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Draconic_NEO Draconic NEO @lemmy.sdf.org

Hi I'm DraconicNEO, I have an interest in Linux and retro computing and I also play on the SDF minecraft server. I learned about SDF back in August 2023 when I found out about this Lemmy instance and I joined soon after.

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On the frontier: Reinforcements
  • Xenia is so awesome.

  • Terraforming Desert by Ampco HQ
  • Also is a good idea to AFK in the area so that there's more time for the grass to grow. At least if that's possible, I understand that it's not possible for everybody to AFK for long periods of time.

  • lemmy.sdf.org expired certificate
  • I wasn't able to do that even, Firefox with HSTS is dumb and goes against user freedom by failing to give a meaningful bypass method. Though I was able to get around it.

    FYI people won't tell you how to disable HSTS enforcement, just delete the contents of the file SiteSecurityServiceState.txt then set permissions of it to read only and owned by root for good measure. Then the unbypassable warnings are able to be bypassed same as any other http warning on an https site.

  • Saw this house seemingly destroyed from up in the Minecart railway, anyone know what happened?
  • Just wondering, are you the one who built the farming structure and stone building behind this ruined structure? I repaired the two structures because they weren't badly damaged and they're still there, if they're yours I can put up a sign with your name on them, and if you don't want them I can just mark them as available for new players to move in.

    Edit: added image for clarification

  • Linux kernel will soon drop ~~i386~~ (32-bit) support
  • The CADT model at it's finest. It's funny because Linux is considered the de facto choice for legacy hardware because it runs so well on it, or at least used to. The fact is the development model used by distros (and apparently also the Linux kernel as well) is absolutely awful, and it inevitably hurts movements that depend on it such as Permacomputing.

  • Special Christmas Chest
  • I can't see them, does one have to be using the default texture pack to see it, or does Faithful also do it?

    Edit: Nevermind Just had to quit and restart the game and now I see them.

  • Built Myself a Stable next to the path up to my base

    Recently I decided to build a Stable near my base, I wasn't really planning on doing it but I recently found and tamed a donkey so I felt like I probably needed one.

    While thinking of what blocks I should use I decided to try out using the new Mud Bricks for the bottom floor which I think turned out very nice, and also gave me an excuse to use the wheat I'd been hoarding up to now.

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    The entrance, I added my banners on the sides and a Sign up top, unfortunately hanging signs are shorter than the regular ones so my name woundn't fit there in full.

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    On the first floor I obviously have the stables where I can put my horses, donkeys, or mules (If I get one of those). Nothing too fancy, I might add cauldrons and bales of hay later but for now there's not much here. Up the ladder is the second floor.

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    On the second floor is the hay loft, this area is mostly decorative but I may use the wheat stored up here in the form of hay bales in future projects. I also have a bed up here for setting my spawn and :home location here if needed. I also have a few barrels up here for decoration but also to act as storage for miscellaneous items.

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    The back side of the building.

    On the top of the barn I decided to put a rooftop terrace because the roof was very flat and I thought it would be cool to add up there and I thought it would look better than just having an area slabbed with dark oak.

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    What's with the sudden upgrade to 0.19
  • Just checked my SDF Inbox and noticed a message from them:

    Hello and thank you for using lemmy.sdf.org!

    There has been a recent uptick in new sign ups, so we'd like to get in touch and welcome you as well as provide updates to existing members.

    Currently, the lemmy instance is running v0.18.5 and we're watching 0.19.x beta efforts. We do have testing on a smaller instance and once there is a formal release, we plan to upgrade lemmy.sdf.org

    For those who have set up 2FA there has been a reported issue where a user can get "locked out" from their account. If you are in this situation, please reply to this message from the email address you signed up with and we can get you reset.

    During the Summer there was a large "reddit exodus" and lots of folks signed up with new instances. However, many of those instances have either have become ghost towns or have disappeared all together.

    We want to assure you that lemmy.sdf.org as well as our regional instances are in for the long haul. SDF.ORG is celebrating 36 years as a non-commercial community resource this year.

    USA: https://lemmy.sdf.org Europe: https://lemmy.sdfeu.org China: https://lemmy.sdfcn.org Japan: https://lemmy.sdfjp.org India: https://lemmy.sdfin.org

    While financial support is not necessary, if you do wish to support our efforts, please consider our "Not a Blue Checkmark Club" which can be joined at https://sdf.org/support

    If you have any issues or feedback, please get in touch and we'll help you out as soon as possible.

    Thank you for using https://lemmy.sdf.org

    Still seems very sudden to update the main instance to 0.19 considering there hasn't been a formal release and it is still very buggy as @[email protected] pointed out the Instance block feature isn't even functional, but more importantly almost none of the Apps out there actually work with this version.

  • What's with the sudden upgrade to 0.19

    I recently noticed my app (liftoff) stopped working and also glitchy behavior from the site after the sudden upgrade to 0.19, is there any explanation or reason for the sudden upgrade, especially considering that 0.19 isn't exactly production ready (no official release from the devs).

