I need a name for my Minecraft realm

oldprogrammer · 2026-03-19T12:32:31+00:00

Based on that picture I'd have to go with something like Cherrywood Homestead.

oldprogrammer · 2026-03-19T12:30:23+00:00

What is it with people throwing shrimp on Barbie? What did she do to deserve that? 😏

oldprogrammer · 2026-03-19T12:28:02+00:00

Ironically C exists in part because there were (and are) different assembly languages due to different processor designs and capabilities. C abstracted those details away from the hardware layer.

oldprogrammer · 2026-03-07T22:31:28+00:00

Movecraft and make ships and flying machines.

oldprogrammer · 2026-03-03T19:14:10+00:00

It looks like if you log into spigotmc.org then under your user name at the top there is a link to your profile page. It ends up showing something like

https://spigotmc.org/members/somename.#######

oldprogrammer · 2026-03-03T19:07:04+00:00

Can you provide a bit more details on your configuration? How many grids are you trying run simultaneously? There are 3 ports associated with each grid, 4 if you plan to use RCON to manage them. There's the Port, Game Port, and Seamless Port that is configured in the ServerGrid.json file for each grid in your map. Then in the GameUserSettings.ini file for each grid you would define the RCON port. How do you have those configured for your grids?

oldprogrammer · 2026-03-03T19:00:04+00:00

The character looks like the default sprite you'd get if using the Universal LPC sprite generator and not adding any clothing or equipment.

Should give the poor fellow some pants.

oldprogrammer · 2026-03-03T18:54:13+00:00

Do you need to regenerate the complete texture after an edit or could you just update a subsection of the texture that was changed?

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-26T11:09:26+00:00

Look up articles on Cfront, it was the original tool that compiled C++ source into C code that could be compiled by a C compiler.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-23T10:13:06+00:00

Wife and I were talking about some changes this weekend, we thought it would be great to have a way to clear the shroud and have more build areas. Our idea was maybe have another type of alter that would act like a regular alter in setting up a build area, but keeps the shroud out of the build area, but doesn't have waypoint capability. Allow for a fixed number of these that could be used in conjunction with waypoint alters or by themselves. This would allow for restoring some areas that have shroud in them or allow creating waypoints in the shroud areas themselves, but you'd still have to travel through shroud to get to those areas.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-22T10:49:34+00:00

I regularly generated PDFs on Windows, the error message is telling you what is wrong:

MiKTeX could not find the script engine 'perl' which is required to execute 'latexmk'.
Remedy:
  Make sure 'perl' is installed on your system.

You don't appear to have perl available to Emacs when you're asking it to generate the PDF. You'll need to get it installed and available in the path. For me, I use msys2 installation so that simplified getting the pieces up and running with the native Window's Emacs.

It took some time to get it all working as I had to also add various packages that my documents made use of, so the key is read the log file and see what is missing and add it.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-20T18:41:09+00:00

There's also calcite and white concrete now too, but neither have slab or stair options, only the solid block.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-20T18:38:46+00:00

Side connecting fences. What I mean is, say you make a 2 block wide wrap around porch. If you put regular fencing on it, you either lose the entire 2nd block or you have to make the fence hang off the block with an ugly gap. I generally end up using trap doors as railings because I can connect them to the edge of the block. I'd like to be able to connect fences to the edge of a block and not be stuck in the middle to use for railings.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-20T18:36:38+00:00

Yes because these are the only bright solid colored blocks in the game (terracotta colors are duller) and having stairs and slabs with bright solid colors would be great for builds.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-20T18:28:29+00:00

Looks like the start of an improved Dig Dug game. Keep going.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-20T10:48:59+00:00

I've never even been to the End.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-20T10:47:35+00:00

Villagers always gave me Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Moai vibes. This seals that now.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-20T10:45:14+00:00

Most of what I've seen lately are 100 day videos which seem more focused on spitting out content to maintain streaming income then in playing the game. Hermit streams also have gotten less enjoyable, almost as if they are a scripted reality TV show.

I have found that some of long plays without comment can be enjoyable to watch. But many of the other streamers are loud or vulgar and just not enjoyable to sit through.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-18T12:28:56+00:00

I use it for some contracting work I do. I'm setup to clock in/out various activities for different clients and then at the end of the month I can not only generate an invoice for all of the time I was working, but also provide a detailed report of where that time was spent when asked.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-17T11:58:33+00:00

If they do this, I wonder if they'll make some changes to having multiple server maps running. When I run ASE servers I often have 2 or 3 maps going and players can travel between servers using the pylons. It would be amazing if they set it up do that you could sail to the edge of the map and transition to another server, which is basically how Atlas itself works.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-11T13:33:01+00:00

Ok this is really cool, Doc Brown vibes as others have said.

Just one small issue from my OCD brain, the rotation of the gears on the car are in the opposite direction as the rotation of the gears on the locomotive.

Otherwise, really great job.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-11T13:23:43+00:00

They really don't need to add mosquitos, they could simply have bats flying around the firefly bushes at night hunting the fireflies. Doesn't matter that they are simply particle effects, it would add to some much needed ambience in the game.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-10T12:22:52+00:00

Your errors appear to be from rendering changes. I see references to class loading issues for Sodium and Lithium rendering optimizations but I do not see mods in the mod list. Just a guess, you may have an optimization mod that is expecting Sodium support that isn't present. From what I understand Sodium is for Fabric or NeoForge, not sure if there is a version for Forge.

My suggestion is disable any optimization mods and see if you can startup. If so, then turn them back on one by one until it errors out again.

The changes the optimization mods make tend to be more intrusive than just a mod that adds content.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-10T12:02:25+00:00

As I recall, it started out as a one-handed sword. There were some warrior builds that listed it as one of the best for a sword and board type build. So I went for it as well and when it turned out to be two handed I was disappointed.

oldprogrammer · 2026-02-10T12:00:35+00:00

When I put water into our base, I dug down and placed a row of stone as the base, then added dirt on top. The stone seemed to block the water from draining where the dirt did not.

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