Well, my really built-up mod worlds are gone, it got corrupted somehow and kept crashing every time I tried loading it, so I have begun a legit vanilla games with 1.2! Yay! I basically kept going until I found a jungle biome, then explored. I found this cave in said biome which had jungle vines growing INSIDE of it, it looked straight out of an Indiana Jones film or something. I started a mine in said cave, a staircase descending to bedrock, and I dug with stone tools for a while. I used my cobblestone to wall off the cave and set up the beginnings of a proper cave home. I switched game onto peaceful, went out at night and harvested a lot of sand from my nearby beach, then cooked up a LOT of glass blocks, then converted all of it into those thinner glass panes, I LOVE working with those! So, a cave with a beautiful jungle view, and switched back to Normal mode. I remembered reading about how Zombies can now bash wooden doors down, but it occurred to me, why not simply make an iron door? Wouldn't be hard, I had enough iron at that point, so I went and made two iron doors, along with 4 levers. Set up the right way on the side of my cave, I have an indestructible entranceway! Though so far nobody's come around to test that theory... I flattened and carved up the floor of the cave to put down some wooden blocks for a floor, only to discover I now had THREE different types of wooden blocks, corresponding each to a different kind of tree! Birch, Normal, and now the Jungle wood! I discovered quickly that birch planks have a pale color, and make a wonderful wall backing from which to hang paintings from. I made a 5x5 square of birch planks on my cave wall, then threw a painting on the wall until I got a 3x3 painting (the skull one btw). Looks wonderful. I was soon after rudely interrupted by a skeleton wandering into my house from the depths of the cave! Swiftly dispatching it with an iron sword, I wandered to the ultimate back of the cave, only to discover it punched out the other side of the hill! I took cobblestone and cooked a few stacks worth of it, then used the smooth stone to make a few stacks of stone bricks, which I then used to make a cool pseudo-temple entrance to my home. The look was slightly off with the iron door and lever, but hey, it still looks awesome. My new back entrance was prettied up by putting another painting up right in front of the front door. My back entrance opened up onto a moderately wide section of what I can only describe as prime beach real estate. After digging out quite a bit of clay and a lot more sand for future uses, I took a few stack of dirt and extended the dirt part farther out, laying down the groundwork for a future farm which I would build, but I needed to mine some more. Simply going down my stairway after making some iron armor, I went down to y=12 and began digging 3x3 tunnels to the left and right of the staircase, beginning a Minecraft Mining Grid (tm). I place torches 2 up from the floor on both sides of the wall, and I start two blocks in from the staircase, then every 8 blocks afterwards (a mistake I later realized; if I had made it on every 9th block, I could have placed two 3x3 tunnels on either side, maximizing the potential of my mining! Ah well, lesson learned). I used up two diamond pickaxes and one diamond shovel (including several iron tools of both types as well) before I discovered the true prize, one which I have never discovered before: an abandoned mine system! Having built a cobblestone walkway across a lake of lava to get to it, I began placing torches, but almost immediately ran into a cave spider spawner, and discovered their poison bites and small size the hard way! I didn't die, but I was hard-pressed for a long while. ...turns out a very long while. After fighting off waves of those damn things while hacking out entire corridors filled with spider webs I said "fuck it!", set it to peaceful, and then hacked that spawner, and a zombie spawned behind it, to bits. I then began my explorations of the mining system, which is immense! I goes in all directions for literally miles (I got lost multiple times I went down there, filled up all possible slots in my inventory, dug straight up to get to the surface, and my compass showed me VERY far from home!) Mines criss-crossed on multiple levels, and I have deliberately gone down there three separate times now to get lost, filled my entire inventory with all manner of valuable goods, and I STILL am finding new territory to explore in! In between these vast mining expeditions I would spend some time on the surface. I took considerable fence posts, wooden planks, and railroads that I had harvested from the mines and put most of it away, then used the fence posts to wall off a single massive rectangle of room for my farm. I hooked all of my three fields together, this way I