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 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Holy hell was it massive. You could rebuild everything at spawn out of prismarine and not use up half of what was stored in there.

Well, I expected some hyperbole in that statement but you weren't exaggerating even a tiny little bit. I filled up my ender chest and inventory with sea lanterns and I didn't even make the slightest dent in the supply. It's like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark where the guy was pushing a box in that massive warehouse.

sirlynchmob wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
The sign itself is on the board by the nether portal and subway entrance in front of spawn. Having had to go to the farm myself yesterday, I can be more specific and say you'll need to go down the west tunnel in the nether to find lady dria's base.
Be warned, it may get a bit laggy when you first enter the farm.

Is it laggy there? I've been keeping it off lately as it keeps overflowing

The farm was running when I visited it. I peeked in the AFK Room and saw lots of guardians falling to their deaths. It was really laggy when I first got there, but recovered a good bit when I got to the storage area. Probably just due to all the guardians dying and all the drops from the guardians waiting to be collected.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
The sign itself is on the board by the nether portal and subway entrance in front of spawn. Having had to go to the farm myself yesterday, I can be more specific and say you'll need to go down the west tunnel in the nether to find lady dria's base.
Be warned, it may get a bit laggy when you first enter the farm.

Is it laggy there? I've been keeping it off lately as it keeps overflowing

The farm was running when I visited it. I peeked in the AFK Room and saw lots of guardians falling to their deaths. It was really laggy when I first got there, but recovered a good bit when I got to the storage area. Probably just due to all the guardians dying and all the drops from the guardians waiting to be collected.

by off I mean I stop collecting the drops, so I guess all the drops could cause lag. but when I turn it on, I pick up the loot, and run lots of minecarts and hoppers. not sure which is laggier. but in good news, I finally decorated the storage room, nothing fancy but it's better than the cave I dug to house the chests

I don't suppose anyone has six or seven stacks of Obsidian I can have? I ran short on my side project and I really don't want to have to make it by hand, if I can avoid it.

Just left a chest by your bamboo jungle llama pen with three stacks in it. All I had at the moment.

Sweet. Thanks.

sirlynchmob wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
The sign itself is on the board by the nether portal and subway entrance in front of spawn. Having had to go to the farm myself yesterday, I can be more specific and say you'll need to go down the west tunnel in the nether to find lady dria's base.
Be warned, it may get a bit laggy when you first enter the farm.

Is it laggy there? I've been keeping it off lately as it keeps overflowing

The farm was running when I visited it. I peeked in the AFK Room and saw lots of guardians falling to their deaths. It was really laggy when I first got there, but recovered a good bit when I got to the storage area. Probably just due to all the guardians dying and all the drops from the guardians waiting to be collected.

by off I mean I stop collecting the drops, so I guess all the drops could cause lag. but when I turn it on, I pick up the loot, and run lots of minecarts and hoppers. not sure which is laggier. but in good news, I finally decorated the storage room, nothing fancy but it's better than the cave I dug to house the chests

Yeah, it's Entities that cause lag, and items on the ground are entities. If you have overflow, you'd be better off Dropper-ing or flowing things into lava or cactus, than just letting it pile up and despawn.

So, I've run out of Diorite while finishing the lining of my tunnel. I've gotten the flat sections (top, bottom, left, and right) lined with Diorite but I still need to finish the corners. Running the numbers real quick tells me I need 24,440 staircases to finish the job which requires 36,660 blocks of Diorite to make. Guess it's time to start strip mining.

But, before I do, I need to upgrade my storage system to handle all the extra stuff I'll be digging up while I mine the Diorite. Is there a "best" sorting system available and does anyone have a Youtube link to making it?

I've got some diorite to spare, so I'll put some stacks in that chest by your llama pen. Nowhere near as much as you're looking for, but it should help a little bit.

Thanks. I'll make a trip out there after I get my storage/sorting system set up. I like sirlynchmob's setup but I'll need to add a lifter/elevator since my input box will be on the floor, instead of up in the ceiling.

@sirlynchmob, I think I reached the end of the Cinnabon tunnel. What exactly are you mining down there? I feel like I'm missing something. Edit: I assume you're going after Ancient Debris.

Yo! You can use Stonecutters to get 1:1 Stone to Stair ratios now!

Anvildude wrote:
Yo! You can use Stonecutters to get 1:1 Stone to Stair ratios now!

Good to know. That'll cut down the amount of diorite I need by a third.

Edit: FYI, the Gold Farm's sorting system got backed up somehow. Everything was dumping into the Rotted Flesh boxes. I wasn't sure what to do with the gold swords but I didn't see any fuel in the furnaces so I dumped them, the gravel and netherrack into the disintigrator.

