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Looks good to me One of the issues you run into with overworld railways is mob spawns, and it looks like you have that covered with an elevated road and a 1x1 space for the rails (which mobs can't spawn on). The design looks good aesthetically too, though I would personally probably use stairs on the angled pieces. It looks fine without because it's a long and smooth angle, but stairs are just a trick people use in Minecraft to mitigate the blockiness. It also helps with that mob spawn issue that you've placed the lanterns down for: mobs also can't spawn on stairs.

A couple of suggestions to maybe help with the transportation: you can combine minecarts and chests in your crafting grid to make a minecart chest, which you can then send on your rails. I don't know how long your road is, so if it passes through any unloaded chunks, the chest cart will freeze there. Solution: accompany the chest carts on their journey.

Also, have you ever used shulker boxes? They're an end-game kind of tool (as in, you have to actually go to The End to get them), but they're basically like portable chests. You can fill 'em up and break them, and they'll keep their inventory. Pretty good for transporting large amounts of material at once.

My favorite trick for making shapes in Minecraft is to open MS Paint. You can select the exact size of the canvas in pixels using the "resize" option. Choose your shape, decrease the line thickness to 1, and draw your shape into the canvas. Now you have an image you can copy pixel-by-pixel into Minecraft.

I wouldn't trust it at all. Reviews can be written by the people who are doing the scamming to try and make it look real, so don't trust that, either. 3rd party sellers are illegal, so as webrosc said, report it to Mojang, and whatever you do, don't give the third party your information.

Thank you! That's a really great trick to know!

I've seen a wither strategy on youtube that I haven't tried myself yet, but it looks effective. They spawn the wither underground in a small room (like, just big enough to hold it), and the room is connected to a long 1x2 tunnel. The person hangs out in the tunnel. Then, the person just runs up, hits the wither, and steps back for the wither to explode a layer of stone down the tunnel, without taking damage. Rinse, repeat, the wither is dead.

If you try that, definitely look it up before risking anything, because again... I haven't tried it and I might not be seeing the whole picture, lol.

All the best to you, too!

I agree, I would definitely like a mode that's similar to normal, but with the option to starve to death. Even playing in normal mode, I still make farms and keep myself fed because I like to regenerate my health, and if you start starving, you still take damage down to a very vulnerable state. It adds a little more urgency, though, when you know there is a very literal risk to your life by not eating, and not just because you might get shot by a skeleton on your way to the kitchen.

It would be very cool to have an "extreme" difficulty mode like you're describing, and put some of the elements you mentioned (like thirst and food spoilage) in just that specific mode. It would definitely add a lot of challenge and interest to Minecraft that isn't really there currently.

To be honest, though, even if we had an "extreme" difficulty available, I would probably continue to play in the current selection of difficulties. Yes, they're easy, but I like it that way because I like to focus on building, even (and perhaps especially) in survival mode. The described mode would be frustrating and detrimental to my play style, rather than make it more fun, which is the point of adding challenge to a game. I would probably still create a world with this difficulty, though, just to experience a different play style and enjoy more challenge to the experience.

All that to say, yes, I agree with what you suggest. I like the concept of adding another difficulty that's much harder, rather than changing the current hard mode.

Personally, I usually play singleplayer on normal difficulty, mainly because I get annoyed with zombies knocking on my door, lol. I don't find hard mode that much more difficult, though, and I do actively play on a server that's on hard difficulty.

One thing about difficulty, though: if you're planning on converting zombie villagers for the lower prices, you definitely want hard. The conversion rate (from villager to zombie) is 100% in hard mode, and only 50% in normal mode.

If you're playing a more recent version, you can turn on subtitles, they will give you a general direction of where a sound is coming from. Stand in one spot and watch where it indicates a sound is coming from, then dig a little that direction, 20 blocks or so, and stand and wait for the sounds to repeat. Eventually you'll get to where they are, then dig up or down.

Or just cheat and use spectator mode.

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Personally, I usually play singleplayer on normal difficulty, mainly because I get annoyed with zombies knocking on my door, lol. I don't find hard mode that much more difficult, though, and I do actively play on a server that's on hard difficulty.

One thing about difficulty, though: if you're planning on converting zombie villagers for the lower prices, you definitely want hard. The conversion rate (from villager to zombie) is 100% in hard mode, and only 50% in normal mode.

All the best to you.

One problem I have with normal or difficulty modes in general, is it doesn't have starve to death in normal mode, which is off putting in my opinion.

and there is no midway option between hard and normal.

