraft as a whole.

You can always rename your account, just not endlessly but with a 31 day cooldown.

What now? Well. nothing? There is no such thing as "Premium" within the Java edition. So my take would be to feel good about supporting a game you obviously seem to favor.
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Help/JavaEdition Optifine/Forge/Java issues
ShelLuser
• 10/11/2019 11:43 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I'd try another browser then. Maybe something like Opera.
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Minecraft/Discussion Demo questions
ShelLuser
• 10/11/2019 11:41 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Welcome to the forums ;)

#1 Yeah, you should be good. Not sure how the demo saves the world but general gameplay is fully offline. You need to be online once to verify your Minecraft account but the launcher will save a 'token' which can be used to authenticate yourself later, even if you're offline. So no worries there.

But honestly? I think you should consider creating a new world and starting from scratch again, there is so much cool stuff to explore in a new world. Best of all is that you can be assured that everything got generated & spawned as intended. I'm not familiar with all the demo limitations but I'm sure it's limited in some ways.

Heck, you could even consider using structure blocks to copy over any builds you made :)

#2 Diamonds can only be found in the area lower than y16, according to the Wiki page. And yes, they're quite rare :)

#3 Depends on the eggs, as elektropunch also said. And there are way too many in Minecraft to guess ;)
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Discussions/General What's your wallpaper?
ShelLuser
• 10/11/2019 9:52 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I actually have 2 ;)



I was a huge fan of the Ghost in the Shell series as such these wallpapers. On the right is my regular wallpaper (which is also shared with my laptop, courtesy of my Microsoft account & OneDrive) and on the right is the wallpaper which I'm using on my second (4:3) monitor.

As said it's all because of GiTS. I was amazed with the original movie which resulted in me pursuing the original manga's which I got! I have the original in both Japanese (with special thanks to my gf <3) as well as the (English) translated version. And I got the sequel and some designer notes as well. Obviously I have the original movie on DVD and the sequel ("Innocence'). I followed the Stand Alone Complex spin off series as it aired (it got recorded in Japan and spread through "alternative" channels and made available through IRC). As soon as it came out I bought myself the special edition DVD release of the first season and I have the second season as a regular release. And of course I also own the movie "Solid State Society" which is based on S.A.C.

I'm still a fan of the original material but I steer clear from all the nonsense that got released after Spielberg bought and plain out destroyed the legacy that was GiTS. I've seen "Arise" and although I enjoyed the animation itself I plain out disliked the whole story. Never seen the live action movie and I have no plans on watching it either. Although I will say this: I think they got the perfect actress to play Kusanagi, she really looks the part. But that's about the only positive thing I got to say about the movie :)

So yeah, that's my desktop.
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Help/JavaEdition Cannot Send Chat Message
ShelLuser
• 10/11/2019 5:20 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Are you using any chat plugins? My guess is that your permissions need better fine tuning, so look into permissionsex or lucky perms and make sure that your users are allowed to use that plugin.
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Help/JavaEdition 1.14 demo question
ShelLuser
• 10/10/2019 6:06 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

You can make a map using a compass and paper. You can make a compass from combining some iron ingots with one redstone dust and you can make paper out of sugarcane (which you can also grow, so make sure to plant some as well).

Still, a map will only do so much. For best results you should also add a named) banned and then right clicking on it with the map so that you add a clearly visible marker. I also recommend making a campfire and placing it on top of a haybale to create a longer smoke trail. That will also help to more easily recognize your base from a distance.
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Help/JavaEdition Game crashes without leaving a log after a few minutes of playing.
ShelLuser
• 10/10/2019 6:02 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

What game? What version and are you using mods? If so what mod loader do you use and what mods? Also: tried without mods?
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Help/JavaEdition Optifine/Forge/Java issues
ShelLuser
• 10/10/2019 6:01 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

How are you trying to download them? Not having Java isn't an issue perse but you will need to have the runtime installed before you can use their installers. You say you download pdf files, what's in them? I'm assuming that you're not downloading the files or link destinations but instead the html page as a whole.

The only thing you need to do is click on the right options:

https://optifine.net/downloads

For OptiFine this means clicking the "download" link for the version you need, that will not result in a pdf file.
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PMC/Discussion How long have you been playing Minecraft?
ShelLuser
• 10/09/2019 4:24 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Nice thread!

Boy, I still remember it like yesterday... I started playing in March 2014, and it was on a Friday (but I don't remember which). There are two reasons why I remember... first is because I have a few screenshots from the very first "building" I made on a server which I discovered the next week, but second because we had an awesome evening that day...

My gf had been playing with MC for a while and she figured I might also be interested in all that. So she showed me the whole thing. At first I wasn't really interested or better put: was wondering if this would be something I'd enjoy. What to do, how does it work, etc... So confusing (this was 1.7 btw). So she put me into creative mode, showed me that you could turn lamps on and off with redstone and that was the beginning of the end for me; I soon discovered (by accident!) that you could turn off torches and then i realized that I could actually build TTL circuitry (logical gates, AND, NAND, OR, etc.) which was an insta-hit ;)

We ended up playing survival together (my gf created a new world and used the share lan on her laptop) and well.. it was morning (got light again) when we figured that we might want to get some sleep :D

This was also when I learned the differences between creative and survival :P
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Discussions/Gaming What other games do you play?
ShelLuser
• 10/08/2019 6:31 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Wait, there are also other games than Minecraft?! 😁

I got a Steam account and thus also a decent collection of games. My overall favorites are Arma 3 (gotta love the Eden editor which allows you build your own missions and stuff), GTA 5 (gtao actually, though it's starting to bore me a bit) and Kerbal Space Program.

As a runner up I'm also keen on XCOM2.
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Help/JavaEdition Is it possible to have more than one launcher?
ShelLuser
• 10/06/2019 12:45 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

This is easily doable. First: although you can't run 2 launchers you can keep the launcher open so that you can start multiple instances of Minecraft. Start the launcher, go to the settings (lower left corner) and enable the option "Keep the Launcher open while games are runing". This is step one.

The mod problem can also be easily solved..

Inside your 'mods' folder you should also see some sub-folders, in specific 1.12 and 1.14. Guess what? Forge will use those to only load mods for a specific version. If you don't see these folders then just create them yourself. So be sure to put the 1.14 mods into 1.14 and the others vice versa.

The result is that you can easily fire up 2 versions of Forge which both use specific versions of your mods.
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Minecraft/Discussion Give command not working
ShelLuser
• 10/05/2019 4:42 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai
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Ey Empathy!

What's the exact error that you got?

(edit): what happens if you try: /minecraft:give wheat ?
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Help/JavaEdition PermissionsEX Error
ShelLuser
• 10/05/2019 10:19 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

So how did you fix it? Sharing the solution might help other readers as well.

For the record: issues like these are main reason why I always turn off automated updating in my settings, and I strongly suggest you do the same. Normally it shouldn't be much of an issue but you cannot rely on the developers to keep everything 'backwards compatible'.
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Help/Site [Suggestion] Contents vs. Description in blog section
ShelLuser
• 10/04/2019 2:21 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

You know you've been away too long from the Planet if you forgot about that feature ;) thanks for the feedback!
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