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I wonder what it would take to record a movie with Fraps and then edit in text comments occasionally...

I want to make a youtube Let's Play of minecraft that way.

Tyyr wrote:

Requia wrote:Ty'rs setup with 3x1 would give you 100% coverage...

Which is absolutely correct. However you're increasing the volume of stone you have to remove by 50% while increasing the volume of rock you expose by only 12.4%. Mind you that's the absolute figure, its even less of an improvement when you factor in the way ore veins work in Minecraft and that my way of doing it with 2x1 tunnels really gets you about 95% or more of the ore. You're hacking out a ton more rock for little real benefit.

It was mentioned for the benefit of the people felt 1x2 was claustraphobic.

I love my long, windy, 1x2 mine. I do, however, have rooms to break up the scale of it all, so I don't go insane walking 4 minutes to mine.

Decided to stop trying to get back on my good server and made my own for the first time. It was going great, until my friend decided to destroy everything and have creepers blow us up.

Runer60000 wrote:Decided to stop trying to get back on my good server and made my own for the first time. It was going great, until my friend decided to destroy everything and have creepers blow us up.

This is why most of us don't make friends with griefers

does anyone know how many blocks lava can flow? im trying to build an all glass house using lava flowing at floor/wall corners for lighting.

They can flow up to three if I remember correctly. It's important to remember for traps.

But I think like water it can flow indefinitely vertically so just make a pillar in each corner with glass on each side, shaped like a +.

And make sure it isn't adjacent in any way (including diagonal) to burnable blocks.

Yeah, a fully encased lava tube is no danger. The cross shaped ones can set things on fire on the diagonals. Tested that out a while ago.

Depends on what you're building near really. I generally don't have any lava at all in any wooden buildings I make.

I like lava lamps myself, they're more effective (if less efficient) light sources than torches.

n0t_u wrote:Depends on what you're building near really. I generally don't have any lava at all in any wooden buildings I make.

not_u: not living dangerously

i guess ill have to make the lava only flow vertically then as trying to get it to flow along the floor is going to mess with the shape.

i was fiddling with my first attempt at a lava moat and i have a glass walkway out of my base so i can see if creepers are about. i put lava on the roof for awesomeness and it wasnt flowing the way i wanted so i put wood blocks and half blocks to try to make it flow which it did but they didnt catch fire.

No tips on movie editing programs? Hrm. Guess I'll go look for some free ones on google then.

Melissia wrote:No tips on movie editing programs? Hrm. Guess I'll go look for some free ones on google then.

Best to ask that on the minecraft forums, lots of very cool stuff comes out of there.

It's going through maintenance right now..

I think you can do it in Windows movie maker. I'd have to ask the missus since she edits all the videos of our kids but she puts plenty of text in them. It's rudimentary I know but it's also free.

I've tried to download WMM, but for some reason it just doesn't friggin' do it.


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As a side note, I started a new game and decided that this time I'm gonna try to stick with it and make a multistory wooden house with a cement (stone, not cobble) basement and a nearby underwater base in case that one catches on fire. Here's the first floor:



Also, FETH finding sheep and roses, next floor's definitely gonna be cactus green.

ok bit of a silly question here but how do you guys come up with your building ideas?

do you get an idea and just start building or do you sketch it or plot it out on grid paper?

i am finding out if i do not have some sort of plan to go by my project is a failure (my glass house project will be getting a TNT present soon).

Depends on the scale.

If it's bigger than say... 5x5x5 (which has an interior space of 3x3x3, a starter shelter basically), then I will definitely plan it out in my head. The only time I've ever actually taken to planning something out by drawing it out first was when I was designing my pinwheel mine design.

I plan everything in notepad. Notepad is great, because every character takes up exactly the same amount of space, so you can use different letters to be different building materials and see in cross section how it will look. You can also work out, with very basic maths skills, exactly how many blocks you will need to begin the project.

