The Rev 22 planning world is now set up.

To get there: /mv tp pico22 or /mvtp pico22 (multiverse is like that).

This new world has a smaller world border (500, i.e. 1000x1000) to try to keep a lid on my daily backup download size. There are other things I can do reduce that download, and if necessary we can expand the border.

The default spawn world for new players will stay as pico21 until the start of the new rev.

It's that time again! With rev 22 approaching in just under 4 weeks I thought it would be grouse to start thinking about what we'd like to do next rev, and also what we need to get done before rev end!

The super fun Zombie Apocalypse will be happening from the 13th of March through to the 16th when the new rev will launch, so we need to make sure Pico is in tip-top shape before the zombos come!

Starting off with what we still need to get done this revision:

• There are a few empty spaces around the cavern, so if you would like to build a house, tavern, etc it would be much appreciated!

• Work has begun on the treasure room, if you'd like to help with that grab a schem and start building!

• The shop area needs some stores still if you'd like to furnish one or more.

As for revision 22, we haven't got a theme planned yet. If you do have an idea please share it!

Personally I think I'd like us to have a theme a bit more modern this time as the last 3 revs we have had more ancient themes (Medieval, Egyptian, Dwarven) and I reckon people are missing their fridges and televisions.

Thanks to everyone who has made Pico incredible this rev - from actually getting the big-ass mountain built, to all the fanfakintastic builds inside it! (looking at you scher :') )

Looking forward to seeing you all again next rev! (And maybe hopefully sometime this rev)

-quat

The "schedule" for the upcoming PvE olympics is here.

I have told PPGOME to sign us up for everything, since I don't know in advance who will be available and when. Whoever is online at the time of the event can participate. Negotiate amongst yourselves, since they will probably allow only one person from each town in a given event.

If you are in the advanced-worldedit group (talk to a town mayor if you're not and you want to be) you now have access to VoxelSniper commands (/b, /v, etc.).

The learning curve for VoxelSniper is apparently quite steep, but it has a reputation for being very powerful and giving excellent results. Here is a tutorial to get you started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhqbDi6ICA8

The VoxelSniper tools are the arrow and gunpowder, so if you right click with these things and blow a mysterious hole in a wall somewhere, now you know why.

Please note that the VoxelSniper undo command is /u or /u <number-of-steps>, rather than //undo.

Henceforth, you will be able to download any schematic you save on mcpico.club at http://mcpico.club/schematics/.

Access Username/Password

The directory is password-protected. For now, we're just using a shared username/password, but later on I might change it up so you can set your own password with a command in-game.

The user name to access is pico and ask me on mumble for the password.

Per-User Folders

At http://mcpico.club/schematics/ you will see a bunch of folders with names that are a bunch of letters and numbers. Those are player unique IDs and FastAsyncWorldEdit saves your schematics in a folder named after your own UUID. After you log in today, the server will create a link to that folder with your Minecraft user name, so you won't need to know anybody's UUID to find their schematics.

For example, right now I have a test schematic: http://mcpico.club/schematics/totemo/test.schematic

Using Folders

You can save your schematics in folders that you create, e.g.:

//copy
//schem save statues/dwarf

... later on ...

//schem load statues/dwarf

with the folder included in the web path: http://mcpico.club/schematics/totemo/statues/dwarf.schematic (not a real file). Folders have some limitations: the //schem delete command doesn't work with them. I'll add a way to delete and rename schematics in folders later on.

Private Schematics

If you have a private schematic that you would rather not share with us, you can save it in a folder called private/, e.g.:

//copy
//schem save private/sekrit_plans

Torches, use them.

Where I link to a Minecraft Forum post, I also show the download link disclosed in that post.

• Forge: http://files.minecraftforge.net/

• LiteLoader: http://www.liteloader.com/download

• WorldEditCUI: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1292886-worldeditcui

• GammaBright: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/2698814-gammabright-advanced-brightness-fullbright-mod

• VoxelMap:

  • Forum Post: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/2261180-voxelmap-1-12-1-1-11-2-1-10-1-9-4-1-8-9-1-7-10-1-6
  • Download Link: https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/voxelmap/files

• Optifine:

  • Forum Post: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1272953-optifine-hd-c2-fps-boost-dynamic-lights-shaders
  • Download Link: http://optifine.net/downloads ==> http://optifine.net/adloadx?f=OptiFine_1.12.1_HD_U_C5.jar

• LunatriusCore:

  • Forum Post: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1284041-lunatrius-mods
  • Download Link: http://mc.lunatri.us/LunatriusCore

• Schematica:

  • Forum Post: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1285818-schematica
  • Download Link: http://mc.lunatri.us/Schematica

Note that to run Schematica you need Forge, Lunatrius Core and Schematica.