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    Decided to make a path to my base

    Recently I decided to make a pathway to my base since the entrance is on top of the roofed forest and it can sometimes be a bit difficult to get up on it.

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    Another reason is because the canopy has many holes in it naturally and it's easy to fall through and end up in the foresr, which can be inconvenient because the entrance is up top and there is no access from the bottom. I also added birch leaves and shroomlight lanterns to mark the path since it can be easy to get lost or turned around up there.

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    By the way I used a Freecam mod to get these shots, if you're interested in checking out this mod you can find it here on Curseforge.

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    they never stop coming
  • Very true in more ways than one.

  • last of the spooky special [ice cream]
  • Let's hope they don't overdose again like last time.

  • Spider Encounter!
  • Very tiny spider.

  • Decided to make a new enchainting room in my Base

    Since my previous enchanting room was rather small I recently decided to make a brand new and bigger enchanting room. I'm using a style here which I haven't used in a long time which uses hardened clay... or I guess it's now called terracotta and logs, typically spruce and dark oak as they go well with the clay.

    On each side of the room from the left to the right I have an anvil and a grindstone respectively, anvil for adding enchantments together and the grindstone for removing them.

    The Enchanting table and its bookshelves are inset in the floor which isn't my original idea, it was inspired by a creator known as Dataless822 who I learned much of my Minecraft knowledge from.

    I placed chiseled bookshelves on top to hold written books and book and quills, possibly also enchanted books. Most books though will be stored in the double chest in the middle, it's placed on its side so it takes up less space.

    Also I did use gold blocks on the ceiling for decoration, I have so many from the gold farm so I thought I'd try decorating with them, and I think it turned out very nice.

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    Also here's the room from a different angle.

    I have a decorative armor stand with my player head displayed on it along with some dyed leather armor and in the right corner I have one of my cats (since the picture has been taken I have aquired another cat and placed it in the other corner).

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    Here's what the old area where my enchanting station was now that I moved it. I think it looks pretty nice but admitedly I will likely never use these smokers as I have a fire aspect sword with mending on it to cook my food, I did fit the ender chest there though since I use that quite regularly (I have a lot of junk in my ender chest I have to clean out).

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    Here is what the room looks like from the outside, on the right side is the door leading to my portal room which I've shown in a previous post, and to the left upstairs is my crafting area. Behind me not visible in the picture is a hallway to my other indoor farms which I might show off in a future post when they're all finished.

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    Dirtwall Post cleanup and terraforming

    This is the area that had the destroyed house in it (see my previous post for context), which goolse, mcornick, and I cleaned up and terraformed. The area was named Dirtwall after the dirt walls that were built around the area and a small memorial was built next to the road. The house was collectively deemed unsalvageable and due to the fact it had been like that for years we decided the best course of action would be to take down the house and clean up the land. We put the materials from the house and said person's chests in chests on the sidewalk in case they come back and want them. The entire area has been flattened

    The original farm as well as the stone building behind it (not shown in the picture) were preserved as they revived very little damage from the initial attacks. two of the nearby ponds have been decorated and made into zen gardens.

    Also another road leading north has been built along with a bridge named the Dirtwall Memorial bridge. As well as a fountain with an underground shuttle stop. There is also an elevated rail station to the east down the road (it's accessed within the tunnel).

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    Saw this house seemingly destroyed from up in the Minecart railway, anyone know what happened?
  • According to Goolse it's been that way for years, and the person naver came back so he, mcornick, and I figured it would be alright and we all worked together to fill in holes, flatten the land, and also take down the house and put the materials in chests on the sidewalk in case the person comes back. So far there has been quite a bit of progress in transforming the area. Maybe I'll take a screenshot and post it here in a bit.

  • Finished my Nether Tunnel
  • Thank you very much. Glad you like it.

  • The 8-bit Guy - My Dream Computer is Finally on Sale! (Commander X16 update)
  • They learn how to program in a more efficient way that makes better use of limited memory and CPU cycles. Which frankly is something modern programmers and game designers could very much benefit from considering how bloated and unoptimized much of modern software is, probably because they didn't need to think about whether computers can actually run it.

  • Finished my Nether Tunnel

    This is something I started a while ago but only recently Completed. A Nether tunnel sometimes also called a nether hub is a way to make traveling around the nether easier and safer. It does this by eliminating Mob Spawning by having flooring made of slabs or transparent blocks which mobs can't spawn on, and by being enclosed inside of ghast resistant materials (any block with a blast resistance 3.5 or higher). It also helps prevent getting lost in the nether by being an enclosed structure.

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    The entrance to the Nether: In my base my portal is underground along with various other rooms like my crafting area and brewing station. I put the portal in a small room behind a piston door to keep Zombie Pigmen from wandering about my base and also to act as a mini Foyer for those who come to visit, as seen in its second picture I have my banners set up next to the door.

