User talk:Sealbudsman

Maria Lemón
Sorry for the trolling :) Does this confirm it is me who Maria Lemón? :) https://twitter.com/MiaLem_n/status/789080057973211137 ExcitedZe (talk) 12:32, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, it is you! Good to make your acquaintance. I'll update the infobox on the page.. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 12:57, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

PE Add-ons page
I noticed you added a section in the Wanted Pages for PE add-ons. I can assist with populating the page with info and documentation, but I'm not fluent in wiki formatting. How would such a page be setup, and what information should the page include? Should the wiki just list the basics of what add-ons and behavior packs are, how to use them, and what they do, or should it be a fully verbose page explaining the syntax, every available component, events, using them, etc. in detail? On top of that, behavior packs include entity behavior definitions, loot tables, and item definitions; should all of those elements be explained in detail on the wiki, or briefly to get the basic idea across? Lastly, it's worth mentioning that at some point, the developers will release full documentation of how add-on's work if that makes any difference to how the page should be setup. Thanks, Jocopa3 (talk) 03:16, 28 October 2016 (UTC)


 * If you're familiar with the topic, please, feel free to write the page in any way that you think would be helpful to a person just getting started. It would be fine to start with just bare minimum information, but ultimately, again, the more the better.  In general, to have "all of those elements explained in detail" would eventually be ideal.
 * Certain things, like loot tables and maybe item definitions are probably contained on other pages, like loot table or Pocket Edition data values, maybe. Those might need consideration too, but we can just get to that when we get to that.
 * And we (and anybody else) can just use the Add-ons talk page to discuss whether we need a table here or there, or you can ask how to do such-and-such formatting, and instruct us if we mess up your work, and we'll ask you questions we have, and so on.
 * Have the developers said they'd be giving documentation on this? I find myself very surprised at having any documentation at all from them.  Regardless, I think we're free to make our page as useful as possible.
 * I'd appreciate if you could give it a shot, thanks for offering! – Sealbudsman talk/contr 03:44, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll start it off as a dummy page on my user page since I'm not yet done documenting all the components available. Also, about official documentation, it's kind-of mentioned in the Minecon panel (starting from 12:14 to 13:30); going back and watching the it, I'm not sure if the file included in one of the beta builds is their idea of "documentation" or not, or if they plan to add additional documentation at some point. The components text file was removed in beta build 5 however, and isn't in the official release; plus, it the components file didn't mention data types for sub-values and didn't include components that weren't used in the official mobs. Jocopa3 (talk) 04:14, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay - yes, keep me informed what progress you make! – Sealbudsman talk/contr 04:19, 28 October 2016 (UTC)


 * , it turns out that (from Mojang ) has created reference pages at Entity_Component_Reference_Guide and a sort of tutorial page at Creating_Resource_Pack_Add-Ons.  These both are pointed to by Tutorials/Creating_Add-ons.  I will probably go through the pages and conform them to the style guide, which should be just minor formatting things, hopefully soon, and then most likely link to the tutorial page in some relevant places if nobody else does it.  At user_talk:Majr, he is suggesting moving the "Creating Resource Pack Add-Ons" page to have a Tutorial/ prefix, so that may likely happen as well. –  Sealbudsman talk/contr 13:15, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I apologize for my awful wiki editing of those articles. I have more documentation as well that I will be adding when we add them into Add-Ons regarding behavior & blocks. Also if there's any documentation that you need/want, please let me know and I will work with the dev teams to get it to you. :) --HelenAngel (talk) 22:23, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


 * No apology necessary -- it's a wiki! Nothing's ever finished : P Thanks for even putting this together. –  Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:33, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


 * References

1.11-pre1
On 1.11-pre1, MC-108934 is missing from Fixes --Yzampt (talk) 07:26, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * That bug report was reopened. – DelboyDylan (talk 07:50, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Cool just checked! --Yzampt (talk) 17:44, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

How do you make a page on the forum?
Honestly, I don't know how to create a page on the forum, can you help me? Please?--65.23.255.61 21:05, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Aaron?--65.23.255.61 21:07, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * That's me.
 * Honestly I don't, either, I've never used the forums. I imagine you would have to create a Curse account and sign in, though.  If you do that, I'm sure you can figure it out from there.  I'm sure they don't allow anonymous people to do new topics.
 * I have to ask, what was your question? The thing that you wrote that Orthotope deleted was something about a strength particle, some gore, seven-year-olds ... are you sure you actually have a discussion topic? Pardon me if I just didn't understand what you were saying. –  Sealbudsman talk/contr 21:21, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Well, i have a discussion for that with this type of Status effect, Adds gore or blood, whatever do you want to call it, But minecraft is still for 7+. If I made a Organization, i can rate this game 8+ (PG). And you can look at this?. Ok, i'm bored talking. Fin--65.23.255.61 21:49, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * The world that 7-year-olds have to grow up in is much more horrifying and awful than a little pixel sword with some pixel blood.. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:06, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Pardon--207.204.181.251 18:59, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

PRO
What does the orange "PRO" mean on my username(--Wyatt2050 (talk)) the reason why I ask you is because you have it.--Wyatt2050 (talk) 12:28, 23 November 2016 (UTC)


 * You've got a subscription to this: https://www.gamepedia.com/PRO
 * If you didn't buy this yourself, it's probably because Gamepedia gave it to you for free, for being one of the top active members of the month -- I think that's how they give them out. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 15:44, 23 November 2016 (UTC)


 * According to Majr you get the free subscription if you've accumulated 500 gamepedia points or more in a month (Minecraft_Wiki_talk:Community_portal). Below is the main body of the email I received when I got my free subscription.


 * Thanks for being an active editor on Gamepedia! We rely on the contributions from community members like yourself to continue growing as the best source of gaming information in the world.


