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Fastest way to expend the hoe is a ring of dirt in the nether (inside a secure base of course)…
1562 uses later…
71 trips around a hollow 3x10 area of dirt 1562 = 2x11x71
Hoe, Hoe, Hoe… Merry Advancement[/indent]
You can do *much* better. Block of dirt, observer, piston, and a bit of Redstone. The piston will return the farmland to dirt. Hold down right click with some weight and go grab a drink. It'll be done in minutes
Those options seem to be quite expensive for a fishing silo, but for heavy duty stuff I should be aware of them. I do wish we had a "filter block." I think the UI would look like a furnace. The item already inside determines what kind of item is allowed to drop and pass through it. Less laggy and cleaner than a redstone filter and works with nonstackables. But a filter block is unlikely to ever see a vanilla release.
Hopefully pulling useful stackables, nonstackables, then auto burning the rest is a good start for the OP.
The bow sorter with skeletons is ridiculous, yes. Way too hard and expensive just to get bow sorting. However, just burning them up is super simple and I prefer doing that, usually. But like I said, I have a way to switch it off so that I can gather some bows and rods sometimes. But mostly I just want levels, books, and to keep my leather topped up. Also I guess the sticks see a lot of use and string can make wool.
Unfortunately, it is horribly hard to filter on "just fishing poles" or "just books". I'm not sure that can be done at all, except for using command blocks
You can sort bows by equipping them to skeletons. Gnembon has a video where he does this. Also, you can sort out both fishing poles and bows so long as you're willing to burn them by using furnaces. This is what I do but I have a disable switch in case I want some of them later.
You can sort water bottles by pushing them into brewing stands. This leaves you with enchanted books and saddles which I've never found a way to sort or eliminate.
Agreed. If I was going to allow "this is impractical" to affect my decisions in Minecraft, we wouldn't have a 256 block tower drop ride that looks like a rainbow as you fall, we wouldn't have that parrot dancing hall, and... I wouldn't play Minecraft.
Yeah it's getting to be not worth it for me as well. We've raided dozens in total among everyone on the server and they're getting to be too far away. But I really want to take my friend to see one. Plus I do like exploring and traveling distances on occasion. Sometimes my character needs a vacation from the hard work he's doing building up the industrial district. My main reason, however, for going is that I like to decorate my mansion with rare treasures and the Totem of Undying is a great one to hang on your wall en mass to look like some kind of wealth collector of rare items for exotic, far-off places... which is exactly what they are. My hallway is covered in dragon heads as well. I've still yet to get mob heads, which are just about the hardest to get item, but I'll get there.
I want to plus one the flying machine for your first trip, if you don't have Elytra yet. After that, I'd say Elytra or still use the flying machine because it's actually difficult to fly in the End when you don't have a horizon to look at. I lost pair of Elytra once as a result of flying to low and just crashing into the bottom of the void. Very anti-climactic and sad way to lose Elytra.
I'm on a server with a bunch of folks who are some new to the game and many of us had a hard time initially with getting to and raiding end cities. But it's super worth it because the loot there is the best. So I made up a little guide for my friends. I'll post it here now.
1) Bring a silk touch pick axe and an ender chest. This is part of my normal inventory everywhere. It's even more important in the End.
2) Wear inexpensive gear. When you're traveling the outter islands, put all your armor in an ender chest. When you're in the end cities, wear whatever cursed and enchanted iron armor you got from a raid somewhere.
3) Wear a pumpkin on your head. It will keep you safe from drawing the attention of Endermen. They are neutral mobs but consider eye contact an aggressive action. The game really did a great job making these guys creepy. Wearing a pumpkin blurs your vision by default. This can be really annoying. You can opt to be careful about not putting your cross hairs on an Enderman or you can get my client mod texture pack that makes pumpkin blur go away. It's located here: https://github.com/mmachenry/happier-halloween
4) Bring a plane and stash it in your ender chest when you're in the city. 1 sticky piston, 2 piston, 2 redstone block, 1 rail, 1 minecart, 2 slime block, and plenty of replacement redstone blocks incase you can't get them back because it's easiest to start the machine by breaking the redsstone block. This one is huge. If you want the easy way to find an end city, this is it. You will only be able to go one direction but you'll eventually find something and it never takes that long for me. Travel at a good height, like Y=80 or 90 so you never hit islands and need to stop and rebuild higher.
