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So I have been playing minecraft for three days now. I am relatively decent with educating myself, and after a few rounds of trial and error and by watching some youtube videos I discovered how to make "beacons" to keep myself oriented.
Then I decided to make a map and went off in my little boat hunting sugarcane. I figured I would stay along the coastline, and would make it around what I thought was a relatively big island in a couple days.
It is now the fifth day minecraft time. I have no idea where I am. I don't know if I am going in circles around some strange world, if the world is bigger than I thought, or if I should keep going. I keep following the coast, but nothing ever looks familiar. I miss my little minecraft home that was so awesome and so much fun to build. Will I ever find it again? Should I turn around, or keep going? How big ARE these worlds?
Sorry if this is in the wrong thread. I didn't see a "go here to get your nub questions answered, newbie" thread. And since I am playing survival I figured I would ask here. Thanks!
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Well to answer your questions the worlds are endless so um the only way I can think of getting back to your house would be to either turn around or somehow die so you respawn near your house. Thats the only way I can think of getting back to your house
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Not the answer I wanted, but thank you for the quick response! I hate to die and undo all the work I've done since I set out on my little journey, but I really want to get back to my little minecraft home. So...die I shall. But man...this has been a wild adventure. I ha - since I posted - gotten into a wild little hair raising chase through the night when my little boat wrecked and zombies chased me. I managed to survive till sunrise, then killed off the one still chasing me. And then I saw a freaking amazing lava waterfall....but...I do need to get back to my humble little home.
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OOooooh this is a much better idea, Max! Thank you so much!
I tried the cheat. It killed me. it didn't let me keep my inventory. BUT! Thats ok. I am back home, and can easily replace what I lost. Thanks for trying to help!
Do you know that pressing F3 gets you a screenfull of info including your position.
Along the left edge, around the middle are your coordinates, XYZ, Y is the height so ignore that and aim back towards X=0, Z=0 that won't be exactly where you started but within a few hundred meters so it makes a good starting point for a spiral search if you don't recognize anything. (Unless you travelled a large distance from where you started before you built your house.)
Also you can make a compass out of a piece of redstone dust and 4 iron ingots (redstone in center, iron up, down, left and right of redstone.) The compass is supposed to point to your original spawn point (unless you've changed it) though some people have reported it not always working properly. Also, it can be a bit hard to figure out how to read it, it's easiest if you look at it in your inventory rather than holding it.
Next time, when you find your home, press F3, and note down the X and Z coordinates (this is the position of you in the world, Y is height, and not really relevant in this case). Then whenever you are away from home and lost, you can press F3 and adjust your position and direction of travel to find your way home ...
In fact, before you kill yourself, if had stuff you wanted to keep, you could grab some wood, build a chest and put the stuff in it, press F3, note the coordinates down, then die, when you respawn back at base, you will know where your saved stuff is, should you want to go get it ...
OOooooh this is a much better idea, Max! Thank you so much!
I tried the cheat. It killed me. it didn't let me keep my inventory. BUT! Thats ok. I am back home, and can easily replace what I lost. Thanks for trying to help!
Oh, sorry you didn't keep your inventory. But It's great you got back home successfully
Not the answer I wanted, but thank you for the quick response! I hate to die and undo all the work I've done since I set out on my little journey, but I really want to get back to my little minecraft home. So...die I shall. But man...this has been a wild adventure. I ha - since I posted - gotten into a wild little hair raising chase through the night when my little boat wrecked and zombies chased me. I managed to survive till sunrise, then killed off the one still chasing me. And then I saw a freaking amazing lava waterfall....but...I do need to get back to my humble little home.
Thank you all for the quick responses!
Welcome to minecraft survival.
You're experiencing what we ALL have been through.
You're earning your bones so to speak.
There will be PLENTY more pain to come.
You're learning why we survival players really have no respect whatsoever for the creative game people.
You're experiencing what we ALL have been through.
You're earning your bones so to speak.
There will be PLENTY more pain to come.
You're learning why we survival players really have no respect whatsoever for the creative game people.
Welcome to the club.
Oh come now. Creative allows just that, creativity, to a level that is hard to match in survival. I agree that there is a great measure of satisfaction to be had by braving the perils of survival while gathering the materials and constructing something very ambitious. But no reason to look down our nose at someone who wants to create something truly majestic with all the materials at their command.
