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Tyyr wrote: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.

Very wise considering your castle!

Yeah, I have a backup of any large projects I'm doing.

Finally started building my 25 storey high 50*50 pyramid.....just looks supremely vast atm from the inside.

Got the entrance facing towards the sunset/moonset, and am clearing away all the hills etc nearby as well for construction rubble....sand is in short supply, even if my home base is a desert!

Doctadeth wrote:Finally started building my 25 storey high 50*50 pyramid.....just looks supremely vast atm from the inside.

Got the entrance facing towards the sunset/moonset, and am clearing away all the hills etc nearby as well for construction rubble....sand is in short supply, even if my home base is a desert!

Once you get over an area of 64^2 the games lighting engine can't cope and it just cloaks the walls in fog even if they are within render distance.

Just finished turning the floating islands into a base. Not much just a wooden house, but I wanted carpet so I had to hunt sheep for a bit.

Used a nearby spire to get up to them, then a bridge of dirt. Actually takes ages to get back up to it, but I haven't had any problems with enemies.

building my base on the top of a mountain has made it pretty darn safe from mobs.

i explored even deeper into the vast blackness of this cave system i have been exploring for a few days now, i made my way down to the lava and i hit paydirt, lots of gold and lapis and redstone.. even got my first diamond...

i encountered my first slime as well and was excited to pick up the item they drop only to yell in anger as a skelly arrow knocked me into some lava :(

i play my game on hard, if i were to switch it to peaceful.. what happens to the dungeons? do the monester spawn blocks still stay there?

i cleared both spider dungeons as well good thing there was waternearby that i used to push the spiders into a corner while i filled the room with gravel so i could kill the spawner in peace.

My Keep gets its roof, the rear tower just keeps getting higher.



Editing down the dakka seed pictures now.

Looking good Tyyr.

Deathklaat wrote:building my base on the top of a mountain has made it pretty darn safe from mobs.

i explored even deeper into the vast blackness of this cave system i have been exploring for a few days now, i made my way down to the lava and i hit paydirt, lots of gold and lapis and redstone.. even got my first diamond...

i encountered my first slime as well and was excited to pick up the item they drop only to yell in anger as a skelly arrow knocked me into some lava :(

i play my game on hard, if i were to switch it to peaceful.. what happens to the dungeons? do the monester spawn blocks still stay there?

i cleared both spider dungeons as well good thing there was waternearby that i used to push the spiders into a corner while i filled the room with gravel so i could kill the spawner in peace.

Spawner stays but the monsters don't.
Don't wreck the spawner as it will break like glass does leaving nothing behind. Instead some people put torches around the place so the monsters have no where to spawn or build a trap around it for the resources.

Edit: Wait spiders, with the amount of string needed it doesn't matter.

Eh, you can turn the excess string into wool but... yeah, who cares. I'd just put torches around it or maybe even bury it if it's deep enough.


Ok, pictures from the DAKKA seed.

This is my spawn point:

(254, 66, -202)
That big cliff in front of me had a 30 block coal deposit and there's another next to it with another 15 blocks. So between that and some nearby trees I was set on torches and tools inside of three minutes.

I headed out in a random direction and soon enough found some cactus on a beach at (351, 59, 215).


This beach was apparently the start of an ocean and/or big stinking lake that I couldn't see the other side of. Since if I continued on my course I'd be going into a savannah, my most hated biome with nothing new in site I decided to make for the origin point. Why? Who the hell knows. Along the way I ran into a few points of interest.

Pumpkins at (-5,67,-210), surface lava all over the place at least one at (35, 68, 25), and an area lousy with caves at (166, 74, -103). I did find a big clay deposit though, 65 blocks or 260 clay balls at (-100, 68, -159).


When I got to the origin it was... underwhelming.


I spent a night under that waterfall and got back to it the next day. By this time I was ending my third day in the world and was doing pretty good loot wise.


As I tromped along I think I found where Melissia spawned, a sandy valley at (57, 78, -236).


I liked the scenery and was planning on setting up shop here until I saw a nearby mountain that looked very promising. After climbing up I decided to make it my home. Mostly because of the view.

