Minecraft

Revision as of 02:32, 8 November 2010

What Is Minecraft?

Minecraft is a sandbox game which allows players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world. It is currently in development by Markus Persson, aka "Notch". The gameplay is inspired by Dwarf Fortress, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Dungeon Keeper, and especially Infiniminer. The game has two variants, Alpha and Classic, both with single- and multiplayer options. Classic includes only the building aspects of the game with unlimited blocks, while Alpha includes monsters and a much greater variety of crafting available, as well as requiring players to mine their own blocks. Alpha is currently the latest release of Minecraft, and will move into beta sometime in September 2010. Minecraft was developed for about a week before its public release on May 16, 2009 on the TIGSource forums, where it gained a considerable level of popularity. It has been continually updated since then.

Things You Really Should Read

A list of known bugs in Survival Multiplayer

A list of known crafting recipes using your Workbench

How to use a Furnace to make Smooth Stone and Glass as well as some other things

The whole damned Minecraft Wiki

OCAU Community Servers

There are currently multiple OCAU MineCraft Servers Hosted by members.

Server 1: OCAU Shenanigans

OCAU runs one of the most consistently populated server in the country, with an average of 25 concurrent users during peak hours.

Current IP: whopperohyeah.com

Original Creator: Broden

Current Host: Whopper AKA Imitation

Planned Uptime: 24/7

Current Player Cap: 30

Cartography: Link

Current Zoomable Map: Link

Server software: Hey0's Server Mod with GriefAlert, BorderLands, tpToggle, Warn and VaultWarp plugins

OCAU Forums Thread: Link

Voice Comms / Mumble Server: Join aldaris.f3n.org or 220.233.179.84 (Requires Mumble Client)

Current Status: Online

Rules

1. If you are told to read the wiki by an admin it is for a reason. If you persistently ask questions which are answered in this Wiki page you may receive a 24 hour ban and/or a loss of builder privs

2. In order to be given builder privileges (the right to build, destroy and craft) in the OCAU server, you must be a member of the OCAU forums for longer than 3 months. In addition to this, you are required to have 50 or more posts in the forums. This means the post count shown in the left hand bar when you've made your post, and does not include pub posts, shop and swap posts and any other area in which you do not increase your post count. Do not spam the forum to raise your post count, as this will earn you a ban from OCAU. To get builder privileges if you meet these requirements, post in the minecraft thread on OCAU with your username, then join the game and let an admin know.

(Current members will still be allowed to play on the server even if they do not adhere to the above guidelines)

3. We want the OCAU Minecraft server to be as friendly as possible, so therefore any sort of rude behaviour, swearing, and general dickery will not be tolerated.

4. No offensive imagery or wording should be built on the server. This includes swastikas, curse words made out of blocks and rude body parts.

5. No exploiting glitches/bugs/etc (tool drop health reset is okay, though). No item duping. If you are caught duping, or with duped or otherwise ill-gotten items, chances are you will be treated as the guilty party.

6. The most important rule. No griefing which means building in or destroying things in someones area. You do not receive a warning if you are caught griefing by an admin or OP; you are banned on the spot.

Unless otherwise stated, one warning is given for all rule breaking. Any slip ups after that will lead to a permanent ban. Note that admins and ops CAN ban on the first offence.

Generally use common sense and be a nice person and courteous to other players. If you want to build next to someone or build something under another players creation ask the owner first and respect their wishes.

The minecraft world is a huge and varied one. Building at central spawn is strongly discouraged and usually impossible. Buildings built in the area around the spawn point may be demolished without warning if they detract from the general aesthetic. If this happens, signs will be put up directing you to contact an admin for compensation. Use the warps listed below or walk for a good while until you find an empty area to build in.

Tall, thin (1x1 etc) towers are to be ONLY used for the purpose of reaching high areas and are to be removed directly after use. Repeatedly building and leaving these towers is considered griefing and can result in a ban

If you witness a rule being broken, let somebody know. Admins have salmon coloured names. Currently the admins are KingKrapp, WHOPPER, Fett and qwertylesh. Syvergy (Silent Remorse on OCAU), Ewok85 (Same name) and drguild (Revenger on OCAU) are Op's/Mod's who can kick and ban. If we aren't in the game (you can check by typing /who), take some screenshots - with their name visible - and PM someone who is online @ OCAU or all of us if nobody is.

Please note, if you are banned please PM an admin (preferably the one involved) on OCAU if you have questions or would like to argue your case. Complaining in the thread will do nothing but hurt your case.

INFRASTRUCTURE RULES (ROAD/RAIL/SKYROAD):

There are 3 types of public/private infrastructure on the server. They are public in the sense that they can be used by anyone without permission, but private in the respect that they are owned by their respective builders. Failure to heed these will result in bans ranging from short to permanent.

The first is the ground road system (Admins/mods), while this CANNOT be moved or edited without permission, it can be extended or connected to without any problem. Please try to keep with the same style so people know that it's a road.

The second is the Glass Bypass (syvergy), the OCAU Highway, and the SkyRoad. All of these roads have been built privately and CANNOT be edited, moved, merged, connected to or basically anything besides walking WITHOUT express permission. IF you are unsure who to ask, either ask in the forum thread or ask an admin or moderator in the server. If any of these private roads are damaged or changed, the alteration will be reverted back and you will be banned.

