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Jasoco said:
Technically, you can ride in a minecart through a tunnel that's two blocks high, but there's one problem...
See, when you get out of a minecart, your character ends up standing on top of it. Since the minecart is one block high, and your character is two, you end up embedded in the ceiling and taking damage. Sometimes you'll fall back out of the ceiling before dying, sometimes you won't. So always make your minecart tunnels three blocks tall, just to be safe.
Put torches all around the cage and build a wall around. Beside one of the walls, mine a 5x2x4 hole and flood it. Build a second wall around the flooded hole, with one glass face. destroy the base of the hole so the water will run, but keep alternative blocks so spiders won't run through. Make the stream run for five or six blocks until it doesn't go anywhere, so you don't have to enter the stream to pick the items. Destroy the wall that separates the spawn cage from the flooded hole. Flood the whole aread with a bucket so the torches will go to the flooded gate. Erase this last stream. Profit.Haunted said:I completely failed making a spawner trap.
The spiders eventually overwhelmed me after two to three different unsuccessful attempts to wall them in with glass and drown them... got back in there and destroyed the spawn block.
:sadface
This is how I kill zombies.
- e water
- x blocks
- z spawn cage
- h glass
- - nothing
Seen from above:
xxxxxxx
x-------x
x---z---x <- spawn room with walls
x-------x
xeeeeex
xeeeeex
xhhhhhx <- wall of glass
xeeeeex <- 6 blocks below
xeeeeex
xeeeeex
xeeeeex
xeeeeex <- end of the stream
x-------x
Seen from the stream:
xhhhhhx
xhhhhhx
xhhhhhx
xhhhhhx
xhhhhhx
xehehex <- overture for the water.
Hope (and doubt) this will help.
Haunted
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Haha, thanks for the effort.fresquito said:
I'll try again next time I see a spawn (in 50 -60 gameplay hours given their rarity >_>).
I do want to make it mainly out of glass because I want to watch them struggle *insert evil laugh*, but my main problem was probably my lack of patience. I impulsively said "fuck it" and killed the spawn instead of calmly resetting the surroundings and trying again. It's really hard for me to get those water currents running the way I want to.
Yeah, it happened to me too. But in the end, you only need one simple deep hole where they can be led to. I tried flooding the whole chamber, so they'd die just as they appeared, but it's useless, because when the whole place is flooded, they will not spawn.
You can build it with glass, instead of rocks. Just don't you try to flood the whole place.
You can build it with glass, instead of rocks. Just don't you try to flood the whole place.
I've found them, including chests and non-working monster spawners, in peaceful. I don't recall if I had monsters on at any time in those particular worlds, but I think they can still be generated while in peaceful, and switching difficulty won't make them vanish.Jasoco said:
Tarin02543
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I've just bought Minecraft Alpha but I have a stupid username and want to create a new one. Can I change the name without having to rebuy it?
I have a weird question to ask, but whatever. I've been wanting to play Minecraft on my lunch breaks at work, but minecraft.net is blocked. Is there a way for me to bring the client and background files in on a memory stick? I tried bringing the client, but it won't connect to the server. I'm just thinking if i can drag the .minecraft folder from home and play the game offline.
Complex Shadow
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nmv i fixed it :lol
Not exactly stupid, but without a real answer. It's a sandbox game, and it means it. You can do whatever you want... that you can do.GC|Simon said:
The next question is "what can I do then?". Well, there're certainly a lot of things you can do. Just check some youtube videos, get ideas or, better, come up with your own.
Not very helping, I know, but this is Minecraft after all.
Awesome Animals
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GC|Simon said:
As the poster above stated, anything you want. Sandbox to the max. Just start building, or just start digging. Whatever you fancy. Here is the crafting list, which will allow you to build more things, and you can even begin making some circuitry, some cart tracks, and making your home fancier, and nicer. You want a glass ceiling? Do it! You want a spire? Do it! This game is incredibly open ended and is yours to do what you want.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
I just kept a window to the crafting wiki open and ran around more or less aimlessly, doing whatever I felt like at the moment. That way I was still sandboxing pretty hard but I wouldn't get too frustrated over lack of direction on what to do with new stuff.GC|Simon said:
crowphoenix
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Right now, I've set the difficulty to hard, and I'm trying to claim a new section of the mine I'm in. It's ridiculously difficult, but extremely satisfying when I have made some progress.GC|Simon said:
Setvan2734
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So did we give this stuff the name "Evil Ore" yet? Since we now know its a block
Complex Shadow
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hey guys i need some skins for minecraft. i currently don't like mine.
Complex Shadow
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:lol :lol :lol those are great, i love the l4d pack. but i was talking about textures but this is still pretty awesomeSetvan2734 said:
TouchMyBox
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Setvan2734 said:So did we give this stuff the name "Evil Ore" yet? Since we now know its a block
But who will create a statue commemorating EviLore out of Evil Ore?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
*raises hand* I'm on itTouchMyBox said:
Okay, I continued to play the game. Somehow addicting... I looked for a new "island" since my last one was pretty small. After a short travel time, I found a really big one. Build a little house. And now I'm in freaking trouble! I can't leave my house. There are some monsters and they explode when I leave my house... Why there are monsters at daylight?! How to deal with them?
ColinZeal said:Congrats, you´ve encountered "Creepers". Once they´re close enough to you they sizzle and explode in 3 secs. You COULD try to kill it before it explodes, but that´s up to you.
