July 29, 2011 - Alternate Minecraft Server Hosters

There are two server hosting websites I know of, http://servercraft.co/ and http://lethaldrive.com/

LethalDrive's owner is Jacob William Jervey (JWJ) the previous owner of BroHoster until he got kicked out by Matt. So I trust it. Also at the bottom of the page, there is a coupon code for 25% off... for life.  You'll need to pre-order and I don't think it's going to be up until a while after. 

ServerCraft is something I also trust. It is the host of the Shaftlands, owned by the Shaft Podcast found on YouTube and iTunes. I've been on a couple times and there's some lag if there's a lot of people on, like 100 people... So it's pretty good.

July 28, 2011 - Last SyranCraft Photos... For Now

These are the screenshots of SyranCraft that I took yesterday. The server has been wiped from the face of the Earth and the money paid won't be refunded...

Buggy skeleton...

 Buggy skeleton one day later... dug out the ground underneath him... bust have shown the sign of the soon to come BroHoster server wipe... and shutdown... It was incredibly laggy too... And yesterday too...

 Not fully rendered... the large mass of trees are multiple trees the one that's mostly surrounded by sand is one tree alone...

 The road to the mine... and I planted the trees... I'm such a conservationist... even in games...

 Tower in the sky... Can't get to it without a compass or a pillar of dirt, diamond, whatever...

 The Osgiliath castle... it's either not finished or it's just not finished rendering...

 I see my shop and my farm... and the castle... and a house...

 Stupid gravel is in my way...

 One of those stone beaches I always find on servers...

July 28, 2011 - BroHoster Closes

Hello guys wokeupsleepy here, BroHoster is currently out of business according to ClubUptime and my friend, an employee of BroHoster. There is also a thread on FacePunch. One of the workers Andrew, the person on FacePunch and a former employee of BroHoster, is now working for a new game server hosting company called LethalDrive. The cause is unknown for the site was working perfectly fine until today. It seemed as though everything was wiped, on purpose, I don't know. It's as though somebody or something wiped a CD with a magnet. Don't ask me what happened or how it happened, I'm only a fried with a BroHoster employee.

This is the best I can do to explain. JWJ and another person, Matt, started BroHoster and it was quite a success. After a few months, Matt kicked JWJ from the company. The company started to decay from the inside out. Matt tried to sell it, failed and many employees left and then it just shut down. Basically, one person stripped the company to it's bare bones and took all the money when he didn't even do anything.

According to my friend, over $93k is gone. So if you are asking for a refund, my answer is that the money is gone. Not only is the money gone, so are the maps and servers.

The alternative for BroHoster right now is LethalDrive. I've received phenomenal feed back from a few of their customers.

Please excuse my language.

Fuck you Matt, fuck you.

Sources:

ClubUptime:
http://www.clubuptime.com/

FacePunch Forums:
http://www.facepunch...ohoster-is-Gone

LethalDrive:
http://www.lethaldrive.com/billing/ 

July 26, 2011 - Minecraft Server Part 1

Hello all, it's been a while since I blogged. I've been playing on a server called SyranCraft. The links are going to be at the end of the blog post. I've done a lot of things in the the SyranCraft server. I added a few pictures below.

The cave that I found still has the mushrooms... Mushroom kingdom!

July 18, 2011 - Minecraft Project, Sky City.

This is the progress through Aerialform...

Yesterday... Finished this much... and stopped...

 The large mine made with TNT...

It just hand to start raining and snowing when I was working on my third tower.

 After finishing the third tower, it's still snowing...

 Chunk are slow to update... One of them stayed in the day position for the whole night, then a chunk stayed dark the whole day.

 Sunset with a few slow updating chunks.... and not a fully rendered world...

 TNT mine... actually pretty effective... Also, there's a huge lava sea down there... and a huge underground cliff...

 About two hours of building... connected the towers.

 At night...

 Made it even grander, going to make a shrine at the cross...

I'll give the seed later in another post.

July 13, 2011 - 1000 Views, Japanese Friend, Minecraft Screenshots

イェーイ！今日、我々は1000のビューに合格！その見返りに、私はいくつかの鉱山のクラフトの写真を掲載します。すべてどうもありがとうございました。また、これはこれを書いて所有者ではない、それは彼の友人です。みなさんにそう良い一日！

Sorry, that was my friend from Japan. Haha, her being here reminds me back when I was still in Japan... Haha... I shouldn't talk so much. Here are the Minecraft pictures!

July 9, 2011 - Blog Name Change

I'm changing the title of my blog from "Facepalm" to "Philosophy of a Teenager." I did this because facepalms are mostly for fails and etc. "Philosophy of a Teenager" suits it more because I am a teenager, and you are reading about what normally goes on in my head... Or in my life... Or stuff... Yeah...

Minecraft 1.7

A bit late but here is the change list:

- Added pistons

- Fixed clay generation (?)

- TNT can only be triggered by redstone or fire

- Fences can be stacked

- Added Shears

- Redstone wire now connects to a repeater

- Shears can be used to collect leaf blocks without hacks

- Shears can be used to shear sheep without hurting them (WWF!)

- Sheep no longer drop wool from being punched, only from being killed when unsheared

- New texture for cobblestone and bricks

- When pressing F3 in-game, a value from 0-3 will appear to indicate direction

- The gray textures in the breaking animation have been replaced with opacity

- Spawn rate of squids increased (a lot)

- Single slabs now use the bottom half of the full block's texture

- Cobweb now require shears or a sword to be broken properly and drops 1 string when broken

- The bed side texture has been moved in the texture pack file, as well as the cake texture

- Weather seems to be more common (?)

(?) Means trivial

July 5, 2011 - Minecraft Soon To Come

Over a few months, notch has said to expect a few things. This is my opinions on them.

1. Official mod support

This is good, by the time this is release, I should be able to finish my mod. This thing should make installing mods easier.

2. New features in the terrain generator

Ehh, I don't know, it's just a few new things. If they generate larger dungeons, volcanoes, taller mountains, I'd be happy enough.

3. More achievements

Depends on what they are... Achievement Get!

4. More underwater content

Notch said no sharks because it'd be hard for the player to deal with. If he adds like more fish types, coral reefs, underwater cities, scuba gear, I'd be pumped. He should also make the fish mob so that there's a higher chance that you'll get fish.

5. A new sky dimension

Awesome! You would need to make bridges and make sure that you don't dig too deep or you'll fall through the island.

6. More playable Records for the Jukebox

Wait, what? YES! That would be awesome! That way, I won't have to make my own music which takes ages.

7. Minecraft Pocket Edition

I really don't care... It's just portable Minecraft. Also, from the preview, it's just the creative one for Xperia Play.

8. Xbox Edition

Uh.... That depends on how good it is and if you can play if you already have an account. It's gonna be like Minecraft... the FPS! Haha...

9. Adventure Mode

On Notch's twitter, he said that he's going to add a brightness slider he also said, "real miners play in the darkest setting" so I am not a real miner... but then again, the glare is horrible... He's going to add NPC villages, randomly generated dungeons, critical hits, and sprinting... At least those are the things that I think revolve around the Adventure update.

A few other things he's going to add is more farming options so we aren't just going to farm wheat and sugarcane...

Also, he says fully working Creative Mode. I really don't care about creative mode in single-player but he says that admins can enter Creative mode on a SMP server.

EDIT: Ignore the part in the number 2 about the dungeons...