Recently, I've picked the game back up and would like to do a HC SSP, possibly even an LP. However, I intend to do quite a bit of planning first.
What type of location is the safest to make my home?
Factors to take into account:
Defensibility
Can I quickly set up defenses against Creepers, Endermen, Spiders, Skeletons, and Zombies?
Sustainability
Can I easily set up a farm in this area without filling in or hollowing out too much land?
Longevity
Can I live here permanently or will this be transitional?
Resources
Can I easily acquire necessary resources?
Freedom
Can I easily come and go as I please?
Places I've considered:
Top of a Mountain
Pros:
Clear line of sight in all directions.
Highly defensible via walls. Cons:
Limited extensibility.
Possible accidents involving fall damage.
May requires alterations to landscape to accommodate farm.
Possible lack of freedom, depending on steepness or size of summit.
Underground
Pros:
Highly defensible due to narrow passage ways.
Unlimited extensibility.
Near minerals. Cons:
Significant amount of work hollowing out burrow.
Lack of surveillance.
Requires significant effort to begin a tree farm.
Monsters spawn regardless of time of day.
Lack of freedom in that making trips to the surface are actually called "trips to the surface".
Burrows tend to lack longevity due to needing more space, etc.
Open Plains
Pros:
Clear line of sight in all directions.
Highly extensible, given its sandbox-ish environment.
High sense of freedom.
Easily sustainable. Cons:
Poorly defensible in that attacks can happen from all sides.
Easily devastated landscape (aesthetics, rather than practical).
Boringly over used location.
Type of area has proven to be difficult to locate due to experience.
Things I've considered:
(De/Re)Forestation
Trees hide hostile mobs. Wood will either be harvested from a nearby forest, chopping down only valence trees. Replanting will only occur when harvesting has significantly increased the distance between home and the forest. If a closer and more suitable location for a forest is found, replanting will occur there instead of at the original forest.
Fortifactions
Any building must have at least two exits and that are unsafe to leave from should be easily identifiable (windows, redstone notifications, etc).
Walls must be spider-proof.
Endermen most not be able to remove valence blocks from the home.
Creeper explosions along the perimeter should not be devastating to any structures of my home.
Necessities
The home should contain what is necessary to maintain homeostasis as well as house supplies needed for hunting runs, mining expeditions, and exploration.
In the event that the home is abandoned abruptly (get lost or new home is made), I should be able to return to it in a fit of desperation and be able to live stably there again.
Anyone care to toss in there two cents and turn this into a discussion?
Found massive caverns and three dungeons while scouring the ocean floor. If I hadn't found that redstone in the third dungeon, I would have never made it back to my spawn. Now that I have all this iron, I'm going to start making two dams between my island and the nearby one so I can use the ocean floor in between. I'm already trying to build a dock (and failing aesthetically).
I don't know if anyone else has used this seed, but feel free to post your finds and accomplishments in here. This is, by far, one of the blankest of blank slate maps I've ever generated, there are so many possibilities.
We actually discourage neutral choices in market research. Even when people claim to have no opinion, they almost always do lean one way or another, therefore at least at my firm, we never offer the neutral/don't know option when we read the options. If they say they don't know, we ask if they would lean toward supporting or opposing, and if they still can't answer, then we put don't know. Granted, everyone WANTS a neutral option when they do polls.
Yes, the layout of the options is confusing, but I am just going to guess that UDontLikeCake does not have any background in market research, and is just curious what sort of support level there is for 1.8.
Also, I'd like to point out if you don't like threads like this, don't post in them, all you're doing is bumping the thread to the top of the queue.
Tell me exactly where I explicitly said I don't like threads like this. I posted a helpful suggestion while adhering to the topic's purpose.
For someone who does market research, you horribly misinterpret things.
I do market research for a living, and I can tell you there's always room for gray areas in polls like these. It's useful or sometimes just interesting to know when people only partly support something, or when they lean more toward not supporting it. Then you ask why.
In the case of this thread, I would assume people would reply saying why they only somewhat support it or somewhat oppose it.
As for me, I am strongly looking forward to 1.8, because I'm looking forward to the new features and gameplay options.
Yes, but in that case, you want to follow a standard layout:
He has no neutral option and options on the same side of that grey area aren't adjacent on the option list. You should understand from your 'market research' that every little change to a poll can affect bias.
