I've kept my original TU5 world on the shelf through the entire biome shift series. Of all the worlds I've created, this has to be my favorite. Sure, it doesn't have ravines or strongholds (well it does, I BUILT them, but that's kind of different) but the original terrain engine was just so much better than what we have now.
Anyway, over the process of biome shift, I had a huge desert get covered with snow. Now that biome change has finally stablized that desert (as I knew it would) has become a jungle biome. No more snow fall and I get lynxes (what else would you call an ocelot spawned in the desert?)
this is great! but one problem, does anyone know of a way to easily clear a couple thousand square meters of snow? It's not going to melt itself....
Water - in areas where you're not worried about rails, wheat, flowers, etc. getting destroyed. It affects blocks within a 7-block radius.
Jack-O-Lanterns - place and harvest repeatedly will melt about a 4-block radius (I think)
Good old fashioned diamond shovel actually works surprisingly fast. Works best with a "crew" of friends. Just line up and go. Have a snowball fight afterwards.
The shovels seem to glitch a little if you spin and hit the ground at the same time. You can "mine" the snow at like 10x the speed an and have snow to use later.
Just to let you know lynx don't live in deserts. they live up north mostly in Canada. I think there's a population of them in the northern states though.
Just to let you know lynx don't live in deserts. they live up north mostly in Canada. I think there's a population of them in the northern states though.
Just to let you know, bobcats (the most common North American species of Lynx) can be found as far south as Mexico and also can be found in deserts. They do commonly live in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, along with mountain lions (cougars). Jaguars, jaguarundis and even OCELOTS can also be found in the Sonoran Desert, although these are quite rare. (My original source for this info was a children's book my son was given by a friend years and years and years ago now, but I also located a couple of pages online: http://www.in-the-desert.com/cat.html However, the first link online wouldn't take, so I think it's getting filtered Google bobcat Sonoran Desert for more info).
Also, the first mascot of the Arizona Wildcats was a bobcat.
Lynx and bobcat though related and two different animals and he said lynx not bobcat.
Bobcat = Lynx rufus
Canada Lynx = Lynx canadensis
They are both part of the Lynx genus. Ref Wikipedia under "bobcat"
"There had been debate over whether to classify this species as Lynx rufus or Felis rufus as part of a wider issue regarding whether the four species of Lynx should be given their own genus, or be placed as a subgenus of Felis.[4][5] The Lynx genus is now accepted, and the bobcat is listed as Lynx rufus in modern taxonomic sources."
Bobcats are a species of lynx. The other two are Eurasian Lynx and the Iberian Lynx.
However, to answer Baldur's question... one would call an ocelot living in the desert an ocelot:
Sorry - miscalled your name in the post above (I've been having a really bad day today.)
Honest, a crew with water buckets and shovels is your best bet - 1000 m among 8 players is only 125 sq. m. each... no tougher than clearing some forest for a city build. Use buckets of water where you don't care if you wipe out things like rails, flowers, grass, wheat, mushrooms, etc. and shovels where it matters... assuming you don't want to blow up your world with TNT or burn down your builds with lava or flint and steel.
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Anyway, over the process of biome shift, I had a huge desert get covered with snow. Now that biome change has finally stablized that desert (as I knew it would) has become a jungle biome. No more snow fall and I get lynxes (what else would you call an ocelot spawned in the desert?)
this is great! but one problem, does anyone know of a way to easily clear a couple thousand square meters of snow? It's not going to melt itself....
Jack-O-Lanterns - place and harvest repeatedly will melt about a 4-block radius (I think)
Good old fashioned diamond shovel actually works surprisingly fast. Works best with a "crew" of friends. Just line up and go. Have a snowball fight afterwards.
The shovels seem to glitch a little if you spin and hit the ground at the same time. You can "mine" the snow at like 10x the speed an and have snow to use later.
Just to let you know, bobcats (the most common North American species of Lynx) can be found as far south as Mexico and also can be found in deserts. They do commonly live in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, along with mountain lions (cougars). Jaguars, jaguarundis and even OCELOTS can also be found in the Sonoran Desert, although these are quite rare. (My original source for this info was a children's book my son was given by a friend years and years and years ago now, but I also located a couple of pages online: http://www.in-the-desert.com/cat.html However, the first link online wouldn't take, so I think it's getting filtered Google bobcat Sonoran Desert for more info).
Also, the first mascot of the Arizona Wildcats was a bobcat.
Bobcat = Lynx rufus
Canada Lynx = Lynx canadensis
They are both part of the Lynx genus. Ref Wikipedia under "bobcat"
"There had been debate over whether to classify this species as Lynx rufus or Felis rufus as part of a wider issue regarding whether the four species of Lynx should be given their own genus, or be placed as a subgenus of Felis.[4][5] The Lynx genus is now accepted, and the bobcat is listed as Lynx rufus in modern taxonomic sources."
Bobcats are a species of lynx. The other two are Eurasian Lynx and the Iberian Lynx.
However, to answer Baldur's question... one would call an ocelot living in the desert an ocelot:
http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/species/fsheets/ocelot.html
Gentleman, focus, 1000 square meters of snow :-)
Sorry - miscalled your name in the post above (I've been having a really bad day today.)
Honest, a crew with water buckets and shovels is your best bet - 1000 m among 8 players is only 125 sq. m. each... no tougher than clearing some forest for a city build. Use buckets of water where you don't care if you wipe out things like rails, flowers, grass, wheat, mushrooms, etc. and shovels where it matters... assuming you don't want to blow up your world with TNT or burn down your builds with lava or flint and steel.