So, Apologies for my rambling, and zonked nature. It was very late and I had some con flu from visiting FanExpo Boston last week end. (So I was a bit loopy.) I'm also trying to learn Davinci resolve so hopefully future videos will look/sound better.

Hello again! A couple of months ago I dropped in here with some builds and the response has been amazing. Well, I'm here today to inform all of you that the server those builds are from is about to update to one of the newest versions, and that means we are starting a fresh map! We have a bit of a problem however: "Lack of players." Our server owner has mostly moved away from Minecraft, (for now) and as her and her husband and her friends were half the server, this has left a bit of a void in our community.

Rather than violate rule 3, I will simply describe the server and if that server is something that interests you as a player, perhaps we can discuss further steps privately. The point here is to seek out new players, and to that end, you'll need to know what we are about.

#A Sharp Miner, The Who:

ASM is an "18 plus" server, however, as some of the members have children of their own, they occasionally play on it. We are generally left leaning in ideology, and have a strong "personality type first" attitude toward the whitelist. We are almost all MBTI type INXX's (I myself am an INTJ, our server owner is/was an INFP) and do not like drama.

It is preferred that if you apply to join, you are serious about game play. We are looking for players who have a passion for their builds, not folks who are just popping in to check the latest update, slap together a dirt hut and then not play for several months, or until the map resets. We are accepting redstone savants, lore builders, explorers and/or minigame mavens. Filming on the server is allowed and encouraged!!

#The Culture:

We do have a series of QoL mods installed, but otherwise run fairly vanilla. Our server is set to hard difficulty. We usually pre generate chunks out to about 1500 blocks from spawn, and our world border is set to 50K. We do have the sleep limit set to half the server, so it is advised that you keep a bed on you at all times, when out exploring. (people not in the over world are not counted.) We do NOT have a user economy, as such. Instead we have a community storage area, and any "shoppes" at or around spawn are free to take from. ("tip jars" are allowed however.) If you would like to charge for any items, you may set up such shops at your personal base. The end is locked until about a month or two into the server, to allow players to explore, enjoy the early/mid game, and generally "Gear up." Our server map (An external browser based plugin called Dynmap) is also locked until after the dragon hunt, for similar reasons. Server seed is known only to server admin and the owner. At the end of each map, it is saved and posted in our servers' discord, and usually hosed on a google drive, or drop box, for use in single player. All bases must be at least 250 blocks from spawn and 50 blocks from each other, unless you happen to be double/group basing. (this is to avoid drama) Mines are a bit more lax about this rule, but do try to keep it "under your base" or stake a claim farther out where it will be less of an issue. (we've never had any, TBF, so use your best discretion)

Generally, we have the usual rules: don't be a douchebag, don't be a bigot, don't greif people, clean up after your pranks, PVP is on, but should be consensual, you know the drill. If a creeper blows it up "near civilization" please refill the hole, don't hog/raid all the structures, within reason, etc. We try not to build duplicate public farms, however, you may earmark any farms you personally build as private, in which case this does not apply. If you build a "better" public farm, the old one may be decommissioned.

#Our Community

We have a discord server, and chat is usually logged to that, however the pugin is a bit borked at the moment. We occasionally run events (in game) in line with the holidays, but it's pretty relaxed. We have a couple mods specifically for fun like a /joke command, Troll machine, and if there's more than 3 people on a game called "Man Hunt" begins where you have nine minutes to find and click on another player designated. Fabulous prizes go to you if you succeed; The same goes to the chosen player if you do not. It's actually a great way to get some hard to find items!

So this is what A Sharp Miner is about. Again, strictly speaking, this is just talking about the server I play on and what it's like. No obligation or pitches are in anyway intended. If this server sounds like something that appeals to you though, feel free to shoot me DM, and we can discuss options for onboarding you to the whitelist/contacts for the Admin team.

#What are your servers like?

