Also, in that time I mined the following while caving (except for Nether quartz, which I mined to get XP to enchant my stuff, afterwards never needed any XP other than what I get while playing normally):
Excluding Nether quartz, I also mined all of that in about 2/3 the time I've spent on the world so far - I mine coal at the rate of about 500 ore per hour, with corresponding rates for other ores (I also mined most of that coal with Fortune III... I have made 4,868 blocks of coal so far, and after what was used for torches and fuel).
Here's a look at the caves I've explored so far, along with a comparison to 1.7.x cave generation (both areas are 400x400 blocks, note that my world also has 3 times the ground depth to bedrock):
I'm currently exploring the massive cave system you see on the right side; the first image was rotated to show caves better, with the system on the left side; here is what it looks like in Rei's Minimap:
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I can't really say of my survival worlds, as I mostly play almost all the time on my private SMP server.
SPM stats:
Time played:104 hours 53 minutes.
I'm pretty sure 1/3 of the time was AFKing at our chicken farm and another third in just punching endermans, collecting XP and enchanting about 300 pairs of diamond boots to get 214 prot 4 unbreaking 3 feather falling 4 boots for us eight.
The rest was caving, building and ressource gathering.
It says 4.97 days, which is equal to over 96 hours. Keep in mind the statisctics probably got reset at some point numerous times and I have had my main world since September 2010. (Alpha v1.2ish).
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4.68 days and I feel like I haven't done anything. Most of the time was spent mining other than that all I've done is build a couple houses and a few largish fort type structures. the original intent was to make the basis of an adventure map but I liked the starting point of the world enough to just play.
i have close to 100 hours in one of my old beta worlds but my new main world has like 30 hours in it so far
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i think we should all use common sense and logic when we answer and ask a question but always stay open minded
just cause science fails to explain something does not mean its real (afterlife,big foot, ghosts etc..) does not mean its fake try to stay opened mined instead of closed
I'm exactly 174 hours into my 1.7 survival world. I restarted when 1.7 came, I didn't like what the update did to my 1.6 world. I had 266 hours on it though.
A lot of people are claiming to have played for years, which is obviously not 24/7/365; what the OP is referring to is the time displayed when you look at your statistics (first line; your main stat screen may be a bit different since this is from 1.6):
(you can also see that I've now played my main world for 98.4 hours, up from 68 hours earlier, and have since used another 10,000 torches, mining about another 14,000 coal ore and 6,000 iron ore, as well as 113 diamond ore).
Also, in that time I mined the following while caving (except for Nether quartz, which I mined to get XP to enchant my stuff, afterwards never needed any XP other than what I get while playing normally):
Excluding Nether quartz, I also mined all of that in about 2/3 the time I've spent on the world so far - I mine coal at the rate of about 500 ore per hour, with corresponding rates for other ores (I also mined most of that coal with Fortune III... I have made 4,868 blocks of coal so far, and after what was used for torches and fuel).
Here's a look at the caves I've explored so far, along with a comparison to 1.7.x cave generation (both areas are 400x400 blocks, note that my world also has 3 times the ground depth to bedrock):
I'm currently exploring the massive cave system you see on the right side; the first image was rotated to show caves better, with the system on the left side; here is what it looks like in Rei's Minimap:
Distance flown? So you gamemode yourself and fly around?
Um, no? What does YOUR distance flown stat say? Try this - sprint-jump for one minute and then check out your distance flown stat. Each jump increases it by about 4 meters, so does getting hit by a mob, to a lesser extent (any mob, not just getting blown through the air by a creeper); in other words, ANY horizontal movement in the air beyond your normal jump distance counts as distance flown.
Also, I can't use /gamemode anyway because none of my survival worlds have ever had cheats enabled (yes, i know about open to LAN, which is how I used spectator mode to get views of caves like these, but on a copy of my world, as it gets corrupted by loading it in vanilla, never mind the 1.8 snapshots).
This also isn't the first time I've had somebody claim that I use Creative/cheats/fly mods, as you can see here (in particular, see post #39), or can't believe how much I mine, or that it'd take forever to just explore a 800x800 block area when in my first main world alone I explored almost every cave in an area 4000x2200 blocks, or they thought I got 7,700 diamonds without using Fortune (in reality, I mined only 3% of the diamond ore in the chunks I explored), or failed to say anything about somebody else who claimed to have over 10,000 diamonds.
One look at the following should be enough (click to see full size, all those yellow specks are torches); if I really explored those while flying it'd take a lot more than just 2.85 km (see the distance I walked, 447 km):
(note that if you compare this to my previous cave map, I rotated the first one for a better view of caves. Also, I can't even upload a full-size map of my first main world, as it is over 10,000 pixels across and imgur resizes it, significantly reducing quality in the process; however, you can see a small version here, compared to the surface for scale, as well as another world I played)
There's also people who have done things far more unbelievable; for example, this guy.
I used MCMap to make the first one, and Unmined for the second (extremely helpful when making my cave mods), the last is from Rei's Minimap, an in-game minimap mod that includes a cave mapping mode (as you can guess from the last link, I still play in 1.6.2, although not just because that mod hasn't been updated since then; 1.6.4 is no different unless you plan to move your world to 1.7+ and that is not possible in my case).
