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olive olive
Posted on 2025-11-25 23:49, in if I were to host a Minecraft server for this forum... (probably alpha/beta but not exclusively so) (edited 2025-11-25 23:50) Link
I would play, I've increasingly found Minecraft boring in recent years, but I think this is due to playing it solo. For these sorts of things it (obviously?) helps to have a regular somewhat scheduled time where people play together.

Release 1.7 is where I started playing Minecraft so I am naturally biased to versions around there. I played a bit of Beta 1.7 recently on 2beta2t which was kinda fun walking around and exploring the mess, but once I got out to the wilderness it's basically just solo playing again which meh.

I would be down for anything pre-1.13, though just playing 1.12 isn't a very interesting idea :P
olive olive
Posted on 2025-11-25 23:38, in The Voxelmanip MUC on XMPP Link
I have recently moved away from tchncs.de for XMPP, as I was having gradually worse problems with chat history not working in some semi-public MUCs where for everyone else it would. I am not sure if this is entirely tchncs.de's fault, but I just want to caution.
olive olive
Posted on 2025-10-26 11:58, in The Voxelmanip Classic Server! Link
Yep! That's space Glenda:

(http://glenda.cat-v.org/)
olive olive
Posted on 2025-10-20 22:36, in The Voxelmanip Classic Server! (edited 2025-10-20 22:36) Link
Wow, there's lots of things now.
I see someone's built a bunch of Plan 9–ey things and now I'm curious who it was.
Destroyed a not so nice symbol…

It would be fun if the stool and chair was sit-able.
olive olive
Posted on 2025-10-20 22:34, in Exploration and the lite version, more than mere minecraft clones Link
Yeah, the archive.org one was the one I tried. I imagine my device is arm64-only :/
Shame it can't run 32 bit
olive olive
Posted on 2025-10-19 16:45, in Exploration and the lite version, more than mere minecraft clones Link
aw, downloaded 1.3.3 of Exploration but I can't install it even via adb that I can figure out (incompatible ABI) :(
olive olive
Posted on 2025-10-18 13:20, in Images on the forum Link
I can confirm the very annoying Imgur block.
catbox.moe works fine with my ISP though occasionally breaks for a few days, wasn't aware some people might have issues or this was related to the new law.

On-site uploads is great!!
olive olive
Posted on 2025-05-18 11:06, in The Vending Machine Link
Out comes the coin. Only it is now worth slightly less, due to inflation.

*inserts a coin*
olive olive
Posted on 2025-05-17 17:45, in Writing a Minecraft Beta server in Lua (edited 2025-05-17 18:39) Link
Yes! I have the source on my laptop, I'll upload it to a git later. As I remember it, it is literally the bare minimum to have something work, a mash of not the best Lua :P

With intent to fiddle with b1.7.3 again, I was poking around in a semi-deobfuscated copy of the game recently. Good god maybe it's partly the obfuscation but the code is messy & confusing.

Drew was working on a Beta client again recently, in his Hare programming language: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/betamine/ I've not tried it yet, so no comments.

Edit: Looks like it already was a git repo! https://git.sr.ht/~olive/fourdee
I'd come up with better names for some packets, so I've just added a commit with those.
olive olive
Posted on 2025-05-17 17:31, in Mastodon/Fediverse Link
My main problem wish Mastodon is that it becomes a quick time drain :S

I need to go and prune who I'm following, as over time it became chocka with people who post often, and people who post more jokes/sillies than genuine things… meaning it was more than I could ever hope to keep up with, a similar issue to how Twitter was.

Being able to turn off a person's boosts appearing in your global feed is really handy though, I wish on their profile page they were seperate too.

Anyway! I've been at olive@tech.lgbt for a while.
olive olive
Posted on 2024-11-02 00:12, in Ask A Stupid Question / Get A Stupid Answer Link
Because of the patriarchy.

How do I carve a pumpkin?
olive olive
Posted on 2024-11-02 00:09, in Writing a Minecraft Beta server in Lua Link
Yet again, found my password!

Promising is entirely the opposite of what you should think of anything I do :P
In typical me fashion this didn't go much further, partly due to me finding a new thing to try and a lot because b1.7.3's protocol is absolute- not very good.
I moved onto designing my own protocol and then that went nowhere.

I might pick up one of my Classic, Beta, or my own protocols again now you've reminded me of it…
just really need to pick a better thing to use for 3D graphics than Löve2D :S
(LöVR maybe… I like the idea of SDL3 but that requires doing 3D from GPU up which I know little about.)
olive olive
Posted on 2024-04-20 21:53, in Writing a Minecraft Beta server in Lua Link
Found my password after a long while \(^ ° ^)/ hello again

Been fiddling with writing a Minecraft server, but rather than the well-documented Classic Protocol (& extensions) I've done before, the more "Who's Documentation?" Beta 1.7.

I separated out an old copy of wiki.vg docs which are very useful but don't describe how to actually use half the packets. (Praise be to whoever the "Great Old Ones" are.)

Just got it to send a stone & air world and have the client spawn-in, after… too much getting simple things wrong.
Used LuaJIT to FFI in libdeflate for chunk encoding to then be very happy you can skip that altogether and just send mass block changes!

(Winsnore for the client as I just could not get it to run on my Linux)

Everything pure Lua so far, featuring inefficient number→binary en/decoding, and assert(false)ing on trying to decode a 64-bit number too large to be safe in a Lua float for now. and I am very grateful to Lars for his float encoder which I've bodged in for now

Next step is to handle multiple clients, let them see each other, and then to let people interact with the world…
olive olive
Posted on 2024-04-20 21:08, in The Vending Machine Link
Yum! Chocolate with a… tinny after-taste.

*inserts a round one pound coin*
olive olive
Posted on 2023-11-22 12:34, in The Vending Machine Link
The shopping trolley detaches. Time for some speedy drifting!

*inserts a coin*
olive olive
Posted on 2023-11-22 12:30, in Banned For. Link
Banned for only being three posts behind Roller (quick, overtake & CLAIM THE GLORY OF something idk :3 )
olive olive
Posted on 2023-09-28 12:20, in The Voxelmanip First Thread Link
Welcome back olive! o.o
I wasn't aware I'd especially gone '(^.^)'
Just remember about here & check in every two months or so...
why does time fly so fast
olive olive
Posted on 2023-09-28 12:08, in The line ending wars - AKA CRLF hate thread Link
The easy solution is clearly to have everything on a single line!
olive olive
Posted on 2023-08-27 21:13, in The line ending wars - AKA CRLF hate thread (edited 2023-08-27 21:14) Link
iirc some early Macs did LFCR, which is technically also correct from an ASCII/typewriter POV.
Don't forget Unicode throwing some new newline chars in the mix intended to replace both CR & LF
olive olive
Posted on 2023-08-27 21:06, in The Voxelmanip First Thread Link
hehe "an ooser".
yeah the "an precedes vowels" rule is about spoken vowels, not written.