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I just came across lapis lazuli, whats the use for this stuff?

To look blue.

use it to die wool blue. You can also make blocks of it [like gold and silver]

Should you find the secret island known as Tear of Svalbard, please do not destroy it. That is my baby <3 I will, however, give you a cookie if you take a screenshot of it and post it up here.

EDIT: Also, minecraft.net appears to be down right now. Hopefully it'll get fixed soon.

You guys got any clue what 'Disconnect:Protocol Error' and/or 'Lost Connection:End of Stream' mean?

Problems with Minecraft.net. Just keep trying till you get in, maybe every five minutes or so.

If you want a more in-depth analysis, it seems that the server software verifies your username and password by sending your details to MC.net, then waiting for a response to the positive. The timeout on the serverside is much longer than the clientside timeout, so while it's waiting your client may time out and disconnect, but the server is not looking at that, so will continue waiting for MC.net to reply. If you reconnect while it's still waiting, the timeout of the server typically resets shortly after and disconnects you, giving you the end of stream error. As for the protocol error, it's probably somewhere in that mess as well.

Sounds like something that should be fixed STAT. Thanks for the explanation.

Add me.

Gah, PM me these things, it saves on clutter.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=86929
Mystery minecraft link

MC.net seems to be down for now (entirely rather than intermittently) so I can't whitelist anyone nor can anyone connect to the server. Just keep sending me whitelist requests and I'll process them when it comes back up.

They're moving servers, apparently.
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/2812089385/the-web-server-is-struggling-were-migrating

Duh, add this in?

Can't, that's a singleplayer mod only. Later when we have the official modding API and they port it to serverside, then I'll be happy to.