Plant EVERY SAPLING YOU HAVE. As soon as a tree grows, cut it down and do the same. You should have a dozen or more saplings going at ALL TIMES. You will have more trees than you can cut down!
5 saplings grows a single tree at LEAST 5 times faster than 1 sapling would.
I settle for 75 normal trees (25 of each kind, except jungle trees, as soon as I can manage that) and 4 big jungle trees. With that many trees I can basically keep cutting trees indefinitely; they regrow as fast as I can cut them (and this is mostly true even if I avoid the jungle trees, which is nice, since cutting small trees is way easier).
But then, I like doing things big. Which, unfortunately, means that when I botch something I create a big problem; my mob grinder has created a large Enderman infestation on my island, and fixing it would be so hard I'm considering starting over...
BTW: while I didn't have a too serious problem, jungle saplings were quite scarce for me. I had the Oak and Birch tree farms already at 25 trees each before I was able to finally grow a single big tree, which promptly refused to give me 4 saplings...
Yay! I love seeing pics. Thanks for posting them. You're the first to post anything showing real progress on the map
I like your mob spawner. Since they changed the way mobs move I've been having a terrible time getting any decent output from a farm.
9/10: Mycelium area in Swamp now, will mov it some day. No slimes spawned yet either.
I've also had trouble spawning slimes. I actually set my mob farm up in my swamp biome, hoping it would occasionally produce slimes. It has yet to (though I do get a moderately decent number of other mobs)
Yay! I love seeing pics. Thanks for posting them. You're the first to post anything showing real progress on the map
If you want pics, a few of mine
Some of my farms; besides the obvious ones, you can glimpse the mycellium one in the right, and what is left of the snow farm after an Enderman attacked the Snowman in front of the sugar cane farm. The waterfalls are an attempt to stop Enderman from griefing my farms:
Better look at my tree farm (75 normal sized trees + 4 Jungle giants):
My animal pens (29x13 grass area), covered due to Enderman vandalism:
My tripple cobblestone generator (uses just one Lava and one Water source, but it's not my design):
Covered mycellium, with the village in the background:
My strange and malfunctioning mob grinder. I advise everyone to not copy: halfslab glitches mean mobs fall on my head outside the grinder, and it's a constant source of Enderman teleporting out and griefing my island:
Ender portal:
View from inside my village (only half done, already 80 doors, mostly tucked in the roof), with the mob grinder in the background:
Island map; each square is 16x16. Lots of blue ceilings because I now use ceiling pools to try to keep enderman away. White dots = animals, green dots = villagers and golems, red dots = mob grinder.
Sweet! Looking good. I really like your cobblestone generator. I don't know why I never thought of something like that before. I wonder if you could set it up so you could aim one direction and get all 3 cobble to constantly fall into your lap without having to move the mouse (for hands-free cobblestone generation). I suspect it would be a lot quicker than the one-cobble generators I typically use.
I been playing this map for a short time now, and looking at peoples pictures has me a little confused. How are they getting over 64 dirt to use as well as getting animals to spawn? Unless there is a chest I haven't seen. Someone help please.
Sweet! Looking good. I really like your cobblestone generator. I don't know why I never thought of something like that before. I wonder if you could set it up so you could aim one direction and get all 3 cobble to constantly fall into your lap without having to move the mouse (for hands-free cobblestone generation). I suspect it would be a lot quicker than the one-cobble generators I typically use.
Time for some SCIENCE.
Two better views of a replica of that cobblestone generator, with bricks under the lava and bounding the water source, and encased in glass:
(The thing in the background is a golem farm I might someday copy into my EB4 game.)
It's a sweet little project, easy to do, and I had a lot of clay lying about Gonna change the one I have in OB4 to look the same in time when I have enough surplus sand, perhaps with a few Obsidian blocks where it might catch a stray minepick. It's way more beautiful than the gray lump I have right now
I'm a big fan of skyblock and I really wanted to give this a shot, but I'm a newb and don't know how download a map for minecraft. Could you please help me out so I can play your map?
I'm a big fan of skyblock and I really wanted to give this a shot, but I'm a newb and don't know how download a map for minecraft. Could you please help me out so I can play your map?
Thanks,
ZQFMBG
I am terrible at giving instructions, and there are several ways to do everything on a computer and I don't always do things the way normal people would
However, this video here looks pretty good. It's only 1 minute long:
It still won't work, even though I follow all the instructions in the video :/ But I don't think the video was made with Windows 7, which I am using so that's the problem I guess.
