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So I've gone ahead and started making the best of Nigeria. I'm currently trying to put in a subway system under my city, but I can't seem to figure out a way to get the minecart to start moving once I'm in it. If I turn on my powered rails, or place a minecart on a pressure track, and then give it a push, it goes like stink. But I can't seem to think of a way to get a continuous track that I can loop around that will start via a control lever/button without adding in a piston and thus breaking the track at the end.

Any redstone experts mind giving me a hand with this?

define "goes like stink"

Your typical minecart on power rails. Touch it and it goes zipping away. That's all well and good, but I want it to do that once I'm sitting in it, via a button I can hit or something.

I found an abandoned mine underneath my island :O

Just underneath my room where my bed is, so I put a door in. Going to explore now

I can see why it's abandoned now. There's a sudden dead drop into lava

metallifan wrote:Your typical minecart on power rails. Touch it and it goes zipping away. That's all well and good, but I want it to do that once I'm sitting in it, via a button I can hit or something.

have an unpowered rail on a downward slope, pointing where you wanna go. Mount a button on top, so it's still, you get in, hit the button, and you go.
courtesy of dreadnote's rail system

Shrike's got it. Powered rails won't boost you unless you're already moving or you're against a wall, so starting on an incline lets gravity give you enough initial movement for the powered rails to kick in.

Well I thought I'd post my findings of this rather lovely looking mountain range not far from the Very large Abandoned mine, Ravine combo !

Nice texture pack.

Speaking of texture pack, painterly updated yay.

Time to update my painterly then.

Also for the docks I have been planning my Ship that I will eventually start to build in creative mode so what do you think ?

Nice.
Maybe use pistons and glowstone in the guns so they can "fire"?. Though looks like it could be a little lower in the water.

Yeah I am not going to build it so high I was going to build it out of the water to show how i wanted the full hull to look like but then I decided not too

Finally found an NPC village, looks like the creepers got it a little so needs a little fixing here and there but after that it's time to upgrade.

You can use water to show the ship's wake.

How would I go about doing that Mel ?

To create a downward wake, build a block in the location then remove the block. Only works for water that's more than one block deep. To create an upward wake, place a water source block from the bucket in the appropriate place (you may need to build a structure to get the water in the right place).

actually, scratch what i said earlier I'm to hooked on mine craft to stop posting here. I shall post images of some of my creations in creative soon.

You can't escape it.

I have a problem, i can't find my application support folder on my mac. not sure what operating system I'm on but i can't find it.

It's in:
/Users/[your username]/Library/Application Support/.minecraft

I know but when i go to my name their is no library folder.

Show hidden folders.

haloreach4ever wrote:I have a problem, i can't find my application support folder on my mac. not sure what operating system I'm on but i can't find it.

I can't either, Halo.

Are you both on Lion (10.7)? You could Google to see if the Library folder has been moved in Lion. I'm looking on a 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Mac and the Library folder is clear as day, even has its own special icon.

darkinnit wrote:Are you both on Lion (10.7)? You could Google to see if the Library folder has been moved in Lion. I'm looking on a 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Mac and the Library folder is clear as day, even has its own special icon.

Yep. I'm running Lion, and the folder is gone.

Yep, they've hidden it, here, here's the answer:

For quick and temporary access to your ~/Library/ directory that still retains it’s default hidden nature, try one of the following three tips:
Use “Go To Folder” and Open ~/Library/ Directly

All you need to do is hit Command+Shift+G from the Mac desktop (or Finder > Go > Go to Folder) and type in ~/Library to temporarily access the Library directory in the Finder. When you are done, close this window and it will no longer be visible.

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Got that from here
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/

Got the folder back. I had to do some quick code in the Terminal.

That doesn't fix my broken Minecraft on the main account, however... Le sigh...

Um, we may have a problem with the mob spawner in the Sanctuary:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkinnit_minecraft/6164638222/in/photostream

It seems Endermen do not like being spawned in a death trap.

That's both hilarious and should not work.

Endermen aren't supposed to be able to move placed blocks.

Uh oh. They've evolved...