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Jiarn

So a few screenshots of the new Dwarven Hold:

This is about 200ft from my spawning point, so as to avoid losing my home as I did the first time:


It's unassuming right now as it's just the beginning of what I plan on for the outer look. Think "Ironforge" ish.

Building down a bit I decided to move and create a side entrance that I could use to for easy access to the side of the mountain:


Wanted to give it that "dungeon opening" kind of look.

This was an unexpected surprise. When I hit the first cavern that I described earlier, I was digging around for iron and such when I ended up hearing pigs and sheep. I continued in the direction that I heard them and found daylight again. Realizing I could make this yet another opening to my fort I quickly constructed a smaller hub.



Just to give you some idea of how deep into the mountain I was at the time that I found the cavern and then this path to the hub:

 
Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

Working on a mountain top tower. All my playtime so far has been dedicated to being able to get up and down the mountain with relative ease. With that accomplished, it's time to do the actual tower building.
 
gargoyle_eva

gargoyle_eva

1 weekend of play later and I have a nice cozy little fort. I cant bring myself to leave my first home so I am just expanding it. Also built a tree farm and a waterfall going over the top of my fort. With a secret cavern hidden in it too. Currently working on an infinite cobblestone supply inside my house so I don't need to strip mine mountains for materials. Once it is finished I shall have infinite cobblestone, wood and water all within 20 steps of my house. Sustainable living at it's best. I shall take a little vid when I get off work tomorow giving you guys a tour of the place (including my maze of a mine and my core sampling probe. Also I need a name for my awesome dwelling (much like X's X fort, X cave and X system) any ideas?
 
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Jiarn

This is going to be a big post..... Maybe I'll just break it up into parts:

So we begin with the entry of the main entrance. As it was the initial little cave I used to protect myself it comes equipped with two furnaces, a workbench and a double chest.


Moving ahead and to the left, I heard water so I decided to see how far to the outside of the cave I was. Just a small hallway and I reached it. Decided to make it a window.


Directly opposite of the windowed hallway, and the right side of the main entrance is where the "Dungeon Opening" side entrance was created.


Straight out from the main entrance, past the two side hallways, was where the grand stairwell into the depths began.

(Yes there were many times I ran into different type of rock/gravel/ore/dirt and replaced them with solid stone for my OCD tendencies.)

End Post 1.
 
Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

Tower only got to be 3 stories before it hit the top of the world. It has no roof. I made a bridge to another mountain top which just needs guards and it's all done.

Also, I'm working on a mineshaft. I found diamond. Time to actually make a steel pick.

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And upon further exploration, this cave has everything.
 
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Jiarn

About half-way down this staircase, I got tired of having to run up and down the massive hallway to create Solid Stone, so I created another hub for supplies/creations.


Much further down, I began hearing the sounds of water. Curious I began digging down, though my OCD with stairs still allowed for easy up and down access without the requirement of jumping.


After having found the exit I mentioned earlier that became "Hub 2" I eventually kept striking large deposits of Iron and such so I began this very winding staircase into the bowels of the castle.


I was greated by a river and some lava, which you can see after removing the water, had left obsidian....


End Post 2.
 
O

Overflight

Holy hell, how you don't get lost in this game?
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I have devised an "ingenious" system to prevent this from happening: when you spawn, gather as much dirt or sand in the surroundings as possible (64 should be more than enough). When you find a point you want to return to, build a huge tower by the "jump, place block underneath you, repeat" method. When it is done, leap off it. When you inevitably die and spawn, you should be able to see it in the distance. If you are carrying any items with you, it is recommended that you build a box next to the tower to store your stuff.

Yes, this is a retarded as hell method, but I'm open for alternatives. I have also devised leaving blocks of something behind you as "bread crumbs", but the hilly terrain makes this difficult. Unless you use smaller towers instead of single blocks...this requires testing! *goes off*
 
Cheesy1

Cheesy1

Okay, a few coming your way.

