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Redstone parts seem to be fixed. Problem was the updater would try to place redstone on blocks that weren't translated yet. Changed it to a 2 pass system, first pass does blocks, second pass does things on blocks ("fragile" items).

This has an annoying side effect of producing the items as dropped items, which quickly fill the airship. So, it works, but it clutters your inventory with useless junk. Trying to think of a way to clean them up somehow.

Tested with multiple players on multiple ships. So far so good. For the first time, we could effectively use TNT cannons while the Destroyer was moving. Before, the server lag meant you would blow yourself up. In fact, one of my daughters landed a beautiful shot on me while I was moving, blowing the top half off my hangar bay off. It was pretty epic.

Mind you, I wasn't shooting back at the time...

EDIT: also I made a fork on GitHub, and posted my modified (but very messy) MapUpdateManager.java

@AJCStriker Sure, and this is still early, mainly I just wanted to let you know what I was working on in case there was a danger of overlapping efforts.

Speed data was achieved by using the 5300 block Destroyer class airship found here: http://www.minecraft-schematics.com/schematic/1536/ and moving it 10 blocks forward and 10 blocks backwards. In both cases it took 15 seconds to complete using the 3.1.31 release.

After the changes the same movement took 5 seconds in both directions. I also moved 100 blocks in all directions (including vertically and diagonally), collided with objects, and turned around several times. I visually inspected the airship after each manuevre. Other than a few ladders falling off (which is normal), the airship appeared unaffected. The airship design is fairly complicated, including dispenser weapons with items loaded in, stairs facing every direction imaginable, etc. Everything looked fine.

All these tests were just me on my test server. Later tonight I'll have my daughters hop on and we can test multiple crafts moving simultaneously. I'm afraid I'm new to the GitHub system, but I will get you the fork as soon as I can. I would like to take a stab at red stone first though.

Quick progress update, I've been optimizing the map update class to allow me to run my bigger designs without bringing down the server. So far I have about a 300% increase in speed, and I *think* it hasn't caused any new bugs.

There are 2 changes:

- Turns out the code that was blanking out the block before changes due to ship movement was surprisingly slow, so it no longer blanks out the block if the block doesn't change type, and it no longer blanks out the block if its already air. Downside is you can't easily check to see if you actually changed anything anymore since it isn't blanked first so the system can't tell if there has been a change. But in my tests I didn't see any new problems.

- Changed it so that it doesn't re-load the chunk for every block that is processed, rather it keeps the chunks in memory until it has finished the entire update process. Downside is it will consume slightly more memory, but I doubt it will be enough to be noticed.

Next thing on my list is tackling red stone dropping off blocks.

@creepercraftgames1

Its likely you are building your airship on blocks that the system recognizes as part of an airship. The way the system knows what is part of your airskiff and what isn't is by the list of allowed blocks. For example, and Airskiff can include wood, but not dirt. So if you built an airskiff on a wooden tower, it would think the tower was part of the Airskiff. If you built it on cobblestone, it would be fine. The safest way to build an Airship is in the air, because Airships include more blocks than Airskiffs (for example they include quartz, obsidian, and some of the stone blocks). It is safe to land an Airship on cobblestone or dirt, but I rarely do. Like the huge beasts of years gone by, its best if they stay away from the ground.

Use Airskiffs to shuttle back and forth between the ground and the Airship.

AJCStriker, I would like to get involved in the development side of things and see if I can help out with some of the features I have been bugging you about. I looked through the code on github and it seems well written and organized, so I think I can handle some small changes I've been hoping for.

Is there a .project file I should be using or anything else I would need to get started? Do you use Eclipse?

@qPureEvilp

Should be doable using the max height in the .craft files