 Breotan wrote:

@sirlynchmob, I think I reached the end of the Cinnabon tunnel. What exactly are you mining down there? I feel like I'm missing something. Edit: I assume you're going after Ancient Debris.

Cinnabuns are another name for Ancient Debris, since they kind of look like cinnamon rolls. I don't know where the name originally came from; I first heard from watching Hermitcraft.

Okay. I spent some time tearing through there and only came across two after several hours. I knew they were rare, just not that rare.

I think there are only 1-4 ancient debris in a chunk, with the greatest chance of finding them around level 15. I usually just dig a long tunnel, fill it with tnt, and then see what the booms leave behind.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
I think there are only 1-4 ancient debris in a chunk, with the greatest chance of finding them around level 15. I usually just dig a long tunnel, fill it with tnt, and then see what the booms leave behind.

thats what I've been doing, and yes its just for the cinnabon. modify it any way you like, I just put the slab path to mark out how the west tunnel could extend



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 Breotan wrote:

Anvildude wrote:
Yo! You can use Stonecutters to get 1:1 Stone to Stair ratios now!

Good to know. That'll cut down the amount of diorite I need by a third.

Edit: FYI, the Gold Farm's sorting system got backed up somehow. Everything was dumping into the Rotted Flesh boxes. I wasn't sure what to do with the gold swords but I didn't see any fuel in the furnaces so I dumped them, the gravel and netherrack into the disintigrator.

fixed the gold farm, i piglin spawned at the bottom and was happily picking up the gold the pigmen dropped. not sure how to keep them from spawning there, I'll look into it

I've put up a bunch of boxes near the pig traders. Stuff I'd like to keep and plan to move out to my lair is in the upper right box. Stuff that might be useful to anyone else is in the rest. Lots of FR III gear/books/pots for the taking.

Well, it isn't elegant by any means (actually, it's really basic) but I've finally finished the nether tunnel from my portal to the jungle portal. Over 2/3rd of it is suspended halfway between the ceiling and lava floor with literally nothing in between. I wasn't expecting so many massive cavernous biomes in the nether. Wasn't expecting the ghasts to be such while I was working up there without a safety chain.

You'll need to build some oversized chains (or a ton of the regular thin ones) to hang your tunnel from the roof. There's an iron farm at Spawn.

Also, I know for a fact that Ancient Debris _can_ spawn higher up in chunks. I found one randomly in the middle of a Basalt Delta in a singleplayer world, way up high.

Amusingly, this means that Ralphy's Gold Farm would have, at one point, gotten him a TON of the stuff.

Anvildude wrote:
You'll need to build some oversized chains (or a ton of the regular thin ones) to hang your tunnel from the roof.

It's hanging there just fine so far. I'll worry about upgrading stuff once I get around to actually making it look less like a mud tunnel and more like the proper stone&diorite pattern we all know and love. In the meantime, there's a strip of soul sand to allow faster travel.

Anvildude wrote:
Amusingly, this means that Ralphy's Gold Farm would have, at one point, gotten him a TON of the stuff.

It isn't much of a hassle to take the gold to the pig traders at spawn area and put them to work.

Nah, I mean,like, 1-4 Ancient Debris per chunk, but not necessarily in the lower part of the chunk- so clearing out, what, 64 entire chunks would have gotten you a TON of AD.

Edit: NM. I got it working now. Adding a second repeater stopped the bleed. The system is happy now.

I'm curious about the main hallways in the Nether. Is there a specific reason the floors of those hallways are made with slabs instead of blocks?

Certainly for the section I did (Great North Tunnel) it was just about resource efficiency.

 Breotan wrote:
I'm curious about the main hallways in the Nether. Is there a specific reason the floors of those hallways are made with slabs instead of blocks?

Spawn proofing, I suspect. IIRC, mobs don't spawn on slabs in the lower position.

I was wondering if spawn proofing was the thinking. Unfortunately, it makes it hard for me to put temporary track down so I can build out the West hall to my nether portal. No worries, that plan is still a long way out. I'll figure something by then.

That's why we have the rail-tunnels beneath the main tunnels.

They only extend to about -1000, if that. No worries though. I'll come up with something when I get around to working on it.

I've updated the server to Minecraft 1.16.5 (nothing too exciting, just stability fixes)
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-1-16-5

My overworld tunnel to the jungle teleporter is finally complete. It weighs in at 9865 blocks long, fully lined with polished diorite. My God, that was a chore.

Now that I'm done, I'll probably spend a little time upgrading my village. I think I'll put up a couple of medieval watchtowers and maybe an actual bridge to cross the chasm that cuts through it. Once that's done I'll set up some tenant farms across the chasm along with fencing to help protect them from raids.