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Post by Onix Solo on Apr 8, 2011 8:35:06 GMT -5
Read it yesterday, very cool. Something I've been waiting for. Now we need gates for fences and saplings for pine and birch trees.
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Post by Onix Solo on Apr 20, 2011 8:04:12 GMT -5
So, Minecraft 1.5 came out yesterday. Already love it. Experienced rain like five minutes after starting it up. Leter, when hunting down pines and birch trees to gather up the new sapplings (so glad about that) I got to have snow and thunda.
Got a few achievments, but they are much more geared to getting you off on the right foot than presenting players with interesting challenges, at least at the moment. Stats page is much more interesting.
Then there are the new powered and detector rails, which I immediately made and began working on my rail between my future underground city and the current city. Before I used a powered minecart to push me along the track, but it had problems. Now I can move along with just one minecart. Now I'm just fencing it in to keep mobs off of it at night.
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Post by Onix Solo on Apr 21, 2011 22:14:12 GMT -5
So I spent most of my time yesterday in Minecraft working on the mine track. Before it went from point to point, stopping at the end with an off powered-rail to stop it. I decided to make a loop at each station so that it came in one way then out the other, but the middle part of the track is shared. This is the first track-switch at the city station. A powered rail between 2 detector rails will boost a cart form either direction, so most of the track has these spread out through it. Originally the cart track used to stop above ground that the entrance of the underground cavern and future site of my underground city. I decided it wasn't good enough, so I tunneled down and built an underground station. The problem after that was the incline back to the surface. The old powered minecart method required a 3 to 1 (3 out, 1 up) incline to go up. My first experiment was 1 to 1 with repreated boosts, didn't work. I had better luck with the 2 to 1 slope and repeated boosts. Ended up like this, and so you can rise faster with powered rails than powered carts. My next problem was the switch at the top. The first switch I showed for the other station didn't work here (I guess because I was coming from below this time and trying to switch to go left). It took a lot of experimenting to get something that works, and it even has hiccups. If I hit the out too slow it bounces the cart back. As long as nothing slows the cart though, it works fine. So, I now have a nice track between my 2 locations. Powered Cart vs Powered RailsSo, that leads to which is better? I've put up with both. The powered rails can move you from point to point very quickly. The downside, when you run into a mob you have to get out and push to the nearest booster to get back to moving. With powered carts if you hit a mob then it moves, the powered cart will begin to move you again. Then, inclines are easier to handle with the powered rails where you need more space with the powered cart, plus there is a chance for a super boost on accident with the powered cart on inclines that send your cart zooming away at incredibly high speeds, and the powered cart turns off and then you have to go find it. In the end, powered rails are a nice upgrade.
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Post by Hoist on Apr 22, 2011 15:50:15 GMT -5
I've never really had much of a rail/minecart system, butt these super-powered rails made me want to try. So I turned my water ride emergency exit, (In World2 - my old Alpha world/Mountain base/home), into a rail system. I like the boosters, they're not material heavy either and give gold much more use - the one thing I unintentionally hoard. Diamonds & Iron - I use, Gold tends just to get stored.
I love the weather as well, as well as it being good to have the snow back I love the rain and thunder and lightening. Still not seen a powered up creeper yet though. I also like different saplings. On my aforementioned world, I turned the back row of trees of my tree farm into a double row of birch trees, then changed inside my perimeter to all birch trees. Would love to get a pine tree farm going really and turn the trees on the very high up mountains into pine trees so it looks like a valley.
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Post by Dead End on Apr 28, 2011 19:25:37 GMT -5
I love this game so much! It uses a lot of my memory tho....
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Post by Onix Solo on Apr 28, 2011 21:35:42 GMT -5
Nice to have another minecrafter on board
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Post by Hoist on Jun 23, 2011 5:51:57 GMT -5
I know we've got the official gaming thread, but I'm keeping this thread open as it's only me and Onix who play it, and we've always a fair bit we can talk about. So latetly I've: - Modified my church grounds/parts of inside
- Picked up Mount DOOoooom! (A natual strange looking mountain formation I'm turning into a fort - eventually with lava running down the front burning the trees below.)
- Am building a shrine to my old Multi-player house on my main Single player world.
When 1.7 comes out, I shall be making a brand new world. I'm not too fussed about the pistons, but I can't wait for this new lighting dynamic!
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Post by Onix Solo on Jun 23, 2011 6:30:52 GMT -5
I plan to start over with 1.7 as well.
I've mostly been playing multiplayer, and we've hit a rough patch here as our world apparently has gotten too large for our host and any progress we make resets every time the server is reset. Right now my brother is getting a stand alone box running to host it on (using linux so the OS doesn't hog up too much RAM) and hopefully we can continue.
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Post by Hoist on Jun 23, 2011 17:10:41 GMT -5
Found myself a nice little Multi-player server to play on, been on it for about a week. Lots of towns a shopping mall, there's currency and you can set up your own shop or just buy from others. It's pretty sweet.
Yeah I'm looking forward to 1.7. My main world is an old Alpha world, and although I can't say I've explored all of it. I have travelled alot. I've also nerfed alot of Glowstone from the nether. So this excites me - new world, new home, new nether and getting all those resources and diamond tools again! Right now I don't really have to look to hard for resources, except for diamond, naturally. So this will be a nice new challenge.
I've had SinglePlayerCommands for a while, and I use it for two things and two things only, the flying and setting waypoints, very handy. I've been flying around this seed I'll be using for 1.7 and I just can't decide where to build, so many mountain overhangs and huge holes carved into the sides of mountains, some that go quite deep down.
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Post by Highram on Jul 2, 2011 12:31:56 GMT -5
I now have Minecraft! Username: Bemidt
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Post by Onix Solo on Jul 2, 2011 12:44:13 GMT -5
Awesome
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Post by Hoist on Jul 2, 2011 12:44:24 GMT -5
You've taken a small step into a larger world! Prepare to have some of your time/life sucked away! And don't forget to show us your creations.
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Post by Onix Solo on Jul 2, 2011 13:06:38 GMT -5
I'm currently working on a tree house. Just got to get the limbs and leaves looking good before I post pics.
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Post by Onix Solo on Jul 11, 2011 22:31:29 GMT -5
Put a pic of my tree house up on face book.
After more or less finishing it, I decided to go exploring for a good cave to collect resources. I spent hours collecting, and I decided I've got a lot on me (6 stacks of iron, almost a full stack of gold, 2/3 a stack of lapiz, tons of coal and some red stone, and one diamond) and on the way back, I fall into lava....... I really wish Minecraft let you load saves.
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Post by Hoist on Jul 19, 2011 7:21:54 GMT -5
Nice!
I'm trying to get my netherrack bridge, the upgrade to my library and the shrine to my original first multiplayer house all done by the end of August. Library upgrade takes ages - collect reed, turn reed to paper, turn paper to books, turn books to bookcases. Need even more now as I decided it needs to be four high, not three. In addition to the bookcases themselves, i've finally started changing the stone walls in there too, and will eventually change the ceiling too.
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