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That would be the mana bar. You’ll use that with the magical tomes. It recharges naturally by itself or magically with mana potions.
The protection runes are to put on mobs that you want to protect. It’ll keep your pet croc, or cow😁, from despawning or being killed by another player. The real magic stuff you want to play with are the tomes and staffs. Try the speed tome or earth staff first. Void chests are nice too. Tomes use your mana and you have to wait for the mana to recharge. Staffs can be recharged with februm.
At this point Geomoria are fairly useless to explore, as there is basically no loot, unless you need steel doors. But I’m not a fan of putting too much loot in them either, since they are at a depth where you can’t even really find iron. I’d suggest thinking of Geomoria as underground cities and keeping any loot equivalent to what is found in a surface village. If the Geomoria were deeper, say -1000 then I’d go with some mese or mese tools. Even then, I’d offer the corpses in the underworld as a comparison. There you find mese and diamond tools as loot, but that’s -3000. So for Geomoria at -200 the loot shouldn’t be equal to the underworld.
Loot that would be expected would be on par with what you can find in villages, with the occasional gold bar, gemstone, or dwarven food. If you really wanted to break it, toss in a magic mirror or two 😁
I can confirm that I have seen these same chests online in geomoria. Not sure if I have ever seen them anywhere else.
Just a guess, but it’s possible that there is lava being generated nearby. Lava and water a notorious sources of lag when underground. Check the minimap, it may show up there.
I’ve had to explain to several people that the current spawn location is an accident. Starting under a volcano isn’t very appealing. Could we get spawn moved back?
Kip found one on the last server. It’s basically a trophy item. Just a rare item to display, kinda like the heart of a giant tree.
Garlic: Bane of Vampires
Rumors of the magical weed garlic abound. This wonder plant is said to grant horrible breath that keeps vampires at bay. For this reason vampires have hidden this magical crop from us. If we are ever to defeat the vampires in our world, garlic must be found! It grows in forests with green grass. If found please contact Keihdra immediately so production of this wonder drug can begin. We must defeat the vampires. Wooden stakes and silver bullets won’t do. Garlic is our only hope!
Under charcoal should mention that all wood other than pine can be used. Pine just makes a sticky mess when put in a furnace 😁
Welcome to Mesecraft, adolfo. Pumpkin lights are probably the easiest good light for early game. Something else to add to your garden. Let me know if you need seeds to get started.
As for tools, steel should be your early game target. Way better than wood, stone, iron, or bronze. Later game, mese tools are probably the most useful. Arcanite tools are good quality, but februm and egerum are better used in crafting magical items rather than tools. You’ll find the time of speed, staff of earth, and void chests to be extremely useful, among other items. Fruit tools are extremely expensive and really not worth it. Steel and then mese are the main tools that I stick to. Diamond is the top of the line, but unless you just have a huge excess just use diamond for armor and crafting.
Unfortunately one of the limitations of the protectors is that fire will spread. This is a known problem. If you had a lava block or if a tnt man hit it, it would burn. Being there at spawn it’s possible it was arson as well. I was a fan of the library. If you rebuild, use non-flammable materials.
I’ve checked a couple of villages that had already been discovered, no markets where there should be. I’ll look to see if I can find an undiscovered village and see what it looks like. More distressing though is that it took all the chairs, kitchen, and bathroom furniture and disappeared them. Most distressing is that my magic mirror is gone too! 😥
Welcome to Mesecraft. The admins have made it known that the game is still alpha right now, so that is why there are things that are missing. Guns are one of the main culprits in that area, oil buckets being another. That said, there is a ton of stuff to do. The df caverns are incredible and there are tons of biomes to explore underground. Basically those of us that have been playing for a while trek out somewhere and build a base then dig down into the depths. There are tons of villages to explore if you like surface life and there are floating islands way up in the sky that some of us live on.
Basically your early game will be spent finding a place to call home, building a base, and establishing a steady food supply. You’ll want to get a decent mine going too. Dig a straight shaft to at least -500, preferably -1000, then expand from there. That’s where the ores become more common.
Consider Mesecraft part survival, part, exploration, and you’ll never run out of things to see or build. If you see me online say hi and maybe I can help you out more.
The way it works now is good. I agree that I wouldn’t want people setting their spawn to my base. The exception would be in a place that was set up as a public hotel or guest house. I had a couple different places set up last map that were guest houses as did other players. In a place like that you want to protect from griefing, but wouldn’t be bad to have players spawning there. I guess it’s not the worst thing either way, I was just surprised when this happened to minekid the other day. Now that we know how it works, it’s not an issue.
I think this is exactly the case as once minekid slept in a different bed the spawn was set there.
No, that’s fine. I shifted my field a bit and now the dark spot sits comfortably in a wooded area. Thanks.