Oh come now. Creative allows just that, creativity, to a level that is hard to match in survival. I agree that there is a great measure of satisfaction to be had by braving the perils of survival while gathering the materials and constructing something very ambitious. But no reason to look down our nose at someone who wants to create something truly majestic with all the materials at their command.
If it can be done in creative...... a survival builder can do it too. I have.
An option to keep your inventory would have been to make an ender chest and put all of your stuff in it before you died. this way you could have respawned in your bed then build another ender chest to get your stuff back!
When you say "beacons" i take it you dont actually mean you made a beacon from iron blocks and an actual beacon crafted from a nether star? otherwise you cant really be that much of a noob!
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I'm not sure what an ender chest is...I will have to look that up in a second.
And ..no...by beacon I mean basically just a really tall one block wide tower with a torch on top. I am not sure if that is more or less noobish than what you were thinking of, but either way I cheerfully confess to my newbieness.
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The tower idea won't really help if you go so far out that you leave the chunk it's in.
If if you want to go that route, make a ten block high tower, with a jack o' lantern on top, and a torch on the side you came from. The jack o' lantern makes it bright, and the torch will point you back home. I'd say about every 50ish blocks put one.
Also, could make a map- make a compass, and then put paper around it.
Compass is redstone dust in the center with iron ingots in the cardinal blocks, paper is sugarcane in a 1x3 row. Once you have it, you have to hold it and click the "use item" action. They have a limit to how far they go in each direction, so if you plan to travel far, make a few spares.
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Yeah I learned about the compass/map thing the day before yesterday. I found my first redstone yesterday, made the map, and promptly went exploring to find sugarcane to make the map bigger and lost it when I died lol.
Thats ok, I decided I am going to build roads. Gives me something to do with all that cobblestone. And road signs, of course.
Right now I'm a bit lost myself in my world. I have a good idea where my base is and It has a special cobblestone pillar for detection, but it's currently out of my render distance. In the future, try to build a marker near your base to avoid getting lost when your base is within your render distance.
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So I have been playing minecraft for three days now. I am relatively decent with educating myself, and after a few rounds of trial and error and by watching some youtube videos I discovered how to make "beacons" to keep myself oriented.
Then I decided to make a map and went off in my little boat hunting sugarcane. I figured I would stay along the coastline, and would make it around what I thought was a relatively big island in a couple days.
It is now the fifth day minecraft time. I have no idea where I am. I don't know if I am going in circles around some strange world, if the world is bigger than I thought, or if I should keep going. I keep following the coast, but nothing ever looks familiar. I miss my little minecraft home that was so awesome and so much fun to build. Will I ever find it again? Should I turn around, or keep going? How big ARE these worlds?
Sorry if this is in the wrong thread. I didn't see a "go here to get your nub questions answered, newbie" thread. And since I am playing survival I figured I would ask here. Thanks!
lol these worlds are 7 times bigger than the earth plus you are proboly going in circles you just dont know it...
Well to answer your questions the worlds are endless so um the only way I can think of getting back to your house would be to either turn around or somehow die so you respawn near your house. Thats the only way I can think of getting back to your house
Not the answer I wanted, but thank you for the quick response! I hate to die and undo all the work I've done since I set out on my little journey, but I really want to get back to my little minecraft home. So...die I shall. But man...this has been a wild adventure. I ha - since I posted - gotten into a wild little hair raising chase through the night when my little boat wrecked and zombies chased me. I managed to survive till sunrise, then killed off the one still chasing me. And then I saw a freaking amazing lava waterfall....but...I do need to get back to my humble little home.
Thank you all for the quick responses!
Well, If your willing to cheat, there is a sure way to get back.
Click escape
Click "Open to lan"
Allow cheats
Do "/gamerule keepinventory true"
Do "/kill"
And you should be home.
However, If you don't want to cheat, you could do this.
Build a little structure and put some chests in it.
Put all your gear in those chests
Press F3 (or Fn+F3 for some computers)
Write down your coordinates (X,Y,Z,)
Kill yourself
When you re-spawn, write down the coordinates of your house.
Walk back to the coordinates of where you put your stuff
Grab all your stuff
Walk back to the coordinates of your house.
