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wait for it to despawn.

If you are writing something its inevitably going to be influenced by outside ideas you've absorbed.

Regarding free will, you make a choice by analyzing options you are aware of and deciding on the one you like best. Options are limited to your pre-existing knowledge and outside influences, while the method of decision making is contingent on unconscious biases in your personality. So in a way it doesn't exist.

Attach the piston to a lever, and when you flip the lever to de-energize the sticky piston, it retracts lifting the cobble, the lava extends out over the sign, the chickens fly up into the lava and die, the meat drops through the water into whatever collection system you want to build. Flip the lever again, you drop the cobble cutting off the lava, re-load your chickens and collect as many eggs as you want. Repeat as often as desired

Interesting. Does it work perfectly or do a lot of the drops get burned up?

I was thinking of a system where when it is slaughtering time, it just drowns them. Unlike a hostile mob factory, how fast you kill them isn't really a priority and I am one of those paranoid people who thinks the glitch that lets you make a lava blade will be fixed.

Has nobody payed attention to my post, or did I do all of that for nothing?

Minecraft would not be playable if it was scaled to real world distances. Normal people who go to work or school don't want to spend several weeks in a game holding down the w key.

I am not "against" oceans as they exist now, and this is not a debate about whether or not they are too big or just right.

My question was simply the typical length between continents. Someone answered with a response of about 20k to 30k blocks. Thank you.

The only thing is it seems peaceful mobs don't spawn on those islands out on the ocean. Good luck making a bed, finding wolves or having the full range of food items if you decide to play ocean survival.

Do the larger islands have a different biome than ocean? I know mushroom islands in 1.9 are their own thing. It would be nice if occasionally the ocean had big islands which are just like 1 biome by itself.

Sorry if this has been posted before.

I have seen a lot of posts and world renders that show distances of 15k to 20k blocks of nothing but ocean and no continents in sight. Most people who spawn on islands just delete their worlds, obviously.

I am just curious, what's a ballpark estimate of an ocean crossing in terms of block length? I have been going on for about 11,000 blocks according my F3 coords and no land in sight except of islands. I would know if I passed a continental penninsula of course, since only mainland areas have peaceful mobs.

Is it even possible to get in a boat and get across the sea by traveling in a straight line for anything less than several hours of real-world game time? I have been sailing for about 2 hours now and am ready to drown myself if it turns out the ocean is millions of blocks long or something.

Most of that list sounds like trolling, obviously.

Attacking Endermen/mobs from a distance.
Mining from a distance.

That is/was a real bug, though it had nothing to do with ender pearls when I experienced it. It did however seem to come right before a crash, much like when you can't break blocks.

It was like, on very rare occasions when you cursor over an endermen standing far away, they don't teleport but rather freeze. If you swing your sword while your cursor is still in that direction, the glitchy mob out in the distance will take damage and die. If you kill it, things go back to normal.

Maybe its been fixed in 1.8 or 1.8.1?

Protecting one's house is no big deal if you ask me. Everything on this subject has been about mob grinders, but what about the other things they have made impractical to do in the game?

1. Player-created dungeons and/or adventure-style levels? You can't have a dark area for your victim explorer to be jumped by mobs, because the endermen will tear it up when nobody is around.

2. Megastructures whose aesthetics are spoiled by lighting and can't be protected by water. Sure I could play on peaceful, but what if I like the challenge of doing things legit?

3. Anything desert themed that doesn't involve water and is too realistic to have tons of lava or netherrack

4. Any cool things in general that are outside your "perimeter"

And that is just for things that are player created, if notch made these guys not steal natural blocks. If they remain unconstrained there are other things they can do.

5. NPC villages are not safe because they have no walls

6. Any kind of spawned ruins or abandoned mines or future adventurey things under the player's feet are/will be disassembled before he finds them.

7. Forests and the effects they have in them, duh

8. How far can endermen reach, and can they pull blocks behind shallow water or falls despite being hurt by it? Things may not be as safe as you think.