used less fence posts as some walls doubled for each field, and I decided that 10-wide farms would be fine (since I am alone after all in this world *sobs*), I am just feeding myself. In the mines I had discovered multiple chests with over 14 melon seeds, which I was jubilant over as I have never gotten to play with melon seeds yet! Ultimately, I have a melon, pumpkin, and wheat farm set up now. I set up a single lane of water running down the middle, with a single block of cobblestone on each end to stand on. The blocks adjacent to the water line are where I planted my crops for all three fields; since my melons and pumpkins need an adjacent block to put their stemmed growth out onto, each field ended up 10 blocks deep and 5 blocks wide. I put a gate on each side of each field, and I put up torches on all of the field corners. When all fields are fully grown, I harvest 20 melons (over a stack of melon slices), 20 pumpkins, and 40 wheat (with a LOT of leftover seeds, over a stack per harvest) per harvest. The great thing about melons and pumpkins is that once planted I just leave them alone, really. I harvest the melons and pumpkins, but the initial plant will just perpetually grow them back forever. Wheat I have to replant, but each harvest provides the seeds for replanting right then and there! Not so inconvenient, and I have a VAST food source. Also with the prime real estate, I can go fishing anytime I want, so I have quite a bit of potential fish in my diet, plus a lot of eggs taken from chickens, plus the various animals meats I have gathered in my travels. Thinking about the surrounding land, I realized I didn't want animals or worse, monsters, to mess with my fields, so I got to something I've been wanting to do for a long time...I took my pumpkin heads, my stack of 64 iron cubes (I have a LOT of iron ingots, a good way to store them for future uses), and I made Iron Golems! I made one in my "front yard" to wander around, one on the side of the hill, and another to wander by my fields in my backyard. The one by my fields is weird, it seems to like climbing up onto my fence posts and go break dancing or something, it just spins in place for awhile. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. So, I wandered to the top of the hill, to plan more adventures, and this is where things get weird. I was told dinner was ready, so I put the game on pause with me looking out over the vast lands before me, perfectly safe. When I come back from dinner, I find myself face first in some crater, with me having died somehow! My entire family was at dinner, nobody else was in the house, and I paused the game. Weirdest of all, when I respawned and (naturally) headed back to that hillside where I had left off standing, there was no crater, no signs of a creeper attack even, and my goods weren't there. I put the game on peaceful and circled my home in ever-increasing circles for over a half-mile out before I gave up, but all of my stuff had just vanished into thin air, and I have no fucking idea where any of it went. I don't know where I dies proper, as the only view I had was staring right at the ground. ...maybe our house kitty Oreo did it, she was sleeping by the laptop, hit a button on the mouse or something. Fucked up; lost a perfectly good suit of iron armor, plus all of the diamond tools I had made in the meantime. Damnit. After I took a break for a couple of days I logged on, remade a bunch of iron tools and more iron armor, then began digging a stairwell up into the hill above the cave, so I could a second floor for my penthouse apartment. I've been digging a vast chamber up there, but I have no idea what I am going to do with all of this space, as ultimately I am limited by the hill's dimensions above me (at least until I have an original idea or something...). I have plans to make a library room up there, with an enchantment room adjoining it, but that will be in the future. That's where I am now, though, happy as a clam.
I did that yesterday. I was digging by lava, so I put down a bucket of water to flood the area and turn the lava into obsidian. I hop into the water and begin digging in the direction where i know there's lava. The advantage of putting down a water bucket is that, yeah it pushes you into the lava, but the water turned the lava block into obsidian faster than I can fall into it, thus I am unharmed. Unfortunately, I dug too far, and the water block pushed me into the lava, and I couldn't climb out of it because of the water pressure. Even on peaceful I died! Frustrating, but not so terrible. I lost all of my gear again, but the most valuable thing I had on me was a diamond shovel, which I easily replace. I had a LOT of backup iron tools which I lost, along with virtually untouched iron armor, but again, I can live with it I suppose. The Journey Continues!
