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General Discussion / 7 years
Sep 26, 2021, 06:42 PM
Today, 7 years ago, I joined with nothing and today I leave with nothing. It's been a long time and I'll be honest by saying I never expected to see this day. Though I wont go into detail about it, I'll say that my parting is for my own mental health. Through the years I have played on here I have met a countless number of people. Without going through my whole life story on here, I just want to highlight some people that meant a lot to me.

An unlikely friendship came from a now indispensable friend: omelott. Before the 2018 full reset we had only conversated a handful of times with most of them usually being related to his Nommy Island or the Rednian Empire. I will forever remember one of our first interactions post full reset where he helped me build my lighthouse that I cherished so much. As we began to talk more we got to know each other better and slowly started to do business together. I would give him advice and he would do likewise for me. He helped me open my first ever autoshop: QuickStop, which was a mild success. Then in the summer of 2020 he gave me the opportunity of a lifetime by becoming official business partners and co-owning mallusa 50/50 by buying it from Mini_ for 50 million emp. It was a huge risk that I took because with the initial investment my balance dropped from around 28 million to only 3 million. That experience will forever be one of my best as me and him grew closer than I could have ever imagined.

I have known Kakota and Casey_jr_9 for so long that I don't actually know how many years it has been, but I can say that it was back when Skype was still popular and it has been at the very least 4 years. Ever since we met, we have all 3 been good friends with each other. Both of these people mean so much to me. We have been through the thick and thin, but still have managed to stay in contact. Casey's endless knowledge about trains always keeps me informed and entertained and I will continue to enjoy that. Kakota has been an awesome human being, even when she doesn't see it in herself, and I'm proud to say that starting today mallusa will be in Kakota's good and capable hands.

Remnin (formely Amber_Kat), who has now parted ways with the server, is another dear friend that I couldn't imagine life without. Despite their own struggles, their constant pursuit to insist I stay happy means more than the world to me. They have been such a good person to me even in times where we did not get to talk as much. They are one of the best people ever and are very much the salt of the Earth.

For 2 years now SlimeyBoi123 has loyally advertised my spawner(s) (wxp, wxp2, wxp3) by giving him reputation points on the discord server. (and for nearly as long he has referred to me as winstoned and I have referred to him as slimed) Even though we aren't the closest, I still have had a great few conversations with him and have genuinely enjoyed his presence. One of the things I will always cherish is the time that he was talking about his resource pack that retextured slimes to have his head as the slime body and I asked if I could have it; to this day I still use it and am amused by seeing the SlimeyBoi slimes.

Someone that appeared when I most needed someone was Rose2247. Without her, I would not be here today. She is literally the single best person I have ever talked with. She helped me through the most difficult patch in my life and never complained about my struggle. For that I am eternally grateful and forever in debt to her. Words alone cannot express my gratitude for her. Thank you.

A project of mine for the past few years was collecting SFT history. With that I have met many fun and interesting people, as well as heard many interesting stories. Fractalion has been by far the most helpful person with this pet project. The stories he shared with me were amazing and so fun to hear. Over time we became friends instead of just acquaintances. Being one of the most interesting persons I have met in regards to events and people of the past on here, I will always enjoy that.

Prof_Thanos (now DrYouReInMySpot) was someone I had known previously, but when I reached out to him to help me with physics in the spring of 2020 we began to grow closer and become really good friends. He is a very interesting character and I love that about him. His intellectual bounds will never cease to amaze and entertain me.

More recently I had the privilege of getting to know Maya546. She only rejoined the server this summer, but in the short time that I have known her, she has been a really good friend. I enjoyed all the late night talks at 4, 5, or even 6 am despite knowing we both should have been asleep. The funny talks that we had I will always cherish.

Dental_Floss is someone else that I have grown to having a good connection with more recently. Since omelott left he has really picked up the construction in TownUSA for me and I know that with his amazing building skills and personality, him being the owner of the town and the wxp franchise, those things will be in good hands.

There are others that I have forgotten to mention because my lack of memory or falling out of contact, but you know who you are and know that I enjoyed the time spent with you.

For the people that do not like me and are probably glad to see me leave I have a word for you too. Let go of your anger; there's no need for it. I am not mad at you so why should you be mad at me? I apologize for whatever it was I did, but I also forgive you for holding a grudge against me. Life is too short to stay angry and I hope you can see that.

