Patch 3.62 - Who dropped the soap?!

[hoornst3]

Thank you for the Updates. Much appreciated

 

[Wowpatrick]

• Most GoldArmor/Weps removed from MobArena.

This doesn't really effect me, but why? Just curious I guess.

 

[Aetosion]

So, how does this xAuth thing work? I can't get past the login server, so I'm assuming it's still in the normal mode. When will that be changed so we can login?

 

[MrAwesomeShadow]

When the session server is online, we'll register through xAuth and when the session server ever goes offline, we can log in without the fear of anyone hacking our account.

 

[Wowpatrick]

So, how does this xAuth thing work? I can't get past the login server, so I'm assuming it's still in the normal mode. When will that be changed so we can login?

This will ensure that next time "Auth/session" servers go down, we can run in a mode that doesn't care about Mojang's authentication process being up or down. Due to the integrity of user data and information, I will be unable to allow OFFLINE=TRUE at this time, we need to build user files first to be ready for next time.

It's not for this time. It's for next time.

 

[hoornst3]

I'm assuming GoldArm/Weps are equal to that of iron, therefore the founders wish for us to use gold to sell, as a means to stabilize the economy. =D

 

[Psychokhaos]

I'm assuming GoldArm/Weps are equal to that of iron, therefore the founders wish for us to use gold to sell, as a means to stabilize the economy. =D

MA equipment stays in there, and is spawned in there, as well as the fact that gold does the most damage - Wiki can give great info.

 

[Wowpatrick]

I'm assuming GoldArm/Weps are equal to that of iron, therefore the founders wish for us to use gold to sell, as a means to stabilize the economy. =D

I mean outside the MA, it's basically pointless to make gold armor. However, inside the MA, it's not like we can sell that armor when we're done anyway. So I don't see why they'd remove it.

 

[Photoras]

I'm assuming GoldArm/Weps are equal to that of iron, therefore the founders wish for us to use gold to sell, as a means to stabilize the economy. =D

Except that it is MA`s only, so you can't sell gear. I figure that he is doing it because realistically people are not running around in full gold using gold weapons, so why should they be doing so in the ma's?

It is a means of stabilizing the ma's for a more realistic "Arena" style fighting.

 

[MrAwesomeShadow]

They probably just wanting us working harder in the MA with...diamond tools :C

 

[ZeroStormAI]

well this sucks because that means if they got rid of the gold shovel dragoons basicly have nothing to fight with...

 

[Wowpatrick]

well this sucks because that means if they got rid of the gold shovel dragoons basicly have nothing to fight with...

A diamond shovel isn't included with the warrior starting setup?

 

[Photoras]

well this sucks because that means if they got rid of the gold shovel dragoons basicly have nothing to fight with...

Except for maybe a diamond one.

 

[MrAwesomeShadow]

No, no. You don't understand, they replaced the gold shovels with diamond shovels. A much weaker counterpart, but I guess Kainzo wants it more "realistic". They did this update when we were MAing btw... ._.

 

[Photoras]

A diamond shovel isn't included with the warrior starting setup?

He will add one if there isn't one already, that or DRAGOONS GET TO KEEP THEIR GOLD.

Which would be cool

 

[Wowpatrick]

I just don't understand why they are fixing something that doesn't seem to be broken, you know?

 

[ZeroStormAI]

as long as i get a weapon idc i just want to beat mobs with my shovel

 

[xexorian]

I'm assuming GoldArm/Weps are equal to that of iron, therefore the founders wish for us to use gold to sell, as a means to stabilize the economy. =D

This sounds completely way off topic. To answer your question, yes "gold armor" and "gold tools" are totally useless, making them is either A) flaunting your money around (by wasting it) or B) you have no idea what you're doing.

You can use /hero tools and /hero armor to find a list of all the available armor to you. At the moment the most only real viable armor is leather, chain, iron, and diamond. Most people have their "gold tools, armor" dismantled into gold ingots to sell for $$. I am not sure on the return, if it is a 1-to-1 ratio of input resource to output. I'm pretty sure you only get 1, or 2, ingot(s) per item.