This is not my server, just the one I play on. It's been almost exactly 2 years since I started, but there's no more I could add beyond flowers and shrubs. Before the map gets reset, I put my gear off of my person so there's no chance that when the world download happens, I'll accidentally log on with our server admins gear (he forgot to reset the player files one time). Since I do this I took to "hiding" my stuff and sort of challenging the other members to find it. This time, I finally went through with what I've been meaning to do for a while now: A good old fashioned treasure hunt! I hid 9 clues far and wide around our map, often in meaningful places, but a few are just placed for the adventure of it. Each clue leads to the next and tests your knowledge of the map and fellow players through fun little rhyming riddles. If you can decipher all 9, you'll learn the location of my stash (tomb) and take it for your own use if you chose to use this map in single player- And I have FULLY enchanted, trimmed, named Netherite gear, with duplicates for both Silk touch AND Fortune 3, plus fully enchanted secondary gear. basically, if it's a tool, and I can enchant it, it's been enchanted. I also have a mobile base kit, shulkers dedicated to bone blocks, torches, and ender pearls, an ammunition shulker, a rocket shulker, a food shulker, 12 mass mining and transportation shulkers and 4 "junk" crates for the rando stuff one tends to acquire as one plays like hostile mob drops, seeds, and other general flotsam. This stuff is professional level gear, optimised to handle most anything the game could throw at you.

Hello again! Another Build from the A Sharp Miner server! I was tempted to post the entire build progress, but since that's like a dozen images, I thought that might be a bit much. This is not 100% complete, as the interior is still in progress and I may still tweak the outside a bit, but it's "thumbnail" ready as far as I'm concerned.

I can post interiors later if you guys want. :) [edit] You guys asked for it!

The entrance as viewed from my base's south gate (the primary one)

The first floor is a lounge area, with various amenities for visitors. This is still in 1.21.10 so not having cushions is...painful, NGL.

I understand server etiquette!

It's Unisex. Whatever. Just wash your hands after!

Casual discussions, hang-outs, chill vibes. You get the idea.

SNACKS. You best believe it's stocked!! Cookies, pies, wattah mellone, lava chicken, all the good stuff!

An overview of my base. Yes, those are actual, functional farms.

No Welcome Center worth its salt is complete without an Info Kiosk. Here's mine. Has a list of farms and amenities at my base, some simple rules which amount to "Don't touch my shit if it's in my actual house, and my (specific) Horses are off limits, but otherwise 'Mi casa, su casa,'" and a little blurb about what inspired me to build this way. It also lists the other farms I built for the server.

On Floor 2 we have a meeting room/banquet hall not much to say here. Has some nice art, and I used ascii art to get the hardware on the buffet tables.

Floor 3 is the Auditorium and Public address space. Perfect for more important gatherings, open mic nights, or concerts. The shaders I use don't really work well with banner gradients, but the lighting was too good to pass up. The server uses the microblocks from wandering trader mod, so I was able to get this chunk of polished deepslate to make a rather believable microphone!

I kept the upper floor a bit minimalistic because I figure that it would best facilitate large gatherings by not having clutter everywhere.

Yes there were red flags, but the mission was to unseat Collins, so we were all willing to look the other way on some of them and were hoping that we were going to vote for the man he is now, to make this happen. Everyone who was supporting him did say that if something came out that was truly disqualifying, we'd drop him like a hot rock, and this clearly the case.

We are never gonna unseat Collins. This bitch has more lives than a cat! FML (flips a table)

I went a few pages back to see if this had been posted yet and did not find it. If this already has, however, my apologies. No one is talking about this and these are the reforms WE NEED. I am a Maine Voter.

Hi again! Since my last two posts have been well received, I figured I share some more stuff! A few months back I decided to try breeding the BEST horse. I prefer Sable horses, because that was the first one I ever tamed on an old SMP I was on before this one. I got that horse, but once I did, I elected to build a track for Riding and racing at my base. This track has directional arrows, fencing, and a start stop line. It generally runs around the perimeter of my base. What it needed, and I finally got around to adding, was the grandstand for spectators. This area also doubles as an observation platform and lounge for anybody who wants to drop buy and have a fishing party. 😄 As you can see, it offers a full concessions area with cozy and comfortable seating on the second level. (And I'm a little miffed I'm still in the 1.21.x version, because those wool stairs would slap hard for the awning. Oh well...)

My base is quite sprawling, and I've been working on it for about 2 years now. This is a guest house near my docks. I use Vanilla Plus Shaders, and Fabulously Optimized. Pic one is the basement crafting and utility area, pic 2 is the main floor, pic 3 is the back garden, pic 4 is another garden area, across the street between my wax and iron farms, and the last one is the Upstairs.

