When it comes right down to it, the best way to survive is to figure out the most efficient ways to do everything to cut material cost. Some methods require more materials for less practical uses, like making a set of golden armor.
There's a lot of different methods for different things, and that's what I want to dedicate this thread about, finding and showing the most efficient methods of survival.
Now, keep in mind that some people play the game differently than you do, and because of this reason, they might not agree with a method you or somebody else has posted. Everyone's entitled to voice their opinion, are they not?
Anyways, on with the thread. Basically post tips or ideas that are based around the concept of efficiency in Minecraft Survival, pretty simple.
To start out, I have a few methods of my own.
First off, when you look for building material, you look for explosion resistance, right? For the resistance you get from Stone Bricks, and the materials used to make it (four stone translates into four stone brick blocks), it's not only good looking, but it's fire-proof and handles explosions.
And since it's made out of an easy-to-acquire material, if you run out of stone brick blocks, you can always get more.
...That is unless you run out of fuel.
Say you've been smelting a lot of iron and cobblestone plus some food, and you're running out of coal. You only have eight coal left! Fear not, as you could turn eight coal into sixty four charcoal, which basically is the same item.
Eight coal translates into Sixty-Four charcoal so long as you have enough wooden logs. After awhile, you can use charcoal to make more charcoal combined with the fact that you can grow trees.
So with that spiffy nearly creeper resistant base, and those stacks of charcoal, what else do you have to do?
How about an efficient food source? There are differing opinions on this topic, and I'm sure there's more efficient ways.
Wheat is re-plantable, provides able nourishment and only needs a nearby water block to quickly grow. The only downside is that it requires dirt and light, and takes up space.
Meat items require animals to be constantly bred, taking up as many resources as it's outputting (unless it's cows).
The answer? Fish. You only need sticks, string, a body of water and a furnace plus fuel. It's difficult, but once you learn how to do it, you will be able to get a great amount of food quickly and cheaply.
But wait, fishing poles break, still.
The answer is mooshrooms. If you find a mushroom biome, you can get easy unlimited food from mooshrooms so long as you have wooden bowls at your expense. The only two cons are that they're hard to find, and you can't stack the food.
But you still can't beat free food...
Now you have a good, cheap building material, a way to get cheap fuel and free food. What's left? Well that's the point of the thread, to share ideas and tips!
My friend and I plus a few others are working on a server, but we've come to the realization that in order for a server to survive and have a steady player count, it must have some kind of quality or gimmick that stands out from the rest.
We spent hours on end trying to come up with something, but we cannot figure out exactly what we could add that could be considered "New" to a survival server. I suggested that I could post a thread on the minecraft forums asking the whole community what would be interesting and fresh in a server.
So basically just, well, say what would be interesting in the server. We need an idea, and an idea is best gotten from the community.
Also, I've been pretty busy in real life. I've managed to update a few things.
From left to right: New stone brick textures, lapis block, nether wart + soul sand, bedrock, jukebox and enchantment table.
The forest. In my honest opinion, it's the simplest. It has trees and grass. Sometimes stone and lava. A normal amount of regular mobs spawn there, and it's usually flat with a lot of lumber to be had.
There is a current way to brew several different types of potions. It requires you to delve into the nether and find "blazes" in the nether.
On death, blazes usually drop blaze rods. You then put the blaze rod with three cobblestone in a crafting bench, like so.
Once you place it down, you can brew three potions with one reagent.
For a potion of instant health, first you must make a bottle of water.
You craft a bottle of water like you do a wooden bowl, only with glass. It gives you three each time you craft it. Then you right-click on a body of water and fill up one individual bottle.
Next, delve into the nether and find a netherbrick fortress. You'll know when you see it. A big, square complex.
Now find nether wart. It looks like a plant growing inside of the fortress. Once you acquire these, move on back home. Insert the nether wart into the top box, and three water bottles into the bottom three. It will start to brew an awkward potion. Now you get watermelon slices and gold nuggets (made by crafting one gold ingot) into Glittering Watermelon, and brew the potions with that reagent.
Now you have a potion of instant healing. There's a LOT more potion combinations for brewing, use this wiki page as a referrence.
The lava is a bit eye-killing, (which, in my opinion, it is in all texture packs except default)
I haven't even touched the water or lava textures yet. For some unexplainable reason they changed. Although I can assure you that there will be a better texture to them soon.
My first-ever texturepack. The whole time I've played minecraft, I've preferred the default texturepack over any others. Mainly because of the fact that I like keeping minecraft vanilla.
But recently, I've gotten into spriting, and I decided to give a shot at making my own texturepack.
Although it's made from scratch, you may notice that it is similar to the default texturepack. This is because I've tried to keep certain traditions from the default texturepack while using my own style.
And keep in mind this IS my first texturepack. I'm new to the whole business, so it's 16x cause I like to keep it simple.
If you have problems with the texturepack, or you would like to help improve it, I take all criticism and feedback. I'll try to respond to most of the posts, and keep you up to date with my progress!
