I was killed in a trap and lost all of my items.

ACagliano · Guru-in-Training (Posts: 2000)

What direction were you heading in?

iPhoenix · hi (Posts: 1847)

What direction were you heading in?

DrDnar · Expert (Posts: 512)

The sign out front said, "Due to griefing, access is invitation-only.---DrDnar" You went in anyway, and apparently thought that the very large combination lock keypad was just a misdirect, and attempted to enter despite the sign.

iPhoenix · hi (Posts: 1847)

The sign out front said, "Due to griefing, access is invitation-only.---DrDnar" You went in anyway, and apparently thought that the very large combination lock keypad was just a misdirect, and attempted to enter despite the sign.

Alex · Official Cemetech Site Manager (Posts: 7912)

Sounds like your fault. You don't describe your surroundings, I'm assuming you weren't looking where you were walking and walked off a ledge into lava.

DrDnar · Expert (Posts: 512)

I've placed them in a chest at 339 69 -260. There is a sign on the chest with the player's name.

iPhoenix · hi (Posts: 1847)

Aside from the lock, the only other thing to do is to make it a very-expensive towny.

rivereye · Future Admin (Posts: 5546)

Aside from the lock, the only other thing to do is to make it a very-expensive towny.

Alex · Official Cemetech Site Manager (Posts: 7912)

I stated my thought process while reading this topic because the original post lacked pertinent information. It was a passive aggressive way to point out that you could have told a lot more detail than you initially gave us. I won't do anything for anyone if I'm given such vague information. You said you were traveling North when you hit the trap and I presume that covers every thing North of spawn. Which is a lot of blocks to cover, and I'm simply not going to do it. If you were able to narrow it down in your original post, to a specific biome or a range of coordinates, I would probably be slightly more inclined to help.

But even with that information, there's no description of the trap or the surroundings. Were you above ground or underground? The map is, I think, 3000x3000 blocks? So, that's 4.5 million surface blocks. Assuming an average of about 80 blocks above bedrock that gives us roughly 360 million blocks [/I]for half the map[/I]. Any descriptions about the surroundings will help significantly reduce the amount of blocks I need to check and allow me to focus more closely on the described area.

And yes, I agreed that a trap should never have been used. I know the items are a huge importance to you but it's still something I'd want to look into. Investigate the area and discover the player who created the trap and, if necessary, take disciplinary action. But thankfully DrDnar stepped forward and explained why he made the trap and presented that the area was clearly closed off - meaning someone had to intentionally enter - and labeled it as unsafe via a sign by the door.

Look at this as a bug report. When someone says "This feature is broken" the first questions from the developer are usually, "Software version, OS version and what steps can I take to replicate it?" If it's a web page like Cemetech then we like to know what browser is used because there are differences. The more information that is presented up front, the faster you can receive help.

We are still looking into ways to prevent chest access. The problem with Lockette is that is requires users to explicitly lock a chest. Most of our stealing comes from players who aren't moved to the "members" list of the greylist. Visitors can't break blocks but they can open chests, we're looking for plugins that can prohibit specific groups from opening chests since members on our server are aware of the no stealing rule.

But if a player is really paranoid, they can found a town to protect their chests and items. I know, towny is expensive and I'll be putting out Part 2 of the Survey responses soon. But until then you can see some of my propositions here.

KermMartian · Site Admin (Posts: 64051)

I'm going to provide a counterpoint to this. Provided that it's obvious that you're entering a restricted area, including signs that indicate an area is private, building traps seems like a way to exercise people's desire (and skills, given our playerbase) at creating clever machines. PvP in the sense of coming up to someone who doesn't want to be killed and killing them is not allowed. However, PvE in the sense of going somewhere dangerous and getting killed by the dangers (environmental lava, mobs, etc) is very much allowed. If there are signs that indicate you're going somewhere private and/or dangerous, that seems to me to be you agreeing to be somewhere that could kill you (including because stealing and griefing is explicitly disallowed, and the intelligent player should extend that to intruding). Hell, I considered making traps when DrDnar kept glitching (ie, eating chorus fruit) to get into my skyscraper.