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Ediin wrote:

n0t_u wrote:

Well it is the fastest and most fun way to clear out some space for construction.

Except TNT. Nothing beats TNT

Real men use creepers.

n0t_u wrote:So I finally finished that Creeper statue. The problem being that the feet look a little big. >_>
Soon as I get around to it I'm just going to build a decent wall around the stone area I've got the statue on and keep it as a courtyard.

I guess he looks better when you're further away though.

Just not from a low angle.

lol penis

Yes, I hath to do that.

And now I rip down the legs and start again... >_>

Edit: Too much work to be bothered. So using plan B, which is I fill the creeper statues with TNT for realism.
Maybe a solid gold creeper or something else entirely...

First two have white bits because i'm a lazy editor and just snipped off some stuff in Paint and slapped them on photobucket.

Anywho, I promised pics and I give you pics (because I saw this thread and remembered that i'd forgotten to post pics )

n0t_u wrote:So I finally finished that Creeper statue. The problem being that the feet look a little big. >_>
Soon as I get around to it I'm just going to build a decent wall around the stone area I've got the statue on and keep it as a courtyard.

I guess he looks better when you're further away though.

Just not from a low angle.

Minecraft Bible Book 1 verse 17.

"Build not in the image of the Great Undoer,
for He sees only to destroy.
Invite Him not to your home,your fort nor your castles,
for He shall make prey of your edifices,and make folly of your labour."

Well after a little crater cleaning it's going to be a roller coaster now.

Avatar that lava room is awesome.

I built a castle and a farm and some stuff, its pretty cool.

I also made an obsidian farm, in the last picture. Pretty much, get lava, and put it in the bottom section, then open the top section of water by digging the block in the centre away, the water poors over the lava (The lava must be still, so it will take 6 lava buckets retrieved from the bottom of the map or the origin of a lava inflow to replicate what is on screen. My obsidian farm can hold up to still lava blocks) and cools it into obsidian, which you will then need a diamond pick axe to mine (will take 15 seconds). Warning: You will create useless cobblestone if the lava is in motion!

Another way to create an infinite water source, no matter how many buckets you take out of it is make a 2x2 basin, and fill all 4 empty blocks with water (this should only be 1 deep). The 3 water blocks will always fill the last water block, it will have no where to go, and become still. It is a VERY good idea to keep 3 waterbuckets on your quickmenu so if your in a deep mine, and fall into lava (will almost always happen after finding diamond) you can throw out a water bucket and turn it to obsidian / cobblestone. Beware, if you are completely under lava, and throw water, it turns the top of the lava...into obsidian. You will have entombed yourself in the most deadly and impossible to escape trap available in minecraft thus far!

More survival tactics are creating a tower and placing a lava bucket on top, creating a lava tower that can be seen for miles, and marks where your base is. Creating a redstone compass to find your spawn point, then making a path of crumbs torches back to your spawn from your house, so if you should ever die, you will be able to follow the "yellow fire road" back to your house. Create chests and store valuable resources top side before going down into a mine, so as to not die and lose it.

If anyone has any questions just pm me


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Also a super easy way to make a minefield is mark out a flat space (make sure to tread with extreme care) and in random locations but at least 5 blocks away from each other, dig a single dirt block out, and put some TNT on it.

AFTER. I REPEAT. AFTER you have chosen all your places for mines, start placing wooden pressure plates on the TNT. Now any mobs or animals or players who walk on these will be killed. Once again, place 5 away to stop a chain reaction.

n0t_u wrote:So I noticed something odd while clearing a mountain on the island that is to be my base.



I would have been less surprised (if the trees are in the way of construction flint and steel to the rescue), but that was a new area I hadn't been to yet.

So I walk through the "forest" for a while and find the source.


There were also quite a few flaming pigs, chickens and cows on the way as well.
But, I've never actually come across any lava like this before.

Dont you know?! Its HEROBRINE

HEROBRINE made the lakes dear god hes going to kill us all!

What that blind guy?

Be more afraid of Rana.


See if you can spot her. She appears twice by the way.
No need to watch past 1:30 though.

I saw her at 1 18 but then se was gone like two seconds later!

And eh i still like herobrine even though if notch did put him in, Hero would be a @#$% and destroy your stuff probably

She showed up before that as well over on the cliff then vanished half a sec later (at the very end of 1:16 just before 1:17 as he jumps up the ledge), before showing up where she was at 1:18.