I just started my substack last week, so I need to promote it. I'm not very good at that because I'm not going to sit here and BS you. Right now it's a bit cringe, but i need subscribers, so this is the best place to go right now.

If I post more it will be just articles, not to worry.

SO as most people here have experienced, Reddits "strike" system is as both un nuanced as it is completely unhinged. It's AI is trash, coded by the advertizer partners for complete sanitation of thought, then is unevenly applied across the site. (it would be better to be completely un moderated vs, THAT IMHO)

This is why a YouTube comment restriction is MUCH more fair: It doesn't ban you, it BLOCKS you. Instead of whacking you with a Ban hammer it acts like a bouncer. It says, "hey this comment is a bit questionable, I'm not accepting that." This is a better way to go about it because as long as there's no penalty for edit spamming, it allows you to go through the comment and try to figure out if there's "a better way to say something" or at the very least sus out what the AI seems to think is the issue with it.

And again, to be clear, the AI on YouTube is not much better, often being even MORE strict, but at least you can WORK with it.

If Reddit used that system, I'm sure half of us wouldn't be here right now.

(context: I was replying to a Minecraft youtuber who is very community driven (which is awesome to engage with, BTW, love to see it) and part of my comment was describing the pros and cons of using TNT blocks for mining a particular resource. Take a wild guess what the AI thought I was trying to do. FFS FML -__-' Good news is that after some finagling and getting loosey goosey with the reply/double posting feature, I got the comment posted mostly unchanged. STILL, THOUGH.)

Up front: not my server, don't have the seed, sorry.

The quest is to find a stoney peaks or windswept hills cause I'd like some emerald deepslate ore, and since our server uses a Dynmap (a program that outputs the current world map to your web browser) I wanted to "fill in" the south east portion of our world as it was little explored (while the world border on our server is set to 50K, every one kind of agrees not to go out farther than 8-12k to keep the world sizes manageable for when we switch worlds and post a download)

I use Fabulously Optimised, and Vanilla Plus Shaders. Set up is a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU with an Intel Arc A770 GPU

edit, sorry I'm new and fail at formating

I was thinking that, as it applies to Intellectual Property mostly, there comes a point at which a service or idea gains such traction and ubiquity in it's use or implementation by humanity as a whole, that to apply any form of creative control or ownership to it is morally wrong, on philosophical grounds. This could also apply to physical objects as well. In short it's the concept that Total Ubiquity defeats Copywrite and Patent as a matter of course. If said thing requires upkeep, it is not a thing that CAN be "owned" but rather operated in stewardship.

I feel in our current Late-Stage Capitalist quagmire this might be a controversial proposal, so I wanted to bounce it off of some other people to get their take on it as an idea, and if there are any similar philosophies like it (other than communism, obviously).

I got to thinking about it after landing on the Google start page and coming to the realization that so much of our world relies on what Google provides that for one corporation to be in sole control of it is a security risk in of itself. I understand I'm probably preaching to the choir here, so try to be objective in your answers please, but don't feel the need to censor yourself either. Thanks, I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

Reddit banned me for some political commentary in their BS way, and it looks like it's going to stick this time. Hello, I am u/TheStaffmaster and have been a contributing member of r/minecraft and r/hermitcraft for YEARS. In fact almost all of my karma came from r/minecraft! Not being able to post there is going to sting, but hopefully I'll at least be able to show off my builds.

r/AskReddit had a thread that asked how people thought the trump administration would end. I have never seen so many [Post removed by Reddit] notifications. I complained that not being able to threaten violence against these TEMU Nazis was just enabling them. Yeah...

I appealed, because, Show me where exactly I actually made a"credible threat of violence" BRUH. I was just complaining that I couldn't, not saying I was going to. FFS. (I EVEN POINTED OUT THIS DISTINCTION IN THE POST!!) 12+ fucking years. Over 53K in comment karma. Poof.

So I did research to find alts for Ye olde Reddits and this place seemed to be the most recommended. So here I am! The real pisser is that I mostly used reddit to interact with the minecraft/hermitcraft fandoms, and was a member in (VERY) good standing in those communities. Reddit is going to hell in a handbasket and it's infuriating to watch. It used to be so lovely to post there, but this over reliance on AI moderation is going to be the death of it. Especially on the more political side of it.

Anyway, I hope this place works out better.