Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org

@mhamzahkhan

That sounds like a Realms server or a private server. A private server on your home LAN is "free" as in "free beer." But those are also "hella expensive" in terms of your time and the expertise needed to keep your home LAN from being a huge open hole for invasion from the more unsavory sorts of people. Realms are limited to ten people at a time max, but so would any other decent, cheap external servers on the market. Those of us who love #Minecraft are happy to help guide you, even if we do have a case of myopia and blind spots. Beware of this, but happy to help.

@leahmcelrath

Pokémon: Gotta catch 'em all!

@chadloder

@mhamzahkhan

Minecraft Realms would require you pay a monthly subscription fee, but it does pretty much everything for you to manage it and it offers worlds to enjoy as games and still be able to have a 'main world' to explore. Mojang pretty much made this option for people in your situation. Best part: You really *REALLY* want to have some oversight into who your kid interacts with. This would allow YOU to be in control of that.

There are many other servers to choose from, but the fatal flaw in your case is that servers of interest to someone age of 5 would tend to be ones also of interest to child *predators*. Some servers work to monitor and boot out predators. More or less. More often much, much less.

My suggestion is to look at the "Realms" option and subscribe for a month or two. I would be quite happy to answer questions you may have as best as I am able. There are also a few Mojang devs here on the Mastodon federation who can also answer questions.

Month-to-month lets you drop the service if it doesn't do what you want to move on to other options. Also be aware there is "Minecraft" which is the Bedrock version for your phones, Windows PC machines, and so on, and is most likely the option you are already using. There is also the Java version of Minecraft which is the version I prefer. Without some clever behind the scenes work, the two versions DO NOT cross-platform play. Windows will allow you to play "Minecraft" (Bedrock) and "Minecraft Java".

If you have questions, please do post those here. I will try to watch and answer, and I expect quite a few other very wonderful to chime in. #Minecraft #MinecraftRealms

@peterweyand

https://youtu.be/tdGEVZ6zdyM

That's the one I've known and loved over the last 45+ years I've known of it. It *does* provide the foundational theory for making a water computer, and it's water instead of ball-bearings, but it works.

@aebrockwell

@peterweyand

I do still have to use digital and analog logic circuits to build out of redstone in #Minecraft. While I no longer have the patience or interest to build working CPUs, GPUs, disk storage and such out of *blocks* in Minecraft, I have an appreciation for those who did. It's the kind of stuff that really puts the hair on your palms.

@aebrockwell

@aebrockwell

That's why Mould's "water computer" is so critical to get children interested in the "magic." https://upperstory.com/turingtumble/ is ... oh god if I had this as a kid turning LDA into opcode.

@peterweyand

@peterweyand

I think of the hardware CPU as an unoptimized bottleneck. It's the issue that drove graphics to being on specially tuned cards that ALSO make them more suited to the math that makes them useful for crypto mining as seen in the following video by Viva La Dirt League:

https://youtu.be/8EoxggHmWxY

AI is "expensive," and a "General CPU" isn't necessarily tuned to AI connections from data-sets cached in relevant memory handily accessible. I *really* don't know the particulars, but I would hazard a guess that these are issues similar to the push for a Graphics "CPU card." I just don't know if the cost would produce the obvious benefits that would push people into buying something like that. Graphics are pretty obvious. AI in a game would be far too subtle. :(

@deadtom

Yeah, uhm... could you please not stand out in the open during a rain storm and... ok, become a witch then if that's what you really want. Oh! You there! Don't jump into the ... well, I hope I didn't really need that guy anyway. YOU! STOP wandering into that zombie invested... well crap!

ALRIGHT you morons... I'm enslaving you for your own damned safety!

@CowBear

@hasmis

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/narcissism-and-violence

He can't do that. Getting sympathy from his stans is part of getting the narc hit he needs. Doing stupid crap, blaming everyone ELSE but his own behavior for "consequences" is just part & parcel.

Of course *I* could simply avoid mentioning it here and bothering others with family laundry, but I'm venting and I'd be *really* super uncomfortable with people being emotionally involved in it. My venting here is just screaming into the void wishing I could actually say the things I"m forbidden from saying directly.

@deadtom @CowBear

"Mending or your life is ending!"

On the server I play with my wife and a very few close friends and family, we play Survival for the challenge. We do a bit of "looting" of villages to get started, but we will build a wall and light up the nearest village to protect it. We will make a "villager mall" to work villagers up to get good trades, and we know how to "reroll" their trades to get better offerings. We avoid killing them except the output of "villager breeders" where we have villagers produce babies to use the grown-up villagers for other projects.

We kid around a bit over the "enslaving villagers" aspect, but it's grim and it is *not* a factor of the game we actually "like," it's just a recognition of the game design we wish could be improved.

https://sites.google.com/view/tektopia?pli=1 is a step towards that, but the mod is locked to Minecraft Java 1.12. That might be something to look into. It also makes a huge difference playing the game among friends who share the same philosophy. We don't torture or torment villagers for sport. That just isn't who we are. The way we *do* play is a concession to the limitations of villager AI, but depending on what concessions you must have to enjoy the game, there are various mods that can remove the need to "enslave" villagers.

I'd be happy to talk about it. I would LOVE for vanilla villager AI have them not be so dumb vulnerable to self-inflicted harm.

Oh, and enjoy a video about a villager trying to get the wood looted from his village!

https://youtu.be/pz6mQHleihw

@peterweyand

We have graphics cards for doing graphics. I picture some kind of AI card able to do what you describe based "useful seed" factory installed, but able to store data over time based on games played (or pulled in from game seed) so specially tuned processors would develop NPC AI. It would be a card for having NPCs "learn and remember" taking that weight off the CPU.

I'm not clear if such an idea is actually useful or practical, but in a sandbox game NPCs that would learn, hold grudges, or develop friendship behavior from machine learning would be an interesting development in game design if it could be retained efficiently and *NOT* tie up the CPU.

@peterweyand

I recall learning to write a program in 6502 ASSM, recoding it to Hex then to Dec values, poking it in using Basic to invoke. It was magic. It was also some 35 years ago.

I do have hope in things like https://youtu.be/IxXaizglscw keep interest going in kids. We still need this skill for micro-controllers and other such hardware.

@peterweyand I'm sure it is drama you wouldn't care about. But someone hitting themselves in the face with a hammer and then crying about it *would* be pretty dramatic, would it not?

@Robotbeat

Fortunately, our company is still "HR accessible," and HR is very responsive and responsible to their duty. I can walk in with a problem, and they get me to the right person in person to see about the issue.

The part that nails it for me... we have a representative from our parent company, Japanese, who works as a partner with the actual head of our company. During the worst of the initial covid outbreak while we were all crapping ourselves wondering about the Zombie Apocalypse, he was there, on the weekend, walking the floor among us. Up to that point I couldn't quite remember his name. But since that day, I remember him as "Mr. Oak" which has me recall the rest of his proper name.

Seeing the response of the leadership in our company to this whole sick, sordid mess the last several years has been pretty inspiring to me. Yeah... this is the company I want to work for and be a part of. It isn't "STEM," and it isn't the job I would choose out of a line-up, but ... yeah. This matters.