For me, it was when i first entered the nether. The portal had generated above a lava ocean, with one small island. I had almost immediately been shot off the tiny portal platform by a ghast, and landed on the island. I barely survived the fall, and i could hear more ghasts spawning. I immediately dug down and started collecting some netherrack, and tried to build a wall around the island. Unfortunately, the ghasts kept blowing up my walls. I went back in the hole, and noticed i had brought some cobblestone with me. I felt like a genius when i figured out that ghasts couldn't destroy cobblestone. I built a wall and ceiling, and set up a little base. Stored some things, and started to slowly build a ladder back up to my portal. After finally getting back up and building a wall around my portal, i went back to the surface for more food. I was greeted by 3 creepers. :sad.gif:
sneaky bastards always there at the wrong time :sad.gif:
For me it was probably when I made my first T Flip Flop, I knew it was possible and, being a programmer, assumed it couldn't be that hard. Yet I spend quite some time trying and trying untill I finaly found managed to make it :smile.gif:
Oh the plans I had for that T Flip Flop... However I was never sure what to use it for, it was just too big and everything I could think of would need A LOT of T Flip Flops.. (this was before pistons)
This actually made me think of one... heh.
When 1.8 hit, I decided that I was going to figure out redstone so that I could make a Jeb door. This meant that I had to find a way to make the pistons fire in a certain order turning on, and in the opposite order turning off. Since I'd never even built an "And" gate before, I had to figure everything out as I went; I ended up brute-forcing this fiendishly complicated system of logic gates, which basically amounted to:
-Piston A is on by default, and turns off only when Piston B is off
-Piston B is off by default, and turns on only when Piston A is on
I felt like a total boss when I finally got it to work; it was only later that I checked the forums and discovered that I was overcomplicating the crap out of it, and that you can fit a simple reversible signal generator into a 3x3x1 space. It was still a fun learning experience, though.
Night, Low health, loaded from caving and having made a staircase up.
I was sprinting from a few skeletons and creepers on a plains biome running home. I suddenly saw a ~6 wide ravine in front of me!
Instead of stopping i continued sprinting and jumped, quickly switched to cobblestone on my hotbar and managed to place a piece on the opposite wall just below my feet as i was starting to fall. The block ended up 1 or 2 blocks below surface, so i escaped.
Not sure if genius, but i felt real good :smile.gif:
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PostAblindmind1:Tnt can also be uses to see caves underground...unless they removed that bug.
Malacodor: With enough TNT you can see caves without using bugs.
After I made a boat highway using the EATS system.
Even more after I repaired it after the 1.6 update :biggrin.gif:.
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Over 90 % of the human population is stupid (in my honest opinion). Don't expect too much from them when you post something that actually involves thought.
Night, Low health, loaded from caving and having made a staircase up.
I was sprinting from a few skeletons and creepers on a plains biome running home. I suddenly saw a ~6 wide ravine in front of me!
Instead of stopping i continued sprinting and jumped, quickly switched to cobblestone on my hotbar and managed to place a piece on the opposite wall just below my feet as i was starting to fall. The block ended up 1 or 2 blocks below surface, so i escaped.
Not sure if genius, but i felt real good :smile.gif:
When and how have you felt like you outsmarted minecraft, or done something pure genius?
For example: in my world back in alpha, i didnt have an ocean close to my base, and i had blocked off all underground water source blocks in my cave system due to my minecraft ignorance when i started exploring it. So when i found out about the infinite water 'trick' i felt like the smartest minecrafter ever.
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God: I created the world. Notch: I created an endless vitual world.
God: I created a circle. Notch: ...
Probably the time I created a secret door with pistons, along with a secret piston drop beyond the secret piston door, so that I dropped onto a ladder down to my underground base. That, and the time I made a lighting system with Glowstone and Pistons which made the top lining of the walls of my house pop out and be replaced with glowstone.
This. My monster crushing machine was a work of brilliance. The door was my 1st accomplishment with pistons as well
When I realized Minecraft has an electrical (redstone) system after accidentally placing redstone dust on the ground (only used it for clocks and compasses back then)!
One of them involved finding a hidden furnace, and using it to melt ice to drop a minecart onto a switch that activated a piston to reveal a hidden chest.
sneaky bastards always there at the wrong time :sad.gif:
You should use a URL as if need be you can change your IP a static IP is also good. Never make a server without a URL its important as you found out.
24/7 Australian Survival server (Greylisted)
I doubt I was the very first one with such an idea, but I came up with the idea independently from other sources.
I should note, however, that I have seen no other lights of this sort predating mine.
This actually made me think of one... heh.
When 1.8 hit, I decided that I was going to figure out redstone so that I could make a Jeb door. This meant that I had to find a way to make the pistons fire in a certain order turning on, and in the opposite order turning off. Since I'd never even built an "And" gate before, I had to figure everything out as I went; I ended up brute-forcing this fiendishly complicated system of logic gates, which basically amounted to:
-Piston A is on by default, and turns off only when Piston B is off
-Piston B is off by default, and turns on only when Piston A is on
I felt like a total boss when I finally got it to work; it was only later that I checked the forums and discovered that I was overcomplicating the crap out of it, and that you can fit a simple reversible signal generator into a 3x3x1 space. It was still a fun learning experience, though.
-Umberto Eco, from Travels in Hyperreality
I was sprinting from a few skeletons and creepers on a plains biome running home. I suddenly saw a ~6 wide ravine in front of me!
Instead of stopping i continued sprinting and jumped, quickly switched to cobblestone on my hotbar and managed to place a piece on the opposite wall just below my feet as i was starting to fall. The block ended up 1 or 2 blocks below surface, so i escaped.
Not sure if genius, but i felt real good :smile.gif:
Malacodor: With enough TNT you can see caves without using bugs.
Even more after I repaired it after the 1.6 update :biggrin.gif:.
Owning creepers like a boss!
God: I created a circle. Notch: ...
I just flood them with lava :biggrin.gif:
God: I created a circle. Notch: ...
This. My monster crushing machine was a work of brilliance. The door was my 1st accomplishment with pistons as well
Then, I realised I left out like 20 other things.
Didn't know their names but i knew EXACTLY how they worked
One of them involved finding a hidden furnace, and using it to melt ice to drop a minecart onto a switch that activated a piston to reveal a hidden chest.