Hubertus

Oh lord, I'd completely forgotten.... I only ever chisel chiselled blocks, so completely forgot the others. 202 new blocks....Ouch. And that is also assuming no vertical slabs.

Stair and slab items would be convenient. Unfortunately, there are some snags. Since you can stair and slab any number of times, there is a huge number of possibilities using use the stair and slab tool. Obviously we can't have them all. Instead, we could argue for just stairs (Like vanilla, that update their texture depending on the location of other stairs) and the slabs. Now we have 1 (stair) + 7 (each slab) new blocks for 21 types of stone and 17 types of wood. Still not very nice. So we take a more vanilla approach, with 1 stair and 1 slab. 76 new blocks isn't that bad, though somebody's going to have to write code for them. Looks terrible in a creative menu, but we'll survive. Now the real question is whether stair blocks and stair shaped chiselled blocks can recognise each other. Probably not, so you'll have a little extra work cut out for you if you want to use both in a single build. It would be nice if the stair and slab blocks are also added to the chisellable list, so that we can still work with them if we want to.

You know, I've always considered TFC not as a mod, but as a game that uses minecraft as an engine. I definitely think it would lose something if it stopped using minecraft's basic principles, like the square blocks. The lack of free building is what I've always felt was missing from survival games like Lost in Blue, nd is in my opinion what really sets TFC appart. That said, often I hear it said that something happens/can't be done because of how minecraft handles something. Would be cool to see what the devs could do without those restrictions. But coding an engine from scratch is hard, and takes a lot of time.

So much better! I figured it was finally time to put an image to the name.

Howdy yall! So after 200 posts, I finally got myself an avatar. It's a little design I doodled on a book review I wrote once (which the editor totally didn't appreciate). Unfortunately for me, it isn't a square. My question is thus: should I change the cropping so that the top is included, but the bottom is cut off (which would cut off right at the base of the leftmost swirl), or should I just squish it so that it is square? Also, any general ideas on how to make it nicer would be very appreciated!

The problem with that it that images must be 50kb or less, and it is currently (At like 87% compression) 49.7. Any added whitespace would throw me over the top.

Soooooo, did you ever end up writing that story? I see you're still hanging around the forums, and was curious. I wrote a story based on Benign Online back when I was managing a developer team for that game. It was a lot of fun, and I included a lot of the players as characters in the story. Would be cool to read a TFC world story!

Sounds a lot like MineZ, that game on the shotbow network. I think it could be a lot of fun if you made a plugin that implimented those concept, adding that you can reclaim land by killing a certain number of zombies in that area, and lose it if players die in the same area. Then you could put it on a semi-private server and have a lot of fun with friends. I think MineZ ports especially well to TFC since we have a lot of the mechanics they had to add already built in, like having to drink water (Which is kinda weird in MineZ, since you can drink out of the ocean).

Mythical metals, such as adamantine, mithril, orichalcum, ect.

Wow, I wish my homework would get extended by 3 weeks! Well, actually, a week would probably be my limit. After that you just want to get it over with and strike it off the list of things to worry about.

Oh yes, I didn't mean that they outran the deer! Sorry, shoulda made that more clear. Our not-quite-so-human ancestors would spook the animal and then track it down. Eventually, once the animal tired out, the distance covered would shrink until the animal stopped making serious attempts to get away. Of course, I doubt persistance hunting ports very well to video games. Having to spend a day tracking and spooking your first kills would probably cause a mass exodus of people leaving the mod.

Hey Kitty, you never told us how the presentation went! Have you gotten the marks back yet?

That's right! Here's a seed that has clay 50 blocks west of spawn. -1177940225065613237 Credit goes to sinanisler for this fantastic seed! http://terrafirmacraft.com/f/topic/7289-lonely-mountain-and-falling-down-hotspring/

Give me a couple minutes and let me see what I can dig up.

Hi there! Finding clay has a couple of tricks to it. First , look at the grass. Is it green, or is it patchy and brown? This is an indication of the amount of rainfal the area is getting. You need 500 or higher annual rainfall for clay to be gererated. You can also check F3, and look for the rainfall field. Clay has grass growing on it, so it can be difficult to see. Look for these golden flowers, which only grow on clay. The wiki page for clay: http://wiki.terrafirmacraft.com/Clay

