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A while ago, I made a Renewable Resources Mod, which was meant to allow one to obtain infinite amounts of a resource without exploring infinite chunks, while mainting the difficulty in obtaining them. However, I was not able to think of a way to make every single item and block from every single mod renewable, until I thought of something new: the Recipe Adder block. However, to stay true to the purpose of the mod, I placed many restrictions on it to prevent exploitation. I realized that this block had much potential, but it seemed like a waste to create a mod just to add a less restrictive version of a feature I already made. Then, I came up with the idea of making a mod that not only lets you create your recipes, but lets you create your own mods.

The recipe adder 2 (I already used the name "recipe adder" in my Renewable Resources Mod) lets you create your own recipes, whether it is shaped or shapeless. Right-clicking the block opens this GUI:


To add a recipe, first place your desired recipe into the slots above the inventory, like this:

The stack size of the items in the recipe area (not the result slot) does not matter. The stack size of the result, however, does matter; it determines how many items you get from one crafting.

To add the recipe, simply click the "Add Recipe" button. (For obvious reasons, you cannot use a recipe shape that is already used in a different recipe.) You should then be able to craft it with a crafting table:


You probably noticed a third button in the GUI, with a picture of a crafting table. Click on the button to change to icon to an anvil; you can now make shapeless recipes.




If you want to make a shaped recipe again, click on the anvil button to change the picture back to a crafting table.

If you want to delete a recipe, simply place the recipe's shape into the recipe area, then click on "Delete Recipe." You cannot delete recipes that are in vanilla Minecraft.

(I apologize if the artwork seems quite horrible.)
The furnace adder lets you create your own smelting recipes and fuels. You can also choose how much exp you get from the smelting, or how long the fuel lasts.

Right-clicking the block opens this GUI:

As with the recipe adder, you can place items into the furnace slots to add a smelting recipe or fuel. However, there are additional things you can do. Clicking on the text box labeled "Fuel Time" changes the GUI to this:

A number pad is provided for you so that you can input your own numbers. The arrow button is for backspace. If you don't like clicking many buttons, you also have the option of typing in the number from your keyboard. Any "invalid" key typed (a character without a button in the GUI or one whose button is inactive) will be ignored, so typos and errors are less likely. Finally, there are three buttons on the bottom that set the number to preset fuel times equivalent to that of the item in the button. Wooden plank sets the number to 300, coal to 1600, and blaze rod to 2400. It takes 200 to cook one item. To return to the add/delete recipe screen, click on the "Done" button.

Clicking on the "Experience" textbox opens the GUI:

It's pretty much same as the previous GUI, except that the preset buttons are different, and you can place a decimal point. The stone button sets the number to .1, iron ingot to .7, and gold ingot to 1.

You cannot add a smelting recipe if the cooked item is already in a different recipe. You cannot add fuel that is already a fuel. The cooked items ignore metadata, while the fuel and result are meta-data specific. Smelting recipes and fuels are saved separately. Click on the "Add Smelting" button to add the cooked item --> result item with the given experience, or the "Add Fuel" button to add the fuel with the given time. To delete a smelting recipe, place the item to be cooked in the appropriate slot, then click on the "Delete Smelting" button... I'm pretty sure you know how to delete fuel by now. You cannot delete anything that is in the vanilla version of Minecraft.

Here are the recipes in the example in action:

To create a block, click on the create block button, choose your block type, then type stuff into the text fields. The block ID text field must be a number between 0 and 256, and must not be the ID of a block that already exists. The texture text field can accept the name of a file in the textures/blocks/ folder in the minecraft.jar file for a vanilla texture, or you can type the name of your own 16 x 16 png image, which you must place in the images folder included in the custom mod folder. The name text field... is the name of your block. The material is pretty useless for now, but I will add a use later.

You can also create animations for block textures, the same way you would do so for vanilla. Just remember to include the animation text file in the images folder.

Using the delete block button will only delete the block from your custom mod. To delete the block from Minecraft itself, you will have to close then re-open Minecraft.

Currently, the only way to obtain a block immediately after you have made is to use the /give command. However, once you do that, you can use it in the recipe adder or furnace adder to make a recipe for it.

I will change this to a more user-friendly tutorial when I actually finish the block adder.

Ever adder block is available in the decorations tab of the creative inventory. In addition, every adder block emits a light level of 7, because they are magical.

