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1.9PR3 is out, lots of new stuff - some of which won't be finished for the official 1.9 release. Jeb has posted pics of the skill system, and Notch just posted a pic of a dragon of which neither will be in 1.9. I also doubt that the "official" release will make 11/11/11 and the game will still continue to evolve - If we do do another new world I'm switching servers. Part of the fun of Minecraft is the longevity and I see no real reason in starting another new world.

I see no problem with keeping the existing map, the new stuff will spawn in new chunks. Even after official 1.0 comes out there will still be updates - are we gonna make a new world every 2 months?

I haven't really had an issue with food, I find sprinting eats it up quick but thats about it. No idea why would start another new map for 1.9.

Haha, dont know what is better, Skyline banning half the server or Peklz banning himself. Props all around.

Solid? Or Hollow? OD? Schedule(if hollow)? Cutting round stuff(even more so if hollow) can be a bit iffy, it likes to roll and pinch the blade causing it to snap. For cutting 1/2-3" Schedule 40/80 PVC/ABS (the most common of the non-flexible plastic pipe) you'd probably be fine with a blade with fewer than 14 TPI, that little saw should mow right through it. Also be careful or you'll have a frakken hand like me Tho that was lost to a really large shaper doing something stupid when she kicked . Bandsaws are quite safe just beware of whats going on and be confident(as in with any power tool).

Weird, would still like to see a pic. As for: 1) Not sure what you mean - if you're referring to the bearing the prevents the blade from deflecting away from you as you push, no it shouldn't have a groove. When you provide pressure the back of the blade should hit the edge of the bearing causing it to spin - that's what it's meant to do. Depending on what you're cutting, how thick it is, and how much pressure you're using you may or may not even engage this bearing. 2) No, typically speaking the blade shouldn't be constantly pressing against the guide pins/blocks. Usually that's a sign of too little blade tension, or feeding to fast, or not having a course enough blade. You'd need to describe what you're cutting(species, thickness), how you're cutting it(straight, curved, tight curved), and the type of blade you're using(TPI, blade width, blade thickness, metal type). 3) If you have a noticeable deviation of the blade left and right of the wheels then you either lack tension or there is a serious run out problem on the wheels. Run out shouldn't be an issue unless there is something physically wrong with the tool. You can use this to check it. Excellent cheap tool, check your table saw, jointer head, planar head, router, shaper, among other tools. From sounds of it you either lack enough blade tension or are cutting a material too dense/thick for your saw/blade(other then the bearing with the groove, I'd have to see a picture). I'd suggest you buy some extra blades, and cheap spring-steel or carbon-steel ones at that, and play with your tension - its a bit of art form to get the proper tension on your blade for what you're cutting without the blade snapping. Cheap blades you just throw away if they snap, if you have a nice bi-metal or carbide one you can send it in get it rewelded and sharpened. Also keep in mind that bandsaws love to deflect and the thicker/denser the material, the farther the guides, and the finer the tooth of the blade the more it will deflect. For setting your tension it look like resaw capability is 4 5/8", so I'd raise the guide to the max height and push my finger against the blade between the guide and the table, with moderate pressure it shouldn't deviate more than 1/4", if not closer to 1/8".

This is an excellent guide for setting blade tension(Fine Woodworking is excellent in general). As for your guide bearings, care to take a pic? Most bandsaws will either have a set of thrustbearings which the blade will ride in between and a third bearing that stops the blade from deflecting too much away from you. Here's a pic of that style.. Some others will use style, where metal or resin blocks keep the blade from deflecting left to right and a bearing keeps it from deflecting too far away from you. It sounds like you have something different, out of the 6 or 7 bandsaws I've used they've always used one of those two styles, kinda of curious.

Minecraft.net goes down a lot, used to be down way more often.

Aye dynmap is nice, but better without if its killing the server. Think we could switch to just nightly updates on the map(if possible with dynmap), or just a daily/weekly cartograph render?