WHAT. THE. FUCK. No. Words cannot contain the pure, unabated RAGE that i feel right now. NONE. youDFBG9UYWQBENHUIOPAEFNHDB0UISFNGB0UIADFNBOIUADFNB0UHASDNFGBOUHADFNHUBN RAAAAGE RAAAWR RAR. RAR. WHATTHEFFFFFFFFUCKFUCK YOU! Was disconnecting my pipe from my Oiler and accidentally hit the zeppelin block... FFUCK. FUCK. My world is now crashed, i believe, and i can't turn the zeppelin off - it keeps giving me a 'cannot connect craft' or some bullshit like that. FUCK.YOU. So i'm doing well. ... Did i mention literally EVERYTHING i had was on that ship? I was moving bases. EVERYTHING of value was on that. I'm going to fucking kill something. I'm just so... ah! Weeks of effort! Weeks! EDIT: There's nothing for it. I have to nuke the world. [ (sorry, emotional moment, if anyone needs me i'll be mourning... )
*pats pebble awkwardly on the back* There there, buddy. As for me, got lost in my abandoned mineshaft system (again), found new unexplored tunnels which hooked up to this MASSIVE cave/ravine system, which I explored up until I ran out of torches... ...and this waterfall pouring out of the ocean bottom was ten feet from me. Came out into a rainstorm many miles from home, built a compass and boat and slogged my way back. Oh yeah, and I built a dedicated storage room, a 5x5x7 chamber with chests in the floor as well as the walls. Stores a lot, have a lot of surplus chests now for future expansion. Also made a separate dark room for growing both types of mushrooms. Tried seducing a cat, but one raw fish wasn't enough. Found an underground lava pit right underneath my house, no good ores though, some coal. Built a dock for my boat to keep it contained, just a couple of long cobblestone rows to keep it penned in; will refine the design later. Replaced the levers for my iron doors with stone pressure plates; might be a security risk, but I like the ease of simply walking in without having to remember to flick a switch first. That's it for today.
I recently updated to 1.2.5 recently, and since I saw no outward signs that my zeppelin mod wasn't working with the update, I shrugged and went on my merry way, happily continuing to build my massive airship. It was a wonderful ship. I'd built dispenser arrays into the sides and bottom, so that I could "raid" NPC villages and laugh as I shot creepers full of holes. I even had a system that would drop activated TNT blocks en masse, to destroy villages and mountains alike. All was well until around two minutes after I took off in my mobile fortress. I rose in height, to avoid a mountain range, and fell straight through the floor. I hit the ground HARD and died. I'd put my bed on the zeppelin, so that I'd respawn there if I died, but I hadn't slept on it yet. Lost. Everything.
Is it possible to build another zeppelin, fly it above the first, and make a daring mid-air leap to reclaim it?
One thing I love to do in Minecraft is build Time Capsules. I would build a huge cave system and leave a bunch of stuff in it and then abandon it and find it again later.
Minecraft, why do you hate me so? ALL my engines were completely cooled, hooked up completely to water pumps. The only ones not cooled were the redstone engines, and those don't need cooled AFAIK. Combustion engine decides to blow up. Right while i'm standing there. Destroyed 2 Quarries, 3 other Combustion Engines, as well as the 32 iron ingots, a mining drill, a full set of emerald tools, and assorted other items(including my philosophers stone). Yeah, having all that infrastructure destroyed sucks. But it usually can be replaced, right? I mean, the explosion would've destroyed some, but certainly not all of the good stuff. Wrong again. Every.important.thing. was destroyed. I got my redstone engines and some cobblestone in nearby chests though, so it's all good! Right? ...right? right?
You're using EE, or as one Minecraft Forum user put it, 'TMI with a time investment' You'll be fine as long as you have your collectors and transmutation table. I have started my first legit world in a year after seeing a few episodes of Direwolf20's 'Feed the Beast' playthrough, and I decided to use EE with my usual mods. And they're right, EE makes it really damn easy once you get those first few diamonds. Though I love the divining rod, all three versions of it. Right now, I'm collecting diamonds for a anti-matter relay, and once that's done, I'm pretty much on easy street. EDIT* And spoke too soon, my transmutation table has just randomly decided to get amnesia, so I have to teach everything to it again. EDIT2* And it appears my alchemical bag has eaten everything in it. Great.