I personally don't think that Kitty has acted at all out of line. She's dedicated all her time to managing the wiki, reading and managing the forums, and handling our bug report. You say that it has been out-dated for months. As per the developer's wishes, the wiki is largely closed for public editing. You can stop blaming Kitty for this, because it's not her decision alone. Kitty isn't the sole wiki editor; there are 10 pages of people applying to be able to edit the wiki. Any one of them could have added the relevant information and sent it to Kitty for approval. There is even a process to go through to become more trusted on the wiki, being able to make larger changes without needed approval. If you want to blame anybody for the wiki not being updated, blame this community for not stepping up. Sure, some people why apply get rejected, and rightly so. Osxvictoria, you have fewer than 5 posts. Why should you be added to the trusted list of people, when the community barely knows you? You complain about her conduct on the forums. Be glad that you're getting a response from the developers. They are under no obligation to give you feedback, or listen to your ideas. And yet, they do. Most of their feedback is actually quite civil, considering how terrible some suggestions that get posted are. Even when she doesn't like an idea, Kitty dutifully reads every new post and let's the discussion keep going. Sometimes she even makes a change that she personally doesn't like. Her job would be a lot easier is she just shut down every suggestion that has no chance of being added. In exchange for working with us in the suggestions thread, she has a lot of say in what gets added, and what doesn't. You suggested a change to something that was quite recently changed, and took a lot of time to do. As such, she informed you that it would not be changed, and closed the thread (Good thing too, your new UI's "counter top" was weird ). There was nothing more to say on the matter. Discussion would be moot. The developers had spoken. There's nothing wrong with stopping a discussion about a feature that is not getting changed. You're just chuffed that your idea was rejected. If you had a problem with it, you could have civilly messaged her and asked why it was shut down so fast, but instead you come here and start a smear campaign. As a final note, Kitty has been reading this thread (you can see when somebody is looking at it). Rest assured, she's seeing all your comments, and allowing you to air your grievances. How's that for not abusing one's powers?

Look up persistance hunting, it's how people hunter for thousands of years. You spook an animal, you track it, you spook it again, you track it, you spook it again, you track it, eventually you win.

Hello everybody! So as you all know, recently a change was made so that you get mining fatigue when you're starving. Unfortunately, some people have complained that the constant swirls in the face can get annoying. So, I present to you my minor modifications to the particle texture. They are available in two types: the first one makes the vanilla particles less visible, so that they won't bug you quite as much. The second makes them smaller, so that they won't block so much of your screen. Downloads below: Smaller Particles Transparent Particles Enjoy everybody! Smaller Particles Transparent

I'm still going through screenshots. Give me 1 sec. You can't sdee the swirl very well when it is not moving. When it's moving it's more noticable.

I did something about it. After I get back from my birthday dinner I'll upload some files that make the effect smaller, or more transparent. EDIT: You asked, I delivered: http://terrafirmacraft.com/f/topic/7456-build-79-hubertus-particles/

I'll see what I can do about that.

I personally wouldn't mind some persistance hunting techniques. Animals may be faster than we are, but humans have much greater stamina. Animals are only fast in short bursts.

I'm feeling a lot of entitlement around here. I'd personally prefer it if the devs responded to suggestions more often with "No, this won't be added" or "we'll consider this idea". That way there's no uncertainty, and you know that on a particular idea, you're wasting your time. Discussions on ideas that aren't going to be added just create more work for the devs, since they have to read everything anyway. One thing I'd like to point out is that you're criticizing a person here. Everything you say about somebody hurts them, so soften your criticisms a little. And Trenix, the issue with your last statement is that Kitty isn't the student, she's the CEO.

I suppose if you abstract visability to mean a cone of blocks (or chunks) eminating from the player in the direction the player looking, it wouldn't truely be every block you can see, but would give a decent illusion of it. Most importantly, it would be way cheaper to do. You might then be able to add a simple viewing angle vs maximum block height in that chunk. Paint level = 9001. But in summary, you could simply take a cone from the player's position and say "these chunks the player can see". Then you find the maximum block height in those chunks (Could cheat and take the height at a certain block) and calculate if it is within the view volume using the visibility angle (which I'm pretty sure is constant no matter what angle you're actually looking at). If you have a chunk that has a block above that maximum height, you exclude the chunks behind it. This would open you up to issues with floating islands, but could simulate the idea you had planned originally. The plus side of this is that while it might takea little bit more time to compute than vanilla maps, if you draw it in real time (as soon as the calculation is done for a chunk, draw it on the map) it'll simply look like the player is drawing the map from what's closest to what is furthest. Of course, I'm sure in actual implimentation there are shortcuts/pitfalls to work out, but I think the general idea might work.

Version #:79.12 SSP/SMP (Single/MultiPlayer): Multiplayer Suggested Name: Phyllite rock/vannila stone Suggested Category: Minor Description: While exploring, I came across the queerest thing I ever did see: That, my friends, is a phyllite rock (You know, the kind you find on the ground) using the texture of vanilla stone. I have no idea why it is doing this. I have no texture packs enabled. (p.s. could possibly be andesite) Have you deleted your config files and are still able to reproduce this bug?: Yes Do you have any mods other than Forge and TFC installed?: Yes If yes, which mods? Fastcraft for me, none on the server (Rhodance Hugbox)