Yeh it would be sort of like an AI griefer by the sounds of it. Just a smarter version of the Creeper.

n0t_u wrote:She showed up before that as well over on the cliff then vanished half a sec later (at the very end of 1:16 just before 1:17 as he jumps up the ledge), before showing up where she was at 1:18.

Yeh it would be sort of like an AI griefer by the sounds of it. Just a smarter version of the Creeper.

Oh god no!

Or mabye he could just pal around with you, I seem to remember a mod that did that...

Yeh pal around by doing stuff like opening up walls for the enemy.

Though I'd actually like it if he did eventually implement the NPC neutral villages. Would make the game a little more interesting.


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So anyone mess around with the new note blocks yet?

essentially a lot of hard work. music box's for the win! (by the way i didn't make this)

n0t_u wrote:Yeh pal around by doing stuff like opening up walls for the enemy.

Though I'd actually like it if he did eventually implement the NPC neutral villages. Would make the game a little more interesting.

Personally, I'd like to see NPCs placeable in peaceful/creative mode for the purpose of making multiplayer Roleplaying maps as I'm doing. Villages and cities are nothing without populations, and considering each player takes up about 100MB of RAM on a server, that's not a sufficient number of people for your average player's server running off of 6-8GB. At least, not if you want to have large-scale settings. It would be nice to be able to use NPCs to fill up villages and act as soldiers for players wishing to build armies. It is a sandbox game after all - it should be able to be used for several genres.

I think someone made a 'Minecraft art of war' thread on the offical forums, I only skimmed through but it was huge.

I'm thinking of downloading some mods, i've heard about ones where you get unicorns, horses and it's possible to breed them.

Might have to wait a bit a lot of the mods became incompatible when the it was upgraded to the Beta. Though I haven't been keeping track. Best to check the version compatibility. I'm waiting for the hookshot, sign tags and the cart mods to be updated.

Precisely what I was thinking of Metallifan. It's sort of boring to build a huge city only for it to remain empty.

Would add a great deal more to those adventure maps that some people upload. Rather than build in them you just explore the hidden dungeons in search of treasure.

I'd kind of like a more mechanical aspect to it as well, stuff like building wheels and turning them into vehicles kind of like in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and bolts. Hinges and such, but I'm fine with what's in it so far, it is just a beta after all.

Yea it's only been in Beta since what? mid-October? Lots of time left still for additions. I do hope that Notch adds some sort of NPC-maker though, and lets you plop down NPCs in like a "Populator mode" where all you'd do is place NPCs assign them homes, skins/clothing, inventory, alignment, jobs, etc...

I think I've finally flipped, my current project is making an artificial lake and dam. The dam is built but the lake could take some time.

Here's the valley I chose to flood:



Here's what it looked like a couple of game days later:



I've done quite a lot more work since I took those screenshots but don't have any more recent ones.

Makes me laugh every time...hehe.

Ediin wrote:


Makes me laugh every time...hehe.

*egg pops out*

Oh whoa there

I need to find diamond, i've been searching for 6 hours today and still cannot find a single block. Am I doing something wrong? I'm mining in layers 1-16 from bedrock...

I really want to try this game, but apparently you need to pay 24 bucks to get in? I'm a bit low on funds :(

Melissia wrote:I really want to try this game, but apparently you need to pay 24 bucks to get in? I'm a bit low on funds :(

Well if you can't afford the full game at the moment there is always Minecraft Classic.

Sadly that only offers the construction aspect of the game, so there's no mining for resources, no crafting and no survival element but it does act as a nice taster for the full game.

That will work as a demo, thanks.

It is not even CLOSE to as good as the full.

Mn, I would hope not. It's fun building stuff and all, but the game should have more than just that. And hopefully a way to get out of lava without regenerating the whole map

Still won't be able to get the game for a while though...

Just got it a few days ago, and I have to say, it was worth my money.

Lava has killed me more times than I can count, then again, I can't count...

Melissia wrote:Mn, I would hope not. It's fun building stuff and all, but the game should have more than just that. And hopefully a way to get out of lava without regenerating the whole map

Still won't be able to get the game for a while though...

If you go on the main site, register an account then download the EXE version instead of the browser version then click play offline when it complains you don't have a premium account you can play the full game for free but singleplayer only.

I have attempted to say this way too many times.

It won't let me. Says play online once in order to unlock offline mode.