Nope. No more transmutation, and i have no idea how to get it back... I don't have enough diamonds to get my quarry back, and right now i have literally nothing of value. 10 Diamonds. I could get my philosophers stone back, but that wouldn't do very much good...
Then make another divining rod and go through the 'getting started with EE' section on it's wiki. You'll have a block or two worth of diamonds in a few hours even if you have to start from scratch again. Though I am pretty pissed at EE for the alchemy bag eating everything in it, such as my repair talisman, and ALL MY BEES! OH THE BEE-MANITY!
Meh. I really only used EE for the Philosopher's Stone which gave me something to do with ALL the cobble i got. A whole double chest equaled, like, 8 diamonds, but whatever. It was just nice, and now that the philosopher's does jack shit in that regard, and i really didn't care about the other EE stuff, i don't use it. What are some of the good items?
*chokes* Well, for one thing, with EE you can make VOlcanite and Evertide Amulets, which as long as they're in your quickbar make you immune to drowning and lava/fire. IMMUNE; you can go swimming in lava if you so choose, and nothing will happen. Also, you can walk on water/lava. WALK ON IT. LIKE JESUS, BUT ON FIRE. EE is good for 3 things: 1. Volcanite/Evertide Amulets (LAVA JESUS!) 2. Alchemical Chests/Alchemy Bags (SO MUCH STORAGE!) 3. Dark Matter/Red Matter tools (AWESOME)
Transmutation is also a inventory saver as you can just turn everything into EMC and put it in a Klein Star and turn it back into items later as you need them. But I'm a bit wary now that EE has eaten my stuff, especially all those bees and stuff I had found for my transmutation table. So now as a matter of policy, I don't keep anything in my alchemical bag when I log out, and will have chests full of example items to reteach my transmutation table whenever EE has an 'Issue'.
But how?! I honestly don't know how to get past philosopher's stone, dark matter tools, and evertide/volcanite... The thread is just confusing because i have no idea where to start.
Use the EE wiki's startup page, it will give you step by step instruction on how to get a basic EE setup in your game, from world start to your first Collectors and anti-matter relay. Once you get the relay up, put some collectors around it and have a cobble gen, it's only a matter of time till you're pumping out diamonds by the chest load.
Yes, it is. The problem is that the zeppelin was still moving forwards and up when I fell through it. As you can guess, that means that it flew off into the distance, and was still flying away for a long time after that. I managed to figure out that moving the save file to a re-installed minecraft (one without the zeppelin mod) would get rid of the blocks that let the airship move, too late. So it's sitting out there, in the sky, somewhere, full of diamonds, TNT bombing bays, and massive arrays of dispensers full of arrows. Right now, though, I found an abandoned mineshaft with a cave spider spawner, and used that to make a mob farm. Still no more diamonds, though.
See, most of the comments of this page have flown right over my head. Talking about things this MCers has no idea about. In regard to Single-Player, I haven't done too much work, but I've been trying to think of what I can do with a stack of TNT (or, more accurately, what I can't).
Well, my EE stuff got it's memory back thankfully, so all my stuff is back where it's supposed to be. And if you want to understand mods better, I'd suggest looking at Direwolf20's youtube channel. He does mod spotlights, Let's Play series, and other minecraft related videos. You can learn a lot about minecraft watching him.
You know what really isn't a good idea? Shooting down. In the Nether. With a mining laser. Wanna know what shit i'm in? Anyone have any ideas? Any at all? Whatever cheats it takes.
You drink it, right? How quick is it? I'm literally right there. .00001 seconds. Just invedited in 64 8:00 fire resistance ones... Dear god, my reaction times are NOT going to be anywhere NEAR quick enough. I guess i'll save my save file so i have redos...
