Here's a story about epic fail I just have to get off my chest....
Last night I was working on building an underwater tunnel which had the roof line at about 4 blocks underwater. The inside was 4x4 wide (6x6 if you include the glass walls/floor/roof). The length of the tunnel was about 130 blocks long.
I already had most of the glass I needed stockpiled in chests from a previous project I was working on, but ran out with only about another 20 blocks in tunnel length to go. So off I went back to one of my many houses that had some sand stored in a chest, and I loaded up a bunch of furnaces to make the remaining glass bricks I would need.
All up I'd been working on this tunnel for about 5 hours... it was now about 2:30am and I had to be up for work in 5 hours, but I was determined to finish this tunnel first, as I don't like leaving projects like that half finished. So there I am... standing in front of my furnaces waiting for my glass... then... you won't believe what happened...
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my mobile phone alarm went off... it was 7:30am... I had fallen asleep while waiting for my glass. My Xbox had automatically turned itself off because of inactivity, and of course... I DIDN'T SAVE ANY OF THE WORK I HAD DONE IN MY WORLD.... AAAARRRGGGHHHHH.
And that is my rant about my epic fail.... I feel really annoyed at myself for not saving. Oh... and if you're wondering why I didn't just have the autosave feature on, it's because I hate it. It screwed me over really bad once when it autosaved at the exact moment I accidentally fell in lava and lost a lot of items, so I wasn't able to just exit the game and go back to a previous save.
But now I'm wondering... should I even bother going through the hassle of re-building the underwater tunnel, or do something else to get from A to B instead? What would you do (besides the obvious - save more frequently!)?
If you liked the underwater tunnel, then rebuild it. I had a nice house I had in a world. I lost that world due too a big ass chunk error. I built that exact house another 3 times on 3 different worlds. Exact is in, down to the very last brick. Those worlds were hit by big ass chunk errors as well.
Save every time you finish a tiny part of your project. thats what i do trust me its good like that bc i always fall a sleep when i do things like what your working on.
Personally I wouldn't rebuild it, only because I plan on starting a new world once the update comes out.
But if you don't plan on restarting, then rebuild it.
Cook the sand before you start the tunnel, that way when you run out you can head back it'll be done.
I've had auto save off for about a month, at least. I save more often than the auto save would have anyway. I have had huge, elaborate traps that have been set off to test them and then auto save screwed me over and I had to reset them by hand. I ALWAYS save whenever I reach a point where I am finished with a big part of a project, and sometimes I will realize "hey, it's been a few minutes" and I will save again.
Can you over-save? I don't think so. But my suggestion would be to create an 8x8 horizontal "column" of dirt under water, and then hollow it out and line the inside with glass. Then you can have air, and all you'll have to do is chip off the last layer of dirt from the outside.
Yeah I've had a similar thing happen in other games, I'll leave a game paused, go to a buddy's house and come back to an off xbox. I'm pretty sure I was able to turn off the auto-shut off.
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Rebuild it. It will take half the time now that you've done it once. Plus you can make little changes to make it better. I play on easy or normal, and creepers blow my **** up ALL THE TIME. Every time I remake it better than it was.
It's called auto save use it if not then its your falt and we don't need to here about.it
Thanks for your enlightening comment. I merely posted my story so people could have a laugh at my expense, and share similar experiences.
I'm not the first to have done something as stupid as I did, and I certainly won't be the last.
I'm well aware that it was my fault for not using auto save, and thought I made it quite clear as to why I didn't have it turned on.
Perhaps if you don't want to "here" about stories such as mine, then you should stop reading these forums.
Here's a story about epic fail I just have to get off my chest....
Last night I was working on building an underwater tunnel which had the roof line at about 4 blocks underwater. The inside was 4x4 wide (6x6 if you include the glass walls/floor/roof). The length of the tunnel was about 130 blocks long.
I already had most of the glass I needed stockpiled in chests from a previous project I was working on, but ran out with only about another 20 blocks in tunnel length to go. So off I went back to one of my many houses that had some sand stored in a chest, and I loaded up a bunch of furnaces to make the remaining glass bricks I would need.
All up I'd been working on this tunnel for about 5 hours... it was now about 2:30am and I had to be up for work in 5 hours, but I was determined to finish this tunnel first, as I don't like leaving projects like that half finished. So there I am... standing in front of my furnaces waiting for my glass... then... you won't believe what happened...
...
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my mobile phone alarm went off... it was 7:30am... I had fallen asleep while waiting for my glass. My Xbox had automatically turned itself off because of inactivity, . . . [RRRIIIP!]
Wait, what? Back that up.
". . . My Xbox had automatically turned itself off because of inactivity . . ."
Yes, that's what I thought you said. How in the hell would anyone allow their console to turn itself off automatically, while a game is running? That's heresy! Disable that crap, would you, for the benefit of all that is good and holy?
". . . My Xbox had automatically turned itself off because of inactivity . . ."
Yes, that's what I thought you said. How in the hell would anyone allow their console to turn itself off automatically, while a game is running? That's heresy! Disable that crap, would you, for the benefit of all that is good and holy?
I enabled that option because quite often the kids will leave it on. Don't worry, I will be disabling it tonight to avoid any repeats!
Haha! Sorry to go ballistic on you. It's just that I was shocked this could even happen. I checked, and sure enough, it's possible to set it up that way. I would be so pissed if my Xbox suddenly got a mind of its own and went AWOL. Ha!
Here's a story about epic fail I just have to get off my chest....
Last night I was working on building an underwater tunnel which had the roof line at about 4 blocks underwater. The inside was 4x4 wide (6x6 if you include the glass walls/floor/roof). The length of the tunnel was about 130 blocks long.