5) Bring a shield. Shulker attacks can be blocked by shields. You need to be facing dead on to the attack but it's an essential tool for the end cities.
6) Bring an efficient pick axe. Maybe diamond efficiency V, unbreaking III, but skip the fortune. If you're going on a long trip to raid a few cities you're going to need to reup on blocks and there are plenty of endstone blocks to pick up.
7) Bring a nice sword. Looting III is crucial. You're going there in part to get shulker shells. Don't waste your time getting all the way there and going through all that raiding only to have a 50% chance on each shulker. While you're at it, put some sharpness and sweeping edge on that sword. It'll make the battle way easier. My sword is Sharpness V, Looting III, Sweeping Edge III, Mending, Unbreaking III
8) Bring plenty of food. Maybe golden apples as well. I bring two stacks of cooked meat of any kind and a few golden apples.
9) Also consider some potions of instant healing or invisibility or speed, in that order. I don't always do this but potions are easy to obtain and shulkers can't see you if you're invisible and it could be an easy way to raid. Instant health is great if you find yourself in a really bad fight.
10) Get feather falling on those boots. I know I said cheap equipment but feather falling is actually worth it. Some protection on the armor is good as well, but be prepared to lose what you have.
11) Bring wood, at least in your ender chest. It's always useful. Crafting tables, chests, ladders. Ladders are great for end cities and you'll need to craft them some how. Also if you want to make shulker boxes immediately to store your loot, you'll need to make chests or just pick up the ones you find in the end cities.
12) Consider sleeping in a bed in the end portal room. If you die in an end city that's not too hard to get back to, this will make it easier to go back and get your stuff. If you're exploring really far away, don't worry about it.
13) Bring 2-3 stacks of ender pearls. They will get you short jumps across islands in a pinch instead of flying or blocking over. They are also your primary defense against floating up to your death when fighting shulkers. Toss a pearl into an opening where you can get a roof over your head if you get hit by a shulker.
14) Once you have all that stuff, fill the rest of your inventory completely with blocks. I like to go grab netherrack because it's so easy to mass mine with an efficient pick axe. Blocks are necessary. They're the quickest way to get around in end cities and even if you're not bridging between islands, you'll need a way to get off your plane and to a city since it's rarely going to get you exactly there. Blocks are also great in end cities to build up barriers for fighting shulkers.
15) Set your video settings to load 32 chunks. You can see end cities further way if your server allows this. While you're flying you want to have good vision in both sideways directions so that you catch the maximal amount of opportunities.
16) Turn on closed captioning while you're in an end city. The shulker sounds a bit subtle and when you're clearing out the last few, they can be hard to find. Closed captioning with tell you definitively that you heard a shulker lurk and also give you an arrow to the direction so you know which wall to bash out looking for them.
17) Bring your Elytra + Fireworks if you have them and you know you're not going to lose them. You need some flying skill to fly without a horizon for a great distance. Maybe just always stay level instead of swooping up and down. It uses a lot more fireworks though.
18) Buckets of milk will cure you of the shulker floating syndrom. Problem is they don't stack so you can't really bring much. I don't bring any but if you want to give this a try, it's worth knowing about. It could safe you in a pinch when you absolutely need to get rid of the shulker floating and can't just wait because they keep hitting you with it. But I generally use ender pearls to get away.
19) Leave your shovel and axe at home, they're mostly useless in the end.
20) A bow can be nice in a pinch when you need to get rid of a hard-to-reach shulker for safety. But I tend to avoid this because bows don't have looting and killing a shulker with a bow is a bit of a waste probabilistically speaking. But if you can get the damage right, dealing your primary damage with the bow and last hitting the shulker with your looting III sword can actually be the perfect way to go about the raid. . Use BetterHUD client mod and enable the mob info so you can see a shulkers exact HP before deciding on whether to hit with a bow once more or approach with the sword.
I don't have the ability to use cheats or spawn or edit nbt data in the server. What I ended up doing was to get a friend to come up and rescue me. He failed to throw an ender pearl fast enough, so he suffocated in the bedrock. But he dropped the four pieces of dirt that he brought with him above the bedrock and I was able to kill myself with it. I guess as a puzzle, this one I created might be unsolvable. But from my perspective, the issue is resolved.