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There's a lot of different methods for different things, and that's what I want to dedicate this thread about, finding and showing the most efficient methods of survival.
Now, keep in mind that some people play the game differently than you do, and because of this reason, they might not agree with a method you or somebody else has posted. Everyone's entitled to voice their opinion, are they not?
Anyways, on with the thread. Basically post tips or ideas that are based around the concept of efficiency in Minecraft Survival, pretty simple.
To start out, I have a few methods of my own.
First off, when you look for building material, you look for explosion resistance, right? For the resistance you get from Stone Bricks, and the materials used to make it (four stone translates into four stone brick blocks), it's not only good looking, but it's fire-proof and handles explosions.
And since it's made out of an easy-to-acquire material, if you run out of stone brick blocks, you can always get more.
...That is unless you run out of fuel.
Say you've been smelting a lot of iron and cobblestone plus some food, and you're running out of coal. You only have eight coal left! Fear not, as you could turn eight coal into sixty four charcoal, which basically is the same item.
Eight coal translates into Sixty-Four charcoal so long as you have enough wooden logs. After awhile, you can use charcoal to make more charcoal combined with the fact that you can grow trees.
So with that spiffy nearly creeper resistant base, and those stacks of charcoal, what else do you have to do?
How about an efficient food source? There are differing opinions on this topic, and I'm sure there's more efficient ways.
Wheat is re-plantable, provides able nourishment and only needs a nearby water block to quickly grow. The only downside is that it requires dirt and light, and takes up space.
Meat items require animals to be constantly bred, taking up as many resources as it's outputting (unless it's cows).
The answer? Fish. You only need sticks, string, a body of water and a furnace plus fuel. It's difficult, but once you learn how to do it, you will be able to get a great amount of food quickly and cheaply.
But wait, fishing poles break, still.
The answer is mooshrooms. If you find a mushroom biome, you can get easy unlimited food from mooshrooms so long as you have wooden bowls at your expense. The only two cons are that they're hard to find, and you can't stack the food.
But you still can't beat free food...
Now you have a good, cheap building material, a way to get cheap fuel and free food. What's left? Well that's the point of the thread, to share ideas and tips!
So what tips and tricks do you guys have?
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We spent hours on end trying to come up with something, but we cannot figure out exactly what we could add that could be considered "New" to a survival server. I suggested that I could post a thread on the minecraft forums asking the whole community what would be interesting and fresh in a server.
So basically just, well, say what would be interesting in the server. We need an idea, and an idea is best gotten from the community.
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Thank you for making a review
Also, I've been pretty busy in real life. I've managed to update a few things.
From left to right: New stone brick textures, lapis block, nether wart + soul sand, bedrock, jukebox and enchantment table.
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On death, blazes usually drop blaze rods. You then put the blaze rod with three cobblestone in a crafting bench, like so.
Once you place it down, you can brew three potions with one reagent.
For a potion of instant health, first you must make a bottle of water.
You craft a bottle of water like you do a wooden bowl, only with glass. It gives you three each time you craft it. Then you right-click on a body of water and fill up one individual bottle.
Next, delve into the nether and find a netherbrick fortress. You'll know when you see it. A big, square complex.
Now find nether wart. It looks like a plant growing inside of the fortress. Once you acquire these, move on back home. Insert the nether wart into the top box, and three water bottles into the bottom three. It will start to brew an awkward potion. Now you get watermelon slices and gold nuggets (made by crafting one gold ingot) into Glittering Watermelon, and brew the potions with that reagent.
Now you have a potion of instant healing. There's a LOT more potion combinations for brewing, use this wiki page as a referrence.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Brewing
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As you see, the exp orbs are now xp eyes! Also there's a new download link in the first post. Yaay!
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Check the download link, the new version is out!
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Made a trapdoor, darkened both the black wool and obsidian, and added a tiny bit of noise to the iron bars.
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I literally just took a lot of screenshots but I was too lazy to upload them
Well, here you go.
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I haven't even touched the water or lava textures yet. For some unexplainable reason they changed. Although I can assure you that there will be a better texture to them soon.
I tried to make it look chaotic, but I don't think it turned out well. I'll go try to tweak with the texture after I have dinner.
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My first-ever texturepack. The whole time I've played minecraft, I've preferred the default texturepack over any others. Mainly because of the fact that I like keeping minecraft vanilla.
But recently, I've gotten into spriting, and I decided to give a shot at making my own texturepack.
Add this to your signature to support my thread!
Although it's made from scratch, you may notice that it is similar to the default texturepack. This is because I've tried to keep certain traditions from the default texturepack while using my own style.
And keep in mind this IS my first texturepack. I'm new to the whole business, so it's 16x cause I like to keep it simple.
If you have problems with the texturepack, or you would like to help improve it, I take all criticism and feedback. I'll try to respond to most of the posts, and keep you up to date with my progress!