Have you looked in natural caves? Try that first... look for what looks to be stone with large chunks of light brown. Be sure to use a stone pick on them though... I made the mistake at first of using wood on them not realizing that it mattered, and you only actually get iron from it if you use a stone pick or better.
Figures, we finally have an awesome server, and it's too awesome. Ein you are awesome and I can't complain about anything since you're hosting an awesome server for free, but man, it's so annoying when you see "server full". I had just finished creating my Waldo avatar skin too.
I seem to have a dearth of iron in my map too. I've decided to do some grid mining at the "sweet spot" though so I can get enough iron to build my planned massive minecart superhighway.
Oh, BTW, notch worked on Wurm Online. Which explains a lot.
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I was digging a mine to get more ore and junk to complete my sky-tower home. My starting area was a medium sized island that I have never really left, just kept mining deeper and building.
Anyway, the new mine I started was on the other side of the island. After a short period I hit a wide opening that was the biggest natural cavern I have ever seen. There were tons of large halls that move mostly horizontally and looked almost mined out--but I am the only one there.
I start placing torches every few spaces to fight the darkness and stop any monster spawns, continually exploring this gigantic natural cavern and all it's diverging paths. There is large veins of steel and coal in plain sight, and I have truly hit the motherload of resources. I eventually come to a new opening and am impressed with how square and perfectly flat the walls are, almost like a giant square block fell into the earth and left a perfect impression. Looking in, there is a large F carved into the bare rock up the shaft which is odd because it was naturally done.
Anyway, it looked like a natural mine shaft. It is completely dark above my head, so I run to the nearest wall and start making a stone stairway so I can reach the top. After about three torches or so I can just barely make out the ceiling. All the way up to the top it is perfectly squared, at least until I mine some coal out of it. I keep making the stairway higher and higher until I remove a bit of dirt that suddenly spews blue water into my face and all the way down my stone stairway--flooding the bottom area of the cavern rapidly. I quickly manage to get ahold of myself and block it up with a bit of wood, and make it back to the shaft to see the water slowly drain away and disappear. Pretty. It turns out the ceiling of this shaft was so high up it was probably only one or two blocks away from the ocean!
Anyway, I have an idea and make a sign to remind myself that "DANGER. OCEAN ABOVE YOU!" and once again flood the shaft so I can swim my way out. I eventually surface about 20 blocks away from my island, getting my bearings. I swim back down and begin building a stone pole right next to the entrance to the giant cave, protruding out of the water a good 15 blocks high. I dive back down to make sure the flood has gone from the natural cave and satisfied, I make my way back home.
I plan to build an artificial island with the stone pole as the centerpiece. That way I will always have quick secondary access to the cave--just as soon as I get a proper handle on building underwater.
Seriously though, my medium sized island was over this GIGANTIC cavern, bigger than I have seen in the game yet. I could craft it to my liking, but I think I will keep it mostly natural--just strip mined.
SUCCESS! Finally found loads iron and coal. And all it took was me abandoning my lakeside three-floor lodge for a new build. In the middle of the lake about a hundred block away. Working on floor two, complete with a little balcony overlooking the bridge to pick off monsters. Sumbitch skeleton killed me so I spawned behind a hill right next to anatural cave. Went in and bang! monsters. Atleast I worked out where the mad orez are.
Don't smash those dirt blocks or else you flood the area.
... I didn't smash any blocks. That hole just happened to be there. Or someone else did it.
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I found loads of iron and coal by running around the unexplored parts of my mine like a mad man. I lost loads of iron and coal by running around the unexplored parts of my mine and getting my ass handed to me by a skeleton, and then couldn't find my way back. It wasn't a total loss though, while standing next to a cliff a creeper ran past me and over the cliff.
Hearing people talk about how they're just tripping over tons of obsidian in Lavaland makes me sad. Relatively rare and requiring technique to farm seems to have shifted to just "look at all that crap."
Nonetheless New Black Mesa will be at least roughly finished even if it has no "neat" value anymore.
So, you are capable of digging out the dirt under the snow but leaving the snow floating in place. You can't stand on that snow and fall straight through.
