Use shift+f3 and look at your x and y co-ordinates. I THINK 0,0 is where your portal normally spawns.
No, that's not right. For starters, y is your elevation; it's the x and z coordinates that would help when you are lost. And you do not enter the nether at (0, 0) but based on where your portal was in the overworld. The nether is "compressed" by a factor of 8 in the horizontal directions. This means a portal at coordinates (x, y, z) in the overworld will connect to the nether at (x/8, y, z/8). If you remember, even approximately, where your base was (or wherever you built the portal) in the overworld, you can use this to help find your portal back.
Get in your portal. dig yourself some iron and redstone and craft another compass. Sorted.
Yeah assuming you have the obsidian and flint & steel to activate another portal this is probably your best bet. Once you get back to the overworld, just dig a bit for materials and craft your compass then. (I assume this is what you mean, since a compass is useless in the nether, it will just spin in random directions -- if you don't have the resources to build another portal, then you either have to find your way back to the first one, or suicide, to get yourself out of the nether and back in the overworld.)
No, that's not right. For starters, y is your elevation; it's the x and z coordinates that would help when you are lost. And you do not enter the nether at (0, 0) but based on where your portal was in the overworld. The nether is "compressed" by a factor of 8 in the horizontal directions. This means a portal at coordinates (x, y, z) in the overworld will connect to the nether at (x/8, y, z/8). If you remember, even approximately, where your base was (or wherever you built the portal) in the overworld, you can use this to help find your portal back.
Yeah assuming you have the obsidian and flint & steel to activate another portal this is probably your best bet. Once you get back to the overworld, just dig a bit for materials and craft your compass then. (I assume this is what you mean, since a compass is useless in the nether, it will just spin in random directions -- if you don't have the resources to build another portal, then you either have to find your way back to the first one, or suicide, to get yourself out of the nether and back in the overworld.)
Thanks for the help. What I've done since I posted that is make a new Nether Portal near a Blaze Spawner in a Nether Fortress. However when I returned to the Overworld, my Portal was floating about 30 blocks in the air in the middle of the ocean. I swam to the nearest island and I found an abandoned mineshaft, so I crafted a compass. I'm trying to build a rail track back home, but it's quite difficult.
Yeah building a rail line of any significant distance takes a lot of iron. And besides the getting lost part (I assume you were lost in the nether, couldn't find your way back to portal?) I had the exact same thing happen to me -- built a new portal inside a nether fortress (actually I carved out a room in the netherrack just past one of the dead ends), also near a blaze spawner, and I also came out floating above a giant ocean. I wonder if there's a pattern here? However, since I wasn't lost in the nether I didn't jump in, I just stepped back through the portal and returned to my first one.
So I also killed a bunch of Zombie Pigmen, and one of them dropped an enchanted Golden Sword with Smite III? What does that do?
Smite deals extra damage against the undead (skeletons, zombies, and zombie pigmen)
Bane of arthropods deals extra damage against spiders, cave spiders, and silverfish.
Sharpness deals extra damage against everything.
When I first played minecraft, I basically got all the necessities in place as you did. Food and shelter secure, good resources, and the ability to enchant/brew potions... then I was like, "now what?" I ended up bored and quit for a while.
This time around, I'm finding more enjoyment in just creating stuff! Once you get passed just surviving, you're left to do as you please, really. I think what initially got me into building and experimenting more was learning about redstone. If you haven't already, check out some basic redstone tutorials online to get an understanding how it works. Personally, I have a blase trying to make cool and functional contraptions. Redstone is what got me to keep playing passed surviving! Granted, it's much easier to use a creative world to experiment with redstone. I do most of my experimenting and testing in creative before building things in my survival world.
So yeah, just started Minecraft a week ago. Managed to make myself a house with windows, a stairwell to lava, a mining shaft, and 2 gardens. I've also found enough diamonds to already make my armor set and tool set, so I'm done mining for a while. I've also made a Nether Portal.
My current goal is so find some frickin' chickens so I can get feathers to make arrows.
But after that, I'm not really sure what else to do. There's definitely a lot more to do in Minecraft then what I've said.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
UPDATES: Built Enchantment Table, but I'm only level 4 so the level 47 enchantment that I saw kinda taunted me.
Built a long ass rail way to a Zombie Mob Spawner I found. About a minute and a half away from my house. Took about 4 and a half hours to make.
I found a Nether Fortress but I forgot to bring my compass with me to get back home when I return to the Overworld.
Completed a Brewing Collection and now I have 6 of every single potion and every negative potion is a splash potion.
