I just got done clearing out a 100x100 area at levels y:10 and 11. It was under my stronghold. I figured out my stronghold wasn't a one-roomed stronghold. I used a beacon with Haste 2 and an Efficiency V Diamond Pick. I smelted the cobble with the coal I mined. I now have 10,377 stone to make to stone bricks for my endermen farm. I got around 3 stacks of diamonds, 3 stacks of blocks of redstone, a stack of block of lapis lazuli. Also found a huge abandoned mineshaft.
Screenshots:
Got tons of Flint with my Fortune 3 shovel
That's a biome I made, Mega Forest, that has trees that put jungle trees to shame; a single tree can have as many as 500 logs and reach the clouds from sea level; here is a rendering of the biome with a jungle to the top left for comparison:
I finished the main room of the basement in my main machine lab. I will dig out other rooms as I need them, such as a room for the assembly table (from BuildCraft).
I also have a rolling machine (from RailCraft) and a carpenter (from Forestry). I have power for them (four BuildCraft stirling engines for each) as well as some RedLogic wiring connecting the engines to levers.
I still need to build the water tank for the carpenter, though. I plan to use a RailCraft water tank since those automatically drain through the bottom and have a much higher capacity than BuildCraft tanks. (They are also much cheaper to build than RailCraft iron or steel tanks!) I will need to go monster hunting to get some slime balls to build the blocks for the water tank and get my cactus farm going to get some cactus green for pipe sealant (to make fluid transport pipes to carry water).
I still need to build a coke oven, as well. I am waiting until I have a BuildCraft iron tank to hold the creosote oil from the coke oven, though. I have decided to use a RailCraft iron tank instead of a (much, much cheaper) BuildCraft tank since the RailCraft iron tank will have a much higher capacity and automatically drains through the bottom (much like the water tank from the same mod). The coke oven will feed into another carpenter which I will use for crafting recipes which use creosote oil. (RailCraft is nice enough to provide Forestry carpenter recipes for most things that are made with creosote oil.)
I have tamed a second chocobo (from ChocoCraft) and put a pack bag on him. I will use him to haul things like building materials which I need large amounts of. The follow AI in the current version of ChocoCraft is a little bit bad, so it can be a hassle to get him to follow me on a lead (especially if I'm riding another chocobo at the same time), but having the extra inventory is useful. (For the record, you can't ride a chocobo that has a pack bag; you have to use a lead to make them follow you.)
I have made some progress on digging the area for my cactus farm. I am close to running into my storage room in the digging (thank you to VoxelMap for showing me that), so I may not have room to plant as many cactus as I wanted to. Still, the amount that I do have room for should be more than enough for me.
That's the story thus far!
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The source of my intention isn't really crime prevention; my intention is prevention of the lie! Yeah, welcome to the Scatman's world!
It's my new farm animal biome. I moved all my animals (except for horses and the automated chicken farm) up here:
It was a hot mess building that dome. I used the Plotz Modeller to build it. I wish I could find a better way to do it. I've seen a mod that creates a "virtual" dome any size you want in cloud blocks, and you just place the blocks where they indicate. Wish I could have used that.
I need to stop looking at this thread, everyone else is making amazing progress and I'm still preparing resource farmers (slime farm and gold ingot farm specifically).
...and with your armor and weapons, one pigman is easy to kill. And you get some free gold and XP.
I have tons of gold already, and I have a darkroom mob/XP farm. If I want more gold I'll just go and kill them in the Nether. As you said, with my weapons and armor they are easy kills. Even if I agro a bunch of them (as I have done accidentally on more than one occasion) it's still a pretty easy victory.
Eventually I may make a proper gold farm, but for now I have all the gold I'll need for the foreseeable future.
...Also, the pigmen spawn IN the portal, not outside it.
Then why did the spawns get reduced to almost zero after I half slabbed my old portal room?
Yes, sometimes they do spawn in the portal, but from my experience they seem to spawn near the portal more often than in it. When I place non-spawnable blocks around my portal I get almost no pigmen in the overworld.
It's for this guest house for a mesa biome ranch, which I also built today.
The ranch is suppose to be a boarding type of stable for travellers. Please ignore that I misspelled "boarding" on the sign--I forgot to fix that before taking the screenshot.
The ranch is literally across the way from my jungle biome treehouse I've been working on this weekend. I love this juxaposition. When I found these biomes next to each other I knew I had to build something there. Also, melon patch!). When it rains in the jungle biome I can just run over to the sand where the mesa starts and viola, no more rain.
