Downloaded Minecraft X-Ray, a mapper that not only shows where you are but can also show the location of resources. Now I shouldn’t get lost anymore!
#-1614214034925772170 produces a spawn site that tends to be near a nice, big cavern with plenty of coal and some iron. Didn’t even know the cavern was there until I started exploring after digging into the opposite side of the hill. Linked my home to the cavern, closed up the natural entrance and started mining.
I want to start a new level but 1.4 drops some time next week. I don’t know if they’re adding any new blocks but I don’t want to have to go on a voyage to get any new blocks like I did when Lapis Lazuli came out.
Kind of memory hog (maybe my rig is just old), but really useful. Especially if you like dungeon hunting.
Combat is useless in Minecraft. No matter how many creepers, ghosts and spiders you kill, there are more being spawned. You can never clean out an area.
It is a challenge to find spawning areas under ground and take the stuff from their chests.
I’ve been playing Minecraft with some friends on a private server, and a little on my own. I’m drawn; part of me sees the game as inherently masturbatory, and without an ultimate point. The other part of me was thrilled to find my first diamond. And last night, around 4:45 in the morning, I woke up in a blind panic. In my dream, I was supposed to build a base, except somehow we’d run into some Mossy Cobblestone, and I didn’t know how to incorporate it without setting everything on fire. It took myself ten minutes to calm myself down enough to realize that I was being completely effing irrational.
It depends. Hostile mobs won’t spawn if the area is well lit enough. This is useful for underground caves/bases.
Also, if you just want to mine & craft without worrying about spawns, set the difficulty to Peaceful.
This implies that there is not a point to masturbation.
Minecraft is basically a first-person version of Dwarf Fortress except you’re the dwarf.
There are some things that only drop from mob. String and TNT are two that come to mind. If you don’t want these things, then peaceful is great for building beautiful homes. One thing I cannot stand is building my home and having stupid-assed creepers coming to blow it up daily. I spend half the day repairing.
Hey, I just checked the minecraft wiki and found you can now make beds! They let you skip the night. That is soooo cool!
A few days ago I was digging an upward sloping passage to join two ends of a big cavern when I hit green moss cobblestone. So I carefully dug around it, blocked off the natural entrance to it, knocked out the floors below it and made a single hole in the floor next to the spawner.
Now I get all the feathers I could ever want, all I have to do is stand on a nearby ledge and the zombies fall out and plummet to their demise.
Now I’m in the process of making one of the Argonath from Lord of the Rings. I ran into a bit of a problem when I hit the world ceiling before finishing the head and had to scale back, but it’s coming along.
Well, right now he looks like he’s more flipping the bird than standing guard over the passage to Numenor. Only so much you can do with square blocks.
Just in case anyone missed it, Wolves that can be tamed into Dogs are due to be added. There’s a sample video.
They aren’t in Minecraft yet but they will be in the next update (1.4) which should be released relatively soon.
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Spawn on a beach with a collapsed dungeon not 15 steps away.
Jeez. I tried it, and not only is there a zombie spawner there (not spawning, obviously, because of the sunlight), but two chests containing iron and a MUSIC RECORD! I’ve played for months and still never encountered a music record. It almost makes me want to invest some time in that world just so I can build a jukebox there.
My current “big” world, where I’ve invested the most time, was started about six months ago, before even biomes were in the game. I once the next version hits, I’ll start a new game so I can experience all the new features I can’t get because my nearby chunks are already generated (biomes, lapis, etc.).
On another note, I recently found a youtube video of the most complex machine I’ve ever seen in minecraft. Boat Dispenser. You push a button and a boat pops up in your harbor. When you’re done sailing around, you disembark in a designated area, and the machine sucks your boat back in and reloads itself. You can feed extra boats into it, so you can have as many as 10 ready to go. If you feed in an eleventh, the machine recognizes that it’s full, destroys the extra boat, and neatly deposits the resulting wood out a chute. Various well-labeled lights tell you whether boats are available, the queue is full, etc. Simply amazing what people can do with redstone circuits. And this was created before repeaters came out.
Yeah, Ethos’ stuff is absolutely amazing.
I may never get around to it, particularly since I’ve gotten back into a MMO now, but I had an idea to use his dispenser and EATS boat road idea, but slow the road down as much as possible and form a big loop in an enclosed space.
I’d then use another of his inventions, the Mobivator, where mobs are taken from an underground spawning pad and brought up to the surface via a water elevator, my idea would be to force them into glass chambers for observation as the boat went around the canal.
Meanwhile, there would be a noteblock song running on endless repeat. The song would be “It’s A Small World After All”
Started messing around with the 404 seed on Peaceful. Dug out some of the sand hill next to the gravel pit down to sandstone and built a sandstone house there, then set about digging a safe way down the shafts. Holy hell, there’s a bunch of stuff down there!
I decided to have a go at one of those custom/adventure maps. Here is the result…
I want to wait for for the new update before starting a new game. They’re adding basic achievements and statistics. I want to see how much work I actually do in my new world.
Problem is it sounds like the 1.4 will drop late in the week and I’m out of town all of next week. 