The recipe adder 2 has an ID of 163.
The furnace adder has an ID of 164.
The block adder has an ID of 165.

This mod uses ModLoader, but is somewhat compatible with Forge. This mod edits the following base classes:
SlotFurnace (so furnace recipe exp values of more than 1 will work properly)
TextureMap and TexturePackDefault (so you can place textures in the custom mod's images folder)

Let's say you forget exactly what you've added to your mod. Or you want to share it with your friends. Don't worry; this mod has you covered! In the .minecraft folder, this mod should create a folder called "custom mod". If you want to share with your friends, it is this folder that you copy.

Inside this folder, there are two files: "custom mod.dat" and "mod features.txt". Do NOT do anything with the .dat file; it is what the game reads when it is loading to add your mod's features. Do open the .txt files to read the features you have added.

The top item (portion of the file separated from others by empty lines) is a shaped crafting recipe. The array of numbers is the shape of the recipe; "0" is an empty space, while other numbers are defined in the legend below. Directly underneath the recipe shape is the result item, including how many are produced in one crafting. Every item is followed by its ID and its metadata / damage value.

The second item is a shapeless recipe. It is pretty self-explanatory; the first items are the items you place into the crafting grid, and the last item (the one that follows "gives") is the result and how many. As usual, each item is followed by its ID and metadata / damage value.

The third item in this file is a smelting recipe. You should be able to tell what it is just by looking at it. However, there is one thing different; because the item to be cooked is not dependent on metadata, only its ID, and not its metadata, is given in this file.

The last item is fuel you've added. Pretty self-explanatory.

Forge-compatible version
Block Adder, with many custom properties for blocks
-Ability to make "crop" blocks that you can farm
-Ability to add plant blocks (similar to sugarcane, sapling, tall grass, etc.)
-Ability to add pane blocks
-Ability to add/edit many properties, such as drops, tool, slipperiness, light, etc.
Item Adder
-Ability to add food
-Ability to add tool sets
-Ability to add armor sets
Dungeon Loot Adder
Custom Ore Generation
Custom Plant Generation
Achievement Adder
Biome Adder (maybe)
Mob Adder (maybe) (will only imitate other mobs)
Structure Adder (maybe)
Support for Multiple Mods
Mulitplayer support

All additions you make to your mod in upcoming features should take effect without having to reload the game. However, block deletions require a reload of the game.

Notice that this mod is called the Simple Mod Maker. Most things I have not added or listed are likely too complicated or will make this mod itself too complicated.

However, once I release the full version, I might add more features when I actually learn about them. I might even change the name of the mod if I add enough stuff.

1. If you haven't already done so, install ModLoader or Forge for 1.5.1. Use 7zip or any other program that lets you modify jar files to open the minecraft.jar file.
2. If you haven't already done so, delete the META-INF folder.
3. Drag all the contents of the folder except the "Forge" and "Free Images" folders to your jar file.
4. If you are using Forge, drag the contents of the "Forge" folder to your jar file.
5. Enjoy! Tell me if there are any bugs, and remember this is still a WIP.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
0. USED TERMS
MOD - modification, plugin, a piece of software that interfaces with the Minecraft client to extend, add, change or remove original capabilities.
MOJANG - Mojang AB
OWNER - , Original author(s) of the MOD. Under the copyright terms accepted when purchasing Minecraft (http://www.minecraft.net/copyright.jsp) the OWNER has full rights over their MOD despite use of MOJANG code.
USER - End user of the mod, person installing the mod.

1. LIABILITY
THIS MOD IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITH NO WARRANTIES, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE. THE OWNER OF THIS MOD TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES INCURRED FROM THE USE OF THIS MOD. THIS MOD ALTERS FUNDAMENTAL PARTS OF THE MINECRAFT GAME, PARTS OF MINECRAFT MAY NOT WORK WITH THIS MOD INSTALLED. ALL DAMAGES CAUSED FROM THE USE OR MISUSE OF THIS MOD FALL ON THE USER.

2. USE
Use of this MOD to be installed, manually or automatically, is given to the USER without restriction.

3. REDISTRIBUTION
This MOD may only be distributed where uploaded, mirrored, or otherwise linked to by the OWNER solely. All mirrors of this mod must have advance written permission from the OWNER. ANY attempts to make money off of this MOD (selling, selling modified versions, adfly, sharecash, etc.) are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, and the OWNER may claim damages or take other action to rectify the situation.

