Clever-Fox
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Skeletons are the worst. And now zombies get armor! This is why I build my house on an island, and then surround the house with lava!
Minecrafters, assemble!
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Searching for a flower
I did that then built myself a raising bridge - took ages to muddle out how to build a 3 by 3 block bridge that rose up on pistons 
HoopyFrood
It's me! Hurrah!
Skeletons are annoying, being distance pests, but seriously. Creepers. I hate them. When you're at starting out levels but need to go searching for some stone and iron and they're always there, just lurking, waiting to blow you up and making you lose all your hard earned stuff! And what's especially annoying is that they can creep up while you're inventorying or crafting and you hear their sissing and have a second to think "NOOO" and then you're dead.
Now, though, I have armour and I set up way stations with chests along the way and am generally getting to the point where I'm not guaranteed to die if one explodes near me. Today I went waaaay underground and generally sorted out the cave system right next to my castle. Lavafalls and everything down there. Found loads of iron, gold, redstone etc. Still yet to find another clump of diamond though, having used my last bit replacing a lost diamond pickaxe. I did find a still lava pool, though, so I've been making loads of obsidian!
Now, though, I have armour and I set up way stations with chests along the way and am generally getting to the point where I'm not guaranteed to die if one explodes near me. Today I went waaaay underground and generally sorted out the cave system right next to my castle. Lavafalls and everything down there. Found loads of iron, gold, redstone etc. Still yet to find another clump of diamond though, having used my last bit replacing a lost diamond pickaxe. I did find a still lava pool, though, so I've been making loads of obsidian!
Lenny
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Skeletons with enchanted bows are my fear, followed very closely by armour-wearing baby zombies, and spiders with invisibility. I'm a boss at getting Creepers to conga-line after me, and I lure them into water, set one off, and swim back far enough to not take damage (because water dampens the explosion!).
I can't cave to save my life. I tend to pick up enough coal and iron to suit my needs by quarrying under my buildings (which also gives me a decent amount of space for things like storage rooms and tree farms), and if I need redstone I'll branch mine.
Saddened by my lack of diamonds, I've recently got into Villager breeding, and currently have a librarian villager with a paper trade in his sixth slot (it's not yet unlocked his next trade, so I'm rolling in emeralds), and a couple of blacksmith villagers giving me diamond gear for emeralds (pickaxe for ten; boots for seven; sword for thirteen). A Blaze grinder and a zombie grinder provide me with levels when I'm running low and want to enchant something.
Amusingly, my villager breeding building is attracting all of the zombies, which means I can run around at night without having to fear a horde.
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Have you made it to the Nether yet, Hoops?
I can't cave to save my life. I tend to pick up enough coal and iron to suit my needs by quarrying under my buildings (which also gives me a decent amount of space for things like storage rooms and tree farms), and if I need redstone I'll branch mine.
Saddened by my lack of diamonds, I've recently got into Villager breeding, and currently have a librarian villager with a paper trade in his sixth slot (it's not yet unlocked his next trade, so I'm rolling in emeralds), and a couple of blacksmith villagers giving me diamond gear for emeralds (pickaxe for ten; boots for seven; sword for thirteen). A Blaze grinder and a zombie grinder provide me with levels when I'm running low and want to enchant something.
Amusingly, my villager breeding building is attracting all of the zombies, which means I can run around at night without having to fear a horde.
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Have you made it to the Nether yet, Hoops?
HoopyFrood
It's me! Hurrah!
Holy crap, you can breed villagers? All I've got so far is a field of cows. Is it like that? Do you feed them some steak and they 'kiss' and have babies? And villagers can do stuff for you? I was mostly stealing all their really nice stone slabs!
No, no visit to the Nether yet! I'm still trying to mostly work out what everything does
And villagers can do stuff for you? I was mostly stealing all their really nice stone slabs!No, no visit to the Nether yet! I'm still trying to mostly work out what everything does
Karn Maeshalanadae
I'm a pineapple
Sad thing is, Hoopy, the Xbox version has nothing on the original. I believe its height limit is half, and the area sizes are only that of a single map. The 360 can only take so much pressure on its processor, after all.
If you really want to build something on it, go with superflat world in creative mode. Only way to do it.
HoopyFrood
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I'm not one for building, really (though No One is currently trying to build himself something special on his map). I'm more of an explorer/adventurer type. Haven't really got the patience for building crazy big structures!
Lenny
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Holy crap, you can breed villagers? All I've got so far is a field of cows. Is it like that? Do you feed them some steak and they 'kiss' and have babies?
