Ah, well I am all about the xp. I probably go through an enchanted diamond tool every third time I play Minecraft. But I do do alot of mining and stuff like that so I understand if your need for xp isn't as much. I forgot that people don't enchant as often as me sorry.
Don't need to apologize! I personally love enchanting as well and I might consider doing more caving just so I can have more diamonds to enchant diamond pickaxes.
always great builds, quick question for you i am only new i wanna get more into this i am playing a LP world and i have found my local villagers all gone and the other few around me are gone to why is this ? might be a silly question but i am only new
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Is your village protected? I'm not sure if zombie sieges are still in the game but I remember that was a thing, and it usually leads to mass amounts of villagers dying.
Awesome. I loved your last journal and I'm looking forward to this one. Do you frequent the minecraft subreddit by any chance? If so what is your reddit username? This build style reminds me of one I saw on that subreddit a few days ago.
I do actually yes. I think my reddit username is voxelss (2 or 3 s I can't remember right now). I did post the finished thing there, but I'm not going to link it because I sort of want it to be a surprise haha.
Another update today. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! just came out so updates might be a little slow for a little bit haha.
Interior Attempt 19 October 2014
First thing I did was some more exterior work near the new platform. This part of the house will extend even further. I'm not sure what's inside yet, I haven't exactly thought of it.
Quick little furnace setup here. I realized how little coal I actually have, I already used almost half of my supply cooking ores, stone and food.
Some more exterior work here. I extended the whole thing to the side, and added some pillars as markers. Just for an idea to how large the building is, this part is only around 10% of the whole structure.
Dug out a large portion of the inside. I'm not sure what I'm going to put in here, but perhaps a wheat farm? Or a storage room.
Now this looks somewhat complete. This is pretty cozy in my opinion, although I haven't built any furniture on it yet.
Let's head to the nether! I don't really need the quartz but I do need the glowstone and I'm interested what I'm going to see behind there.
Wow that's not bad at all. I went ahead and explored it, although I didn't found anything too interesting other than a single blaze spawner and some nether wart. I got quite a lot of glowstone though.
Found something to build in that large space - a bulk storage space. I needed quite a lot of space for stone after all the digging. Notice that I also added some glass to separate the two "rooms".
And the last thing I did in this entry is the roof. What do you think of this? I'm not sure myself actually. I don't know if it will fit with the rest of the design.
Need a good universal mob farm? Check out the Double Shift Towers. Designed for 1.9 and gets 22,000 Items / Hour with a very simple redstone set up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8aoJpjjgU
The roof in the last picture looks nice, but like you said it doesn't really match. It's to dark compared to the colors you used in the rest of your build.
The roof in the last picture looks nice, but like you said it doesn't really match. It's to dark compared to the colors you used in the rest of your build.
Hm, I might consider changing the color of the stained clay. Although I think if I make it a similar colour to everything else it would look too plain. I'll try it out.
Anyways, another update today. Got quite a lot of things to do for school recently, and just managed to find time to play today.
Enhancements 28 October 2014
Let's expand! I added some outline to the structure here, although I wouldn't be working on the outside all that much. I need to get the inside proper first.
Some lighting ideas. What do you think? I'm not sure about it but I think it looks okay. The stairs behind it will lead to a separate room (not sure what that would be just yet, any ideas?).
Work on the interior of this part of the house begins. I got really stuck here because I'm not very good at interior designing, so I wasn't sure what to put here.
Originally I wanted to make a more automated version of the cow farm rather than manual breeding, but it looked really bad placed here so I removed it. That's what the hole is - redstone and space for the cows.
Started to change the mine to a more permanent fixture. I think this looks pretty nice to drop into the mine. I'm thinking of using jump pads to go up, but I don't know much about slime block mechanics yet. I'm going to look into that first before I start making the pads.
I love these kind of views, makes the hole look more impressive than it actually is haha.
