An easy way to make instantaneous towers, with just a bucket of water and lava!
First, prepare the structure with any material, like this.
Make sure you make the top of it like this, so that the lava will flow into all sides.
Now, put the bucket of lava in the middle of the structure...
...And you get a lavafall like this.
Get your way up to the top of the structure, but be careful of the lava. Place a block in the middle of the lava, and on top of that, place a bucket of water.
The water will flow over all the lava, turning it into...
A tower!
So in theory, you can build gigantic towers with this method without having to mine the stone (although you have to find the lava, probably by mining). I haven't tried it with other shapes, or with a wider radius, but it should work all the same. It also might be useful to build a trench around it though, so the water and lava doesn't flow everywhere.
...until a horde of cute box-like skeletons rip your cute little box-like arms from your cute little box-like body in a spray of cute little box-like blood and gore.
If you use that and make an entire castle, what will you build the interior with?
EDIT: Did something similar with this and it almost burned my house, I ended up with a mountain side made of cobblestone and bits of obsidian :sad.gif:
Wouldn't you get an obsidian tower if you placed the water before the lava instead of the other way around?
Obsidian is supposed to be much stronger than cobblestone.
Wouldn't you get an obsidian tower if you placed the water before the lava instead of the other way around?
Obsidian is supposed to be much stronger than cobblestone.
Cause we don't need to do that right now, we can do it in survival MP when there is a griefer
I can't seem to find any lava with the new map gen. It's no longer at the bottom of the map. It's supposed to appear in random pools, but I haven't found any yet.
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Cause we don't need to do that right now, we can do it in survival MP when there is a griefer
I wonder how obsidian stands against creeper explosions?
Not sure if it woud turn out obsidian. The top layer might, but the sides would probably end up cobblestone since It's the sides that are in contact with each other.
Also, I hold no responsibility in the deaths or loss of property caused by this method. >.>
Not sure if it woud turn out obsidian. The top layer might, but the sides would probably end up cobblestone since It's the sides that are in contact with each other.
Also, I hold no responsibility in the deaths or loss of property caused by this method. >.>
You can't be held responsible because yours is a method and if you die in the process you must be an idiot for standing under the lava,and you can't lose property since you can just mine the mistake away. I fail, lots of lava sitting around it...Double fail, caught on fire trying to get rid of lava, Just to be clear i am a failure not this idea
That is pretty amazing, great thinking. I think it highlights a growing issues though. Despite their pure awesomeness, the new water/lava physics make everything really easy.
A couple of things:
Floods are no longer a worry- as long as you dig more or less flat, they just stop after X squares.
Mobs wandering in to your base is no longer an issue - you can build a water "forcefield" with just 2 buckets of water and a dirt/cobblestone overhange.
Now you can build skyscrapers of cobblestone without needing to mine a thing.
I think this is actually not the construction method of the future, but rather the griefing method of the future.
You can cover a huge area in cobblestone with very little effort.
I could probably bury an entire town in multiple layers in an hour by myself.
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I think this is actually not the construction method of the future, but rather the griefing method of the future.
You can cover a huge area in cobblestone with very little effort.
I could probably bury an entire town in multiple layers in an hour by myself.
but wont the guards wonder why you build a giant dirt tower in the middle of the town?
By the time they realized what he was doing, the town was surrounded with an easily-breakable, muchly needed substance.
Not really griefing unless they were lucky enough to get a whole lot of lava spring blocks and create obsidian.
I think this is actually not the construction method of the future, but rather the griefing method of the future.
You can cover a huge area in cobblestone with very little effort.
I could probably bury an entire town in multiple layers in an hour by myself.
but wont the guards wonder why you build a giant dirt tower in the middle of the town?
By the time they realized what he was doing, the town was surrounded with an easily-breakable, muchly needed substance.
Not really griefing unless they were lucky enough to get a whole lot of lava spring blocks and create obsidian.
Obsidian town? actually, thatd be quite cool.
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First, prepare the structure with any material, like this.
Make sure you make the top of it like this, so that the lava will flow into all sides.
Now, put the bucket of lava in the middle of the structure...
...And you get a lavafall like this.
Get your way up to the top of the structure, but be careful of the lava. Place a block in the middle of the lava, and on top of that, place a bucket of water.
The water will flow over all the lava, turning it into...
A tower!
So in theory, you can build gigantic towers with this method without having to mine the stone (although you have to find the lava, probably by mining). I haven't tried it with other shapes, or with a wider radius, but it should work all the same. It also might be useful to build a trench around it though, so the water and lava doesn't flow everywhere.
So, would this be useful?
Thanks for sharing :smile.gif:
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EDIT: Did something similar with this and it almost burned my house, I ended up with a mountain side made of cobblestone and bits of obsidian :sad.gif:
Especially if this works in SMP.
You're being fired upon/need a quick, portable (Kinda) tower for defense, or whatever else?
Just use that :tongue.gif:
I'll test it out with an almost-square sometime tomorrow.
Assuming I can find lava.
By almost-square, I mean (Top-down view)
[iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron] [iron] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron] [iron] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron] [iron] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron] [iron] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron] [iron] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron]
Sigh, that took a while.
I could have just said it doesn't have any corners -.-
But, iron = air
Stone = cobblestone
Obsidian is supposed to be much stronger than cobblestone.
Cause we don't need to do that right now, we can do it in survival MP when there is a griefer
I can't seem to find any lava with the new map gen. It's no longer at the bottom of the map. It's supposed to appear in random pools, but I haven't found any yet.
I wonder how obsidian stands against creeper explosions?
As far as I've seen you have to be standing almost next to it for an explosion.
Also, I hold no responsibility in the deaths or loss of property caused by this method. >.>
You can't be held responsible because yours is a method and if you die in the process you
must be an idiot for standing under the lava,and you can't lose property since you can just mine the mistake away.I fail, lots of lava sitting around it...Double fail, caught on fire trying to get rid of lava, Just to be clear i am a failure not this ideaA couple of things:
Floods are no longer a worry- as long as you dig more or less flat, they just stop after X squares.
Mobs wandering in to your base is no longer an issue - you can build a water "forcefield" with just 2 buckets of water and a dirt/cobblestone overhange.
Now you can build skyscrapers of cobblestone without needing to mine a thing.
You can cover a huge area in cobblestone with very little effort.
I could probably bury an entire town in multiple layers in an hour by myself.
It heals all of your goddamn hearts! - kittensamurai
Also, do it lava first, as stopping the flow of water is a lot easier.
By the time they realized what he was doing, the town was surrounded with an easily-breakable, muchly needed substance.
Not really griefing unless they were lucky enough to get a whole lot of lava spring blocks and create obsidian.
Obsidian town? actually, thatd be quite cool.