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May I nab the gold then, please?

Did someone add a cobble stone block or two with torches on it at the ground around my tower?

 Alfndrate wrote:
Did someone add a cobble stone block or two with torches on it at the ground around my tower?

Yes, that was me. I started putting them where I found dark spots where creepers might have spawned, but then found loads of places on your roof and thought it best not to make too much of a mess.

Rather than covering your (rather nice) roof in torches, maybe use netherbrick slabs or stairs instead? Mobs can't spawn on slabs or stairs no matter what light level.

 darkinnit wrote:
Mobs can't spawn on slabs or stairs no matter what light level.

This I was unaware of...

 darkinnit wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
Did someone add a cobble stone block or two with torches on it at the ground around my tower?

Yes, that was me. I started putting them where I found dark spots where creepers might have spawned, but then found loads of places on your roof and thought it best not to make too much of a mess.

Rather than covering your (rather nice) roof in torches, maybe use netherbrick slabs or stairs instead? Mobs can't spawn on slabs or stairs no matter what light level.

Yeah, I've been up in my planetarium and I've heard zombies, which is one of the reasons why I added the hatch so I can create a barrier between me and them I don't mind adding torches to my stuff, I'll probably do that here shortly.

Edit: This damn tree farm is insane, I can't prevent them from growing to their max height, and so now i'm occasionally finding leaf blocks in my tower

Remember folks, all you need to do to connect to the Nether network is get down to Y66 and figure out whether your X or Z coord is smaller- then tunnel till you hit Zero of that coord.

 Melissia wrote:
Somedude: Just don't build anything stupid so close to my home. We already have had enough of that recently.

dont worry.... my Viking fort will be worthy of odin himself

Minecraft servers are down.

 Minx wrote:


Thank you very much. My coordinates in the nether should be (x,y,z)=(-276,87,-68). I'll check in-game and edit if necessary.

Edit: i missed the minus sign for the z coordinate. fixed it above
Edit2: my in-game nickname is _tikkamasala_

You might want to check those coordinates as I'm at them and can't find your nether portal

 Storm Lord wrote:

 Minx wrote:


Thank you very much. My coordinates in the nether should be (x,y,z)=(-276,87,-68). I'll check in-game and edit if necessary.

Edit: i missed the minus sign for the z coordinate. fixed it above
Edit2: my in-game nickname is _tikkamasala_

You might want to check those coordinates as I'm at them and can't find your nether portal

My surface portal automatically linked to Castle Wolfenstein's portal so i guess my nether portal wasn't created and i need to build one at those coordinates. I can't mine obsidian yet though or is there a better way to do it?

Edit: Many thanks for the tunnel and the portal.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
May I nab the gold then, please?

Yeah, just remind me to give it to you when I'm on.

 Minx wrote:

 Storm Lord wrote:

 Minx wrote:


Thank you very much. My coordinates in the nether should be (x,y,z)=(-276,87,-68). I'll check in-game and edit if necessary.

Edit: i missed the minus sign for the z coordinate. fixed it above
Edit2: my in-game nickname is _tikkamasala_

You might want to check those coordinates as I'm at them and can't find your nether portal

My surface portal automatically linked to Castle Wolfenstein's portal so i guess my nether portal wasn't created and i need to build one at those coordinates. I can't mine obsidian yet though or is there a better way to do it?

Edit: Many thanks for the tunnel and the portal.

One method is to create a sort of Mould for a portal. Pretty easy, just build a cobble frame and make sure its hollow and then fill it with lava and then strategically pour water into it.

Yep, that's the best way to do it, though you can only do it on Overworld-side, rather than Nether-side. Can even do it with a single bucket if you're patient enough.

 Bloodhorror wrote:

One method is to create a sort of Mould for a portal. Pretty easy, just build a cobble frame and make sure its hollow and then fill it with lava and then strategically pour water into it.

Yeah, that works on the surface but what about in the nether? Maybe ice blocks work instead of water (that evaporates immediately)?

I will be building the northern branch of the nether transit system, by the look of things (just heading out there from my portal at the mo'), unless anyone else gets there first.

I am going to need more iron than I have, I think -- anyone care to donate some? I have plenty of cobble, but I'll be around 400 blocks out from the Spawn portal when I start heading that way... which means 800 iron bars. :( If anyone can help, either just by giving me a few stacks of iron, or coming along after I do the cobble part of the tunnel and filling in with iron, that'd be grand.