I already had most of the glass I needed stockpiled in chests from a previous project I was working on, but ran out with only about another 20 blocks in tunnel length to go. So off I went back to one of my many houses that had some sand stored in a chest, and I loaded up a bunch of furnaces to make the remaining glass bricks I would need.
All up I'd been working on this tunnel for about 5 hours... it was now about 2:30am and I had to be up for work in 5 hours, but I was determined to finish this tunnel first, as I don't like leaving projects like that half finished. So there I am... standing in front of my furnaces waiting for my glass... then... you won't believe what happened...
...
...
my mobile phone alarm went off... it was 7:30am... I had fallen asleep while waiting for my glass. My Xbox had automatically turned itself off because of inactivity, and of course... I DIDN'T SAVE ANY OF THE WORK I HAD DONE IN MY WORLD.... AAAARRRGGGHHHHH.
And that is my rant about my epic fail.... I feel really annoyed at myself for not saving. Oh... and if you're wondering why I didn't just have the autosave feature on, it's because I hate it. It screwed me over really bad once when it autosaved at the exact moment I accidentally fell in lava and lost a lot of items, so I wasn't able to just exit the game and go back to a previous save.
But now I'm wondering... should I even bother going through the hassle of re-building the underwater tunnel, or do something else to get from A to B instead? What would you do (besides the obvious - save more frequently!)?
hmm i see your point about autosave being annoying makes sense but y do u have your xbox set to turn off when its inactive thats a terrible idea i mean i understand from a power saving perspective but from a gaming perspective thats just stupid by the way check out this underwater structure my friend and i built
BTW its NOT what it looks like i know what ur thinking it looks like but that was completely UNintentional
It's called auto save use it if not then its your falt and we don't need to here about.it
If by "we" you mean us, the forum users, you're completely wrong. Speak for yourself next time, and try not to be that rude.
As for the OP, man, that just sucks! That reminds me of a time when I was building a huge project, and my nephew walked to the xbox and pushed "that big shiny button", as he calls it.
What a sad day it was...
Last night I was working on building an underwater tunnel which had the roof line at about 4 blocks underwater. The inside was 4x4 wide (6x6 if you include the glass walls/floor/roof). The length of the tunnel was about 130 blocks long.
I already had most of the glass I needed stockpiled in chests from a previous project I was working on, but ran out with only about another 20 blocks in tunnel length to go. So off I went back to one of my many houses that had some sand stored in a chest, and I loaded up a bunch of furnaces to make the remaining glass bricks I would need.
All up I'd been working on this tunnel for about 5 hours... it was now about 2:30am and I had to be up for work in 5 hours, but I was determined to finish this tunnel first, as I don't like leaving projects like that half finished. So there I am... standing in front of my furnaces waiting for my glass... then... you won't believe what happened...
...
...
my mobile phone alarm went off... it was 7:30am... I had fallen asleep while waiting for my glass. My Xbox had automatically turned itself off because of inactivity, and of course... I DIDN'T SAVE ANY OF THE WORK I HAD DONE IN MY WORLD.... AAAARRRGGGHHHHH.
And that is my rant about my epic fail.... I feel really annoyed at myself for not saving. Oh... and if you're wondering why I didn't just have the autosave feature on, it's because I hate it. It screwed me over really bad once when it autosaved at the exact moment I accidentally fell in lava and lost a lot of items, so I wasn't able to just exit the game and go back to a previous save.
But now I'm wondering... should I even bother going through the hassle of re-building the underwater tunnel, or do something else to get from A to B instead? What would you do (besides the obvious - save more frequently!)?
If you liked the underwater tunnel, then rebuild it. I had a nice house I had in a world. I lost that world due too a big ass chunk error. I built that exact house another 3 times on 3 different worlds. Exact is in, down to the very last brick. Those worlds were hit by big ass chunk errors as well.
Personally I wouldn't rebuild it, only because I plan on starting a new world once the update comes out.
But if you don't plan on restarting, then rebuild it.
Cook the sand before you start the tunnel, that way when you run out you can head back it'll be done.
Can you over-save? I don't think so. But my suggestion would be to create an 8x8 horizontal "column" of dirt under water, and then hollow it out and line the inside with glass. Then you can have air, and all you'll have to do is chip off the last layer of dirt from the outside.
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Rebuild it. It will take half the time now that you've done it once. Plus you can make little changes to make it better. I play on easy or normal, and creepers blow my **** up ALL THE TIME. Every time I remake it better than it was.
It's just embarrassing.
And that really sucks man, sorry to hear that happened to you. I'd be raging if that
happened to me.
Thanks for your enlightening comment. I merely posted my story so people could have a laugh at my expense, and share similar experiences.
I'm not the first to have done something as stupid as I did, and I certainly won't be the last.
I'm well aware that it was my fault for not using auto save, and thought I made it quite clear as to why I didn't have it turned on.
Perhaps if you don't want to "here" about stories such as mine, then you should stop reading these forums.
Wait, what? Back that up.
". . . My Xbox had automatically turned itself off because of inactivity . . ."
Yes, that's what I thought you said. How in the hell would anyone allow their console to turn itself off automatically, while a game is running? That's heresy! Disable that crap, would you, for the benefit of all that is good and holy?
I enabled that option because quite often the kids will leave it on. Don't worry, I will be disabling it tonight to avoid any repeats!
BTW its NOT what it looks like i know what ur thinking it looks like but that was completely UNintentional
If by "we" you mean us, the forum users, you're completely wrong. Speak for yourself next time, and try not to be that rude.
As for the OP, man, that just sucks! That reminds me of a time when I was building a huge project, and my nephew walked to the xbox and pushed "that big shiny button", as he calls it.
What a sad day it was...
A spaceship?