4. DERIVATIVE WORKS/MODIFICATION
This mod is provided freely and may be decompiled and modified for private use, either with a decompiler or a bytecode editor. Public distribution of modified versions of this MOD require advance written permission of the OWNER and may be subject to certain terms.

v0.1.4
-Updated to 1.5.1.
--Also added support for animated textures for custom blocks.
-Added the ability to make custom blocks that are affected by gravity (like sand and gravel).
-Changed the way the recipe adder checks for duplicate recipes for maximum compatibility and fewer bugs.
--As a result, this mod is now compatible with Forge!
BUG: Because Forge is weird, custom fuels and custom blocks do not work if you are using Forge. However, custom recipes and custom furnace recipes still work on Forge.

v0.1.3_1
-Made installation much easier.
--Made optional bug fixes less optional in order to help simplify installation.

v0.1.3
-Updated to 1.4.6/1.4.7.
-Fixed a TON of bugs and crashes related to custom blocks.
-Added the ability to create and delete custom blocks. However, you cannot edit them yet, so they are only good for decoration for now.
-Added an optional bug fix (edits a base class) to fix furnace recipes giving too little experience if you make the recipe give more than one point.
-Fixed the bug where clicking buttons on a GUI would register too fast.
-Bug: Custom blocks that use your own images have the wrong particle colors. The particle colors come from index 0 of terrain.png.
-Bug: Custom blocks in the inventory are not shaded (they don't look as 3D as they're supposed to).

v0.1.2
-Updated to 1.4.4.
-Added support for custom blocks
-Added the block adder block, which does nothing yet.
-Fixed the bug where furnace recipes could output more than one item.
Bug: version still displays as v0.1.1
Note: Also compatible with Minecraft 1.4.5.

v0.1.1
-Fixed the division by 0 crash with the recipe adder 2
-Some code in preparation for v0.2

v0.1
-Recipe Adder 2
-Furnace Adder

v0.1.4 - 1,861 downloads! (I have no idea why people are downloading it when it's very outdated...)
v0.1.3_1 - 597 downloads
v0.1.3 - 618 downloads!
v0.1.2 - 215 downloads!
v0.1.1 - 146 downloads!
v0.1 - 76 downloads! (15 within first 24 hours)

First of all, because coal and charcoal, iron ingots, gold ingots, and emeralds are renewable, let's make their ores renewable:



Next, let's make lily pads renewable.

Note: only jungle leaves will work for this recipe. No other type of leaves will work.

In order to produce redstone, you will need to have already obtained redstone, and you must have a cauldron. This mod alters the behavior of the cauldron; you can still use it the normal way, but you can also add rose red dye and redstone dust to it by right-clicking the cauldron with these items.

The cauldron on the left contains redstone, and the cauldron on the right contains red dye.


These two cauldrons have both ingredients in them.


Once a cauldron has both ingredients in it, simply right-click it with gunpowder. The gunpowder will soak up the solution, transforming into redstone dust, and the cauldron will be depleted by one level.


Right-clicking a cauldron with a water bucket at any time will refill the cauldron and dilute the solution back to normal water.

Of course, because redstone is now renewable, its ore should be renewable:


In addition, many more items are now renewable (redstone torches, repeaters, etc.).

This mod changes the way bonemeal works. First of all, if you use bonemeal on grass in a swamp or jungle, 50% of the tall grass will be the fern variation. Also, if you use bonemeal on grass in a desert, 50% of the tall grass will be the kind that looks like a dead bush. In addition, using bonemeal in a desert will make actual dead bushes instead of flowers.
Finally, using bonemeal on a block of sand will produce a single dead bush.

An infinite lava source can be made, similar to water. However, in order for a flowing lava block to turn into a lava source block, all four block around it must be lava source blocks. In addition, the block above the flowing block must be any kind of lava.

This is the ideal infinite lava source (of course, with blocks less fragile than glass). Simply sneak above the open space, look straight down, then right-click with a bucket.

Alternatively, you could dig underneath the lava, place a sign so it doesn't pour onto you, then look up to collect the lava without any danger of falling in.

The renewability of many items will require you to go to the nether. First of all, it turns out that blaze rods are actually containers for highly concentrated heat. This mod lets you smelt a blaze rod to get a block of fire!

Fire blocks can also be used as fuel. I wouldn't recommend it though; they have the same fuel value as blaze rods


Of course, because fire blocks are now renewable, chain mail armor is also renewable!

