Minecraft General

[Aeon_]

Cannon Science

Quite an interesting thread. :)

 

Through some obsidian made in MCEdit, I've made a indestructible 9-16 booster cannon. Or did I post that already?

[LinkOlaran]

I don't really have any more ideas for what could be wrong, but I'm looking at the Minecraft forums now. There should be a general topic for modding issues on there somewhere.

 

Only other thing I can think of is an issue with the Mod Loader - which one do you have installed, 303's version or Risugami's version? I'm almost positive ControllerBloc is made to be used with 303's version.

 

I had issues installing ControllerBloc as well, although all my issues were with getting it to work in game, not install :/ that's all I've got for now. I'll edit this post if I find anything else on the topic for ControllerBloc or if I find a general troubleshooting thread.

[Seraphi]

303s version.

 

I've checked the forum, and I didn't find any help there either. I'm completely clueless as to why it isn't working.

[LinkOlaran]

I'm completely clueless too, but that's not surprising >.<

 

Will it load at all when no mods are in the jar file? I just can't see why it's refusing to work :/

 

This is the sole post I've found so far, but you've likely already seen it:

 

This is my installation procedure for this mod:

0. CHECK MINECRAFT IS NOT RUNNING

1. Delete minecraft.jar and run the client to redownload it. Exit out of the game once it's done.

2. Move the Controller Block files from the zip to an actual folder on my PC.

3. Open the minecraft.jar by right clicking -> Open With -> WinRAR.

4. Drag the individual files (NOT including the gui folder) over to the WinRAR window.

5. Open the gui folder within the minecraft.jar, then copy over the images from the Controller Block's gui folder into it.

6. Delete the META-INF folder from the minecraft.jar file.

7. Close the minecraft.jar file and run the Minecraft client.

 

Copy/pasted from a post on the ControllerBloc topic. I'll keep looking anyway, there might be something somewhere in this topic... hopefully someone else might have more of an idea than me.

 

EDIT: Found one very minuscule possibility for why it's not working. A user posted on the 8th page of the topic saying that the program they were using to add the files to the jar file, IZArc, was having issues placing them correctly. Maybe this is the issue? It would make sense, since no mods are working... but it probably was operating properly before :/ still it's something, at least. Try a different program that can handle zip/rar/jar files? I use (an old version of) WinRAR, personally. It seems to extract everything just fine.

 

EDIT 2: Another random thought. You are installing 303's Mod Loader and then ControllerBloc, right? ControllerBloc has a bunch of files that overwrite the Mod Loader files, so installing them in the reverse order would cause it to crash horribly, most likely. Just a thought, probably a pretty obvious one but I figured it'd be better to say and be sure.

Edited November 19, 2010 by LinkOlaran

[Seraphi]

Yes, seen it, done that each time, no IZArc file that I can see anywhere, and yes.

 

I'll just give up and hope the next patch fixes it. Thanks for the help though.

[Delscid]

I had problems similar to those when I tried modding minecraft before(wouldn't go past the update screen).

For some reason, it doesn't like IZArc (assumed you used it from previous post).

I would try using something like WinRAR or 7zip, it seems to get along with those fine.

[Seraphi]

Nah, I actually misread the post. I use WinRAR.

[Delscid]

oh, ok, not sure what it could be then.

[Napalm]

Yeaaahh, so yesterday I tried redownloading the whole resources folder, and now sounds are working! <3:

[LinkOlaran]

Glad to hear that you've got your sound working :)

 

Still slowly chugging along, building my castle. Did some work in the courtyard today, got the fountain in, had enough spare room left for two small trees. Just started building my greenhouse, which I should've probably made larger... hm, I could remove the tree right in front of the current entrance and utilize that space as well, I suppose... already building two floors to it >.< might look better, the tree does kinda block off the view of the greenhouse.

 

Also dug out a secret entrance/exit for the castle, in the bottom of the (rather small) fountain. Gonna wire up the controllerblocs so I can have the entrance open/close from both outside and within. Probably going to have a minecart and track leading to a nearby island outside. Not completely decoration, I could very easily end up dying again and not be able to get back in because I closed the front gate >_>

 

I could also put a secondary lever underneath the drawbridge in the moat instead, I suppose.

 

Did some more experimenting with redstone circuitry, built some of the logic gates on the wiki article. Still really don't understand it, but I can at least make them work, lol.

 

If I had the space and actually wanted to do it, I could easily make a self destruct system for the castle with an AND gate >_> would be kinda amusing to see the destruction, I'd admit. Not willing to play with complex redstone wiring and tnt, though. I can imagine myself accidentally triggering a block and causing a catastrophic explosion.

 

Time to finish the greenhouse. And then I'll fill it with reeds so I can finally build that damn library <_<

 

I did have one more thought, Ross. I'm not sure, is WinRAR capable of opening a corrupted zip/rar file and not notify you? If it's possible (which I doubt, since I've seen it notify me about it being corrupt before, but I wanted to mention it anyway), then maybe the download for ControllerBloc didn't go through all the way. It's a tiny possibility, but I guess it's something :/

 

Really sucks when you want a mod that you just can't get to install and work... I can't take 303's arrow mod since it conflicts with the hookshot mod (dirt arrow and hookshot have the same item id, apparently), so now I have no arrow mod at all >.<

[Shiny]

Just had fun, building cannons. Started a new game, committing myself to mobs.

