Does anybody have suggestion for a fun and challenging biome for a buffet (single biome) survival world?
I've been playing on a buffet beach world, I enjoyed dismantling shipwrecks for wood but I was also getting lots of emeralds from the treasure chests so when the wandering traders showed up I bought some seedlings and now my play style isn't all that different from on a normal world.
So now I'm considering either storing all my belongings in chests, teleporting 20,000 blocks away, setting my spawn point and starting over without any trading or starting over in a different biome.
I looked at desert but that seemed a bit easy with all the villages to steal crafting tables from and unlimited sticks from the dead bushes.
Ice spikes on the other hand might well be too hard, no wood whatsoever unless I manage to find an abandoned mine which wouldn't be all that easy with no torches. Of course I could always go with the starter chest option and hope for an abandoned mine before the pickaxes run out.
Desert hills might be doable if I cheat in a block of wood for a crafting table and used creepers to get the first 3 cobblestone blocks.
I had a lot of fun and challanges on a "ocean" single biome world. Hard to start as I spawned under water, but these biomes do have small islands and some have grass and a single tree. I found a shallow reef to build on to start. Finally got chickens fron "Chicken Jockey" mobs and all the vegies from zombie drops and chests to go with fish so made out okay.
This was on 1.11.2 so I had to mine down by hand to a mineshaft ( God-awful slow) to get wood before I found an island. Now in newer versions, shipwrecks are a source that may be easier.
I did take a look at an ocean, I didn't fancy swimming forever so I used the wood from the starter chest to make a boat, but perhaps I should give it a second look and keep an eye out for shipwrecks instead.
Was it hard to find ones that were shallow enough to get at without a respiration helmet?
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Oh, I think I was looking at a deep ocean world, that probably makes quite a difference.
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But my previous world was a single tree island challenge, not single biome, I just didn't allow myself to go ashore anywhere else except to plunder wrecks and above water underwater ruins and dig up buried treasure. So I think I might postpone the ocean world.
This was a 1.11.2 world before shipwrecks, Took me seemingly forever to dig down breaking the stone by hand (which gives no drops). Finally found a mineshaft and got some wood to make wood tools to start stone tools etc. hardest was getting a bow and arrows. Bow was fairly easy from spider silk, but took me till well into the game to get chickens to make arrows.
Haven't tried again in 1.14 but in an ocean world finding shallow water for wrecks might be difficult.
I should try to remember the first half of a post before I respond to the second half.
So were you just "mining" at random or did you see the mineshaft at the bottom of a ravine or something and just need to make steps?
Or get lucky and find a large cave system that intersected a mineshaft?
Dig down to 35 ( I find most of mineshafts go either up or down from there) then dug all directions till I found one. Wasn't using VoxelMap then but a cave mode view would have made it faster and easier.
Dig down to 35 ( I find most of mineshafts go either up or down from there) then dug all directions till I found one. Wasn't using VoxelMap then but a cave mode view would have made it faster and easier.
I have recently started a Desert Lakes buffet on floating island on hardcore mode and let me say it is a lot of fun but it's not easy. Before I managed to stabilize a bit and build a mob proof shelter I must have died like 40 times but every time I would start with a new seed. Sometimes I would die to hunger sometimes a mob got me or I simply feel of the edge of the world or I messed with the sand on the edge of the island and it collapsed under me. Now I use water to clear the edges.
What's so hard about it, apart from it being hardcore? Wood is hard to get as the only source (before trading) is going down to a mineshaft which are floating under the islands. Best way for me was to get some sandstone made so I could get across some small gaps and then make my way down to a mine shaft using water (you need a bit of luck here). Once you get your crafting table, and some cobble you can probably spot some coal and iron. You get stick from little desert bushes. You want to get a bucket asap and build yourself a nether portal using water sources and lava. Since at this stage there is no diamond tools (I only got 1 diamond so far from nether fortress). You have to place some blocks around the water source then pour lava onto it until you get nether portal from obsidian in the right shape. If you mess up you can't move it so be careful. It's not hard. To light it up use flint and steel if you got any at this stage or wood planks and lava, like I did. From the nether you will get you infinite fuel source (lava) as well as mushrooms (you can find the in the overworld too but it's easier in the nether). Next thing is getting some string for fishing rod and wool for bed. Eventually you will get potato and carrot from zombies, which will get you stabilized with food. Wandering trader comes by, but since you don't have any emeralds you can't really trade. Some how tho, I managed to keep two of his lamas and even get an achievement when mounting them. So far they have been around for about 25 in game days roped to a fence. I managed to find a nether fortress and get some blaze rods for brewing stand. Now I just need a witch to drop me some sugar so I can make Potions of Weakness. After that I need to find a stronghold, which has a funny look to it (checked other seed in creative) but in the chests around it you can find apples which you will need to cure villagers. I spend my day fishing for books/bows/rods and at night I patrol my camp looking for a which. When I get my villagers, hopefully I will be able to get some emeralds and then purchase tree sapling. From there I plan on visiting the end and getting my wings. First I need to find it tho, lol
I haven't died in this game, nor have I messed with save games in any way. I played a lot of hardcore minecraft before so I'm used to this mode.
