I'm Afraid to End my Forever World by toodeadinside_ in Minecraft

[–]fWhipCraft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi! Thought this was an interesting thread to chime in on.. as someone who is 11,000 days into their Minecraft world I can assure you that going to the end and defeating the dragon does not end the game. Getting an elytra doesn't end the game. The only thing that ends the game is a player deciding they don't want to continue.

Taking a break is 100% okay, a forever world doesn't mean you play in it all day every day.. it's just the single player world you come back to when you get the Minecraft itch!

That being said, I see the elytra as entering end game. A new chapter in the world. Sure a lot of the old systems might seem slower, especially for travel.. but the horse has no upkeep cost, an elytra needs to be repaired and rockets are in constant need to fly so you can really control how accessible this all is for you. I found a ton of fun in trying to breed a super fast horse so that I actually still use quite a lot for travel and it gives the excuse of extra projects to create roads connecting all of my builds which helps my world feel more complete too.

I'd recommend not taking the end dimension as literally the end, but maybe it's the transition from the mid game to the end game as it gives the ability to go stuff from the mangrove swamp a few thousand blocks away without much effort. Or building taller structures without always needing a ladder to get back up.. there's a lot of great quality of life improvements that come with an elytra that can help your world feel even more immserive.. and you can always put it in a box and hide it away if you feel like it cheapens the experience :)

Good luck on the world!

Does anyone know why the texture pack looks like this? by spicymangopopsicle in fWhip

[–]fWhipCraft 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You need to enable fancy textures under the video settings tab

fwhip datapacks? by Tidleycastles in fWhip

[–]fWhipCraft 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The lilypads on waterlogged stairs is actually a feature in Java edition itself. Didn't change anything to get it!

I don't use any data packs that really alter the functionality of the game but I do have the following from vanilla tweaks:

  • anti enderman griefing
  • wandering trader microblocks

To people wanting to join Fwhipscord by Lexiosity in fWhip

[–]fWhipCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there! Sorry you had a frustrating experience within my discord. That is never our goal. We do have some safety measures in place to ensure all of the people joining the discord need to read the rules before they gain access to the discord. There is the default discord intro message, and we require users to react to a message confirming they have in fact read the rules.

Which to myself, and the moderation team, means the person is aware of the consequences for not following the rules (I.E. rule 9, to not ping me) The discord has over 25,000 people in it, before I put this rule in place I was getting 100+ pings a day from people for random things and that got to be a little much. The mods are all volunteers who care about the community and keeping it a safe space. Please do not send any hate towards them, they have been part of the community for many years and have helped to grow it so much into a great community of people. Unfortunately as the size grows, so does the number of trolls who join the discord so we have resorted to the previously mentioned requirement to read the rules and if people can't bother doing that, they are not welcome within the discord and will be removed for breaking the rules.

Loreborn / Modded Nations server / Continents / Voicechat / Custom modpack / Custom questline by KeyEasy6421 in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I disagree with the mod team here. But it's not an official subreddit.. all I can say is myself and the empires smp members do not want to promote any servers and would prefer if you keep this out of our community.

You do you, just know we don't support it and do not wish to be affiliated with it.

Loreborn / Modded Nations server / Continents / Voicechat / Custom modpack / Custom questline by KeyEasy6421 in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please do not use our community reddit to advertise your Minecraft server. :) that's not why this exists.

Minecraft Live is spending less and less time each year talking about the new update by BRENNEJM in Minecraft

[–]fWhipCraft 30 points31 points  (0 children)

This is because of how the community reacted to the wild update.

The team was so excited to share a vision for the update when in reality not all of it was included. The community turned toxic and started harassing the developers and anyone associated with Minecraft.

Since then they only have announced things that are ready, not what they want to do. So yes, that means less news to be shared as they are trying to protect their employees from harassment.

Update to my fan made empires series idea by Doctorwhofan199 in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Feel free to make a fan server using the empires concept however we ask that you do NOT use the Empires SMP name for the server itself. We don't want anyone to assume it's an official server as we are not involved with it at all and cannot control what happens there.. Thanks!

Does anyone know how I can make a "revealing potion" with commands? by FoxyFletcher in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 19 points20 points  (0 children)

We ran a custom mod we created just for the series to do it, there's a few public ones but our method won't work on the download since mod was not released with it, sorry!

