A 'Portal' is created by making a 'doorway' of Obsidian, 4 blocks wide, 5 blocks tall, leaving the middle 6 cubes open/empty.
Then use Flint and Steel to 'light' the Portal, which will create the 'portal'. Stand in the portal, don't run through it, and you will be eventually warped to the Nether.
More details can be found right here!
Thanks for the tip for how to create a portal. So, I visited Nether today. NEVER again.
Nether survival tip: Cobblestone is ghast proof.
Gast fireballs don't destroy cobblestone. Use it to build a shelter around (including floor under) your portal.
As for the zombie pigmen, be very careful not to hit them and they should leave you alone.
Thanks for the tips mate! I'll try them when I've recovered for the loss of my awesome stuff, which I was stupid enough to carry with me to Nether. =)
I'm told that Lava will eventually turn to dirt if removed from the lava 'pool' over a period of time, yet I have not seen this in effect. Is this truth or yet more mis-information on the Wiki?
I'm told that Lava will eventually turn to dirt if removed from the lava 'pool' over a period of time, yet I have not seen this in effect. Is this truth or yet more mis-information on the Wiki?
I don't even see this on the wiki.
Fowing lava will turn to cobblestone if brought adjacent to flowing water, or obsidian if it is a source block. Now that we have weather effects and rain, it could possibly do something to the lava, but I haven't seen any evidence of this.
Fowing lava will turn to cobblestone if brought adjacent to flowing water, or obsidian if it is a source block.
Well...damn. There goes my idea of a never-ending source of Obsidian in SMP. Can't wait til the Nether is available >_<
Fowing lava will turn to cobblestone if brought adjacent to flowing water, or obsidian if it is a source block.Well...damn. There goes my idea of a never-ending source of Obsidian in SMP. Can't wait til the Nether is available >_<
There is a glitch where if lava flows onto unlit redstone wire that is adjacent to water it will turn into obsidian. Its a known bug.
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I picked up this damnable game around February and needed to put it down because of the horrible dreams I was having.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Imagine sleeping through that for hours on end.
Imagine sleeping through that for hours on end.
Did you have an iron pickaxe or a diamond pickaxe in your dreams? I mean, I can understand being upset at iron. Diamond, not so much.
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I picked up this damnable game around February and needed to put it down because of the horrible dreams I was having.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Whack, Whack, Whack - pop - pick up cobblestone.
Imagine sleeping through that for hours on end.
Did you find yourself afraid to look back at the tunnel left behind you? With the darkness left by dying torches creeping ever closer?
ssssSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssss
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Did you have an iron pickaxe or a diamond pickaxe in your dreams? I mean, I can understand being upset at iron. Diamond, not so much.
I don't believe in wasting iron on something as mundane as a pickaxe when you're plowing through a 64x64x3 room. Go, make enough to fill your inventory with those and torches and be on your way. Save the iron for rails.
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You all should see my awesome obsidian farm right around level 3(ish). I carved out a huge 64x64 room two blocks high, then carved 1 block deep trenches into all the bedrock I could find. Then I manually moved all the lava from a huge pool I found nearby into those trenches. Add in a waterfall the room above and watch the entire room turn to obsidian. Then you just need to harvest it all and repeat...
...I still haven't harvested it all...
...It's been two months.
Yup, been changing my netherrack lightning back to torches due to an huge fire accident involving my enormous wooden mansion...
Yup, been changing my netherrack lightning back to torches due to an huge fire accident involving my enormous wooden mansion...
I have never, ever, built a building out of wood. Sandstone, Glass, even Dirt, but never wood. Too many years adventuring to trust anything so easily flammable as a primary building substance.
I'll also see if I can find that link on YouTube with a PvP server, somebody was getting really pissed off with two goons stealing all his Obsidian, so made a room, lined with Obsidian blocks, and stored some buckets of lava on a ledge above this 'hut'. Left a trail of tracks, two goons followed, ran inside ... he destroyed the door, filled it in with Obsidian, then ran to the top, removed the stone blocks he'd put over the 'holes' and poured three buckets of lava into the 'impenetrable' walls.
I now make it a cardinal rule to always carry a bucket of water with me where-ever I go ...
So who wants to get a friendly Paizonian Minecraft server up and running?
Oh, oh! That would be awesome.
Has anyone tried making to-scale versions of Pathfinder Dungeons in Minecraft? (I tried building a version of Castle Ravenloft, but a game crash ate the world I was building in). >:(
Recreations of Sandpoint and other Pathfinder locales would be fun community projects on a Paizoite Minecraft server.
Has anyone tried making to-scale versions of Pathfinder Dungeons in Minecraft? (I tried building a version of Castle Ravenloft, but a game crash ate the world I was building in). >:(
Recreations of Sandpoint and other Pathfinder locales would be fun community projects on a Paizoite Minecraft server.
Sandpoint in Minecraft... I'm pretty sure that would re-define the meaning of awesome.
