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Haha still trying to make me do those marines 'ey Metallfin.
Corpses I think my tower is of a similar hight, I feel your pain, mine is made out of the white tree blocks

Wolf wrote:Haha still trying to make me do those marines 'ey Metallfin.
Corpses I think my tower is of a similar hight, I feel your pain, mine is made out of the white tree blocks

Jesus Mine was only planks.

Wolf wrote:Haha still trying to make me do those marines 'ey Metallfin.

Yea, I am, big whoop, wanna fight about it?

corpsesarefun wrote:

Wolf wrote:Haha still trying to make me do those marines 'ey Metallfin.
Corpses I think my tower is of a similar hight, I feel your pain, mine is made out of the white tree blocks

Jesus Mine was only planks.

Yep now can you see why I am paranoid haha ! Looks bloody brilliant though for a hideously pixilated tower

Haha My space wolves would be my new marine army I'm afraid, please, feel free to carry on my legacy of Roman Space marines !

Meh, I'm too busy trying to find a good spot to build my medieval walled city, or at least a town with a palisade. I don't want to have to use TNT to demolish a mountain but that might be required.

So far I've only got 3 villages. One of them is fairly large, but I wouldn't call it a town so much as a little hamlet on my spawn island.

The most important thing while building a fireplace is:
- Make a backup of a world. It's not cheating, its caring

Or build your wall with the fireplace out of stone

Indeed, since I got my new PC stuff I've started a new world, going the dwarven route at the moment, nearly everything is underground with large skylights to light the rooms. I'll post some pics once I get all the basic rooms sorted out. I still need to make a furnace/crafting room and living space.

PS: This week's update sounds interesting. Beds! Apparently they'll replace your spawn point if you sleep in one, great for those that like travelling long distances away from their original spawn to build homes.

This could be good news for maps like Escapecraft too, i'm sure the map builders will find an interesting way to include this.

Ohhhh, nice.

I altered the chute in my mob farm. Spiders slide right on down now, but they still toss their string forward into the lava destroying it. Might be time to try a grinder.

Oh, dunno why but I get runs with this thing. For instance when I logged in I watched 5 skeletons go by, then 3 zombies, then 7 creepers, then 4 spiders. Just like that, no intermixing. Strange. Maybe the game spawns in waves.

You mean I have to go around deleting all my 1X3 and 2X3 white-and-coloured-wool-block beds?

DAMNIT!

Well, I just about crapped myself. But, I now have a story to tell Dakka about my trip to the nether and to my lost world.

To begin, I am on world 2, but had a save prior to this incident on world 2 as well, however, I rage deleted that when I fell into lava.

ANYWAY... I begin construction of my massive underwater glass box, and decide that I will build my obsidian portal to the Nether there. Good idea? I thought so a few hours ago too... After bailing out enough water, and finally getting my underwater portal completed, I decided to visit the Nether to retrieve some glowstone and Netherrack. However, I got lost in there, with fireballs being shot at me, and the noises in there driving me more insane than attempting to enter Tzeentch's glass palace. I finally make it back to more portal, almost an hour and a half later, and go through it, thinking I would come out at my previously created portal... I was wrong...

I exit to a sunrise, staring at a tree. "A tree?" I thought to myself, as I watched a zombie fall dead at my feet. I look to my left and down in the valley below, I see it. My old base, from my DELETED World 2, I immediately go inside, remembering it how it was almost a month ago. I grab my items, my chest, and everything else, when I realize I have absolutely no clue where my original base was, or how the portal on the mountain got there in the first place. I mean, I never made a portal in the nether, nor did I destroy the one which I used to enter it.

Thanks to legoburner's post here about Cartographer, I managed to map World 2, but couldn't find where I was. So I booted the game back up, started a forest fire, and then loaded another map on Cartographer. I'm on the other side of the map from my base, across an ocean and a mountain or two.

Point to all of this? Playing on deleted Worlds can really come back to bite you in your behind if you decide to use portals to access the Nether.

Due to my incident here, I now wonder if deleted worlds remain on file, and when you recreate a world, is your original file is incorporated into it?

Tyyr wrote:Dude, put away the flint and steel when you're around a tree.

Has anyone tried to make a giant tree out of a bunch of smaller trees?

I did that in classic. It went from bedrock to ceiling. I should try to do it in normal though.

So everyone's fireplaces burn down their wooden houses?
Every wooden building I've made has a fireplace and none have burnt down, except if I got bored and used the flint and steel or lava.

n0t_u wrote:So everyone's fireplaces burn down their wooden houses?
Every wooden building I've made has a fireplace and none have burnt down, except if I got bored and used the flint and steel or lava.

When I built my little cabin nothing burnt down, I just set it up like this:

C= Cobblestone
W= Wood

C C C C C
C_____C
C WW C

EDIT: Gah! Annoying Spacebar editor!

Footsloggin wrote:

n0t_u wrote:So everyone's fireplaces burn down their wooden houses?
Every wooden building I've made has a fireplace and none have burnt down, except if I got bored and used the flint and steel or lava.

When I built my little cabin nothing burnt down, I just set it up like this:

C= Cobblestone
W= Wood

C C C C C
C_____C
C WW C

EDIT: Gah! Annoying Spacebar editor!

I did this but with netherrack instead of wood, the wood behind the cobblestone ignited anyway :(

Yeh mine would go out sometimes so I replaced the wood in it with netherrack.


Like this
The wall is level with the center of it.

CCC
CNC
CCC

Then a small 1 or 2 block gap for the fire and empty space above the fire itself acting like a chimney you can see the smoke from occasionally. At least until I had to put cacti up there due to the spiders. >_>

Iv had a few accidents with fireplaces, mainly my ceiling burning down lol, but to counter this all i done was move the fire 1 block down, saved putting the floor up by 1 lol.

I tested mine out. I waited for about five minutes, watching and waiting for this new fireplace to go up. It did not, so I turned my back and went down to another part of my base. I go back up about 10 seconds later and the roof is ablaze.

Luckily, it was just the rood that was wooden, but i'm still at a loss as to why it took over five mintues for it to catch.

Because Notch hates you.

Melissia wrote:Because Notch hates you.

This seems to be a probable answer

Also explains Creepers.

n0t_u wrote:Also explains Creepers.

Notch you joker you! Making walking bombs... SSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssss... OH SHI-

I said I'd get a screenshot of my underground mine/home and here it is:



If anyone want's to see the interior let me know and I'll take a few screenshots.

Yeh might as well take shots of the inside.
Not everyday you see an underground base.

Ok...

First here's the entrance corridoor, I still need to get the ceiling sorted as it's currently just the remnant of the previous entrance which was based on my first night shelter.



The entrance corridoor leads to the main room/mine, the chests, crafting bench and furnace will be moved soon:




Next the bathroom, not much I can really say about this as it's just there to look good:



One of the two empty rooms destined to become either a bedroom or furnace room:



The warehouse, I may need to expand this at some point:



And finally the reason I built this base, my mine. I built this as a branch mine because I've got bored of strip mining:

I like the mine/pit of doom and the warehouse.

I did have a creeper fall in that while I was buidling the roof, it was quite entertaining to watch it fall all the way to the bedrock.

I'm sure it would have been.

Of course I've fallen down it more times than I care to remember, I think once I've got the bottom floor mined out I'm going to fill it with water simply to stop myself falling to a horrible death on a regular basis.