Quick bug report Fk. As for sending items if you misspell someones name it'll send the items anyways reporting the item will given the next time the player logs in, don't remember if that's the way it worked before or if its an option in for plugin, don't make typos I know other people have been getting "target too far away" or something similar when using it. Passive mob spawning: Before you placed dirt and made grass grow passive mobs would spawn, no more. Even land that was spawning passive mobs that is modified seems to fail to spawn now too. Not sure if this is a bug or part of the update to make passive mobs persistent for the upcoming updates. gohome: I think I might be the only one having this problem, seems if I'm a very long distance from home it'll teleport me back into solid rock. I've tried moving my home point a couple of times to different areas to see if it makes a difference. slimes: I've got a 3 chunk slime farm with three floors each 2 blocks high. While spawning seems slow its more it'll occasionally spawn slimes are invincible, and will be partially visible on two or three floors. Included the best screenshot I could get of it, its hard to see however. The two black boxes are the smallest slimes and in game they're spazzing out at full speed between two floors.

1.8.1 is already out people, first bug release, that was quick. server jar for Fk

"All that remains now is a final check. We will have a build for you guys very soon! Be patient!" woot.

bukkit is at 85% done for 1.8 now

Cave spiders only exist in pre-generated abandoned mineshafts, and light doesn't stop their spawners, and they're poison. They suck, but are rare. As for Craftbukkit he's on stage 3 of 3, and 50% done(compared to 33% earlier this morning. At the current pace it'll be done by this evening, minus bug testing. woot. EDIT: Whats more scary are silverfish. "In the Beta 1.8 pre-release, Silverfish popped out of stone bricks found in strongholds. If the player mined these blocks Silverfish may pop out and then attack them like " Avoid the Strongholds!

1.8 Official is out, client and server!@#$!@#% change list! sooo Fk, can we get the server updated when you get a minute purrty please?

Well instead of opinion here is a spreadsheet I've made at work demonstrating CPU scaling in recent games. Note that in the first set going from a faster X2 to a slower X4 results in a loss of less than 4%, in the second set going from a slighty faster X2 to a slighty slower X3 resulted in a loss of less than 6%, and in the third set going from a slightly faster X3 to a slightly slower X4 resulted in just about even performance(a net gain of 0.8%). Also included is an i7 in the last test as reference against a similarly clocked Intel quad core(which performed near the same as the other two). As for multithreading support in current game engines, go google "cpu OR processor scaling benchmark" and a game engine such as Anvil, Dunia, X-Ray, Source, Chrome, MT-Framework, Gamebryo, Unreal, IW Engine, or just about any other engine and you will that in general they gain less than 10% performance after scaling past two cores. This simple fact is in most of the current games out there two very fast cores will perform similar to a processor with more albeit slower cores. I also never stated to buy an X2, I simply that in gaming it will perform near the same. Also the X2 is in no way "outdated" its the exact same die as the X4 and X3 simply with two cores disabled, which with the right motherboard can simply be re-enabled a good portion of the time. I wasn't giving advice if you would have read my original post where I stated "my humble opinion", and if you look at the actual facts I've posted or do the research yourself you'll see my opinion seems correct. Further more I more than understand the "technical details" as I've been a geek for a long time and a capable programmer in a few different languages(even 6502 assembly, the little sweet prince), done IT consulting for a number of years, and have been a FreeBSD committer for nearly a decade now. I found your post rude, belittling, and offensive for no reason as well. Keep it classy.