Oh, Fort Rannick would also be cool. Haven't seen Harrowstone, but knowing Paizo, I bet it is too.
I recommend using a 2 block by 2 block grid for each 5 foot square, with each wall being one block wide (but not counting against the normal grid squares). Since each Minecraft block is stated to be one cubic meter, this gives us a 5 foot square that is actually about 6.6 feet per side - a fair enough approximation given the blockiness of Minecraft. The reproductions of game sites won't be exact - but they'll be close enough.
Paizoite Minecraft server - it needs to be done.
This just in: Weather Effects are live, and we now have rain, literally falling from the clouds, as well a snow in certain fields.
Monster suck as Skeletons and Zombies will now no longer combust during the day when it is raining, and spiders remain hostile. I write this as I hunker down in my obsidian-walled fortress for the third 'day' in a row, wondering which will happen first, the rain stopping or my rations running out ....
Dare I risk a run through the Nether to the other Portal and my secondary Fortress?
GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTS! *builds a tunnel of Obsidian linking the two portals while fireballs rain down* I HATE THIS GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!
Weather effects have been live for a few months now. They should only last ~15 minutes tops, about the same as 1 day-night cycle.
My recommendation is to dig a mineshaft and get some diamonds. You can always go down, and in 1 night you can usually get ~4 diamonds.
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I've finished a number of major construction projects in the last few weeks:
1. The Monster-o-matic continues to churn out and chew up zombies, creepers, skeletons, and spiders. I pull in massive amounts of useful stuff this way and I'm sitting on a pile of TNT that would make most mining companies jealous.
2. My farm-o-matic also working well, churning out and chewing up chickens, sheep, cows, and pigs. I have enough food to last out any apocalypse now.
3. I built a wall around my compound which extends probably 600 blocks or so in total length. It is four blocks tall and three blocks wide, has a lip to prevent spider infiltration, has an inner path with windows to let me see what's going on in the outside world, and two guard towers with airlock doors that let me in/out.
4. My entire compound is lit by lighting strong enough that I don't get baddie spawn inside my fortress. That only used several hundred torches.
5. My mining facility is enormous, and for whatever reason the area I built over has no natural caves, so I've been able to pull in massive amounts of useful stuff with virtually no "oops, mined my way into a creeper" moments.
I think it's time to start over.
Building a giant tree off the coast right now, and thank the Gods for fast-growing trees, currently making it to 21 blocks tall and still going. Anyone know if the shears (new item) and the blocks of leaves (sheared from living trees) will allow me to artificially put leaves on my man-made tree?
Building a giant tree off the coast right now, and thank the Gods for fast-growing trees, currently making it to 21 blocks tall and still going. Anyone know if the shears (new item) and the blocks of leaves (sheared from living trees) will allow me to artificially put leaves on my man-made tree?
The answer is "YES". Now up to 52 blocks tall, rooms on the 'outward' branches, eighteen of them, plus stairs and ladders connecting them all. Now off to the Nether to gather more Glowstone to speckle through the tree's branches. Getting a real teldrassil (BLEH!)/ Fairy Tree vibe off my new home, although my Obsidian and Lava Tower still holds a warm place in my black, shallow little heart.
I was just thinking it'd be really cool to do The Whispering Cairn in Minecraft. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be all that hard--though getting the sarcophagus to rotate might require a bit of simplification.
Be sure to make Diamond Lake too! =)
Thanks for the tip for how to create a portal. So, I visited Nether today. NEVER again.
Also, when going into the Nether, keep your flint and ssteel with you so you can relight the portal if it goes out.
If Notch actually does put dying torches in the game every hold I have is going to turn into a nightmare.
I do not need that kind of stress. Dashing into a safehouse just to find that green, grimacing, hollow-eyed face bouncing towards me...
I lost track of time out in the woods when night fell. I ran for the last place I remembered being able to see my landmarks. It got so very dark, so very fast. I could hear them. I caught a glimpse of one making a beeline for me as I ran past it.
I was so intent on the light up ahead that I didn't see the small cave entrance opening right under my feet. I fell in. The chamber I was in was faintly illuminated by the moon rising above, but tunnels extended outward in two directions, each pitch black.
Darkness is death.
I panicked, slapped down torches all about myself. The light revealed one of the tunnels to be empty, and a dead end.
The other tunnel continued onward into darknes, and was spilling out the walking dead. One of those mournful, green aberrations was among their number.
I ran for the dead end and walled myself in. I barely remembered to put a torch down. I left a single gap, so that I could keep an eye on the situation outside.
Dear God, the sounds they made.
I waited until morning light was visible through the crack in the cavern ceiling. Then I dug my way upwards and fled.
@#$% this game. I'm going to go play something less stressful. Like Silent Hill.
~laughter~ It is so funny because it is so true!
Look out Mikaze! There is a creeper right behind... ~EXPLOSION~
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Never mind.