Thankfully I really haven't gotten too much done in this game. Except for some iron armor, it will be a pain to get made again as it seems like this server has been mined to death already. I dug down in a tunnel one night and ran into 3 skellys, a spider and a zombie all in the same location, lets just say it didn't turn out well for me. Thankfully at that time it was just under my dwelling so getting back down wasn't a problem. Fighting them off and escaping was... but...

It still seems like a frustrating system to me, to respawn so far, basically penalized for exploring, and I love to explore. I guess I'll have to make extra chests and store all that I don't need before hand.

Unlikely, I just didn't recognize the name. Someone decided to have a little fun on the tekkit server. Completely destroyed to player's bases. So I checked out the server log, and there was only two names I didn't recognize, the other name got blacklisted.

That needs a server mod for SMP.

Those both exist on standard if you're an OP.

Also, the tekkit launcher supports launching a vanila world. You are also able to drop new mods into the tekkit mods folder. It's really quite nice. But you have to be careful, sometimes there are risks for item id conflicts if a given mod doesn't use bukkit or forge.

Two separate servers.

Odd, I haven't seen that. It rarely asks to download anything.

Though at one point their server was overloaded and things were slow, or not working, but that's been fixed.

That said, I've also use "Magic Launcher" for vanila minecraft and it is rather nice. It'll auto patch your minecraft mods, and let you set up a few other things. It's also the only way I've been able to log in to my server properly when its in offline mode. Otherwise it doesn't match nicks properly, as if the vanila launcher doesn't send the nick at all if you connect offline.

The MagicLauncher handles updates to minecraft.jar, and it always does the auto-patching of mods on every startup I think, or at the very least it does it when it thinks it needs to (minecraft update, new mod added, mod removed) but I'm betting it just does it every time.

But it does let you add the mods in the gui itself, so you don't have to drop the mod into the mod folder yourself I don't think. And it detects if its a forge mod, or real mod where it has to mod the minecraft jar itself.

It worked for rei's minimap and OptiFine when I tried it out.

It seems to happen more when there are several people on.

Yup.

Not missing chunks, I have seen that, disconnect/reconnect fixes that. It's the vanishing terrain and buildings, the textures disappear, like they're totally transparent, you can see under ground but still walk on the ground that is there, you just can't see it for a few moments. I may have to reset my settings and maybe add in mods one at a time to see which is doing this maybe.

If it's optifine than maybe I'll remove it. It gets very annoying to the point where I can't move until it redraws it normally or who knows what I could run in to or fall off of.

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That's what I see.

Edit: I installed a different version of Optifine and it seems to have fixed the problem. I was using the multi-core version, so I switched to the first one listed on their site. I can notice a slight difference in speed, but no graphical errors like in the above screenshot.