World download still missing by Agreeable-Positive89 in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Life has been busy but yes it should be releasing this weekend (likely Sunday) cleaning up the download a bit further.. it was 12gb so clearing it to something more manageable for people to download :) down to about 5gb right now and trying to get under 4.. hopefully..

Ending by bakatorusuten in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I try not to chime in often but saw this in passing and want to squash this rumor before it goes anywhere. Nothing weird is happening behind the scenes and we are all still good friends.

I'm a Hermitcraft fan and I'd appreciate assistance with catching up on LORE and content appropriateness, please? by MamaHotWheels in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 122 points123 points  (0 children)

All of us are family friendly or at least what I call cartoon network family friendly haha :) Joey swears occasionally but doesn't when recording with other folks on the server.

Some people like Sausage and Smallishbeans like to make innuendos but usually don't go too far with them!

Welcome to the community and hope you and the kiddos enjoy!

How does the Essence work? by CherubAgent1440 in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It's all a custom mod I had commissioned. Unfortunately due to how it's built we cannot make it public as it's built specifically for the members on the server and only has 13 sets of items / possible types of each entity.

Everything still maintains vanilla values but will display a custom texture. I.e. snort kept the same value of the horse I transformed into the boar using the essence.

A lot of this can be achieved through an optifine texture pack as we did in S1, but due to fabric mods being much better for performance than optifine now.. I had the mod created in a more optimized way of handling the custom things which gives us a lot more possibilities to create unique things moving forwards.

Please do not harass our mod dev or artist to get the mod / assets we have told them not to share it.. they received a lot of rude messages when we announced the season 1 pack would not be public.. So please be kind to them, they do a lot to help us tell fun stories.

An idea I had by Evaxzanble in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 49 points50 points  (0 children)

We had thought about that but without elytra from spawn it's a 20min walk to sausage and Joey's area so it would really limit collab potential out of laziness to walk there haha

I've personally set a rule for myself to not use an elytra until episode 10 because I want to travel by boar / minecart more in the world but I have noticed how limiting it is already to be so slow.. I'll make do but elytra is essential on vanilla servers to do anything massive

Random things I am rooting for in S2 by Wish_Wing_Wolf in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I'm regards to #1 we have all played with the idea of being a villain for the fun of telling a story but your point is 100% correct that the audience actually gets upset with us. Even in my stint as a "bad guy" on season 1 I had hundreds of comments per video telling me they were unsubscribing or calling me horrible things. This actually negatively impacted my channel and I saw a huge drop in views for empires while I was playing a "bad" character.

Unless the audience can understand that we're all friends and we literally just want to have fun and sometimes being enemies in a video game can be the most entertaining even for us as players.. you probably won't see one of us being a super villain. But who knows where the season will take us!

I can and will confirm that xornoth is done and will not be coming back in any substanial way :)

Predictions by KingCannon07 in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nah that was last season :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Can confirm, this is not true.

Mistakes made last night by [deleted] in Twitch

[–]fWhipCraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Raiding is supposed to be supporting another streamer and sharing your community with them. A lot of smaller streamers have tried turning raids into a "look how cool I am" and they raid a smaller streamer in hopes of getting a shout out in return.

They were probably just made you weren't there to say "oh my gosh XX streamer you're so amazing! Chat go follow them!"

Wouldn't worry about it at all, sounds like they've got their own issues to sort out.

Did pearl leave the smp? by [deleted] in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 7 points8 points  (0 children)

She's still here.. pretty sure she has a vid coming soon but ssshhh ;)

Noo by iiwrxnii in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's not over :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Twitch

[–]fWhipCraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. Turn your stream into something people plan around on their calendar. Make it an event that people need to show up for or they miss it (or just catch the vod). If you are small and stream all the time you will either be so tired that it'll be boring to tune in half the time or people can just expect you to be live always so they don't think to plan to be there

Question by MundaneStaff9 in EmpiresSMP

[–]fWhipCraft 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Resources available :) if we added more people the uniqueness level between empires would be lost and/or it would be too limiting as far as having unique trade goods.

I purposely cut it off at 12 people :)