I didn't know how food or health worked. I started building a house, I'd occasionally fall 4-5 blocks. I'd take a tiny amount of damage each time and that health bar would never go back up. I tried asking in chat to friends how you gain health and they were all so experienced that they were not anticipating such a noob question. People talked about potions and such things. No one ever told me you have to eat just a little bit and your health will basically instantly restore. So I would constantly die and respawn and continue working on my house as though death were a normal way to restore your health bar.
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The bow sorter with skeletons is ridiculous, yes. Way too hard and expensive just to get bow sorting. However, just burning them up is super simple and I prefer doing that, usually. But like I said, I have a way to switch it off so that I can gather some bows and rods sometimes. But mostly I just want levels, books, and to keep my leather topped up. Also I guess the sticks see a lot of use and string can make wool.
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You can sort bows by equipping them to skeletons. Gnembon has a video where he does this. Also, you can sort out both fishing poles and bows so long as you're willing to burn them by using furnaces. This is what I do but I have a disable switch in case I want some of them later.
You can sort water bottles by pushing them into brewing stands. This leaves you with enchanted books and saddles which I've never found a way to sort or eliminate.
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Agreed. If I was going to allow "this is impractical" to affect my decisions in Minecraft, we wouldn't have a 256 block tower drop ride that looks like a rainbow as you fall, we wouldn't have that parrot dancing hall, and... I wouldn't play Minecraft.
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Yeah it's getting to be not worth it for me as well. We've raided dozens in total among everyone on the server and they're getting to be too far away. But I really want to take my friend to see one. Plus I do like exploring and traveling distances on occasion. Sometimes my character needs a vacation from the hard work he's doing building up the industrial district. My main reason, however, for going is that I like to decorate my mansion with rare treasures and the Totem of Undying is a great one to hang on your wall en mass to look like some kind of wealth collector of rare items for exotic, far-off places... which is exactly what they are. My hallway is covered in dragon heads as well. I've still yet to get mob heads, which are just about the hardest to get item, but I'll get there.
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I want to plus one the flying machine for your first trip, if you don't have Elytra yet. After that, I'd say Elytra or still use the flying machine because it's actually difficult to fly in the End when you don't have a horizon to look at. I lost pair of Elytra once as a result of flying to low and just crashing into the bottom of the void. Very anti-climactic and sad way to lose Elytra.
I'm on a server with a bunch of folks who are some new to the game and many of us had a hard time initially with getting to and raiding end cities. But it's super worth it because the loot there is the best. So I made up a little guide for my friends. I'll post it here now.
1) Bring a silk touch pick axe and an ender chest. This is part of my normal inventory everywhere. It's even more important in the End.
2) Wear inexpensive gear. When you're traveling the outter islands, put all your armor in an ender chest. When you're in the end cities, wear whatever cursed and enchanted iron armor you got from a raid somewhere.
3) Wear a pumpkin on your head. It will keep you safe from drawing the attention of Endermen. They are neutral mobs but consider eye contact an aggressive action. The game really did a great job making these guys creepy. Wearing a pumpkin blurs your vision by default. This can be really annoying. You can opt to be careful about not putting your cross hairs on an Enderman or you can get my client mod texture pack that makes pumpkin blur go away. It's located here: https://github.com/mmachenry/happier-halloween
4) Bring a plane and stash it in your ender chest when you're in the city. 1 sticky piston, 2 piston, 2 redstone block, 1 rail, 1 minecart, 2 slime block, and plenty of replacement redstone blocks incase you can't get them back because it's easiest to start the machine by breaking the redsstone block. This one is huge. If you want the easy way to find an end city, this is it. You will only be able to go one direction but you'll eventually find something and it never takes that long for me. Travel at a good height, like Y=80 or 90 so you never hit islands and need to stop and rebuild higher.
5) Bring a shield. Shulker attacks can be blocked by shields. You need to be facing dead on to the attack but it's an essential tool for the end cities.
6) Bring an efficient pick axe. Maybe diamond efficiency V, unbreaking III, but skip the fortune. If you're going on a long trip to raid a few cities you're going to need to reup on blocks and there are plenty of endstone blocks to pick up.