Trying to think of more things to do besides level up before I find Endermen to make Eyes of Ender. SUGGESTIONS?
Also, the Nether Fortress has a lot of hallways but each hallway just ends with dead end Netherrack walls..
(Sorry if this is stupid, this is my first forum post.)
That isnt a stupid post lots of poeple play minecraft for years and cant think of something to do!
I recommend building something epic! In my main world, I plan to build a huge castle in the middle of a lake at some point, for example.
Inventing things with redstone - or, if you're like me, technology mods like BuildCraft and Forestry - is another good one.
All it takes is a little imagination and the willingness to do something for its own sake. For example, I don't need a bajillion torches, but with BuildCraft and Forestry (to farm trees), I can make a self-powering factory to produce infinite torches!!!
Those are a couple of examples. A lot of people will tell you to try to kill the Enderdragon and the Wither, but there is so much more to do than that! (Not to say that those aren't good goals, though!)
I would say that building something epic, gathering the resources for it, finding the perfect spot to build it, and finally finishing your creation is one of the best experiences in this game.
When in doubt, try to do something that you will be proud to have made. In my opinion, this game is at its best when it's about being creative and accomplishing your goals.
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The source of my intention isn't really crime prevention; my intention is prevention of the lie! Yeah, welcome to the Scatman's world!
I "just started" 3 years ago or so.. and when I got my own account several months after that, around mid beta, I played survival and it was alright... then I discovered servers. I mean I only had two friends who played MC that early on in the game's life at the time, and they originally didn't play on servers with me, but let me tell you, if you can find a good survival/creative (or factions if you're wierd and like literally 98% of all servers aka faction servers), it's a LOT of fun. Suddenly survival just becomes more fun because you do it with other people. I played on a server for about 8 months that I had acquired moderator on after a little while (it's getting a makeover to attract more people), but let me tell you, it was AMAZING. There was one island that was hundreds by hundreds of blocks across, with one guy in charge and a dozen people living on the island, and a HUGE city with houses and farms and everything. I can't really tell you what's super fun in survival alone, but I can tell you that the Multiplayer experience is phenomenal.
So yeah, just started Minecraft a week ago. Managed to make myself a house with windows, a stairwell to lava, a mining shaft, and 2 gardens. I've also found enough diamonds to already make my armor set and tool set, so I'm done mining for a while. I've also made a Nether Portal.
My current goal is so find some frickin' chickens so I can get feathers to make arrows.
But after that, I'm not really sure what else to do. There's definitely a lot more to do in Minecraft then what I've said.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
UPDATES: Built Enchantment Table, but I'm only level 4 so the level 47 enchantment that I saw kinda taunted me.
Built a long ass rail way to a Zombie Mob Spawner I found. About a minute and a half away from my house. Took about 4 and a half hours to make.
I found a Nether Fortress but I forgot to bring my compass with me to get back home when I return to the Overworld.
Completed a Brewing Collection and now I have 6 of every single potion and every negative potion is a splash potion.
Trying to think of more things to do besides level up before I find Endermen to make Eyes of Ender. SUGGESTIONS?
Also, the Nether Fortress has a lot of hallways but each hallway just ends with dead end Netherrack walls..
(Sorry if this is stupid, this is my first forum post.)
So yeah, just started Minecraft a week ago. Managed to make myself a house with windows, a stairwell to lava, a mining shaft, and 2 gardens. I've also found enough diamonds to already make my armor set and tool set, so I'm done mining for a while. I've also made a Nether Portal.
My current goal is so find some frickin' chickens so I can get feathers to make arrows.
But after that, I'm not really sure what else to do. There's definitely a lot more to do in Minecraft then what I've said.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
UPDATES: Built Enchantment Table, but I'm only level 4 so the level 47 enchantment that I saw kinda taunted me.
Built a long ass rail way to a Zombie Mob Spawner I found. About a minute and a half away from my house. Took about 4 and a half hours to make.
I found a Nether Fortress but I forgot to bring my compass with me to get back home when I return to the Overworld.
Completed a Brewing Collection and now I have 6 of every single potion and every negative potion is a splash potion.
Trying to think of more things to do besides level up before I find Endermen to make Eyes of Ender. SUGGESTIONS?
Also, the Nether Fortress has a lot of hallways but each hallway just ends with dead end Netherrack walls..
(Sorry if this is stupid, this is my first forum post.)
