Minecraft

http://mordritch.com/mc_rss/

Spaces

• Store room (12x12)
• Overflow
• Farms
  • Cows
  • Sheep
  • Chickens (eggs)
  • Wheat
  • Trees
  • Sugar Cane
• Enchanting (5x5)
• Mineshaft (leave room for a cart later)
• Cobble/Obsidian generator (10x5)
• Sorting Machines
• Bedrooms
• Trophy Rooms
  • Gallery
  • Lava Fountain
  • Fancy bedroom
  • Music room

Design

For the BIG server, I'm going to set up shop a ways from the spawn point. There will be several sections connected by portals.

• Sky Base
  • Trophy rooms
  • Store Room and Sorting
  • Enchanting
  • Generator
• Mines
  • Overflow
  • Basic crafting
• Nether
  • Passage ways
  • Nether mines
• Farms
  • Basic Farms
  • Chicken Grinder

The farms, particularly the chicken grinder, needs to be located away from the main base because it causes so much lag. The Nether base ties everything together.

I will start with a small temporary base kind of close to the spawn point. Once I have enough materials to establish the other bases I will abandon it. The first base I will establish the Sky Base, by building a tall tower and small platform. Immediately after, I will build a portal on the platform to establish my connection to the Nether. From here, I will build my nether base by building two branches in opposite directions, 150 blocks long with another portal at either end. If one of these portals appears below ground, that will be my mining base. Regardless of the outcome, one will be mining, the other farming.

I want to use minecarts in my mining operation (as true minecarts) and see if I can get some automatic sorting setup. This could potentially be very nice because I could mine for a long time and never have to head back to base to drop off what I had found.

My store room is going to need some redesigning to take advantage of the hoppers. Particularly for things like dirt and gravel - I'll no longer need to maintain separate stores, I can just have a back fill that automatically move things to the front chest.

Chicken Grinder

I have an idea for how do a new chicken grinder. A chick takes one full day to mature. The setup will have 3 layers, the top layer is all chicks, the middle is mixed and the bottom is all adults. If possible, I would like the bottom layer to flow to a single cell. There will be a basic sorting mechanism to pull eggs and raw chicken out and dump all the xp in one spot. The bottom layer will have a half-window for killing. The middle will have a gate for feeding and the top will have a dispenser for launching eggs. A minecart will move eggs from the hopper at the bottom to the dispenser at the top. A daylight sensor will send a pulse once a day. A set of dispensers will then retract all the water from the middle level, allowing the (now) adult chickens to fall to the bottom level, then it will be replaced, then the same will happen to the top layer.

The result of all this is that eggs should automatically be hatched into chicks, the chicks will have time to age and there will be set of only adults that can be killed for meat and xp. All while maintaining the ability to feed chickens and gain additional xp.

Enchanting

http://www.minecraftenchantmentcalculator.com/

Server

For 1.5, I want to get a big server put together - at least 30 people committed to playing at least once a week.

• Me
• Alex
• Stephen
• Nathan
• Justine
• Aaron
• Heather

Who else?

Setup

Teamspeak 3: http://jstr.se/archives/how-to-set-up-a-teamspeak-3-server-on-linux/