That was how I built my crappy version of the CN tower (my first major building project)

All i do is get an idea and try remember it till it finished, normally if i forget it then when i revisit the site and the idea comes flooding back

For my third floor, because I found out (or rather, confirmed) that yellow wool is fething ugly, I instead decided to forego the carpet floor and make the room into an interior small cactus farm so that I could get more cactus for the fourth floor which will have a checkered cactus green/lime green carpet.

Well, inspired by this thread and friends I decided to buy the program (only 15 euros). Totally worth it.

My current fortress is carved into the side of a cave. The only exposure (around a couple of bends) is a wooden door. But once inside, I have an animal farm, tree farm, and a wheat farm.

While mining out an area, I found a huge cave complex full of underground rivers and lakes, lava pools, and all kinds of ores. Unfortunately, I got lost and had to tunnel up into the middle of the ocean. I'm now working on an underwater glass-enclosed passage to this second entrance.

After that, I built a beacon tower outside my fort so I can find it again.

Unfortunately, while mining ore and exploring last night (going to cast a portal), I got lost, so it looks like I'm going to have to tunnel up again. I think I'll just fill this one with gravel so I can keep the sand to build an underwater rollercoaster.

so im thinking of turning my game off of passive ( i had it on so i could explore a bit and that has been pretty dull ), the passive animals seem to love my lavafalls and lava fountains so i figure hostiles will love them too.

i found some clay near my base, im wondering what fun i can make out of it.

Four pieces of clay = one clay block, or smelted into four clay bricks, they'd equal one brick block. The brick block is the most valuable block in the game due to its rarity, so eh.


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Gaaaah, those gakfething creepers are clever. I just BARELY managed to avoid letting the front door of my wooden home from being blown up by shutting the door on him (if he can't see you directly without an interruption he won't blow up).

I had killed three spiders, a creeper, and a skeleton who were just camping around at the front door to my home, then I looked out the windows, okay, noone there... went out to pick up the string and gunpowder, then SSSSSSSSSS.... oh gak I dodged a 'splosion.

Melissia wrote:Four pieces of clay = one clay block, or smelted into four clay bricks, they'd equal one brick block. The brick block is the most valuable block in the game due to its rarity, so eh.


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Gaaaah, those gakfething creepers are clever. I just BARELY managed to avoid letting the front door of my wooden home from being blown up by shutting the door on him (if he can't see you directly without an interruption he won't blow up).

I had killed three spiders, a creeper, and a skeleton who were just camping around at the front door to my home, then I looked out the windows, okay, noone there... went out to pick up the string and gunpowder, then SSSSSSSSSS.... oh gak I dodged a 'splosion.

It's stories like this that make me happy I never have to leave my happy minecrafted hole. Creepers and zombies never see me, so they never explode and destroy my interior.

thats why i built a small glass walkway into my tower, im protected on most sides and i can see if anything scary is outside and run back in safely.

biccat wrote:

Melissia wrote:Four pieces of clay = one clay block, or smelted into four clay bricks, they'd equal one brick block. The brick block is the most valuable block in the game due to its rarity, so eh.


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Gaaaah, those gakfething creepers are clever. I just BARELY managed to avoid letting the front door of my wooden home from being blown up by shutting the door on him (if he can't see you directly without an interruption he won't blow up).

I had killed three spiders, a creeper, and a skeleton who were just camping around at the front door to my home, then I looked out the windows, okay, noone there... went out to pick up the string and gunpowder, then SSSSSSSSSS.... oh gak I dodged a 'splosion.

It's stories like this that make me happy I never have to leave my happy minecrafted hole. Creepers and zombies never see me, so they never explode and destroy my interior.

Not entirely true, I've seen them blow up through sandstone.

Depends on what I'm doing. My smaller stuff I just free form it. My castle though was planned out from the get go. I used Excel and made all the cells exactly 12 pixels by 12 pixels which let me color in individual ones and plan out my design.

Love the carpeted floor Melissia. I wish I'd designed my castle with two block thick floors so I could do carpet on the upper (occupied) levels.