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DA's Forever wrote:

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:Well if you press f3 it shows your co-ordinants,with Y for height(depth)

Between 0-32 is where you find gold,diamond is a little closer to the teens region.
I found 9 diamonds and a good few Gold
I made the gold into blocks,so I can start building my own "GOLDEN THRONE". But really apart from a clock,gold is only good for that.

I play on peaceful in my main world,since all I want is just to build a nice little town.

Imma build the webway beneath my world.

Fortress Monastery!!!

Anyway, Diamond is found MOST COMMONLY (I think) in the 10-16 region, at least I've found 20 of it now after, strip mining for 3 hours.

Footsloggin wrote:

DA's Forever wrote:

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:Well if you press f3 it shows your co-ordinants,with Y for height(depth)

Between 0-32 is where you find gold,diamond is a little closer to the teens region.
I found 9 diamonds and a good few Gold
I made the gold into blocks,so I can start building my own "GOLDEN THRONE". But really apart from a clock,gold is only good for that.

I play on peaceful in my main world,since all I want is just to build a nice little town.

Imma build the webway beneath my world.

Fortress Monastery!!!

Anyway, Diamond is found MOST COMMONLY (I think) in the 10-16 region, at least I've found 20 of it now after, strip mining for 3 hours.

Nether=Webway. Now a golden throne to control it and to build the Emperor

A caged skeleton for the Emperor!

But it'll move around to much!

Well, you could just put a bunch of bones in the chair! But even those bob up and down...

They also vanish after a while. I think I'm going to got experiment using a zombie spawner to see if we can get a design going for it. It would be kind of enclosed like the venerable dreadnoughts are to stop it from escaping. It would also hurt you if you got too close. But, unlike the skeleton it wouldn't be launching arrows at you every time you enter the room.

DA's Forever wrote:

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:Well if you press f3 it shows your co-ordinants,with Y for height(depth)

Between 0-32 is where you find gold,diamond is a little closer to the teens region.
I found 9 diamonds and a good few Gold
I made the gold into blocks,so I can start building my own "GOLDEN THRONE". But really apart from a clock,gold is only good for that.

I play on peaceful in my main world,since all I want is just to build a nice little town.

Imma build the webway beneath my world.

I already did in my invedit file. One portal at the top of the world in a fortress with a lava moat, tons of torches, and a system of iron doors to keep out the mobs, one directly below it at the bottom of the world in a cave protected by cobblestone walls and iron doors at various locations, and then about half a dozen scattered around the world where I honestly have no damn clue where they are in the world as opposed to the nether (they're apparently far enough away that I cannot see my flaming fortress of doom from the ground where the portals exit). Before I got bored and went back to my non-invedit file, these six were dedicated to cactus farming, sugar cane farming, wheat farming, tree farming, a dock next to a massive ocean, and the final one was blcoked off because the portal spawned right next to a creeper dungeon which I opened up and then ran the feth away upon figuring out what was in there.

A creeper dungeon?!?! Holy crap, I wouldn't even dare to open that chest, I'd just run.

right, I really had no intention of letting several creepers explode on me at once after I heard that hissing noise when I broke open the first block of mossy cobblestone.

It might not have been a creeper dungeon, there might have just been two creepers creeping in from a connected cave or something. I don't know, lol.

Awesome a Creeper dungeon. Set it on peaceful and replace the walls with glass after looting it. Then you can sit back and watch them wander around harmlessly.

Actually... if I run into a creeper dungeon in my normal file, I will try and use it to farm for sulfur so that I can make more TNT. Using water currents I can drag them into an underground cave where they drown. A glowstone would be useful, if I manage to get enough obsidian in my main file to make a portal...

That's what I would do, Set up an obsidian pillbox and shoot them with arrows. Or flood the room with water, with a drain which allows the sulfer into a drop-box.

Well, what I had in mind was something like a smaller version of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlxa1Jks7fE

The majority of what I've done so far:



There's my spawn point up in the northeast. Built a small shelter there stocked with tools, armor, weapons, and some basic supplies if I get offed.

That's my main fortress in the center that's getting expanded. The basis of it is a 64 x 64 outer wall with towers at the four corners. The walls are going up five meters over ground level on the hill and are three meters thick. The problem I'm running into is I don't have enough fill material for the walls because I insist on building them old style. You can't see it but I've got a mine to bedrock under the fortress as well as a ~150 tree farm. I still want to build a mob farm at some point so I can get some sulphur for making TNT.

