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Quote from Kirby4ever

Right now I'm taking down all of the fences and wood planks as I go along so I can be sure that I explored the area.

That's what I do, and what I was going to suggest. Also the torches on one side, which works well for cave exploration and nether fortresses too, not just mineshafts. I prefer the right, when I'm placing them, so I can follow "torches on the left" to get back out, but either side works just as well, that's just the one I started with. Just pick one side and be consistent. If you're nautically-minded, you might be more comfortable with placing them on the left so you can follow them on the right to get back, as in "red, right, returning."

No one's going to post a .minecraft folder for you. Redistribution of copyrighted game files, even modified ones, is against the law in most countries and violates the terms of this website.

Quote from Ahellhound

Ya, I threw the sentence together rather quickly, I just posted a revised one.
Thanks for your feedback!

Better, but you used the wrong "your."

"You're" means "you are."
"Your" indicates possession.

(Ironically, you used the right one later in the same sentence with "your creativity," but the wrong one with "you and you're friends." It should be "your" in both places.)

Quote from TheHomeChicken

"He" is Hank Hill

"He" is a cartoon character. What do you mean when you say "he" "enjoyed" this (I'm assuming real-life) game that some college students designed after him? Or was that just something that happened on the show? It's not like I'm a duper-fan or anything, but its been in syndication long enough, I feel like I've at least seen most of the episodes.

Anyway, I don't think he would like Minecraft. I mean Mike Judge might, maybe, but Hank himself? Nah.

Try rewording it some, and remember, a little punctuation goes a long way:

"A mature community with the goal of providing a rich, unique and enjoyable experience, for you to expand upon with your knowledge of and passion for Minecraft."

(By the way, it's still not a "sentence," it's just a fragment. To be a full sentence it would have to start with something like "This is a mature community with..." etc. Call it a "tagline" or something, instead.)

Quote from LaFortune

He enjoyed ProPain (or however you spell the name of that game those college students designed after him) and he's an avid carpenter,

Who "he"? What? Do you mean Mike Judge?

No, I don't think it's a "good" sentence. It's barely even a sentence at all. "...for you and to enjoy and to expand upon with your knowledge..." What?

Most of them are more like the big bulky computers of the 60's era, big room- or building-sized machines that might be able to perform simple calculations or play a short tune, not like what you and I would recognize as a "computer" today.

I did see one though, once, powerful enough to "play Minecraft." Remember, this was a computer built in Minecraft, and on it you could play Minecraft...in Minecraft.

Quote from schematicdnb

Bizarre. I guess there's just misinformation floating around.

Yeah there is. If you think this is bad, you should see some of the rumors I've heard about NPC villagers and their housing. For reference, the rule is not "four walls and a roof" nor is it "they need a 2x2x2 (or any size) space inside" or even "the block immediately adjacent to the door must be hit by direct sunlight." The actual rule is simply "more covered spaces on one side of the door than on the other, within five blocks distance in each direction." A dirt block on the ground, next to a wooden door, makes for a perfectly valid "house" as far as the game is concerned.

Anyway I fixed the Y coordinate of that one portal and everything is working now, thanks for your help!

No problem, glad you got it sorted out!

Quote from iCanon

sorry, im no help but what does "keep it canon" mean?

I imagine he means he wants to keep it looking like a proper fortress and not some kind of wither skeleton-spawning machine.

Quote from schematicdnb

Had it changed with a patch at some point? Because all over the place people are saying Y doesn't matter

This Nether Portal Science thread was posted back in May of 2011 and makes no mention of y being irrelevant. In fact, it even mentions "Euclidean distance" which indicates linear distance in all three dimensions. From what I can tell, it works exactly the same now as it did back then.

Quote from KaboPC

Open the .jar as an archive using a program like WinZip, 7-Zip, or WinRar.

Or just rename the file to minecraft.zip, open it like a folder, do your thing inside, and then rename it back to .jar when you're done. Windows has built-in archive support, and you don't even need to mess with 7-Zip or WinRar.

Quote from Atuan

Just as an update, I refuse to use the forge-box mod that was used in the video(s). I would use the coordinate display, but that only works on single player and this is my personal SMP server.

Just make a new, single player world, and figure out the dimensions of each "section" there with the coordinate display? Once you have the different sections identified, and their dimensions recorded, they should be the same for all fortresses. There's also a non-forge version of the mod that still includes the bounding box display (you just can't use Optifine at the same time, or the box won't show up):

http://www.minecraft...6-showmonsters/

Okay I figured it out. Your portals aren't all on the same level as their otherworldly counterpart. Overworld portal B is at y=21, and nether-side portal E is at y=65.

When you enter portal B at (111, 21, 68) your entry point in the nether is calculated as (13, 21, 8).

Portal E, where you expect to show up, is at (14, 65, 8). This is a difference of 1 block on the x axis, 44 blocks on the y axis, and 0 blocks on the z axis, for a linear distance of almost exactly 44 blocks from your entry point. (a² + b² = c², and then c² + d² = e² or, more simply, a² + b² + d² = e². Since we know that c² is the same as a² + b², we can substitute and eliminate the need for a second step.) 1² + 44² + 0² = 1937, or approx. 44.011².

Portal F, where you actually show up, is at (3, 61, 21). This is a difference of 10 blocks on the x axis, 40 blocks on the y axis, and 13 blocks on the z axis from your calculated entry point. Plugging these numbers into our calculation, we arrive at 10² + 40² + 13² = 1869, approx. 43.23². At a linear distance of approx. 43.2 blocks, portal F is actually (very, very slightly) closer to your entry point than portal E is at 44.01 blocks. If you just reduce the height difference even by just a little bit, either by raising portal B or lowering portal E, they should link up properly.

Quote from schematicdnb

Here is the world download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4013749/schematicdnb_world.zip

Cheers

I'll have a look in a little bit and see if I can figure anything out.