Hello, everybody and thanks for visiting my thread. I recently went to a Jungle and got two Parrots. so I left the Jungle, running, and I look back and only one of my parrots are there. so I said: What happened to my Green Parrot?" I kept going but walking, and I saw that if I get too far away from my parrots, they don't teleport. This is really annoying and it takes me FOREVER to get home. the Jungle is 15000 blocks away from Home and if I stay at this pace it will take a week or so in real life to get home. My question is, 'Is there any way to travel faster with a Parrot behind you, or on your shoulder?' i have tried keeping him on my shoulder, but every time I fall a block he gets off and flies in the opposite direction towards some wolves or other animals. he never flies in the direction I want him to. Any ideas?
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They won't teleport if you stray too far too fast (as for example, if you get in a (full-speed) minecart, they'll generally end up staying behind at the station); putting them on a lead can help keep them close, but you do need to watch for breakage (can be an issue when going around corners, although the parrots handled that better than the llamas).
I found my parrots in a jungle not too far from one of my villages - half day ride to the sea, jungle visible from the shore. Once I had a bunch of parrots, I rowed out of the jungle down the river, across to where I parked my horse; rode back to the village, then attached leads to the birds and took a minecart the rest of the way home.
Thank you so much!! I will look into that right away. but I don't have a diamond pickaxe and mining for diamonds would be a pretty long task for one parrot. do you know a quicker way to get obsidian without needing a diamond pickaxe? I currently have 8 pieces of obsidian. also, will it teleport me close to an already built portal in the nether?
Use nether portals; go up to about y=118 in the nether, then make a tunnel from the jungle to home. straight line. It helps if you make the overworld portal high up (up to 128), because you are more likely to come out high in the nether. You can break the high portal after you go thru and back, then make another at ground level - it will link to the already created high one. Watch out for the fast lava; it's far easier if you have a fire resist potion.
There are very few caves that high up in the nether, so you can dig a tunnel very fast. OK, so you burn through a few picks, but they don't have to be great picks. I had diamond efficiency 5 available, so just used that; I could dig 1000 blocks (so 8000 overworld distance) in 5 mins.
Then just run along the tunnel with the parrot on your shoulder. Plus, it'll be 2,000 blocks instead of 15,000.
(Edit: OK OK, some pedant is going to complain about that, so... 1 block in the nether is 8 blocks of the overworld. So 15,000/8 is 1,875 blocks, not 2000. I was just simplifying.)
That's exactly what I did today, to get parrots home on an SMP.
Thank you so much!! I will look into that right away. but I don't have a diamond pickaxe and mining for diamonds would be a pretty long task for one parrot. do you know a quicker way to get obsidian without needing a diamond pickaxe? I currently have 8 pieces of obsidian. also, will it teleport me close to an already built portal in the nether?
Hello again. Now - I'm going to be completely honest with you, because I think it will save you problems further down the line;
-There is a way to make a nether portal without obby. It uses buckets, to place lava and turn it into obby in the right place. However, it's rather more advanced stuff. So I don't recommend that, right now.
-Lava is usually quite low down. Remember, I said to make the first (overworld) portal as high as possible, so you come out high in nether? Can't do that using the 'bucket tricks' (unless you carry it up and down... even more complicated...) - at best, it'll be using surface lava. That means you'll come out at a similar level in the nether, and have to mine up about 60 blocks before tunnelling (to get to the 'solid part' near the top where it's much easier). Digging up in the nether is very very dangerous, because lava can flood down on you.
-And you'll need more obby at the other end of the tunnel, to get out. 10 more, to make the portal in the nether at the far end.
-The parrots are not going anywhere; take your time. Your first adventures in Minecraft are the best; it's a wonderful whole-new-world. I seriously envy you, doing that part. I mean - I still love MC after many years playing it, but... I have very happy memories of the 'learning curve' processes early on. Please please, enjoy it.
If you are more than 128 blocks away from an area, that part of the map is effectively "frozen in time". It is not loaded; nothing at all happens there.
You're gonna need diamonds for lots of reasons - not just to get the parrots. If you want to get those efficiently, get down to y= 11 or 12, and dig in a straight line; you'll hit diamond - it might be 5 mins or it might be an hour; 2 if you're super unlucky. It's unlikely to take much longer than that. Note, you'll also hit lava - always have a bucket of water on your hotbar.
(That does not apply later on, in the nether, where water does not work. For that dig, you just have to be very careful and alert, ready to run back).
My suggestion for you is;
0. Do you have the coordinates for where the parrots are? If not, go get 'em. You'll need 'em later in this suggested plan
1. Get diamond pick. Get more obby - at least 12.
2. Make overworld portal - preferably high up. Pillar up, whatever; about y=120 would be ideal. (Nether ceiling is at 128. Unlike overworld, where you can build up to 256)
3. Have 10 obby and the ligher with you. And several picks, and/or stuff to make more picks. And food, of course, goes without saying. Thus equipped, light it and go through. Maybe briefly make it safer with cobble around it, and get your bearings - but don't stay long. Go back to overworld.
4. Remove that high-up portal but remember where it was. Now build it under where it was, at ground level. Light it. It'll connect up to the same one in nether.
5. Now...back in the nether; is this portal quite high up? I hope so. You really want to dig up to about y=118, to make your tunnelling easier. That may only be a few blocks up but be very careful when digging upwards - lava is likely to pour out, and ruin your day; not only will it kill you, but also it will burn up all your items. Be super super cautious going up those few blocks - like, a staircase. Have a 'trench' (1-drop) between you and the blocks you're digging into, so lava flow would be stopped. Take it slow.