No, no visit to the Nether yet! I'm still trying to mostly work out what everything does
Oh yes! Every passive mob in the game can be bred, so you can have huge farms of:
* cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens for valuable resources
* villagers for cool trades
* horses, donkeys, and mules for travelling (due for the 360 in a future patch, which is probably good because they're not great on the PC version)
* and cats and dogs for, erm... companionship?
To breed (EDIT: I might be wrong that PC breeding is the same as 360 breeding. If wheat won't breed your animals, then try the things I've listed):
* cows and sheep take wheat
* pigs take carrots
* chickens take seeds
* horses, donkeys, and mules take golden carrots and/or golden apples
* cats take fish
* dogs take steak
* villagers need doors
I'm pretty sure that villager breeding was added to the 360 version in a recent update. It will be interesting to see if the breeder design I'm using (by a YouTuber called TangoTek) also works on the 360 version (I'm sure everything behaves the same way, the question is whether the redstone items required have been added yet).
There's a whole system to it, too, which can eventually give you the "Perfect Villager" (one who trades a renewable resource, such as paper or wheat, in a high trade slot, meaning you can get unlimited emeralds). It's a large project, though!
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I enjoy the Nether. Bizarrely, it's probably the safest place to be in the PC version at the moment, because the Overworld mobs have been updated with brand new behaviours and equips (which will make their way to the 360 version in a future update, for sure).
HoopyFrood
It's me! Hurrah!
Heh, yeah, I've made friends with wolves and ocelots (in fact I think I left my kitty sitting at the entrance of a cave way on the other side of the map. Probably still sitting there, like Fry's dog).
Villagers need...doors? As in, you just hand them to them?
Blimey, this does sound mad. But that's what I love about the game, that there are so many weird combinations to find!
Villagers need...doors? As in, you just hand them to them?
Blimey, this does sound mad. But that's what I love about the game, that there are so many weird combinations to find!
Lenny
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Ha! That would be great: "Have a door." "Thanks! Have a child".
But no. It's got something to do with the number of doors, and the number of villagers in an area with doors. You can have a maximum of one grown-up villager for something like every three doors (as long as each door has a block up to five blocks in front of it that has a transparent view of the sky).
So the system I use has a single villager pootling around in an area with six doors, whilst a number of villagers not too far above him breed. The wiki explains it a lot better, but the general gist is that it works because the breeding villagers are close enough to the door-trapped villager to be caught in the breeding radius, but far enough away from the doors to not be affected (so the one guy with the doors counts for a single villager, leaving three doors left over, which counts for another villager. Because that second villager never arrives in the doors area, breeding continues).
But no. It's got something to do with the number of doors, and the number of villagers in an area with doors. You can have a maximum of one grown-up villager for something like every three doors (as long as each door has a block up to five blocks in front of it that has a transparent view of the sky).
So the system I use has a single villager pootling around in an area with six doors, whilst a number of villagers not too far above him breed. The wiki explains it a lot better, but the general gist is that it works because the breeding villagers are close enough to the door-trapped villager to be caught in the breeding radius, but far enough away from the doors to not be affected (so the one guy with the doors counts for a single villager, leaving three doors left over, which counts for another villager. Because that second villager never arrives in the doors area, breeding continues).
Karn Maeshalanadae
I'm a pineapple
Exploring is pretty decent, though again, Xbox is only as large as a single map. There's plenty of underground, though, and the Nether.
I suspect that when the One is released it could overtake the PC version.
HoopyFrood
It's me! Hurrah!
A single map is large enough!!
And villager breeding sounds...confusing. I'll get into it eventually.
Oh god, I just visited the Nether. That was the most terrifying experience of my life! What the hell!! Though I did bring back some rock which I might just set on fire all around the map.
And villager breeding sounds...confusing. I'll get into it eventually.
Oh god, I just visited the Nether. That was the most terrifying experience of my life! What the hell!! Though I did bring back some rock which I might just set on fire all around the map.
Lenny
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Don't attack the zombie pigmen! And I hope you're good with a bow, because fighting a ghast (the flying white things that shoot fireballs) with a sword is almost impossible, and hitting their fireballs back at them is very tricky.
Lenny
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My paper villager opened up his next trade slot: a book and sixteen emeralds for Thorns I. He is no more, but one of my other villagers has just opened up a paper trade that needs less paper!
