Minecraft, Must...resist... Options

[Tanegar]

Different materials resist damage (like exploding creepers) to different degrees. Sand is, AFAIK, the second least sturdy material after glass. Build your house with cobblestone walls. Creepers will still be able to damage it, but are unlikely to destroy it outright. Also, if you know there are creepers right next to your house, lure them away! If you leave the creeper's blast radius before it actually explodes, its "fuse" resets, so run like hell to a defensible position.

[Stahlseele]

i allways forget to make lots of bows and arrows <.<
also, i have taken to dwarfism . . i simply burrow down into natural stone and make my home in there . .

[Tanegar]

Caves, natural or otherwise, make the best starter homes in my experience. Tunnel downward for stone and other resources, then build an exterior house on top of it. Keep the original bunker as a fallback position. Don't forget doors, not just on the outside, but to separate your "living space" from your ever-expanding mine system where monsters tend to spawn.

[Tiralee]

Made a pit trap from hell (~ 80 blocks deep, 10x 12 wide all by pickaxe:)) and now have more pork than a government contractor. And eggs! Now all I need is milk, maple syrup and I can have pancakes and bacon.

Note: watercourse traps don't work well unless you drown the target (or lavablade them) so the downward "shaft" needs to be enclosed, or they'll just float down safely. Duh me.

Shall make the npc harvester later on, but need more diamond, so might start afresh - god I love unlimited water, took me too long to get the hang of it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

Oh, can someone answer for me - is Obsidian the best thing to resist damage from fire-ball hurling undead? Thanks. (It hit a couple of creepers and things got messy for a while.) putting in "reactive armour" (sand or gravel between walls) is good if your walls are high enough that the undead don't use it as a ramp to get closer to you.

Other things - once you hit admin rock, you can make a dropshaft (straight down) with 3 blocks deep water and you can drop forever and get out safely. You can also slow yourself by putting a waterfall down the shaft, but do line any voids with glass bricks so you know where you're going:)

Happy mining,

Tir.

[Tanegar]

According to the Minecraft wiki, obsidian is impervious to explosions.

[Stahlseele]

Yeah, but that needs diamond to be mined.
And i have not found a SINGLE diamond yet.
Heck, i don't even have 40 iron . .
Coal is not an issue, due to being able to burn wood with wood to get charcoal . .

[Stahlseele]

For all of us playing MineCraft and wanting a bit more bling in our games:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=65936

[Tanegar]

Those high-res mob skins are nightmare fuel. No, thanks.

[Stahlseele]

To Paraphrase indiana jones:"Spiders . . why did it have to be spiders?"

edit:
*snickers*
this is now the second board where the textures are regarded as creepy pasta ^^

[StealthSigma]

I've been playing on a server with some friends from WoW.

I took over an island to build on. My first order if business is to setup the dirt fields that I'm going to use to plant trees that will take care of my wood needs. I want to be able to have about 9 trees growing at once and I'm planning on planting trees with a 4 block gap between them. Once I've done that, then it's digging downward to get enough stone to start building the island fortress.

[Stahlseele]

Remember: you can only go 64 blocks upwards/downwards.
It's basically soil, stone,(minerals somewhere in here) lava, administration.
Then comes the nether, if you can get a portal going.
One does not simply dig into Nether.

[PBTHHHHT]

Man, with all this talk about minecraft here, maybe there's enough to get a dumpshock multiplayer server going or something.

[Stahlseele]

Maybe, but i don't know how one would go about something like that.
And seeing how it's Java based, the load is pretty huge. And it's complicated <.<

[StealthSigma]

Maybe, but i don't know how one would go about something like that.
And seeing how it's Java based, the load is pretty huge. And it's complicated <.<

You can download the client instead of running it in java.

[Stahlseele]

you can download the .exe but it's STILL Java.
same on the server side.
If that were not the case, it would not be cross plattform compatible between linsux, windumb and crapple OS suX

[Fabe]

Man, with all this talk about minecraft here, maybe there's enough to get a dumpshock multiplayer server going or something.

At the very least we should find a already running mulitplayer survival server and play there.

[Tanegar]

Interesting minor tidbit: Cobblestone can be smelted into placeable blocks of regular stone. Presumably for those who want the smooth, seamless look for their Fortresses of Doom.

[Stahlseele]

That and it's also more explosion resistant than cobble stone.
Also, you can make metal blocks that let you repair tools i think.

[Tiralee]

RAGEQUIT

I'll be back, I know it, but after falling twice (!!) to my devillishly-mundane lava trap (and my gear ) I've decided to take a break from that game.

Yeah, for all of 4 hours last night.

Bloody hell, made my first tnt and spent the next 20 minutes cackling as I watched lambs and pigs trot over my mine-laiden landscape.
Protip: Mining with tnt is worth the time.
ProTip2: bury the damn TNT! God, makes a helluva hole then. Detonate whenever enough animals are there for a laugh.
Protip 3: Don't chase arrow-firing skeletons while holding tnt and forget where the activated tnt is. (fell into a big-ass hole I'd "dug" with a wandering cow earlier. To quote Leo, "We need to go deeper.")

Also, nothing creepier then watching a wandering zombie horde backlight by the backscatter light of an enormous cavern, unless it's hearing them all moan and come toward you enmasse, arrows leading. Right into the Lavablade, MUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHHAAAAAaaaaaa...SSssssssss....BOOOM! (Obsidian worked better, redesigned the blade as well.)

-Tir

[Stahlseele]

*snickers*
yah, i feel your pain ^^

[Tiralee]

Was all worth it once the Lavainator 4000 finally worked (after teething problems, lava and obsidian)
~1500 items an hour, could be hugely optimised. And made into an "above ground" trapper as well, to get some of them tasty animals.

Left it running for 6 hours, inventoy was full. Emptied inventory, was full again....lotsa feathers, bones, arrows, not as many gunpowder as I'd have liked.

Still, have enough for 124 tnt, so that's got to be fun later on


Mining! It's about explosions!

Tir.

[Stahlseele]

*nods* suddenly, the mountain on which i had built my little keep, had vanished right from under my shelter o.O

[Tiralee]

God damn, that took ages, but it was fun.

I dug a 60+ deep hole, in the ocean (I cofferdamned the lot) and planted trees about, now I just watch as all sort of thing fall into the lavainator. 80x50x60 is a helluva lot of iton picks and TNT.(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

TNT, hmmm. Sadly, not so great for finding gems. Great for finding lava lakes that drain into your home.
-Tir

Dragonage 2 today, huzzah

[Stahlseele]

one can only go 64 blocks deep or up, due to engine limitations.
did you fill the ground with lava? how doyou get the items then?

[Dumori]

God damn, that took ages, but it was fun.

I dug a 60+ deep hole, in the ocean (I cofferdamned the lot) and planted trees about, now I just watch as all sort of thing fall into the lavainator. 80x50x60 is a helluva lot of iton picks and TNT.(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

TNT, hmmm. Sadly, not so great for finding gems. Great for finding lava lakes that drain into your home.
-Tir

Dragonage 2 today, huzzah

Wait you have DA2 I have 9 more hours to wait.