After a little bit of branch mining, I got enough levels to enchant a level 30 pick. This is the first thing I got from it. Wanted just the efficiency and unbreaking to be honest because I feel the fortune would be wasted, but oh well. Can't complain.
Now this is what the interior should look like. I think I was able to put enough detail into the enchanting room but still able to keep it simple and modern. I'm planning to copy this palette throughout the other parts of the house.
Onto the back, here's a small view into the jump pads going up from the mine. Of course there are no jump pads there yet but there will be soon (ish). To be honest I don't know what I think about it, it doesn't look very nice right now.
This journal looks like it will be great your last ones where I would make one but I'm just to lazy.
Go ahead and make one, it's really fun! It might seem like you need to put in quite a bit of effort but it definitely doesn't feel like work. Although I personally enjoy writing about things, so that might change my opinion on journals haha.
As for updates, updates will be a little slow for a day or two because I just got myself a brand new custom PC, so I'm in the process of setting everything up and making things work.
P.S. Going from 40 fps at less-than-max settings to this is pretty awesome:
Go ahead and make one, it's really fun! It might seem like you need to put in quite a bit of effort but it definitely doesn't feel like work. Although I personally enjoy writing about things, so that might change my opinion on journals haha.
As for updates, updates will be a little slow for a day or two because I just got myself a brand new custom PC, so I'm in the process of setting everything up and making things work.
P.S. Going from 40 fps at less-than-max settings to this is pretty awesome:
Holy FPS! Can you give specs, and how much did the custom pc cost?
Holy FPS! Can you give specs, and how much did the custom pc cost?
Here are the full specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz
Motherboard: Asus H97M-E
RAM: Kingston Hyper-X Blu DDR3 8GB (2 x 4 GB)
HDD: WDC 3.5" 1TB SATA Caviar Blue 7200 RPM
Video Card: Asus Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2GB DDR5
PSU: Corsair CX 500W
Case: Bitfenix Prodigy M White
Monitor: Asus VE247H
Keyboard: Cooler Master Quickfire Rapid-i
Headset: Logitech G430
I live in Indonesia so the prices of the parts are significantly more expensive than the prices in the US. Here the total (excluding mouse but including monitor, headset, keyboard and case) was 14,654,000 IDR which translates to approximately 1100 USD. In my opinion you can get a much better build than mine with that budget, but I'm still incredibly happy with this one.
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz
Motherboard: Asus H97M-E
RAM: Kingston Hyper-X Blu DDR3 8GB (2 x 4 GB)
HDD: WDC 3.5" 1TB SATA Caviar Blue 7200 RPM
Video Card: Asus Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2GB DDR5
PSU: Corsair CX 500W
Case: Bitfenix Prodigy M White
Monitor: Asus VE247H
Keyboard: Cooler Master Quickfire Rapid-i
Headset: Logitech G430
I live in Indonesia so the prices of the parts are significantly more expensive than the prices in the US. Here the total (excluding mouse but including monitor, headset, keyboard and case) was 14,654,000 IDR which translates to approximately 1100 USD. In my opinion you can get a much better build than mine with that budget, but I'm still incredibly happy with this one.
Thank you I am thinking of building a computer myself, so thanks
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz
Motherboard: Asus H97M-E
RAM: Kingston Hyper-X Blu DDR3 8GB (2 x 4 GB)
HDD: WDC 3.5" 1TB SATA Caviar Blue 7200 RPM
Video Card: Asus Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2GB DDR5
PSU: Corsair CX 500W
Case: Bitfenix Prodigy M White
Monitor: Asus VE247H
Keyboard: Cooler Master Quickfire Rapid-i
Headset: Logitech G430
I live in Indonesia so the prices of the parts are significantly more expensive than the prices in the US. Here the total (excluding mouse but including monitor, headset, keyboard and case) was 14,654,000 IDR which translates to approximately 1100 USD. In my opinion you can get a much better build than mine with that budget, but I'm still incredibly happy with this one.