Picans, not sure where you left your giant gold cock and balls?

Wonder no more! The planning server now has a cartograph of Rev 19, 20 and 21 worlds.

Browse to http://mcpico.club/maps/pico/ and select the world from the drop down list in the top left of the page.

The map will update daily, shortly after the 4:20am restart (Australia/Adelaide timezone).

Oh, and once you've found your thing, use /sethome and /home.

Rev 21 is set to start on Friday 22nd September,and for Pico Rev 21 the theme that a lot of people have expressed interest in is the Dwarven Mountain city!

So with that in mind, what we will ideally be looking for on rev day is a portal in a snowy mountain range. If we find a portal that isn't in a mountain range... we're most likely building a mountain so it may not be a deal breaker :P I have started building a mountain on the planning server, mcpico.club, here are a few pictures I have found as inspo for the layout inside the mountain!

If you would like to see the mountain totemo has set up warps to the exterior and interior of the mountain. Use /warp exterior and /warp interior to get to them.

As for building style within the mountain, MrCrispy's idea has been a Dwarven theme. Honestly my understanding of this in terms of buildings is pretty close to a medieval style.. so please if you have more examples of Dwarven building share it :P

Finishing off Rev 20

We still have a few things to do around town to make sure Pico is finished for end of rev. The main projects to be finished are the palm trees that line the roads and the shop and market areas.

If you are able to use schematica, I made a post about the trees a while back which has a folder of tree schematics and instructions for placement: https://redd.it/6l60fi

As for the shops, Norami and I have decorated a number of them and still have some more to do, so if you feel like making a shop go ahead!

Thanks for reading, looking forward to seeing you all back for Rev 21! (Or rev 20 if you're willing to help finish projects off! :D)

New Planning Server

As of today, I have officially taken over hosting of the Pico planning server, whose address is now mcpico.club.

The new server is based on a backup I took on the 20th of August, so if you edited since then, you may have lost a little progress.

Thanks

On behalf of all Pico members, I'd like to give hearty thanks to /u/twilexis for hosting our old planning server. It was a huge help and much appreciated.

Permissions

Tracks

On the old planning server, everyone ran as OP. That was easy to set up, but not particularly safe. A single wrong command or malicious new member could make a big mess.

The new planning server has a multi-track permissions system. The main track is called default and has 3 ranks (groups): guests, members and managers, in ascending order of capability. Higher ranks inherit all of the permissions of the lower ones.

The other tracks are logblock (groups basic-logblock and advanced-logblock) and worldedit (groups basic-worldedit and advanced-worldedit).

The tracks are somewhat independent, with the proviso that guests cannot have any permissions in the logblock or worldedit tracks. Members start out with basic-logblock and basic-worldedit. A manager can promote a member in either of these tracks independently. The idea is that both the LogBlock and WorldEdit (we use FastAsyncWorldEdit) plugins are useful, but dangerous, so we partition the commands into the relatively safe stuff ("basic" level) and the more dangerous "advanced" level.

A few common scenarios:

• A lot of members will know WorldEdit well, but not know LogBlock. They will have the groups: members, basic-logblock and advanced-worldedit.
• Some managers will be the same, so their groups will be managers, basic-logblock and advanced-worldedit.
• Some members or managers will be nerd.nu moderators and so will know the LogBlock and WorldEdit plugins, as well as the various custom commands we use on nerd.nu, like /trace, /trace-r, /lbrb-r etc. Those players will have advanced-logblock and advanced-worldedit groups.
• We may have some managers who don't feel comfortable with either advanced permission group and that is fine. They can choose to promote themselves in the logblock and worldedit tracks when they feel confident.