I love the time spent with every one of you on here and I do hope that you enjoyed it too. If you want to say anything to me, my discord is winston_b#9429. I hope I left this place better than when I joined. I will always cherish the good times I had on here. I wish all of you reading safe travels and a good life forwards. I love all of you and goodbye, sincerely Winston.
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Quote from: Towelie on Apr 20, 2021, 12:25 PMYou know that magic idea that just adds something that keeps people glued to the screen and on the server?
Super glue.
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Just a quality of life thing, but is it possible to either turn off or lessen the number of slime fun "this item does not work in this world" messages while in w3? I feel like it can get too spammy.
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I'm from Texas, United States and here are the books I remember reading in no particular order.

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Wave by Todd Strasser
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
The Storm by Kate Chopin

These are some books that we talked about but only watched the movies. (I had a strange teacher)

Moby Dick (In the Heart of the Sea)
The Great Gatsby
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I'd like to add that having full ranks in the tab is too much in my opinion
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Quote from: xJimJam on Oct 01, 2020, 01:26 AM
Quote from: winston_b on Sep 30, 2020, 08:09 PMIs it possible to make so that your voting tier affects how good of items your receive during a vote party? (I don't believe that it currently does that)

it does but for you to get better items you must keep voting every day. biggest teir is 3 or 4 i believe. I once got an ender dragon head too!
I'm not talking about the tier itself. I was referring only to vote parties
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Is it possible to make so that your voting tier affects how good of items your receive during a vote party? (I don't believe that it currently does that)
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Would it be possible to get lift signs back?
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General Discussion / Half a dozen
Sep 26, 2020, 11:40 AM
Hey y'all! It's now been 6 years to the day that I joined this server.

This year instead of doing a certain topic of reflection, I'll just explain the highs and lows of the last year...

In the year since my last reflection, a lot has happened to say the least. Many changes have happened in the world and in my personal life. In the fall I had taken a class to pursue geology at my junior college and it just so happened that 2 visiting professors from a university had come to try to recruit us. Well... it worked. I was hooked to their school almost instantly. That was a high. This January, though, was by far the toughest month I have ever had in my life. My friend took his life, my truck broke down 3 times, my dad nearly died of a heart attack, and a friend's mother died. As the school year started, I was enjoying the normality, but after Spring Break, when the pandemic began to really took hold, it became more stressful, but I really enjoyed working sleepless nights on Chemistry with friends.

In July, I was given the opportunity of a lifetime when I took on ownership of Mallusa with omelott. We have grown well as business partners and as friends. He has the same mentality as I do when it comes to operating things and I wouldn't trade the time we've worked together for anything.

In late August, less than a week until I moved in to university, I wrecked my truck. I was bruised up, but nobody else was hurt. That moment after the crash was an erie moment of stillness that honestly threw me into a short spell of depression. Nevertheless I have now moved into university and have been loving it here. I'm still enjoying all of the projects I'm working on and the people I've interacted with. I don't want any of you to feel sorry for me; I am an optimist; I will always look for the best in a situation. Regardless my rant has gone on long enough... I love you all :heart:, and thank you all soo much for being here. (especially Towelie)
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Hello all,

As some of you may, or may not know, for a while now I have been working on a project about SFT's history. With the deadline of September 1 approaching fast, I ask that you help me. I am looking for 2 things: screenshots that show important events or well known builds, or anything else like that; and testimonies describing how your experience with this community.

Since people are what make us the community we are, I am asking you to please consider pitching in with a testimony. Furtheremore, if you know of any old players who do not currently play, but might be willing to help, please... don't hesitate to contact them. I would love for as many people as possible to be able to contribute.

I would prefer you to contact me via my discord (winston_b#9429). With whatever you are able to help me with, I will make sure to accredit your name, unless otherwise said.

Again, even if you are unable to help, please spread the word to get as many people to help as possible.
- Winston  :heart:
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Quote from: Towelie on May 14, 2020, 03:26 PMI hope it will also discourage users from using hoppers, as they are terrible and Mojang should feel really bad about their implementation :S
U wot? Fite me m8.
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General Discussion / Re: 5 Years on SFT
Sep 27, 2019, 12:45 AM
Quote from: Green_Giant on Sep 26, 2019, 06:03 PMAyyy grats Winston, I remember you'd always message me when you were a member, look where you are now!
lol I don't even remember that.
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General Discussion / 5 Years on SFT
Sep 26, 2019, 01:44 PM
Today, 5 years ago, I joined SFT for the first time. Though I initially stayed because I was able to fly in survival mode, I soon gained countless friends and experiences.