[Zilla]

When PVP comes I hope the server I regularly go to allows it. Also is there any word about the portal to another server thing? That concept could be pretty amazing. I know Notch will implement it but I hope soon. :thumbup:

[Napalm]

Still slowly chugging along, building my castle. Did some work in the courtyard today, got the fountain in, had enough spare room left for two small trees. Just started building my greenhouse, which I should've probably made larger... hm, I could remove the tree right in front of the current entrance and utilize that space as well, I suppose... already building two floors to it >.< might look better, the tree does kinda block off the view of the greenhouse.

 

What a coinsidense, I'm building a wall to my fortress aswell. Will post pics when I finish it.

[Aeon_]

Made a new world, imported the 11510 items/hr (used to be) mob trap, currently waiting for a lot of gunpowder; added some creeper spawners too.

[Napalm]

So yeah, sort of finished my fortress, and as promised, here are the pics. They are kind of dark, so I hope you can see them.

 

[hide=16 mid sized pics. You have been warned]

 

My fortress as seen from outside.

 

The water entrance to the south. All the torches there look bad, but since it's a snow map, it's the only way to make the water flow.

 

Northern entrance to the fortress, taken moreoless from the same point than the previous picture.

 

A small waterfall leading to a cave.

 

The side of my house as seen from the walls of the fortress.

 

The garden on the front of my house. It's surrounded by a stream of water.

 

The front of my house. It has an iron door and a switch to enter. From the inside, it's just a pressure pad next to the door.

 

The inside of my house. It can't be seen in this picture, but behind the wall, to the left, there's another door to a mine.

 

A ladder that leads to the roof

 

The roof.

 

A mining shaft about 20 blocks below surface, which you can get to by the mine inside my house.

 

The botttom of the shaft, as seen from the top.

 

The hallway in the bottom.

 

The hall, with the passage to the main room of the mine.

 

Oh torches, what would be of me if it wasn't for you.

 

The main room of the mine. This place is huge, with lots of tunnels, and it's easy to get lost in. The place is about 3 times wider, 3 times longer than my fortress, and from the deepest part to the highest, I'd say some 60 blocks deep. I've alerady found 8 diamond blocks in there, and countless iron and coal.[/hide]

 

So thats what I've been doing in this world. Then I have another one, with an XBOXHUEG mine, but nothing else besides that.

[Aeon_]

Gah, tried to install some of risugami's mods and my MC got Black Screen. <_<

[Maze]

Wow, when I look at all these pictures, I realize how uncreative I am.

[LinkOlaran]

That's a hell of a fortress you've got there, Napalm :P far larger than mine (although mine's built on an island... sort of). From what I can see of your wall, though, it's three blocks deep? With the higher wall to the outside, and a fence running along the inside edge? Interesting... my wall's only the one block thick, and I really don't have the space to expand it out even a block now >.< guess I probably won't be able to walk around up there, but I will have towers put in at some of the corners.

 

Finally got my greenhouse (mostly) in, put in an infinite spring in one corner. Just gotta fill in the trench I dug to keep the soil hydrated. Until I do though, I have reeds growing next to the spring. Need lots for a library >.>

[Napalm]

That's a hell of a fortress you've got there, Napalm :P far larger than mine (although mine's built on an island... sort of). From what I can see of your wall, though, it's three blocks deep? With the higher wall to the outside, and a fence running along the inside edge? Interesting... my wall's only the one block thick, and I really don't have the space to expand it out even a block now >.< guess I probably won't be able to walk around up there, but I will have towers put in at some of the corners.

 

Yeah, didn't feel like much of a fortress with only 1 block, and then I wanted to be able to walk on it, so I made the third layer, although it's only one block tall wil the fence.

 

And the tower idea is perfect, I might just steal it... :twisted:

 

I'm curerntly working on a 10x10 quarry, after doing a 8x8 one and finding great ammounts of iron.

[LinkOlaran]

Personally, if I recall from my Age of Mythology days, I believe the upper part of the tower is thicker than the base... I'll probably design mine like that to start with, see what it looks like.

 

I'll post a pic of one once it's built, see what you lot think :P

 

Wondering how it'd look if I just extended the wall up near the top out a block so I have a ledge to walk on. Probably not too good >.< I'll probably look into expanding the wall inwards, but I don't want to lose any of my valuable space, either. If I expand outward, then I'd have to adjust the entire moat (which I just filled), and I know that's a pain in the ass... might be worth it, though. I'll have to look at the land around the outside to see how difficult it'd be to expand it out a block or two.

[Shiny]

I decided to give myself a leg up and hacked in a bow and many arrows.

[LinkOlaran]

Think my world might have an issue >.<

 

I was wandering around looking for flowers to plant in the courtyard, and I encountered map chunks where it was just water. 10 blocks higher than everything else around it. The land under it, I think, matches what it should look like, if the water wasn't there, but still...

 

Now that I'm thinking about it, this world was generated with BiomeMod installed, which has since been removed. Maybe that's affected map gen somehow. So long as this weird map glitch doesn't eat my castle, I don't mind. The water might explain why I lag randomly in some areas heavily, and in/near the castle I get no lag at all.

 

Thinking I should dl a map editor and try to take the castle and put it on a new world or something.

[Skull]

 

Skip ahead a little bit and you can see some of the awesome stuff they built on their server. I was really impressed.

 

Edit: Also if anyone's interested I'll take some pictures of the stuff I've built on my main world.

[Seraphi]

Gah, tried to install some of risugami's mods and my MC got Black Screen. <_<

Do you get a black screen just after the loading screen?

 

It might be the same problem I have.

[Dizzle229]

Edit: Also if anyone's interested I'll take some pictures of the stuff I've built on my main world.

I's innarest'd.