Minecraft, can you help?

Silk

Silk

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I know we have awesome MC players here.

I've tried playing vanilla MC and also patched to HD textures with the bordercraft pack. In both cases I suffer from (slightly) bad framerates and worse, large huge chunks of ground just refusing to draw; instead everything underneath being visible (the caves going all way down to hell).

Running an i7 with a GF580, not seen anything similar on google :/

Once I sort this out, can anyone point me to some nice guides? What to do after building your first little hidey hole and torches etc.
 
bacon

bacon

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silkth said:
I know we have awesome MC players here.

I've tried playing vanilla MC and also patched to HD textures with the bordercraft pack. In both cases I suffer from (slightly) bad framerates and worse, large huge chunks of ground just refusing to draw; instead everything underneath being visible (the caves going all way down to hell).

Running an i7 with a GF580, not seen anything similar on google :/

Once I sort this out, can anyone point me to some nice guides? What to do after building your first little hidey hole and torches etc.
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Multiplayer is a bit like that. If a segment doesn't draw go and run towards it and it should draw before you get to it. If you fall off the edge it's likely because our server is currently at Luc's house so doesn't have server grade uplink capacity. If you're getting that in singleplayer then I'm not sure what would cause that.

As for what to make you can try anything you can think of. We can show you around our Crystal Maze entry on the server if you like and also around the Mario 64 one once it's imported.
Some people enjoy going out at night and fighting monsters, some like going caving in search of minerals and monster fights and some like building a nice structured mine to methodically search for minerals and leave the caves and monsters well alone.

It's entirely up to you.
 
Silk

Silk

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bacon said:
Multiplayer is a bit like that. If a segment doesn't draw go and run towards it and it should draw before you get to it. If you fall off the edge it's likely because our server is currently at Luc's house so doesn't have server grade uplink capacity.
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Nope, I can run to it, and hit it and destroy it. Doesn't draw, nor does the approx 500x500 area around it either.

It's kind of like it's drawn early in the game, but there's a memory leak and gradually the game just becomes unstable. It's constantly redrawing (noticable due to flicker), and occasionally doesn't redraw at all which is when the problem occurs.

This is singleplayer too!

I was wondering if I might have changed some settings or something that could cause this. I play in "maximised window" mode with draw distance set to max.
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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Just a thought, but is your Java version up to date and the correct processor type?

Also, to add to bacon's list: some like to build interesting constructions that are compatible with MC's cube building blocks.
 
bacon

bacon

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I don't think I've ever seen what you're describing. Can you take a screenshot, either in windows or F2 in MC.
Possibly also make sure you've got the latest version of Java and maybe try forcing an update of the client (Options -> Force Update -> Login)
 
Silk

Silk

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AH in trying to repeat and show you the problem I have worked it out!

I had rebound F to move back. I didn't know F also defaulted to toggle fog or that you could have one key doing two things. So I was turning fog on and off all the time, this apparently results in a memory leak. Do you think I should report this?

In the meantime problem solved by rebinding fog toggle. :)
 
Silk

Silk

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Think it's cos i had advanced open GL on (as a second issue, first one was deffo fog toggle).
 
Silk

Silk

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Nooo it was made out of wood!

But then I went to explore and lost it, so I made a castle instead with three floors, tunnels, and snazzy pressure plate doors. I'm gonna plant a tree on the roof tonight.

Still having the odd weird gfx issue, usually when low down in lava areas again with stuff just refusing to redraw :/
 
Traxata

Traxata

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Trees need to be within X blocks from a water source :) can't remember what X is thinking 6?
 
bacon

bacon

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Interestingly, minecraft wiki is one of the best guides but it depends how you want to play the game. If you want to try and guess all the possible crafting recipes then you may consider it cheating.
 
Traxata

Traxata

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We always used to plant them within X of water :| Maybe it changed who knows, I haven't really played since 1.5 anyway :p
 
bacon

bacon

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Traxata said:
We always used to plant them within X of water :| Maybe it changed who knows, I haven't really played since 1.5 anyway :p
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Farmland grows crops better if within 4 blocks of water and sugar-cane needs to have water on at least one side but I think that's it.
If trees needed to be near water then forests would require masses of rivers running through them :)
 
Silk

Silk

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What I don't get is how you can make neverending water springs.. where does all the water go when it's going into a cavern? :p
 
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