New patch just came out and I decided to generate a new world.
GreenTeen and Hellboy are pretty jazzed about the prospect of Enchanting and magic potions and I was pleased about the advent of cattle ranching. High quality food coupled with cheap armour.
Just generated the world two nights ago. So we are just starting. Got the ranch set up well, but haven’t explored any of the surface or done any spelunking, though we will be very well set with leather armour and rations when we do go.
Hellboy has been furiously farming cane to make books (I guess these will come in handy for enchanting later). GreenTeen has been too distracted by baby animals (“they’re soooooo cuuuuuute”, she gushed) to do much.
Next big step is the clear some more forests and set up a creep grinder. Then its time to explore nearby caverns and do some serious mining. Or do we explore more of the surface and set up beacons and emergency shelters?
Hmm, decisions decisions.
In any case, I love this game. Most of all because there aren’t a lot of activities that a thirty-something guy can do with his 13 year old daughter and 8 year old son that all can genuinely enjoy instead of just tollerate for someone else’s sake.
Yep. Just be advised that the grinders don’t yield experience. With a few simple mods, you can make a grinder that knocks their health down to very little, and then you can hit them with a sword to get the XP. The XP lets you craft enchantments.
You can get a grinder that makes experience, though, by making the fall (if I recall correctly right now) 24 blocks high. Then the bad guys are one smack with anything to kill, and you get the experience.
I’ve got it, and I’ve played it, but I haven’t played it in a while.
BAH! Animal breeding is broken! My livestock keeps disappearing. Thought the kids had harvested some, but when I logged on later and did some breeding to build up the herd again, I saw that that was not the case. A bit of googling showed that the bug is well known. Hopefully will be fixed next push. Looks like our rations for the first expeditions will be bread, not beef. I do think I’ll have enough leather for a full suit and enough iron for plenty of tools.
May do an expedition or two before building a proper base and a mob grinder. Need at least a few diamonds for the enchanting and will need to go into the nether for blaze rods for brewing.
Anyone else have minecrafting adventures to share?
I think they’ve buffed the hell out of the Nether. I used to be able to play in it a while - now I’m bombarded by Ghasts the moment I step in. I had to bite the bullet, accept dying and respawning a few times, and get a cobblestone barrier built around my portal, as the damn Ghast kept shooting me, and exploding the portal. It was… not fun.
I will say that the addition of Enchanting has turned dying from an “eh, so what” proposition, to a “damn it all!” sort of thing. Losing that XP sucks ass.
