Welcome to the internet. Where you can be rude and not stand in front of the person your being rude to.
You forget after a wile the little things in any game that at first were difficult. So when you see a new player doing the same wrong things because they are learning as well, you poke fun. Some people poke fun because they are admitting that they were their once as well, and it's an attempt to co-misserate. Other are just rude, small minded jerks.
The trick is to never let it bother you, and learn what ever tasks you need to for you to become competent. Video games and real life. Someone is always gonna be the "New guy". And when your not the new guy, your job is to help the new guy. Because it will lessen the annoyance of everyone. Too many people forget that.
Etho is a pretty good source for the game. You can start watching about Episode 100. That is about the time Minecraft hit the the beta 1.8 update and became pretty much the minecraft we have now. Their have been a lot of new things sense then, but the game behaves pretty much the same.
"googling" just about anything into google will turn up results. I can type "mob farm" into google and it will bring me all types of minecraft mob farms, redstone contraptions, or just simple game mechanics.
Other than that. My personal advice.
Don't dig straight up or down.
Working under water is a pain.
A wall 3 blocks high with a block overhang will stop a lot of mobs from finding you if your on the other side.
Light up EVERTHING at first.
The armless green things.......not your friend.
shelter #1 priority. Even if shelter is hole in ground with grass roof and a torch.
punch a crap ton of trees on day one, oak preferably, get the apples. Replant the trees ASAP.
mow the lawn, plant the seeds nearby your shelter, day one if possible. It takes forever for wheat to grow, but once you fill in a small area for farming you'll have more food than you need.
Make bed, No more nighttime.
speaking of shelter and home base. Everything looks alike after a while. So hit F3 and jot down the X,Y,Z of your home. Trust me, eventually you'll be standing their looking at some block hill going "Where the hell am I?"
And lastly...Build stuff. Don't matter if it looks good, is square, lines up, what ever. My fist structures were crap. Floors to low, building was not big enough, no room for redstone. They sucked. However I learned more from that than I have on anything else.
Also when you do google something about this game. Don't freek out when you see what some else built. We've been at this for a while. So the builds you see are freeken epic. You'll get there. Eventually....someday....
This is exactly why I don't use generators or mob farms, not only are they kinda lame but they get patched out all the time.
The bugs that get turned into exploits and used, I completely understand Mojang patching out.
The mob farms I have a harder time understanding why they mess with. I know that the development team dislikes the mob grinders because they think it give the impression that you have to have one. This frustrates new players into thinking that it's a hard game. But it's not hard, and you don't need them. They just make life easier and enable you to build bigger things. You also have to build them. Meaning that you come up with a design, or research it online. So you have time invested. Why should you not get a benefit?
By the way, that redstone trick is more costly anyway. You still have to dig, or at least trade for the Red Stone. yes it's easier to find, but it is also more useful. At least to me anyway. I will build a nether portal from time to time, but it only takes 9 blocks. I'll use 9 redstone dust up just to open a door. So once you have deflated the enderdragon it's a lot faster, and simpler to dissemble the pillars.
Side note though, messing with your End might be a idea when 1.9 comes out (if and whenever that is). They said they were monkeying with the Enderdragon, and we don't know what or how at the moment.
The easiest way to avoid sieges is to ensure there are never 20 or more villagers; for example, since villagers breed to 0.35 times the number of doors a village with 29 doors will support 10 villagers, enough for an iron golem to spawn and help protect them (for what they are worth). Note that for 20 villagers you need 58 doors, but you should include a safety margin since only adults count, thus the final population will be a bit higher once all children have grown up.
True that. Never bothered to do the math on it though. And now I don't have to. Thanks bro.
There used to be a thread about this bug I'm about to talk about, but I don't know where it went.
The bug is that wheat screws up villagers' inventories. Because they need wheat, seeds, and bread to make it, it gunks up their inventories somehow.
Easiest solution: get rid of all crops except for either carrots or potatoes.
Or literally Seed the farmers with seeds. If you drop 5 or 6 stacks of seeds in front of a farmer he will pick them all up. Then you have one guy always planting, and the others tossing food around. Still probably better to convert them to carrots or potatoes, now that I thin of it.
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Welcome to the internet. Where you can be rude and not stand in front of the person your being rude to.