The third is the Subway Network (DrGuild, Stocky21, Syvergy and various others). The subway is the largest and most complex project that exists on the server, and has been methodically planned and managed by the designers. Rail tracks are very costly to make, and digging the tunnels/building the stations has taken weeks of work. DO NOT build your own subway line without permission, as you may tunnel into someone else's property and cause havok with the existing line system. DO NOT edit existing lines. DO NOT change or edit existing stations. If you would like a station designed or your building added to the network, contact DrGuild in game and he will sort something out with you. If you're caught stealing tracks, the admins will be notified immediately by the server and you will be permbanned.

All of these systems have been designed to make getting around the world easy, (and safer, once the monsters come back), so if you simply ask questions and not touch anything you are unsure of, you will be fine. Of course, you are free to simply use any of the above systems without permission.

Restricted Items

These items are banned either because of their griefing potential or due to them glitching up the place.

Flint and Steel
Lava - buckets of lava are okay for furnaces etc, but placing lava (pouring from a bucket) is banned.
TNT
Minecarts - all types

If you need one of these materials (except carts) for any reason (for example, flint and steel for burning large amounts of leaves), ask an admin and we will be happy to help you out provided the area is safe to do so in.

Server Help

Kits

In the chat, type "/kit builderkit" without the quotes to get an iron pick, an iron spade and an iron axe. If you drop a tool and pick it up again, it will reset to full health (unpatched bug). Please don't spam kits; it's not necessary.

Warp Points

/warp east - Near Polk's place, on the road (looots of trees nearby)

/warp spleef - OCAU spleef arena (please rebuild it when you're done with it)

/warp north - Near Qwertylesh and Teria's places.

/warp maze - Big, fancy maze

/warp south - South...

/warp glass - Huge glass pyramid in biome-territory

/warp bridge - Sydney Harbour Bridge

/warp C4 - Connect Four, anyone?

Useful Commands

/spawn to return to spawn.

/sethome to set a personal home point.

/home to go there.

/tp *username* to teleport to that user.

/tptoggle to make it impossible for non-admin/op users to tp to you. Enter it again to remove the block.

/tp? to display your teleport status.

/who to see who is on the server.

/help to see a list of these commands .

/compass and /getpos to see your current bearing.

/msg *username* *message* to send a private message to that player.

A complete list of all the commands for the Minecraft server can be found here

Ranks

Admin: KingKrapp; WHOPPER; Fett; qwertylesh

Op/Mod: Ewok85; drguild; Syvergy

Secure Vaults (VaultWarp)

We have introduced the Vault Warp system. This allows each player a private warp to their own secure adminium vault.

At this point, each vault is an empty (bar 4 torches) 3 x 5 x 4 room.

What you do with the room is entirely up to you however we do have a recommended build layout.

To request a vault please contact an admin when they are online.

To warp to your vault once it has been created you simply type /vaultwarp.

NOTE: YOU MUST SET TPTOGGLE TO BLOCKED TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF YOUR VAULT

An example layout.

The two blocks below the double stacked torches mark the manual entry way. You should not build here as if for some reason manual entry is required, your property may be destroyed in the process.

Also you should not put anything in the middle of the vault unless you want to want to get stuck in it each time you go to your vault.

Map of the Server

This map is from the 5/11/2010. It covers an area 3km x 3km, centered on the 0,0 point. Spawn is indicated, slightly north west of 0,0

The map scale is 1 pixel = 2 blocks. Coordinates are in 100 block increments.

Server Hardware

WHOPPER's sweet-ass not so sweet-ass US server

C2Q Q9550 2.83GHz
4GB RAM
100/100 mbit

Server 2: Icabaad

Current IP/Address: remoted.ath.cx

Original Creator: Icabaad

Current Host: Icabaad

Planned Uptime: 24/7

Current Player Cap: ??

Current Zoomable Map: Link

Server software: n/a

OCAU Forums Thread: Link

Troubleshooting

Problem: I keep on getting this message Disconnecting Took too long to log in ? Answer: That's a problem with the overloading of the minecraft.net servers

Black screens or crashes

The fix below will break all sound but will stop the game crashing and black screening.

On version Alpha 1.1.2_01 you need to update the java game library's to fix the black screen crashing.

Download version 2.6 nightly from https://www.newdawnsoftware.com/hudson/view/LWJGL/job/LWJGL/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/dist/lwjgl-2.6.zip

Replace the files in C:\Users\YOUR USER\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin for vista and 7 and C:\documents and settings\YOUR USER\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin for xp

Replace all the files from the zip file including those in the native folder.

That should be it then and the game should be stable.

New versions of the game may use newer versions of the library from 2.6.

Alternative fixes

Set Minecraft client priority to HIGH
Set rendering distance to NORMAL
Restart Minecraft
Restart your PC
If nothing will fix your problems, delete the client data in C:\Users\YOUR USER\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\ and let Minecraft download everything again.

Block Lag

Step back from the blocks you are trying to remove instead of butting up against them.
Disconnect and reconnect to the server.
Close and reopen your client.

Typically for every person who says they have lag, 10 will say nothing is wrong. It is usually specific to each client.