Today I worked more on my farms. Covered stone bricks with snow and wool from below. Added pressure plates upon entrances to the domes and redstone wires running to and from my base. Currently I have 7 farms finished: red and brown mushrooms, reeds, carrots, potatos, nether warts and wheat. 3 domes are empty yet, there will be pumpkins, melons and cacti.
Wow... That build's really coming together! Can't wait to see the insides of the domes once they're all done!
Meanwhile, all I did was mine more, build a little more and get started on the storage islands (I desperately NEED the space!).
I have no idea what to put here, nor do I have any idea what to make my profile pic. Ideas welcome, I suppose. Now satisfy my like *****ing hogging self and give me a little rep, please and thank you?
Decided to go down one of the tunnels I had mined out earlier. This extended a couple of hundred blocks north of my base. I then mined it out some more down to diamond level (Y=12.6 on F3 or the What's My Light Level mod), and began to branch mine.
In one of those branches I broke into a large cave system that was apparently generated by the Better Dungeons mod. It was lit up with glowstone blocks, and there were only 2 hostile mobs inside it: a skeleton and a creeper. Both of them I was able to shoot from a safe distance. The cave itself had a lot of exposed ore veins - nearly every ore added by the game or the IC2 and Redpower2 mods were there. I got quite a bit of coal, iron, copper and tin, a bit of silver and gold, a lot of redstone and nikolite, almost 2 full stacks of lapis, a few rubies and sapphires, and 39 diamonds.
I'm thinking this may be a slime cave, but none of the chunks within its area appear to be capable of spawning them.
I'm working on some improvements for a castle map I downloaded. So far, I've made a tower to block limit of alternating Netherrack and fire, and I'm about to start on a huge wall of iron blocks around the entire thing.(Creative, of course.) UPDATE: Nowhere near done, but started. Some preliminary construction:
Either a watchtower or a prison, not sure which.
The very beginning of the outer wall.Improvements to an already-existing rail system (in retrospect, I used like 4 times as many redstone torches as were necessary.
I started up a new world with the "Mars" seed and found a desert pyramid in a swamp/ocean border area. The pyramid reminds me of Sunken Temple from WoW so I've started making a base in it. I'm using the latest snapshot build so before I put torches on the pyramid a witch kept spawning on top of it and falling in to the water.
If you want to check it out yourself I think the cordinates are roughly X:50, Z:280? Not far from the pyramid towards land is a mountain biom and there's a really cool huge cave there.
I've been working on an underwater base on friend's tekkit server. Massive power house, and a two story atrium with garden and teleporters in the works (removing water is serious business). I'm now working on surviving in an abandoned mine with no resources on hard mode for a new YT series.
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Mojointhewild - Because a mine is a terrible thing to waste
F****** cave spider spawners, can never get them right. Been trying to make the percect water canal for the buggers for some hours now but their damn tracking instincts always flip me over.
Short answer:
Died in the Nether, but managed to reclaim a portion of my gear.
Long answer:
I don't much like the Nether. Too many long sheer drops to suit an acrophobic such as myself. As a result I've never done much there beyond gather a small amount of glowstone dust. Then, several days ago, I spent all but a few experience points on enchantments. With little to loose, I decided to revisit the Nether, continuing my exploration along the one extended cobblestone trail I had laid long long ago.
Image my surprise when I discovered that I had abandoned laying trail not 15 blocks from a Nether Fortress! (It was slightly down a slope, thus hidden hidden from view where I had stopped work.)
I encountered no hostile mobs or any sort, which was OK since I was interested in mining Nether Brick and fence sections during this initial exploration. I got lots of those, and a good bit of Glowstone Dust too. Not wanting to press my luck, I returned to the overworld and had several mundane adventures.
Today I returned to the Nether for more brick, fencing and dust. Was plagued by several ghasts en route to the fortress, but managed to outrun them. Mined a decent amount of resources, heard a ghast, decided to find better shelter, and found the ghast right on top of me. Its blast knocked me off the walkway. I plunged to my death, respawning in the overworld.
I re-entered the Nether, carrying only a half-stack of gravel. Was attacked by ghasts from the get-go, but again outran them. Made it to the fortress, and used gravel to lower myself to my gear. A good bit of it remained. All my harvested Nether resources were OK, as was my iron armor. (I do not take my good enchanted diamond armour set there.) Most of my food supply was OK. One of my two stone pickaxes was OK. My infinity enchanted bow was OK.
I was missing my iron sword, arrow, and lightly enchanted diamond pickaxe. Without either sword or arrows, I decided to beat a hasty retreat. Had to dodge ghast blasts most of the way back, but made it.
I've stopped exploring and taking on castles and other Better Dungeons structures, and started working on my first rail line in my current world.
I had earlier made a16x16 building (inside dimensions) to serve as a rail station, which was located on the roof of my base at around layer 78. The roof itself has my RedPower2 solar panels on it, and has a perimeter Railcraft white metal post fence all around it. Like the tracks in that mod, a specialized crafting table called a Rolling Machine is used to make the metal posts. Adding various wool dyes to the basic metal post gets all the colored ones. The white ones match the marble brick walls and floors of my base. The railbed is 2x1, made out of the same marble bricks, and like all other above ground tracks I have built, is completely enclosed in glass.
I got around 600 blocks worth of track laid down, which passes through plains and then jungle, and back to plains again. Part of the tracks cut through the basalt from a RP2 volcano, which is right in the middle of the jungle. The lava flow from it is a few chunks to the east of the tracks. I stopped because it was getting late.
