You can easily make a ghast-proof home (or bunker) in the nether using cobblestone or other ghast resistant blocks. Just build out from your portal. Make sure you always have a wall you can shelter behind when Ghasts attack and cover the hellstone with half-tiles.
You can use half-tiles as ghast proof windows. When doing this lay tiles from the top down.
Ghast fireballs cannot damage half-tiles and you can still see out.
You should also ensure that any entrances to your home are protected from Ghast fireballs by a blocking wall. This ensures that Ghast cannot damage anything inside your home.
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I would make it out of or what ever is your choice.
I recommend it because you can guard your portal from ghast blast if you forgot your flint and steal you have a better chance of getting back to retreive it.
I've got two worlds I play with Nether portals to two different bases. I've constructed tunnels between the portals to prevent issues with ghast attacks. I just have to make sure I don't accidentally whack any ZPM that happen to spawn inside. I suppose I could start adding cactus to my forts that I can push ZPM into to get rid of them safely.
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i just dug a hole out in the wall, hollowed it out, put up some important things, u know like and a portal, lined the door with and ur all set, i ofcourse added blocks, and to my door, cuz i can, the ghasts cant break anything higher than cobble, but they CAN deactivate portals if they get a clear shot, i eventually made the little island that the portal led to my home, but thats not important, surviving in the nether is easier if u know what ur doing, go kick sone ghASSt, if u get hurt, go back home, be sure to pick up some 's while ur out too, they are abundent and will be a dominating food source, pigmen were a good safe food source because theu used to die by fire, and u could pick up the remains, but now they attack, but they are easy to outrun like all mobs, but they are still tough no matter what, if u accidently attack one while in a group, your ass is , and like anything else in hell, it burns fast
SHORT AND SWEET VERSION: Nether home: good idea, plus i think the nether takes down the ammount of memory ur file uses, so its less har don ur comp, my save data was 0.0mb, and i started living on the overworld and it went up to 1mb
Did anyone say base in the Nether?
The answer is yes, yes you should, because its awesome :biggrin.gif:
Although it is mindblowingly annoying to fall into lava over and over again because some Ghasts were sure what you wanted to do most right now was a rocket jump
It also got a lot more difficult since 1.2.2, with those ghasts suddenly non-suicidal and all
Also, i second the "you lucky ****er", my nether is swarming with ghasts, i once almost died just running a 10 block bridge from shelter to shelter just because of the sheer amount of fireballs coming from all directions. And to add insult to injury, my spawn location is about where that gigantic gaping hole in my nether is, in the middle of the lava ocean, with no natural valid portal location wide and far :smile.gif:
SHORT AND SWEET VERSION: Nether home: good idea, plus i think the nether takes down the ammount of memory ur file uses, so its less har don ur comp, my save data was 0.0mb, and i started living on the overworld and it went up to 1mb
Nope, that's a glitch. It only -says- the file has no/negative amount of data in it. I assure you, it's still a full-sized Minecraft file.
I build a little hut around my portal, always. This is to protect it mostly. So far all the actual bases I've tried to build are more buildings on massive bridges over the lava oceans, chosen entirely for aesthetics and fun, not practicality. Practicality exists on the overworld on the ridiculously grand scale. I've yet to finish any of my massive bridge projects though, I keep making new worlds and wanting to try a new tactic for making them.
i built one, it had a reed farm, for books, to educate pigmen, a wheat farm, a grass farm, a cacti farm, all sorts of stuff. this was my main base, inside a HUGE like cave in the nether, like so:
yeah, real thick walls, and tunnels with multiple doors leading to the outside. i built other bases, later on, outside, withh proper defenses. just that, you want to be safe when dealing with farms. oh, and yes.... i hacked in ONLY infinite water and ONE countem ONE grass block. using grass farms, you can multiply it to harvest grass seeds. my grass farm is now huge :biggrin.gif:
I'm gonna try to make a base in the Nether, but I usually play on peaceful cause I'm a *****, lol.
I have hear though that Ghasts have an affinity for australium and won't attack you if you are on or within one block of australium and also won't shoot it directly, just something to consider.
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Like some people have said before, you should use glass for the walls as you can see through the glass but ghasts can't see you through it for some reason.
You can use half-tiles as ghast proof windows. When doing this lay tiles from the top down.
Ghast fireballs cannot damage half-tiles and you can still see out.
You should also ensure that any entrances to your home are protected from Ghast fireballs by a blocking wall. This ensures that Ghast cannot damage anything inside your home.
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If you have a bow and arrow just whittle down the numbers. You did bring weapons with you into the nether right?
I recommend it because you can guard your portal from ghast blast if you forgot your flint and steal you have a better chance of getting back to retreive it.
Ghast are a pain somtimes
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Better dungeon loot, bones in dirt, Witch hut loot, ect
You lucky ****er
SHORT AND SWEET VERSION: Nether home: good idea, plus i think the nether takes down the ammount of memory ur file uses, so its less har don ur comp, my save data was 0.0mb, and i started living on the overworld and it went up to 1mb
The answer is yes, yes you should, because its awesome :biggrin.gif:
Although it is mindblowingly annoying to fall into lava over and over again because some Ghasts were sure what you wanted to do most right now was a rocket jump
It also got a lot more difficult since 1.2.2, with those ghasts suddenly non-suicidal and all
Also, i second the "you lucky ****er", my nether is swarming with ghasts, i once almost died just running a 10 block bridge from shelter to shelter just because of the sheer amount of fireballs coming from all directions. And to add insult to injury, my spawn location is about where that gigantic gaping hole in my nether is, in the middle of the lava ocean, with no natural valid portal location wide and far :smile.gif:
Nope, that's a glitch. It only -says- the file has no/negative amount of data in it. I assure you, it's still a full-sized Minecraft file.
I build a little hut around my portal, always. This is to protect it mostly. So far all the actual bases I've tried to build are more buildings on massive bridges over the lava oceans, chosen entirely for aesthetics and fun, not practicality. Practicality exists on the overworld on the ridiculously grand scale. I've yet to finish any of my massive bridge projects though, I keep making new worlds and wanting to try a new tactic for making them.
yeah, real thick walls, and tunnels with multiple doors leading to the outside. i built other bases, later on, outside, withh proper defenses. just that, you want to be safe when dealing with farms. oh, and yes.... i hacked in ONLY infinite water and ONE countem ONE grass block. using grass farms, you can multiply it to harvest grass seeds. my grass farm is now huge :biggrin.gif:
Hi.
I have hear though that Ghasts have an affinity for australium and won't attack you if you are on or within one block of australium and also won't shoot it directly, just something to consider.
GENERATION 18: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
I'm glad I did because shortly after I attacked a ghast, missed and hit a pigman zombie.
Boy was I glad I had a stone house i could poke pigmen through the windows from at that time.