It still won't work, even though I follow all the instructions in the video :/ But I don't think the video was made with Windows 7, which I am using so that's the problem I guess.
Actually it works on Windows 7. Just tested it.
An alternative way:
Click Start.
Type "%appdata%/.minecraft/saves" (without the quotation marks) in the start menu's search field and press enter. You can also copy and paste it in that field. This will open the folder where Minecraft keeps it's savegames.
Save the zip file with the world you downloaded there.
Right-click the zipped file and select "Extract here".
I prefer to do like this because, with the zipped world in my saves directory, it's easier to restart the world whenever I want.
Hmm, It's still not working Oh well, guess I'll have to settle with skyblock multiplayer
It might help if you actually describe what happens, or which step fails.
After clicking the Start button and typing "%appdata%/.minecraft/saves" in the search field an explorer window in the folder where Minecraft stores save files (or rather, world folders) should should open; you should be able to see the names of any world you are playing as folder names there. Did you get there?
After unzipping the EB4 zip file there you should have a "OceanBlock_4.0" folder in there; inside that folder a bunch of files starting with "level", a "session.lock" file, and a bunch of folders. Do you have those?
After this the EB4 world should be on your Select World screen. Is it?
When my main server went down, my girlfriend and I popped up a quicky one to play on together, and chose this map because it looked fun.
Definetly is!
Within the first minute or so, our villagers decided to drown themselves, so we quickly spawned in 2 more (only cheaty thing we did so we didn't have to reload the map!) I hope they weren't pre- placed with specific trades? @_@
So far we have a little tree farm area, and a mob spawning place. Just discovered that there was more dirt on ocean floor after reading this thread, so tomorrow we're probobly going to ladder down and have a look see! I really hope we can get enough glass and stuff to make an under water base. Oh, and Jungle saplings were horrible. Had to grow at least seven before we got more than one sapling, but as soon as we got four to make giant tree, we have excess saplings now!
It might help if you actually describe what happens, or which step fails.
After clicking the Start button and typing "%appdata%/.minecraft/saves" in the search field an explorer window in the folder where Minecraft stores save files (or rather, world folders) should should open; you should be able to see the names of any world you are playing as folder names there. Did you get there?
After unzipping the EB4 zip file there you should have a "OceanBlock_4.0" folder in there; inside that folder a bunch of files starting with "level", a "session.lock" file, and a bunch of folders. Do you have those?
After this the EB4 world should be on your Select World screen. Is it?
No, it doesn't show up in there. And when I download the map it I'snt a folder it's just a file called oceanblock, so I don't know why it does that.
When my main server went down, my girlfriend and I popped up a quicky one to play on together, and chose this map because it looked fun.
Definetly is!
Within the first minute or so, our villagers decided to drown themselves, so we quickly spawned in 2 more (only cheaty thing we did so we didn't have to reload the map!) I hope they weren't pre- placed with specific trades? @_@
They have specific trades that are set up to make sure that you can get a few emeralds to start, and get redstone (there is none on the map anywhere), but they are by no means necessary. If you make a village you will very likely get more villagers with those trades. They're pretty common.
Nice looking starter island! I can't wait to see more Your reed farm looks a lot like the ones I start with.
I settle for 75 normal trees (25 of each kind, except jungle trees, as soon as I can manage that) and 4 big jungle trees. With that many trees I can basically keep cutting trees indefinitely; they regrow as fast as I can cut them (and this is mostly true even if I avoid the jungle trees, which is nice, since cutting small trees is way easier).
But then, I like doing things big. Which, unfortunately, means that when I botch something I create a big problem; my mob grinder has created a large Enderman infestation on my island, and fixing it would be so hard I'm considering starting over...
BTW: while I didn't have a too serious problem, jungle saplings were quite scarce for me. I had the Oak and Birch tree farms already at 25 trees each before I was able to finally grow a single big tree, which promptly refused to give me 4 saplings...
Yeah that's a villager I'd put in the delifeifier, once he spat out a few kids.
THE VILLAGER DELIFEIFIER:
(sticky piston facing ->)
|
/ \
(redstone) (pressure plate)
Did you know I write Science Fiction? Well I do. Check it out at http://planetretcon.com/books/
Yay! I love seeing pics. Thanks for posting them. You're the first to post anything showing real progress on the map
I like your mob spawner. Since they changed the way mobs move I've been having a terrible time getting any decent output from a farm.
