User talk:Kpreid

I appreciate the help Largeanvil 06:01, 16 January 2011 (UTC)largeanvil

also not sure if theres a talk section for articles but I liked your userpage on non-movable blocks and I think it might be valuable to put it as a section under the blocks page, with each of the non-movable blocks linking to that section Largeanvil 06:42, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip about undoing edits to fix vandalism. It so happens that the paragraph deleted by the vandalism to the Slime article was a really interesting one, so I'm especially glad you noticed and recovered it. McKathlin 17:53, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, sorry... --Minecraftitaly 04:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Please discuss in the community portal before you move a bunch of pages. ): --Bumble^talk 19:35, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

You can't just perform such massive actions after less than two days of discussion! People barely got the chance to even object/agree with your proposal, and you're breaking a lot of stuff meanwhile, too! I'm reverting your changes and we'll continue discussing your proposal for another few days because this is just ridiculous.--Quatroking - MCWiki Administrator 19:39, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

On reflection, you're right — I should have waited for more discussion, and perhaps arranged for the question to be more visible. I thought it wasn't a big change, since there would be redirects, though. Could you explain what exactly was broken, so that I can avoid making technical mistakes in the future? I was reviewing the results of my changes, and I didn't notice any problems, and I was planning to fix any resulting double-redirects. —KPReid 21:24, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Various block info templates rely on the title of certain articles, and renaming them causes them to break. Plus, like you said, some of the grids broke too.--Quatroking - MCWiki Administrator 21:34, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Ah, stuff like switching on PAGENAME? So actually performing this change would require editing various template parameters all over. I see. Given that it's that hard, I no longer feel it's worth (my) doing this, as the small improvement in consistency isn't worth the work. I would still hope that article text, and new pages, use the exact official item names. —KPReid 21:38, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I like the Block Property Index! --Adje 11:59, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for keeping on good work on Entity and Opacity! It's quite tiring for me to collect the important information. Xfs 03:26, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Asterick6: I disagree with your approach to furnaces. The furnace has only one in-game name (both in the tooltip and the GUI) and that is “Furnace”, not “Kiln” or “Oven”. Minecraft is not a perfect subset of real life, and we don't need to make distinctions that Minecraft itself does not make. I don't care if we decide to replace “smelting” with “heating” across the wiki, since the game doesn't give a name to the process, but I think that there should be only *one* name for the process, because it works the same for everything it can be done to. —KPReid 23:06, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

I've moved the discussion over to Furnace talk page so others can present their opinions on this. —–Preceding unsigned comment was added by Asterick6 ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 00:24, 18 November 2011 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Arrows set blocks on fire now Doggey 01:37, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

No, they don't. I tested it myself just now with the latest Minecraft, firing arrows from a dispenser, through lava, at wool. The arrows stick in the block and remain on fire, but the block itself is never set on fire or burned away. —KPReid 01:39, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

I was just about to add alot of citation needed tags because i didnt know what to do. At that point, i noticed you *stole* my edit. anyway, thanks! --Miauw62 17:05, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Does this wiki use UK English or US English? TheJanitor 13:06, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't have the official word, but from what I've seen we choose US English on the grounds that the in-game text actually written by Mojang (as opposed to the community-source translations) is in US English. I wouldn't say that every single occurrence of non-US spelling is a abomination to be immediately stomped out, though. —kpreid 14:24, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

If you go to the community portal, it used to have a link to a discussion where the consensus was US English, but an admin removed it because it was resolved. I'll re-add that link there since obviously people still need to know about it even thought it was resolved (I think). - Asterick6 04:08, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

link. Maybe high tree part wasn't vandalism, testing it now... 93.106.40.21 09:41, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 16
	at mw.a(SourceFile:330)
	at gd.g(SourceFile:1149)
	at gh.<init>(SourceFile:54)
	at je.a(SourceFile:162)
	at mk.a(SourceFile:568)
	at qi.a(SourceFile:28)
	at qo.b(SourceFile:273)
	at mk.a(SourceFile:53)
	at fj.a(SourceFile:108)
	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(SourceFile:435)
	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(SourceFile:356)
	at dm.run(SourceFile:490)

jep, it must be this bug:
[F] Server is throwing error on connection:Failed to handle packet: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 16