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What type of location is the safest to make my home?
Factors to take into account:
- Defensibility
Can I quickly set up defenses against Creepers, Endermen, Spiders, Skeletons, and Zombies?
- Sustainability
Can I easily set up a farm in this area without filling in or hollowing out too much land?
- Longevity
Can I live here permanently or will this be transitional?
- Resources
Can I easily acquire necessary resources?
- Freedom
Can I easily come and go as I please?
Places I've considered:- Top of a Mountain
Pros:
- Underground
Pros:
- Open Plains
Pros:
Things I've considered:Clear line of sight in all directions.
Highly defensible via walls.
Cons:
Limited extensibility.
Possible accidents involving fall damage.
May requires alterations to landscape to accommodate farm.
Possible lack of freedom, depending on steepness or size of summit.
Highly defensible due to narrow passage ways.
Unlimited extensibility.
Near minerals.
Cons:
Significant amount of work hollowing out burrow.
Lack of surveillance.
Requires significant effort to begin a tree farm.
Monsters spawn regardless of time of day.
Lack of freedom in that making trips to the surface are actually called "trips to the surface".
Burrows tend to lack longevity due to needing more space, etc.
Clear line of sight in all directions.
Highly extensible, given its sandbox-ish environment.
High sense of freedom.
Easily sustainable.
Cons:
Poorly defensible in that attacks can happen from all sides.
Easily devastated landscape (aesthetics, rather than practical).
Boringly over used location.
Type of area has proven to be difficult to locate due to experience.
- (De/Re)Forestation
Trees hide hostile mobs. Wood will either be harvested from a nearby forest, chopping down only valence trees. Replanting will only occur when harvesting has significantly increased the distance between home and the forest. If a closer and more suitable location for a forest is found, replanting will occur there instead of at the original forest.
- Fortifactions
Any building must have at least two exits and that are unsafe to leave from should be easily identifiable (windows, redstone notifications, etc).
- Necessities
The home should contain what is necessary to maintain homeostasis as well as house supplies needed for hunting runs, mining expeditions, and exploration.
Anyone care to toss in there two cents and turn this into a discussion?Walls must be spider-proof.
Endermen most not be able to remove valence blocks from the home.
Creeper explosions along the perimeter should not be devastating to any structures of my home.
In the event that the home is abandoned abruptly (get lost or new home is made), I should be able to return to it in a fit of desperation and be able to live stably there again.
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Found massive caverns and three dungeons while scouring the ocean floor. If I hadn't found that redstone in the third dungeon, I would have never made it back to my spawn. Now that I have all this iron, I'm going to start making two dams between my island and the nearby one so I can use the ocean floor in between. I'm already trying to build a dock (and failing aesthetically).
I don't know if anyone else has used this seed, but feel free to post your finds and accomplishments in here. This is, by far, one of the blankest of blank slate maps I've ever generated, there are so many possibilities.
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I just found me first tree, I now have everything I need.
I'm going to harvest the wood, build a boat, and bring saplings back with me to the spawn location.
Information on the tree is in the original post.
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Small Island, no trees or land in sight.
Photos and Numeric Seed:
http://imgur.com/a/PDZwX#0
After much swimming, I finally found a tree:
http://imgur.com/IeviM
Tree
x: -87
y: 67
z: 818
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Edit: I have more +'s than the original post... what is this madness?
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Have Lightning land the finishing blow on an enemy that you've done damage to.
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I'm a lazy ****.
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Tell me exactly where I explicitly said I don't like threads like this. I posted a helpful suggestion while adhering to the topic's purpose.
For someone who does market research, you horribly misinterpret things.
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Yes, but in that case, you want to follow a standard layout:
Strongly Agree
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
He has no neutral option and options on the same side of that grey area aren't adjacent on the option list. You should understand from your 'market research' that every little change to a poll can affect bias.
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Yes
No
Yes
No
... Please, don't add bogus duplicate poll options... that contaminates the polls results and defeats the purpose of the poll.
As for the answer: Yes. I want me some Endermen.
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The one you get for doing something frowned upon by the mods.
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Just don't do bad things anymore and it doesn't matter.
No one else but you can see it, even if they go to your profile.
Also, this topic doesn't go here.
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>Complain about being 100% safe.
Go spend your nights outside.