Someone should use this to remake that trap from the 3rd Indiana Jones movie. The one where you have to jump on certain letters to answer a question or fall into a bottomless pit.
Speaking of projects, I just had an idea for one. You know the game in my avatar? The one you may have played about 25 years ago on your TRS-80 Color Computer 2, that involves navigating a dimly-lit maze and fighting monsters and obtaining new torches before your old torches burn out? I want to build that in Minecraft.
More than just making a maze though, I want this to have a couple of original-game-inspired features: Secret doors, and light that dims according to a timer.
Secret doors: the original game had walls marked clearly with "door" line art, which you can move through but which obscures the view beyond the door. So you don't really know if you're about to pass through the door and find a tough monster already there. Separate from that there are "secret doors" which look just like impassable walls but you can move through them. As the game goes on if you find magical torches, you get a faint mark -- and later, a clear triangular mark -- over all secret doors. I think I can approximate that with paintings that may or may not cover openings. I think I would need a lot of paintings though, and since there are like 32 of them they won't all be the same, giving people navigation aid the original game didn't provide.
Torch light: When you start the game you have a pine torch, which is good for 15 minutes of light. After 8 minutes the light starts diminishing one "notch" per minute, until after the full 15 minutes the torch produces zero light and the dungeon is pitch black until you light another torch. I want to do something with Redstone torches inside a completely enclosed, unlit dungeon. I'd connect groups of torches to a decade counter or base-16 counter. Reset the timer to 0 and enter the well-lit dungeon, where the walls and floor are all glass over water. After the eighth minute, one of eight linked torch sets will go out, making the dungeon a little bit dimmer. Another minute, another torch set goes out. Fail to "find a torch" (step on a pressure plate that represents finding a torch-carrying monster, killing it, and lighting that torch) and the dungeon is now pitch black and you will probably have to /home or /teleport to escape.
Seems interesting to me at least. I don't know.
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And when you go into it, you can launch a minecart out of a track in the center and have it go flying off into oblivion
So another stupid basic question - where are the save files stored? Is there an easy way to move a saved world between computers? (I'm talking about single player survival worlds, not server/etc ones)
I use Microsoft SyncToy and Dropbox to sync my documents. You could probably do the same thing for Minecraft saves. Basically what Synctoy can do is sync your save folder and Dropbox folder so that the Dropbox has the most updated saves whenever you do a sync. You can then use Synctoy on another computer to sync changes to your save folder copy on Dropbox to the Minecraft save folder on that computer. I'm not sure it would work as well as I've outlined, as you'd have to constantly do syncs in Synctoy for it to work.
So another stupid basic question - where are the save files stored? Is there an easy way to move a saved world between computers? (I'm talking about single player survival worlds, not server/etc ones)
Hey so is there a type of rock which just can't be mined? I just got diamoned and found a block which is black/grey like coal but even my shiny new diamond pick won't work on it.
So I played creative for a lil bit to see what the big deal was and now I'm all "I wants this." I know creative has like, 5% of the full games content too.
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Have you looked in natural caves? Try that first... look for what looks to be stone with large chunks of light brown. Be sure to use a stone pick on them though... I made the mistake at first of using wood on them not realizing that it mattered, and you only actually get iron from it if you use a stone pick or better.
Oh, BTW, notch worked on Wurm Online. Which explains a lot.
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I was digging a mine to get more ore and junk to complete my sky-tower home. My starting area was a medium sized island that I have never really left, just kept mining deeper and building.
Anyway, the new mine I started was on the other side of the island. After a short period I hit a wide opening that was the biggest natural cavern I have ever seen. There were tons of large halls that move mostly horizontally and looked almost mined out--but I am the only one there.
I start placing torches every few spaces to fight the darkness and stop any monster spawns, continually exploring this gigantic natural cavern and all it's diverging paths. There is large veins of steel and coal in plain sight, and I have truly hit the motherload of resources. I eventually come to a new opening and am impressed with how square and perfectly flat the walls are, almost like a giant square block fell into the earth and left a perfect impression. Looking in, there is a large F carved into the bare rock up the shaft which is odd because it was naturally done.