The front of the first shack I created when I started:


The front of my mine, complete with lava flow below:


My castle from the entrance of my shack:


Front view of my castle, complete with clouds rolling in:


Castle entrance from afar:


Entrance up close:


Inside my castle on the bottom floor:


From the middle floor:


From the top floor:


A view of my shack from one of my castle's towers:
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Overflight said:
Holy hell, how you don't get lost in this game?
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I have devised an "ingenious" system to prevent this from happening: when you spawn, gather as much dirt or sand in the surroundings as possible (64 should be more than enough). When you find a point you want to return to, build a huge tower by the "jump, place block underneath you, repeat" method. When it is done, leap off it. When you inevitably die and spawn, you should be able to see it in the distance. If you are carrying any items with you, it is recommended that you build a box next to the tower to store your stuff.

Yes, this is a retarded as hell method, but I'm open for alternatives. I have also devised leaving blocks of something behind you as "bread crumbs", but the hilly terrain makes this difficult. Unless you use smaller towers instead of single blocks...this requires testing! *goes off*
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Switch to Cobblestone blocks. The only place that Cobblestone occurs naturally is within 4 blocks of a Monster Spawner, so if you can see Cobblestone, you know you are nearby a location you have previously been. You can also make signs.
 
J

Jiarn

Amazing work on that Mountain Top Castle Cheesy, I'm sure the breath air is fantastic.... it'd kill me, but I'm sure you're enjoying it!

Back to the soot and ash for me!
 
Far

Far

A bit more prgress from me though it's nothing compared to cheesy. Well done sir!

Finnally made it to the other towering mountains top.


Once I got up there I decided to mine down to ground level and make an alternate escape route in case any thing happens to the other one. I've pointed out the windows of those stairs in this screen.


View exiting the sky bridge to embark on to the top of the new area. In the distance is something I've dubbed Dino Mountain.


Entrance of the new steps so far.



Looking back out the stairs windows to where I took the screenshot that showed them a bit above in the post.



More stairs.


And they come out on ground level to this door.


Started doing some deep mining after I took these into the cave I found the chest and saddle in. A bit further down I found some redstone, a single diamond cube and a decent amount of coal and iron. However, the cavern opens up a bit below and I can see a pool of lava. Soon I hope to venture there.



 
GasBandit

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Also, I found a slightly higher res textures file I sort of like using now... The only drawback though is animated sprites don't work (fire, lava, water don't animate).

If you want to use it, just save the below file, and insert it into your minecraft.jar in your %appdata%/.minecraft/bin/ folder using winrar or something similar to overwrite the one already in it. Naturally, you'll want to back up your original jar first.

 
GasBandit

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Disconnected said:
so it's like legos? I like legos.
i can see why its addictive.
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Kind of. It's like you came upon a life-sized lego world, where all the blocks are a cubic meter in size, and you have to dig them up yourself to have blocks to build with, and at night out come zombies and skeletons and shaggy green suicide bombers to kill you. I build most of my stuff out of stone, which is easy enough to come by... but things like minecarts and tracks? That takes iron, which is fairly rare, and you have to smelt the ore into bricks first, which takes coal (which is abundant but still you gotta go looking for it), all the while you are wearing out and replacing tools via in-game crafting.

It's basically what I envisioned the Lego MMO to be when I heard about it years ago... only there's no subscription fee.

And it's still in alpha, so all the features aren't in yet and the multiplayer is REALLY buggy.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

This game has a lot of potential down the road. I'm having a hell of a lot of fun with it right now... but multiplayer is where the real idiotic fun happens (even though it's buggy as hell).

Never build anything with wood on a multiplayer server lol.
 
Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

AshburnerX said:
Switch to Cobblestone blocks. The only place that Cobblestone occurs naturally is within 4 blocks of a Monster Spawner, so if you can see Cobblestone, you know you are nearby a location you have previously been. You can also make signs.
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Put lava on top of the cobblestones and it'll be extremely visible in the dark.

You might want to make a pool of water around the tower if you plan on using lava.
 
Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

That is like a real life caricature of sad and lonely nerdom.

Or, quoting Harry Potter: He did great things in Minecraft. Depressingly nerdy, yes. But great.
 