Do you enjoy your 750 Ti? I was contemplating on replacing my old 6670 with a 750 Ti (because of it's surprisingly low power consumption), but I wasn't sure if it would be a worthwhile investment.
In my opinion the 750 Ti is an amazing card for its price; I'm able to run my favorite games (borderlands TPS, Dota 2 and Minecraft) all above 60 fps, with Dota averaging 120 and Minecraft way above 200 (as you can see above). Although I don't think those games are a good benchmark since they're relatively low strain. If you're playing games that are more intensive I'd suggest the GTX 760 or even the 770 as those cards are really good as well.
In my opinion the 750 Ti is an amazing card for its price; I'm able to run my favorite games (borderlands TPS, Dota 2 and Minecraft) all above 60 fps, with Dota averaging 120 and Minecraft way above 200 (as you can see above). Although I don't think those games are a good benchmark since they're relatively low strain. If you're playing games that are more intensive I'd suggest the GTX 760 or even the 770 as those cards are really good as well.
I would get one of the higher end cards (770, 760, ect) but my power supply isn't a high enough wattage, and has non-traditional connectors on the motherboard. So if I were to want to get a higher end card, I would have to replace my power supply, and to replace my power supply, I would have to get a new motherboard.
So that's why I would like to just get a 750 Ti. It's uses very little power, and from what you've said can play games pretty damn well. Oh, and I mostly just play CS:GO and Minecraft (With a little League and TF2 here and there), which are all relativity non-intensive games.
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PC specs: Intel Core 2 Duo e8500 @ 3.16ghz / XFX Radeon HD 6670 2GB DDR3 / 6GB 1666MHz DDR3 RAM / Windows 7 Professional
I would get one of the higher end cards (770, 760, ect) but my power supply isn't a high enough wattage, and has non-traditional connectors on the motherboard. So if I were to want to get a higher end card, I would have to replace my power supply, and to replace my power supply, I would have to get a new motherboard.
So that's why I would like to just get a 750 Ti. It's uses very little power, and from what you've said can play games pretty damn well. Oh, and I mostly just play CS:GO and Minecraft (With a little League and TF2 here and there), which are all relativity non-intensive games.
I see I see it makes sense. When I built my pc I didn't really consider the power since I picked the parts first and the PSU last. The games you play seem to be very non-intensive, so a 750 Ti would be more than enough power.
On topic,
Anyone know any good slime farm designs? I found a double slime chunk near my house but I don't know if the old slime farm (just platforms) will suffice.
Anyone know any good slime farm designs? I found a double slime chunk near my house but I don't know if the old slime farm (just platforms) will suffice.
How much time, redstone, string, and the will to dig out a huge area do you have? Lol. Although from experience on my last world when I did this design with a double slime chunk I had more slime than I could ever use. Honestly even with my single chunk slime farm I'm still getting more than I can use. But if you're intent on doing the double slime chunk farm, the design I just did in my journal can be modified as a 2 chunk farm which I can show you how. And it doubles as a cacti farm lol, so you'll need a sorter and a huge storage area.
Need a good universal mob farm? Check out the Double Shift Towers. Designed for 1.9 and gets 22,000 Items / Hour with a very simple redstone set up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8aoJpjjgU
How much time, redstone, string, and the will to dig out a huge area do you have? Lol. Although from experience on my last world when I did this design with a double slime chunk I had more slime than I could ever use. Honestly even with my single chunk slime farm I'm still getting more than I can use. But if you're intent on doing the double slime chunk farm, the design I just did in my journal can be modified as a 2 chunk farm which I can show you how. And it doubles as a cacti farm lol, so you'll need a sorter and a huge storage area.
That's pretty interesting, can you elaborate on the double slime chunk design?
Alright guys another update. There's not as much done here as in the other updates, but life has been pretty busy as usual. Heck as I'm writing this I have a chemistry quiz tomorrow, I should really be studying haha.
