What I mean by colonizing is spreading out from your main base. Your main base is where you play most of the time, usually where you spawn, and it has farms, storage, mines, etc, everything you would usually have. But when you colonize you go far away, and connect it by rail, or a path, or even river. Then you build either a secondary base, or a colony for some rare material or place, like a mineshaft. Do you guys ever do this? It's really fun in my opinion.
Do underground bases count? I'd usually branch off and just go at it for a couple 300 blocks before making a mining outpost and make it comfy. Then put rails on the main tunnel leading to the main base that would transport my stuff via minecart chest.
Anyone seen X's Adventures in Minecraft? Remember how he wanted to go really far away and connect the lands, kind of like an outpost? Yeah. That's pretty much how I play now because of him. It gets really boring to me just hanging around an area unless I'm working on a major project like a city or something along those lines.
What I mean by colonizing is spreading out from your main base. Your main base is where you play most of the time, usually where you spawn, and it has farms, storage, mines, etc, everything you would usually have. But when you colonize you go far away, and connect it by rail, or a path, or even river. Then you build either a secondary base, or a colony for some rare material or place, like a mineshaft. Do you guys ever do this? It's really fun in my opinion.
Its necessary for me. When I need to create a farm on my server that I want to generally not be found, I stick it in a far away, secret location, like in the middle of the ocean. Then I hook it up to my secret railways that connect them all.
I kinda make myself a village, i have a different building for everything (Blacksmith for smithing and smelting, public library for enchanting, Potion Warehouse for brewing, etc)
I normally make large outposts in the nether, as far as initial farm, and then build an enormous castle/farms in the main world (I like to make big castles in separate biomes). My current place is like 4000 blocks away, in the nether (like 30k away in the overworld), from my spawn base. This lets me set up my farms and such strategically from the onset, without putting aside a small portion for the initial set up while I Work. This also means I don't have to waste 20+minutes on a trip and return trip to gather materials/food, etc (Enderchests rock, too).
My massive transit system runs at the very top of the Nether, so I normally can build 10 spaces down and dig out space for several large animal pens, and even trees. I can cover like 50-100k blocks in the overlord in 15-30 minutes using my horse in my nether system.
This also gives me some survivability in my server at each base/castle. If someone wanted to hunt me down, I could bust the portal from the inside, and pretty much live indefinitely in the nether. When they would jump thru the portal on the other side, it would create a new one thats far, far below me.
Mooshrooms rock for this, btw. A Mooshroom on a lead and one bowl means infinite food for as long as I want to clear out this initial area.
Here's my current working format
What I mean by colonizing is spreading out from your main base. Your main base is where you play most of the time, usually where you spawn, and it has farms, storage, mines, etc, everything you would usually have. But when you colonize you go far away, and connect it by rail, or a path, or even river. Then you build either a secondary base, or a colony for some rare material or place, like a mineshaft. Do you guys ever do this? It's really fun in my opinion.
Just yesterday I went to the Nether and walked about 1000 units in one direction. Then I created a portal back to the overworld and I'm starting a new base there. To go back and forth easily I temporarily put my world in multiplayer and gave myself two commandblocks which I set up as a quick teleport between the two bases. This is the only situation where I use a commandblock. It can be considered mildly cheating but I don't think it is that bad IMHO.
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I often have outposts at ressorces that I cannot get at my base. My current world has a cattle range to the north and a bunker in the nether, but plans are breeding stables on the island where I found horses, a trading station at a village, a fortress guarding a strait I found while adventuring, and a brick manufacture when I find a swamp. Once you have a decent base, there is no point not doing so.
I do something like this on my Hardcore world, so I can get everything I need in safety. I do it on a smaller scale, connecting small islands and peninsulas.
That's actually what I'm doing in my world right now. Myself and some friends have a very large sky tower base on top of a.mountain. all of our towers connect making a huge floating base. From here we have rails that go to all of our outposts. We have another large hollowed out mountain base, various mob spawners. Iron trench, other afk farms, the end portal. A bunch of stuff. Everything is connected by rail and all thelittle outposts have their own farms n whatnot
I guess you could say I colonize villages. I pick one village to be my capital city, and the rest are part of my "kingdom." I always like to build them up and defend them. I sometimes build villages from scratch, such as making a village on a tundra.
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Its necessary for me. When I need to create a farm on my server that I want to generally not be found, I stick it in a far away, secret location, like in the middle of the ocean. Then I hook it up to my secret railways that connect them all.
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My massive transit system runs at the very top of the Nether, so I normally can build 10 spaces down and dig out space for several large animal pens, and even trees. I can cover like 50-100k blocks in the overlord in 15-30 minutes using my horse in my nether system.
This also gives me some survivability in my server at each base/castle. If someone wanted to hunt me down, I could bust the portal from the inside, and pretty much live indefinitely in the nether. When they would jump thru the portal on the other side, it would create a new one thats far, far below me.
Mooshrooms rock for this, btw. A Mooshroom on a lead and one bowl means infinite food for as long as I want to clear out this initial area.
Here's my current working format
http://gyazo.com/589742e60a712f6bf7245b3cce532e0b.png
Just yesterday I went to the Nether and walked about 1000 units in one direction. Then I created a portal back to the overworld and I'm starting a new base there. To go back and forth easily I temporarily put my world in multiplayer and gave myself two commandblocks which I set up as a quick teleport between the two bases. This is the only situation where I use a commandblock. It can be considered mildly cheating but I don't think it is that bad IMHO.
Greetings,
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