To the east:


To the southeast:


I topped the mountain (leveled it) and left the entire top surrounded by at least a two meter high vertical face so skellies, zombies, and creepers can't jump up. I laid out a ton of torches and pitched camp.


That's where I cut out last night. I still need to add a lip around the plateau so that it's spider proof but I'm off to a good start. This time around I'm not going to be building a castle but a lodge instead. I'll use the shear vertical cliff faces to keep mobs out instead of walls. I'll be building with wood and to preserve the views I'll be making most exterior walls from glass. My first order of business is to start a tree farm and then think about maybe building a water elevator to get up to my abode. Can mobs use a water elevator?

You can still farm string for easy and lazy wool. Once it's set up you just leave the game running for a while and you get an inventory full fo stacks of string. Should give you lots of wool.

Yeah but unless you want it white you're better off with sheep. You can dye them and make your dye go twice as far. Important if you want colors like purple, black, or green.

Tyyr wrote:Yeah but unless you want it white you're better off with sheep. You can dye them and make your dye go twice as far. Important if you want colors like purple, black, or green.

True but then you have to actually FIND sheep, which is something I have had a problem with on some maps...

I can't get rid of the damn things. As soon as I leveled that mountain and lit it with torches I had eight sheep spawn the moment I turned my back. So did I manage to find your spawn?

Found my spawn Tyyr.

I'm thinking this seed does in fact give out the exact same world, kind of obvious by this point I guess.

I have a tree house on the tree on the right in that picture where you mentioned the source was underwhelming.




There seems to be a good amount of resources in the area as well. Behind to the right is a spire and I found a cave near that which had a fair amount of iron and coal in it. I still haven't explored the entire thing but it seems to be a decently sized tunnel system.

So far based off what I've seen here and the minecraft forums using the same seed will give you the same or at least VERY similar worlds to explore. I think it'd be interesting for someone to hit some of the points I listed and maybe compare what we find just to confirm.

I'm in the area anyway so I guess I could do it tomorrow.
Standing at those trees can you see any floating islands to the right (might have to walk a little in that direction. Should have 1-2 trees on each one or most of them at least.

I think that is close, but lemme get the actual coordinates real quick.

Where I actually spawned: -156.5, 65.6, -22.5

Where I made my first shelter: -211, 73, 36

Okay, finished the pyramid, it is CAVERNOUS inside....thinking about maybe making a brick adobe type room inside and take my house in there.....nah my lava protected system is better. Maybe add in some lava around the pyramid? hmmmm, possibly...or even add a layer of glass with lava inside....decision time for my base.

Ok, I wasn't even close on the spawn point. I was about a quarter kilometer off.

And I just died falling off the floating islands of doom. Dot dot dot.

And all of my items disappeared when I died, I couldn't find them again when I got back to the floating islands of doom. Dot dot dot.

INVEDIT TIME! lol.

Don't give in to the evil!

Too late. I just gave myself my tnt block back, and a pair of each kind of stone tool, along with a stack of dirt and cobblestone. Basically what I had before that anyway.

I'm currently working on the interior of my 20x40, 15 block high monument(or temple, i don't know, I don't have a name for it yet), it is pretty empty inside, and I'm using a lot of waterfalls and glass for a nice natural effect(it's surrounded by a nice forest), possibly adding fountains. The only thing I'm missing is something awesome to do on the back wall opposite the entrance, I thought that maybe something with lava would be cool, but i still have no idea what to do with the lava, other than more waterfalls, which is kinda boring considering i will have 18 when I'm done. :/

Tapestry. With a space that big and the right colors of wool you could make an impressive looking tapestry.

Interesting idea...sounds awesome.

Tyyr wrote:My Keep gets its roof, the rear tower just keeps getting higher.



Editing down the dakka seed pictures now.

And I thought my stuff was overbuilt.


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I've uh, moved to the gargamel seed. Sorry.

Tyyr wrote:My Keep gets its roof, the rear tower just keeps getting higher.



Editing down the dakka seed pictures now.

What's that on fire next to pig in the bottom left?

I assume its a skelly or a zombie, they tend to do that.

Got a bit of a shock this morning, loaded my game up only to hear a load of hissing, but I wasn't blown up. Turned out my mobgrinder had killed about 5 creepers as soon as I loaded the game.

Celebrate as they won't show you mercy again.