There are no:
- no water lakes (only lava ones)
- no desert temples
- no villages
- no thunderstorms/rain
- no grass blocks
- no horses, as far as I know
- no oceans
- no animals (apart from rabbits and possible chicken later on when I get a baby zombie to spawn on one, not sure if lamas will stay, will try to breed them when I get wheat)
I should take a closer look at the buffet settings, I didn't know there was a desert lakes biome and I never checked out the floating island option.
I did check out the desert hills biome but decided it would be too hard without wood for at least a crafting table.
The floating islands route sounds better than digging with your hands until you find a mineshaft.
I did briefly check out the caves world type, assuming you can see where you're going that made it way too easy to find mineshafts.
Also you really need to set it to permanent night or the sky shows up everywhere that's outside of the render distance.
Yeah, those goofy wandering traders sure are careless with their llamas!
You need to have tamed the llamas or they despawn, after 20 minutes I believe.
They can be bred but the babies also have to be tamed or they will despawn, they take 20 minutes to grow up, unless you speed that up by feeding them, and then you have 20 minutes to tame them.
I had a lot of fun creating a Jungle cave buffet then giving myself saplings with commands. I had to grow trees near surface lava then work as quickly as possible to get wood for torches. It was great.
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Rocket League
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Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
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Remember, when you're playing cave buffet you can always go on top the upper bedrock, there are gaps in it (water pockets), just have a look in creative. That way you can get access to villages. I've come across a Pillager outpost too but there was nobody around.
Remember, when you're playing cave buffet you can always go on top the upper bedrock, there are gaps in it (water pockets), just have a look in creative. That way you can get access to villages. I've come across a Pillager outpost too but there was nobody around.
Thanks, that's nice to know.
I expect that pillagers, unlike villagers, don't spawn with their structures, and presumably can't spawn on bedrock.
So if you want pillagers you could try surrounding their tower with dirt/stone.
Though one might expect them to be able to spawn inside the tower, it has a wooden floor doesn't it?
Might be something worth looking into, to be fair I'm playing the world I mentioned above but I still have a save with my hardcore cave world. I managed to get on top and start a small spruce forest. Eventually I want to build a new village there and move all the villagers from nearby natural village.
Does anybody have suggestion for a fun and challenging biome for a buffet (single biome) survival world?
I've been playing on a buffet beach world, I enjoyed dismantling shipwrecks for wood but I was also getting lots of emeralds from the treasure chests so when the wandering traders showed up I bought some seedlings and now my play style isn't all that different from on a normal world.
So now I'm considering either storing all my belongings in chests, teleporting 20,000 blocks away, setting my spawn point and starting over without any trading or starting over in a different biome.
I looked at desert but that seemed a bit easy with all the villages to steal crafting tables from and unlimited sticks from the dead bushes.
Ice spikes on the other hand might well be too hard, no wood whatsoever unless I manage to find an abandoned mine which wouldn't be all that easy with no torches. Of course I could always go with the starter chest option and hope for an abandoned mine before the pickaxes run out.
Desert hills might be doable if I cheat in a block of wood for a crafting table and used creepers to get the first 3 cobblestone blocks.
I'd need to get good at hunting rabbits.
Just testing.
I had a lot of fun and challanges on a "ocean" single biome world. Hard to start as I spawned under water, but these biomes do have small islands and some have grass and a single tree. I found a shallow reef to build on to start. Finally got chickens fron "Chicken Jockey" mobs and all the vegies from zombie drops and chests to go with fish so made out okay.
This was on 1.11.2 so I had to mine down by hand to a mineshaft ( God-awful slow) to get wood before I found an island. Now in newer versions, shipwrecks are a source that may be easier.
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That's an idea.
I did take a look at an ocean, I didn't fancy swimming forever so I used the wood from the starter chest to make a boat, but perhaps I should give it a second look and keep an eye out for shipwrecks instead.
Was it hard to find ones that were shallow enough to get at without a respiration helmet?
--
Oh, I think I was looking at a deep ocean world, that probably makes quite a difference.
-
But my previous world was a single tree island challenge, not single biome, I just didn't allow myself to go ashore anywhere else except to plunder wrecks and above water underwater ruins and dig up buried treasure. So I think I might postpone the ocean world.
Just testing.
This was a 1.11.2 world before shipwrecks, Took me seemingly forever to dig down breaking the stone by hand (which gives no drops). Finally found a mineshaft and got some wood to make wood tools to start stone tools etc. hardest was getting a bow and arrows. Bow was fairly easy from spider silk, but took me till well into the game to get chickens to make arrows.
Haven't tried again in 1.14 but in an ocean world finding shallow water for wrecks might be difficult.
Learn something new each day
That's right, you did say that!
I should try to remember the first half of a post before I respond to the second half.
So were you just "mining" at random or did you see the mineshaft at the bottom of a ravine or something and just need to make steps?