I've also had trouble spawning slimes. I actually set my mob farm up in my swamp biome, hoping it would occasionally produce slimes. It has yet to (though I do get a moderately decent number of other mobs)
Sounds like a road to success
Did you know I write Science Fiction? Well I do. Check it out at http://planetretcon.com/books/
If you want pics, a few of mine
Some of my farms; besides the obvious ones, you can glimpse the mycellium one in the right, and what is left of the snow farm after an Enderman attacked the Snowman in front of the sugar cane farm. The waterfalls are an attempt to stop Enderman from griefing my farms:
Better look at my tree farm (75 normal sized trees + 4 Jungle giants):
My animal pens (29x13 grass area), covered due to Enderman vandalism:
My tripple cobblestone generator (uses just one Lava and one Water source, but it's not my design):
Covered mycellium, with the village in the background:
My strange and malfunctioning mob grinder. I advise everyone to not copy: halfslab glitches mean mobs fall on my head outside the grinder, and it's a constant source of Enderman teleporting out and griefing my island:
Ender portal:
View from inside my village (only half done, already 80 doors, mostly tucked in the roof), with the mob grinder in the background:
Island map; each square is 16x16. Lots of blue ceilings because I now use ceiling pools to try to keep enderman away. White dots = animals, green dots = villagers and golems, red dots = mob grinder.
Sweet! Looking good. I really like your cobblestone generator. I don't know why I never thought of something like that before. I wonder if you could set it up so you could aim one direction and get all 3 cobble to constantly fall into your lap without having to move the mouse (for hands-free cobblestone generation). I suspect it would be a lot quicker than the one-cobble generators I typically use.
Time for some SCIENCE.
Watching now, already subscribed, and will like when done!
(I always wait until after I've finished to "like" a video, so I can keep track of the ones I've watched)
Did you know I write Science Fiction? Well I do. Check it out at http://planetretcon.com/books/
Two better views of a replica of that cobblestone generator, with bricks under the lava and bounding the water source, and encased in glass:
(The thing in the background is a golem farm I might someday copy into my EB4 game.)
It's a sweet little project, easy to do, and I had a lot of clay lying about Gonna change the one I have in OB4 to look the same in time when I have enough surplus sand, perhaps with a few Obsidian blocks where it might catch a stray minepick. It's way more beautiful than the gray lump I have right now
I'm a big fan of skyblock and I really wanted to give this a shot, but I'm a newb and don't know how download a map for minecraft. Could you please help me out so I can play your map?
Thanks,
ZQFMBG
I am terrible at giving instructions, and there are several ways to do everything on a computer and I don't always do things the way normal people would
However, this video here looks pretty good. It's only 1 minute long:
Did you know I write Science Fiction? Well I do. Check it out at http://planetretcon.com/books/
Actually it works on Windows 7. Just tested it.
An alternative way:
It might help if you actually describe what happens, or which step fails.
After clicking the Start button and typing "%appdata%/.minecraft/saves" in the search field an explorer window in the folder where Minecraft stores save files (or rather, world folders) should should open; you should be able to see the names of any world you are playing as folder names there. Did you get there?
After unzipping the EB4 zip file there you should have a "OceanBlock_4.0" folder in there; inside that folder a bunch of files starting with "level", a "session.lock" file, and a bunch of folders. Do you have those?
After this the EB4 world should be on your Select World screen. Is it?
Definetly is!
Within the first minute or so, our villagers decided to drown themselves, so we quickly spawned in 2 more (only cheaty thing we did so we didn't have to reload the map!) I hope they weren't pre- placed with specific trades? @_@
So far we have a little tree farm area, and a mob spawning place. Just discovered that there was more dirt on ocean floor after reading this thread, so tomorrow we're probobly going to ladder down and have a look see! I really hope we can get enough glass and stuff to make an under water base. Oh, and Jungle saplings were horrible. Had to grow at least seven before we got more than one sapling, but as soon as we got four to make giant tree, we have excess saplings now!
No, it doesn't show up in there. And when I download the map it I'snt a folder it's just a file called oceanblock, so I don't know why it does that.
Did you unzip the folder?
They have specific trades that are set up to make sure that you can get a few emeralds to start, and get redstone (there is none on the map anywhere), but they are by no means necessary. If you make a village you will very likely get more villagers with those trades. They're pretty common.
Nice looking starter island! I can't wait to see more Your reed farm looks a lot like the ones I start with.
Did you know I write Science Fiction? Well I do. Check it out at http://planetretcon.com/books/