{"id":10469,"date":"2011-01-23T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10469"},"modified":"2011-01-23T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T16:14:42","slug":"twenty-sided-server-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10469","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Sided Server Info"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clint is the curator of the Twenty Sided Minecraft server<\/a>. The other day I joked that he’d added more features to the game than Minecraft author Notch<\/a>, but it’s actually sort of true. He’s added mods to our server that allow us to regulate building, build 2D maps<\/a>, track player statistics<\/a>, make backups of world data and restore them selectively to clean up after griefers, color chat text, appoint moderators, and a bunch of other things that aren’t part of the core game. <\/p>\n

minecraft_map.jpg<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

This is mostly done through user-made mods, which tend to break when the game is patched. The process of installing mods and making sure they don’t conflict is not a one-time job, but an ongoing process. <\/p>\n

The designer used water to make the blue blocks, and then encased the thing in glass to keep water from spilling everywhere. With the latest patch we’ve gained the ability to dye wool, which means we don’t need to do this sort of thing anymore. You can just build with blue wool blocks.<\/td><\/tr>
The designer used water to make the blue blocks, and then encased the thing in glass to keep water from spilling everywhere. With the latest patch we’ve gained the ability to dye wool, which means we don’t need to do this sort of thing anymore. You can just build with blue wool blocks.<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

The server is 100% in creative mode: No monsters, no damage, and you can usually get a moderator to give you free stuff if you ask nicely. So if you just really need to make a 100 meter pole of solid diamond block, you don’t need to spend six months mining for the stuff. <\/p>\n

LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT TREE. Man, if you cut it down you’d have enough wood to make, I dunno… A big tree like this one, I guess?<\/td><\/tr>
LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT TREE. Man, if you cut it down you’d have enough wood to make, I dunno… A big tree like this one, I guess?<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

When a major server update happens, he usually takes down the creative server and runs the game in survival mode. There’s no point in trying to play creatively with internet strangers without basic tools like building rights and damage recovery, so we abandon that and fight zombies for a few days until the new plugins are available. A lot of people take a break from the game at this point – not everyone likes survival mode. <\/p>\n

My nemesis built this.<\/td><\/tr>
My nemesis built this.<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

Plans are underway for making an alternate Twentymine server that always runs in survival mode. I don’t know what the status of that is, but it sounds interesting. I’ve been playing a lot of single-player survival recently (big post on that tomorrow) and I’m curious to see how people behave when they are trapped in a dirt hut, surrounded by zombies, and free to grief the other survivors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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