I know, none of these items are obtainable in vanilla survival mode. But fire blocks seemed like the best solution to the following two recipes:


The glowstone recipe is shapeless.
What, you don't understand the recipe for glowstone? Here's an explanation:
I will soon make a video of my own for the most recent version.

Download for Minecraft 1.5.1
Instructions:

Download Link: http://bit.ly/ZPmgZG

Important: If you want to uninstall this mod or update Minecraft, make sure you convert every single multi-purpose block into iron blocks in every single map, and mine every single recipe adder block with a pickaxe that's worse than iron.

Known Bugs

Version History

Statistics

Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions made by Rotten194.

Announcement: v1.3 is finally released!

If I forgot anything, please let me know. Also, if you have a better idea of how to make something renewable, tell me. I likely will not accept it, but if it's good enough, I just might accept it.

If you ever find a bug or crash, please report it. I will try my best to fix it.

If you have any comments, tell me what you think about this mod. (Please keep in mind that the first seven and a half pages of comments were from when this mod was a WIP.)

Begin the world like you would with any other world: collect wood. However, you should collect a lot more wood than usual, and saplings are important. Because you cannot build a pickaxe, you cannot collect cobblestone, so wooden planks will be your main building material. After you build your wooden house and have more wood than you need, collect a lot of dirt. About one row of your inventory should be filled with planks and dirt. (Remember, you can't use chests unless you find one in a generated structure!) However, as I describe in following tips, there are blocks you can use besides these, so you might not have to follow this tip.

The only reliable source of food if you don't find a village is rotten flesh and apples. However, if you find an NPC village, use the farms, and protect them from being trampled at all costs. Remember to build a ceiling so spiders don't trample your farms. You can use the wheat to breed cows or pig, start an animal farm, and obtain a reliable source of much better food. In addition, you can use a blacksmith's furnace to cook the food with wood or charcoal. Also, if you find melon seeds, you could use the farms to grow melons. Otherwise, all you have are apples. Better harvest a lot of trees.

Just because you don't have a pickaxe, it doesn't mean you can't break stone. Either start a mine or find a cave, then explore/mine your way to the lava levels. There are three ways to build a portal frame. For method 1, first, find a dungeon, and hope it has a bucket. If not, find another dungeon. Then, use the bucket to transport lava and water to make a portal frame.

For the second (and much harder) method, the ideal place is a huge lava lake with a water source very nearby. If you find one near the surface, that is okay (even preferred). Next, have the water turn the top of the lake to obsidian, then block the water off with dirt. Then, break all the obsidian except for the top of the portal frame. Repeat the process until you have a full portal frame. The third method, which depends on luck, would be to use obsidian gathered from npc village blacksmiths.

Next, there are two methods of lighting the portal. You could get flint from gravel and iron ingots from zombies or iron golems, letting you craft flint and steel with your 2x2 crafting grid. Or, you could use the skyblock method of lighting a portal.

Unfortunately, you will not have a lot of cobblestone to protect yourself from ghasts. Dirt is weak and will be destroyed, and wooden planks will catch on fire. However, if you find an NPC village, then collect a lot of clay. Cook yourself some bricks, and use them instead of cobblestone. Or, you could use a bunch of stone-based stuff from creeper explosions, or from using a pickaxe obtained from a village.

Hunting blazes for blaze rods should not be much different from when you aren't doing the challenge, except you will be using blocks other than cobblestone. The battles will be more difficult though, without armor or swords (unless you get a sword from a zombie or zombie pigman). The same thing applies to hunting endermen for ender pearls.

Searching for strongholds and for the portal also shouldn't be that much different, except blocks will take much longer to mine, and you will not have torches unless you find a village. However, before you enter the portal, there's something you should do first. Hunt a lot of zombies until you get an iron shovel, then find a snow biome. Shovel up a lot of snowballs. If you're too impatient to get an iron shovel, you could get a bow from a skeleton, or eggs from a chicken. At this point, your inventory should be filled with building blocks and snowballs / bow and arrows / eggs, and possibly a few rare drops. You are now ready to enter the end.

First, destroy the ender crystals. However, their explosions make it dangerous to destroy them from up close. While watching the enderdragon, build a tower nearby, but not too close to, an obsidian tower, then throw a snowball at the endercrystal. Destroy the tower you are standing on until you are back at the bottom, then repeat until all ender crystals are destroyed. Then, wait for the enderdragon to approach, attack it, and repeat. If you have a bow and arrows from skeletons, they could help. Also (I can't believe I forgot about this), if you have any snowballs left, you could throw them at the enderdragon to damage it.