Also I could come up with reasons why they don't do the things that the apologists like them for:

1. They are very slow, random, and don't have a "siege" AI so it is very unlikely they would actually break into your base or let other mobs in before you found them. They just make a hideous smattering of 1x1 holes where a block came out, spoiling the aesthetics of your stuff

2. They aren't dangerous in their present form, and if they were tougher they would be overpowered.

3. They probably won't deliberately break out of a cave emerge from under your floor one day, for the same reason as number 1.

4. They aren't scary or really that rare. I have already become desensitized to them. Unlike creepers, which still successfully sneak up on me from time to time and make me really paranoid every morning when I get out of bed and I know there are still a few left over from the night.

Railways are fun to design though, I like trains :biggrin.gif: Being hard to build is the entire point. Its a goal to work towards.

Boosters should be boosted so it remains the fastest mode of travel in the game. I've always felt minecarts should be really really fast.

I dunno, isn't there a plan to make nightly versions available in the future?

I like the idea of having optional updates where you choose whether to play a buggy version with new features, or continue to play the most stable version.

I think either way it doesn't matter

Either you get a buggy pre-release early and then wait a week for a bug-fix update, or wait and get a functioning update all at once.

It doesn't matter, the end product gets delivered at the same time.

The idea that they would be clever and steal a block from my house and get me is kind of cool, but most of the time in REALITY they just tear up the landscape in a pointless fashion. They can move any block, natural or player placed, and are active at such a huge distance away from the player that their actions are usually happening out of sight and you can't stop them.

The thing that drew me to Minecraft in the first place was how its a sandbox, but has enough hazards to make things interesting. A blank canvas is boring, but a hardcore mode where the mobs tear up all your **** constantly would be no fun either. There needs to be a balance, and saying we have survival vs. creative mode doesn't help.

For instance, I like the new hunger system. Its a fun problem to solve, but not a nightmare either since an established advanced player can farm on an industrial scale. If it was harder to grow things, or notch made it where wheat, mushrooms, etc, didn't make an item when they were affected indirectly, and you had to garden by hand constantly then it would royally suck.

Another problem is that the natural environment doesn't come back. If there is a forest fire in real life, the trees will regrow and animals return. In Minecraft, if Endermen pick the trees apart they'll never be the same unless you tediously repair them.

These guys don't really simulate natural decay either, because from what I have seen, they pick a block out of a sphere radius from where they were standing and then make another another sphere somewhere else.

So how would you feel if creepers went around and randomly exploded while in the forest or cave 50 blocks from where you are? There is a design reason why Notch chose not to do that. Do I just "deal" with the fact that unless you spend weeks building an ugly demilitarized zone around the greater region in which my house is located and place torches everywhere, most of the area will eventually get turned into a giant mess of randomly placed circles of blocks?

This is poor game design.

Also, like I said, killing things turns into grinding(a sign of bad game balancing) once you have progressed through the game and want to do grander things. Hence mob traps.

I mean, by the logic of some people here they should abolish the diamond pick? It makes mining too easy, we should "earn" our blocks by spending 8 hours a day playing minecraft instead of going to work or school.

You guys who say "deal with it" are looking at it solely from the perspective of someone who just wants to build a base where they can live and mine in safety. Boring.

Notch said somewhere that stuff should only happen near the player. This is why creepers only go off if you engage them. Endermen seem capable of doing their thing even while they are very far from the player. I see their handiwork in forests and caves which seem kind of a distance from where I was during the night.

There should be a reasonable way of countering their block-moving, and the range at which they can do it needs to be less than the distance at which they can see you and attack.

I mean, if we are going to have to deal with destructive crap like this, at least de-nerf fire so we can have grand conflagrations again. I want to do a controlled burn to get rid of the ugly ruined forest these guys messed up.

These mob farms people build are taking advantage of aspects of the game to benefit the player in a way that always felt like cheating to me

I think being forced to kill 1000 skeletons and creepers and monsters over and over is a form of grinding, plain and simple. Building a mob farm rewards strategy, which is what good games should have.