My only goal right now is to somehow reach all the islands. Unfortunately I spawned on the second highest island (or is that fortunately?) so the only visible means I have of making it to the lower levels (possibly the lowest level) is to jump into a lava pit with stone armor on hoping it gives me enough time just to leap out, fight off any enemies, and then build a small hovel to defend my position.
After which I aim to try to get all the diamonds on the level. Which may be nigh impossible...but I've never backed down from a bad idea.
Also the reason why I figure it's good I spawned at the second highest level is it reduces the amount of monsters that will randomly fall on me. So far I've only encountered two.
Image of the map (sorry about the brightness, took the image at night):
If you can figure it out just by looking at it, I applaud you. But in case you can't there's a few things of note, a small bridge I built to an island to get the other tree that spawned near me, a failed attempt to grow a tree in Hell, and a spiral staircase I started attempting to get up to the highest island.
Also, is there any way to grow trees in Hell? Handles are kind of important and I don't want to resort to tearing my starting house down.
As you can see, there's no sand on the map even if the brightened image makes it look like there is. As far as I know sand doesn't spawn on hell maps which I can only gather that because there's no water there's no sand. Gravel yes (as I discovered on a few attempts of plummeting into the lava) but no sand. This is kind of an experiment to see if it's possible to play on a floating Hell map, and so far I've found that it is. I've made it up to the highest point and found it serves as a pig farm. Every time I turn around in that area a new pig as spawned, so I suppose that's a bit of luck on my part.
Even if gravel serves as a replacement to sand it's far too low for it to be of any use to me.
Edit: Just realized an awesome "quest" I could do. Once I gather all nine diamonds I'll make them into a block. After that I'll build a huge fortress on the top level. The diamond block will be on the very pinnacle of the fortress. This is what Minecraft is all about, making up something to do where there is none.
Well, in case you do find any sand/gravel, here's a protip: place a block of it above a lower island, and it falls down, right? Place enough, and you can make a tower leading up to the island you're on; then, just dig down through it, set up a more permanent staircase, rinse, and repeat!
If you spend enough time in game, grass will spawn next to the lava. You can then start working on a farm, which will grow without water as long as the light is bright enough. There's usually a pretty limited amount of gravel with which to get to other islands, if that's the route you want to take. Don't try to jump down into a lava pool, there's no way to know how deep it is and your velocity will push you under it pretty quickly if it's more than two blocks...you actually might to better simply jumping down to the next island, with much food & armor.
Well, in case you do find any sand/gravel, here's a protip: place a block of it above a lower island, and it falls down, right? Place enough, and you can make a tower leading up to the island you're on; then, just dig down through it, set up a more permanent staircase, rinse, and repeat!
I knew this, however there's a slight problem when doing it with gravel. When you mine a gravel which doesn't have anything below it you mine the whole group of gravel on the same level. To put that into perspective...
*mines*
*mines* (one gravel piece which I have to try like the dickens to grab) *POOF*
Anything gravel that's connected horizontally and not diagonally just poofs away. I've figured out a decent way to mine it though even with this collecting conundrum. FYI, blocks can't be places on the gravel or else they'll poof away without even dropping anything.
So as you can see I've hit a few snags. For one jumping into lava didn't work, however I managed to get on the island above with a few roasted pieces of ham. Now I'm hoping what few meager pieces of gravel I do manage to grab is enough to lower me down to the island which I'm certain has iron on it. Either way the island below my current position is swarming with bad medicine...so yeah.
(Also I didn't know isocaptures weren't working in the first place)
Yeah, how are you doing this? All of my iso maps are all garbled still.
Small maps work perfectly with a nice picture, normal maps make HUUGE pictures that lag (atleast for me) and are full of "invisible patches", large maps dont even try to make an image.
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Well, in case you do find any sand/gravel, here's a protip: place a block of it above a lower island, and it falls down, right? Place enough, and you can make a tower leading up to the island you're on; then, just dig down through it, set up a more permanent staircase, rinse, and repeat!
I knew this, however there's a slight problem when doing it with gravel. When you mine a gravel which doesn't have anything below it you mine the whole group of gravel on the same level. To put that into perspective...
*mines*
*mines* (one gravel piece which I have to try like the dickens to grab) *POOF*
Anything gravel that's connected horizontally and not diagonally just poofs away. I've figured out a decent way to mine it though even with this collecting conundrum. FYI, blocks can't be places on the gravel or else they'll poof away without even dropping anything.
So as you can see I've hit a few snags. For one jumping into lava didn't work, however I managed to get on the island above with a few roasted pieces of ham. Now I'm hoping what few meager pieces of gravel I do manage to grab is enough to lower me down to the island which I'm certain has iron on it. Either way the island below my current position is swarming with bad medicine...so yeah.
(Also I didn't know isocaptures weren't working in the first place)
When dealing with so little floating gravel/sand on floating maps I build a platform under all the gravel then hit a single piece, it falls to the platform and is now safely mine-able. Takes forever but it gets the job done.
When dealing with so little floating gravel/sand on floating maps I build a platform under all the gravel then hit a single piece, it falls to the platform and is now safely mine-able. Takes forever but it gets the job done.
This assumes you can get below them and have the resources to build that much.
They've always been fixed. When rendering, don't push any buttons. If something interferes with rendering it seems it just doesn't work. Don't go to another tab, nothing. Beyond that I don't know.
Actually I have, I did about two days ago. Just barely though. Upon jumping down to the last island I barely had enough gravel to survive the fall, I had half a heart left but luckily I stocked up on roasted pig meat before hand.