Inefficiency 5 November 2014
Redstoners who have an issue with all things inefficient, please turn away.
But on to that later. Since the last update, I felt that I really needed better tools. I gathered levels from mining and from the xp grinder and was able to get myself a pretty good sword. I pretty much use this to save on coal for food (although I have a lot of coal already).
Made the first jump pad! I only found enough slime balls to make this, I wish I could make more. These things are probably the best thing that came into minecraft since the hopper.
Preparations start on a new project. This is located on the right side of the house, and it will be a pumpkin farm. Now, I wonder why I titled this entry as "Inefficiency?"
Start of the redstone. This design for the farm I actually thought up myself, but it's definitely not the best one out there. It's not very unique either, a lot of pumpkin farms are structured in a similar way. The redstone can definitely be improved as well.
After a bit of time I managed to expand the area to outside the mountain and I installed another row of pistons on the other side. Not having slime balls suck, having normal pistons make the pumpkins fly all over the place.
View of the house from the outside. Definitely starting to see the scale of the whole place, and it's not even remotely close to being finished.
And here comes the inefficient part.. (as if it isn't inefficient enough). I decided to transport the items from the water stream into the chests using hoppers. I did this because using hoppers I wouldn't be limited to the length of the water stream and I can place the chest practically anywhere I want.
Another small overview of part of the farm. As for some technical specifications - each row produces 16 pumpkins per harvest, and there will be 3 rows in total so the farm produces 3 x 16 = 48 pumpkins per harvest. It isn't great, but it's definitely enough for what I want to do with the pumpkins.
Here's a different perspective of the farm. As you can see the other part of the house is in the bottom right. The farm will not be covered, instead I'm planning to have the wall here made out of glass so anyone walking there can see inside. There will also be a door so that I can actually access the farm in the first place.
Don't need to apologize! I personally love enchanting as well and I might consider doing more caving just so I can have more diamonds to enchant diamond pickaxes.
Is your village protected? I'm not sure if zombie sieges are still in the game but I remember that was a thing, and it usually leads to mass amounts of villagers dying.
I do actually yes. I think my reddit username is voxelss (2 or 3 s I can't remember right now). I did post the finished thing there, but I'm not going to link it because I sort of want it to be a surprise haha.
Journal of a NEW Survival World
Voxel's Guide to Building
Interior Attempt
19 October 2014
First thing I did was some more exterior work near the new platform. This part of the house will extend even further. I'm not sure what's inside yet, I haven't exactly thought of it.
Quick little furnace setup here. I realized how little coal I actually have, I already used almost half of my supply cooking ores, stone and food.
Some more exterior work here. I extended the whole thing to the side, and added some pillars as markers. Just for an idea to how large the building is, this part is only around 10% of the whole structure.
Dug out a large portion of the inside. I'm not sure what I'm going to put in here, but perhaps a wheat farm? Or a storage room.
Now this looks somewhat complete. This is pretty cozy in my opinion, although I haven't built any furniture on it yet.
Let's head to the nether! I don't really need the quartz but I do need the glowstone and I'm interested what I'm going to see behind there.
Wow that's not bad at all. I went ahead and explored it, although I didn't found anything too interesting other than a single blaze spawner and some nether wart. I got quite a lot of glowstone though.
Found something to build in that large space - a bulk storage space. I needed quite a lot of space for stone after all the digging. Notice that I also added some glass to separate the two "rooms".
And the last thing I did in this entry is the roof. What do you think of this? I'm not sure myself actually. I don't know if it will fit with the rest of the design.
Journal of a NEW Survival World
Voxel's Guide to Building
Bored enough to watch some vanilla lets plays? http://www.youtube.com/user/Crump3txxix
Need a good universal mob farm? Check out the Double Shift Towers. Designed for 1.9 and gets 22,000 Items / Hour with a very simple redstone set up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8aoJpjjgU
Thanks! I'm having a lot more trouble on the interior though as I haven't planned it out at all haha.