7) Bring a nice sword. Looting III is crucial. You're going there in part to get shulker shells. Don't waste your time getting all the way there and going through all that raiding only to have a 50% chance on each shulker. While you're at it, put some sharpness and sweeping edge on that sword. It'll make the battle way easier. My sword is Sharpness V, Looting III, Sweeping Edge III, Mending, Unbreaking III
8) Bring plenty of food. Maybe golden apples as well. I bring two stacks of cooked meat of any kind and a few golden apples.
9) Also consider some potions of instant healing or invisibility or speed, in that order. I don't always do this but potions are easy to obtain and shulkers can't see you if you're invisible and it could be an easy way to raid. Instant health is great if you find yourself in a really bad fight.
10) Get feather falling on those boots. I know I said cheap equipment but feather falling is actually worth it. Some protection on the armor is good as well, but be prepared to lose what you have.
11) Bring wood, at least in your ender chest. It's always useful. Crafting tables, chests, ladders. Ladders are great for end cities and you'll need to craft them some how. Also if you want to make shulker boxes immediately to store your loot, you'll need to make chests or just pick up the ones you find in the end cities.
12) Consider sleeping in a bed in the end portal room. If you die in an end city that's not too hard to get back to, this will make it easier to go back and get your stuff. If you're exploring really far away, don't worry about it.
13) Bring 2-3 stacks of ender pearls. They will get you short jumps across islands in a pinch instead of flying or blocking over. They are also your primary defense against floating up to your death when fighting shulkers. Toss a pearl into an opening where you can get a roof over your head if you get hit by a shulker.
14) Once you have all that stuff, fill the rest of your inventory completely with blocks. I like to go grab netherrack because it's so easy to mass mine with an efficient pick axe. Blocks are necessary. They're the quickest way to get around in end cities and even if you're not bridging between islands, you'll need a way to get off your plane and to a city since it's rarely going to get you exactly there. Blocks are also great in end cities to build up barriers for fighting shulkers.
15) Set your video settings to load 32 chunks. You can see end cities further way if your server allows this. While you're flying you want to have good vision in both sideways directions so that you catch the maximal amount of opportunities.
16) Turn on closed captioning while you're in an end city. The shulker sounds a bit subtle and when you're clearing out the last few, they can be hard to find. Closed captioning with tell you definitively that you heard a shulker lurk and also give you an arrow to the direction so you know which wall to bash out looking for them.
17) Bring your Elytra + Fireworks if you have them and you know you're not going to lose them. You need some flying skill to fly without a horizon for a great distance. Maybe just always stay level instead of swooping up and down. It uses a lot more fireworks though.
18) Buckets of milk will cure you of the shulker floating syndrom. Problem is they don't stack so you can't really bring much. I don't bring any but if you want to give this a try, it's worth knowing about. It could safe you in a pinch when you absolutely need to get rid of the shulker floating and can't just wait because they keep hitting you with it. But I generally use ender pearls to get away.
19) Leave your shovel and axe at home, they're mostly useless in the end.
20) A bow can be nice in a pinch when you need to get rid of a hard-to-reach shulker for safety. But I tend to avoid this because bows don't have looting and killing a shulker with a bow is a bit of a waste probabilistically speaking. But if you can get the damage right, dealing your primary damage with the bow and last hitting the shulker with your looting III sword can actually be the perfect way to go about the raid. . Use BetterHUD client mod and enable the mob info so you can see a shulkers exact HP before deciding on whether to hit with a bow once more or approach with the sword.
Good luck and have fun!
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I don't have the ability to use cheats or spawn or edit nbt data in the server. What I ended up doing was to get a friend to come up and rescue me. He failed to throw an ender pearl fast enough, so he suffocated in the bedrock. But he dropped the four pieces of dirt that he brought with him above the bedrock and I was able to kill myself with it. I guess as a puzzle, this one I created might be unsolvable. But from my perspective, the issue is resolved.
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I didn't know how food or health worked. I started building a house, I'd occasionally fall 4-5 blocks. I'd take a tiny amount of damage each time and that health bar would never go back up. I tried asking in chat to friends how you gain health and they were all so experienced that they were not anticipating such a noob question. People talked about potions and such things. No one ever told me you have to eat just a little bit and your health will basically instantly restore. So I would constantly die and respawn and continue working on my house as though death were a normal way to restore your health bar.