Now I'm systematically mining for all the diamond. And boy oh boy I've found one gold ore so far! Slight sarcasm, but I should probably make something with the gold since there's so little of it.
I plan on making some kind of huge fortress, not at the top as originally planned, but at the very bottom. Creating my own landscape, etc. I've only got the second to last island to mine and then the bottom will be a breeze compared to this one. By the way, the bottom island doesn't look so evil lit up and covered in grass. I wasn't aware that liquids were finite now, so when I tried to move some of the lava I lost some, now there's no exposed lava. There may be a small pocket of it under the rock on the very bottom but I doubt it.
Also for the record...I've used 26 iron so far. So that leaves 85, just enough to make 8 iron blocks and a pair of boots...or like a shovel and a hoe or something. Or just keep the leftovers in a chest. I'll have three gold blocks if all goes according to plan with eight left, enough to make a chest plate. As I said, only enough diamond to make a single block and that's my ultimate silly goal in all this pointless pass-timing.
My only goal right now is to somehow reach all the islands. Unfortunately I spawned on the second highest island (or is that fortunately?) so the only visible means I have of making it to the lower levels (possibly the lowest level) is to jump into a lava pit with stone armor on hoping it gives me enough time just to leap out, fight off any enemies, and then build a small hovel to defend my position.
After which I aim to try to get all the diamonds on the level. Which may be nigh impossible...but I've never backed down from a bad idea.
Also the reason why I figure it's good I spawned at the second highest level is it reduces the amount of monsters that will randomly fall on me. So far I've only encountered two.
Image of the map (sorry about the brightness, took the image at night):
If you can figure it out just by looking at it, I applaud you. But in case you can't there's a few things of note, a small bridge I built to an island to get the other tree that spawned near me, a failed attempt to grow a tree in Hell, and a spiral staircase I started attempting to get up to the highest island.
Also, is there any way to grow trees in Hell? Handles are kind of important and I don't want to resort to tearing my starting house down.
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EDIT: And lol stone armor :sleep.gif:
anyway, man, thats a small amount of resources
it must be hard to get them
Floating Islands
Huge
Deep
Normal, pre-day-and-night map.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5388734/Floatin ... al.mclevel
The lowest layer of islands is reachable by three sets of big-ass spiral stairs. Enjoy!
Just... Don't stand on it while you gather it.
Thanks.
As you can see, there's no sand on the map even if the brightened image makes it look like there is. As far as I know sand doesn't spawn on hell maps which I can only gather that because there's no water there's no sand. Gravel yes (as I discovered on a few attempts of plummeting into the lava) but no sand. This is kind of an experiment to see if it's possible to play on a floating Hell map, and so far I've found that it is. I've made it up to the highest point and found it serves as a pig farm. Every time I turn around in that area a new pig as spawned, so I suppose that's a bit of luck on my part.
Even if gravel serves as a replacement to sand it's far too low for it to be of any use to me.
Edit: Just realized an awesome "quest" I could do. Once I gather all nine diamonds I'll make them into a block. After that I'll build a huge fortress on the top level. The diamond block will be on the very pinnacle of the fortress. This is what Minecraft is all about, making up something to do where there is none.
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I knew this, however there's a slight problem when doing it with gravel. When you mine a gravel which doesn't have anything below it you mine the whole group of gravel on the same level. To put that into perspective...
Anything gravel that's connected horizontally and not diagonally just poofs away. I've figured out a decent way to mine it though even with this collecting conundrum. FYI, blocks can't be places on the gravel or else they'll poof away without even dropping anything.
So as you can see I've hit a few snags. For one jumping into lava didn't work, however I managed to get on the island above with a few roasted pieces of ham. Now I'm hoping what few meager pieces of gravel I do manage to grab is enough to lower me down to the island which I'm certain has iron on it. Either way the island below my current position is swarming with bad medicine...so yeah.
(Also I didn't know isocaptures weren't working in the first place)
Yeah, how are you doing this? All of my iso maps are all garbled still.
Small maps work perfectly with a nice picture, normal maps make HUUGE pictures that lag (atleast for me) and are full of "invisible patches", large maps dont even try to make an image.
When dealing with so little floating gravel/sand on floating maps I build a platform under all the gravel then hit a single piece, it falls to the platform and is now safely mine-able. Takes forever but it gets the job done.
This assumes you can get below them and have the resources to build that much.
They've always been fixed. When rendering, don't push any buttons. If something interferes with rendering it seems it just doesn't work. Don't go to another tab, nothing. Beyond that I don't know.
All isomaps work me so it might just be bad luck if they dont work for you (or good luck that they work for me)
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Now I'm systematically mining for all the diamond. And boy oh boy I've found one gold ore so far! Slight sarcasm, but I should probably make something with the gold since there's so little of it.
I plan on making some kind of huge fortress, not at the top as originally planned, but at the very bottom. Creating my own landscape, etc. I've only got the second to last island to mine and then the bottom will be a breeze compared to this one. By the way, the bottom island doesn't look so evil lit up and covered in grass. I wasn't aware that liquids were finite now, so when I tried to move some of the lava I lost some, now there's no exposed lava. There may be a small pocket of it under the rock on the very bottom but I doubt it.
Also for the record...I've used 26 iron so far. So that leaves 85, just enough to make 8 iron blocks and a pair of boots...or like a shovel and a hoe or something. Or just keep the leftovers in a chest. I'll have three gold blocks if all goes according to plan with eight left, enough to make a chest plate. As I said, only enough diamond to make a single block and that's my ultimate silly goal in all this pointless pass-timing.