I have read a few of the stronghold topics and I am still really not getting an answer on what I need help with.
I would like to know a few things.
1: Where do they normally spawn on the y axis? I have heard around y-40. Can they go really low to like y-10 or high like y-50 or is there a range like Diamonds are under 20. I have been cutting on the y-39 axis all over the map, lines and lines all over and still havent found any strongholds.
2: How big are strongholds? I had someone tell me on here that they are 200x100. I have seen a lot of videos of strongholds and they are huge and all seem to have libraries with torches, but then some people have said they find very small strongholds like one room buildings or something.
3: Are strongholds really spawned in every world that you click the build structures box? I have already found I believe 4 maybe 5 mines and at least 5 villages.
4: Are there any map indicators of where one might be like a large amount of lava near it a ravine or a mineshaft? I have heard many things when it comes to this.
Those are some really good questions. All I can do is hypothesize with you.
I think the strongholds are like biomes and under the structures definition.
So, no real defined size, location, etc... but, maybe in superflat mode with structures on and the same seed... might be able to plot possible locations/chunks based on village locations.
?maybe?
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They can bee anywhere underground on the Y axis. One of my friends found a seed with part of the library breaking the surface, and another found a seed with part of the floor on Y5.
They are hard to find for a reason a pre-made adventure mapplay PC version how about. There's a reason that the End portal (1.1 and beyond updates only) is in them.
I'm pretty sure that one will spawn on every map with structures enabled. But only one. That's a lot of possible area to find one. I haven't found one yet. D:
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I'm pretty sure that one will spawn on every map with structures enabled. But only one. That's a lot of possible area to find one. I haven't found one yet. D:
A few people are saying this, but I have no idea why. I think one person said it and then everyone else just repeats it.
It is somewhat confirmed that it is 1 stronghold per map. If you did search for strongholds, then you would have run across one post made by 4jsteve saying only 1 stronghold per world.
The rest is all speculation or etimation. Since strongholds do infact vary in size. Some big some small. One thing that is false is nothing can spawn at a y-# since that is not possible. To have a y-# means it would be somewhere down below bedrock... Which in itself is not possible. Bedrock I believe is y2-y5, nothing below that. Some have even claimed on the surface, but that is probably due to the level of the ground being below the usual sea level with i think is around y60, correct me if i am wrong.
All we can really do is esitmate or give ways to find them. Which is what i have done many time and abide by what i have said. I haven't found one yet, but i also have not mined/explored the entire underground of a single map. So right now without the update with the eyes, strongholds will be hard to find sometimes.
So i will continue trying to find one of my very own to claim and populate with my ideas...:D
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Step 1: Get your seed number
Step 2: Start a new world using said seed number and enter creative.
Step 3: Start playing with TnT and enjoy! I went around in a grid about every 100 blocks, dug to bedrock and filled the hole with TnT. If you have a stronghold it should only take you an hour or so to find it. Much less then scouring the forums for an answer that isn't here.
P.S. The X-ray machine doesn't work well for finding strongholds
It is somewhat confirmed that it is 1 stronghold per map. If you did search for strongholds, then you would have run across one post made by 4jsteve saying only 1 stronghold per world.
I want to thank all of you for your information. I actually did find a stronghold less than 3 hrs after I posted it. To say the least when I found it I was furious.
27x17x12. No libraries no chests not much of anything. There was a staircase leading to no where and it was located around y16. It was in a ravine, but both sides of the ravine had some stronghold a little in the middle like a prison door and one cell. I was using very nasty language to say the least, lol!
To the person who mentioned get the seed number and then make a new map with that in creative mode. You are a freaking Genius! I swear I am going to do that later and cant believe I didnt think of that sooner. For some reason I didnt think you could have 2 copies of the same map saved. I dont really know why I thought that though, but you should be able to and now I can save about 10 hrs of looking. Thank you for that. My friend will be pleased with that as well since he really wants to find one too.
I was so pissed last night after all of that work just to find some crappy small stronghold. This morning I got on my other map with a mineshaft in a large ravine that you can actually see from ground level which was really cool (the lava, destroying part of it wasnt though). I did the xray glicth and found a spawner, but it is really hard to find a stronghold especially if it doesnt have a library with torches.
I am going to try that tnt trick and tell everyone how it worked. It should be quite a bit easier. Really just being able to fly around should make it easier.
Sadly mine wasnt very large and had no Library or cobwebs or chests. It was very tiny and I was quite disapointed. If mine looked like that i would have been quite pleased.
There's 2 strongholds in the Tutorial World. The first one is pretty easy to find. (look behind where you spawn)
The second one is tricky you need to go behind the cliffs where the 1st strong hold is. Under an over hang dig down (or if in creative, tnt your way down) and you will eventually reach the stronghold.
I did the tnt trick on my map. To say the least it worked quite well and I found a huge and I mean OMG huge stronghold, lol! Its in need of repair, but I am enjoying that part. There is a library that of course lava hit and some is in a ravine, but its still so huge and I have already started repairing everything. The problem is on this map I have no Golden Apple and only 1 big village and 1 small. Not a big deal since I build a lot, but the golden apple was really cool.
I wonder if my other map has 2 strongholds? The only one I found on there was so very small and I already wrote about how that made me feel. I would rather there be another giant one on that map since I found my first golden apple on it and at least 4 mineshafts and 5 villages! 4J said there was only 1 per map I thought on one of these posts.
I guess I've been getting lucky then. Out of 3 seeds I've created and briefly played, I found a stronghold in 2/3. Not bad. One in particular was huge and seemed to go on forever! I decided to turn around and leave after 10-15 minutes because it all looked the same. I looted on my way out for free fencing and wooden planks lol.