Or get lucky and find a large cave system that intersected a mineshaft?
Just testing.
Dig down to 35 ( I find most of mineshafts go either up or down from there) then dug all directions till I found one. Wasn't using VoxelMap then but a cave mode view would have made it faster and easier.
Learn something new each day
Oh,my!
I would not have the patience for that.
Just testing.
Hey all,
sorry for refreshing an old topic.
I have recently started a Desert Lakes buffet on floating island on hardcore mode and let me say it is a lot of fun but it's not easy. Before I managed to stabilize a bit and build a mob proof shelter I must have died like 40 times but every time I would start with a new seed. Sometimes I would die to hunger sometimes a mob got me or I simply feel of the edge of the world or I messed with the sand on the edge of the island and it collapsed under me. Now I use water to clear the edges.
What's so hard about it, apart from it being hardcore? Wood is hard to get as the only source (before trading) is going down to a mineshaft which are floating under the islands. Best way for me was to get some sandstone made so I could get across some small gaps and then make my way down to a mine shaft using water (you need a bit of luck here). Once you get your crafting table, and some cobble you can probably spot some coal and iron. You get stick from little desert bushes. You want to get a bucket asap and build yourself a nether portal using water sources and lava. Since at this stage there is no diamond tools (I only got 1 diamond so far from nether fortress). You have to place some blocks around the water source then pour lava onto it until you get nether portal from obsidian in the right shape. If you mess up you can't move it so be careful. It's not hard. To light it up use flint and steel if you got any at this stage or wood planks and lava, like I did. From the nether you will get you infinite fuel source (lava) as well as mushrooms (you can find the in the overworld too but it's easier in the nether). Next thing is getting some string for fishing rod and wool for bed. Eventually you will get potato and carrot from zombies, which will get you stabilized with food. Wandering trader comes by, but since you don't have any emeralds you can't really trade. Some how tho, I managed to keep two of his lamas and even get an achievement when mounting them. So far they have been around for about 25 in game days roped to a fence. I managed to find a nether fortress and get some blaze rods for brewing stand. Now I just need a witch to drop me some sugar so I can make Potions of Weakness. After that I need to find a stronghold, which has a funny look to it (checked other seed in creative) but in the chests around it you can find apples which you will need to cure villagers. I spend my day fishing for books/bows/rods and at night I patrol my camp looking for a which. When I get my villagers, hopefully I will be able to get some emeralds and then purchase tree sapling. From there I plan on visiting the end and getting my wings. First I need to find it tho, lol
I haven't died in this game, nor have I messed with save games in any way. I played a lot of hardcore minecraft before so I'm used to this mode.
There are no:
- no water lakes (only lava ones)
- no desert temples
- no villages
- no thunderstorms/rain
- no grass blocks
- no horses, as far as I know
- no oceans
- no animals (apart from rabbits and possible chicken later on when I get a baby zombie to spawn on one, not sure if lamas will stay, will try to breed them when I get wheat)
- no trees
Link to some screenshots from overworld https://imgur.com/a/rWmCqkf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyJFQaA5_rw
Hi,
I should take a closer look at the buffet settings, I didn't know there was a desert lakes biome and I never checked out the floating island option.
I did check out the desert hills biome but decided it would be too hard without wood for at least a crafting table.
The floating islands route sounds better than digging with your hands until you find a mineshaft.
I did briefly check out the caves world type, assuming you can see where you're going that made it way too easy to find mineshafts.
Also you really need to set it to permanent night or the sky shows up everywhere that's outside of the render distance.
Yeah, those goofy wandering traders sure are careless with their llamas!
You need to have tamed the llamas or they despawn, after 20 minutes I believe.
They can be bred but the babies also have to be tamed or they will despawn, they take 20 minutes to grow up, unless you speed that up by feeding them, and then you have 20 minutes to tame them.
Just testing.
I had a lot of fun creating a Jungle cave buffet then giving myself saplings with commands. I had to grow trees near surface lava then work as quickly as possible to get wood for torches. It was great.
Watch out for the crabocalypse. Some say the day will never come. But it will.
Feel free to drop by for a chat whenever.
If you'd like to talk with me about other games, here are a few I play.
Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
Remember, when you're playing cave buffet you can always go on top the upper bedrock, there are gaps in it (water pockets), just have a look in creative. That way you can get access to villages. I've come across a Pillager outpost too but there was nobody around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyJFQaA5_rw
Thanks, that's nice to know.
I expect that pillagers, unlike villagers, don't spawn with their structures, and presumably can't spawn on bedrock.
So if you want pillagers you could try surrounding their tower with dirt/stone.
Though one might expect them to be able to spawn inside the tower, it has a wooden floor doesn't it?
Just testing.
Might be something worth looking into, to be fair I'm playing the world I mentioned above but I still have a save with my hardcore cave world. I managed to get on top and start a small spruce forest. Eventually I want to build a new village there and move all the villagers from nearby natural village.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyJFQaA5_rw