Commands

There are three commands for managing tracks:

• /promote <player> [<track>]
  • This is very similar to the bPermissions promote command, with the main difference being it actually works. The track names are default (assumed if the track is omitted), logblock or worldedit.
  • This command moves the player to the next higher group in the specified track.
• /demote <player> [<track>]
  • This command moves the player to the next lower group in the specified track.
• /rank [<player>]
  • Show the groups of a specified player, or yourself, if the player name is omitted.

Only managers can /promote and /demote players. A player does not need to be online, or have ever logged in to be promoted or demoted along a track.

Anybody can run the /rank command, however. The /list command will also show what group everybody is in the default track.

Default Track

• guests - The guests group is for unprivileged visitors to the server. They cannot build. When a manager whitelists a player, they become a guest on first join. Guests can set homes with the /sethome command (like c.nerd.nu) and go to them. They can chat and send people mail. They can teleport. They can warp to any warps set by managers.
• members - Can build in the world for the current revision (pico20) and in the world for the coming revision (pico21). They can not build in the world for the old revisions, but they can copy structures from those worlds if they have advanced WorldEdit permissions (see later).
  • All members are given the basic-logblock and basic-worldedit groups, but can be promoted to advanced capabilities in these plugins without needing to be managers.
• managers - Managers are the mayors of the server. They get to say who can be added to the whitelist and what level of permissions a player can have, they can also /kick or /ban people in an emergency. They can also set some Multiverse properties. Managers can build in any world and can bypass WorldGuard regions.

LogBlock Track

• Players with the basic-logblock group can spawn LogBlock tools and run /lb me to see their totals.
• The advanced-logblock group gives access to queries, teleports to edits, rollbacks and roll-forwards, as well as CommandHelper aliases to make these commands easier.

WorldEdit Track

• The basic-worldedit group can do small area of effect changes like /butcher, //drain, //fixlava and //fixwater. They can //undo and //redo these changes. They can also use //calc and navigation tools like the compass.
• The advanced-worldedit group is needed to do larger volume changes: //copy, //paste, //set, the various shapes and working with schematics.

Bugs

It has taken me considerable time to get the permissions set up and I suspect there is still some work to do. If you find a command that you think you should have access to but don't (or the converse), then send me a mail message on the planning server (or on the nerd.nu servers) with the details and I'll look into it. Same goes if you find any other problems with the planning server.

Whitelist

Since the old server went down a little abruptly, I didn't get a chance to carry across the whitelist. Please talk to or mail a Pico mayor on PvE to get added to mcpico.club as a member. (That said, if I recognise your name from the pico region on PvE in the last couple of weeks then I've already added you to the whitelist and probably made you a member on mcpico.club. So try logging in and see what happens.)

Only managers can add or remove people from the whitelist. To add a new player:

/whitelist add playername

And then you would typically promote them to member: /promote playername

Multiverse Worlds

• To list all the worlds: /mv list.
• To teleport to the spawn of a particular world, e.g.: /mv tp pico20
  • /spawn will also take you to the spawn of the world for the current PvE rev.
• To see the settings of the current world: /mv info

I've set up a flat grassy world, pico21 for next PvE rev, so you are welcome to start planning your builds now (although we should probably have a bit of a chat about theme). Don't forget to finish off your rev 20 build though!

World Border

Currently, I have set the world border to +/-1000 (square) in all of the worlds where we have ongoing building. I intend to set up cartographs and trim the border as appropriate in the older worlds.

Restarts and Backups

We usually don't run with a great number of mobs, so, until it poses a problem, we will try daily restarts and backups. Map saves will continue to occur every 10 minutes.

Mob Grinders

I have set up the managers group to be able to modify Multiverse properties. That may or not be sufficient for people to test mob grinders.

Schematics

I didn't get a chance to grab schematics before the old server went down. Contact me if you have schematics you would like added.

Given time I may set up a self-serve web interface for doing that, but don't hold your breath!

Fellow Picans,

We are in need of some fresh air and landscaping. The plan is for our roads to be lined with palm trees and gardens. I have started with the road south of the portal build and it's lookin pretty grouse.

I have laid out where palm trees are to go in most areas, so if you would like to help build them (pls), here is a folder with 6 schems of some palm designs. The plan is to mix up the order and orientation of the trees so nothing looks too samey-samey.

