Minecraft Megathread; yeah its update 1.12 big whoop what about it

[indyjones]

My cute new house

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[Jacob 123456789]

I really like how the new birch wood looks

[indyjones]

I really like how the new birch wood looks

inorite?

[plad101]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY0BirOyiMI&feature=g-all-u&context=G2a4b0d9FAAAAAAAADAA
which thread to put this in?

[Kevdude]

is it wrong that i thought they were just two regular guys that did all the work themselves

I thought the same. I thought they were just two guys making videos

[Fracture]

is it wrong that i thought they were just two regular guys that did all the work themselves

No, Im sure a bunch of people didnt know about the number of staff they had.
But, they didnt start getting staff until they got popular on YouTube.
 

[Regulith]

is it wrong that i thought they were just two regular guys that did all the work themselves

Not at all, I thought it was just them until I got into Shadow of Israphel, though I didn't know the others were considered "employees" until now

[Fracture]

Response from Lewis
https://yogscast.com/showthread.php?55245-A-Response-to-Peva-and-Tinman

[Regulith]

Response from Lewis
https://yogscast.com/showthread.php?55245-A-Response-to-Peva-and-Tinman

IT BEGINS

[Man 2]

I've grown rather fond of the plains. Flat, pretty, navigable, and you can see everything.

[MegaScientifical]

http://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/182933212182478848



Give me this stuff now... Or is it already in th- It isn't though, this was... after the... update? forget man, I can't tell. I'm too busy.

[Flush535]

Hi all - Lewis here,
Today I want to address the situation brought up last night at 2am UK time by Peva and Tinman. Please remember there are two sides to every story – and here’s ours:
Tinman and Peva were brought on by me to help manage our website last year. For this part-time work, they were paid a monthly rate of £200 each. There are many months of printed invoices sent by them to us.
Examples: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8869665/Invoices/patinvoice.png   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8869665/Invoices/tinmaninvoice.png 
As part of their work, they were given a great deal of trust, which sadly they betrayed in many ways and were asked to leave our service. Unfortunately this has resulted in even more threats and attacks towards us.
Thefts from Yogscast I am sorry to announce that during Tinman’s time as website manager, he has withheld a great deal of money from us – which looks to be totalling over $18,000. Until now, we have been pursuing this in private, but he has pointedly refused to refund payments to us and has now embarked on attacks against us. This occurred in two ways:
1) Last month I noticed that the ad revenue for Yogscast.com had been declining. It was discovered that our adsense ID had been changed to Tinman’s ID on many of the pages, an ID that corresponded with Tinman’s other websites. According to website logs, this may have been going on as long as October 2011, and so he was actually stealing from us while we were attending Minecon together. We estimate that a minimum of $3000 was redirected in this manner, but it could be much higher and Google are looking into it at the moment. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8869665/Invoices/ads.png   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8869665/Invoices/ads2.png   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8869665/Invoices/ads3.png   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8869665/Invoices/ads4.png   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8869665/Invoices/ads5.png   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8869665/Invoices/ads6.png 
2)
Last year Tinman approached me asking to set up a “premium” member system, which is common for big forums. I asked him to set up a paypal account for this, which we could then use to fund a long-needed overhaul of the site. Last month, I found that this money had been going into his personal paypal account. With 6 months of payments, this corresponds to a minimum of $15,000.
When confronted about these two events he replied with “I’m too tired to deny anything”. He refused to tell me how much money had been redirected, and refused to repay us any of the money.
Bringing on Ridgedog
Note: It is entirely my fault for trusting Tinman in this matter. Finding ourselves without a website manager and in the middle of a house move (which we are still in the progress of, incidentally) I asked Ridgedog, who runs the very successful VoxelBox community, to step into the role to ensure something like this did not happen in future.
Peva and Morgot – unprofessionalism and threats
Shortly after Ridgedog joined, we received a lot of reports that Peva and another mod named LordMorgot had been actively abusing their positions in our community, and inciting hatred and abuse against other members of the community in very public channels, which they admitted to doing.
Peva is only 18 and quite inexperienced - but claims to have created the website, spreadshirt store, and all sorts of other things. In reality, he has had a very small role, and I was constantly trying to find him jobs to do as I genuinely like him. Again, he was compensated for his time and every penny he spent towards supporting the yogscast. In total we have sent him £4064 ($6000) for the occasional jobs he has done over the last year. We even paid his dropbox and electricity bills.
I was not actively involved in the rest of what happened - but it appears that Ridgedog asked Pat to step down and some mud-slinging went on. Some of the conversations that went on were not as professional as they should have been, and Ridgedog has acknowledged that he did not handle some situations well, but that there were insults being thrown on both sides.
As a result of his removal from the staff, Peva’s @yogscast e-mail address was closed and he temporarily lost access to his YouTube channel “yogscastpeva” and his yogscast-related "peva” facebook page.
We tried to get these returned to him, and I e-mailed our contact at YouTube to get Peva’s channel back to him, but before we could fix this situation, Peva threatened to release our passwords and personal information, changed the “yogiverse.com” domain to link to his “new” site, and embarked on a smear campaign against us, ostensibly to publicise his new website.
Peva has not given us an opportunity to respond to his concerns, and has taken many images and conversations out of context, or faked them altogether.
In conclusion: - Tinman has stolen at least $18,000 from the Yogscast website and refuses to pay it back. - Pat was removed from staff after repeatedly being abusive to other members of staff and threatening to release our passwords and personal information. - Ridgedog’s handling of the situation was unprofessional, but he has learned a lot from this experience and is helping us take steps to ensure that something like this never happens again. - I am crushed by the betrayal of these two members of staff (Peva, Tinman) whom I previously trusted greatly and considered to be close friends.
I’m really sorry to have some drama brought up in this awesome community who have supported us and helped us to get where we are. Needless to say, this will not affect our videos and content on YouTube - and will hopefully only make the forums a nicer, safer and more mature place to hang out in future.
If you have any further concerns or questions, feel free to post them here and I’ll endeavour to respond. I’m on a very crappy 3G internet while travelling, but will try to do my best.
Lewis

Enter Lewis...

[Kevdude]

Enter Lewis...

Response from Lewis
https://yogscast.com/showthread.php?55245-A-Response-to-Peva-and-Tinman

Read damn it

[rooster767]

I'm getting good at finding diamonds.

I recently have been really bored of minecraft, and I do stick with the updates, and stuff, so when I went into my survival world, I began to play it normally.

With an enchanted diamond pickaxe, you can use that one quicker mining trick when instead of holding LMB, you let go of it and snap to another block and mine it.

This makes you find more diamonds.

[CopBlock]

I'm getting good at finding diamonds.

I recently have been really bored of minecraft, and I do stick with the updates, and stuff, so when I went into my survival world, I began to play it normally.

With an enchanted diamond pickaxe, you can use that one quicker mining trick when instead of holding LMB, you let go of it and snap to another block and mine it.

This makes you find more diamonds.

...what