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    Portal Room on the nether Side: This is the main room of my hub, it has some iron bar windows looking out at the nether expanse from inside, from which you can also see the silhouette of the Nether fortress in the distance. The portal has my banners on each side, marking it as the portal to my base or an area built by me. The design of this nether tunnel is actually based off a design from a YouTuber I used to watch in the past named Dataless822, though his design originally used nether brick and a custom texture pack (Datacraft64x) that made it look red, mine uses Red nether brick so it is compatible (looks good) with the majority of texture packs, including the default one and Faithful (which is what I'm using here).

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    The main tunnel: This is a section of the main tunnel. The part with the banners leads to my portal room shown previously and the long hallway to the right leads to the Nether fortress. The entirety of the hallway is slabbed on the floor and ceiling to prevent mobs from spawning and give the room the feeling of having a regular un-slabbed floor.

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    The Exterior: This is the outside of the nether Tunnel in the spawn area of the nether, on the right you can see the large metal cage which extends out from the main spawn hub. I also slabbed this area around the entrance, the reason there is a section of nether brick slab as opposed the red nether brick slabs is because that was a pathway up top to access the fortress, though it's now redundant on the count of having the tunnel going there. I should note that I'm not the one who originally started slabbing the nether, that was done by someone else long before I joined the server, my work is just a continuation of it.

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    night raid
  • These are very cool comics.

  • Saw this house seemingly destroyed from up in the Minecart railway, anyone know what happened?
  • Was it called Ye old Shop? I saw underneath it while cleaning up a sign that says Ye old shops mining system.

  • Saw this house seemingly destroyed from up in the Minecart railway, anyone know what happened?
  • Yeah me, goolse, and mcornick were cleaning up and it seems like it happened a very long time ago.

    We put the materials and the items in chests on the sidewalk in case the person from before wants them. goolse also decided to flatten the hill to the left so the road would be on the surface instead of being a tunnel.

  • Saw this house seemingly destroyed from up in the Minecart railway, anyone know what happened?
  • It seems weird for them to do it because it's so close to spawn and it could be considered an ugly build.

    I also wonder if it was from a player not here or banned, though it still wouldn't make much sense to grief their house instead of just taking it down or giving it away.

    Also it seems like they're extending the subway tunnel underneath it as well as carving out a tunnel for the nearby road through the hill.

  • Saw this house seemingly destroyed from up in the Minecart railway, anyone know what happened?

    I'm not sure if this is old news but I recently noticed this house which looks to have been griefed or destroyed by someone. Does anyone know what happened here and whether or not I should be worried about it happening to my base or builds as well?

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    flashback to 2.8
  • For anyone wondering it says "Fugu" which means pufferfish.

  • Been Working on a bunch of projects lately but here's my Brewing Station

    It's very simple, I have a spot to get water on the left, a garbage disposal on the right, and some chests towards the front to store things in. Everything else is just decorative. On the Shelves Starting on the left I have a Potted Bamboo, then 3 candles (uncolored). Between the two shelves there are two lanterns hanging from the ceiling, on the next shelf there are 3 candles and finally a cherry blossom Bonsai (sapling in a planter). I used Polished Diorite to make the countertop and hid glowstone underneath it (also under the carpet).

    Here's a View from the other direction:

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    I saw the Lapis blocks idea in someone else's build a while back (like back in classic minecraft 1.7.10 and thought it looked cool so I also did it here. I might swap them out for fish tanks later.

    I put two decorative pots (also put glowstone under them) on either side next to the chests and put flower pots on top of them, not sure what I'll put in them but for now I have a wither rose in one of them (the one on the right in the picture).

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    SDF instance rules
  • As far as I can tell Instance rules are basically don't do anything illegal and don't be an asshole. Each community has their own rules as well.

    This is the US Server, the EU server is at lemmy.sdfeu.org.

  • Come ride the new Super Dimension Coaster on Stadium Rd. off West Main Street!
  • Very Cool, I'll definitely give that a shot when I come back downtown.

  • Recently Finished my Crafting Area

    I recently Finished building the Crafting area in my base which houses some Miscellaneous storage, the Crafting Tables, Some Regular and smelting Furnaces, item incinerator (what the Lava is for), and an enchanting station. I also created my own banner design which you can see in this picture.

    Here are some Screenshots at different Angles showing off the room:

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    ! Viewed from the north Side

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    My Home base is taking shape

    I've decided to do something rather unique as far as home bases go in Minecraft and have decided to build it in a roofed forest, using the tree roof and the trunks as the main structure.

    The area you see going down is to my crafting area, forge, storage area, as well as a variety of indoor farms but it's still very WIP. Interestingly the only entrances will be up on the roof (I plan to build a portion on the top like a regular house but with leaves) and through the Nether portal, which will go in the underground portion but currently isn't built yet.

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    Found a new friend in the nether

    I found this little guy lost in the Nether, not really sure how he ended up in there but since I had some fish on me I tamed him and now I have a new friend.

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