Hey guys, check out what my first diamond ore looks like!
That's right. Put your lewts in the chest before you start "cleaning" the stone away from the bedrock to see what shape the bedrock is in. Tools, several stacks of stone, and a good chunk of iron, gold and redstone went with my very first (6) diamond ore. Curse you, empty void, curse you!!
It could just have easily been a hole into a lava pit anywhere else, always look before you leap.
Yeah, I suppose mining one's own feet is always bad form.
Brick is fucked for me - something about the Doku RPG pack makes it render as stone with 1/8th replaced by animated fire.
Actually, that's not stone. Doku's pack just makes the bricks the same gray color as clay. The fire is a problem with Minecraft itself. For some reason brick and gold blocks have that bug when they're using high-res textures. It won't be fixed until Notch fixes whatever part of the code is doing that.
I think I actually found clay on a world on my laptop: I spawned a new world, and immediately found probably a dozen clay pieces intermixed with the sand on the beach near where I spawned.
Aside from that strange irregularity, I've never run into clay. In fact, I wasn't quite sure what it was at first.
speaking of servers: would anyone be willing to try to connect to mine? i'm trying to troubleshoot it and i think i might have fixed a problem with my router.
I guess I have a few questions that I'm thinking 'no' is the answer to:
1) can glass blocks be picked up after placing them?
2) can I make a compass?
3) can I rotate blocks? stairs and doors in particular.
I guess I have a few questions that I'm thinking 'no' is the answer to:
1) can glass blocks be picked up after placing them?
2) can I make a compass?
3) can I rotate blocks? stairs and doors in particular.
1) Nope.
2) Yep. 1 redstone, 4 iron, check the crafting wiki for the positioning.
3) Nope, sometimes it's about where you are standing in relation to them, but stairs are finicky. Depends on the blocks around them.
after finding yet another promising cavern only to get blown away by a creeper that apparently spawned inside my own butt, i turned the difficulty to peaceful and spent an hour wandering around the damn countryside
after finding no mines, i started wildly shoveling away at my feet in a frothing rage
several minutes later, the earth gives way to a very deep hole that plonks me two squares away from a lava pool
after a lot of tiptoeing around and some really lucrative mining, i dig my way back to sunlight and use my newly made compass to trek back to my house, marking my way with torches as i went
i think i found four more promising caves, and a ridiculously cool natural structure: two near-parallel cliffs that fold like clasped arms around a lavafall, which practically screams "build Doom Fortress here"
i stashed away my goods and i'll probably start building again next
my house isn't very impressive but i'm really pleased with the surrounding environment, it's like my own little Valley of Lights
Make furnace, make mine-cart. Combine furnace with cart, get another cart. Power the automatic cart with coal while you ride in the cart in front of it.
Yeah, I was thinking that (I'm trying to find a bit more iron to make the second cart)... but don't you have to face in the direction you want to go to start the powered cart? Or will there be enough time to jump in after you start it?
I think I actually found clay on a world on my laptop: I spawned a new world, and immediately found probably a dozen clay pieces intermixed with the sand on the beach near where I spawned.
Aside from that strange irregularity, I've never run into clay. In fact, I wasn't quite sure what it was at first.
For some reason, it's rather rare atm. Hang on to it for making bricks.
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anoffdayTo be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it.Registered Userregular
edited September 2010
I am too. I spent a good part of my day playing it. It's a game that has finally been able to take me away from Reach for awhile, which is good because it's just been making me angry lately anyway.
Also, question, do tools and weapons made with diamond last forever?
I am too. I spent a good part of my day playing it. It's a game that has finally been able to take me away from Reach for awhile, which is good because it's just been making me angry lately anyway.
Also, question, do tools and weapons made with diamond last forever?
no, not at all
they're just more resilient/stronger/whatever, and diamond pickaxes are the only picks that can mine obsidian
I am too. I spent a good part of my day playing it. It's a game that has finally been able to take me away from Reach for awhile, which is good because it's just been making me angry lately anyway.
Also, question, do tools and weapons made with diamond last forever?
no, not at all
they're just more resilient/stronger/whatever, and diamond pickaxes are the only picks that can mine obsidian
Just out of curiosity, is it normal to just use diamond tools on everything as soon as you get them? I'm worried that my rate of diamond finding will be lower than my rate of tool breaking.
I am too. I spent a good part of my day playing it. It's a game that has finally been able to take me away from Reach for awhile, which is good because it's just been making me angry lately anyway.
Also, question, do tools and weapons made with diamond last forever?
no, not at all
they're just more resilient/stronger/whatever, and diamond pickaxes are the only picks that can mine obsidian
Just out of curiosity, is it normal to just use diamond tools on everything as soon as you get them? I'm worried that my rate of diamond finding will be lower than my rate of tool breaking.
nah, most people just mass produce stone picks, its just easier
notch has been considering buffing the amount of uses diamond tools have, cause there really isn't a point to using them unless you have to
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Raneadospolice apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered Userregular
edited September 2010
no
do NOT use diamond tools for everything, you will not find diamonds fast enough to cover your breakage rates
Diamond sword, yes, oh god yes
diamond pick for obsidian + occasional mining
never for stone mining
and THAT'S ABOUT IT
Diamond picks and shovels go ungodly fast and last a while, but unless you have lots of surplus diamonds and don't care about wasting them, don't use them for general digging in rock or dirt/sand/gravel
it would be better to have an intermediate between iron and diamond. that's a pretty huge leap.
i would also like it if it went wood, stone, copper, iron, and then maybe steel and then diamond.
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anoffdayTo be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it.Registered Userregular
edited September 2010
I feel like diamonds should be super rare, but last a super long time if not forever. I haven't even seen any, though I just started today. I'm only about 5 or 6 hours into my game, and haven't done a whole lot of exploring besides under my personal anti-zombie fortress.