Try soup pvp server, look up minecraft soup pvp on google its a kind of pvp that requires actual skill in minecraft and its addicting, also thers hunger eith it. nuff said
well you say your rich in the game... make full sized beacons and two wither fights along with somthing extreamly dangerous and set other beacon to regen+strength
Find a tundra biome, tame as many possible dogs (or get two and breed) and then sick 'em on loads of mobs.
Fatality*Or build a village (not an npc village replica, but a custom one)Btw I'm not new to minecraft, only these forums.
Defeat the bosses, enderdragon and wither, make some pie, tame some cats, get some dogs, find some villages and temples, make some cake, and the big one
play multiplayer! minecraft is loads more fun with friends!
Also, the Nether Fortress has a lot of hallways but each hallway just ends with dead end Netherrack walls..
Any suggestions?
No, that's not right. For starters, y is your elevation; it's the x and z coordinates that would help when you are lost. And you do not enter the nether at (0, 0) but based on where your portal was in the overworld. The nether is "compressed" by a factor of 8 in the horizontal directions. This means a portal at coordinates (x, y, z) in the overworld will connect to the nether at (x/8, y, z/8). If you remember, even approximately, where your base was (or wherever you built the portal) in the overworld, you can use this to help find your portal back.
Yeah assuming you have the obsidian and flint & steel to activate another portal this is probably your best bet. Once you get back to the overworld, just dig a bit for materials and craft your compass then. (I assume this is what you mean, since a compass is useless in the nether, it will just spin in random directions -- if you don't have the resources to build another portal, then you either have to find your way back to the first one, or suicide, to get yourself out of the nether and back in the overworld.)
Village Mechanics: A not-so-brief guide - Update 2017! Now with 1.8 breeding mechanics! Long-overdue trading info, coming soon!
You think magic isn't real? Consider this: for every person, there is a sentence -- a series of words -- which has the power to destroy them.
Thanks for the help. What I've done since I posted that is make a new Nether Portal near a Blaze Spawner in a Nether Fortress. However when I returned to the Overworld, my Portal was floating about 30 blocks in the air in the middle of the ocean. I swam to the nearest island and I found an abandoned mineshaft, so I crafted a compass. I'm trying to build a rail track back home, but it's quite difficult.
Village Mechanics: A not-so-brief guide - Update 2017! Now with 1.8 breeding mechanics! Long-overdue trading info, coming soon!
You think magic isn't real? Consider this: for every person, there is a sentence -- a series of words -- which has the power to destroy them.
Trying to think of more things to do besides level up before I find Endermen to make Eyes of Ender. SUGGESTIONS?
I also built a slime spawner.
Smite deals extra damage against the undead (skeletons, zombies, and zombie pigmen)
Bane of arthropods deals extra damage against spiders, cave spiders, and silverfish.
Sharpness deals extra damage against everything.
Village Mechanics: A not-so-brief guide - Update 2017! Now with 1.8 breeding mechanics! Long-overdue trading info, coming soon!
You think magic isn't real? Consider this: for every person, there is a sentence -- a series of words -- which has the power to destroy them.
This time around, I'm finding more enjoyment in just creating stuff! Once you get passed just surviving, you're left to do as you please, really. I think what initially got me into building and experimenting more was learning about redstone. If you haven't already, check out some basic redstone tutorials online to get an understanding how it works. Personally, I have a blase trying to make cool and functional contraptions. Redstone is what got me to keep playing passed surviving! Granted, it's much easier to use a creative world to experiment with redstone. I do most of my experimenting and testing in creative before building things in my survival world.
Oh and, NEVER get rid of your first world!!
You will regret it... I got rid of my first world and I wish I didn't.
Inventing things with redstone - or, if you're like me, technology mods like BuildCraft and Forestry - is another good one.
All it takes is a little imagination and the willingness to do something for its own sake. For example, I don't need a bajillion torches, but with BuildCraft and Forestry (to farm trees), I can make a self-powering factory to produce infinite torches!!!
Those are a couple of examples. A lot of people will tell you to try to kill the Enderdragon and the Wither, but there is so much more to do than that! (Not to say that those aren't good goals, though!)
I would say that building something epic, gathering the resources for it, finding the perfect spot to build it, and finally finishing your creation is one of the best experiences in this game.
When in doubt, try to do something that you will be proud to have made. In my opinion, this game is at its best when it's about being creative and accomplishing your goals.
The source of my intention isn't really crime prevention; my intention is prevention of the lie! Yeah, welcome to the Scatman's world!
Baseball, then Minecraft.
Fatality*Or build a village (not an npc village replica, but a custom one)Btw I'm not new to minecraft, only these forums.
play multiplayer! minecraft is loads more fun with friends!