GasBandit

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Jiarn said:
I have completely been humbled by Gasbandit's video. Simply amazing.
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The tower (and the elevated paths from the starting house) actually started just because I wanted to do something with all the hundreds and hundreds of cubic meters of stone I was digging up while hunting for iron before I learned the knack of finding iron quickly without excavating huge amounts of stone. But once I learned that, I actually feel LESS efficient now, because I no longer feel like I'm doing 2 things at once... I'm either quarrying OR mining iron, no longer both at once.

Green_Lantern said:
x2

my only "complain" is that those narrow bridges make me nervous.
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Most of the narrow ones get cart tracks put on them to be made into tramways. the skinny ones around the mountain at the end were only temporary - usually when I build an elevated walking path to somewhere I make it 2 meters wide.

And I didn't even go down into any of my mines in those videos, some are absolutely huge and sprawling... but really, you see one tunnel you've seen em all, no reason to videolog them.

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I was browsing the GOG.com forums and I noticed they have a thread on Minecraft. A couple of the recent posts were interesting:

Please tell me this guy used some sort of eternal editor to construct this:
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He's playing in classic/creative mode. No monsters, limited size world, no day/night cycle, no mining, no inventory (just infinite building materials of varying colors). When you don't have to go digging up your blocks, you can spend WAY more time building.



(from the minecraft museum)
 
GasBandit

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Not only did he build a damned castle which involves at least 9 towers higher than I have ever built, but he also built the VILLAGE at the BASE of the tower. Oi. My head hurts.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

It is very impressive.

I've been trying to build a pyramid but it's taking forever to cut down all the mountains around my castle to make flat ground for it.
 
O

Overflight

All for something that you can explore at the extremely fluid framerate of 6 fps :rolleyes:
 
bigcountry23

bigcountry23

I've had a chance to play around with a multi-player server and I'm not hugely impressed at this point (unable to kill animals, unable to build near the spawn point, instant health regen, etc.). I'm eager to see what updates they bring to the table for that element of the game.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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bigcountry23 said:
I've had a chance to play around with a multi-player server and I'm not hugely impressed at this point (unable to kill animals, unable to build near the spawn point, instant health regen, etc.). I'm eager to see what updates they bring to the table for that element of the game.
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Like we said, the multiplayer is very primitive and buggy at the moment. I mostly play single player at this point. I, too, however, salivate at what this game will be once the multiplayer matches the single player mode for functionality.


Anyway, today I finally figured out how the hoes work, and I've been struck with inspiration for the next addition to my tower: A HYDROPONIC FARM IN THE SKY. That way, I won't have to go down onto the ground with the filthy commoners to get food to heal me - I can bake bread from the wheat I will perpetually grow from my giant sky-farm.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Ok, now it's just getting ridiculous. Somebody has built a WORKING COMPUTER inside minecraft- behold, the functioning 16-bit redstone ALU -

 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Hah! I was wondering how long it would be until someone used redstone to build some sort of logic system or primitive computer. After all, if someone can simulate an entire AppleII 6502 chip in JavaScript, why not use Minecraft to do something similar?

On a different note, after grabbing the free-to-play copy over crash weekend, I started treating it seriously (up until then I thought the infinite construction mode was all there was). Over the following 16 days or so (during which time I had only 2 days off work), I absorbed all 45 of X's 'Adventures' videos (Yes, that's about 40hrs of video. I learned a lot. Had my mind blown a few times). Then, last night, I discovered the fan-made trailer (below).



It finally pushed me over the edge. I was talking to a friend on Skype about it at the time and sent him the link to the trailer. He watched the trailer and started purchasing the game before he was even finished watching. Less than 10 minutes later, I finally went through with my purchase. Got a copy for Kati also since she seemed to be interested, and will probably get a copy for my father since this might finally be the game that unseats MoO2 as the game he plays forever. He owns about 50 acres of wilderness in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that he's been meaning to develop. What happens when I introduce him to a game that has over a TRILLION (1,008,332,289,088) acres? Even Daggerfall pales in comparison (see graphic)



Now if you'll excuse me, I got a stronghold to dig. See you in a few weeks!

--Patrick
 
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