I love how everyone who entered the nether before the ghasts were made immune to lava was traumatized by their incessant screaming.
But on topic, I was excessively lucky because I ended up in a cave. I have got the full treatment that the Nether has to offer before; straw arrow hits pigman, pigman pushes me into lava, you know the rest.
Yes, you have to mine it all out or the forums will figure out where you live, storm it with torches and pitchforks, and lynch you publicly.
In other words, feel free to use INVedit if you think mining that much is boring and a waste of time or otherwise don't want to do it. The opinions on the forums don't matter if you're not having fun in a single-player game.
Well, they each have drawbacks. Making a lantern in a hole covered in glass takes up more space AND gives less light because of distance, lightstone looks better (IMO), but jack-o-lanterns can be removed and placed somewhere else. Correct me if I'm wrong, I've yet to experiment with pumpkins though I have found a few.
Ignoring my personal opinion of this idea, there's one glaring issue. Right-clicking a chest opens it. This means:
1) You can't attach blocks to it to make it fall, and
2) You wouldn't need to do this in the first place if you could somehow reach the chest and your only objective was to get the items inside.
If you wanted to ride it, your only option would be to stand on top of the chest (or the turtle, if it has block-style collision instead of mob-style).
You don't need a separate bar for that - just make it so the player loses one health every nightfall and sunup - that way they have to eat to stay alive.
This method would be very useful, actually, because it means peaceful players would be exempt already.
I can see this working, but I'm sure many people will think one health is too low because you could live off of one raw pork chop a day. I don't think it needs much of an increase to be a reasonable amount of food per day, though.
The cause why diamond is so difficult to find is because it only appears once per chunk. It's always at about the same height (1-16, if I remember correctly), but it can be anywhere in a large horizontal area. If you can precisely pinpoint diamond in every chunk on the X and Z axis, finding it wouldn't be a challenge anymore.
I like the basic concept of having a device that can detect resources beyond visibility - but it needs to be a very vague and unclear hint, something that encourages you to take a closer look at a certain area without just revealing the valuable stuff right away.
To be fair, half the time this device would require you to dig straight down, and we all know how dangerous that can be. It doesn't take that much of the challenge of mining away the way I understand it, just the tedium of strip mining after you're down to that level.
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Yes, but that wouldn't make much sense. Perhaps lightstone? That's what you're there for anyway after the first few times, right?
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But on topic, I was excessively lucky because I ended up in a cave. I have got the full treatment that the Nether has to offer before; straw arrow hits pigman, pigman pushes me into lava, you know the rest.
Edit: And ghasts drop gunpowder.
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In other words, feel free to use INVedit if you think mining that much is boring and a waste of time or otherwise don't want to do it. The opinions on the forums don't matter if you're not having fun in a single-player game.
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Tricky case there, actually. It actually will spread to anything flammable but other netherstone.
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As much as fire or lava; one block brighter than a torch. Place it with care.
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Of course, maps are saved locally on your computer, so keep that in mind.
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1) You can't attach blocks to it to make it fall, and
2) You wouldn't need to do this in the first place if you could somehow reach the chest and your only objective was to get the items inside.
If you wanted to ride it, your only option would be to stand on top of the chest (or the turtle, if it has block-style collision instead of mob-style).
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This method would be very useful, actually, because it means peaceful players would be exempt already.
I can see this working, but I'm sure many people will think one health is too low because you could live off of one raw pork chop a day. I don't think it needs much of an increase to be a reasonable amount of food per day, though.
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... Okay, point taken. Should've thought about it a bit more before I posted.
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To be fair, half the time this device would require you to dig straight down, and we all know how dangerous that can be. It doesn't take that much of the challenge of mining away the way I understand it, just the tedium of strip mining after you're down to that level.