[Brad]

Originally Posted by Bryson Inside the Fortress of Insanity was my guess...

Nope!

[turtle]

Not at my Ranch that's for sure.

Oh, views are gone. Not going to bother with them anymore. Brad, please edit the OP to remove the views section. Thanks guys for your understanding. Building new maps now. Should be pretty fast at this point.

[turtle]

Map is back up sans views.

It's also up view the 8:15PM Eastern snapshot I ran to be sure. Latest changes are visible.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by turtle Brad, please edit the OP to remove the views section.

Done!

[turtle]

I'm sure most of you didn't notice, but I moved the maps to a new server. I'm ditching my hosting with Server4You due to horrible support and I have shiny new hosting with my current employer. Anyway, if you did get some downtime trying to view the maps they are back up and updated.

[turtle]

Map has been updated.

[709]

Hmm. I put some torches down in an area E of Drew's new place for a potential "Arches Natural Park" but they don't seem to be showing up. I was going to wait until after the 1.8 update to work on it anyways, so if they got wiped somehow no biggie.

[Brad]

BTW, when the 1.8 update rolls through, I'm tempted to try a deeper prune of the map. Somewhere I've seen a tools that will try to delete/regen any chunk that contains only natural resources. Any chunk containing zero torches, wood blocks, chests, etc. would be marked for removal. I'd love to give that a try on our world.

(If I can't find that tool or it doesn't work, I'm also tempted to write my own.)

So, if there are areas you would like to be included for regen with 1.8, don't plant torches or build in them.

[709]

Interesting! That could be really cool.

If they're still there prior to the 1.8 update I'll just head over and remove them. Part of the reason for me waiting to build the park was the chance some other interesting features might pop up after the regen. Don't forget to wipe the N sand mine super-chunk before hand! I'd be mortified if that became permanent.

[drewprops]

I *love* the place where we played CreeperMining.... it still makes me laugh thinking about that zany crap.


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[Brad]

How about going creepermining one last time at 709's old sarlacc pit before I prune those chunks? Tonight, say, 11-midnightish?

[turtle]

Originally Posted by 709 Hmm. I put some torches down in an area E of Drew's new place for a potential "Arches Natural Park" but they don't seem to be showing up. I was going to wait until after the 1.8 update to work on it anyways, so if they got wiped somehow no biggie.

Can you post a screen cap of that area? I see a bunch of places with torches over near there but have no way of knowing if it's the area you are talking about. It is possible it's a browser caching issue for you, or the map gen program doesn't do just torches... give me a point and I'll see about taking a look.

[turtle]

FYI, map has been recently updated. Showing progress at spawn and 709's project being the biggest.

Capt'n way out south is there too.

[drewprops]

So THAT'S where I am.

Huh.


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[turtle]

Updating the map again now.

Brad, did you do pruning of the creeper mining area? Looks really odd now with the map. Wondering if it means I need to do a complete render rather than incremental.

[709]

Originally Posted by turtle FYI, map has been recently updated. Showing progress at spawn and 709's project being the biggest.

Big project is big.

This may take a while.

[Gargoyle]

Eeeek. I think I need to find a few hours to come and have a catchup. There seems to be a tree growing through my windows! :/

[turtle]

You don't need to worry about that tree now.

Maps are updated.

[SpecMode]

Originally Posted by turtle You don't need to worry about that tree now.

Or the window, for that matter.

[drewprops]

Originally Posted by SpecMode Or the window, for that matter.

Or the earth below that window.


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[turtle]

Working on putting up the latest version at this point.... give it about an hour and it'll be done.

[drewprops]

I was devastated to realize that the armory had been destroyed.
I flitted all the way out there to get myself some safety armor, only to find ruin and an angry skellie.


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[turtle]

Yeah, it's pretty worthless right now. But the newest map is done.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by turtle But the newest map is done.

IT'S GLORIOUS.

[drewprops]

You realize we can never go back to the sedate world of building tiddly little shit anymore. Not after tasting godhood and the crackle of lightning surging through our hands.

Nothing will ever be the same.

Nothing.


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[RowdyScot]

So we are actually getting the non-destroyed world back, right? Right? Tried to log in 2 or 3 times now to work on some stuff.

[turtle]

Well, we do have backups to revert to is need be. We thought you all wanted a challenge.

[709]

Um... same with me. Logged in earlier today and couldn't figure out where in the fuck I was. Blowed-up versions of previous landmarks finally led me to realize I was at a hell version of spawn.

Fix plz?

[drewprops]

Can we play killzone for one more night??

[turtle]

"Final" maps are up for the Manhunt. Enjoy the view of carnage. I'll update the map later back to our normal world in a few days. Enjoy the fun we had.