So as you may have discovered some of the past issues of the MCME Times have turned out a bit meagre in content. This may have been to some extent because of lack of available material (aka nothing significant has happened that week) or lack of time on my side, respectively me deciding a release at least as close to sunday as possible is better than a bit more content. Now for this week I really wanted to make again an issue stuffed with more... stuff. And things. An issue with more stuff and things! Are you already excited what the stuff and the things are? Yeah, sure you are, so read on already!
Today @Mandos approached me with that at the time our server is set the Beacons should be unlit, in fact they would not be lit for another 18 years! Thus I am asking you guys in the second question of the above double-poll: Should we unlight the beacons as would be correct in the lore, or should we leave them lit for aesthetic reasons?
Project Progress
Andrast (In Progress) - Lead: @jacenpeter
While @Eriol_Eandur continues on his beautiful terrain work, @toeyoman, @Darki190 and I have been working on the details in the Valley of Steelmoar. The town itself is coming to an end and looks amazing. Darki has started work on Silverbay, wich is located at the end of the streams. I myself have been working on the vegetation, with trees and grass and stuff (you know what it is).
- Thijs1801
Lamedon (In Progress) - Lead: @Eriol_Eandur
Plugin DevelopmentPast few days was exciting now that wroxxite has joined the team and got to work immediately. So now wroxxite is working on the stretch of mountains leading up to ras morthil, while I am working on finishing up the northern sections. Hopefully now progress will increase so much within the next few weeks that all this update will say in the near future is "done".
- Jacenpeter
Anfalas (In Progress) - Lead: @kisos- Jacenpeter
The terrain has barely set and already new towns and fortifications are sprucing up in northern Anfalas. Check out the screens above for those majestic locations!
Belfalas (In Progress) - Lead: @Thijs1801
While @Eriol_Eandur continues on his beautiful terrain work, @toeyoman, @Darki190 and I have been working on the details in the Valley of Steelmoar. The town itself is coming to an end and looks amazing. Darki has started work on Silverbay, wich is located at the end of the streams. I myself have been working on the vegetation, with trees and grass and stuff (you know what it is).
- Thijs1801
The southern beacons from Minas Tirith to Belfalas have been laid out and will now subsequently be constructed.
Misty Mountains (In Progress) - Lead: @Finrod_Amandil
Yay finally I really made some major progress again! I have finished preparing the Gladden Fields now and will hopefully soon and often run jobs there! Additionally I have been continueing fine terraforming the eastern banks, a really arduous task, but lately I've found some great Pen & Paper Let's plays on Youtube, which are fantastic to listen to when doing such work.
Tolfalas (In Progress) - Lead: @Tyranystrasz
No progress this week.
Valleys of Celos and Sirith (In Progress) - Lead: @Fireinferno13
Work this week concentrated on the terrain near the confluence of the two rivers Celos and Sirith. Mainly vegetation and river refining has been completed.
[Public Project] Fennas Drúnin (In Progress) - Lead: @thomasd16
One farm is done and another has just started which is being done by Toey. Wroxxite is now doing the farm terrain as Thijs is busy with Belfalas. I have spent all weekend detailing all the streets in Fennas and updating them with a new style myself and they are all done. All that's left now is the town square and market. Next up will be the wall.
- thomasd17
- thomasd17
Animation Plugin (In Progress) - Dev: @Ivan1pl
Eriol has finished the improved (clickable, tooltips...) messages and has tested them on his private server. By now it also has been installed on the MCME dev server and is about to get a final testing session.
As the plugin is now available again I was able to make a very short video of another very neat feature: Switching the server resource packs by command.
No progress this week.
Plotbuild Plugin (Testing in progress) - Devs: @Eriol_Eandur & @Ivan1pl
q220 has installed the updated version of the Plugin on the by now on Minecraft 1.9.4 dev server. We had a pretty intense testing session and did find quite a lot of things. But to not only let you down with this vague descriptions, here's the full chronological list of things, according to my chat log, so that it's a bit easier for all of you to see for once, what kind of things can appear with a WIP plugin, how much thought and time we put into making it nothing less than perfect, and ultimately so that you can see why developping a plugin takes so long:
New New Player World (Testing in progress) - Dev: @Eriol_Eandur, Assistance: @_Luk- When setting the corners of a 3D plot, the message for "second point set" appears twice.
- Wish to add a way to set corners via command if the corners are not accessible. Similar to WorldEdit //pos1 x,y,z.
- 3D plots sometimes place the plot sign ontop of the plot, which may cause that the sign may be inside another plot --> Change so that sign is always inside the plot it belongs to.
- Tested features of private plotbuilds. Works as it is supposed to.
- /plot history always displays first page, even when a number for other pages is given.
