That sucks TERRIBLY dude! Should probly start backing your saves up every now and then.
Edit: You could use a mapping program to hack it all back in if you don't wanna build it back up.
Thanks!
I will be copying my save after every major project from now on for sure.
It is a major punch to the nuts, that is for sure, but it only erased the floors and none of my supporting rooms or storage so i kept every drop that it produced and my entire rail system that surrounded it.
Overall it is worth rebuilding, though i probably won't be digging to bedrock again, i'll just keep the top half and deal with less drops...
It took 200+ TnT to dig the last hole big enough for all the floors, this time i'll just dig a 2x3 drop hole that leads to my kill device. May not even need the lava, nothing can survive that fall anyways.
I've taken a shot, took a deep breath and calmed my nerves...
I have no idea what happened, an act of Notch, a program error or something else, but i've decided to simply rebuild the top 14 floors and then dig a deep shaft and recreate my kill device...
At least the frame is still mostly there, i can just fill in the missing floors and...
I believe 0.0 means your spawn area in some ways, the center of the Earth if you will. (It's the coordinates)
There is a 16x16 area on every world which gets a staggering mob spawn rate, it seems to be about 5 to 10x more than usual. It is found at 0.0 on your map. the only way to find it is to use cartographer or similar program. there are detailed instructions found in numerous threads on monster traps, takes about 5 minutes to find and if you want a mob trap is well worth it in the end.
Also that must suck, I would suggest using Cacti instead of lava. It's a lot less dangerous and I'm pretty sure it kills anything.
I did try cacti for a while but couldn't get it right, the same height that kills stuff without destroy the drops just avoids slimes for some reason. The only placement for cacti i could get that would kill slimes would destroy 50% of the drops as well.
I could have saved the trap by raising the ENTIRE trap 2 blocks and resort to drowning... Which would have taken about 4 hours with diamond picks, cut my drop rate in half and may or may not have been a guaranteed fix i decided to just move it.
It is alright and i'm over the mistake, it is truly far too messed up to fix, which is fine, i've got a fully functioning 0.0 trap now and it is glorious, but it is not nearly as cool because it is kind of cheap...
So here is my failure story. Let this be a warning to others so they can avoid this huge mistake which cost me hours and hours of work.
I started building an enormous trap. I didn't want to "cheat" and find the 0.0 chunk so i just went for size. I carved out a 60x60 room in one of my diamond mines and then carved out another one right on top of it. So i had a 2 level 60x60 trap and a lava kill room below it. complete with multi leveled water conveyor belts crisscrossing the trap room.
Everything was going well, it worked and i was getting hundreds of drops but then the slimes started coming...
Within 1 hour of my traps run time the entire thing becomes clogged with slimes. The trap which kills everything perfectly does NOT kill slimes regardless of their size, they seem to be immune to lava, or perhaps their hit box is just in the wrong spot for the lava to hit them.
I tried and tried to modify it to kill them but could not find a way besides drowning but i had accidentally built my trap too deep and was at bedrock and couldn't make an efficient drowning trap without halving my drop income rate...
F'ing Slimes...
*In the end i resorted to finding the 0.0 chunk, created a huge 18x18 trap tower and now have ~5,000 drops per hour. Sad thing is the new 0.0 trap only took about 1/3rd the build time as my original "slime fail" trap, oh well, lesson learned.
TLDR: if slimes spawn there, move your trap somewhere else... 10+ hours building and tweaking down the drain...
I was putting the final polish on my hot tub. It is lava covered with glass covered with water.
I decided to put in a lava skylight. I climbed on top of the hot tub and poured the lava, i didn't notice how close the tree was and didn't know lava could catch stuff on fire that it wasn't directly touching.
The tree caught fire, the fire spread to my porch which quickly spread to my house. I had to cut down my bridge just to keep it contained and just sat there and watched it burn hours and hours of work into ash in a few minutes.
