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**Deathklaat**

last night i set my game to peaceful and explored the depths of my cave system, loads of lava pools/ waterfalls and oodles of resources. First thing i did was make 2 diamond picks and went to town. i have tons of resources now with the exception of diamond which i would like to find before i use my 2 picks all up.

there are so many places to explore down here im tempted to use TNT to blow up dirt and gravel deposits i come across so i can find new areas and more minerals quicker.

i did find a skelly dungeon so i know where ill be putting my first mob grinder

i think ill take a small break from exploring and ill try to mine down and hit bedrock so i can start mining for diamond.

**Tyyr**

Don't mine with TNT. It destroys 60 to 70% of the blocks in the blast area.

**SagesStone**

I agree, it's good for clearing the area just not if you're interested in what is in the area.

**Tyyr**

You never know when a gold or diamond vein will be right behind that block of stone. Set off TNT right next to it and you'll never know. If you want to maximize your mining production go with a optimal mining set up like I posted on page 15 or 16. You dig out 22% of the rock in an area but harvest 95%+ of the resources.

**Melissia**

Alternatively try the pinwheel formation I showed earlier, which probably requires a bit more work but for me is easier to visualize and therefor accomplish. Two to three layers will be enough, at 10-13, 14-17, and 18-21 (for reference, the highest that Bedrock will form at is level 5-- I start at 10 because lava forms much easier at ten or below).

**BishopGore**

Apparently you guys like Minecraft too. Hi! Never thought to check this forum.

I haven't read all that much of this thread, cos I don't have the time today, but I thought I'd just say hello. Got some photos back home, will upload them at some point for you to have a gander at.

**ghosty**

Out of pure interest, how big are the Minecraft worlds?

I've been moving in a general straight line setting up camps on the way for a couple of days (Still no Iron!) and yet, I haven't found the edge yet.

**johnscott10**

ghosty wrote:Out of pure interest, how big are the Minecraft worlds?

I've been moving in a general straight line setting up camps on the way for a couple of days (Still no Iron!) and yet, I haven't found the edge yet.

About 8x the size of the earth i think, would be more useful using mods to get to the edge.

**Tyyr**

Yeah, they're as big as you can stand them to be.

**Vulkan_He'stan**

unless you hack to the edge infinite
it will keep rendering new blocks as you go other wise

**Deathklaat**

so i found more diamond, i explored a whole bunch more and found a natural house that would be perfect for a first night base (an overhang that just happened to be 2 blocks tall and open on 3 sides, a few blocks away i found a zombie spawn and then... my game locks up. upon restarting my map went *poof* and now i have to start all over.

so now im making random worlds looking for a new home. i found one world i should have kept. it had a nice cove with a natural bridge cut through the rock, it would have made a nice fort with water access. shame there are only tiny boats...

**Melissia**

Ugh, hate how boats can't be repaired and you can't tell how damaged they are.

**DA's Forever**

A creeper decided to remind me that Notch hates me...

**Melissia**

That just happened to me too. It's okay though, that wasn't on my main.

**DA's Forever**

Their like giant green greifer ninja's i swear

**Requia**

I'm currently watching a creeper that's hanging out on the cliffs above my castle and wishing I had seen some spiders so I could make a freaking bow.

**Doctadeth**

Okay. I decided to do a 404 run....got midway down and got stuck, tried to jump down but there's invisible blocks in the way!

**Melissia**

what's a 404 run?

**Tyyr**

Finished my castle's structure, sort of.

I'm going to extend the towers at the front of the keep up another level. They just look odd as low as they are now. Also really thinking about reworking the top of the spire. Was going for a Cinderella's castle looking thing and it did not work out that way. I like the flag though. Oh, and I squared off the gatehouse towers. No more little hidey hole back in the notch where they met the outer walls.

I'm doing a lot of interior work. I've been yanking out all my cobblestone floors in the towers and putting in wood. That's gotten me a lot of stone without having to go mining again but I've had to harvest my tree farm several times. The big deal is when I try and start to divide up the interior of the keep into individual rooms. Still don't know what I'm going to do with the upper two floors.

**Deathklaat**

well i decided that if my map is going to randomly implode on my i might as well make one i can return to again and again.

so i imput a seed and we shall see how things transpire.

i did have one map that was great for SP survival.. started on a beach with exposed coal and iron right infront of me lol.

**SagesStone**

Gets better everytime Tyyr.

Perhaps make some torches out of netherrack for the little outside ones if you wanted to make them more decorative?

Melissia wrote:what's a 404 run?

No idea, but Google says this is it.

**Tyyr**

I'm actually looking at hitting the nether for some glowstone. I do like the idea of torching some netherack though. I intend to make some fire pits with that in them to help light the interior of my castle. The torches scattered everywhere thing is getting rather ghetto for a nearly finished castle.

My idea to fix the spire will do the job, and give a nice big room up top, but it's going to require a TON more dyed wool to make it happen. Ugh.

**Melissia**

As a side note, apparently creepers are less liekly to drop gunpowder (it's no longer sulphur) if they're burned to death, so the best way to farm gunpowder is with a cactus based grinder.

**Tyyr**

Sonofabitch.

Damn you Notch. Cactus lacks the artistic flair of using lava.

**SagesStone**

Perhaps drowning to avoid the items having the chance of touching the cacti?

**Tyyr**

Ugh, drowing and cactus traps. How passe.

**Melissia**

There's nothing with more style than underground cacti.

**Tyyr**

Bah, running mobs into plants is weak. The lava guillotine is where it's at for the style conscious miner.

**Melissia**

I know what we can do. Let's farm mobs through fall damage instead!

**Requia**

How far of a drop does it take for that to be reliable?