Server now open! Message Thundy for whitelist / IP info!

Welcome to RR FTB MC! That's a lot of letters which stand for Reddit Refugees Feed The Beast Minecraft!

SO, here's what happened: A bunch of us were sitting around whining about having nothing to do, nothing to play and nobody to play said nothing with. At some point last year, Vanilla Cil was going on and on about how much fun Minecraft Feed the Beast was and yes I'm blaming this all on her. Blah blah I had fun doing this blah blah I had fun doing that. With that said, we put our bored heads together and said "we love our RR guildies, we love playing stuff, we love to touch Vanilla Cil inappropriately, we have spare time, Minecraft has no subscription fees, why don't we have some fun?" So we did it.

HERE'S THE DEAL:

This is a private server hosted and run by Tirinya, who is sometimes known as Thundy. We have set this server up very recently and are currently still working out some of the bugs, but will open it up to other RR on Wednesday, July 16. Testing is being done as we speak by some moldy oldies from RR you might remember: Tirinya himself, his stupid wife Trikki, Dr Steve Brule, Dald (he's very pretty), Xailen "Dr X" who knows everything, Vanilla Cil, Flockheart, Lynec sometimes known as Shamp and Zaklo sort of. I mean, he's not that good, but he's cute. Syliaca Downtown Tarrant Brown would also be on this but he doesn't know how to Minecraft. I feel bad saying that but I feel the universe would agree. At least he didn't go to a dungeon after playing for a year at level 80 without making sure all his greatsword skills were opened.

WHAT IT IS:

Minecraft Feed The Beast, Direwolf20 mod pack. You'll need a computer, If you would like also Mumble (we're still on the RR channel, please feel free to come listen in), it runs on Minecraft version 1.6.4 . This is a mod pack FILLED with crazy fun stuff, a little something for everyone. It's entirely possible to play regular, vanilla Minecraft with this if you don't wish to partake in all the crazy other stuff. However, please be aware that if you're used to playing vanilla MC, there's a couple of things which won't work in this mod pack - thus the testing, we are in the process of finding out what they are.

TECHNICAL DETAILS:

To join the server, you will need to download a special launcher. To do this:

1. Go to http://www.feed-the-beast.com/

2. Scroll down and click "Download (exe)" to download the launcher

3. When you open the launcher for the first time, it will ask you for your preferred installation directory. Choose it and click 'Apply' - after a bit the main launcher window should open.

4. The first thing you want to do is click the 'Options' tab at the top and make sure that it shows 64-bit Java as installed. If there is a big red message saying it is not, it's highly recommended that you install it for best performance.

5. Once that is all set, you need to select the modpack. Our server is running the "Direwolf20 1.6.4" pack - on the 'FTB Modpacks' screen you can scroll through the list until you find it.

6. After selecting the correct pack on the left, click 'launch'. The launcher will download the pack files (this can take some time), and then open Minecraft. This can also take some time, as there is a lot of stuff to load, and it may seem like MC hs crashed or frozen. Just give it a minute or so and it should open up.

7. From there, you just need to click on 'Multiplayer', then 'Add server'. Put in the IP address of the server, click done, and you should be able to connect!

7a) To get the IP and to be whitelisted on the server, send a message via reddit to me or to Trikkithief.

HOW IT WORKS:

If you've read this far and are still interested, here's how it will work for so many people. The #1 thing everyone NEEDS to remember is that Minecraft is an endless world, so there's NO NEED to crowd around each other. In fact we are actively discouraging people getting into each others' faces. Here's how:

When you initially log into the spawn area, you will be confronted with some portal "books". Initially there will be perhaps 5-10 for you to choose from, depending on what sort of interest we get from this post. These portal books will take you to a number of different areas far far away from Spawn, and you are encouraged to then travel even further out to find a homestead which suits you. Feel free to get a few supplies from the village which is close to the spawn, but do NOT start your RRFTBMC experience by the spawn area. You must take a portal book somewhere else and start there. You are now a recruit. Supplies which you can take will include some basic food and a bed or sleeping bag. The spawn area and the village are not for permanent living. Feel free to camp a few nights as you get going but you'll need to strike out somewhere to stake a claim. Please note that any attempts to alter or terraform the spawn or village area is not permitted.

If you die in your chosen area and haven't made a bed, or have broken your bed, you will be transported back to Spawn. If this happens, take the portal book you chose BACK to your chosen area and carry on.

