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I have a double chest filled with powered rails

 Weltenwolf wrote:
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.

Here please: http://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/-479/64/209/max/0/0

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Weltenwolf wrote:
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.

Here please: http://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/-479/64/209/max/0/0

Will be done.

Oh right, coords. My house is here.

http://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/102/64/388/-1/0/0

The reasons against using glass in the nether were that:

1) Certain idiots kept running along just smashing random panes

2) People outside the tunnels would be targetted by ghasts, but ghasts are a terrible shot, and it would hit the tunnels and break the glass.

Can't ever really stop the idiots, but anything that takes more than a fraction of a second to break helps.

I never said we should use glass, I thought Storm Lord had said the tunnel was at Y=0 so rather than go straight through the lava, I suggested that we make a glass ceiling.

Welten, I appreciate the notion, but my Nether portal is ridiculously out of the way, so if it is ok, I shall collect it next time we are both online at once.

But my place is here
http://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/-2248/64/-2503/max/0/0

find that floating island, and you cant miss the massive cobble square that is my house. Lots of cacti.
http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-2069/64/275/max/0/0
This is what it looks like

I would love some. Actually, if you wanted to loan me your diamond pick to disassemble my existant overworld portal, I wouldn't mind. Later on, though. I'm doing a rather severe redesign of the interior of the Grey Mesa, and haven't had time to work on my Nether connection yet.


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Some Obby, that is.

Also, rails would work if we were to do a double rail setup- like a road, with the system being all one big loop, with one side of the tunnel always going the same direction.

And Ghast stabbing, I think, wouldn't be a huge issue- give Exp and tears, as long as we make the tunnels explosion proof on the inside as well as the outside--- something to think about...

So busy x.x Hoping to get back to work on my bridge and Mesa project later...

 Melissia wrote:
So busy x.x Hoping to get back to work on my bridge and Mesa project later...

Ugh, I'm with you there. I'm still stuck in a hole I dug for myself in the mesa closest to spawn so I could weather the night. Haven't had a chance to log on since...

~Tim?

I dug straight down today and found emeralds and diamonds.

Why do i have such good luck?

How about a mix of iron bars and cobble for the middle block?

Maybe 3 iron then 1 cobble, or even 3 then 2. Looks neat and appropriate, avoids claustrophobia, saves a small but significant amount of iron.

How frequently does the Dakka map update? I've been waiting all day to get a birds eye view of the work I've done on my village.


http://www.darkinnit.com/newdakkamap/#/-261/64/742/max/0/0

Kiln2001 has moved in and is sharing my village now. We also have a tunnel connecting our village to Ytoni's ranch.

In the last week, I've made...

-wheat, carrot, melon, sugarcane and pumpkin farms
-Enchantment Library
-Blacksmith
-Storage hut.
-Watchtower.
-Birch tree farm.
-.Diamond mine (branch mining in chunks).
-Zombie XP Farm (Zombie spawner dungeon).
-secureds several chasms for safe mining (we've got like 3 or 4 chasms under our village).

Future projects are...

-Stables.
-Housing for villagers.
-cow, chicken and pig farms.
-Wolf pen.
-Nether Portal.
-A tunnel to the nearest Stronghold.

Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
How frequently does the Dakka map update?

Once a day at 9:30am UK time (about 45 mins from now).

You could use nether brick fencing instead of iron bars too. You can't see as much through it, but it's better than the monotony of no windows at all.

Plus, you're already in the land that it comes from.

He's expressed disdain for using netherbrick

 Gitkikka wrote:
You could use nether brick fencing instead of iron bars too. You can't see as much through it, but it's better than the monotony of no windows at all.

Plus, you're already in the land that it comes from.

That's not a bad idea actually. I'll look into that for the eastern tunnel

Ah now, I don't mind netherbrick, its just that netherbrick doesn't fit the colours I'm using for the hub.


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Could someone tell where is the middle of this hub I'm building? At the minute I have no idea.

0,0? That's where we're building the main tunnels from, anyways.

well melissia i just built a nether portal and came out of yours, wont be able to fix until tommorow, sorry for any problems this may cause

That's fine. But do try to fix it soon.

My portal is exactly where it should be in terms of coordinates.

Well, I finally got around to buying Minecraft...safe to say, the survival mode isn't very forgiving! I had an awesome encounter with some skeletons and a creeper

This game will take a little bit to get used to, but I can't wait to explore more, and eventually join the Dakka server.

 mega_bassist wrote:
Well, I finally got around to buying Minecraft...safe to say, the survival mode isn't very forgiving! I had an awesome encounter with some skeletons and a creeper

This game will take a little bit to get used to, but I can't wait to explore more, and eventually join the Dakka server.

Good thing you haven't run into any withes, yet.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
withes

Witches? Withers? Oh god... Wither Witches

 darkinnit wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
withes

Witches? Withers? Oh god... Wither Witches

Run, you fools!

Messed around in Singleplayer a bit, and got a design for the possible Main Nether tunnels.










What do you all think? Mainly Netherbrick and Cobble slabs, with Stone Brick and Netherbrick stairs, as well as just plain Stone Brick. The floor is slabs, so Ghasts and Magma Cubes shouldn't spawn (and hopefully not Blazes.)

It'd be work, but I think it'd be worth it, especally with that Nether hub. Or we could work in the colors of the Hub using stained clay. The glowstone pattern might need to be minimized- maybe use the clay for that instead? (though that would allow stuff to spawn...)

I like it. But then again I was never in favor of using mesa clay.

 Melissia wrote:
I like it. But then again I was never in favor of using mesa clay.

Sums up my opinion, too.

Looks great to me. And well worthwhile.

we might have to skip out a bit on the glowstone-- perhaps only use it at intersections.