You appear to be correct - but it seems that it doesn't work on creative mode, which I was testing this on. How strange. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Sciguyryan ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 07:47, 29 March 2012‎. Please sign your posts with ~~~~

In Creative mode, you just destroy blocks – they don't drop as items. Rather annoying when trying to test tool enchantments. -- Orthotope 07:55, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

I just put on Upcoming Features that there will be more eggs. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Koolboy2001 ^{(Talk|Contribs)} . Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Which is complete bullshit and was removed --Moxxy 01:59, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! That helped alot! :) SuperNaw ~ the creator of the city dimension. 20:01, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

There is no evidence to suggest that item names should be capitalized. Common sense dictates the opposite. Do you see every item that has a wiki page on Wikipedia capitalized? There is even overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Mojang developers themselves have never capitalized item names because that makes no sense whatsoever. Offical Minecraft Forum posts and any offical posting relating to Minecraft has never capitalized item names. Go look at Notch's blog posts or any of the Mojang tweets; they NEVER capitalize item names. Only proper nouns (e.g names of places like The Void or The Nether) should be capitalized. The vast majority of this wiki is like this and the only reason people capitalize item names is because they do not know otherwise. Hower64 09:46, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

I disagree, as you've noticed — my perception of the wiki is that the item names are usually capitalized. I feel that this capitalization is appropriate as the names are “almost proper nouns”, like the brand name of a product — they are specifically the things named that in Minecraft. It also distinguishes general from specific; for example, I always carry some wood in my inventory, but I carry Wooden Planks, not Wood. That said, I think the wiki ought to have a style guide specifying what to do, and I don't really care which as long as it's consistent.

Would you be interested in helping with the creation of a style guide (given community buy-in and input)?

—kpreid 12:54, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes this inconsistency has been going on for way too long, we need to add a comphrehensive style guide for editors to follow. Until we reach a concensus however we should probably continue this discussion to the requests for comments page. Hower64 01:06, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

I've started a style guide project where the community can discuss style guidelines. Hower64 10:06, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

If something is a sufficiently important in-game term, or the subject of the article, better practice is either to link to it or italicise it the first time it appears, thereafter treat it normally. I've written style guides before. I'll dig them up and see what areas of them may be relevant. --82.69.54.207 10:16, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

I know. But do you think that the change 333966 was in the sense of the original post by Jeb ? Call me a nitpicker, but I don't like other people's comments to be changed without notice in the comment itself. But, nevermind. --Kumasasa 20:31, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see that earlier change. I reverted yours on a principle of not changing other people's comments even with notice, and because it seemed to be claiming that jeb said “increased” when he didn't. I see the situation is messier; please go ahead and undo my revert or otherwise do what you feel is right. —kpreid 21:47, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

My fault. I should have flagged my change inline as Kumasasa did his/hers rather than just leaving a comment in the change log. The issue I was hoping to avoid was that a change from 500ms to 20ms isn't an increase, it's a decrease. It's just that in this case, unusually, a decrease is an improvement. So in an attempt to avoid a confusing use of the word 'decrease' I skipped a step in the word chain and jumped from 'increase' directly to 'improve'. --82.69.54.207 22:03, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

I understand your point of view, but 'improving' other people's comments is a double-edged sword, even fixing typos can lead to confusion - as we see. No problem at all. --Kumasasa 22:19, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Could you make me creative, I keep dying at the origianal spawn ArrranWeeviling 👁 Image
Arrran Weeviling The Inventor of the Cake Bomb! 16:18, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Just jump in the portal, I assure you it's safer in the Nether :-) and there are paths to everywhere interesting. Sorry there isn't a nice portal on top yet; I'm not finished rebuilding the spawn platform since I got a jungle in there. —kpreid 03:59, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Come to my profile to see it. Hope you like it. SuperNaw ~ the creator of the city dimension. 22:29, 21 September 2012 (UTC)