 Minx wrote:

 Bloodhorror wrote:

One method is to create a sort of Mould for a portal. Pretty easy, just build a cobble frame and make sure its hollow and then fill it with lava and then strategically pour water into it.

Yeah, that works on the surface but what about in the nether? Maybe ice blocks work instead of water (that evaporates immediately)?

Just tried this, I can confirm they do not.... Sorry bro!

 Ian Sturrock wrote:
I will be building the northern branch of the nether transit system, by the look of things (just heading out there from my portal at the mo'), unless anyone else gets there first.

I am going to need more iron than I have, I think -- anyone care to donate some? I have plenty of cobble, but I'll be around 400 blocks out from the Spawn portal when I start heading that way... which means 800 iron bars. :( If anyone can help, either just by giving me a few stacks of iron, or coming along after I do the cobble part of the tunnel and filling in with iron, that'd be grand.

Yeah the iron quantities needed are annoying. I've burned through a large part of mine just doing West and still have South and East to do (thanks for taking on the North) I've set up a chest for anyone who wishes to donate to the tunnel building at the nether-side 0,0 portal. Any and all donations will be welcomed and make the process quicker.

For those of you in the east the tunnel is coming to you, although may take a day or two for me to complete it out the the edges of the map

The nether hub design I had in mind was only north, south, east and west. Also, I will do the hub, it's just my modem broke and I only got a new one today, so I should be able to start the nether hub tonight. Thank you Storm Lord for starting the work on the tunnels and thank you Ian Sturrock as well.
Why the need for iron though? There isn't much to see in the nether so why bother having windows?
I can take the southern tunnel to spread the workload.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
The nether hub design I had in mind was only north, south, east and west. Also, I will do the hub, it's just my modem broke and I only got a new one today, so I should be able to start the nether hub tonight. Thank you Storm Lord for starting the work on the tunnels and thank you Ian Sturrock as well.
Why the need for iron though? There isn't much to see in the nether so why bother having windows?
I can take the southern tunnel to spread the workload.

Thats what I was thinking as well...
There is nothing interesting there.

Also, at Y=0 any lava pools that we run into, we could make a glass roof for the tunnel which I think is quite cool.

I think the main reason for windows is both nostalgia for the old nether system, but also because a fully enclosed tunnel can feel a bit claustrophobic (in my opinion). It also seemed a few pages back a few people were talking about iron vs glass with iron seeming to be the consensus.

@Tyranid Horde: There is already the beginnings of a south tunnel (needed to link spawn) so feel free to use that. I look forward to seeing the improved hub when it is done. Nothing is at y=0 is it, I thought most things (hub, tunnel) were at y=66?

Are the tunnels a 3x3 so we can get horses down them if need be? Should the roof of the hub be spherical or just go straight to the roof as a cylinder?
Ah, okay, I was looking a few pages back and I saw you mention Y=0

The tunnel designs are 3x3 interior (was considering adding rails?) then cobble walls, roof and floor (where needed) with iron bars as the central layer in the walls

Unless we want to go really big with the tunnels. I could see us making grand hallways, big enough to have half-columns (set into the walls) and torches or braziers in little nooks. At least for the main 4 ways. Then people could design their own branches.

Maybe I'll work on a design in Creative a little.

Anyone know the smallest open space Ghasts require to spawn in? (though having them spawn in an enclosed area where they can't float away wouldn't be terrible either.)

Would rails work? You need some way of changing which track you were on, which would require some thought to make it simple enough so that everyone could use it.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Would rails work? You need some way of changing which track you were on, which would require some thought to make it simple enough so that everyone could use it.

Yeah, that's why I haven't done anything with the rails yet. I'm wondering what the best way (if any) would be to use them. But you might be right in thinking they wouldn't be simple enough for everyone to use easily

5x5 is the smallest space needed to spawn a ghast. They spawn on the ground so slabbing would be necessary to keep it ghast free and pigmen free.

If anybody needs obsidian, give me a call. I watered down 3 lava pools in my mine, have some surplus obsidian and am still gathering the rest.

Avatar & Ihatenids, please give me some coords where I shall leave your horse armour.

I'll take some If you don't mind. Just enough to make a set of portals.

if anyone is looking for a large amount or any amount of obsidian i have a layer in my wall that needs to be removed to beautify my wall, roughly 2000+ blocks worth.

let me know if you are interested so i can remove the outer face of the wall to expose the obby.