You forget after a wile the little things in any game that at first were difficult. So when you see a new player doing the same wrong things because they are learning as well, you poke fun. Some people poke fun because they are admitting that they were their once as well, and it's an attempt to co-misserate. Other are just rude, small minded jerks.
The trick is to never let it bother you, and learn what ever tasks you need to for you to become competent. Video games and real life. Someone is always gonna be the "New guy". And when your not the new guy, your job is to help the new guy. Because it will lessen the annoyance of everyone. Too many people forget that.
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Reproduce the experiment and see what happens.
To my knowledge they were not altered. Sounds fun though.
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About right for those specs.
Game really hates intel HD graphics.
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Etho is a pretty good source for the game. You can start watching about Episode 100. That is about the time Minecraft hit the the beta 1.8 update and became pretty much the minecraft we have now. Their have been a lot of new things sense then, but the game behaves pretty much the same.
https://www.youtube.com/user/EthosLab
He also does not scream or lower your IQ by simply watching.
also
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_Wiki
Not 100% accurate but it works.
"googling" just about anything into google will turn up results. I can type "mob farm" into google and it will bring me all types of minecraft mob farms, redstone contraptions, or just simple game mechanics.
Other than that. My personal advice.
Don't dig straight up or down.
Working under water is a pain.
A wall 3 blocks high with a block overhang will stop a lot of mobs from finding you if your on the other side.
Light up EVERTHING at first.
The armless green things.......not your friend.
shelter #1 priority. Even if shelter is hole in ground with grass roof and a torch.
punch a crap ton of trees on day one, oak preferably, get the apples. Replant the trees ASAP.
mow the lawn, plant the seeds nearby your shelter, day one if possible. It takes forever for wheat to grow, but once you fill in a small area for farming you'll have more food than you need.
Make bed, No more nighttime.
speaking of shelter and home base. Everything looks alike after a while. So hit F3 and jot down the X,Y,Z of your home. Trust me, eventually you'll be standing their looking at some block hill going "Where the hell am I?"
And lastly...Build stuff. Don't matter if it looks good, is square, lines up, what ever. My fist structures were crap. Floors to low, building was not big enough, no room for redstone. They sucked. However I learned more from that than I have on anything else.
Also when you do google something about this game. Don't freek out when you see what some else built. We've been at this for a while. So the builds you see are freeken epic. You'll get there. Eventually....someday....
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Because it's the content peoples turn to complain about Minecraft.
"How dare they fix bugs we need new shinny things to play with! Waaaaaa"
Then they will drop 1.9 and we'll get all the bug fixers crying...
"Waaaaa, this shinny new thing is broken and does not match with the rest of the shinny new things! Waaaaaaa"
And now you have hard from the people who whinne about the whinning!
And the complaints have come full circle.
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So does the water temple. Once you remove the locals, and water, and stuff.
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The Zip / postal code pertains to the address of the card, not your physical location in the world. They actually know that biased on your login IP.
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The bugs that get turned into exploits and used, I completely understand Mojang patching out.
The mob farms I have a harder time understanding why they mess with. I know that the development team dislikes the mob grinders because they think it give the impression that you have to have one. This frustrates new players into thinking that it's a hard game. But it's not hard, and you don't need them. They just make life easier and enable you to build bigger things. You also have to build them. Meaning that you come up with a design, or research it online. So you have time invested. Why should you not get a benefit?
By the way, that redstone trick is more costly anyway. You still have to dig, or at least trade for the Red Stone. yes it's easier to find, but it is also more useful. At least to me anyway. I will build a nether portal from time to time, but it only takes 9 blocks. I'll use 9 redstone dust up just to open a door. So once you have deflated the enderdragon it's a lot faster, and simpler to dissemble the pillars.
Side note though, messing with your End might be a idea when 1.9 comes out (if and whenever that is). They said they were monkeying with the Enderdragon, and we don't know what or how at the moment.
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True that. Never bothered to do the math on it though. And now I don't have to. Thanks bro.
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Or literally Seed the farmers with seeds. If you drop 5 or 6 stacks of seeds in front of a farmer he will pick them all up. Then you have one guy always planting, and the others tossing food around. Still probably better to convert them to carrots or potatoes, now that I thin of it.