- When two 3D plots are right next to each other they share some of their borders, however if the first of the two plots is accepted and it's borders deleted the second plot is missing some borders where there would be space to place some. --> Redraw plot borders in such a case.
- Connected to the above: The /plot sign command should not redraw the borders as they were when the plot was created, but instead do again the collision check and generate fresh borders.
- Intensely tested locking and unlocking plotbuilds.
- Tested offline messages (telling you what happened with your plots while you were offline) which had to be changed to be 1.9 compatible. Worked as supposed to.
- A LOT of spelling mistakes, spelling conventions (e.g. naming the PlotBuild plugin everywhere PlotBuild, and plotbuild if it's about a specific plot) and similar.
- Tested plot restoring with entities.
- Discussed changing saving the plot state when plot is claimed instead of when plot is created. Allows staff to add changes in the plot before it is claimed (e.g. change house outlines) so that it will also be restored if someone claims a plot and then unclaims it again.
- Connected to the above: To avoid people spamming /plot claim and /plot unclaim and thus lagging the server as it always has to restore the plot, a limit of maximum 3 claims per minute per player will be set.
Also on this plugin changes are still being made; the brief summary of the latest changes Eriol gave me was "less questions and more explanations".
Minigames Plugin (Small fixes in progress) - Dev: @Eriol_Eandur
No changes this week.
MCME-Architect (Testing in progress) - Dev: @Eriol_Eandur
Eriol has finished the improved (clickable, tooltips...) messages and has tested them on his private server. By now it also has been installed on the MCME dev server and is about to get a final testing session.
As the plugin is now available again I was able to make a very short video of another very neat feature: Switching the server resource packs by command.
Mordor Pack (In Progress) - Lead: @bender400
Some of the flowers have been added to Github, but for the others still some checkups and similar are required.
New Texture Madness - Creator: @Despot666
Rank UpdatesNo progress this week.
Alternative Elvish Tools - Creator: @Wodleth
Wodleth has delighted us with an alternative set of textures for the golden tools. As it does not matter a lot from a building aspect I decided to put it up to a community vote which set we shall use from now on! Here are ingame images of both sets, please vote at the very top which set you'd prefer!
Current textures:
Wodleth's textures:
Current textures:
Wodleth's textures:
Flower Power - Creator: @Fireinferno13Some of the flowers have been added to Github, but for the others still some checkups and similar are required.
Despot's new textures currently are up for discussion on the Staff forums; most of the new textures are intended for future regions like Forodwaith or Angmar, and we have to decide now whether we want to already add them or rather wait until we move closer towards these areas.
@Wroxxite is the name I can present you since last weekend in green color! Long is the list of projects Wrox has laid his hands upon since he got Artist in November last year. Congratulations to you! Your name predestinates you to do a fantastic job at
Media of the week
For me Minecraft 1.9 still feels like it was just released yesterday, still alread the first snapshot for Minecraft 1.10 was released, and it comes with all kinds of new features! Here's a pretty thorough rundown of pretty much everything, so if you want to remain up-to-date with the Minecraft development, check out these two vids:
Other news
Audiobook review
POH-TAY-TOES.
'nuff said.
'nuff said.
Fanfiction #1: "Imperfection" by Linda Hoyland
Hereby I am invoking a new series for a special feature of the MCME Times: A short fanfiction story from the depths of the almighty internet. I will try picking stories about topics that are somewhat connected to the Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit and elaborate on a not so-well known lore fact.
This week I present you a short scene from Aragorn's youth. Going by the name of Estel (Elvish for "Hope") he seeked refuge in Rivendell with his mother Gilraen where he then grew up.
Link to the story:
Stories of Arda - Lord of the Rings Fan-Fiction Archive
Do you like this kind of feature? If yes, what kind of fanfiction would you be keen on reading? Long or short? With which characters? Close to the lore or far away from the known areas and events?
Themed Build
Project Build 3 weeks - 2 weeks left.
Theme: Goblin-town
Resource Pack: Moria / Dwarven
Thread: #15/16 - [Project Build] Goblin-town
Audiobook session 15
Community OutreachWe entered Ithilien last week, and we will remain in it for another week. We will be meeting carrying characters like Anborn and envy those beings who don't give a damn about whether that pool is now subjected to a no-swimming order or not.
As always: Saturday evening, 19:00 GMT.
Jobs & PlotbuildsAs always: Saturday evening, 19:00 GMT.
Jobs for next Saturday will be announced in this thread over the course of the week. Be sure to ask Designers for jobs at any time, maybe they can offer something!
New Warp list on the MCME Wiki
I have a small update on this; we (Darki, Eriol and me) came up with the idea of improving our warp plugin so that you can maybe get a clickable warp list which will redirect you to a page with some information and maybe a fancy screenshot about the warp. So far only a mere idea, but a pretty fancy one.
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