 * We want to ensure that our best users have the best experience, so we’re providing you with a free subscription to GamepediaPRO. PRO is our premium service that will allow you to have a first-rate experience on our wikis including the removal of ads, HTTPS connections, and a special flair to show how awesome you are on your profile and other pages where your username is listed.


 * Your free subscription will expire 3 months from today, overwriting any previous free subscription you may have had if it ended prior to that date. However, if you continue to be active, your free subscription will continue to be renewed each month!


 * – DelboyDylan (talk 22:34, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Block Data
On the 1.11 changelog, it says that block states work with /setblock and commands related to it. I interpreted this to mean that block data is irrelevant. The page on that change even says to setblock granite, you use /setblock ~ ~ ~ stone variant=granite instead of /setblock ~ ~ ~ stone 1. This can be found on the wiki page on the 1.11 update. Gregatron6000 (talk) 22:32, 2 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I see. So I went and checked the commands page, and tested a little, and from what I can find, currently, at least,  and  still require numeric data, and don't take the new blockstate format.
 * The commands that were given the blockstate option (for reference) are, , , and . –  Sealbudsman talk/contr 23:03, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for all your help
I really, really appreciate it. If I had gold stars to give out, you would get one. :) --HelenAngel (talk) 23:26, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the thanks! – Sealbudsman talk/contr 23:29, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Achievement-related edits and relation to Style Project
Just going to leave this here:
 * "Achievements: If any achievements are directly relevant to the article, add it here using Load achievements. For example, an achievement that involves smelting something would not go on Furnace, but an achievement earned by a recipe using cobblestone would go on Cobblestone."

RA3236 (talk) 22:29, 22 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Oh! Thank you.  Where is that from? –  Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:32, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * At minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_Wiki:Projects/Rewrite_for_Style
 * RA3236 (talk) 22:36, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I see now. I hadn't considered that page; it appears to be an extra layer of guidelines on top of the actual style guide.  Maybe we should just consider adding it to the style guide directly, so all the style guidance is in one place.  Anyway, yes, I'll respect it, since I know this was a well-developed community-written project.  –  Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:39, 22 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Most of what I wrote there was general rules for expanding articles as many smaller articles seemed to lack mention of achievements. It could easily be incorperated into the actual style guide, but the project's guidelines really should not be taken as more than suggestions right now. – KnightMiner  t/c 01:38, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

WP:DABSTYLE
While I don't disagree with having the notice at the bottom, the template is and always has been designed to be at the top of the page, and so if we decide we're going to change the style of all our disambiguation pages, the template should be updated to work at the bottom. –Majr ᐸ Talk Contribs 02:01, 24 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I agree with Majr. The current looks slightly better at the top of the article IMO, and Wikipedia doesn't actually show the notice in the pages I've looked at. Of course, I may have missed a few. I suggest changing the style guide so the position of the notice should be standard. RA3236 (talk) 02:21, 24 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I see, yeah, I didn't take that into account, sorry. The documentation seems to have been changed from top to bottom in 2012, for "aesthetic" reasons. I'd support a style guide change to put them at the top, if indeed they were designed to have been there from the beginning. Either really. –  Sealbudsman talk/contr 02:35, 24 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Actually, the dablink is already part of the style guide, second bullet point. RA3236 (talk) 03:55, 24 December 2016 (UTC)


 * That guideline is unrelated, it discusses the order of templates already included at the top of articles, it does not require any of them at the top, plus its affect on oddball article types such as disambig is debatable. An actual guideline would still be needed, or alternatively a small paragraph on disambig article style in general. – KnightMiner  t/c 04:10, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Reverted change regarding Observer texture
Hi Sealbudsman! My apologies for having carelessly updated Observer with incorrect information. I saw that the texture had changed on my Win 10 1.0 version and assumed Mojang had updated it as part of the drive toward reducing unnecessary differences between versions, and it got omitted from the looooong changelog. In reality, it was coming from a global resource pack (one ported from MCPC) I had installed when 1.0 was released. (I wish they *would* change it--I always have to stop and think which end of the PE Observer is which!) Anyway, I'll take care not to make such mistakes again in future. Thanks for correcting my error! Auldrick (talk) 22:05, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey no problem! So you're saying you were using a resource pack, and that's why you saw the 'face' texture? And without the resource pack, it still shows the old square texture, right? – Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:18, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, exactly right. And interestingly, I had also noticed that the top texture "arrow" always pointed north, regardless of which direction the Observer was facing. That appears to still be true even after deactivating all my resource packs, so I think it must be a bug. Auldrick (talk) 08:49, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Pocket Edition data values
I'm currently collecting PE ID values for a personal project. While working on it I happened to notice that some entries in the Block IDs table don't have the "S" superscript where I would have expected it: I would update the table but I'm not entirely sure that having an associated DV is the sole criterion for the "S" superscript, especially for the Nether Reactor where to most readers the DV variants are more states than block type differences. Since you seem to have done mass updating of this table I thought I'd ask you first: Should I tag these "S"? – Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 18:19, 22 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Having different DVs which make a difference is the sole criterion, yes. According to the key above the table anyway. I have done some updating to the table, but I don't have access to the data values from the game -- except for that file Jocopa3 maintains -- so I probably wasn't good at keeping the letters up to date, at the time. As for how users interpret it, states versus types, I think the key at the top would make it pretty clear that it's really neither of those, it's just internal numbers. –  Sealbudsman <span style="transform: rotate(-16deg); display: inline-block; top: -1px; position: relative;">talk/contr 18:32, 22 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm also using Jacopa3's file. I'm doing a thorough reconciliation so I'll probably catch any other errors on the page as I go, for whatever it's worth. Thanks for the quick reply, and have a nice day! – Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 18:58, 22 January 2017 (UTC)