Yep, that 16×16 square is what I have. And it seems to be resistant to light. I’ve added lights to this area, and they give light, but my plants won’t grow in this area. Gonna try growing a mushroom tree here.
We just tested and by adding minekid to the protection block it allowed him to respawn here.
So best as I can remember this is what happened. minekid and I had been using the same bed, no problem. We have recently got our house up to the point where we made bedrooms so we moved the bed. I also in this time added protection blocks. minekid was not added to the protection block where the new bed is (oversight on my part). Anyway, I made sure that we both slept in the new bed to set our spawn point since the old bed had been moved. Then because we like to do stupid stuff, we were jumping off the roof of our house aiming for a slime block, about 20 something blocks high. We both actually died doing this, it happens. I respawned in the new bed, minekid respawned at spawn some 3000 blocks away. After trekking all the way home, now I was signed in on minekid’s account btw, I slept in the bed again, then recreated the accident. Died and respawned again back at spawn. When I finally got home, I placed a new bed where there were no protection blocks, slept in it, jumped to my death once again, and respawned in the newest bed.
I guess I could still test to see if sleeping in the protected bed but adding minekid to the protection would allow me to spawn at that bed.
I don’t remember this being the case before as I had used the guest house in Old Ael Post that was protected by Odie and I seem to remember having spawned there. Maybe not. Anyway, that was what happened this time. Hope that helps recreate the situation.
Thanks all for checking this out. I’m lost when it comes to reading the code, so to me it’s like you guys have superpowers.
The markets serve two purposes as I see it. One, to give the server a p2p trading system. Menchers mentioned above that this gives reason to settle within range of a village. The ability to trade with and interact with other players is the reason I don’t just play offline. I have used this aspect of the market to great success selling everything imaginable and have bought hundreds of items from others also. A better explanation to how to use the markets is somewhere else on this forum.
Two, Menchers called it a poor man’s void chest. I call the void chest a tiny market. The use of the inventory to store items cannot be underestimated. When I moved from Himinnfjell to Yggdrasil, I had thousands of items in the market. If not for the ability to move items in mass, I probably would have quit the game after Himinnfjell burned. Because of the ability to move all my storage in one go, I was able to build something that exceeded what the first was. Exploration will always be a part of a game like this, but the ability to store your treasures in the market, as a kind of safety deposit box, while you are out exploring greatly enhances the experience.
Just my two cents….
And adding them in just a few places defeats the value for me. I want to know that wherever I go I am able to restock with needed items. Being able to sell to anyone anywhere is what makes it fun.
LOL! Now I know how to get a rise out of Kip! I agree that the markets can be a bit OP, but I’d argue that they add essential value for those of us that know how to use them.
I’ve done a bit more exploring. Markets are still not showing in villages that had already been explored, nor in ones that are newly discovered. Not sure that I get a vote, but I say burn it all and start a new map. Markets are a key item that really aids the game.
Grimmreaper made an appearance today and claimed to be begger. Yet another alias to watch out for.
Does this impact the current server or only offline/new games? My island seems to be at the same height as normal.
Far enough to give plenty of room to build, although most of the empty space is on the Qig side. Didn’t feel like cutting a ton of trees on the other side. The east wall is about halfway to bocchus tower and just past Durins abyss.
Oops. I got bored and built a ton of wall. No protection on any of it though. If someone wants to tear it down, my feelings won’t be hurt. I get the idea of wanting it to be for new players though. I’ll stay hands off.
Maggot_beggar was back in today and using cheats to fly. I left quickly because he attacked me, but was in the nether near our stuff. Can’t we get rid of this guy?
Not sure, but I think a couple of them have been moved or destroyed. But it is a fun thing to do.
Oooo, underwater could be lots of fun. Put it deep enough that you nearly die getting to the surface. Lots of potential.
The only problem with moving spawn is that it is still open for griefing. Unless safeguards are put in place to prevent fire spread, and lava and water bombing, moving spawn is useless.
New fix has made the game extremely laggy. Tried multiple machines and taking forever to load terrain. Seems to be laggy for everyone that has been on.
I sent you an email with some screenshots, but it’s been happening on and off for about a week. Almost every day.
I understand and I’m over it now. And I don’t think he was crashing the server, pretty sure that was just the market bug. He was just taking credit for it. I do feel like the pumpkin mobs were a bug/cheat/problem. It allowed a low level player access to something that could be used to grief on a large scale. Making the protection blocks protect against fire spread would eliminate this problem. Everything that he burned in Himinnfjell was protected but the pumpkin mobs allowed him to burn them.
So minekids tried to transfer stuff via the market today and everything was fine for a while. Then all of a sudden the game crashed. This time I realized that it was a similar item that made it do it. minekid tried to put a juice press in the market. I put a silo of liquid in. Not sure if those specific items made it crash. I had a lot of items already in the market, but minekid had just a couple. Anyway, figured I’d give as much info as I could.
