Good Morning, Oppofloppers

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 05/18/2020 at 11:14 • Filed to: None

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ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/18/2020 at 11:32

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Climbing steadily. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/18/2020 at 11:38

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Looks like production was down a bit over the weekend. Gamers gotta game!

My own systems took a big hit last week with the power outage and a smaller hit when I was working on the server on Saturday.

Over the weekend, I moved our home M inecraft server off of a Win7 VM and onto a Linux VM running MineOS, a special build of Debian optimized for hosting Minecraft. After that, I rendered the current map so my son and his buddies could see where they’ve been.

The map is a lot like a google map. It’s neat because you can zoom in and get a bird’s eye view of the things they’ve built.

T hat thing in the sky is a mob farm. Enemies spawn inside the structure on top, then fall onto the platform, taking damage. That makes them easy to kill, generating both points and supplies for the players.

The rendered map is somewhat limited because it can’t be rotated. However, it can be hosted as a website, giving all of the players access to the map. There’s a way to make it update in near real-time. That’s a challenge for another weekend.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/18/2020 at 11:53

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Perhaps, but over the past 14 hours, we were above 1 million points per hour, which is the benchmark I keep looking for. Also, we are on track to be inside the top 400 teams by later today. We usually make more money on work days.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 05/18/2020 at 12:23

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My boys would dig this, but it looks to be beyond my skill level. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 05/18/2020 at 12:43

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It can be a bit complicated. If they just want to make a map from their single player world, that’s not too bad. They’ll have to learn a bit about how to use the command line and how to deal with directories. The tool I used is Map Overviewer ( https://overviewer.org/ ). Once downloaded, they can open a command window (Start, then type “cmd” and hit enter), navigate to where the program was downloaded, then run the program. I put the program in my downloads directory. After the command window is open, I type the following two commands:

“CD c:\downloads\Map_Overviewer”
(this switches the command window to the directory where the tool was stored)

“overviewer.exe c:\minecraft\world c:\minecraft\Render”
(this commands Overviewer to open the world found at c:\minecraft\world and create a map of it at c:\minecraft\Render)

You will have to find the correct location for the minecraft world. For single player worlds, it should be located at C :\Users\ username \AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves

The output map can be placed wherever you want. Just make sure you create a folder for it first.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 05/18/2020 at 12:46

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Thanks. I started to go about making a server on one of their PCs, but I instead tackled the LAN issue, which I was able to solve rather easily (thanks to some random British guy on YouTube) . So at least they can now share a world between the three of  them.