There have been suggestions to add more difficulty options in the game by others, and to be honest I'd love to see that happen, to enable more customization to the vanilla experience.

The normal-hard suggestion somebody posted on reddit about this, what I'd like to see in it is starve to death enabled, but mob behavior and damage output remain the same as normal, this way food is more useful and even more necessary than before, forcing players to supply themselves with crops to stay alive and that simply evading monsters and environmental hazards isn't enough.

If people wish to have more challenges, then hard and upwards all the way to hardcore/extreme would fit the purpose, and Mojang could add things like thirst (eg. affected by climate and thirst bar depletes faster in desert regions), sickness, food spoilage, rarer ore generation, smarter mobs, harder to acquire enchantments etc. Basically I want the game to be able to appeal to as many people as possible, without mods needed to fill the gap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/minecraftsuggestions/comments/7od73r/how_to_fix_the_survival_is_too_easyhard_problem/

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I prefer Normal, I'm fine with a challenge but I hate if I can't find food and I'm done for when hearts are gone in Hard mode. Having half a heart is enough for me. Otherwise I do find the damage to mobs to be enough for me to be alright, but hard the extra can be abit much. I used to go with Easy as I found Normal hard at first but I've gotten used to Normal and find it's my Hard and has the safe guards I like to have as even though I'm not good at the game I can still have a fighting chance. That and enchanted gear/armour on mobs can be really tough and as I don't usually care for that level of difficulty or even use enchanted gear or potions I find the lower difficulty suits what I'm going for. Also with the AI changes in updates while I've gotten used to it I'm not big on them, Skeletons sniping or running around in silly ways is annoying while Zombie's 21 health I can deal with, with other mobs it depends as they usually aren't too bad. Normal with 1 or 1.5 damage I think it is from mobs (depending on the attack/mob I assume) is enough for me to get them without being frustrated, Hard upping it is fine but has me defeated way to quit and while I could refine my strategy due to the way I play I prefer normal to get challenge but still what I'm looking for.

Normal is the default difficulty anyway, and I understand what you mean there.

I feel as though easy and peaceful difficulty is both for training for people who are new to the game, casuals, and for children who don't know any better through no fault of their own. But experienced players should be capable of normal at minimum even if hard proves too hazardous during gameplay,

And while hard isn't as risky as hardcore, you keep builds and items even after respawn, hostile mobs do more damage.

I do like the survival aspect of Minecraft, but I wouldn't treat it in the same way as other survival games. Minecraft is supposed to be the type of game where you can relax and socialize with friends and express yourselves with amazing builds, it's not all about combat in Minecraft. When difficulty is elevated too much it can become stressful, and feel like an unpaid job, and that's what I intend to avoid, I'll leave it until midday UK London time, before I make a decision.

Going by the info in the Wiki I'd say:

Move out of the Crimson Forest or make sure the light level is greater than 11 everywhere.

Have you seen them spawn on slabs?

I'm not seeing any (bottom) slabs in your screenshots?

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Also piglins are supposed to avoid soul fire/torches/campfires and hoglins are supposed to avoid warped fungus, there's no mention of if those will stop spawning but it might make them leave if you leave an exit they can use.

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It's only bottom half slabs that stop spawning!

Top half slabs are just like ordinary blocks.

Hullo, Avyn, fancy seeing you here Did I mention I love your video!

And welcome to the server!!

1)"the walls are water!". Any walls you put up are simply very narrow glass tanks filled with water. Guardians could spawn throughout.

2)sewer system. Be like a ninja turtle and live in a network of stinky tunnels. The tunnels you do stuff in would be dry, you could intersperse smaller inlet tunnels that spew guardians out after falling out of the main spawning area.

3)"Dr. Fishin'stein's Monsters". Mad Scientist type of lair with specimens kept in stasis chambers, maybe a large shark-tank for you to monologue over while the hero escapes and thwarts your plans.

4)MC Dept of Conservation. Probably-modern-esque build style, the base is basically one gigantic viewing area for the larger Nature Preserve. Smaller areas where the scientists are working can be hidden away where the tourists won't notice.

5)MCS Nautilus Charm. A gigantic submarine a la SeaQuest.

6)Cannery Deep. Basically a factory hell-bent on processing guardians.

I just finished my mushroom house! I'm building a mushroom town on my server with some friends, and I wanted to make a mushroom made of mushroom. A lot of silk touch went into this one.