Creepers can actually be helpful. When creepers explode, a few of the blocks destroyed will drop. This can help you get cobblestone, coal (for torches), etc. In the nether, you can use ghasts to collect netherrack, though you unfortunately cannot collect nether bricks.

A second method to mine is to get a pickaxe from a generated structure. Be aware that you only have limited pickaxes, though.

You can't mine coal, but there are still three ways to get coal for torches to light your mines, caverns, dungeons, etc. The first method involves creepers, as described above. The second way is to find torches in npc villages and abandoned mineshafts. The third way is to find an npc village with a blacksmith, then use its furnace to use wooden planks to cook wood, making charcoal. Charcoal is essentially the same as coal, except they can't stack together.

Once you have torches and a pumpkin farm (see npc villages tip), you can make jack-o-lanterns for stronger light. You can also mine glowstone dust for glowstone, but it's really risky, doesn't drop all the dust, and can't be crafted into lanterns without a table. As a last resort, you can use flint and steel (from gravel and dungeons/zombies/mineshafts/villages) and maybe some netherrack.

Although hunting mobs has a high chance of getting you killed, there are still benefits. (Do not hunt zombie pigmen, though!) Zombies have a small chance of dropping iron ingots, iron helmets, iron shovels, and iron swords. The ingots are required for flint and steel, and the shovels are required for snowballs. Snowballs help you blow up ender crystals, and let you make snow golems (yes, it's possible). Swords and armor should always be helpful.

Skeletons have a small chance of dropping bows or enchanted bows. Because they can also drop arrows, killing enough skeletons will make you an archer! Also, you can use the bones they drop to tame any wolves to find, and use rotten flesh from zombies to breed them.

Your chances for survival aren't very high if you don't find an npc village. (Due to the sheer difficulty of the challenge, I will let you use seeds if you want.) First of all, they come with torches that you can use to light up and move into one of the houses. In addition, if you want a defense from most mobs (excluding creepers), you can just go near an iron golem. Also, you can use the blacksmith furnace to cook wood for charcoal for even more torches, and the chest items may contain iron tools or armor. If it has a pickaxe, you can you it to mine stone, and the nether will become a lot easier.

Most importantly, they have a lot of farms. I recommend building walls around them and making sure nothing tramples them. You can then farm wheat, build an animal farm, and breed a lot of animals so you'll never go hungry. In addition, if you find melon or pumpkin seeds, you can convert some farms to melon or pumpkin farms. Melons will serve as food, and pumpkins can help you build snow golems and jack-o-lanterns (which give off more light than torches).

If you find an npc village with a blacksmith, a dungeon, an abandoned mineshaft, or a stronghold, you can break the chest and use it in your base (if you have one). If you can't find a chest, you'll just have to live with a full inventory, or craft a single chest and lose tons of points.

Quote from seernox

ITEMS
Bucket - Most important item in the game, can be used to make mob grinders and flushing out dungeons
Furnace - You cannot make these but find them in villages, incredibly useful for cooking food and some other stuff
Wood - Used to make buildings and 6 pieces of wood is enough to make 16 torches (if you have access to a furnace)
Cactus - This is a funny one but it can be used make walls and mob grinders
Flint and Steel - Good for travelling allows you to burn mobs + burning animals results in cooked food
Shovel - If you are lucky enough to get one it can be used to craft snowballs, enough to get plenty of blaze rods easily.

Strategies
Nomadic - Probably your best option travel village to village searching for dungeons until you find enough resources to stay in one spot
Base - Pick a village or an area near a stronghold or a ravine and bunker it up - grid search surrounding area for dungeons and other materials

Mob Grinder
- can be used to gather drops from zombies - iron armour + sword, skeletons - bows + arrows, creepers - gunpowder
- can use one of 2 trap systems lava (with ladders from a village), and cactus
- problem is it is needed to be made out of cobblestone however you can mold this or if you are lucky enough to get an iron pick axe
-Miniature Mob Grinders can be made with dungeons near by

Other interesting things possible with some items
Redstone - Can be used to reduce trips to lava while making a nether portal and redstone torches
Simple Redstone Systems - You can make systems if they contain levers, pressure plates, doors and buttons
Pumpkins - Used to make a better lightin, and snow golems if your lucky (not that there useful anyway)
Shears - Can be used to get vines off forest trees a great substitute for ladders