My secondary fort down in the southwest. Built that one mostly out of wood just for looks.

I want to go exploring more but if I do it I'll be doing it without taking anything I can't afford to lose.

How do you take that top-down image?

Who lives in a tree house above sea level?
MR MEATBALLS DOES!

Best intro to this thread ever.

dogma wrote:How do you take that top-down image?

Yeah, I'd like to know that too. I'd like to take one of my own place occasioanlly so that I can get a better view of it.

It is done with cartograph - I linked to it a few posts back.

Just got that map program to work.
Spawn is that tiny patch of sand under the base with torches on it.

Small grey block on the left is the farm I've been working on lately.
Top right of the grey mass which is my base is where the Creeper statue was, which has been replaced by a much more fun Creeper rollercoaster. You can kind of make out the Creeper face you drop into (It goes up almost to cloud level then drops you, then you fall into the creepers mouth and about 40-50ish blocks underground before landing and continuing).

The burning forest is bigger than everything I've built. It's all those little orange dots to the right.
Bar on the bottom left is a bridge I've been working on with boosters to provide an endless ride, but slightly differently to the way I usually do boosters.

The boosters on it go kind of like this.

E=========3

So two carts move the entire track side by side and at the end they both get turned around in opposite directions before rejoining each other and continuing. It can be stopped anytime by throwing something in front of one of the carts with q, but they start back up automatically if I remove the obsticle getting rid of the annoyance of pigs/chickens making me walk for ages to the next booster and ruining the ride.

Hrm, I need to get some soul sand. That way I can make a one-way entrance to my bases and use minecarts to go between the various bases/buildings.


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Also, there doesn't seem to be a texture for glowstone in the Cartographer?

n0t_u wrote:
Top right of the grey mass which is my base is where the Creeper statue was, which has been replaced by a much more fun Creeper rollercoaster. You can kind of make out the Creeper face you drop into (It goes up almost to cloud level then drops you, then you fall into the creepers mouth and about 40-50ish blocks underground before landing and continuing).

Me Want Rollercoaster! Wants! WANTS!

Just reading through this thread is making me want to try out mine craft... Dang temptation !

Wolf wrote:Just reading through this thread is making me want to try out mine craft... Dang temptation !

Its worth every cent in my opinion.

A creeper destroyed the front wall of my primary mine entrance while I was trying to replace its dirt with a few layers of cobblestone :( He just snuck up on me in the middle of hte day...

Ah well, it's only six pieces of wood. The damage he did to my sugar farm is more annoying.

So as temptation ever knaws at me, I though I'd ask for some basic starting info before I cave in and buy it So whats what in the world of minecraft.
How do you craft your first basic items actually is a good starting point

Wolf wrote:So as temptation ever knaws at me, I though I'd ask for some basic starting info before I cave in and buy it So whats what in the world of minecraft.
How do you craft your first basic items actually is a good starting point

run up to a tree and punch it to get a log, press i to open your inventory and place the wood into the crafting square in the top right hand corner then take the wooden planks from the box next to the square before placing the 4 planks back into the square to fill it up to make a crafting table with which you can produce more complicated items thanks to its 3 by 3 crafting grid.

To make a pick you first make some sticks by placing one wood plank block in a space in the crafting square and another in the space directly above it. After you have made sticks place one in the bottom middle square of the crafting tables grid, one stick in the centre middle and a wood plank in each of the top squares.
http://www.minecraftcrafting.org/

I think co-op is the way forward for mine craft... its a bit pointless if you cheat... but there's no real objective otherwise..

Phototoxin wrote:I think co-op is the way forward for mine craft... its a bit pointless if you cheat... but there's no real objective otherwise..

The objective is to build things, if you can't understand this then minecraft probably isn't for you.

I have to agree that multi-player is great fun though.

corpsesarefun wrote:

Phototoxin wrote:I think co-op is the way forward for mine craft... its a bit pointless if you cheat... but there's no real objective otherwise..

The objective is to build things, if you can't understand this then minecraft probably isn't for you.

I have to agree that multi-player is great fun though.

Except for when you get heads.