THIS game is CRACK. On Cocaine and ice cream.
I'm able to kill two or so. But the problem is: They come back every night. I don't understand why they know where I live... and why they are waiting for me... I mean, at night, I'm inside my "house" and my door is closed...
dollartaco
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GC|Simon said:
BUILD A MOAT!
Midnight Believer
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Complex Shadow
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crowphoenix
Banned
GC|Simon said:
Build a moat or some fire pits if you've got flint and steel. Also build another way out. Creepers are easy to take down with hit and run tactics, but if you mess up, boom!
Awesome Animals
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I finally found a large, very wealthy cave system. Lots of mobs, but now spawner. I killed them, and walled off what I could and began working my way in. I finally found some gold, and I'm excited to utilize it.
MurkyZebra2417
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Caesar III
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WOAH, Awesome.Midnight Believer said:
Awesome Animals
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Haunted, I love that poster. And I'm thinking gold armor that I will take out when I'm killing zombies.
Haunted
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Just don't let them hit you! Gold tools/armour are useless as fuck. Man, I was so happy when I found my first gold because I thought it'd be a nice upgrade from my iron stuff. Little did I know.SmokingBarrelX said:
Seriously? C'mon. :lolTryckser said:
edit: a good rule to follow is that if you have to ask the answer is yes.
Last night I started the long process of building an underground tunnel, under a massive lake, from my spawn island to a different one. Pretty sure I went deep enough, but it's fun to keep digging and never know if the next block is the one that will let in all the water. Nearly crapped myself when I took out some stone that happened to have some gravel (or whatever it is that gives flint) on top that then fell down. I don't really even know how far I have to go (over water with max draw distance it still takes a while to see land when moving by boat), I'm just going to keep digging and then ultimately block myself into a 1x1 area so I can dig upwards; that way if I happen to still be underwater, it will only flood the small container I'm in instead of the entire tunnel.
Right when I decided to quit for the night, I had managed to find a cave. Should be fun to explore, especially since NOW if a creeper spawns it could bring down the whole ocean on top of me.
How are people making underwater glass tunnels? I think I saw someplace that people make a wood tunnel, then a glass tunnel, then burn the wood, but I'm trying to picture which one is on the outside and how it would work overall and I'm not really seeing it.
Right when I decided to quit for the night, I had managed to find a cave. Should be fun to explore, especially since NOW if a creeper spawns it could bring down the whole ocean on top of me.
How are people making underwater glass tunnels? I think I saw someplace that people make a wood tunnel, then a glass tunnel, then burn the wood, but I'm trying to picture which one is on the outside and how it would work overall and I'm not really seeing it.
BuggyDClown
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Shit. I went out to get supplies, needed wood, and wanted seedlings to build a tree line behind my great wall I'm building. Got a ton of the stuff. Now I'm completely lost, very far from home, not sure where it is and have no compass. Can not believe how dumb that was.
I'm setting up camp.
Going to be a rough couple of nights. I've stored my spoils in a treasure chest, so if I die in lava or anything else I can trek my way back to it.
I've also surrounded the area in torches and made 3 tall pillars to find the location again if I need to.
Time to go down, into the mines to hopefully find red stone to build a compass and bring home everything.
I'm setting up camp.
Going to be a rough couple of nights. I've stored my spoils in a treasure chest, so if I die in lava or anything else I can trek my way back to it.
I've also surrounded the area in torches and made 3 tall pillars to find the location again if I need to.
Time to go down, into the mines to hopefully find red stone to build a compass and bring home everything.
Man, that Animal Crossing pack is nice. I already recreated the landscape of my AC:CF town (not finished with buildings and trees yet) in one of my worlds, maybe I'll give this a try sometime.
I wanted an autumn look, and I tried Painterly but everything was so different that I just felt a little lost. So I reverted to the default textures, pulled out the .png, and did some hue shifts on the grass and leaves. I like the end result; mostly default textures, but with a nice autumn feel.
I wanted an autumn look, and I tried Painterly but everything was so different that I just felt a little lost. So I reverted to the default textures, pulled out the .png, and did some hue shifts on the grass and leaves. I like the end result; mostly default textures, but with a nice autumn feel.
Awesome Animals
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How do you make trees that large?
p.s. I love the autumn look
p.s. I love the autumn look
WanderingWind
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Twig said:
Gold doesn't make good anything though. Might as well look like golden age Iron Man when you traipsing about.
For that particular tree, I started by building the main trunk out of dirt, as a 5x5 box. a few blocks up I added an inner layer so the top looked like this with dirt:SmokingBarrelX said:
Code:
XXXXX
XXXXX
XX XX
XXXXX
XXXXXAs the trees grow you can go back and replace the dirt below each tree with log blocks harvested from other trees, to make it look like a huge trunk.
Honestly I think Brashnir really outdid me with his own treehouse though.
Can you post your png file somewhere? I am not so great at image editing, but that fall terrain looks great.BooJoh said:Man, that Animal Crossing pack is nice. I already recreated the landscape of my AC:CF town (not finished with buildings and trees yet) in one of my worlds, maybe I'll give this a try sometime.
I wanted an autumn look, and I tried Painterly but everything was so different that I just felt a little lost. So I reverted to the default textures, pulled out the .png, and did some hue shifts on the grass and leaves. I like the end result; mostly default textures, but with a nice autumn feel.
I think this should work: http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g35/stylusninja/minecraft/terrain.pngalanias said:
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