The Beginning
Cavern Chaos
The 3-D Labyrinth
Death count: 4
Achievements:
Almost blowing stuff up
Mob Trapper

If you're having trouble finding an npc village, cpander found this seed. It spawns you in a plains biome island with an npc village, and what seems to be a jungle biome nearby:
Krosis

If you're fine with copying long numbers, here is another seed found by Corbinsor with much better resources:
-132330174258970626

Here's another, easy-to-remember seed found by me:
Minceraft
Note the positions of the c and the e. It's Minceraft, not Minecraft. Nearby, there is a very tiny village... with diamonds! Those should help you with the achievements. Also, it is like a tangle of biomes - snow, plains, swamp, and forest are all there, in a small area.

Here's another seed that, if you look around a bit, starts you with everything you need to make a portal.
http://www.minecraft...e-village-seed/

This seed spawns you in a village ravaged by a mountain. It is next to a forest and a jungle, and the blacksmith has some iron equipment. The seed is:
Endymion

These challenges have some similarities to mine, but are different enough to be considered unique.
http://www.minecraft...ting-challenge/
http://www.minecraft...llenge-no-wood/
No Crafting: http://www.minecraft...thout-crafting/

You're already an over-achiever if you manage to complete the challenge, but in case you want to be even more of an over-achiever, here are some achievements:
True No-Crafting-Table-Challenge - do not use a crafting table to make a chest or jukebox (100 pts.)
Animal caretaker - own a farm of four animals (cows/mooshroom, pigs, sheep, chicken) (50 pts.)
Almost an enchanting table - own four obsidian, two diamonds, and a book at once (100 pts.)
Almost a diamond block - own nine diamonds at once (requires Independent) (150 pts.)
Absolutely useless - own a full stack of each: red mushroom, brown mushroom, magma cream, and glistering melon (125 pts.)
Creeper manipulator - own a full stack of iron ore, 32 gold ores, 32 lapis dye, and 4 diamonds at once without using a pickaxe to obtain them (200 pts.)
Zombie pigman hunter - own a gold helmet (other rare drops don't count for this achievement) (125 pts.)
Useless but rare - obtain a music disc without using a trap or dungeon (100 pts.)
100% vanilla - use no mods (Optifine is allowed, though) (75 pts.)
Like a Boss - complete the challenge without dying a single time (250 pts.)
Almost blowing stuff up - gather four sand and five gunpowder at once, in addition to either a redstone power item or a fire-producing item (25 pts.)
Anti-theft - Do not use any items you find in pre-generated chests (250 pts.)
Iron golem slayer - Slay an iron golem without dying (100 pts.)
Mob Trapper - Build any kind of mob exp trap using a dungeon (100 pts.)
Slimy Hands - Collect 32 slime balls (50 pts.)
Ghast Hunter - Collect 5 ghast tears (100 pts.)
Independent - Do not trade with villagers (250 pts.)

I will think of more later. Yes, these are all possible (but it is impossible to get all achievements in one challenge).

After you complete the challenge, follow this procedure to determine how well you did.
1. Start with a score of 0.
2. If you crafted a chest (a jukebox doesn't count), subtract 50 points from your score. If you use the bonus chest in the new snapshot, subtract 200 points from you score (at least you still get the first achievement).
3. Subtract 5 points from your score for every time you died. Do not count deaths that were after you defeated the enderdragon.
4. Add points to your score based on your achievements.
5. If your score is positive, then multiply your score by the following numbers: 1 for easy, 1.5 for normal, 2 for hard, or 2.25 for hardcore. If your score is negative, divide your score by the appropriate number. Round up to the nearest integer. Use the easiest difficulty you used during the challenge.

After you complete the challenge, you can still continue to play to improve your score.
If you somehow manage to complete the challenge, post your score!

Challenge Completed
Hardcore attempts

No one knows what was at the very beginning. All that is known is that eventually, a great, un-named, ancient civilization rose to power. All was peaceful; they lived in harmony with their environment, always giving back to nature what they took. When they cut down a tree for wood, they re-planted the tree. They had farms of all kinds, and always made sure to plant excess seeds throughout the wilderness during times of the lack of natural plants. Whenever they killed an animal for food, they bred another animal. The list could go on, but you get the idea.