You can see the hot tub there in the middle, my wooden palace was almost completely burned down. I'd say it was a 75% loss...
Luckily with all the stone i used i had a nice frame left over and rebuilding didn't take too long.
Upon rebuilding i decided to go with the stone roof you see in this picture which i actually like better.
Sorry to threadjack, but what texture pack is this?
I took Dokus, mixcraft, john smiths and some other various HD texture packs and then tweaked their colors and textures a bit to my tastes. the stone and wooden door are mine but I'm not too happy with them quite yet.
I was putting the final polish on my hot tub. It is lava covered with glass covered with water.
I decided to put in a lava skylight. I climbed on top of the hot tub and poured the lava, i didn't notice how close the tree was and didn't know lava could catch stuff on fire that it wasn't directly touching.
The tree caught fire, the fire spread to my porch which quickly spread to my house. I had to cut down my bridge just to keep it contained and just sat there and watched it burn hours and hours of work into ash in a few minutes.
You can see the hot tub there in the middle, my wooden palace was almost completely burned down. I'd say it was a 75% loss...
Luckily with all the stone i used i had a nice frame left over and rebuilding didn't take too long.
Upon rebuilding i decided to go with the stone roof you see in this picture which i actually like better.
You know what guys? Why don't we all wait for the actual update to come out then comment about how it works/doesn't work... Speculation is good but this is starting to hurt my tiny little brain...
Speculation is voluntary entertainment.
It is unfortunate that you are forced into threads you do not enjoy, i hope the mods can assist you in navigating into threads that don't hurt your brain.
Problem: You want to travel 5000 blocks to the east.
Normal world solution: walk 5000 blocks east.
Hell gate Solution: Use your hell gate, enter randomly generated hell zone, travel 500 blocks to the east through hell, use hell gate again, teleported back to normal world but you are now 5000 blocks east in the normal world...
Simple, elegant, no permanent gates, no complications.
Hell should be randomly generated every time you portal. For every X blocks you move through hell in a given direction you move 10X blocks in that direction in the normal world.
Hell zone: mostly Level ground, Dark with no way to plant torches or blocks of any kind, no creepers but tons of zombies, maybe skeletons.
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Thanks!
I will be copying my save after every major project from now on for sure.
It is a major punch to the nuts, that is for sure, but it only erased the floors and none of my supporting rooms or storage so i kept every drop that it produced and my entire rail system that surrounded it.
Overall it is worth rebuilding, though i probably won't be digging to bedrock again, i'll just keep the top half and deal with less drops...
It took 200+ TnT to dig the last hole big enough for all the floors, this time i'll just dig a 2x3 drop hole that leads to my kill device. May not even need the lava, nothing can survive that fall anyways.
Well enough minecraft for tonight...
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I've taken a shot, took a deep breath and calmed my nerves...
I have no idea what happened, an act of Notch, a program error or something else, but i've decided to simply rebuild the top 14 floors and then dig a deep shaft and recreate my kill device...
At least the frame is still mostly there, i can just fill in the missing floors and...
Damn it all... Damn it all to hell.
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I may have to stop playing Minecraft after this... Complete ****ing tragedy.
I spend all day working on the perfect mob trap. It was EPIC.
From bedrock to sky...
I log off come back planning on playing with my new flawless masterpiece, a true work of Minecraft ART. The best thing i'd ever built...
Well here is what i see now.
Here is the top of it.
Here is the ground level
And here is where i used to have a flawless masterpiece of a kill device, lava/drop, half step surrounded by glass and polished stone.
IT WAS GLORIOUS!!!! IT WAS PERFECT!!! It was getting 5,000 drops per hour!
And now it is gone... It is simply erased from existence and i want to punch a hole in the wall.
****, i need a drink...
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There is a 16x16 area on every world which gets a staggering mob spawn rate, it seems to be about 5 to 10x more than usual. It is found at 0.0 on your map. the only way to find it is to use cartographer or similar program. there are detailed instructions found in numerous threads on monster traps, takes about 5 minutes to find and if you want a mob trap is well worth it in the end.