The treehouse is my Memorial Day weekend project--I started the treehouse yesterday. I'm basing it off my Xbox treehouse, that has a similar look, and it spans 6 trees. It has an observation deck, bedroom, reading room, crafting/brewing/storage room, catwalk and an enchanting room. I didn't plant any of the trees--they are all ones that spawned there. So I had to make some aesthetical compromises to work with the trees where they were. I did remove the lava lake that was where the grass clearing is now (got two stacks of obsidian from it too). I need to do some landscaping and more exterior lighting, and I have plans to grow wheat, sugar cane and carrots around the large pond you can see to the right through the shrubs. But so far I'm very happy with it (it's way nicer than my first house in this world--which I plan to destroy now and rebuild).
Here's an interior shot of main living area:
By and large I did all of the ranch and treehouse in Survival. I did go into Creative to get the brewing stand (I wanted that room to look more complete for the screenshot), the hopper for the outhouse, the flower pot, and a couple of other minor things for asethetics (I also took the screenshots in Creative mode). But yes, I crafted all those dang fences myself!
I really like the design of the treehouse. I haven't built anything in any jungle biome yet. When I do, it will probably be a treehouse because I can make them way off the ground. I can't wait!
What are you going to do with the hole? I would never have enough patience to dig all that!
If you have an efficiency 5 pick and a haste 2 beacon, digging holes that big isn't a problem. Now that you speak of it, a friend on Makocraftwho's doing something quite similar, but instead of digging the ores up hes letting them float in mid air, hes also making 2 witchfarms, he'll post something on reddit about it when finished.
I really like the design of the treehouse. I haven't built anything in any jungle biome yet. When I do, it will probably be a treehouse because I can make them way off the ground. I can't wait!
Thanks! Just remember: if you build in Survival mode, you can't fall off an edge if you're in sneak mode. I didn't think about that when I was building my Xbox treehouse and dang, I did a lot of falling.
My original Xbox treehouse was inspired by me having a tons of jungle wood from clearing out some jungle (in Xbox seeds, we still don't have the new biomes so we can end up with lots and lots of jungle) and needed to use it for something. So it was just jungle wood planks and slabs, oak wood fences, ladders and some glass blocks for skylights. Very economical for Survival. In this version I threw in some dark oak for accents since my first house in the world is a hop and a skip from a roofed forest and I went crazy collecting some dark oak for future projects (I'm a bit obsessive with collecting ALL THE WOODZ in Survival mode because I hate having to stop and go find some specific type of wood when I'm building).
Lost 4 diamonds when i fell in lava lol and thats basically an hours worth of mining all burned up
I hate that. I'm neurotic about whenever I get some diamonds, immediately going back to my mining base and putting them in a chest so if I die I don't lose them. I've lost too much stuff to lava.
Screenshots:
View from front
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View from back
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View from side (both sides are the same)
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View from "corner" I guess you could say
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Please leave some feedback! Thanks!
Screenshots:
Got tons of Flint with my Fortune 3 shovel
Abandoned Mineshaft
Not a one-roomed stronghold. YAY!
The furnaces and chests kinda block the view...
MAP
unfinished big hole dig
unfinished MOB drop
this MOB drop is connected to inside the house
unfinished roof
this section has a minecart inside that loops around this area
house
That's a biome I made, Mega Forest, that has trees that put jungle trees to shame; a single tree can have as many as 500 logs and reach the clouds from sea level; here is a rendering of the biome with a jungle to the top left for comparison:
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?
I finished the main room of the basement in my main machine lab. I will dig out other rooms as I need them, such as a room for the assembly table (from BuildCraft).
I also have a rolling machine (from RailCraft) and a carpenter (from Forestry). I have power for them (four BuildCraft stirling engines for each) as well as some RedLogic wiring connecting the engines to levers.
I still need to build the water tank for the carpenter, though. I plan to use a RailCraft water tank since those automatically drain through the bottom and have a much higher capacity than BuildCraft tanks. (They are also much cheaper to build than RailCraft iron or steel tanks!) I will need to go monster hunting to get some slime balls to build the blocks for the water tank and get my cactus farm going to get some cactus green for pipe sealant (to make fluid transport pipes to carry water).
I still need to build a coke oven, as well. I am waiting until I have a BuildCraft iron tank to hold the creosote oil from the coke oven, though. I have decided to use a RailCraft iron tank instead of a (much, much cheaper) BuildCraft tank since the RailCraft iron tank will have a much higher capacity and automatically drains through the bottom (much like the water tank from the same mod). The coke oven will feed into another carpenter which I will use for crafting recipes which use creosote oil. (RailCraft is nice enough to provide Forestry carpenter recipes for most things that are made with creosote oil.)
