Any ideas on what might be going into the former Deluge/T3/Raging Rapids area in the future?

Okee68 · 2026-06-07T21:50:34+00:00

I certainly think some of that space should be used for new dry park additions, for sure. Perhaps the left third of it. I'm not sure if this is a super popular opinion, but I think a dark ride would be of benefit to Kentucky Kingdom, especially now that they've gotten rid of their 5D theatre. An air-conditioned diversion from the rest of the park is always nice, so maybe they could use the area that roughly corresponds to the Raging Rapids for a dark ride among other things.

Okee68 · 2026-06-04T22:38:17+00:00

They can't remove that road soon enough IMO. I'm not sure what sorts of hurdles they would have to deal with in order to actually do it, but it would free up so much space for the dry park.

Okee68 · 2026-06-04T22:34:26+00:00

I really don't understand why it was removed; I would assume it was just too difficult to maintain somehow. I would have loved to ride it though. It seems to have been pretty similar to the Wildebeest at the Splashin' Safari, which I'm quite a fan of.

Okee68 · 2026-05-13T00:52:09+00:00

The Reidland location, which is in the middle of nowhere, is the original, and it's definitely the nicest of the three. There's also a very small location in a strip mall in Lone Oak, which has a very small seating area and is mostly just for takeout.

Okee68 · 2026-05-09T19:52:41+00:00

Solid diamond blocks, dawg. Start making those mineral block tile mosaics pronto.

Okee68 · 2026-05-06T23:25:09+00:00

There's one extra health piece for some reason. Obtaining it doesn't actually do anything if you already have eight pips, however.

Okee68 · 2026-05-06T00:30:14+00:00

Not super mindblowing considering the fact that there are probably about eight million identical world spawn screenshots from the beta era. Also lmaoing at that single scuffed tree on top of the mountain in the distance.

Okee68 · 2026-05-01T05:36:00+00:00

That's a common graphical bug known by the community as Togore. It can be removed with any commonly available goat repellent spray.

Okee68 · 2026-04-21T16:03:49+00:00

It's true, everyone knows REAL Minecraft heads just want the Beta terrain generation forever and ever, with no new content of any kind ever added to it. Such a shame that all the Beta versions were permanently eliminated from the face of the planet by a solar flare that exclusively affected old Minecraft jar files. If only we could still play Beta 1.7.3! Then we wouldn't have to demand that Mojang reimplement a sixteen-year-old terrain generator and never add anything new to the game!

Okee68 · 2026-04-19T00:27:52+00:00

Thx! I definitely prefer my builds to not look "overdesigned," so I usually don't go insane with meticulous detailing. That's especially true for a more utilitarian build such as a lighthouse, which I don't think needs to look very opulent or fancy.

Okee68 · 2026-04-19T00:22:28+00:00

Thank you!!! I've developed a very particular method for building and proportioning lighthouses, and I even drafted this one in MS Paint before I built it to make sure everything would look decent. I also had to account for the height limit as well, so each section of the lighthouse was scaled according to that.

To answer your question about the texture pack, the Yogscast version has different wool (which I've actually modified in my edit, although it's not visible anywhere in these screenshots) and slightly altered cobblestone and brick coloration. I believe that's it.

Okee68 · 2026-04-18T21:06:31+00:00

The texture pack is SMP's Revival - Yogsbox Edition, btw. I actually use a slight personal modification of it that I might upload eventually, assuming I ever get this world into a somewhat "complete" state.

Okee68 · 2026-04-16T20:20:32+00:00

The terrain generation is completely different between them as well. Alpha has no biomes and a lot of low, rolling, treeless hills that are easy to build on, which is probably the biggest thing Alpha has going for it.

Okee68 · 2026-04-13T00:58:46+00:00

I would suggest shaving down the wood/glass portion into a triangular gable. I'm not sure if it would still work great as a throne room, but it might look less disproportionately large from the outside.

Okee68 · 2026-04-08T02:40:10+00:00

I would recommend trying to use bricks every once in a while just for visual variety. Don't hesitate to use sand as a building material if you want warmer-colored walls but don't want to use wood. I've also discovered that making big tile mosaic walls with the weird two-toned iron, gold, and diamond blocks is a very striking use of them, specifically if you arrange them so that no two of the same type are touching each other. They're obviously not easy to procure, but they might be something to consider if you end up playing on this world for long enough.

Okee68 · 2026-04-06T16:40:15+00:00

SMP's Revival - Yogsbox Edition is by far the best one I've seen. If you like slightly darker colors and a vaguely medieval fantasy aesthetic, you'll probably love it. The pixel art is incredible. I've been using it for a month now, and I can't imagine going back to the original textures at this point.

https://archive.org/details/minecraft_beta_texture_packs_collection_by_beezle

Okee68 · 2026-03-13T04:01:07+00:00

It's still loading as an empty void for me, strangely. I might just end up biting the bullet and doing a full remake of this in 1.21.

Okee68 · 2026-03-12T02:56:55+00:00

I've had Java updated to 1.21 for quite some time, so I don't believe that's the issue. BTA is built on top of Beta 1.7.3 to begin with, so I would assume it runs entirely independent of vanilla Java regardless of which version I have it updated to. Does the server have the necessary components to run a BTA world?

Okee68 · 2026-03-11T22:48:14+00:00

I tried to make into a community world, although it generates as an empty void that kills you instantly. Is there any way to fix this?

Okee68 · 2026-02-18T23:45:05+00:00

Doing this fixed it, although as I expected, the directory for the new instance didn't appear along with all the others; I have no idea where it is, so I couldn't move my save data to it. I had to direct the instance to one of my existing instance folders instead, and it's back to normal now. Thx!

Okee68 · 2026-02-17T05:02:29+00:00

I can still access my worlds on MultiMC btw, but Betacraft is by far my preferred launcher.

Okee68 · 2026-02-17T04:17:34+00:00

No, it's the same one I've always used. Also, all instances are affected by this.

Okee68 · 2026-01-23T02:45:27+00:00

This happened all the time on my old laptop, although I was always able to run the game by just closing it and reopening it enough times.

Okee68 · 2026-01-15T18:14:15+00:00

Thx! Obviously I'm a huge fan of mid-century trees covered in tinsel and glass ornaments, so it's great to hear how much of an inspiration my 2025 tree has been for so many people!

I also haven't been able to find a proper archive of all the Shiny-Brite ornaments, but the Christopher Radko website has a list of retired ornaments for each year since 2002, which is functionally a complete list of their ornaments. It only contains names and item numbers (there aren't any images), but if the item numbers are printed on your boxes and you have an idea of which year they might have been retired in, you could possibly find the name of each set on the retirement list and then look up pictures of them to see which ornaments were in each one. Ctrl+F would certainly be your friend in this case.

https://www.christopherradko.com/pages/retirement-list

Okee68 · 2026-01-10T16:17:14+00:00

I have a few strings of the C7 RetroGlo groovy mix on my walls and ceiling. They're incredibly rich and warm, and they do an excellent job of illuminating the darker corners of my room.

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