It looks like the octopus got a friend; he's no longer the only animal in the ocean.

No, I didn't build that; I had to scour the ocean floor to find one that was generated naturally.

Adding the sponge back into Minecraft is something I've had a hankerin' to do for a while now -- just part of my quest to make everything attainable without cheats. I toyed with the idea of having sponge act as a coral reef, but then it just looked like barf on the sea floor. (So it is obviously the current decorative sponge; not the old, functional, water-banishing one.)

This is based on the really-real Caribbean Barrel Sponge, which is so large that a person can fit inside of it.

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It sure seems like my yearly site anniversary curse is being accompanied by a horrible, younger sibling a month earlier. I somehow lost all of the Reality's End git tree -- including almost a year of unpushed changes.

So back to Minecraft.

You may have noticed that my server was either saddled with an old version (1.6.x) or was a head-of-line version without my fun changes. This is because the Mod Coder Pack had fallen woefully behind, and I had been using MCP to do my decompiling.

I've managed to forward port all of my changes without MCP, and so (since this was supposed to be the point of this log section) here is how I done'd it, you Googlers you.

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Y'know, when I first started this section, I just called it "code" and figured most of the things I did would actually involve code. Now, most of it just seems to involve non-coded Linux usage. Well then, from now on, Linux it is.

I hate PulseAudio. I know it should be a good thing, in theory, but in practice, I always ended up removing it from my Linux desktop distro. It seems like too much software I use doesn't play nice with it, the command line interface has too much if you only want to do a little, it is hard to switch output devices with it from the command line, and -- worst of all -- I can never find good answers to PulseAudio problems on the interwebs.

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If you are wondering where I have been these past two?! months, just look back to the previous update. Where else does all time go, never to be heard from again? At least I've been getting back into making Minecraft Mods. However, this time around, I am focusing entirely on the server-side so that users won't have to alter their own client in any way.

• Mob heads can be collected by using a Silk Touch Axe.
• Very rarely, mobs can wear a mob head as a "helmet".
• The last few lines of the chat buffer are sent to a player when they first sign-on (or when coming back from a connection interruption).

You might be able to tell that I don't want to change the fundamental concepts of the game in anyway; I still want Minecraft to be Minecraft. They are very inoffensive changes that could be applied to any server. Not quite sure how to distribute them, however. Could I set up a GitHub to distribute patches for patches?

Did you know that today is the fourteenth-year anniversary of Reality's End? Did you know that every anniversary of this site is usually introduced with "Did you know...?"?

This time around, I'll celebrate a way done only once before -- on the first anniversary. Well, before that, actually: the zeroeth anniversary. Zero comes before one, so the previous statement did make sense.

That's right, every-every, welcome to Reality's End!

No, not this Reality's End. The other one, the new one: www.realitysend.net

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