zombe on 2/9/2010 at 16:36

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I sail a lot :D.

Exploring water at midday whenever possible. Except the occasional surface deposits - i have found most in water.

Cartographer says that i have missed 960 brick blocks worth of clay (One big open-surface deposit i just noticed, unintentionally, looking at the posted map [top-unexplored-area]). Pretty sure my immediate base-surroundings are cleaned.
By my rough estimate - the building is about 1500 brick-blocks worth in comparison (the other side is 4 floors and with brick ceiling).

And i still have half a stack left :/ ... incidentally - what to do with 2 stacks of iron-blocks and 7.5 stacks of mossy cobblestone?

suliman on 3/9/2010 at 01:18

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So, I start a new game and I spawn on a beach. I pick a direction and start walking, and ten seconds later I hear zombies underground. I think to myself, what the hell, it's not like I've got anything to lose, so I start digging. It's a small cavern with three zombies and a zombie spawner. Now, as soon as I started digging the whole beach literally collapsed on them, the zombies get stuck and the spawner can't spawn anything else. So I take all three of them out with my fists(not due to heroics, but due to lack of anything better:D), and then I loot the two chests down there. Ten bars of steel, two buckets and some gunpowder. Awesome. I used the steel to build a pick and destroy the spawner. The little cavern connected into a series of caves where I found some iron and a whole lot of coal, so I decided I might as well turn the place into my base.
(http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8373/minecraft1.jpg) my new home
(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/897/minecraft2.jpg) zombie-lair-turned-basement
(this game is awesome)

zombe on 3/9/2010 at 16:00

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Have you found dungeons? Nearly every dungeon has some boxes (chance to find no boxes seems to be very low).

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No idea where i am going with this ... but it's gonna be great :D

(http://img812.imageshack.us/i/hm0.png/) http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/976/hm0.th.png
Some lava flow engineering - still lost a few trees.

(http://img59.imageshack.us/i/hm1o.jpg/) http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/543/hm1o.th.jpg
Peaceful mode - too many dark spots up the cliffs. That tree is on an island - and is quite huge (most of it outside torch range).

(http://img547.imageshack.us/i/hm2.jpg/) http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/3845/hm2.th.jpg
Outside view.

DDL on 3/9/2010 at 16:38

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Suliman: the physics for'falling' type blocks I guess is set to zero at map generation, so you can have a huge expanse of beach over a giant cave, which will remain hidden until you remove ONE block of unsupported sand, and then the game applies the physics to all connected unsupported blocks of sand.

I had the same thing happen to me, only in my case it was terrifying, and I barely made it out alive. :(

This game really gets me scared, which is pretty pathetic, but there you go. When spelunking in darkened caves, the sudden sound of a skeleton firing a bow has made me jump so much I've sprained my neck.

Loving it though. Was going to post screenies of my giant sky-doom fortress, but then I saw Assidragon and Zombe's screenies and felt decidedly inferior.

...it IS big enough to create a permanent shadow beneath it, though. Which is now full of zombies, hiding from the sun. :-/

zombe on 4/9/2010 at 14:21

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Please do. This thread has not enough screenies.