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No you didn't Treacher. Don't lie.

Suggestion to OP: Find yourself a nice Nether Stronghold you like. Build a base out of the area and you can setup the following:

1) Blaze Grinder
2) Pigmen Grinder
3) Netherwart Farm
4) You can even setup Tree/Wheat (Haven't tried wheat farm again but should still work) farms

This way if you have to spend time in the nether away standing around waiting for wart to grow, you can do it all. Currently trying to figure out a way to setup a Ghast Grinder but the only solution I can come up with would take me months and months on Survival which is to completely fill in the area around the stronghold base, leaving only 1 area Ghasts can spawn then you can farm it. Not very practical.

This takes a lot of work but very cool once you finish it. Currently have all but my blaze grinder setup in my SP world (still figuring out how I want to do that) very effective

Quote from cadika_orade

If the blocks were destroyed there would not be floating torches. Trolls. :3

I think the downgrade theory is most likely.

Personally I think that is the only real answer. The nether generation only had minor tweaks since nether fortress introduction.

Personally I just laugh at all these posts from people complaining or are panicking since there old builds are broken. Welcome to playing a beta. People should just wake up and start fresh in 1.0.0 or at the very least import there oh so precious buildings into 1.0.0 from an old map.

No that has been patched. Same with Gravel.

Quote from TheOnlyPotatao

When I would try to join servers, I would get the message invalid server key or outdated server. I know what the later means but what about the first?

invalid server key means your time does not sync up properly with the server. (at least it does on server side). Reset your date/time and try again. If you still get that on certain servers their time is out of sync.

Nice bug. That got me a laugh.

Mushroom farms are a thing of the past these days. Unfortunately I think it was 1.8 (Maybe it was in 1.9) they changed the growth rates. You should look at the wiki but it is something like this:

If there is 5 mushrooms in a 9x9 area no new growth will happen. This makes any mushroom farms pretty useless.

Bonemeal to make a gaint mushroom is the best farming you can do. (I miss my auto-shroom farms)

Quote from wriggle_nightbug

I just synced the time on the server and it's running perfectly now. So, all it was is that the clock was off.
Thanks a bunch Jinxso. If I could rep you more than once, bud, I definitely would.

Glad it worked. Have fun on RC2! Only a few days left and we get the full minecraft experience :smile.gif:

If you are having to goto offline mode to allow logins you most likely have 1 of 2 problems on the server:

1) The server is unable to do DNS lookup's and is failing to find the Minecraft Auth server. Double check your DNS settings.

2) The time/date on your server is off. The server and the Minecraft Auth server must be set to the same time for the auth server allow the connection. If you are running Linux (or Unix) use ntpdate to update your time. If you are using Windows, just set the time.

As far as I know this problem isn't caused by anything other then the 2 above issues unless some new issue has been introduced in the RC's.

Good Luck

I managed to get 104 Gold bars. I would go back and try to find the ones I missed but frankly there was a bit too much parkour (Which I don't like) and not enough puzzles. I did enjoy for the most part the map.

Left you my notes in IRC after I finished it Guude.

Now down to brass tax. Yes you have a baby on the way, Yes you are busy with LP's and real life blah blah blah. You said on twitter you make me my hardcore version...cough it up man! ;-)


As I told Guude already, very enjoyable map especially for those who watch his LP's. Looking forward to playing another one if you ever have time in the future with the baby arriving so soon.

Anyone have the source for this? This is the first I heard of this.

I am not against the idea as long as they fix the messed up hitboxes for SMP in the process.

I also used a fall trap. Just make your spawning platforms 24 blocks when they fall they die. If you want a more advanced one, youtube has many examples.

I am only about halfway through so far but I would add more spawners in the first part, I just stopped bothering to light it up, not enough danger. In most cases it was easy to find and/or destroy the existing spawners so the rush of mobs in most places hasn't been an issue. Anyone who is on normal or easy (I play on hard) should walk through most of the area's I have explored so far.
Also ton down the amount of food given is another suggestion.

So far having a fun time on it, love some of the design. I had a nice "awww" moment while exploring which I won't say to avoid spoilers.

Most of the crazies that has happened to me is while caving.

While exploring a abandoned mine recently I discovered a ravine (nothing new or special there), so I start lighting up the bottom of it.

Half way down the ravine I hear a noise so I turn around and I see a zombie coming towards me no big deal. What was just insane was as I watched while readying for the zombie fight, 2 more drop down on either side of ravine. I see cobble on both sides. A zombie spawner had spawned on either side of the ravine not far up from the floor and was dropping zombies down behind me.

So I take out the zombies start lighting up 1 of the spawns when I noticed high up the wall above the other spawner another cobblestone area. I finish lighting up each zombie spawner and make a cobble stairway up the side of the ravine. At this point I am thinking I cannot believe my luck. I am standing on my stairway and I cut into the cobblestone wall of the 3rd spawner. Immediate I get shot with an arrow (Skellie Spawner) and off the little stairway I build to fall all the way to the ground. Dead. Would have been nice to go back and see what was in that chest. Only problem was I was playing hardcore mode.

Currently I am missing 3 ender pearls to make enough Eye's to open the portal in my hardcore world.

The biggest challenge to date was getting the blaze rods (those guys hurt badly) after 4+ hours searching for a nether fortress.

I hope that is all I need, I have never been to the End yet so I figure it would be suitable "ending" to my latest hardcore run.

Thinking of spending my 78 xp levels on enchanting before I go in but frankly not sure it is worth it. Some of the enchants are nice just not needed.