I was wondering since it has crossed my mind a few times if anyone uses the actual iron or gold blocks in any of their builds? What I mean by actual blocks is the block you get when mining before you smelt them in a furnace. I have seen many pictures of builds but I don't recall ever seeing them being used. With the limited amount of building blocks we currently have I think it would look kind of neat and break up some of the monotony.
If you have, I wouldn't mind seeing some screenshots if you have them. Just curious of how it would look if they are used right. If there is even a right way when using them to build.
I was wondering since it has crossed my mind a few times if anyone uses the actual iron or gold blocks in any of their builds? What I mean by actual blocks is the block you get when mining before you smelt them in a furnace. I have seen many pictures of builds but I don't recall ever seeing them being used. With the limited amount of building blocks we currently have I think it would look kind of neat and break up some of the monotony.
If you have, I wouldn't mind seeing some screenshots if you have them. Just curious of how it would look if they are used right. If there is even a right way when using them to build.
You said gold blocks instead of BUTTER blocks.
OT: Don't have any screenshots, but my brother did build a butter house once. I also used iron for the inside of my TV.
OT: Don't have any screenshots, but my brother did build a butter house once. I also used iron for the inside of my TV.
That's a good idea using iron inside the tv, It will kind of give you that tv screen glare look. i may have to try that. I usually make a widescreen tv and use the creeper picture as my screen, I call it "Creeper TV"
Ha, Butter Blocks, now that you mentioned it I can see that. Love me some butter!
I was mining out an area once, eh about 40x40, and decided to leave all the ores in place and just take the cobble. It was around Y:12 so it was resource rich, after i was done it looked badass to have this open room and tons of ores of all types just sitting there in their natural state and positions. Im a survival guy so i dont really get to use iron or gold blocks often, but i have seen some duped castles with them and they werent too bad. The iron and diamond blocks are the best looking imo. Gold blocks are icky
I don't use any ore blocks. I do use iron blocks for redstone builds now though. (a.k.a. all of my builds xD) They're just nice and plain and have a clear border that's not too sharp, if that makes sense. I used to do the whole color-coding thing, but meh, I think it's easy enough to differentiate components without it. Plus, colored wool looks like crap without a texture pack. I tried using diamond, lapis lazuli, gold, and iron blocks together, but it doesn't look that great honestly.
I was actually planning on usingsome iron ore blocks to make my next castle out of. Of ourse I figured I would have to dupe them because I just don't have the patience to find enough to to do a wall that it 100x100 square. I wish you could have the redstone and diamond ore blocks like the gold and iron ones.
You know I was just looking back at some of the pictures for the next update and could see the ore blocks for all of the ore's. So just imagine the things you can do with things like the diamond ore or the redstone. I bet there will be some really cool pixel art and builds now.
On XBOX that is.
No need to remind us PC users that you are waaaaayyyy ahead of us!
If you don't use these blocks, Its just the sign you don't like how they look.
i personaly love them. Because i can work with them in my builds.
i don't make them look to
Before they patched the dupe thing with the dispenser me and my friend made a 8 floor building made of full diamond blocks. After that diamond, gold, and iron blocks looks poo
I use them almost exclusively for marking chests. Never really used them for much else other than the occasional floor accent, but I think they are a great way of marking materials storage.
Everyone who has played MineCraft before knows what an Iron / Gold ore block looks like, and if you're just starting out, you learn how to spot these materials pretty quickly. Typically, a couple of ore blocks are (for me - especially early on) easier to gather than the planks / sticks for a bunch of signs - especially when those resources are better put to use elsewhere. For a time, I would only use this as a temporary solution, until I could create a Gold / Iron block, but sometimes those would be needed in a pinch (ex. - recovering your inventory after dying!) and get used. Signs are great, but you can't read them from a distance as well as you can spot out an ore block - face it, we're conditioned to spot those pretty easily!
In any new world I tend to have a large storage area in my house / basement. I line the walls or corridors with double chests and then place the corresponding material on the wall behind / above each chest. I do the same with dirt, gravel, stone, cobblestone, sandstone, sand, glass, wood, wool, etc. I then use the signs for things like farm supplies, tools, armor, and weapons. If a friend jumps into a new world of mine, they automatically know where to go and what to look for when getting equipped.
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If you have, I wouldn't mind seeing some screenshots if you have them. Just curious of how it would look if they are used right. If there is even a right way when using them to build.
OT: Don't have any screenshots, but my brother did build a butter house once. I also used iron for the inside of my TV.
Ha, Butter Blocks, now that you mentioned it I can see that. Love me some butter!
Thats why I was so excited for clay in the last update, there is so many uses for brick.
If anyone has any ideas what to use a gold/iron block for, let me know, I'm always interested in new ideas.
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No need to remind us PC users that you are waaaaayyyy ahead of us!
i personaly love them. Because i can work with them in my builds.
i don't make them look to
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Everyone who has played MineCraft before knows what an Iron / Gold ore block looks like, and if you're just starting out, you learn how to spot these materials pretty quickly. Typically, a couple of ore blocks are (for me - especially early on) easier to gather than the planks / sticks for a bunch of signs - especially when those resources are better put to use elsewhere. For a time, I would only use this as a temporary solution, until I could create a Gold / Iron block, but sometimes those would be needed in a pinch (ex. - recovering your inventory after dying!) and get used. Signs are great, but you can't read them from a distance as well as you can spot out an ore block - face it, we're conditioned to spot those pretty easily!
In any new world I tend to have a large storage area in my house / basement. I line the walls or corridors with double chests and then place the corresponding material on the wall behind / above each chest. I do the same with dirt, gravel, stone, cobblestone, sandstone, sand, glass, wood, wool, etc. I then use the signs for things like farm supplies, tools, armor, and weapons. If a friend jumps into a new world of mine, they automatically know where to go and what to look for when getting equipped.