More Information Here

Spoiler

The following types of damage are reduced by armor and, consequently, damage the armor itself:

• Direct attacks from mobs
• Direct attacks from other player
• Getting hit with an arrow
• Getting hit with a fireball from a Ghast or Blaze
• Touching a block of fire or lava
• Touching a cactus
• Explosions

The following types of damage are not reduced by armor and have no effect on the armor itself:

• Ongoing damage from being on fire
• Suffocating inside a block
• Drowning in water
• Starvation
• Fall damage
• Falling into the Void
• Poisoning; e.g., from a Cave spider attack or a Potion of Poison
• Instant damage from a Potion of Harming
• /kill command

Protection enchantments protect from types of damage that armor doesn't protect against without an enchantment, like falling damage. Armor durability still doesn't decrease when protection-enchanted armor takes environmental damage.

The following table shows the amount of defense points per units of material (i.e. the cost efficiency), compared with the chestplate of each material.

MaterialHelmetChestplateLeggingsBoots
Leather53%100%76%67%
Gold64%100%69%40%
Chain64%100%91%40%
Iron53%100%95%67%
Diamond60%100%86%75%

The following table shows the amount of defense points added by each individual piece of armor, as well as the total points added by a full set of armor for each material.

Each point of armor reduces the damage you take by 8%, up to the maximum reduction of 80%.*

MaterialFull setHelmetChestplateLeggingsBoots
Leather71321
Gold112531
Chain122541
Iron152652
Diamond203863

The following table shows the amount of damage each piece of armor can absorb before being destroyed.
Any "hit" dealt by a mob (including creeper explosions) will remove 2 durability points to the armor.
Other damage sources usually remove 3 durability points to the armor, except cacti (only one point).
Damage taken that armor doesn't protect (such as falling or drowning) will not damage the armor.

MaterialHelmetChestplateLeggingsBoots
Leather56817666
Gold7811310692
Chain166241226196
Iron166241226196
Diamond364529496430

The following tables shows the durability per unit of material of each piece of armor, compared to that of the boots. Note that the durability per unit does not depend on the material.

HelmetChestplateLeggingsBoots
durability/unit68%61%66%100%

This means that for the same number of leather/iron ingots/gold ingots/chain/diamond, boots can take 1,5 more damage than leggings.

Thus, chestplate and leggings offer more defense points per unit, but have a lesser durability per unit.
Armor can get protection enchantments such as "Protection III" or "Fire protection IV". The maximum level of a protection enchantment is IV (4). Protection enchantments stack (up to a cap). The type of protection enchantment determines whether the protection enchantment comes into effect, according to the following table:

EnchantmentDamage reduced for
ProtectionAll
Fire protectionFire, lava, and Blaze shots
Blast protectionExplosions
Projectile protectionArrows and Ghast/Blaze shots
Feather fallingFall damage (including ender pearls)

This means that "Protection" is always at least as good as for example "Fire protection", even against fire damage (with the exception of "Feather falling", see below).

The enchantment damage reduction is applied to the damage left after the armor's basic effect, and the base "enchantment protection factor" (EPF) of an enchanted item is
floor ( (6 + level * level) / 2 )

Which gives the following EPF for enchantments of level I-IV:
LevelEPF
I3
II5
III7
IV11

For Feather falling, the EPF of the specific piece is doubled.

The total EPF is the sum for all armor pieces, and capped at 25. An EPF of 25 can be reached by two level III pieces and one level IV piece (2*7+11=25). This also means that Feather Falling is unneccesary to reduce fall damage if you can reach an EPF of 25 without Feather falling boots.

The actual EPF applied is randomized to between 50% and 100% of the EPF calculated above, rounded up, and capped at 20. Each level of the actual EPF reduces damage by 4%, for a maximum damage reduction of 80% from enchantments. Since this is applied after the base armor damage reduction (80% for diamond), you get a total 89.6% to 96% damage reduction for a diamond armor set with an EPF of 25, for damage which is mitigated by unenchanted armor (fx fall damage is not mitigated by unenchanted armor).[2]

*-I'm paraphrasing since it is said in past tense else where what each defense point calculates into. Still accurate to the best of my knowledge.

 

[xexorian]

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I blame the bad formatting on the forums. When I click "Edit" it is flawlessly laid out with tabs and everything. Go here.

 

[skyboy49707]

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