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Lord-Loss wrote:Questions:

If I make a big platform and build a house/shelter on it, will no monsters spawn up there? They scare me and i'm terrible at fighting on this game, I need a mouse.

Should I just make a seperate mineshaft now or improvise with the first one?

It's all about the light if your house/shelter and the are around it is well lit then you shouldn't have any monsters spawn on it, of course they can walk/climb/jump to the area so you can never be entirely monster free unless you build a decent sized wall around your shelter and have a door to allow access.

As for mine shafts I say the more the merrier but I do limit myself to one per 'base.' eg: in my currently world 3 I have two mine shafts one at my spawn base and one at my WIP Saxon style village/fort thing, both go down the the bedrock and both have branches off them. Between them I've gather well over 200 iron, 300 coal, 100 redstone and nearly 10 diamond.

My current goals are to build a tree house and build a portal to the nether. I've found the perfect location for the former, there's a massive clump of trees on top of a hill near my village/fort. As for the latter I'm thinking I might put it in the half finished castle near my spawn. Would give me a decent excuse to finish the damn thing.

Sounds like a plan of course you could always turn the difficulty to peaceful while you're building.

SilverMK2 wrote:This game sounds interesting, what is it?

Basically minecraft is a construction game, you gather resources (stone, dirt wood, iron etc) and build stuff. In order to gather resources more efficiently you must craft tools using the most basic resources. But it's not all building and resource gathering you must find shelter before night falls otherwise the skeletons, zombies, giant spiders and 6 foot tall exploding green penises (creepers) will kill you.

There are as many ways to play the game as there are players (currently approaching 1mil sales). Some just like to build, some like to explore the randomly generated worlds and others just try to survive in the world as a nomad.

If any of that sounds interesting go here and give the free version a go, it is only the construction side of things with unlimited resources but it acts as a nice taster for the main game.

That is an awesome mob trap. Most people just drown, burn or explode them, this is the first time I've seen minecart physics abuse used for a mob trap.

I just use a moat to defend my bases.

Tyyr wrote:So is this thing single player, multi-player, what? Can you find other people in the world or are you it?

Both, there's single and multi player modes.

Nob 'ead wrote:

Nick Ellingworth wrote:
I just use a moat to defend my bases.

I hope that moats made from MAGMA

Sadly not. It's just water, but it stops creepers from blowing large chunks out of my wall. Which has to be a good thing.

Found a load of diamond (5 in one vein!) in one of my mines today. I like being able to waste diamond on random tools. What I really want though is gold, I want a throne dammit. Oh well I guess I'll just have to console myself with a lovely shower in my newly constructed en-suite bathroom.

Hows the new update treating everyone? I hope all your defences are now spider proof. There's nothing worse that leaving your house in the morning only to find a spider climbing up the walls.

Lord-Loss wrote:

Nick Ellingworth wrote:Hows the new update treating everyone? I hope all your defences are now spider proof. There's nothing worse that leaving your house in the morning only to find a spider climbing up the walls.

Been playing on Peaceful for a while so I havn't had any spider incidents (yet), will probally add some sort of spider proofness to my wall and tower before I put it back on normal.

Make sure you do that. particularly since it has been confirmed that spider jockey's (skelies riding spiders) can also climb walls.

Don't blame you for playing on peaceful, for a while the spawn rates were simply insane and the game spammed loads of hostile mobs. Thankfully that has since been fixed.

n0t_u wrote:No more Creeper hordes?

Well it's possible but unlikely, I have encountered groups of or 5 since the last update (1.2.01) but no more than that unlike 1.2 where I saw in the distance a group of 10 creepers.

Love that mansion/base/sea world thing you've built n0t_u I normally go for smaller size constructions, I really ought to get a cobblestone generator built at some point but like mob grinders it's something I never get round to.

Lord_loss if you make a portal in the Nether the game creates a new one in the main world, apparently it's also possible to find random portals in the main world but they are really rare.

As far as I know regular cobblestone doesn't become mossy in game, you'll either have to dungeon farm or invedit (boo hiss) I reckon.