He is no more, but one of my other villagers has just opened up a paper trade that needs less paper! HoopyFrood
It's me! Hurrah!
Yeah, I took down a couple of ghasts with my bow last night! And also killed a Pigman before I knew what it was, but got a fancy golden sword because of it, though!
HoopyFrood
It's me! Hurrah!
T'other night when No One came to bed (we take it in turns playing and he usually sits up later) he said he'd been mining all night so I asked if he'd died repeatedly (I did at first). He said no -- hadn't even met a monster! I said he must have put it on peaceful by mistake.
Turns out he had! But we've both been playing peaceful the past few days. No One says he's going to stick to it, but I miss the drama of having to dive away from hissing creepers.
But it had given me the chance to really get going. I sorted out my really deep mine. Reached bedrock and then just tunnelled in an almost straight line. Built some rails, including with powered sections.
Also explored the Nether and set up two more portal waypoints. One to the middle of overground, the other to the very farthest corner to where I started. Now I can cross the entire map in a short Nether run. This nee corner has mountains, so I leveled the top of one and built a new sandstone tower. With a glass tunnel that cuts straight through all the floors and inside I've added a waterfall on one side and a lavafall on the other! Looks very cool.
Turns out he had! But we've both been playing peaceful the past few days. No One says he's going to stick to it, but I miss the drama of having to dive away from hissing creepers.
But it had given me the chance to really get going. I sorted out my really deep mine. Reached bedrock and then just tunnelled in an almost straight line. Built some rails, including with powered sections.
Also explored the Nether and set up two more portal waypoints. One to the middle of overground, the other to the very farthest corner to where I started. Now I can cross the entire map in a short Nether run. This nee corner has mountains, so I leveled the top of one and built a new sandstone tower. With a glass tunnel that cuts straight through all the floors and inside I've added a waterfall on one side and a lavafall on the other! Looks very cool.
Overread
Searching for a flower
Peaceful is dull - you need that added spice of things that can scare and kill you in the world!
Though I do set things to allow the cheats, only because some resources are darn rare to get so if you want to build something big the fun to time aspect diminishes - so I cheat for some harder to get stuff when I need it in big quantities.
Mining wise I find that a nice big shaft such as 6*6 or 10*10 is really boring to dig, but gives massive quantities of materials to build with. Plus you'll normally hit a good cave now and then to explore. At the very lower levels its worth branching out - a series of grids of straight tunnels is a good way to hunt for those rare deep minerals.
Though I do set things to allow the cheats, only because some resources are darn rare to get so if you want to build something big the fun to time aspect diminishes - so I cheat for some harder to get stuff when I need it in big quantities.
Mining wise I find that a nice big shaft such as 6*6 or 10*10 is really boring to dig, but gives massive quantities of materials to build with. Plus you'll normally hit a good cave now and then to explore. At the very lower levels its worth branching out - a series of grids of straight tunnels is a good way to hunt for those rare deep minerals.
Karn Maeshalanadae
I'm a pineapple
For me, I tend to play on peaceful when starting out-you don't need diamond or obsidian to get a house built.
After that, though, I usually switch it. I have to admit it's usually on easy, because I really don't have the reflexes to dodge much.
After that, though, I usually switch it. I have to admit it's usually on easy, because I really don't have the reflexes to dodge much.
Anybody having troubles with Minecraft and the newest Windows updates? I'm trying to winnow out the problem my son is having with logging into the server he plays on.
Windows updates have caused all our computers various difficulties, this last round (last week), but I uninstalled them last night and it didn't help, so I don't *think* it was that. The other possible culprits I'm considering at the moment are the various mods he has installed and the Java update he did recently. We tried to uninstall and go back to various older versions of Java, but now we're left with two versions showing in the programs list (when you go to uninstall) and both refuse to uninstall because they say they are missing a .dll file.
He may have to save his worlds off and wipe Minecraft and start over, and that may include a complete restore on the computer as well, unless we can find a combination that works.
Any thoughts?
Windows updates have caused all our computers various difficulties, this last round (last week), but I uninstalled them last night and it didn't help, so I don't *think* it was that. The other possible culprits I'm considering at the moment are the various mods he has installed and the Java update he did recently. We tried to uninstall and go back to various older versions of Java, but now we're left with two versions showing in the programs list (when you go to uninstall) and both refuse to uninstall because they say they are missing a .dll file.
He may have to save his worlds off and wipe Minecraft and start over, and that may include a complete restore on the computer as well, unless we can find a combination that works.
Any thoughts?
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