OR if your house is built near your original spawn point, you could do this.
Get iron and redstone.
Make a compass
Follow compass arrow
This should bring you back to your original spawn point.
OOooooh this is a much better idea, Max! Thank you so much!
I tried the cheat. It killed me. it didn't let me keep my inventory. BUT! Thats ok. I am back home, and can easily replace what I lost. Thanks for trying to help!
Do you know that pressing F3 gets you a screenfull of info including your position.
Along the left edge, around the middle are your coordinates, XYZ, Y is the height so ignore that and aim back towards X=0, Z=0 that won't be exactly where you started but within a few hundred meters so it makes a good starting point for a spiral search if you don't recognize anything. (Unless you travelled a large distance from where you started before you built your house.)
Also you can make a compass out of a piece of redstone dust and 4 iron ingots (redstone in center, iron up, down, left and right of redstone.) The compass is supposed to point to your original spawn point (unless you've changed it) though some people have reported it not always working properly. Also, it can be a bit hard to figure out how to read it, it's easiest if you look at it in your inventory rather than holding it.
Just testing.
Next time, when you find your home, press F3, and note down the X and Z coordinates (this is the position of you in the world, Y is height, and not really relevant in this case). Then whenever you are away from home and lost, you can press F3 and adjust your position and direction of travel to find your way home ...
In fact, before you kill yourself, if had stuff you wanted to keep, you could grab some wood, build a chest and put the stuff in it, press F3, note the coordinates down, then die, when you respawn back at base, you will know where your saved stuff is, should you want to go get it ...
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You guys are all awesome:) I will definitely do the coordinates thing in the future.
Oh, sorry you didn't keep your inventory. But It's great you got back home successfully
it needs to be /gamerule keepInventory true with a capital I or it wont work.
Welcome to minecraft survival.
You're experiencing what we ALL have been through.
You're earning your bones so to speak.
There will be PLENTY more pain to come.
You're learning why we survival players really have no respect whatsoever for the creative game people.
Welcome to the club.
Oh come now. Creative allows just that, creativity, to a level that is hard to match in survival. I agree that there is a great measure of satisfaction to be had by braving the perils of survival while gathering the materials and constructing something very ambitious. But no reason to look down our nose at someone who wants to create something truly majestic with all the materials at their command.
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..
If it can be done in creative...... a survival builder can do it too. I have.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/show-your-creation/screenshots/1594893-neuschwanstein-castle-308l-x-128w-x-155h-survival
Ill stand by my words.
Did you make a bed and sleep in it if so drown your self in game you will loose everything but it will be worth it
An option to keep your inventory would have been to make an ender chest and put all of your stuff in it before you died. this way you could have respawned in your bed then build another ender chest to get your stuff back!
When you say "beacons" i take it you dont actually mean you made a beacon from iron blocks and an actual beacon crafted from a nether star? otherwise you cant really be that much of a noob!
*looks confused*
I'm not sure what an ender chest is...I will have to look that up in a second.
And ..no...by beacon I mean basically just a really tall one block wide tower with a torch on top. I am not sure if that is more or less noobish than what you were thinking of, but either way I cheerfully confess to my newbieness.
The tower idea won't really help if you go so far out that you leave the chunk it's in.
If if you want to go that route, make a ten block high tower, with a jack o' lantern on top, and a torch on the side you came from. The jack o' lantern makes it bright, and the torch will point you back home. I'd say about every 50ish blocks put one.
Also, could make a map- make a compass, and then put paper around it.
Compass is redstone dust in the center with iron ingots in the cardinal blocks, paper is sugarcane in a 1x3 row. Once you have it, you have to hold it and click the "use item" action. They have a limit to how far they go in each direction, so if you plan to travel far, make a few spares.
Yeah I learned about the compass/map thing the day before yesterday. I found my first redstone yesterday, made the map, and promptly went exploring to find sugarcane to make the map bigger and lost it when I died lol.
Thats ok, I decided I am going to build roads. Gives me something to do with all that cobblestone. And road signs, of course.
Right now I'm a bit lost myself in my world. I have a good idea where my base is and It has a special cobblestone pillar for detection, but it's currently out of my render distance. In the future, try to build a marker near your base to avoid getting lost when your base is within your render distance.
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