Building the railbed and glass cover was easy thanks to an EE2 item called the Mercurial Eye. With this you can place or extend blocks, or transmute them to another block type. In the left slot of its GUI goes a Klein Star, which provides the EMC needed to create, extend or transmute the target block, which goes in the right slot. The KS is a Drei, which has a capacity of 800,000 EMC.
The track runs straight, at layer 80. I have a powered track every 24 blocks, which seems to still allow a decent speed. Railcraft improves on the vanilla MC rail speed mechanics slightly. I could have gone with high speed tracks, but this is more costly material-wise (these tracks use Blaze Powder), and I was not sure I would get the On A Rail achievement with such tracks. Also, high speed tracks are more dangerous - you need to have both speed up and slow down transitions, and trying to exit from a minecart on a high speed segment can be fatal. They also don't lend themselves to turns very well.
Working on expanding my Melon Farm on the SMP server i play. These Melons will be used for the worlds first watermelon theme park "Melon Land" it is going to be made completely out of melons. The current total of melon stalks is 144 and i have 48 pumpkin stalks still planning on making it bigger.
Wow... That build's really coming together! Can't wait to see the insides of the domes once they're all done!
Meanwhile, all I did was mine more, build a little more and get started on the storage islands (I desperately NEED the space!).
*****ing hogging self and give me a little rep, please and thank you?and i'm taking two mush-cows back home with me.....it's taking a long time!! still have about 5,000 to go in till i'm home
In one of those branches I broke into a large cave system that was apparently generated by the Better Dungeons mod. It was lit up with glowstone blocks, and there were only 2 hostile mobs inside it: a skeleton and a creeper. Both of them I was able to shoot from a safe distance. The cave itself had a lot of exposed ore veins - nearly every ore added by the game or the IC2 and Redpower2 mods were there. I got quite a bit of coal, iron, copper and tin, a bit of silver and gold, a lot of redstone and nikolite, almost 2 full stacks of lapis, a few rubies and sapphires, and 39 diamonds.
I'm thinking this may be a slime cave, but none of the chunks within its area appear to be capable of spawning them.
The very beginning of the outer wall.Improvements to an already-existing rail system (in retrospect, I used like 4 times as many redstone torches as were necessary.
If you want to check it out yourself I think the cordinates are roughly X:50, Z:280? Not far from the pyramid towards land is a mountain biom and there's a really cool huge cave there.
and now i'm going to start building my automatic cactus farm:D
Died in the Nether, but managed to reclaim a portion of my gear.
Long answer:
I don't much like the Nether. Too many long sheer drops to suit an acrophobic such as myself. As a result I've never done much there beyond gather a small amount of glowstone dust. Then, several days ago, I spent all but a few experience points on enchantments. With little to loose, I decided to revisit the Nether, continuing my exploration along the one extended cobblestone trail I had laid long long ago.
Image my surprise when I discovered that I had abandoned laying trail not 15 blocks from a Nether Fortress! (It was slightly down a slope, thus hidden hidden from view where I had stopped work.)
I encountered no hostile mobs or any sort, which was OK since I was interested in mining Nether Brick and fence sections during this initial exploration. I got lots of those, and a good bit of Glowstone Dust too. Not wanting to press my luck, I returned to the overworld and had several mundane adventures.
Today I returned to the Nether for more brick, fencing and dust. Was plagued by several ghasts en route to the fortress, but managed to outrun them. Mined a decent amount of resources, heard a ghast, decided to find better shelter, and found the ghast right on top of me. Its blast knocked me off the walkway. I plunged to my death, respawning in the overworld.
I re-entered the Nether, carrying only a half-stack of gravel. Was attacked by ghasts from the get-go, but again outran them. Made it to the fortress, and used gravel to lower myself to my gear. A good bit of it remained. All my harvested Nether resources were OK, as was my iron armor. (I do not take my good enchanted diamond armour set there.) Most of my food supply was OK. One of my two stone pickaxes was OK. My infinity enchanted bow was OK.
I was missing my iron sword, arrow, and lightly enchanted diamond pickaxe. Without either sword or arrows, I decided to beat a hasty retreat. Had to dodge ghast blasts most of the way back, but made it.
I had earlier made a16x16 building (inside dimensions) to serve as a rail station, which was located on the roof of my base at around layer 78. The roof itself has my RedPower2 solar panels on it, and has a perimeter Railcraft white metal post fence all around it. Like the tracks in that mod, a specialized crafting table called a Rolling Machine is used to make the metal posts. Adding various wool dyes to the basic metal post gets all the colored ones. The white ones match the marble brick walls and floors of my base. The railbed is 2x1, made out of the same marble bricks, and like all other above ground tracks I have built, is completely enclosed in glass.
I got around 600 blocks worth of track laid down, which passes through plains and then jungle, and back to plains again. Part of the tracks cut through the basalt from a RP2 volcano, which is right in the middle of the jungle. The lava flow from it is a few chunks to the east of the tracks. I stopped because it was getting late.
Building the railbed and glass cover was easy thanks to an EE2 item called the Mercurial Eye. With this you can place or extend blocks, or transmute them to another block type. In the left slot of its GUI goes a Klein Star, which provides the EMC needed to create, extend or transmute the target block, which goes in the right slot. The KS is a Drei, which has a capacity of 800,000 EMC.
The track runs straight, at layer 80. I have a powered track every 24 blocks, which seems to still allow a decent speed. Railcraft improves on the vanilla MC rail speed mechanics slightly. I could have gone with high speed tracks, but this is more costly material-wise (these tracks use Blaze Powder), and I was not sure I would get the On A Rail achievement with such tracks. Also, high speed tracks are more dangerous - you need to have both speed up and slow down transitions, and trying to exit from a minecart on a high speed segment can be fatal. They also don't lend themselves to turns very well.