Heya, don't know you I'm CS:S/Minecraft player on GC myself. Some humble thoughts on your two options here. On the bundle deal: That motherboard it's a very nice board with lots of bells of whistles but also very expensive. I'd suggest this which still sports the Z68, UEFI BIOS, and two 16x PCIe slots supporting both Crossfire and SLI while being nearly $100 less. The video card is also a nice girl but rather expensive for what it is, you could pick this at the same price and it'll happily trounce that 570. That SSD is bottom end and I'd avoid it, and original SandForce(SF-1200) drive will be the same price with way better performance such as an OCZ Vertex II. On your list: The Asrock motherboard is fine brandname wise, they were rolled off of Asus to be more competitive in the OEM market against Foxxconn and ECS. However its dated now, get something with a Z68 chipset. The Intel SSD wouldn't be my pick, the new Intel SSDs are using a Marvell(famous for their earlier S-S-S-S-S-uttering controller) controller with a custom firmware by Intel. Don't know why they didn't continue what they did with the X25 series of SSDs. The SF-2200 drives(like the OCZ Vertex 3) happily beat it in nearly every mark and are priced in the same range. As for the hard drive I'd buy one of the "green" ones if its gonna be a secondary drive, either Hitachi, Seagate or WD whatever is cheapest. It'll save power, probably won't make any noticeable performance change and save you money. As for SLI(or Crossfire for that matter) lots of games still aren't supported, and lots of games it doesn't scale well, or suffers from stuttering. I'd suggest buying a single card, and a faster one, unless you're looking to churn out bitcoins this winter(and heat your house). And for something completely different: Asrock 990FX AM3+ board $159 AMD Phenom II 970 3.5Ghz BE $139 Corsair 750W 80Plus Gold $169 AMD 6970 $349 OCZ Vertex III 120G $219 Corsair DDR3-1600 2x8G $49 Thats just around $1100, minus a case, optical, and extra hard drive and gaming performance it'll slap that bundle deal in the face. Switch the video if you like, but the 6970 will run over the 570. AMD and nVidia's highend cards benchmark against each other well usually with nVidia pulling just a hair higher for matched cards. (both the 6950 vs the 570 and the 6970 vs the 580), I'd buy what ever is cheapest and the 6970 is a beast for the money and it'll run triple monitor gaming. As for the i7 yes it'll mop the floor against the Phenom II, but in gaming its not gonna make much of a difference as just about everything is GPU bound(with one notable exception being GTA IV) while being a whole lot cheaper. That board will also support the 8-core upcoming Bulldozer which is an entirely new CPU built grown up, the first new design for AMD since the original K7, and they just started shipping the server Socket C32/G34(16 cores, quad DDR3 channels, hubba) Bulldozer CPUs this month. As for really 8/6/4 core CPUs its not going to make any difference for gaming, as years into everyone having multicore computers very few game engines support multiple threads and the ones that do typical can't utilize more then two cores. You could drop in a Phenom II X2 at the same clock and probably get the exact same gaming performance in 95% of the stuff out there. Muchless with the money saved you could pick up two more monitors and run triple screen gaming at 5760x1080 . Oh, and you could probably buy a cheaper PSU(that one is nearly the highest 80+ certification which adds a bit) but that is one thing I don't typical skimp on, PC Power and Cooling, OCZ, Enermax, Corsair, Antec and Seasonic are all wins. HardOCP tests just about all of them in the most brutal manor known to man if you wanna look it up on there.

Yea, I'd just ask people on your friends list if they want minecraft and sell them your account info.

For those who don't know how to install the minecraft.jar: Windows 7: 1) Type "Windows Key + R", enter "%appdata%/.minecraft/bin" 2) Rename "minecraft.jar" to "minecraft-1.7.3.jar" 3) Copy the new minecraft.jar into the directory 4) Profit OS X: 1) Samething as before, but the location will be ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft 2) If you're running 10.7(Lion) ~/Library will be hidden, press cmd + shift + g and type in "~/Library/Application Support/minecraft" 3) Dont profit as your Mac cost way too much money

Client Server Villages are creepy, as they are void of NPCs and also a bit oddly/poorly formed. Will post some screenshots/cartos in a bit.

Or instead of reading the FAQ you could just play the leaked 1.8 right now. <hint>check reddit</hint>

Aye, when I was still doing IT I had a stack of dead DV4/DV6/DV7s with that same issue(tho many were part of the nVidia failure which you get a replacement laptop for now). After testing RAM I'd suggest stripping everything off the board you can, putting the board on a cookiesheet with some same balls of tinfoil to raise it up a bit. Preheat the oven to 375, and cook the board for 8 minutes or until the crust is golden brown . Afterwords I'd typically replace the northbridge "pad" with a pre-1983 penny lapped flat with some 1000 grit wet or dry(or you can buy shims on ebay), and replace the crappy thermal gunk with some Arctic Silver. Won't do you any good if the northbridge/southbridge is dead, but if it got hot enough to crack the BGA solder points it'll reflow solder it, I've had some decent luck in the past doing it both with video cards and laptop motherboards. As for the CPU I've only ever seen a single CPU fail, a P4-Prescott where the L2 cache went bad(likewise the machine would run with L2 disabled, albeit much slower).

This texture pack along with Optimine HT, Water Shader and Zan's Minimap.

Just took some screenshots of stuff on the server if anyone wants to see before the new map.

Woot. Also a paint mod that looks rather sweet, same guy who made the piston mod before it was integrated into 1.7