Hm, I might consider changing the color of the stained clay. Although I think if I make it a similar colour to everything else it would look too plain. I'll try it out.
Anyways, another update today. Got quite a lot of things to do for school recently, and just managed to find time to play today.
Enhancements
28 October 2014
Let's expand! I added some outline to the structure here, although I wouldn't be working on the outside all that much. I need to get the inside proper first.
Some lighting ideas. What do you think? I'm not sure about it but I think it looks okay. The stairs behind it will lead to a separate room (not sure what that would be just yet, any ideas?).
Work on the interior of this part of the house begins. I got really stuck here because I'm not very good at interior designing, so I wasn't sure what to put here.
Originally I wanted to make a more automated version of the cow farm rather than manual breeding, but it looked really bad placed here so I removed it. That's what the hole is - redstone and space for the cows.
Started to change the mine to a more permanent fixture. I think this looks pretty nice to drop into the mine. I'm thinking of using jump pads to go up, but I don't know much about slime block mechanics yet. I'm going to look into that first before I start making the pads.
I love these kind of views, makes the hole look more impressive than it actually is haha.
After a little bit of branch mining, I got enough levels to enchant a level 30 pick. This is the first thing I got from it. Wanted just the efficiency and unbreaking to be honest because I feel the fortune would be wasted, but oh well. Can't complain.
Now this is what the interior should look like. I think I was able to put enough detail into the enchanting room but still able to keep it simple and modern. I'm planning to copy this palette throughout the other parts of the house.
Onto the back, here's a small view into the jump pads going up from the mine. Of course there are no jump pads there yet but there will be soon (ish). To be honest I don't know what I think about it, it doesn't look very nice right now.
Journal of a NEW Survival World
Voxel's Guide to Building
"If I where a flower, I would want legs." -Me At 4AM
Go ahead and make one, it's really fun! It might seem like you need to put in quite a bit of effort but it definitely doesn't feel like work. Although I personally enjoy writing about things, so that might change my opinion on journals haha.
As for updates, updates will be a little slow for a day or two because I just got myself a brand new custom PC, so I'm in the process of setting everything up and making things work.
P.S. Going from 40 fps at less-than-max settings to this is pretty awesome:
Journal of a NEW Survival World
Voxel's Guide to Building
Holy FPS! Can you give specs, and how much did the custom pc cost?
Here are the full specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz
Motherboard: Asus H97M-E
RAM: Kingston Hyper-X Blu DDR3 8GB (2 x 4 GB)
HDD: WDC 3.5" 1TB SATA Caviar Blue 7200 RPM
Video Card: Asus Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2GB DDR5
PSU: Corsair CX 500W
Case: Bitfenix Prodigy M White
Monitor: Asus VE247H
Keyboard: Cooler Master Quickfire Rapid-i
Headset: Logitech G430
I live in Indonesia so the prices of the parts are significantly more expensive than the prices in the US. Here the total (excluding mouse but including monitor, headset, keyboard and case) was 14,654,000 IDR which translates to approximately 1100 USD. In my opinion you can get a much better build than mine with that budget, but I'm still incredibly happy with this one.
Journal of a NEW Survival World
Voxel's Guide to Building
Thank you I am thinking of building a computer myself, so thanks
Do you enjoy your 750 Ti? I was contemplating on replacing my old 6670 with a 750 Ti (because of it's surprisingly low power consumption), but I wasn't sure if it would be a worthwhile investment.
PC specs: Intel Core 2 Duo e8500 @ 3.16ghz / XFX Radeon HD 6670 2GB DDR3 / 6GB 1666MHz DDR3 RAM / Windows 7 Professional
Journal of a NEW Survival World
Voxel's Guide to Building
I would get one of the higher end cards (770, 760, ect) but my power supply isn't a high enough wattage, and has non-traditional connectors on the motherboard. So if I were to want to get a higher end card, I would have to replace my power supply, and to replace my power supply, I would have to get a new motherboard.