Like most ancient civilizations, they worshipped a spirit. They offered most of their excess resources to the spirit, which was happy and kind as a result. One day, they built a gigantic, wooden statue for it, and the Gentle Spirit decided to inhabit it. For thousands of years, their peaceful life remained unchanged. They never went underground; it was full of stone, and they had discovered that destroying stone did not drop anything for them to give back to the environment.

However, everything changed with the invention of the pickaxe. Someone, in an effort to find a way to take stone then return it to nature, invented this tool. It was not perfect, though; instead of dropping the stone, it dropped cobblestone. But at least it was some progress. Bored with their monotonous lives, the people began to incorporate cobblestone into their houses. However, they could not find a way to duplicate it and return it to nature. But they didn't care; it was finally something new! With this mentality, they became more and more greedy over the generations.

When someone invented the furnace, the situation became even worse. Eight cubic meters of cobblestone were being compressed into one cubic meter of furnace with each crafting, destroying matter (as opposed to the matter-creating wood-to-planks crafting). And on top of that, the furnace had to consume resources in order to function. The people had discovered coal while mining for cobblestone. Coal was being consumed by the dozen as people cooked their food. (Of course, no one thought at the time to cook wood.) Once, sand was accidentally thrown into the furnace. It yielded a new substance that was named glass. Previously, sand was untouched because it was pretty much useless; after this discovery, the people began to rapidly deplete the world's sand for yet another new material.

While the civilization became more greedy with each generation, their greed corrupted the spirit that inhabited the statue. Eventually, the Gentle Spirit became so corrupted that it became the Evil Spirit, and flew away from the statue. Unlike the Gentle Spirit, which watched over the civilization, the Evil Spirit fed on destruction. It began thinking of plans that would take thousands of years to develop. In the meantime, it fed on the destruction that the civilization was causing to its own world.

Eventually, the people had nearly depleted most coal on the surface. In order to find more, more, and more, they dug deeper underground. This led them to discover iron. They immediately took a liking to it; they could use it to make tools that would yield resources even faster! On top of that, they thought of countless other uses for it, such as railways to speed up transporation in mines, and even more new decorations.

They dug deeper, and discovered gold. They didn't make much uses for it, because iron was much stronger in comparison. Still, it looked pretty, and they mined it without returning anything to the environment. Even deeper, they found redstone. This mysterious substance could conduct some sort of magical energy; they immediately began to try to mine as much as possible to make things more convenient for themselves. They even found a way to use redstone and gold to make minecarts move faster. The civilization became highly technologically advanced, but it was destroying the world around it.

Then, the first slime was discovered. It did not like weird creatures from above the ground intruding into its territory, so it attacked the person who discovered it. The people responded by killing any slimes they found with their newly-developed iron swords. When they discovered that they could use the dropped slime balls to make sticky pistons, they began to actively hunt for slimes.

Now, slimes are large, animated pockets of moisture collected underground. They have a life cycle very important to the environment. Water has a high specific heat, meaning that it takes a lot of energy to raise its temperature. As a result, they protect the upper parts of the under ground from being over-heated from the lava underneath, and the high temperatures created from the pressure of all the earth above. When too much moisture collects together underground from cohesion, it can't do a very good job of regulating temperatures in other areas more lacking in moisture. So, it turns into a slime, which jumps around spreading its moisture everywhere. It becomes smaller as it goes, until eventually, the slime has completely reverted to moisture which is now more spread out.

However, the people were unnaturally killing the slimes, and even taking the slime balls above ground. The slime balls were the moisture dropped by the slimes when they died this way; of course, the now greedy civilization did not think about returning the slime balls to the underground. They were setting up a very large problem for themselves in the future by removing this temperature-regulating substance from the environment.

The final blow to the environment came with the discovery of diamond and lapis lazuli. Both were incredibly pretty; everyone wanted as much of both as possible. When it was discovered that diamonds could make tools stronger than iron tools, people wanted diamond even more. Of course, both diamond and lapis lazuli are very rare, and they were quickly depleted. The Evil Spirit grew very powerful as the civilization destroyed its world.

By using redstone, the civilization began to think a lot more intellectually. Unfortunately, they decided to use science the wrong way. They began by experimenting with living things. They tried to invent an enlargening potion to make themselves more powerful. They tested it on a spider; after all, how menacing could these tiny things be, even after their size was multiplied by 20? However, their greed somehow got into the potion, and when the test spider grew to a size of roughly 2 x 1 x 2 meters, it was evil. It attacked the scientists, then escaped into the wilderness, where it bred an innumerable number of equally large, equally evil spiders.