I’m the guilty party. I had a lot more than 900 things loaded into the market. Sorry, didn’t know.
He stole my son’s space suit and helicopter parts plus a dozen other minor things. The gold in question is the one Kip gave me to give to donyboy for the mossy cobblestone. When I got back to Falldale to give him the gold, he was gone and trash was on. The next time I saw donyboy Himinnfjell had been griefed and minekids stuff had been stolen out of his house. By that time Kip and I had both speculated that donyboy and trash were the same person. So no, I didn’t give him the gold. And now that I know that he is the one who stole from my kid and griefed both Falldale and Himinnfjell, I won’t give him anything.
I have screenshots of donyboy admitting that he is trasher. He also threatened me and my son. yuckjoebiden is also connected to him. How do we ban this guy?
I don’t have as much against the boomers as I just hate the pumpkin mobs. But if protection blocks protect against fire, that might solve it
So my ship and dock in Falldale burned. Trash took the credit for it. Fire protection cannot come fast enough. And can we get rid of explosive mobs too. They just enable griefers like this trash. I am pissed.
I might have taken my anger out on donyboy as he was the one that knows trash irl. He is persona non grata in my book.
Glad you enjoyed Himinnfjell, carzomg. Mineman welcomed me when I first started playing and helped with my first build, the Hobbit Hole, so he would be a good one to name an award after. But like Kip said, there are so many ways to measure a master builder and I’m not sure that singling anyone out is the best way to do that. That said, I’d rather honor players that help others out. Guys like mineman, kiopy7, Odie, and giorge helped me when I got started here and so now I’ve tried helping other players too. That’s the stuff that builds community.
Not sure what’s going on, but the main server is nearly unplayable today. I move ten steps forward and it takes me back to where I started. Ended up getting killed by a zombie in a Halloween costume and now I can’t even get back to where my bones are. The entire section won’t load….
I’m getting tired of these pumpkins. They’ve blown up two different parts of Falldale and one in Himinnfjell. 😩 Ugh
Going along with the cooking theme, is there any way to make the stove and microwave actually cook food?
I visited it, just to check it out. Looks nice. The nearby town is on fire though, looks like maybe a mob got it. You should come join us in the main server. I’d be happy to help get you started over here.
That looks awesome! I’ve been wanting to do a library. Where can we find this? I have a bunch of books on farming that I’d love to add.
The crime scene signs were posted by Humblericef201. It would have had to have been quite the lightning storm to strike two separate villages and multiple strikes in each, as there were fires burning in separate places, unconnected to other fires in each village.
This is great stuff. We really should build a library and put stuff like this in the books. I’ve got a bunch of books about farming that we can add too. Stuff like this would help curb the learning curve for new players.
Humblericef201 and I were able to put out the fires, but it was clearly the work of an arsonist. I’ll be out the rest of this week, but I’ll try to help a bit with some repairs when I get back. I have my suspicions as to who the arsonist might be.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Yeah, this was my thought too. Seems to be working fine now.</p>
I’ve been working on Falldale. It now has a small wall around the city and walkways through town. The main addition is a dock and magical ship in the harbor. I’ll be adding lights and some other doors in the wall, but I think the village is much better than before. The only thing I’ve protected is the dock and boat as they link to my home of Himinnfjell.
There is a notification, but it’s off to the side. This was changed in the last update, but I agree that it was better when the health bar was directly above the mob. Maybe in the next update it gets switched back?
No VPN, but tried to make a different account, same problem. I did succeed in logging into his account on my computer. So I thought maybe it’s something with his tablet. Updated and restarted, same thing. Tried a different tablet, same thing. Then I tried to log into different minetest servers using his tablet and had the same problem on many others. Did get into a couple though. Not sure why it works on some servers, but not others. Both tablets are android. If anyone has ideas, I’m open to advice.
I’m not sure if this is related to carzomg’s armor bug, but I found something that was weird today. I was sitting in a chair without my armor and while I was sitting in the chair I put my armor on. I was then able to leave the chair without clicking on the chair, but just by moving forward. When I did this, my view was from half height instead of full height. I was able to correct it in game by sitting in the chair again. I was able to reproduce this. Didn’t get any error messages or anything, just thought it was interesting.
This would be great. Really anything to improve the economy would be well received. I enjoy loading my stuff into the markets, but it seems that very few people actually buy items. Being able to sell to NPC’s would be great. And I agree that the vendors are too expensive to make. If they were a bit cheaper, no diamonds, I’d be able to set up my own grocery store.
I’ve been playing for about a week now and absolutely love it. Thanks to Mineman and Kiopy7 for their help in setting up my house. Community has been great and the world has plenty of space to build and grow.