So that's why I would like to just get a 750 Ti. It's uses very little power, and from what you've said can play games pretty damn well. Oh, and I mostly just play CS:GO and Minecraft (With a little League and TF2 here and there), which are all relativity non-intensive games.
PC specs: Intel Core 2 Duo e8500 @ 3.16ghz / XFX Radeon HD 6670 2GB DDR3 / 6GB 1666MHz DDR3 RAM / Windows 7 Professional
Thank you! Was out of town over the weekend and just got home yesterday, so hopefully there will be an update soon.
I see I see it makes sense. When I built my pc I didn't really consider the power since I picked the parts first and the PSU last. The games you play seem to be very non-intensive, so a 750 Ti would be more than enough power.
On topic,
Anyone know any good slime farm designs? I found a double slime chunk near my house but I don't know if the old slime farm (just platforms) will suffice.
Journal of a NEW Survival World
Voxel's Guide to Building
How much time, redstone, string, and the will to dig out a huge area do you have? Lol. Although from experience on my last world when I did this design with a double slime chunk I had more slime than I could ever use. Honestly even with my single chunk slime farm I'm still getting more than I can use. But if you're intent on doing the double slime chunk farm, the design I just did in my journal can be modified as a 2 chunk farm which I can show you how. And it doubles as a cacti farm lol, so you'll need a sorter and a huge storage area.
Bored enough to watch some vanilla lets plays? http://www.youtube.com/user/Crump3txxix
Need a good universal mob farm? Check out the Double Shift Towers. Designed for 1.9 and gets 22,000 Items / Hour with a very simple redstone set up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8aoJpjjgU
That's pretty interesting, can you elaborate on the double slime chunk design?
Journal of a NEW Survival World
Voxel's Guide to Building
Thank you! There's definitely more to come
Alright guys another update. There's not as much done here as in the other updates, but life has been pretty busy as usual. Heck as I'm writing this I have a chemistry quiz tomorrow, I should really be studying haha.
Inefficiency
5 November 2014
But on to that later. Since the last update, I felt that I really needed better tools. I gathered levels from mining and from the xp grinder and was able to get myself a pretty good sword. I pretty much use this to save on coal for food (although I have a lot of coal already).
Made the first jump pad! I only found enough slime balls to make this, I wish I could make more. These things are probably the best thing that came into minecraft since the hopper.
Preparations start on a new project. This is located on the right side of the house, and it will be a pumpkin farm. Now, I wonder why I titled this entry as "Inefficiency?"
Start of the redstone. This design for the farm I actually thought up myself, but it's definitely not the best one out there. It's not very unique either, a lot of pumpkin farms are structured in a similar way. The redstone can definitely be improved as well.
After a bit of time I managed to expand the area to outside the mountain and I installed another row of pistons on the other side. Not having slime balls suck, having normal pistons make the pumpkins fly all over the place.
View of the house from the outside. Definitely starting to see the scale of the whole place, and it's not even remotely close to being finished.
And here comes the inefficient part.. (as if it isn't inefficient enough). I decided to transport the items from the water stream into the chests using hoppers. I did this because using hoppers I wouldn't be limited to the length of the water stream and I can place the chest practically anywhere I want.
Another small overview of part of the farm. As for some technical specifications - each row produces 16 pumpkins per harvest, and there will be 3 rows in total so the farm produces 3 x 16 = 48 pumpkins per harvest. It isn't great, but it's definitely enough for what I want to do with the pumpkins.
Here's a different perspective of the farm. As you can see the other part of the house is in the bottom right. The farm will not be covered, instead I'm planning to have the wall here made out of glass so anyone walking there can see inside. There will also be a door so that I can actually access the farm in the first place.
Journal of a NEW Survival World
Voxel's Guide to Building