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Deathklaat wrote:i found a small island covered in it, i mine about half of it and i have quite a few stacks of clay, lately i have been picking it up when i come across it while exploring.

i have been thinking about my failed glass house project. i have already found cactus and sugar but i have not found wheat.. where do you find that at?

Make a hoe:
S S _
_ W _
_ W _
(s = stone, w = stick)

Equip the hoe and right click on grass. Eventually you'll get some wheat seeds.

Oh. My. Fething. God.
I've just stumbled across a cave- It hs gold, daimonds, lava, water, redstone, lapiz lazule, iron, coal, and obsidian. I've used over 100 torches lighting it up and I doubt I'm halfway done.

Fairly standard cave if you get deep enough. The trick is finding them.

Just tried the 404 challenge, safe to say i sucked XD.

Requia wrote:Fairly standard cave if you get deep enough. The trick is finding them.

seriously, this one just keeps going!
I've just used all 200 of my torches, and still there's other chambers!
I've found at least 10 different lava lakes and at least 20 pools of water.

Deathklaat wrote:i found a small island covered in it, i mine about half of it and i have quite a few stacks of clay, lately i have been picking it up when i come across it while exploring.

i have been thinking about my failed glass house project. i have already found cactus and sugar but i have not found wheat.. where do you find that at?

You don't find wheat,it has to be grown and cultivated by you.

Build a hoe,then use it on some grass,not only will it plow the land it might yield seeds,plant the seeds on the plowed land,and wait,keep animals and mobs (and yourself) from trampleing it.If you want it to grow faster,have water within 4 squares to make it dark brown (alluvial soil) which is more fertile.

Alot of work,but it means a poor piggy gets to live while you eat.

I've been trying to do this on my ipod touch's ripoff of Minecraft: Eden World Builder, and want to know if its possible in Minecraft


Delete/ destroy every single block. In Eden, I have a MASSIVE chasm spanning multiple loading areas, as well as many mini projects built. Would it be possible to destroy everything in minecraft? Or would you have blocks floating everywhere for pickup, etc

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:I've been trying to do this on my ipod touch's ripoff of Minecraft: Eden World Builder, and want to know if its possible in Minecraft


Delete/ destroy every single block. In Eden, I have a MASSIVE chasm spanning multiple loading areas, as well as many mini projects built. Would it be possible to destroy everything in minecraft? Or would you have blocks floating everywhere for pickup, etc

Item blocks despawn if they are left alone for a bit so yeah on classic or with a lot of time you could delete every block in your loaded chunks.

corpsesarefun wrote:

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:I've been trying to do this on my ipod touch's ripoff of Minecraft: Eden World Builder, and want to know if its possible in Minecraft


Delete/ destroy every single block. In Eden, I have a MASSIVE chasm spanning multiple loading areas, as well as many mini projects built. Would it be possible to destroy everything in minecraft? Or would you have blocks floating everywhere for pickup, etc

Item blocks despawn if they are left alone for a bit so yeah on classic or with a lot of time you could delete every block in your loaded chunks.

About how long would you think it would take to have an entirely empty world in mirecraft? Years?

;EDIT

Just logged in again. It has no sound!

Toss the blocks you collect in lava. Then dump water on the lava and mine the cobble stone.

Nvm; Skin back to Duke Dukem


Also, I just spawned a new world, and an epic castle thing with a water-slide (seriously) is right next to me. I'm building a castle of glass on top of it. (unless I just give up)

What was the mod someone posted on here awhile ago, the one that added hostile and non-hostile NPCs to the game?

I posted links to it in that post. It's called Humans+.

n0t_u wrote:I just found a mod that apparently adds npc humans and possibly randomly generated towns. If it's any good I'll pass on a link.


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Just finished the install and testing it now.


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Seems to be going well. It's like there are factions or something because certain mobs will track down others.


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Alright it works well and even adds a new challenge into the game as there are some day time hostiles. I haven't come across a town yet so I'm unsure if they're in it.

From this link you'll need the mod loader and the audio mod.

Here is the mod itself.

I just copied my entire .minecraft folder so I have the option of the normal game or this. Connecting online will most likely overwrite it with a fresh version of Minecraft undoing the mods.


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Left my house to do some mining, door was open. Now my house is filled with hobos...

Have you any more experience with that mod? Any substantial or naggy bugs? Hows the AI? etc.

