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Minecraft Username: Fractangle
How experienced are you with skyblock: Somewhat... I'm used to the whole concept of renewable vs. non-renewable resources, and such.
Why do you want to join: It sounds like a fun and different way to play Minecraft!

Flood the dungeon with lava. It'll light it up, and kill anything in there. When the lava recedes enough, jump down on top of the spawner, and put a torch on top of it. As the lava continues to recede, place more torches.


As to the grinder, try something like this:

= spawner
= sign

I'd realize that chances are, I'm gonna die one way or another.

That being said, I'd take as many ghasts with me as I possibly could. Punching ghasts is fun.

This is my hotbar for exploring an abandoned mineshaft (for non-mineshaft caves, replace the stone axe with another pick):

1. 
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4. 
5. 
6. A bucket (didn't see an emoticon for it)
7. 
8. 
9. 

For activities other than subterranean exploration, all bets are off.

Well, I could make a long-winded post about the ambiguity of the definition of "rare", but I don't feel like it.

To me, several things are rarer than diamonds (in that I have less of them in my SSP world):

• Apples
• Golden apples
• Cocoa beans
• Saddles

In-game name: Fractangle
Age: 19
Structures: My main SSP world consists of a bunch of 32x32 boxes of varying height that I dug out just above lava level, but some stuff I've built in other worlds in the past includes:
- A large Coliseum-style arena with a mob spawning room underneath that fed monsters into the arena via water elevators and canals (with obsidian floor to prevent creeper damage).
- Several semi-large (about 30 blocks high) tree houses.
- A number of dungeon-spawner-powered mob grinders.
- A (as an added bonus, it blows up whoever loses).

EDIT: What version is the server running? 1.7.3? 1.8.1? 1.9pr2?

Quote from twibs

I think sand and gravel are just smarter than stone and the rest, who just forget to fall.

This made my day. Thank you for being a wonderful person. :biggrin.gif:

My base is a bunch of 32x32 rooms of varying height (most are 4 blocks high, but some (such as my tree farms) are taller) dug out of the rock at y=13. I have 17 double chests full of cobblestone, and am not done constructing (or rather, destructing, as I'm not placing blocks... just taking unwanted ones away) it.

Several of my rooms have constant slime infestations, too!

26. This:

(whatever their previous floor material was)



<--netherrack

Constant hissing noises.

Make it like so:
(where = sign)

Your base goes here




These signs hold up any water they pour

Fish 'em up into the air... a falling creeper is a good creeper.

I've got an index card on which I keep track of how much stuff I've mined:

Every two double chests of cobble: 1 point
Each stack of iron blocks: 1 point
Each stack of diamonds: 1 point
Etc.

I've also got a bunch of one-off things for points:

Getting a record set: 1 point
Getting a squid into a flaming minecart, and pushing it around my base: 1 point
Etc.

I don't mine solely for the sake of mining. My base is underground, and its layout consists of a bunch of 32x32 rooms of varying heights, just above lava level.

I'm not even halfway done building (digging?) this base, and I've already got over two stacks of diamond.

Quote from mystere9 »

Quote from JohnCleese »

Build this: http://www.mediafire.com/?yqlpr2yqu6d0i53

...I'm a convert. This is fantastic.

I'm not impressed by most natural terrain. It takes Glacier-esque terrain to make me think, "Oh, that's nifty!".

I'm not impressed by zombie spawner grinders. Are you actually going to use the feathers, anyway? Probably not. Make something nifty, like a button that you can push to have a zombie dropped on your head.

I'm not impressed by any attempt at humor that's related to creepers. That includes creeper statues, TNT creeper statues, many of the creeper-themed options in the Painterly pack, the painting with the creeper instead of the tree, and the creeper-themed image macro avatars.

I'm not impressed by people who claim to be epic because they killed a ghast. Seriously? I usually just ignore ghasts. If they're really close to where I am, I'll punch them. They don't damage my cobblestone structures, and it's easy enough to play tennis with a couple of them if I'm exploring.

I'm not impressed by big TNT explosions, even if they're "legit". I don't know why.