6. Once you are up at y=118 or so, life will be easier. Calculate where you're going; to: the X and Z coordinates of your parrots divided by 8. Do not worry about the y-level. So for example, if your parrots are at +16000, -4000 then you want to get to +2000, -500. I know you won't have nice round numbers, but hey; use a calculator. I hope that makes sense. Every block in the nether represents 8 blocks in the overworld.
You can dig a 2x1 tunnel in a straight line. Be cautious, and ready to run backwards if lava appears. There is time, as long as you're alert, to get out of the way of it. Then you can go closer, place a block to stop the flow, chip away a little around it, and place a block to remove it. There shouldn't be too much lava; just depends on luck. You're digging about 1000 or so, so I expect you'll hit 2 or 3 average. Could be none, could be 10.
7. When you reach the coords we calculated, clear a little space (being careful of lava!) and make a nether portal there. light her up, hop in, and you should be real close to your parrots. With a straight, direct tunnel "home"
Good luck.
Wow you are so helpful! Thank you so much! I will look at all of this and let you know if it woks out!
One thing to keep in mind about the cast-in-place method for building portals is you have to do it in the overworld. No water in the nether, So you'll have to build the portals on both ends from that side and work with wherever they end up spawning in the nether. Not at all impossible but finding the diamonds for a pickaxe might be faster or at least easier in the long run.
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How do you even get around without diamonds? O.o I don't even come up for air my first day until i have at least a diamond pick...
Dig down to y=12 and start mining, you'll find diamonds in no time. And whether you travel home in the overworld or through the nether, they'll do a better job of keeping up if you keep them leashed...
In single player peaceful mode I took a long journey to a far away jungle in order to find parrots and ocelots. It wasn't easy to find them. The ocelots were especially hard to find. Luckily I discovered chicken feathers and meat in one spot and assumed that a cat was nearby, and finally managed to tame two. I only wanted one parrot but tamed 4 just in case I lost some on the way home. I ran home at full speed, and at times it looked as though I had lost two of the parrots, but pressing F5 showed me that 2 of the parrots were riding on my shoulders. Back home, I discovered I had lost none of the birds. Now the parrots and the cats are annoying me to no end by sitting on chests, preventing me from opening them.
I'm lucky enough to have a jungle near my place, every time I log on, I'll take a bunch of leads over and bring back 4 or 5 parrots. been doing it since the day they came out in snapshot. that first day, I spent 3 hours just doing that before the mobcap was fixed. I have so many in my village now. its a cool atmospheric element for the game. although they can be as annoying as pigeons sometimes.
They won't teleport if you stray too far too fast (as for example, if you get in a (full-speed) minecart, they'll generally end up staying behind at the station); putting them on a lead can help keep them close, but you do need to watch for breakage (can be an issue when going around corners, although the parrots handled that better than the llamas).
I found my parrots in a jungle not too far from one of my villages - half day ride to the sea, jungle visible from the shore. Once I had a bunch of parrots, I rowed out of the jungle down the river, across to where I parked my horse; rode back to the village, then attached leads to the birds and took a minecart the rest of the way home.
Thank you so much!! I will look into that right away. but I don't have a diamond pickaxe and mining for diamonds would be a pretty long task for one parrot. do you know a quicker way to get obsidian without needing a diamond pickaxe? I currently have 8 pieces of obsidian. also, will it teleport me close to an already built portal in the nether?
Thank you so much!! I will look into that right away. but I don't have a diamond pickaxe and mining for diamonds would be a pretty long task for one parrot. do you know a quicker way to get obsidian without needing a diamond pickaxe? I currently have 8 pieces of obsidian. also, will it teleport me close to an already built portal in the nether?
Wow you are so helpful! Thank you so much! I will look at all of this and let you know if it woks out!
i didnt even know there were parrots lol
One thing to keep in mind about the cast-in-place method for building portals is you have to do it in the overworld. No water in the nether, So you'll have to build the portals on both ends from that side and work with wherever they end up spawning in the nether. Not at all impossible but finding the diamonds for a pickaxe might be faster or at least easier in the long run.
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How do you even get around without diamonds? O.o I don't even come up for air my first day until i have at least a diamond pick...
Dig down to y=12 and start mining, you'll find diamonds in no time. And whether you travel home in the overworld or through the nether, they'll do a better job of keeping up if you keep them leashed...
Do /gamemode c and spawn a new one. Nobody will ever know.
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In single player peaceful mode I took a long journey to a far away jungle in order to find parrots and ocelots. It wasn't easy to find them. The ocelots were especially hard to find. Luckily I discovered chicken feathers and meat in one spot and assumed that a cat was nearby, and finally managed to tame two. I only wanted one parrot but tamed 4 just in case I lost some on the way home. I ran home at full speed, and at times it looked as though I had lost two of the parrots, but pressing F5 showed me that 2 of the parrots were riding on my shoulders. Back home, I discovered I had lost none of the birds. Now the parrots and the cats are annoying me to no end by sitting on chests, preventing me from opening them.
I'm lucky enough to have a jungle near my place, every time I log on, I'll take a bunch of leads over and bring back 4 or 5 parrots. been doing it since the day they came out in snapshot. that first day, I spent 3 hours just doing that before the mobcap was fixed. I have so many in my village now. its a cool atmospheric element for the game. although they can be as annoying as pigeons sometimes.
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