Haven't really come across any bugs with it. As for the AI it seems alright except for the fact that when they get in water their AI seems to die. They'll just swim on the spot.

Keep in mind you'll have to clear them out when this happens as they will build up over a long period of time and cause some slow down. Other than that it seems alright.

I haven't tried to ride any of the horses though. Also I stopped using it for a bit after all the bandit raids.

The Pirates however seem completely useless to me besides the boat. Each spawns in a boat on the water. They have a sword and don't seem to do anything at all besides sitting in place.

Some of the NPCs also seem to have kind of like a cycle. The bandits for example will at times gather and go and attack one guy at the same time or even just go hunting for wild animals.

There's also an alignment factor in it to determine which NPCs will go after you and such. I thought it was interesting but didn't really notice it that much.

Also you have to stay offline when you use it as logging in will download a fresh version of the minecraft.jar and undo all mods. Handy for when you want to get rid of them or turn it off as you just copy it somewhere else, then copy it back in place when you want to turn the mods on.

is there any effective way of exploring cave systems? the one i have been exploring is much more massive than i originally thought and i keep finding new areas. i got lost for half an hour and id like to be able to mine without getting lost all the time.

Use torches where you have been and use redstone torches to mark out the exit path.

I use the yellow brick road method. Lots of wool dyed yellow with a torch on the side which leads towards the way out.

But I get lost a lot anyway, especially if I fall down a hole into a new cave area. The desperate fight to clear the area of hostiles, seeing an ore I am excited about... oops, where did I fall into this area.

You just learn to dig your way to the surface and mark the spot to go back sometime

n0t_u wrote:Use torches where you have been and use redstone torches to mark out the exit path.

Something like this. Though I do like the touch of leaving a block and putting the torch on the side that leads out. Makes it easy to leave. Just drop the block and place the torch on the side facing you. I'd recommend dirt blocks, not all that common underground but not in short supply, and a torch or a redstone one, either works.

this system is so massive, it starts at sea level and goes down below 14, there are more than a handfull of rooms that are 30x30 with passages leading all over. the real problem is that most of the time im going through a hole in one floor and going out of the celing in another room, so i have lateral and vertical paths to follow.

i have started to put arrows on the floor made of dirt pointing towards the enterance but the cave has so many crazy features and elevation changes it makes it hard. im thinking about clearing the rooms and hallways into square and rectangle shapes so i can see better and mark my path better. the parts im not fond of clearing are the gravel piles that lead to areas and the cool looking sandstone stalagtites and stalagmites i have in my cave.

2nd day of playing minecraft, I must say I am sold!
At first I didnt realy get evrything, but now that I have made my own flat, with floating tree farm I can understand why people like it so much.

in caves i usualy put torches on the right side then just follow them so there on the left on the way back

Deathklaat wrote:this system is so massive, it starts at sea level and goes down below 14, there are more than a handfull of rooms that are 30x30 with passages leading all over. the real problem is that most of the time im going through a hole in one floor and going out of the celing in another room, so i have lateral and vertical paths to follow.

i have started to put arrows on the floor made of dirt pointing towards the enterance but the cave has so many crazy features and elevation changes it makes it hard. im thinking about clearing the rooms and hallways into square and rectangle shapes so i can see better and mark my path better. the parts im not fond of clearing are the gravel piles that lead to areas and the cool looking sandstone stalagtites and stalagmites i have in my cave.

If you get to coordinates that you know aren't below the sea, consider digging upward to get out, Build floodworks and never ever dig a square that's directly above you, water and lava are both hazards.

Concentrated awesome, though the textures are a bit weak.

well my continued exploration has been pulling piles of resources out of the ground but i keep finding more and more cave, i think i am just going to mine the thing out in huge blocks so i can finally avoid getting lost.

Yay people I finaly am higher than the clouds, with my flat.

Deathklaat wrote:well my continued exploration has been pulling piles of resources out of the ground but i keep finding more and more cave, i think i am just going to mine the thing out in huge blocks so i can finally avoid getting lost.

Put up redstone torches up leading to the way out.
tip- put torches up on the left. Follow the left wall, and (eventually) you'll get out.

I just for the first time found gold, Huzzah!!!

vaatbak wrote:I just for the first time found gold, Huzzah!!!

don't use it for tools. It has the durability of wood. It's for showing off with armour.

gold is really good against explosions