Taphouse Minecraft Still Occupying Virtual Space

Plenty of real estate to go around, folks.  In fact, an intrepid explorer posted pics of this find just now!

https://imgur.com/a/ElAm6Kx

Come get some!

-nigel

Happy New Years

Still doing what we do, and moving into our 14th year. Thanks freaks!

Minecraft 1.12 and NETHER Map!

Hey, folks, Hotep proprietor Nigel here:

Minecraft has updated to 1.12 and we've gone CRAZY!  Crazy with mapping, that is.  Scalopd has just traveled farther than any of us in search of a woodland mansion, and that means we have a lot more map to explore in search of parrots and whatnot.

But ALSO, the Minecraft Map is accessible from the web-page again, AND we have added nighttime overworld views, and also the Nether!  Come stake your claim on Taphouse Minecraft, before all the great spots are taken!  Tour the giant Dobbshead!  Marvel at the creeper blast craters!  Farm for beetroot!  Its all here, and more.  See you on the inside.

Minecraft Map Now Available!!

Been wondering what those freaks have been doing in there? Well, wonder no more, you can now browse our world for yourself, without the bother of actually going there. Zoom in and see all the mysterious structures! Spot the giant Dobbshead!! See for yourself why we should NEVER be given jobs in urban planning. Link available on the main taphouse menu or here: happy orienteering!

Oh yeah we have a news blog

Oops forgot that I could be updating this thing with news and important information....Guess I didn't have any.

OMG HAPPY 10Th BIIRTHDAY TO US!!!!

Hard to believe we have been at this nonsense for 10 years. Guess that weird obsession was good for something after all. Take a bow Taphouse IRC, you are 10 years old today!!!

Who's got a tenth birthday coming up?

Taphouse does! That's who.

Local ISP issues Grinch up Taphouse for the holidays

It would seem the happy elves at my ISP have decided to start some kind of upgrade work.  Probably girding their loins for all those X-Box One's connecting on X-mas day.  Instead they should be covering their asses in anticipation of X-Day!  Anyhow, we're gonna be on the NetSplit coaster for a while.  The management apologizes for any inconvenience, and offers you a 10% off IRC services coupon, redeemable anytime:

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Zeppo booted off twitter...temporarily

On June 11 twitter retired v1 of it's API. You can read all about it HERE. Unfortunately, this has kicked Zeppo to the curb as he was still using v1 via XML. XML is no longer in use on twitter. (RSS and ATOM are dead now as well) JSON is the only applicable format you can use, and every app MUST use SSL (https) THERFORE until the whole script gets rewritten to use the new 1.1 API he will be off twitter. He is still on IRC for your amusement, but I dont expect him to be back on teh twitters before XDAY.

tl;dr: Twitter sux, but Zeppo will return soon

Zeppo LIVES!

He is back from the gave and his upgrades are complete...w00t

Zeppo Update

He is alive and well, just not on twitter. His old box could not be salvaged, the CPU (amd64 socket 754) is dead and even though I have two motherboards for it, (one unopened and unused) there isnt a point since the CPU is gone. The ram is fried too, but it has a lifetime warranty- just no need to replace it if I cant run it anywhere. I have been looking for a 754 chip, but haven't found one worth bothering with. (lots of used "oh this chip runs great" deals, that I dont trust)

I think since I have a brand new power supply (BOY DID THAT OLD ONE DO A NUMBER ON POOR ZEPPO) and a nice case, I will just get a combo deal like this:

NEWEGG LINK 

Just waiting to get the $$$ together... Anyway he is running fine on a linux virtual machine on my windows8 box, but for some reason the twitter script crashes the whole thing. So until I get a new brainspace for him to live in, you will only be able to interact with him "in person" in IRC. Also someone mentioned donating and old box, but we'll see what happens there.

I dont use this much for updates do I?

This might change at sometime in the future, but not today.

A Happy Family Again!

Catastrophic Failure cannot defeat us. Taphouse is BACK!

Oh Internet!

Now that the Internet gods have had their way with us, we are back online and ready to continue processing all of your plain text. More news as it becomes less available.

Taphouse Back at FULL POWER

Well we seem to have survived the worst of what Irene had to offer and all servers and services have returned from powerless hell. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Taphouse Outages

It is almost inevitable that the Taphouse Virginia servers (Frop and Hotep) will experience a power outage today that may last for several days. I have re-adjusted the round robin connection (irc.taphouse.org) to connect ONLY to the German (Bort) and Oregon (Sockem) servers until further notice. If you connect directly to either Frop or Hotep you should change over to the round robin to connect. Frop and Hotep are currently still online and can be used until they disconnect. The Taphouse website will also be offline during the power outage and a few services bots (and Zeppo) will be offline as well. Sorry for the inconvenience and we will see you when we return.

No, we're not all going to disappear just because Portal 2 came out

Its true, we're a bunch of gamer geeks, but we still have a social life, even if it spends a little too much time online. Anyhow, just popping in to remind you we have a blog, and there are no major server issues you need worry about. Call us after the cake.

Holy Crap I almost forgot we had a blog

Perhaps I should update this more often, but I dunno things are going pretty well why ruin it?

New Forums

Updated the forum software and themes. (link in the topic)

Game Review: Machinarium

This is the newest game from the Czech indie
game designers who did the samorost web game
a few years back.
-its still free to play HERE!
I remember in IRC we were obsessed with that game
for awhile.
Anyway I never just play games I am very interested
in what goes into them, looking behind the curtain if you
will, anyway here is THE TRAILER
You can also play the free web demo here: HERE!

This game is absolutely gorgeous and the interface
is as interesting as samorost was. The game costs
20 dollars and for that you get a windows, linux and mac
version, as well as the soundtrack on mp3 (the soundtracks
to their games are almost worth just having on their own)
I cant recommend this enough, there is really nothing else
like it. I have spent about 3 hours so far playing without
ANY of the *usual* game letdowns (clicking fatigue, etc)

I am all for supporting indie game writers and I understand
that spending 20 dollars might be outside what you might
consider spending on things like this, but seriously consider
MAKING AN EXCEPTION THIS TIME. You will not regret it.

I mean how can you say 'no' to THESE GUYS