I have tamed a second chocobo (from ChocoCraft) and put a pack bag on him. I will use him to haul things like building materials which I need large amounts of. The follow AI in the current version of ChocoCraft is a little bit bad, so it can be a hassle to get him to follow me on a lead (especially if I'm riding another chocobo at the same time), but having the extra inventory is useful. (For the record, you can't ride a chocobo that has a pack bag; you have to use a lead to make them follow you.)
I have made some progress on digging the area for my cactus farm. I am close to running into my storage room in the digging (thank you to VoxelMap for showing me that), so I may not have room to plant as many cactus as I wanted to. Still, the amount that I do have room for should be more than enough for me.
That's the story thus far!
The source of my intention isn't really crime prevention; my intention is prevention of the lie! Yeah, welcome to the Scatman's world!
Yes. Sorry, i didn't specify.
It's my new farm animal biome. I moved all my animals (except for horses and the automated chicken farm) up here:
It was a hot mess building that dome. I used the Plotz Modeller to build it. I wish I could find a better way to do it. I've seen a mod that creates a "virtual" dome any size you want in cloud blocks, and you just place the blocks where they indicate. Wish I could have used that.
I got a lot more than that in my other portal room. And it just annoys me.
I have tons of gold already, and I have a darkroom mob/XP farm. If I want more gold I'll just go and kill them in the Nether. As you said, with my weapons and armor they are easy kills. Even if I agro a bunch of them (as I have done accidentally on more than one occasion) it's still a pretty easy victory.
Eventually I may make a proper gold farm, but for now I have all the gold I'll need for the foreseeable future.
Then why did the spawns get reduced to almost zero after I half slabbed my old portal room?
Yes, sometimes they do spawn in the portal, but from my experience they seem to spawn near the portal more often than in it. When I place non-spawnable blocks around my portal I get almost no pigmen in the overworld.
It's for this guest house for a mesa biome ranch, which I also built today.
The ranch is suppose to be a boarding type of stable for travellers. Please ignore that I misspelled "boarding" on the sign--I forgot to fix that before taking the screenshot.
The ranch is literally across the way from my jungle biome treehouse I've been working on this weekend. I love this juxaposition. When I found these biomes next to each other I knew I had to build something there. Also, melon patch!). When it rains in the jungle biome I can just run over to the sand where the mesa starts and viola, no more rain.
The treehouse is my Memorial Day weekend project--I started the treehouse yesterday. I'm basing it off my Xbox treehouse, that has a similar look, and it spans 6 trees. It has an observation deck, bedroom, reading room, crafting/brewing/storage room, catwalk and an enchanting room. I didn't plant any of the trees--they are all ones that spawned there. So I had to make some aesthetical compromises to work with the trees where they were. I did remove the lava lake that was where the grass clearing is now (got two stacks of obsidian from it too). I need to do some landscaping and more exterior lighting, and I have plans to grow wheat, sugar cane and carrots around the large pond you can see to the right through the shrubs. But so far I'm very happy with it (it's way nicer than my first house in this world--which I plan to destroy now and rebuild).
Here's an interior shot of main living area:
By and large I did all of the ranch and treehouse in Survival. I did go into Creative to get the brewing stand (I wanted that room to look more complete for the screenshot), the hopper for the outhouse, the flower pot, and a couple of other minor things for asethetics (I also took the screenshots in Creative mode). But yes, I crafted all those dang fences myself!
Formerly known as ORabbit around these parts.
Thanks! Just remember: if you build in Survival mode, you can't fall off an edge if you're in sneak mode. I didn't think about that when I was building my Xbox treehouse and dang, I did a lot of falling.
My original Xbox treehouse was inspired by me having a tons of jungle wood from clearing out some jungle (in Xbox seeds, we still don't have the new biomes so we can end up with lots and lots of jungle) and needed to use it for something. So it was just jungle wood planks and slabs, oak wood fences, ladders and some glass blocks for skylights. Very economical for Survival. In this version I threw in some dark oak for accents since my first house in the world is a hop and a skip from a roofed forest and I went crazy collecting some dark oak for future projects (I'm a bit obsessive with collecting ALL THE WOODZ in Survival mode because I hate having to stop and go find some specific type of wood when I'm building).
I hate that. I'm neurotic about whenever I get some diamonds, immediately going back to my mining base and putting them in a chest so if I die I don't lose them. I've lost too much stuff to lava.
Formerly known as ORabbit around these parts.