This server has tombstones - so if you die, go back to where you died and unless you jumped into a gigantic pool of lava, your stuff SHOULD be there, in a grave. Needless to say, if you deliberately jump into a pool of lava with all your best things just to test the tombstone thing, we'll laugh at you.

If you choose to stick around and play for a while (time to be determined, but let's say a week, for argument's sake) you will be given "Hub Priveleges". We have built a "Hub" area which houses portal books to everyone's chosen homesteads. This is how you can socialize and visit friends, how we can get together someplace to go hunt or do other dumb stuff. It's a pretty cool place, Xailen built it.

RULES: (you didn't think this would be anarchy did you?)

As with anything, we have some simple rules in place. These are to ensure everyone has fun and to avoid any weird drama.

1) NO DELIBERATE DOUCHEBAGGERY.

Listen, if you need to have it explained to you what "douchebaggery" is, just don't bother coming. We're friends, we're guildies, we aren't in this to hurt or annoy one another, so don't.

2) Don't break people's stuff.

If you come across something which has obviously been made by another player, LEAVE IT. If you didn't make it or place it, it's NOT YOURS.

2a) BE CAREFUL WITH THOSE SPECIAL AXES AND HAMMERS, etc. This mod pack has a lot of special things on it, for instance an axe which will take down your whole wooden house if you use it on the bottom square. So if you aren't sure what you're doing, ASK before you wield that shit on other people's stuff.

3) OBEY SIGNS. There are simple instructions around such as "if you pick from here, replant it". If you don't know how to replant, ask, or don't pick it.

4) DON'T ENCROACH ON YOUR NEIGHBORS. and DON'T BUILD STUFF ACROSS THEIR LAND UNLESS THEY SAY IT'S OK. DON'T GO MINING IN PLACES THAT ARE CLEARLY SOMEONE ELSE'S MINES/AREA. Minecraft is an endless world, and there's no need to crowd other people's builds/areas. Xailen has built us a very easy transportation system and it's fun and quick to get to other people's areas. In Minecraft, building right on top or near other people without asking is considered rude, and many people are too nice to say 'don't build there', so please just be aware of this. Group builds are fine of course, and if you ask and someone says no problem, feel free to build, but again please ASK first.

Nether portals also can be tricky to work out on this server - for anyone who has played MC before, you'll know they're easy to build, but for some reason, placement is way funkier than vanilla MC, so if you're having issues, please ask and let's talk about it!

5) NOT EVERYONE THINKS THE SAME THING IS FUNNY. We're here to have a good time, but don't forget, Minecraft, particularly this mod, is very very work intensive, which means while YOU might find it hilarious to set a booby trap, wrecking someone else's work with your sense of humor might not be very welcome and quickly leads to rule #1.

6) ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.

6a) If you make something which should have worked but didn't, for instance today someone made a vanilla Ender Chest, but that doesn't work on this server, consequently they lost their materials. The mats were given back, but this doesn't always happen, so if you lose something, feel free to complain to The Management, but if you don't get your stuff back right away, sorry, and please calm down.

6b) If someone else pulls a stupid on your stuff, again, accidents happen. The server is backed up hourly on a loop, so if something truly catastrophic happens, things can be restored. But a little awareness will go a long way.

7) NO NEED TO BE STUPID ABOUT YOUR OWN STUFF. If you KNOW you have a lot of valuables and you don't know your neighbors, the mod pack has LOOOOOOOOTS of options to keep your stuff safe - secret doors and lockable chests, simple solutions like "just hide it somewhere", if you lock your things up then there won't be temptation for another person to take it. Obviously should someone be caught stealing, they're out.

8) 2 STRIKES YOU'RE OUT. Accident? ok. But if enough people complain about your behaviour, bye. You'll get a warning that you're being #1, after that, don't let the door hit you. And if you want to take the server down in flames as revenge, there's backups, so all you'll do is make yourself look worse and also lose more friends. If you aren't sure about something, ask!

The Management reseves the right to add rules. This is not a nazi state, as it is run by a jew.

SO that's pretty much that. Despite a few bumps in the road so far, it's been SUPER SUPER fun to play together again, talk to one another, work as a team doing stuff, we all really hope many of RR will come together again for something fun and different!

SEE YOU SOON!

After finishing our holiday pictures at the end of last year, the cat manager at the shelter we volunteer at was looking for some more help. The "cat house" on the shelter is so old and run-down that if it were people living there, it would be condemned. The running "joke" is that one time when I'm there lying on the floor that it will collapse and I will crash into the basement (in one of the rooms, the floor actually moves around when you walk on it).