Anyway, it looked like a natural mine shaft. It is completely dark above my head, so I run to the nearest wall and start making a stone stairway so I can reach the top. After about three torches or so I can just barely make out the ceiling. All the way up to the top it is perfectly squared, at least until I mine some coal out of it. I keep making the stairway higher and higher until I remove a bit of dirt that suddenly spews blue water into my face and all the way down my stone stairway--flooding the bottom area of the cavern rapidly. I quickly manage to get ahold of myself and block it up with a bit of wood, and make it back to the shaft to see the water slowly drain away and disappear. Pretty. It turns out the ceiling of this shaft was so high up it was probably only one or two blocks away from the ocean!
Anyway, I have an idea and make a sign to remind myself that "DANGER. OCEAN ABOVE YOU!" and once again flood the shaft so I can swim my way out. I eventually surface about 20 blocks away from my island, getting my bearings. I swim back down and begin building a stone pole right next to the entrance to the giant cave, protruding out of the water a good 15 blocks high. I dive back down to make sure the flood has gone from the natural cave and satisfied, I make my way back home.
I plan to build an artificial island with the stone pole as the centerpiece. That way I will always have quick secondary access to the cave--just as soon as I get a proper handle on building underwater.
Seriously though, my medium sized island was over this GIGANTIC cavern, bigger than I have seen in the game yet. I could craft it to my liking, but I think I will keep it mostly natural--just strip mined.
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Never have I been so utterly frustrated at the inability to stack pork products in a game.
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notch needs to add a pouch item for foodstuffs.
Darn full house... I want to work on my cliff-side citadel and my world spanning subway system. I've already gotten it to Columbia....
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Always get last once I'm inside a cave though.
... I didn't smash any blocks. That hole just happened to be there. Or someone else did it.
Nonetheless New Black Mesa will be at least roughly finished even if it has no "neat" value anymore.
Someone should use this to remake that trap from the 3rd Indiana Jones movie. The one where you have to jump on certain letters to answer a question or fall into a bottomless pit.
More than just making a maze though, I want this to have a couple of original-game-inspired features: Secret doors, and light that dims according to a timer.
Secret doors: the original game had walls marked clearly with "door" line art, which you can move through but which obscures the view beyond the door. So you don't really know if you're about to pass through the door and find a tough monster already there. Separate from that there are "secret doors" which look just like impassable walls but you can move through them. As the game goes on if you find magical torches, you get a faint mark -- and later, a clear triangular mark -- over all secret doors. I think I can approximate that with paintings that may or may not cover openings. I think I would need a lot of paintings though, and since there are like 32 of them they won't all be the same, giving people navigation aid the original game didn't provide.
Torch light: When you start the game you have a pine torch, which is good for 15 minutes of light. After 8 minutes the light starts diminishing one "notch" per minute, until after the full 15 minutes the torch produces zero light and the dungeon is pitch black until you light another torch. I want to do something with Redstone torches inside a completely enclosed, unlit dungeon. I'd connect groups of torches to a decade counter or base-16 counter. Reset the timer to 0 and enter the well-lit dungeon, where the walls and floor are all glass over water. After the eighth minute, one of eight linked torch sets will go out, making the dungeon a little bit dimmer. Another minute, another torch set goes out. Fail to "find a torch" (step on a pressure plate that represents finding a torch-carrying monster, killing it, and lighting that torch) and the dungeon is now pitch black and you will probably have to /home or /teleport to escape.
Seems interesting to me at least. I don't know.
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And when you go into it, you can launch a minecart out of a track in the center and have it go flying off into oblivion
So another stupid basic question - where are the save files stored? Is there an easy way to move a saved world between computers? (I'm talking about single player survival worlds, not server/etc ones)
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Egg. Currently useless.
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C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves
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Actually this is probably good for me, I'll go for a bike ride instead
Don't worry, I'm sure we'll be able to egg other people's buildings soon.
I think the real question here is; is reality nothing more than some higher dimension's version of minecraft?
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