I did the tnt trick on my map. To say the least it worked quite well and I found a huge and I mean OMG huge stronghold, lol! Its in need of repair, but I am enjoying that part. There is a library that of course lava hit and some is in a ravine, but its still so huge and I have already started repairing everything. The problem is on this map I have no Golden Apple and only 1 big village and 1 small. Not a big deal since I build a lot, but the golden apple was really cool.
I wonder if my other map has 2 strongholds? The only one I found on there was so very small and I already wrote about how that made me feel. I would rather there be another giant one on that map since I found my first golden apple on it and at least 4 mineshafts and 5 villages! 4J said there was only 1 per map I thought on one of these posts.
I've found one in one seed so far. It was huge, but badly broke apart by lava and at least two ravines cutting through it. I explored it for over an hour... lots of iron bars and floating iron doors in mid-air; but I never did locate the library and only found 1 chest. I think the library probably burned up in a lava flow since there were a few remants of what looked like the entrance to a mineshaft just below one of the floating iron doors. The mineshafts seem to generate fairly commonly... I've found a few in a few different seeds so far.
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I would like to know a few things.
1: Where do they normally spawn on the y axis? I have heard around y-40. Can they go really low to like y-10 or high like y-50 or is there a range like Diamonds are under 20. I have been cutting on the y-39 axis all over the map, lines and lines all over and still havent found any strongholds.
2: How big are strongholds? I had someone tell me on here that they are 200x100. I have seen a lot of videos of strongholds and they are huge and all seem to have libraries with torches, but then some people have said they find very small strongholds like one room buildings or something.
3: Are strongholds really spawned in every world that you click the build structures box? I have already found I believe 4 maybe 5 mines and at least 5 villages.
4: Are there any map indicators of where one might be like a large amount of lava near it a ravine or a mineshaft? I have heard many things when it comes to this.
Thank anyone for the help.
I think the strongholds are like biomes and under the structures definition.
So, no real defined size, location, etc... but, maybe in superflat mode with structures on and the same seed... might be able to plot possible locations/chunks based on village locations.
?maybe?
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A few people are saying this, but I have no idea why. I think one person said it and then everyone else just repeats it.
If that were true, I would have definitely found one by now.
The rest is all speculation or etimation. Since strongholds do infact vary in size. Some big some small. One thing that is false is nothing can spawn at a y-# since that is not possible. To have a y-# means it would be somewhere down below bedrock... Which in itself is not possible. Bedrock I believe is y2-y5, nothing below that. Some have even claimed on the surface, but that is probably due to the level of the ground being below the usual sea level with i think is around y60, correct me if i am wrong.
All we can really do is esitmate or give ways to find them. Which is what i have done many time and abide by what i have said. I haven't found one yet, but i also have not mined/explored the entire underground of a single map. So right now without the update with the eyes, strongholds will be hard to find sometimes.
So i will continue trying to find one of my very own to claim and populate with my ideas...:D
Step 2: Start a new world using said seed number and enter creative.
Step 3: Start playing with TnT and enjoy! I went around in a grid about every 100 blocks, dug to bedrock and filled the hole with TnT. If you have a stronghold it should only take you an hour or so to find it. Much less then scouring the forums for an answer that isn't here.
P.S. The X-ray machine doesn't work well for finding strongholds
For those curious I did find it: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1525103-strongholds/page__view__findpost__p__18620547
27x17x12. No libraries no chests not much of anything. There was a staircase leading to no where and it was located around y16. It was in a ravine, but both sides of the ravine had some stronghold a little in the middle like a prison door and one cell. I was using very nasty language to say the least, lol!
To the person who mentioned get the seed number and then make a new map with that in creative mode. You are a freaking Genius! I swear I am going to do that later and cant believe I didnt think of that sooner. For some reason I didnt think you could have 2 copies of the same map saved. I dont really know why I thought that though, but you should be able to and now I can save about 10 hrs of looking. Thank you for that. My friend will be pleased with that as well since he really wants to find one too.
I was so pissed last night after all of that work just to find some crappy small stronghold. This morning I got on my other map with a mineshaft in a large ravine that you can actually see from ground level which was really cool (the lava, destroying part of it wasnt though). I did the xray glicth and found a spawner, but it is really hard to find a stronghold especially if it doesnt have a library with torches.
I am going to try that tnt trick and tell everyone how it worked. It should be quite a bit easier. Really just being able to fly around should make it easier.
Finally, my video rendered, this is the full walk through of the stronghold we found on our series seed: "Project"
Hope you like it and hope it inspires you to keep looking for those strongholds, ours was awesome!
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The second one is tricky you need to go behind the cliffs where the 1st strong hold is. Under an over hang dig down (or if in creative, tnt your way down) and you will eventually reach the stronghold.
I wonder if my other map has 2 strongholds? The only one I found on there was so very small and I already wrote about how that made me feel. I would rather there be another giant one on that map since I found my first golden apple on it and at least 4 mineshafts and 5 villages! 4J said there was only 1 per map I thought on one of these posts.
I've found one in one seed so far. It was huge, but badly broke apart by lava and at least two ravines cutting through it. I explored it for over an hour... lots of iron bars and floating iron doors in mid-air; but I never did locate the library and only found 1 chest. I think the library probably burned up in a lava flow since there were a few remants of what looked like the entrance to a mineshaft just below one of the floating iron doors. The mineshafts seem to generate fairly commonly... I've found a few in a few different seeds so far.