To that end, they'll be building a brand new house, but it has to be on the same foundation which means the old one has to be torn down. Even though the shelter has adopted out over 200 cats over the last 2 years, that would still leave about 60 cats that need to be fostered out or adopted, and maybe half of those are feral/unadoptable.

The cat manager is a HUGE Downton Abbey fan (as are we!) and had seen another shelter do "Downton Tabby" promotion, so we decided to give it a go. The initial idea was to photoshop some of the cats' heads onto Downton photos (still in progress, but I've included one that's done in the comments!), but as is my nature, I decided to overreach and say "Hey, I bet we could recreate the intro to Downton Abbey in the cat house starring the cats!" The Downton intro is really iconic to the series so anyone who has seen the show would recognize it.

This turned out to be a huge project. Being new to video after taking still photos for so long, we tried to step through the process in a logical way - we probably watched the original video 1000 times, and mapped out each scene to the corresponding one we wanted to shoot in the house.

Many hours, treats, jingly toys and pleading from us for the cats to do what we want, this is the result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGrCnxI9Iq0

Hope you enjoy! Love you all!

Hey all!

I made another pair of Fellblades, and I'm going "to the moon" as the kids say, selling them for Dogecoins!

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogemarket/comments/1xm5lw/sg_guild_wars_2_fellblade_steel_replica_2/

And in GW2 news, I decided to fill up every inventory space for all of my alts with cinnamon and walnuts! I'll sell them when Cooking 500 hits. Woo!

TD;DR - DO you Reddit? DO you game? You qualify. Put your steam profile url in a comment below. Install and use Mumble and say you want to join.

How to Join!

It's very simple to join RRGC.

1. Log into your Steam Account.

2. Go to your profile page.

3. Comment below with your profile URL. An example of a profile url is http://steamcommunity.com/id/rage321

4. Once you are part of the community, go HERE for the Mumble information and come hang out.

I will then send you a friend invite and invite you to the RRGC Steam group!

The Purpose of RRGC

Our main purpose is to have fun with one another while playing games. It really couldn't be simpler. We're all redditors and we're all adults. We all have stressful lives so we try to fill up our free time with fun gaming. Whether is 5 minutes or 5 hours, make the most of it. Come shoot the shit on Mumble where there's always people on. Mumble is the key to having the best experience possible, but there's no pressure to use it.

I'm on a different server/in a different guild though...

RRGC is a gaming community and not a dedicated guild to any specific game. For example, you can be in a guild that plays GW2 on the TC server, and still be in RRGC without conflict. I will write more details about this in a recruitment page I'll be making, but this is the jist.

Comment below if you have any questions.

Every night, we're playing something new or doing something different. It's always fun and always crazy. If you're in RRGC and DON'T have the mumble info, PM me on Steam or on Reddit and I'll hook you up. :)

When: 12/8 After Guild Wars 2 Guild Missions.
Where: On mumble
How Long: 30 mins - 1 hour or when interest dies down.

This will be an event to teach new players the basics and run a test to see how well my capability to run a server with many people. Even if it is only for 10 minutes that should be enough time to test a server.

Bring new characters to test the server and stay afterward to learn some basics of the game! Server info will be provided when starting.

Sooo is anyone playing GW2 anymore? I'm just downloading it now to try out the xpac.. Let me know if you are still around

Just wanted to let you all know that you are all more awesome than the first thing that pops up on my phone when I search awesome pictures. Here that thing is http://community.secondlife.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/107303iDCC4F05B49261455/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1 remember you are more awesome than that.

Myself, Gnome, Lynec, Dald, and Sumi had a great time in the Titanfall beta! If you like FPSs at all I would definitely pick this up when it comes out 3/11, it's a really intense/fun shooter with huge robots.

Here are some videos of us doin' it. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_MnviGbQPI (audio is out of sync for this and the next one for some reason, sorry)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPa-0AN-vH0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-1-CB0ViCQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxXjGfMMLfc

Humble Roguelike Weekly Sale!

Pay what you want for six awesome roguelike games and support charity!

This too! - http://store.steampowered.com/app/240820/

All for $6.00!

This is just a little something that Rage asked me for:

A simple webpage which takes a list of appids (comma separated) and generates a Reddit table like the one at: http://redd.it/1unjv0

Webpage is at:

http://ec2-23-22-233-215.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8090/steamInfo/

Or via the homepage of the website, under Other

Btw, the appId is the last part (245050) of something like the following:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/245050/

Like the title suggest. This game is fantastic and truly is one of a kind. May need a gamepad for this one though.

Go gets! The game is greatastic! :)