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Rendering Minecraft in Blender

Sat, 23 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been having an on and off love affair with Blender for three years now. While it’s true that the interface is bordering on user-hostile once you begin to understand the Blender way of doing things it is an incredibly capable piece of software.

Recently I stumbled upon Mineways, a free open-source program which allows you to export sections of your Minecraft worlds for rendering or 3D printing. Being quite a fan of Minecraft (my wife and I had our Minecraft avatars on our wedding cake) I thought I’d have a play with it and see what I could make.

Building a Custom Forge Minecraft 1.6.2 Server

Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes.

Having played through Tekkit Classic, Voltz, YogCraft and Tekkit my friends and I decided it was time for a custom mod pack. This of course meant that I had to figure out how to build it. After reading a bunch of tutorials of differing quality and reliability I was left under the impression that I would need to use a PC. Fortunately for us Mac users with Minecraft 1.6.2 and the new Forge installer this is not the case.

Tekkit Classic with Minecraft 1.6.2

Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes.

Following on from my previous post I wanted to write a little more about the issues I found trying to get all of the Tekkit Classic mods working with Minecraft 1.6.2.

Having discussed everyone’s requirements, my friends and I agreed that we wanted all the features of Tekkit Classic with the additions of Stargate, Twilight Forest, Archimedes Ships, Useful Foods, Treecapitator and a few others. I read a lot of guides and figured out how to set up a custom Forge server for Minecraft 1.6.2.

YogCraft and Server Texture Packs

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes.

I have been running a private Minecraft server for myself and some friends for a while now. We have been playing through a variety of Modpacks, starting with Tekkit then Voltz and yesterday we switched over to YogCraft.

On Minecraft servers you have the option to force users to download and automagically install a texture pack when they join. I’ve never tried this before but I thought I’d give it a go as I was starting a new server. The way it works is that you need a zip file containing the texture pack somewhere publicly accessible on the internet and you modify the server.properties file to tell it where to find it. I tried this but immediately realised that there is a limit of 10Mb for texture packs served in this way and the one I had was 38Mb!