Malf on 23/8/2010 at 07:37
Quote Posted by Dresden
It turns out that NES music is the best music for Minecraft. Except Punch Out, ironically.
Oh I don't know, I love the standard music that occasionally pipes up. Reminds me a lot of the Lost music.
That there is no rhyme or reason to when it starts playing makes it even better.
zombe on 23/8/2010 at 08:38
Quote Posted by dethtoll
So Operation Boat Dock is a bust because water is a capricious beast. Will have to simply establish a boat dock somewhere else.
Getting unwanted flow problems? (flow, namely, is quite useful to prevent the "friendly" mobs from hijacking your boat)
Also (most likely completely unrelated), this reminds me something that might not be common knowledge:
To get out of the boat without it shooting with terminal speed away from you - look directly down, hold jump key, and use-click the boat.
june gloom on 23/8/2010 at 10:09
So it wasn't the 4 creepers at once that killed me. Nor was it the dizzying fall down a cavern that killed me.
I misjumped and fell into lava.
God fucking damn it.
The good news is, I think it broke my addiction.
Xenith on 23/8/2010 at 12:03
Quote:
It turns out that NES music is the best music for Minecraft.
I always turn on an internet radio that plays chiptune songs of all kinds, old and new. Really really completes the whole... experience.
Also, I finished last night making the perimeter of the hex-fortress. It was a pain in the ass because I had to dig into a mountain and make completely straight walls in it from top to bottom. As always night proves to be a bitch mostly because I can't see a damn thing while building. Annoying. Will post pics once I have a couple of walls raised and given it shape.
Malf on 23/8/2010 at 12:52
Xenith, how did you make obsidian by the way?
I've made a lava/water mixer on my platform, but all it seems to make is cobblestone :(
DDL on 23/8/2010 at 13:04
Man, everyone's making sky fortresses and I'm still hollowing out enough subterranean cavernage to grow trees and shit. I think I must be part dwarf (I've always thought dwarves were shit, but now I understand: when the world is full of monsters, being surrounded by thick, thick rock is very reassuring).
So I've managed to entice grass all the way down to maybe 40 or 50 blocks below the surface, and am now systematically replacing my rock floors with rich greenery, I have several underground forests up and running, and only need to go upstairs for sand, now. Which is nice. And I have glass floor-windows running all the way through so I can glance up from the bottom and see if it's daylight or not, because fuck you, nighttime.
Amusingly, having well lit grass floors means I sometimes return from the rockface to find a herd of pigs happily oinking around my rooms, so clearly they don't need "absence of roof" to spawn. Also, free bacon!
I've also discovered a HUGE and very dark cave system, which I'm slowly exploring, but I had to put several noticeboards up around the entrance essentially reminding myself to store anything valuable before heading on, because I am apparently a total cretin when drunk, and lost three diamond pickaxes and three full suits of iron armour by wandering off and dying to FUCKING SKELETON ARCHER FUCKS.
Note, I wasn't carrying three diamond pickaxes, I was carrying one each time: I just failed to learn from my mistakes. Fuck you, drunk DDL: you're a dick.
Oh, and dethtoll: you don't need to take crafted items out of the crafting window one by one: if they're stackable, you can just clicky away until you have a stack of 64. :)
Xenith on 23/8/2010 at 13:23
@Malf:
I stumbled across obsidian in a deep cave at some point, where water and lava were mixing together. All I did was hold the water from flooding, then mine the obsidian, let the lava fill the mined spots and then release the water again. It formed obsidian every time. I haven't tried making a "farm", but it should work.
EDIT: Read somewhere that only lava springs turn into obsidian, so maybe that's why you get cobblestone and why it worked for me in that deep cave.
gunsmoke on 23/8/2010 at 14:36
dethtoll, thanks. I forgot to say that earlier. I saw a few youtube tutorial vids, and those helped as well. I wasn't aware that placement in the workbench mattered, and those helped a lot. So, I have a cavern, and am happily mining.
My world is snowy. Kinda cool, but will the season eventually change?
Oh, what are the IP addresses of some of these multiplayer servers you all are playing on?
Wel, I found Sinister's. Mucked around in there a bit. What s your Steam handle Sinister?
ZylonBane on 23/8/2010 at 15:04
Advice for spelunkers that bears repeating, and that I've learned the hard way: BRING WOOD!
You can find everything you need underground to build every possible tool... except wood. With a stack of wood, you'll never run out of torches or be stranded without pickaxes. But most importantly of all, wood lets you build chests.
If you're ever deep in a vast cave system and notice you've amassed a mighty haul, but don't want to turn back just yet... build a chest. Put all the precious, precious ore in the chest. Mark the hell out of the area with torches so you'll be able to easily find it again. Trust me on this.
SSSSsssssssssssss.....
DDL on 23/8/2010 at 15:17
Or bring saplings, some dirt, and make a big cave. :)
It's height that does it, I found. You can give your indoor tree saplings a ton of horizontal space, but they don't grow into trees until you give them 7 or 8 blocks of up-space.
I think I just like the concept of underground trees, actually. :erg:
