-Make my houses Odd Dimensions (5x5x5, 3x3x3) so I can place torches that are one apart from each other. Two torches next to each other looks ugly.
-When digging to bedrock, I sneak on a block and look at the block in front of me, I dig ONLY 3 blocks down, when you dig 3 down and jump down...you take no damage, then I dig out a ledge for me to stand on (2 blocks high) and repeat.
-Whenever I find a large vein, after clearing it out, I always fill it back up with stone (NOT COBBLE STONE BUT SMOOTH STONE)
-Whenever I find diamonds, I horde them and never make anything out of them
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once i had 7 diamond and 6 iron, i realllllllly hate odd numbers so i threw a diamond out and it landed it lava...but i didnt go crazy because at least they were even!
I put signs on everything to label them accordingly, I make sure my tunnels have steps and look neat. I put torches so they are even with one another and my houses are always an equal length each side.
- Leave torches in equal spaces from each other (especially when branch mining)
- Break every leaf even though there's now leaf decay.
- Mine EVERY ORE I see.
I have a really bad OCD issue lately, it's whenever I find a cave.
I just can't stop exploring it until it is 100% explored and I can't find a single non-lit area anymore! Not a single visible resource left either. Oh and to make it worse, whenever I hear mobs near a wall or something, I will dig there and explore/kill/loot/mine everything in there too! This is by far the largest cave I've ever found and it kind of sickens me that I just can't really stop until I have torches in the ENTIRE cave, all the resources farmed and no mob sounds nearby or anything.
Really, I mean... Just today I started a new server for my friend and I, and I've been in the same cave for like 10 hours over the whole day, I got like 15 stacks of coal, 4 iron stacks and some gold/diamond/redstone. The cave is now 100% explored and it turned out to be so incredibly big that I had to spend another hour making signs everywhere that lead me in/out :tongue.gif:
I did find 2 mob spawners in there though, both zombie variants. The first one is only like 15 blocks from my house too so I'll be making a mob trap there :biggrin.gif:
What is your method?
I just started a world and there are TWO or THREE LARGE CAVES underneath my house, I've yet to see mossy cobblestone (I"VE NEVER SEEN ANY IN GAME EVER) but I know there are mobs, I made a one block hole and killed some skellies. What should I do, I afraid!
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once i had 7 diamond and 6 iron, i realllllllly hate odd numbers so i threw a diamond out and it landed it lava...but i didnt go crazy because at least they were even!
If I'm making a 2 block thick stone wall, and I misplace 1 block, I mine it AND another block of stone so that I have an even number. That way I don't stop like this;
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-Make my houses Odd Dimensions (5x5x5, 3x3x3) so I can place torches that are one apart from each other. Two torches next to each other looks ugly.
-When digging to bedrock, I sneak on a block and look at the block in front of me, I dig ONLY 3 blocks down, when you dig 3 down and jump down...you take no damage, then I dig out a ledge for me to stand on (2 blocks high) and repeat.
-Whenever I find a large vein, after clearing it out, I always fill it back up with stone (NOT COBBLE STONE BUT SMOOTH STONE)
-Whenever I find diamonds, I horde them and never make anything out of them
I do just about everything you do on that list (except digging to bedrock... I don't dig to bedrock unless a cave takes me naturally close or it's necessary), and I'll fill it with either dirt, gravel, or cobblestone, but the visible surface MUST match the surrounding area (if it was gravel before, it's gravel now, etc)
If I cut down a tree, I plant exactly where I cut it down. I then move onto another tree and let the leaves decay naturally. I will NOT break leaves now that leaf decay is back, and I can spend that time cutting down other trees, then collecting the saplings when I'm done.
Also, my first house MUST be a log cabin with a half step roof. I won't work on anything else til that is complete.
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I think my only bit of OCD is when I'm mining I always clear out a 4X4x4 area at a time. I MUST Clear that area or it just doesn't feel right. SOmetimes I'll chase a vein of minerals into a wall away from my shaft. I then clear that out to at least a 4X4X4 area. Not sure why that's a pleasing minimum size for me. *Shrugs*
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Me: Maybe not doc, but it sure helps!
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I use sand to clear my caves. Whenever I go down a branch, I always put sand from whoever I was coming from. Sand can't occur underground, and it stands out.
I have to make things link pretty. I hate giant gaping holes in the landscape. And creeper explosions need to be cleaned up.
My buildings are always good looking, and when I take resources, like sand or diet, I never deplete the area.
I i build, I find the prettiest place I can find.
If I'm on my SMP server building a base, it has to be nice and even. I can't have random thrown together rooms. Each thing must by almost utilitarian. And as soon as I end up with a design I like, I tend to copy it to other parts of the base at every possible opportunity.
I organize everything in my inventory and chests. I have a chest room with a chest for everything that I have multiples of, neatly organized with signs indicating which is which. For things that I don't have enough for a double chest for I organize it in a "Misc Blox" bin, with even spacing between each misc item, usually grouped according to colour, for aesthetics.
I also have very specific placement for my tools and torches in my inventory slots. 1 = pickaxe, 2= shovel, 3 = sword, 4 = bow (on top of the bow in the inventory sits my 2 stacks of arrows, I do the same thing with multiples of the tools I carry), 5 = dirt (I do a lot of work that uses scaffolding, dirt comes in handy.). The final slot in the inventory slot is for torches, so I can easily scroll backwards from slot 1, the slot I use most. The slots in between slot 5 and torches are for misc items, usually the blocks i'm building with at the time.
Edit: Oh, and if i'm clearing a large area at bedrock level, I clear one level above visible bedrock level. That way I don't get uncontrollable ugly bedrock/smoothstone patterned flooring.
When I harvest sand, I fill the hole with dirt and replace the top layer of sand. I make sure to do this on an area of completely flat sand, so that when I am finished it will look exactly the same as when I started.
When I harvest sand, I fill the hole with dirt and replace the top layer of sand. I make sure to do this on an area of completely flat sand, so that when I am finished it will look exactly the same as when I started.
You would die on my world then. I've been trying to replace the sand I've dug up with smooth stone, but lets just say... I've ruined 2, maybe 3 diamond shovels digging up all this sand ^.^
When I harvest sand, I fill the hole with dirt and replace the top layer of sand. I make sure to do this on an area of completely flat sand, so that when I am finished it will look exactly the same as when I started.
What do you do when you run out of dirt? llol
Also I never smelt until I have to turn it into for projects.
i spawned in the snow. i put down a torch and some snow went away. I HAD to remove the snow from the floor in a perfect 40x40 square even though i knew building on top of it would cause the snow to disappear
-When digging to bedrock, I sneak on a block and look at the block in front of me, I dig ONLY 3 blocks down, when you dig 3 down and jump down...you take no damage, then I dig out a ledge for me to stand on (2 blocks high) and repeat.
-Whenever I find a large vein, after clearing it out, I always fill it back up with stone (NOT COBBLE STONE BUT SMOOTH STONE)
-Whenever I find diamonds, I horde them and never make anything out of them
- Break every leaf even though there's now leaf decay.
- Mine EVERY ORE I see.
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- Fill in creeper asplosions to look natural again
- Keep and store EVERYTHING. I have 20+ large chests of cobblestone in its own little room....
What is your method?
I just started a world and there are TWO or THREE LARGE CAVES underneath my house, I've yet to see mossy cobblestone (I"VE NEVER SEEN ANY IN GAME EVER) but I know there are mobs, I made a one block hole and killed some skellies. What should I do, I afraid!
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I do just about everything you do on that list (except digging to bedrock... I don't dig to bedrock unless a cave takes me naturally close or it's necessary), and I'll fill it with either dirt, gravel, or cobblestone, but the visible surface MUST match the surrounding area (if it was gravel before, it's gravel now, etc)
If I cut down a tree, I plant exactly where I cut it down. I then move onto another tree and let the leaves decay naturally. I will NOT break leaves now that leaf decay is back, and I can spend that time cutting down other trees, then collecting the saplings when I'm done.
Also, my first house MUST be a log cabin with a half step roof. I won't work on anything else til that is complete.
Me: Maybe not doc, but it sure helps!
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I have to make things link pretty. I hate giant gaping holes in the landscape. And creeper explosions need to be cleaned up.
My buildings are always good looking, and when I take resources, like sand or diet, I never deplete the area.
I i build, I find the prettiest place I can find.
I also have very specific placement for my tools and torches in my inventory slots. 1 = pickaxe, 2= shovel, 3 = sword, 4 = bow (on top of the bow in the inventory sits my 2 stacks of arrows, I do the same thing with multiples of the tools I carry), 5 = dirt (I do a lot of work that uses scaffolding, dirt comes in handy.). The final slot in the inventory slot is for torches, so I can easily scroll backwards from slot 1, the slot I use most. The slots in between slot 5 and torches are for misc items, usually the blocks i'm building with at the time.
Edit: Oh, and if i'm clearing a large area at bedrock level, I clear one level above visible bedrock level. That way I don't get uncontrollable ugly bedrock/smoothstone patterned flooring.
You would die on my world then. I've been trying to replace the sand I've dug up with smooth stone, but lets just say... I've ruined 2, maybe 3 diamond shovels digging up all this sand ^.^
Now I just use them.
They need to be shut..
What do you do when you run out of dirt? llol
Also I never smelt until I have to turn it into for projects.
NO EXCEPTIONS.