DA's Forever wrote:

Nick Ellingworth wrote:As far as I know regular cobblestone doesn't become mossy in game, you'll either have to dungeon farm or invedit (boo hissssssssSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS) I reckon.

He's a Creeper in disguise run!

Curssssssssesssssssss foiled again.

Yeah I'd say invedit would be a better choice than trying to find hundreds of dungeons.

Watervators are indeed fun and useful yesterday I built a small water slide as proof of concept for a larger one I'm planning. (warning many pics featuring cobblestone ahead)

Here's a few screenshots of it:















I've also been building a few other things, here's my first base in this world, now mostly used as a mine:



My dock/watchtower as it was yesterday morning:



And yesterday evening (note the evil chicken-duck spying on construction):



A WIP bridge to a far off shore:



And just because I was taking loads of screenshots here's a sheep:

There's an even bigger one out of shot which I'll be using for the big slide. I do think I was lucky with that world the landscape is pretty impressive.

As for my mines I tend to use a strip mining approach. I dig a 4x4 hole all the way to the bedrock then dig another one 2 blocks away. I only do this because I use a simply obscene amount of cobblestone if I were only after the ores I'd branch mine.

n0t_u wrote:Those are some nice pics, and neat placement for a cactus trap.

Thanks sadly the trap only seems to kill cows on a regular basis. The hostile mobs seem to be smart enough to get round it.

Looks like someone has been messing around with the single player commands mod.

Well it was bound to happen eventually Yahtzee has reviewed Minecraft.

Link (as always with a ZP review NSFW)

johnscott10 wrote:

Nick Ellingworth wrote:Well it was bound to happen eventually Yahtzee has reviewed Minecraft.

Link (as always with a ZP review NSFW)

I wouldnt call it a "Review" as such, just some guy talking about both good and bad points on said game while throwing in his own humour, so i dont take his vids seriously.

Fair point but I couldn't think of a quick way of saying "some lunatic on the internet humourously talks about the good and bad points of a game," other than review.

I've managed to avoid falling in Lava in my current world but I do keep falling into cave systems with annoying regularity.

corpsesarefun wrote:yeah its a pain, you have to either fill in valleys or just mine away mountains most of the time.

Working with the confines of the scenery can be an interesting challenge, I don't do it often but when I do I seem to enjoy building more (possibly because I don't have to spend an hour flattening an area). Still blasting the top of a mountain off is always worth while. Only ever been able to use at most 3 or 4 tnt but even that produces a pretty big boom.

Yeah it's quite common now to get lava lakes, I've got 3 on my world which gave the surrounding trees and wildlife problems until I came along with a bucket of water.

Nice work, I really ought to get some screenshots of my nearly finished farm at some point. It's not much but it looks quite nice.

That's a pretty good forest fire, I've not seen one that size for quite some time. (note to self set something on fire)

Here's the screenshots of my farm:

If I were to build a base on every cool mountain in my current world I'd have about 20 of the damn things all within 100 blocks or so of another one. My map has so many cool mountains I don't know what to do with them all.

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.

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.

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.

Tyyr wrote:Ugh, built a wooden satellite fort and it was painful. I dunno why but this one attracts creepers like the plague and being wood they tend to take out big sections of the walls when they blow. I may have to dig out the front entrance like I did with my main castle. Leave only a long walled in set of stairs to and from the front door to screen if from creepers and dig the ground around the doors down a few levels. It keeps me from setting off creepers every time I leave my front door but it's more work than I want to put into a satellite base.

Sounds like you need a watch tower, a bow and enough arrows to blot out the sun.

My god legoburner that is a lot of cobblestone.

corpsesarefun wrote:I am a magnet on minecraft I find so much iron it becomes annoying as iron takes too long to mine.

I'm the same, I've got loads of the damn stuff (got too much coal too).

I might have a decent excuse to start a new world soon, my PC seems to be on it's last legs so I've ordered a whole load of new parts, I reckon getting it's gaming life off to a start with a new minecraft world would be quite suitable since that'll be it's main use for a while.