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**Nick Ellingworth**

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

**DA's Forever**

Yeah, sounds like alot of effort to just build let alone find materials for

**SagesStone**

Alright when I get around to it the plan is to build it to the clouds and have lava inside it then.

**DA's Forever**

Try not to get lost in the Nether this time, eh?

**SagesStone**

I don't get lost I explore

World's gone because the save was incompatible with the new beta. Damn floodgates you make such awesome doors and I can't remember where you all are.

**DA's Forever**

AAhhh gotcha

**SagesStone**

Just make sure you always have a compass and a flint and steel.

**DA's Forever**

Compass is life saver. Fething random hole in the ground made me fall into one of the deepest caves ive been into so far

**SagesStone**

That's how I lost my first ever base.

It was night so I started doing some mining and fell, luckily near the morning. It was day when I finally found my way out, searched for ages but never found it so just built a new base.

It was a happy little shack made out of sand for the walls and dirt for the roof with my first ever crafting bench in it, and I never found it again as it was in some random direction from my spawn point.

**DA's Forever**

See i wasn't even mining there was just a Fethin hole in the ground!

**SagesStone**

Yeh I hate those too, in fact there's one right out the front of my new base. I swear the Creepers fly out it sometimes.

It's just on the other side of the small hill in the first pic, need to really get around to blocking it.

**DA's Forever**

ASAP Its sucks getting lost down there

**BrookM**

I never go mining without a compass and watch. I love my watch. Call me a pussy, but I tend to only dig up to the surface when it is close to, or plain day.

**DA's Forever**

I dont blame you digging back up sometimes at night all i hear is fethin creepers

**Lord-Loss**

Does anyone here have a treehouse?

I've spent a few minutes looking up pictures of them on google images, some of them are amazing, can't even imagine the amount of time the giant ones took, espically if they're made without Invedit (I doubt it though). Would love to burn one down, would look awesome.

**SagesStone**

I had a treehouse. In the sense that I found a big tree hollowed out the top and turned it into a decent but small base.

**Lord-Loss**

People can make them quite big, would love to find a online server with something like this.

**SagesStone**

That's pretty cool.

I like this one.

Seems to be a lot of the cool stuff is in videos rather than pictures.

Also found this decent wallpaper I thought I'd post here, clicking it will go to a much larger version of it.

**Lord-Loss**

Finished the roof on my base/house and wondering if my lava roof moat will work to keep spiders off my roof?

**SagesStone**

They can jump it as it is now, if I remember correctly they can jump about 2-3 squares. I'm still testing but I think I've seen them slip off on glass before.

In my opinion a little further down make sort of like a ridge which with the wall will be able to hold the lava, then have it flow down to it a bit. But unless you're going to have a massive opening up there or go up there heaps I doubt they'd even climb there.

Interesting texture pack by the way. Also hold F1 then press F2 for the screen shots and you won't need to crop out the hud.

**Ediin**

Eleven cows, six pigs and a chicken just spawned inside my mining tunnels.

Hilarity ensued.

**Lord-Loss**

N0t_u wrote:Interesting texture pack by the way.

It's called Clearcraft. Been using it for a few days and has to be my favourite so far, it's very cartoony.

I've started doing branch mining inorder to get more ore and it's been working fairly well. The main problem is the large amounts of lava you get (or I seem to get) near bedrock, it can be quite troublesome and sometimes you have to seal off whole branches because of one big lava lake.

**Chowderhead**

Hey guys, I figured out how to make elevators!

**stompydakka**

How?

**DA's Forever**

Ediin wrote:Eleven cows, six pigs and a chicken just spawned inside my mining tunnels.

Hilarity ensued.

You sir have grassy mining tunnels?

**Chowderhead**

stompydakka wrote:How?

It's quite easy.

They aren't elevators per se, but more of a water-vator.

They are just waterfalls that go from top level to bottom level, with holes where the water hits the next level. I'll try to get a picture up soon.

**SagesStone**

I explained it back a bit on page 2, but they're fun aren't they chowderhead?

I'll just quote it because I explained a little bit of how to make it.

n0t_u wrote:Well if you want an elevator just run a waterfall from the top into a pool of water at the bottom. Make sure to place the water so that it kind of flows back towards the waterfall. Then just ride a boat into it. This will shoot the boat up to the top, you can get out whenever you want then hold space to get to individual floors. The boat may bump you once or twice depending on the size though.

I'll agree though they are pretty easy to make and quite fun for the effort needed.

Ediin wrote:Eleven cows, six pigs and a chicken just spawned inside my mining tunnels.

Hilarity ensued.

Was this hilarity a mass rampage of "get off my lawn" inspired rage?

It's good to see more people in this thread though.

**Nick Ellingworth**

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:

**Lord-Loss**

I love the mountain behind your slide in the first picture, very cool.

How does everyone organise their mines?

I've decided to do a long shaft (giggitty) and have many long branch mines branching off from there. It's good fun to mine and you get lots of cobblestone!

**Nick Ellingworth**

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.