Minecraft - £8 Very well spent
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JakeS said:
Episode 11 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ebbUi5_Fyo&hd=...
Episode 12 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNMnfXltnw&hd=...
Great, now I have somthing to watch tonight while the wife is watching some crap on tv Episode 12 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNMnfXltnw&hd=...
.Keep up the good work Jake
Doug Phillips said:
JakeS said:
Episode 11 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ebbUi5_Fyo&hd=...
Episode 12 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNMnfXltnw&hd=...
Great, now I have somthing to watch tonight while the wife is watching some crap on tv Episode 12 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNMnfXltnw&hd=...
.Keep up the good work Jake
A few tips iv learned the hard way:
1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
PintOfKittens said:
A few tips iv learned the hard way:
1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
5. Never mine horizontally into lava and have nowhere to retreat to. - you lose everything!1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
MoleVision said:
PintOfKittens said:
A few tips iv learned the hard way:
1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
5. Never mine horizontally into lava and have nowhere to retreat to. - you lose everything!1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
Or yuo can just place a block in its path to stop itPintOfKittens said:
MoleVision said:
PintOfKittens said:
A few tips iv learned the hard way:
1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
5. Never mine horizontally into lava and have nowhere to retreat to. - you lose everything!1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
Or yuo can just place a block in its path to stop itAnyone else find this game can be scary when you can hear monsters but not see them?... keep expecting to turn around and find a few behind me when I'm facing a wall digging! . . had a couple of zombies spawn in areas I thought were safe so I think I'm paranoid now.
Also can creepers spawn underground or are they entering my caverns a different route?
MoleVision said:
PintOfKittens said:
MoleVision said:
PintOfKittens said:
A few tips iv learned the hard way:
1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
5. Never mine horizontally into lava and have nowhere to retreat to. - you lose everything!1. Never EVER dig straight up or straight down.
2. Always carry a bucket of water with you when digging in a cave.
3. If underground, and you spot some soil or gravel, dig it all away, something cool will be hidden nearby usually
4. If you hit adminium/opblock, dont try to work your way under it. You might be lucky, and find a void, then fall to the bottom of the map, loosing everything you had on you.
Or yuo can just place a block in its path to stop itAnyone else find this game can be scary when you can hear monsters but not see them?... keep expecting to turn around and find a few behind me when I'm facing a wall digging! . . had a couple of zombies spawn in areas I thought were safe so I think I'm paranoid now.
Also can creepers spawn underground or are they entering my caverns a different route?
Even though it is so obviously the bloke who wrote it going "GRRRRR" into a microphone, they do get rather scary! The trouble is, my brain is still kinda in Warcraft hunter mode. So when something corners me, my fingers try hitting the drop trap, disengage, send in pet, feign death buttons. D'oh.
You can survive tremendous falls if they're into water.
As a result, I've built myself a diving board. Not wanting to do things by halves, the top of it is at the height limit for constructions...
Now converting the pond it hangs over into a conservatory-cum-outdoor-swimming-pool for my spawnpoint shelter; needs lots and lots of glass though. Considering building a second furnace to get things moving quicker as having only one is the major bottleneck at the moment, at least until I run out of coal.
Eventually I'll extend the shelter all the way up to the diving board for 24-hour diving, although that's going to take a fair amount of stone.
Edited for pics:
Looking up.
When I say "high dive"...
Wheee! The pigs seem to like it in there - I think it's the water. I need to finish the walls up though as I found a skelly in there at night-time, which did not please me, especially as the shelter isn't designed to cope with monsters in the patio area and I had to retreat into my mine to avoid being shot at through the door.
I wish I'd built everything out of better materials, but the map only started as an experiment to see if the spawnpoint stayed in the same place if you built a hut over it.
(It does, by the way, but it will move if you dig a big hole under it. My "loop of infinite death" was a non-starter. Small holes seem okay, though, as I dug one to put a hardwood floor into the shelter.)
As a result, I've built myself a diving board. Not wanting to do things by halves, the top of it is at the height limit for constructions...
Now converting the pond it hangs over into a conservatory-cum-outdoor-swimming-pool for my spawnpoint shelter; needs lots and lots of glass though. Considering building a second furnace to get things moving quicker as having only one is the major bottleneck at the moment, at least until I run out of coal.
Eventually I'll extend the shelter all the way up to the diving board for 24-hour diving, although that's going to take a fair amount of stone.
Edited for pics:
Looking up.
When I say "high dive"...
Wheee! The pigs seem to like it in there - I think it's the water. I need to finish the walls up though as I found a skelly in there at night-time, which did not please me, especially as the shelter isn't designed to cope with monsters in the patio area and I had to retreat into my mine to avoid being shot at through the door.
I wish I'd built everything out of better materials, but the map only started as an experiment to see if the spawnpoint stayed in the same place if you built a hut over it.
(It does, by the way, but it will move if you dig a big hole under it. My "loop of infinite death" was a non-starter. Small holes seem okay, though, as I dug one to put a hardwood floor into the shelter.)
Edited by Timberwolf on Tuesday 7th September 00:58
Devilstreak said:
Jesus Timberwolf. Please explain how you build that up at an angle? I'm confused...Looks brilliant by the way.
look at the top pic you can see his staircase. Then on the bottom one you can see the shadow of it over the pool.Do you survive if you jump Timber?
Edited by JakeS on Tuesday 7th September 09:10
TimmyWimmyWoo said:
I've had a quick look at the website, but can't see if this will run under OSX? Just as I deleted my Windows partition…
you can run it in a browser. So I don't see why it wouldn't. See if the free version works in your browser. If it does then the full game should too.Re my diving board...
Apart from gravel and sand (which fall unless there's a block directly underneath) the blocks are something civil engineers can only dream of - they'll even float in the air if you mine away their neighbours, although you need a cantilever of some kind to get them there in the first place.
If you stand right on the edge of a block you can see the vertical face of it, just about. That's how I built the staircase; add a block to the edge, step back, then put another block on top of it. Jump up and repeat.
At first I was only building a suicide staircase to test my spawnpoint theories (hence it being made quickly out of dirt) but by the time I was high enough for reliable deaths I was close enough to the water that I could hit it with a running jump - and found out that if the water is deep enough, you'll decelerate before hitting the bottom and indeed survive the fall.
Apart from gravel and sand (which fall unless there's a block directly underneath) the blocks are something civil engineers can only dream of - they'll even float in the air if you mine away their neighbours, although you need a cantilever of some kind to get them there in the first place.
If you stand right on the edge of a block you can see the vertical face of it, just about. That's how I built the staircase; add a block to the edge, step back, then put another block on top of it. Jump up and repeat.
At first I was only building a suicide staircase to test my spawnpoint theories (hence it being made quickly out of dirt) but by the time I was high enough for reliable deaths I was close enough to the water that I could hit it with a running jump - and found out that if the water is deep enough, you'll decelerate before hitting the bottom and indeed survive the fall.
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