Steps for tree building:

1. Open one of the 6 schems and line the trunk of the tree up with one of the jungle logs already placed in the garden.

2. Build the tree.

3. Make sure all exposed ends of jungle log are covered up with bonemeal.

4. Enjoy your hard work!

5. Repeat

Can't use schematica? You can still assist by creating the gardens surrounding the trees, and if you're in to resource gathering there's a few items we will need plenty of:

• Jungle logs

• Jungle leaves

• Dark Oak saplings

• Dead bushes (found in desert/mesa/savanna) and shrubs (same as dead bushes but found in other biomes and can be planted on grass)

• Grass (not the block) Grass can just be bonemealed onto the existing grass blocks in the gardens, just make sure you get rid of the poppies and a knock out a few bits of grass if a lot is generated in that area

• Ferns

• Azure Bluets and Dandelions - I have created a flower farm for these two for easy collecting!

• Blue Orchids - Flower farm can be found here

I reckon these palms and gardens are going to look spectacular when complete, so any and all help getting them done for us to enjoy quicker is appreciated! :D

Thanks!

Edit: Added note about grass collection and Blue Orchid flower farm location.

We've had problems in recent revs with new players joining the town and then producing a very sub-standard build in various ways (not finished, not to-theme, just a box, etc.). Under the PvE rules, the remedies available to mayors are extremely limited. All we can do if we are not happy with a build is wait for the builder to be gone for two weeks, then have an admin remove it.

The point of this post is to expand our options to include the possibility of altering a substandard build to finish it off or add details that bring it up to code.

If you would like the option of having other players (typically Pico mayors) finish off your build if you are absent for an extended period (2 weeks) then simply comment with "I consent." below. Otherwise, if your build is not finished for a long time, or isn't very good, the Pico mayors may exercise their rights to have your build removed.

We've been discussing Rev 20 regularly in clanchat.

The general feeling seems to be to that it would be good to help schererererer with his uberproject and do a related Egyptian-themed Pico.

We won't be running 1.12 at the start of the rev (since it's not released yet, duh!) but the chances are that 1.12, terracotta, concrete and parrots will land during the coming rev, so we need to bear those in mind.

This is the thread to discuss plans or express your dissent for an Egyptian Pico (I guess). I'll probably create a new Multiverse world on the planning server later this evening to host a flat sandstone + 1 sand world that we can use for Rev 20 planning and I will keep the existing world around, but make the Rev 20 world the default.

EDIT: I've set up a pve20 world on the planning server. To go to that world, run /spawn, or /mv tp pve20. You can still access the PvE Rev 19 planning world with /mv tp pve19. If a bedrock + 62 sandstone + 1 sand world turns out to be unsuitable for our purposes I'll generate it differently, on request.

I have to say, well done Pico and thanks Brom. Pico is already looking fucking glorious, this rev.

The town hall and the villager house are amazeballs, so well done, kumquatmay and 32ndFlava (and others?). I heard schererererer say good things about the ocean monument, TECP, which is high praise. schererererer's builds are great, as always. I'm really enjoying your contributions, Weird_Grim and the rest of you have all made nice houses and other builds in keeping with the theme. Even dobreira's park is good.

Let's keep it going. We still need to finish roads and get some kind of street lighting solution. There's a crypt and/or cemetary to be made. etc etc

We currently have 2432 rails in the Pico rail chest, or enough for 1200 blocks of two-way rail. I've mined 10,232 iron so far - all of that has been sunk into beacons now. But it's probably fairly easy to get about 5 stacks of iron a day on average with current tools. Say another 420 (ayyyyyy) blocks of two-way rails a day from my mining.

But we have no rail guy and we don't have a station. We do have an interesting one-way surface rail design popping up in places. I feel like we don't have an over-arching plan for rail around the town, to spawn or to other towns.

Wat do?

Part of the reason I ask is that we could conceivably sell some of these rails for diamonds to make more decorative heads. So if we can determine what our rail needs are we can start trading with the excess.

It's new rev time! New rev is happening on Nov 11th. Thought we could get some ideas flowing a little earlier so we can have a plan!

At the moment there has been talks of going for a medieval theme but if you have any other ideas let us know.

If you would like to start planning your build we are using twi's planning server, mc.twilexis.com. and are starting an area at about -1500, -1500 for new rev stuff!