Venture Industries

Today is a really bad day for Venture Industries downloadable content. It seems the site Megaupload.com (Which I use to distribute extra feature for the server such as maps, texture pack, and other information.) has been shut down due to them being accused of “racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and other charges” (Fritz, Los Angeles times). The punishment they have received to me just seems way to heavy,  half a billion fine and 55 years in prison is too ridiculous .

But anyways, all files for Venture Industries will be down for a while till I find a solution. I am really upset because a few files I had uploaded I don’t have copies of. Infact, I used Megaupload alot to backup files that I can access anywhere. I can’t say when I will get everything back in order, it might be a day or even more.

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Minecraft 1.1 was released yesterday, filled with some major changes and some not so major. My favorite change in 1.1 is that sheep regrow wool by eating grass. Finally, wool farms can work a lot better now. For a full change list, visit the Mojang website.

I also released my Venture Industries texture pack for 1.1. It doesn’t add much but different menu background and some minor fixes. I actually had it done a long time ago and was going to release it as 1.0 2nd edition. But, since it didn’t really changed much, I just figured it would be best to release it as 1.1.

In other news, I still have Venture Industries running on MC1.0. So, it would be wise to keep a backup of your 1.0 minecraft.jar file. I really don’t want to update because a lot of projects are being worked on and it would be unfair to stop everyone. But, if I get enough requests. I probably will just go ahead and set up a temporary server till bukkit releases a build for 1.1. But, this is only IF I get enough requests.

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That’s right, Bukkit has finally released a recommended build. Venture Industries will soon be restored to its formal glory. However, there is still a lot of work to be done. I now have to go through each and every plugin, checking for updates. hopefully, all plugins work fine and I won’t have to drop any. After that I will have to go through all the configurations with the new build/plugins and see if anything is new or changed. luckily this is finals week for this semester and after i finish my exams, I can put in a full work time into the server. Also, Venture Industries will probably be coming back with fractions in the form a Venture Bros. related fractions(OSI, Guild, Triad, and more awesomeness). I will keep the temporary server running till I finish all work with Venture Industries.

EDIT: Side note to all admins, being invisible won’t allow you to break blocks. You must become visible to break, /vanish toggles it. Also, 25566 is where I’m testing Venture Industries.

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Minecraft 1.0 is finally out, no more 1.9 pre-releases. If you didn’t know, it was released on stage during the first day of Minecon which was pretty cool. I only watched it on IGN but still it was cool. It was kinda funny, right after Notch hit the lever minecraft.net crashed. Luckily they got it back up in no time and I managed to update. Overall, 1.0 is almost the same as RC2 but I’m so glad that it is finally out. No more playing with pre-releases.

Right now I have Venture Industries on a dev build of bukkit. I started with the regular server from minecraft.net but it just doesn’t run right for me. It constantly crashes and becomes unresponsive over time. So I turned to bukkit, it runs so much smoother. Right now it seems to be fairly far from being a recommended build but at least 1.0 player can login. Hopefully within the weeks they will release a recommended build but till then I’ll just try to keep it updated.

The map that the server is on currently is a temporary one of course, all your stuff is safe. But this map might become the final map, it has the same seed as the original. However, I might not change it, during Minecon Notch mentioned that the map generator will probably never be finished. So I’m not sure if I want to move everything to a new map if I am just going to get more split mountains.

Also I have already released my texture pack for 1.0. Pretty much the same, did really changed much. The title panorama is different, I know it isn’t in line much but I tried. Reskined the villagers to look less creepy. Also updated the texture pack’s post on minecraft forums with more pictures if you want to check that out.

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Ok, I have narrowed down the problem to my IP address, it seems that It has changed all on its own. I’m not sure what caused it. I know the day before the internet was out, but I can’t say if that could have caused it. But yea I’m just going to send out emails and try to change the IP on the forums and everywhere else.

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Something wrong with network, ports won’t forward right. I’m not sure what to do but till then i recommend playing with the new pre release.

Had to shut down the server today, redid my floors. Spent all day putting new titles down and it is looking good.

In other news I have decided to take the first step to making Venture Industries the way I want it by stabilizing it as a survival server. So no more spawning items and no more foolish plugins. I have kept most of the plugins like for crafting sponges and switching paintings but I removed custom difficulty, god power(I really liked god powers so IDK, I might just bring it back), and a few more. Also, I have been working a bit on the next edition of my texture pack but not sure when I will be releasing it.

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Server was down and no one Emailed or PMed me about it so I didn’t find out till I got home from school today. Something must have messed up when I did maintenance on the network yesterday, the server was running but the ports weren’t being forwarded correctly. Everything is fixed now I even doubled check this time.

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Venture Industries will probably be on and off through out the day. I’m doing maintenance on my network and I have to turn the server off in case of any corrupt data.

Till then, check out my 2nd pre-release of my texture pack; It covers MC 1.9 pre 1-4. Again, I am only releasing it here on Tumblr and not on my texture pack’s homepage page(My texture pack gets way more love from the Tumblr community compared to the mc forums community). It has a good bit of things changed/fixed but it mostly fixes the colors not matching.

When endermen first showed in the pre release of 1.8, he had green eyes. Now, he has purple eyes yet everything else is still green such as ender pearl, eye of ender, and the end portal blocks. So I tried my best to get all that stuff to have a really nice purple color(I’m really proud of the eye of ender, it has a really nice purple with blue pattern).

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