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Tyyr you my friend have just created the best griefer trap ever. I want you to do it now, and film it !

So I bought it this afternoon, as you do, after convincing myself it was a good purchase. I died on the first night after barricading myself inside a cave. Apparently having the creeps on the INSIDE doesn't increase your survivability, not one bit.

The game is obscenely hard innit?

ghosty wrote:So I bought it this afternoon, as you do, after convincing myself it was a good purchase. I died on the first night after barricading myself inside a cave. Apparently having the creeps on the INSIDE doesn't increase your survivability, not one bit.

What are you talking about I invite creepers into my house all the time. They just have the odd tendency to try and make a door for their friends to come in.

Tyyr wrote:I want to go to an SMP server and lay a booby trap. Make a nice little base with lots of chests inside. Decent looking walls, etc. Put a sign up out from proclaiming it so and so's home and to stay out. There would be no door so they'd have to break through the walls. Once they were inside and went into the little house they'd step onto a pressure plate and set off about fifty m^3 of TNT. Maybe make the door require pushing a button to open but have nothing to open it from the inside.

Don't forget to build an observation tower or a hidden bunker nearby so you can watch the carnage unfold

ghosty wrote:So I bought it this afternoon, as you do, after convincing myself it was a good purchase. I died on the first night after barricading myself inside a cave. Apparently having the creeps on the INSIDE doesn't increase your survivability, not one bit.

You didn't place enough torches then. You have to make your cave well illuminated if it's a big one.

Also, block off any side-caverns and look for any other ways into your cave. barricade yourself in and just go crazy placing torches. Or just turn monsters off

In this game it pays off to be paranoid.

Oh yes. Because Notch hates you.

Sometimes, I think he's secretly controlling the creepers, and just loves to troll people with them.

Then, while I'm thinking this, a creeper comes along and blows up my very nice everything.

Gah, my mob spawning is definately messed up... I walk home to see a zombie sitting on my bed, upon killing him I turn to hear a HISSSS!!!!!! and then I notice the hole in my beautiful wooden floors!

DAMN YOU NOTCH!!!!!!!

well i got bored with map #3, there wasnt enough cool stuff around me.

map 4 however.. is AWESOME! i removed the fog and i see tons and tons of mountains, i climb the tallest i can find to claim it with my dirt hut. looking across i see an even taller mountain spire with an overhang! i have built a hut on that spire and i plan to make a glass house that hangs under the overhang.

also while in the overhang hut i notice the ground glowing in the distance and i spot a lava pool on the surface. i investigated it and i have a lava pool and a water pool about 5 blocks apart.

i have to say that building on these spires is great because the creepers cannot get to the top, but for some reason when im at one base they spawn at the other but never stick around when i get to the other one.

i got some really cool terrain this time i just need to make a ton of glass

On my Minecraft I built a cathedral (from smoothe stone with brick rooves) with Lapiz Lazuli as floors with a huge mound of gold in the attic.

However! Since the update all I get is "Minecraft has crashed" or a black screen when loading it up so I can't even get screenshots to share with dakka...

DA's Forever wrote:

Cyporiean wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Do the monsters blow up your stuff?

Only Creepers.

Speaking of creepers i just lost the front half of my re-spawn house...

They blow off the door to my wooden house on a regular basis. It's gotten to the point where they blow up and my character just rolls his eyes back and goes "oh you ".

I'll have pictures of the foundation of my new base up soon as well. I managed to make it a drag/lava guillotine trap with a backup layer. Digging the space for it was not fun, so I took some pictures of my TNT mining fun as well.

I run a private server, a small server, nothing big, if anyone is interested in fussing about with me and my friends.... PM me if you are interested...

We are a laid back bunch. We just explore and build. We don't do PvP unless both players agree ahead of time. Vandalism and theft will get you banned without question. Messing around a little is fine, but out right douche baggery is not accepted.

n0t_u wrote:

DA's Forever wrote:

Cyporiean wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Do the monsters blow up your stuff?

Only Creepers.

Speaking of creepers i just lost the front half of my re-spawn house...

They blow off the door to my wooden house on a regular basis. It's gotten to the point where they blow up and my character just rolls his eyes back and goes "oh you ".

I'll have pictures of the foundation of my new base up soon as well. I managed to make it a drag/lava guillotine trap with a backup layer. Digging the space for it was not fun, so I took some pictures of my TNT mining fun as well.

Haha i swear Notch just hates us all! (not really I love you notch)

BuFFo wrote:I run a private server, a small server, nothing big, if anyone is interested in fussing about with me and my friends.... PM me if you are interested...

We are a laid back bunch. We just explore and build. We don't do PvP unless both players agree ahead of time. Vandalism and theft will get you banned without question. Messing around a little is fine, but out right douche baggery is not accepted.

He's looking at you, Greifers

I'd be interested, but with the time difference it probably wouldn't work out.


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Just got around to making my first bed and tried it out. Was all going well until a zombie spawned on me in the middle of my well lit house.

Currently working on an adventure world with one of my mates, it consists of a small quaint village and a giant pyramid (regular square based, base is 128*128) full of traps and challenges.