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Kai_SanCommonly known as Klineshrike!Registered Userregular
edited September 2010
I found diamond a few days ago en masse, I think i had 8 or so, and lost it foolishly digging into a lava pool.
No matter HOW hard I have searched since then I have yet to find more. Its becoming frusterating.
Hey, do any of those cartographers tools work under linux?
I found a pretty badass mountain for my castle, but creepers will do what they do, and I can't find my way back (it's a good distance from my spawn point).
I've had some success getting diamonds by just digging shafts straight down to bedrock (I have turned all of my forests into ladders, and I have no regrets) then just digging around horizontally down there, following lava when I inevitably run into it. I've definitely burned to death several times, but my death rate while exploring natural caves is hovering right around 100% so this seems to be the relatively safer option.
I still haven't been able to replace my diamond tools fast enough and I feel much better knowing that's normal. I just tear through even my steel tools with ridiculous speed... I've gone through about 50 iron on picks alone probably. Maybe I should just use stone picks, but man do they ever feel terrible after being spoiled by diamond goodness.
Holy shit. You guys weren't lying about the official forums being terrible.
And its not cause of his recent popularity either, those forums have always been a hive of idiocy. It's like if facepunch, gamefaqs, and the wow forums had a bastard child that got left in an orphanage that kept getting burnt down or something.
It is all completely natural, save for the chiseled block here and there just to let me actually get down without falling to my death.
Oh, and that's only about 2/3 of the depth. I got zombie raped about 2:00 in, so I cut the video short, but I could probably add another minute at least if I went to the full depth of the cave that I know already. And I already know it goes even deeper than that.
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Yeah, I suppose mining one's own feet is always bad form.
Actually, that's not stone. Doku's pack just makes the bricks the same gray color as clay. The fire is a problem with Minecraft itself. For some reason brick and gold blocks have that bug when they're using high-res textures. It won't be fixed until Notch fixes whatever part of the code is doing that.
You best be!
*Ahem*
And yes, some maps have way more brick than others :}
A truly excellent use of brick, I salute you.
Is that.... a pig spitting lava onto a creeper? Then you riding a minecart into the mouth of a flame breathing pig?
Epic to the max. You win.
Many thanks
Aside from that strange irregularity, I've never run into clay. In fact, I wasn't quite sure what it was at first.
http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Glass
http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Compass
http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Stairs
http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Door
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1) Nope.
2) Yep. 1 redstone, 4 iron, check the crafting wiki for the positioning.
3) Nope, sometimes it's about where you are standing in relation to them, but stairs are finicky. Depends on the blocks around them.
after finding yet another promising cavern only to get blown away by a creeper that apparently spawned inside my own butt, i turned the difficulty to peaceful and spent an hour wandering around the damn countryside
after finding no mines, i started wildly shoveling away at my feet in a frothing rage
several minutes later, the earth gives way to a very deep hole that plonks me two squares away from a lava pool
after a lot of tiptoeing around and some really lucrative mining, i dig my way back to sunlight and use my newly made compass to trek back to my house, marking my way with torches as i went
i think i found four more promising caves, and a ridiculously cool natural structure: two near-parallel cliffs that fold like clasped arms around a lavafall, which practically screams "build Doom Fortress here"
i stashed away my goods and i'll probably start building again next
my house isn't very impressive but i'm really pleased with the surrounding environment, it's like my own little Valley of Lights
(thanks - just starting my crazy mining
Oh yeah, and steam group invite please: http://steamcommunity.com/id/whitezhark
For some reason, it's rather rare atm. Hang on to it for making bricks.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Also, question, do tools and weapons made with diamond last forever?
no, not at all
they're just more resilient/stronger/whatever, and diamond pickaxes are the only picks that can mine obsidian
Just out of curiosity, is it normal to just use diamond tools on everything as soon as you get them? I'm worried that my rate of diamond finding will be lower than my rate of tool breaking.
nah, most people just mass produce stone picks, its just easier
notch has been considering buffing the amount of uses diamond tools have, cause there really isn't a point to using them unless you have to
do NOT use diamond tools for everything, you will not find diamonds fast enough to cover your breakage rates
Diamond sword, yes, oh god yes
diamond pick for obsidian + occasional mining
never for stone mining
and THAT'S ABOUT IT
Diamond picks and shovels go ungodly fast and last a while, but unless you have lots of surplus diamonds and don't care about wasting them, don't use them for general digging in rock or dirt/sand/gravel
i would also like it if it went wood, stone, copper, iron, and then maybe steel and then diamond.
No matter HOW hard I have searched since then I have yet to find more. Its becoming frusterating.
they're deeeeep in the earth
you have to get very lucky when mining to find a cave deep enough to hold them and live long enough to get them back home
I found a pretty badass mountain for my castle, but creepers will do what they do, and I can't find my way back (it's a good distance from my spawn point).
I still haven't been able to replace my diamond tools fast enough and I feel much better knowing that's normal. I just tear through even my steel tools with ridiculous speed... I've gone through about 50 iron on picks alone probably. Maybe I should just use stone picks, but man do they ever feel terrible after being spoiled by diamond goodness.
And its not cause of his recent popularity either, those forums have always been a hive of idiocy. It's like if facepunch, gamefaqs, and the wow forums had a bastard child that got left in an orphanage that kept getting burnt down or something.
Anyways, this is the huge hole in the ground that I found on my world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3msqVbdAQ
It is all completely natural, save for the chiseled block here and there just to let me actually get down without falling to my death.
Oh, and that's only about 2/3 of the depth. I got zombie raped about 2:00 in, so I cut the video short, but I could probably add another minute at least if I went to the full depth of the cave that I know already. And I already know it goes even deeper than that.
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