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I did try cacti for a while but couldn't get it right, the same height that kills stuff without destroy the drops just avoids slimes for some reason. The only placement for cacti i could get that would kill slimes would destroy 50% of the drops as well.
I could have saved the trap by raising the ENTIRE trap 2 blocks and resort to drowning... Which would have taken about 4 hours with diamond picks, cut my drop rate in half and may or may not have been a guaranteed fix i decided to just move it.
It is alright and i'm over the mistake, it is truly far too messed up to fix, which is fine, i've got a fully functioning 0.0 trap now and it is glorious, but it is not nearly as cool because it is kind of cheap...
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I started building an enormous trap. I didn't want to "cheat" and find the 0.0 chunk so i just went for size. I carved out a 60x60 room in one of my diamond mines and then carved out another one right on top of it. So i had a 2 level 60x60 trap and a lava kill room below it. complete with multi leveled water conveyor belts crisscrossing the trap room.
Everything was going well, it worked and i was getting hundreds of drops but then the slimes started coming...
Within 1 hour of my traps run time the entire thing becomes clogged with slimes. The trap which kills everything perfectly does NOT kill slimes regardless of their size, they seem to be immune to lava, or perhaps their hit box is just in the wrong spot for the lava to hit them.
I tried and tried to modify it to kill them but could not find a way besides drowning but i had accidentally built my trap too deep and was at bedrock and couldn't make an efficient drowning trap without halving my drop income rate...
F'ing Slimes...
*In the end i resorted to finding the 0.0 chunk, created a huge 18x18 trap tower and now have ~5,000 drops per hour. Sad thing is the new 0.0 trap only took about 1/3rd the build time as my original "slime fail" trap, oh well, lesson learned.
TLDR: if slimes spawn there, move your trap somewhere else... 10+ hours building and tweaking down the drain...
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Indeed
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But as an option allow for them to be wired together and turned on/off.
This would add more practical use to redstone, add depth to lighting your mines and houses and allow for more interesting computers.
I would love this more than i can explain.
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I took Dokus, mixcraft, john smiths and some other various HD texture packs and then tweaked their colors and textures a bit to my tastes. the stone and wooden door are mine but I'm not too happy with them quite yet.
Here, see if you like it.
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I decided to put in a lava skylight. I climbed on top of the hot tub and poured the lava, i didn't notice how close the tree was and didn't know lava could catch stuff on fire that it wasn't directly touching.
The tree caught fire, the fire spread to my porch which quickly spread to my house. I had to cut down my bridge just to keep it contained and just sat there and watched it burn hours and hours of work into ash in a few minutes.
You can see the hot tub there in the middle, my wooden palace was almost completely burned down. I'd say it was a 75% loss...
Luckily with all the stone i used i had a nice frame left over and rebuilding didn't take too long.
Upon rebuilding i decided to go with the stone roof you see in this picture which i actually like better.
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Speculation is voluntary entertainment.
It is unfortunate that you are forced into threads you do not enjoy, i hope the mods can assist you in navigating into threads that don't hurt your brain.
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Problem: You want to travel 5000 blocks to the east.
Normal world solution: walk 5000 blocks east.
Hell gate Solution: Use your hell gate, enter randomly generated hell zone, travel 500 blocks to the east through hell, use hell gate again, teleported back to normal world but you are now 5000 blocks east in the normal world...
Simple, elegant, no permanent gates, no complications.
Hell should be randomly generated every time you portal. For every X blocks you move through hell in a given direction you move 10X blocks in that direction in the normal world.
Hell zone: mostly Level ground, Dark with no way to plant torches or blocks of any kind, no creepers but tons of zombies, maybe skeletons.
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Here is my house in the day time. Damn clouds ruin it though...
Here it is at night.