Of note, I actually modded MCMap myself (it is open source) to map a more reasonable area around torches; the original version used a range of +/- 18 blocks (+/- 9 vertically), well in excess of the range of light around a torch, and a square region; I made it a circle with a radius of 6, as the maximum spacing of torches is 12 blocks on a level surface in a 1 block wide tunnel (14 - 6 = 8, the minimum light level to prevent mob spawns; in larger open areas you need to place them closer/staggered about, this is also one reason why I don't follow the "place torches on right side" rule - hard to light up an entire cave unless it is small, besides taking more time than just placing torches down as I run through a cave and not needing any markers, highly impractical anyway in cave systems like above).
Distance flown? So you gamemode yourself and fly around?
Sometimes, the stats think you're flying under certain circumstances. I don't know how it decides if you're flying or jumping.
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most likely a lot, tho
Also, in that time I mined the following while caving (except for Nether quartz, which I mined to get XP to enchant my stuff, afterwards never needed any XP other than what I get while playing normally):
Coal ore: 22,008
Nether quartz ore: 9,080
Iron ore: 8,254
Redstone ore: 1,937
Gold ore: 1,294
Lapis ore: 492
Diamond ore: 266
Emerald ore: 51
Torches made: 15,724
Excluding Nether quartz, I also mined all of that in about 2/3 the time I've spent on the world so far - I mine coal at the rate of about 500 ore per hour, with corresponding rates for other ores (I also mined most of that coal with Fortune III... I have made 4,868 blocks of coal so far, and after what was used for torches and fuel).
Here's a look at the caves I've explored so far, along with a comparison to 1.7.x cave generation (both areas are 400x400 blocks, note that my world also has 3 times the ground depth to bedrock):
I'm currently exploring the massive cave system you see on the right side; the first image was rotated to show caves better, with the system on the left side; here is what it looks like in Rei's Minimap:
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SPM stats:
Time played:104 hours 53 minutes.
I'm pretty sure 1/3 of the time was AFKing at our chicken farm and another third in just punching endermans, collecting XP and enchanting about 300 pairs of diamond boots to get 214 prot 4 unbreaking 3 feather falling 4 boots for us eight.
The rest was caving, building and ressource gathering.
That said, most of the time has come from going afk overnight for mob farms, etc.
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"good night, good luck" -dying light
i think we should all use common sense and logic when we answer and ask a question but always stay open minded
just cause science fails to explain something does not mean its real (afterlife,big foot, ghosts etc..) does not mean its fake try to stay opened mined instead of closed
(you can also see that I've now played my main world for 98.4 hours, up from 68 hours earlier, and have since used another 10,000 torches, mining about another 14,000 coal ore and 6,000 iron ore, as well as 113 diamond ore).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
How did you do that map of the caves?
Um, no? What does YOUR distance flown stat say? Try this - sprint-jump for one minute and then check out your distance flown stat. Each jump increases it by about 4 meters, so does getting hit by a mob, to a lesser extent (any mob, not just getting blown through the air by a creeper); in other words, ANY horizontal movement in the air beyond your normal jump distance counts as distance flown.
Also, I can't use /gamemode anyway because none of my survival worlds have ever had cheats enabled (yes, i know about open to LAN, which is how I used spectator mode to get views of caves like these, but on a copy of my world, as it gets corrupted by loading it in vanilla, never mind the 1.8 snapshots).
This also isn't the first time I've had somebody claim that I use Creative/cheats/fly mods, as you can see here (in particular, see post #39), or can't believe how much I mine, or that it'd take forever to just explore a 800x800 block area when in my first main world alone I explored almost every cave in an area 4000x2200 blocks, or they thought I got 7,700 diamonds without using Fortune (in reality, I mined only 3% of the diamond ore in the chunks I explored), or failed to say anything about somebody else who claimed to have over 10,000 diamonds.
One look at the following should be enough (click to see full size, all those yellow specks are torches); if I really explored those while flying it'd take a lot more than just 2.85 km (see the distance I walked, 447 km):
(note that if you compare this to my previous cave map, I rotated the first one for a better view of caves. Also, I can't even upload a full-size map of my first main world, as it is over 10,000 pixels across and imgur resizes it, significantly reducing quality in the process; however, you can see a small version here, compared to the surface for scale, as well as another world I played)
There's also people who have done things far more unbelievable; for example, this guy.
I used MCMap to make the first one, and Unmined for the second (extremely helpful when making my cave mods), the last is from Rei's Minimap, an in-game minimap mod that includes a cave mapping mode (as you can guess from the last link, I still play in 1.6.2, although not just because that mod hasn't been updated since then; 1.6.4 is no different unless you plan to move your world to 1.7+ and that is not possible in my case).
Of note, I actually modded MCMap myself (it is open source) to map a more reasonable area around torches; the original version used a range of +/- 18 blocks (+/- 9 vertically), well in excess of the range of light around a torch, and a square region; I made it a circle with a radius of 6, as the maximum spacing of torches is 12 blocks on a level surface in a 1 block wide tunnel (14 - 6 = 8, the minimum light level to prevent mob spawns; in larger open areas you need to place them closer/staggered about, this is also one reason why I don't follow the "place torches on right side" rule - hard to light up an entire cave unless it is small, besides taking more time than just placing torches down as I run through a cave and not needing any markers, highly impractical anyway in cave systems like above).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Sometimes, the stats think you're flying under certain circumstances. I don't know how it decides if you're flying or jumping.
95% of teens would scream if Justin Beiber was about to jump of the top of the Empire State Building. If you are in the 5% that would grab a seat and some popcorn and yell JUMP! JUMP! JUMP! post this into your sig.