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How do you get your coordinates?

Melissia wrote:How do you get your coordinates?

should be F3.

EagleArk, at those co-ords I get what you describe - small desert with 2 pools.


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and x 110 y 79 z -1
has freaky floating islands.

For me it's -210, 73, 37 that I built my first shelter at. Dunno about my spawn point though.


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legoburner wrote:EagleArk, at those co-ords I get what you describe - small desert with 2 pools.


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and x 110 y 79 z -1
has freaky floating islands.

Hah, yeah, I turned one of them into a cobblestone fort.

and 0,64,0 is in the middle of the lake/sea.

How do you see the coordinates?

Skellie dungeon at -297, 62, -1.

toggle f3 to see coords.

I am building on floating islands now

Melissia wrote:Skellie dungeon at -297, 62, -1.

I should really know better than to actually go there without making some armor first.

For me there were no skeletons because all the sand had collapsed in on it.

This seed sounds interesting I'll have to give it a go at some point. I could do with a break from my main world.

EDIT: Spawned at X:-660 Y:66 Z:140

Melissia wrote:For me there were no skeletons because all the sand had collapsed in on it.

Same here, but when I dug out the sand the had spawned in the tunnels the sand had been concealing. Gave up getting my gear back after the third time they killed me.

legoburner wrote:EagleArk, at those co-ords I get what you describe - small desert with 2 pools.


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and x 110 y 79 z -1
has freaky floating islands.

Just been there, never seen the world builder do that before!

EagleArk wrote:

legoburner wrote:EagleArk, at those co-ords I get what you describe - small desert with 2 pools.


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and x 110 y 79 z -1
has freaky floating islands.

Just been there, never seen the world builder do that before!

I have, I found some pretty insane scenery.

Imagine this but in minecraft.

The premade floating islands are really cool... except for the bit where I'm fairly sure I'll keep falling off them and need to trek across the map to get back.

Hopefully next update he adds in the bed changing spawn locations.

Melissia wrote:Hopefully next update he adds in the bed changing spawn locations.

That, Melissia, is an insanely good idea.

The best alternative I have found is making a redstone compass (Finding redstone means you have been out there for a hell long time as it is) and placing a line of torches back to my spawn point, like a bread crumb trail. I always put a chest full of stuff at my house so If I die I dont lose everything. Making a bow and arrow is difficult but once you do and have an adequate amount of arrows you wont regret it, its great for killing skelies and creepers. Swords are for losers.

If you want to make some cool (single use) defences, dig one block out of the ground, place TNT, and put a wooden pressure plate on it. Acts exactly like a landmine.

Landminecraft!

Eventually my spawn point turns into a mine cart station leading to all my bases.

I agree the only thing the sword is good for is quickly killing mobs that you wouldn't want to waste arrows on (pig, cow, sheep, chicken, zombie), the bow is much better most of the time.

Trying out the DAKKA seed now.

Real men use gold swords on creepers

It digs a grave for them in seconds.

Tried it and ended up with the fun of a tree house. Leaves keep vanishing and I have to keep replacing them. I've found the floating islands though so I'll probably move onto them soon.

well i have been exploring this massive cave system near my base, i think it is more than one as i know of 2 different spider spawns. i keep pulling out piles of coal and iron and i found my first gold and lapis last night.

as i was poking around in a new area i noticed some light, usually it is from me poking a hole into an already explored section or finding the surface but im pretty far down. as i creep around i discover a lava flow pretty far down a hole.

ill need a bow to take out all the creepers that fell down and that are hanging about and then ill dig down to explore.

what exactly does bedrock look like? im thinking that once i hit bedrock ill start mining the cave system out a bit more and see what other fun stuff i can find.

It's sort of like stone but has a pattern of black lines on it.

Bedrock, IE, Adminium.


Actually it wasn't my idea, it's something that Notch said he was planning on adding in. When you sleep on a bed, that ecomes your new respawn point.

Ok, I woke up late so I had to leave my house before tossing all the screenshots on my flash drive.

I like the DAKKA seed, a lot. It doesn't have as much of the extreme landscape as other seeds but it does have lots of nice vistas and ho boy does it have resources. Three days of wandering looking for a place to build my base (good lord don't let me get killed before I can build a marker line back to spawn) yeilded a full stack of iron, two stacks of coal, half a stack each of cactus and sugar cane (only because I have no real use and wanted to get moving again), 260 clay balls, and about four surface lave pools. I have co-ords for the clay saved in the screenshot as well as several of the lava pools. I actually ran into the problem of running out of inventory space once you factored in the saplings, trees, and a few stacks of cobblestone.

After three days of just walking around and looking for a good place to set up I found a nice mountain with a spectacular view. Going to do something different this time with a mountain top lodge with overhangs and huge windows. This view is just too good not to enjoy.

In other news I settled on a stone slab roof for my castle (I think wood would have been nice but I kept telling myself, "What would happen if someone brought a trebuchet and loaded up a flaming shot hmm?" So I kept to type and decided on a stone slab roof. Which is going to take a TON of stone to get.

My Minecraft file was deleted.
My power cut as I was saving.

My castle is gone,my village,my golden throne are gone.

I feel worse then when my girlfriend broke up with me.

Seriously.

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:My Minecraft file was deleted.
My power cut as I was saving.

My castle is gone,my village,my golden throne are gone.

I feel worse then when my girlfriend broke up with me.

Seriously.

This happened with my pyramid world, thankfully the files were backed up 3 times but in the time between the corruption and me finding the backups I was mortified.

where are map files stored? in my minecraft folder there is only the exe and any error logs that pop up.

Deathklaat wrote:where are map files stored? in my minecraft folder there is only the exe and any error logs that pop up.

Enable hidden files on your search function and hunt for the .minecraft folder.

or type in:
%APPDATA%

in your explorer location bar, then press enter. You can get straight to .minecraft from there.

I keep a copy of my saves in a separate folder on a different hard drive. And a copy on my flash drive in case I want to play on my laptop. Sort of a ritual. Before I open the game I copy the save files over.