Huh, found my first natural sandstone formation...

New terrain types?

Time to ditch the old world I generated I think.

Requia wrote:New terrain types?

Time to ditch the old world I generated I think.

Nah, sandstone spawns in deserts and beneath beaches now.

You will need to make a new world if you want to see it though.

Right. Sandstone below sand. It's actually quite useful in helping to make a desert based shelter, as you can dig down to the sandstone, then go under it and have a sandstone roof and plenty of sand to make more sandstone to block the entrance.

Hm ok, random things are happening now, MY giant tree that I build along with it's platform have been sliced in half, and now the bridge leading up to my tower has had a smiliar thing happen at the cross junction...

metallifan wrote:

ghosty wrote:So I bought it this afternoon, as you do, after convincing myself it was a good purchase. I died on the first night after barricading myself inside a cave. Apparently having the creeps on the INSIDE doesn't increase your survivability, not one bit.

You didn't place enough torches then. You have to make your cave well illuminated if it's a big one.

Also, block off any side-caverns and look for any other ways into your cave. barricade yourself in and just go crazy placing torches. Or just turn monsters off

Wha?! I was meant to have torches?! How do you even make torches?!

ghosty wrote:

metallifan wrote:

ghosty wrote:So I bought it this afternoon, as you do, after convincing myself it was a good purchase. I died on the first night after barricading myself inside a cave. Apparently having the creeps on the INSIDE doesn't increase your survivability, not one bit.

You didn't place enough torches then. You have to make your cave well illuminated if it's a big one.

Also, block off any side-caverns and look for any other ways into your cave. barricade yourself in and just go crazy placing torches. Or just turn monsters off

Wha?! I was meant to have torches?! How do you even make torches?!

C
S

where S is stick and C is coal.

You need to make light to stop monsters spawning.

@wolf
If you think that's bad I recently found a water source block at the sky limit with a note block and a half door next to it...

Wolf wrote:Hm ok, random things are happening now, MY giant tree that I build along with it's platform have been sliced in half, and now the bridge leading up to my tower has had a smiliar thing happen at the cross junction...

Uh oh, by the sounds of things you've got a chunk error. These occur when old saves or worlds leech into each other. Keep an eye on it, you can sometimes get really cool looking terrain after a chunk error.


In hte past few days I've been expaning my underground realm again. I've now added a passive mob farm (which needs expansion) and a hostile mob spawning pit/grinder (which also needs expansion).

Getting a quite a few items out of the grinder but I'm also getting occasional spiders so it needs a bit of tweaking to stop them slipping through the net. Once those teething troubles are sorted I'll try to atleast double if not quadruple the size.

Attempt 2 at surviving the night. Again, it failed. I had this idea of building a really high pillar out of sand, to stop the nasty critters from getting to me. As it turned out a creeper blew it up, and I fell far to far to the ground, where I promptly got murdered.


And where can you get coal from?

Look in exposed mountain sides for rock with black spots in it. That's coal. Sometimes you will just be unlucky and not find any. If all else fails, dig down 3 blocks, jump into the hole and cover it up and wait out the night, nothing cam spawn where you're standing. Just keep an ear open to the sound of burning zombies/skellies and emerge after it stops.

ghosty wrote:Attempt 2 at surviving the night. Again, it failed. I had this idea of building a really high pillar out of sand, to stop the nasty critters from getting to me. As it turned out a creeper blew it up, and I fell far to far to the ground, where I promptly got murdered.


And where can you get coal from?

If you used dirt you would have been fine as it doesn't fall.

You can manufacture coal by building a furnace (c is now cobblestone) like this
CCC
C C
CCC
then by placing fuel in the bottom one (anything wood) and some tree trunks in the top one.

Or you can find coal in stone, it has distinct black streaks through it. Need to make a pickax to harvest it.

ghosty wrote:Attempt 2 at surviving the night. Again, it failed. I had this idea of building a really high pillar out of sand, to stop the nasty critters from getting to me. As it turned out a creeper blew it up, and I fell far to far to the ground, where I promptly got murdered.


And where can you get coal from?

Maybe you should just turn monsters off until you've better figured out how to play the game. It really isn't a hard game in the slightest. I picked it up after a couple hours.

Here. Read through this - it might help you survive long enough to build your first house
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki

As for coal, don't bother with it. Use charcoal. It's so close to the same quality that there's virtually no difference, and all you need to make it is a furnace, one of the following: a piece of coal, a log, a plank, or another piece of charcoal (as the fuel for the furnace), and unrefined logs from trees (just keep a stack of logs - doesn't matter what kind)

Put the logs in the top slot on the furnace and put the fuel on the bottom. The fire symbol will light up, and the arrow will start to change from grey to white. Eventually, you'll see a chunk of charcoal appear in the small inventory of the furnace.

Charcoal does the exact same thing as coal, without the hassle of trying to find it.

BAH! For some reason creepers keep spawning inside of my sandstone fortresses, even with ludicrous amounts of torches. So now I no longer have said fortress. Time to start over!