LOL, you can ride the animals?

Last Friday's update introduced chickens and pigs. If you have a saddle, you can ride the pigs.

I wrangled three chickens into my new barn area. lol

Let me tell you. It's frustrating as hell.

Cool stuff PK. My "castle" still sucks. LoL

Every patch seems to make the game lag more for me. Notch really needs to get some more people to help him work on the game. I'm starting to lose faith in his work since he keeps adding stuff without fixing current issues. At this rate, who knows if there will ever be stability tweaks.

Piggy rides at my barn! Only one piece of gold. lol

My ingenious barn-trap is working nicely. A ramp into it with no way out. Result...

5 chickens and 2 pigs. =]

One pig is saddled and ready.

Last one for the barn. Since I last posted a pic, my barn has caught 6 chickens and 3 pigs. =]

130 eggs. That's how I roll on a Saturday night. lol

If anyone else is running a server I took this autobackup utility and reworked it to make it use compression:

http://www.minecraft...=518832#p518832

The original backup utility just copied the directory over. This one will copy it to a backup location and then compress it for easier archiving. The temporary folder is deleted and either WinRAR or 7-ZIP compression may be used. Real handy until someone gets a proper backup utility going.

Moved to its own thread:

http://www.gamercide.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1407-minecraft-alpha-server-backup-utility/

New Version:

Adds support to use Cartographer everytime a backup is made:

Moved to its own thread:

http://www.gamercide.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1407-minecraft-alpha-server-backup-utility/

Example map image:

Cartographer is awesome. I can make out all of our places.

Spawn has been busy

LOL^

It's even more impressive when you see it in game.

Some may call it insanity, but I call it a labor of love. I am extremely close to being finished.

what is spawn building?

What it looks like in game

Holy crap. This is so much better:

damn too bad that doesnt show the underground stuff =(

Those maps look amazing. I may have to get back into playing a bit of Minecraft if it hasn't become even choppier with the newer patches. Was running fine before the last few patches. :/

Closeup

so i try to play minecraft and it just crashes on me everytime.

Minecraft is on and off until Notch gets back. His site is overburdened with people throwing money at him.

Here's my shot of the area I've been working on. Doesn't look like much until you actually jump in the game and see it. The screenshot is taken from the top of a tree, that is at the very top of a mountain. I had to wait for 3 clouds below me to get out of the way to get this shot.

And PK put my name down there, I'm not THAT self absorbed.