(I'm going to try something new with this.)
The topic if this year's reflection is retirement. Now as some of you may know, I retired as a mod in June of 2017 and became a specialist. Now even though that was 2 years ago, I really didn't start to play more consistently until last year after the reset. Unlike many others... despite me being a Specialist and having spent nearly 2,000 hours online, I find myself still playing tons on SFT.

Specifically, since after the reset, I have become good friends with omelott, which with his encouragement allowed me to open an autoshop (/warp QuickStop) and make my spawner be one of the most visited (/warp wxp).

Even despite me being in college now, I am still able to play. Furthermore, I have been working on a big plan to document SFT history for the 10 year anniversary next year. (If you want to help I'm more than willing to accept help.) But all this being said, you can be retired and still have a good time.
(Please don't say, "Here's to another 5 years. That just annoys me.")
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Quote from: Thanos on Sep 18, 2019, 12:19 PMI believe Alternate Deaths should be rejected for the same reason Diseases were; it adds unnecessary difficulty to the game and not everyone is able to cope with it.
Same opinion
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Quote from: Towelie on Aug 29, 2019, 06:08 AM
Quote from: winston_b on Aug 28, 2019, 04:39 PM
Quote from: TeraStorm on Aug 28, 2019, 09:28 AM
Quote from: winston_b on Aug 26, 2019, 09:24 PMI would like to be able to do more with armor stands... there are ways of editing how armor stands look just with a data pack. If not this, could we at least have armor stands have arms when placed?

Also, mostly an esthetic feature, instead of just having an invisible world border, why not set the ingame world border to the radius of the world?
The armour stand thing - Can you dm me explaining what we'll need for it to work and I'll look into it

World border - I don't really understand what you mean by it
The minecraft, vanilla world border:
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/World_border
We keep using WorldBorder (the current plugin) for several reasons:
1. I am not familiar with the vanilla world border and have not played with it. I don't know if setting a border to 5000 will be the same thing as if i set it to 5000 with worldborder.
Also, worldborder has some neat world filling tools and world trimming tools that we need.
Second of all, the border won't show in dynmap any more i think
I guess I didn't say it, but I was thinking of using both. And to answer your question the minecraft world border uses radius... so putting in the same radius would make it be the same distance, but just like a solid wall.
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Quote from: TeraStorm on Aug 28, 2019, 09:28 AM
Quote from: winston_b on Aug 26, 2019, 09:24 PMI would like to be able to do more with armor stands... there are ways of editing how armor stands look just with a data pack. If not this, could we at least have armor stands have arms when placed?

Also, mostly an esthetic feature, instead of just having an invisible world border, why not set the ingame world border to the radius of the world?
The armour stand thing - Can you dm me explaining what we'll need for it to work and I'll look into it

World border - I don't really understand what you mean by it
The minecraft, vanilla world border:
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/World_border
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Any update on my last posted idea(s)?
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Quote from: Towelie on Aug 27, 2019, 09:05 AM
Quote from: xJimJam on Aug 26, 2019, 09:56 PMMore elite mob bosses. The treasure goblin is a little old. Maybe add like a blaze or a giant. (If it's configurable if not then oh well :( )

Edit: a server shop for when EMP isn't open
A lot of them are disabled because people complained ( eg they didnt like the mining mob that comes randomly when you mine)
Is it possible to have it disabled normally, but enableable per player?
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Quote from: xJimJam on Aug 26, 2019, 09:56 PMEdit: a server shop for when EMP isn't open
Autoshops my dude
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I would like to be able to do more with armor stands... there are ways of editing how armor stands look just with a data pack. If not this, could we at least have armor stands have arms when placed?

Also, mostly an esthetic feature, instead of just having an invisible world border, why not set the ingame world border to the radius of the world?
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I know this will probably be shot down, but I feel like we should really have a /back or /return command. In the past it's always been along the lines of it wouldn't be real survival, but with plugins like slimefun we aren't really playing "survival". Maybe it could function in a way that it can't warp back to w3 or when a staff member teleports you.
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I think my last post got overlooked, but could the calculator command be enabled for all players since it's soo useful?
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Quote from: omelott on Aug 24, 2019, 12:21 AMLegend 3: Delete tree perms (Would save staff energy, much like BCV perms), Calculator perms (Pretty handy, don't know why this is limited to staff only)
I believe that calculator perms should be allowed for all players since it's helpful to have. I see no reason to limit it to any rank.
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What if we had like a world 4 for like attractions and world spawns so that builds that are deemed important enough could be saved so that future players could enjoy the same cool builds. I think it would be better to incorporate the builds into a normal world instead of a flat world to make them look more natural. Just an idea I've had lying around.
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We're internet famous lol