In order to defend themselves from these vicious spiders that moved faster than they could swing their diamond swords, the people decided to make a sturdy machine that would fight the spiders for them. They used the strongest material that they had a lot of: iron. Eventually, after a lot of wiring, the first iron golem was created. They did a great job of defeating spiders without dying; however, more iron was being consumed. On top of that, the Evil Spirit grew even stronger with these now frequent deaths.

Fortunately, there were a few people who realized that what they were doing was bad for the environment. Most people did had not noticed the disappearance of the spirit, and over the generations, the spirit was completely forgotten. However, thoughtful historians realized that over history, the spirit suddenly disappeared when cobblestone mines were made. They notified scientists, who realized that what they were doing must be bad, and had corrupted the spirit. (Of course, many scientists did not believe this, and none of the general public believed this; they wanted their life to be luxurious.) The thoughtful scientists began to experiment with alternate dimensions and portal technology, seeking to create a world that was exactly like their world before the pickaxe was invented.

Meanwhile, the moisture underground had been depleted to 10% of its original level. There was almost nothing to stop the hot temperature from rising up to the surface. In mines deep underground, lava began to appear. Slowly, the oceans began to vaporize. Over the years, surface temperatures became unbearably hot. Finally, everyone began to realize that they had become carried away with damaging the environment. Luckily, the scientists had perfected their portal technology. Everyone fled through the portals, vowing to live in harmony with the environment. They brought their iron golems, just in case. Unfortunately, a few spiders also escaped into the overworld...

At that moment, the Evil Spirit finally finished making its plans. It chose that moment to attack the civilization; but instead, it found an extremely hot place filled with lava. It became very enraged, and it decided to express its anger. It obliterated all animals except for pigs, which it tested its new zombify spell on. The result: zombie pigmen. It took the spirits of deceased animals and made them ghasts. It instructed all new entities to attack any villager they saw.

It gave the entire world a red color, and made all stone weak to explosions. Even the grand buildings did not escape the red spell; nether fortresses were created. The few remaining slimes eventually adapted to their new environment, becoming magma cubes. Of course, there were still a few stubborn people who refused to believe that all that was happening was their doing; the Evil Spirit got to them and transformed them into blazes, cursed to guard the precious fortresses forever. Whenever ghasts perished, their tears fell onto the dirt. Their tears carried their spirits, which were absorbed into the dirt, turning it into soul sand. Eventually, all dirt in the world carried the souls of deceased ghasts. Finally, the Evil Spirit created a great ceiling over the entire world to block off sunlight and moonlight forever. And this destruction made the Evil Spirit very powerful.

Meanwhile, the villagers noticed that their portals were becoming purple with corruption from the Nether, and destroyed the portals from both sides. The people who went to the other side all either fell prey to the new mobs or became blazes.

But they were too late to stop the Evil Spirit from escaping.

As the generations passed, the villagers gradually forgot the destruction that had happened in the Nether. They resumed making mines, and believed the facts of the past to be myth and legend. However, destroying the environment now felt morally wrong, and they mined in moderation.

The Evil Spirit cast its perfected zombify spell on half the population, leaving the other half to suffer the wrath of the zombies. However, the Evil Spirit had not predicted that the villagers would have Iron golems. Although the zombies infected other villagers with their spell, iron golems protected most of the villagers. In frustration, the Evil Spirit re-cast its zombify spell on all zombies without thinking. To its delight, this caused all dead (re-dead?) zombies to lie until all their flesh rotted away, leaving the bones. The Evil Spirit gave these skeletons bows and arrows since they were much more nimble than zombies, then set them out against the villagers. Although the iron golems still managed to defend the villages, the skeletons were much more deadly than the zombies and spiders. On top of that, the iron golems now had three monsters to defend against.

So that villagers would be in danger even in their mines, the Evil Spirit created dungeons. The villagers would be lured in with the prospect of free items, then be ambushed by one of the three monsters. The Evil Spirit used a large portion of its power to make it so that monsters would magically appear in the dark. It also created spiders that were poisonous, and could fit through 1 x 1 meter gaps. This made mining dangerous, and eventually, all mineshafts were abandoned.

Annoyed that the villagers weren't dying fast enough, the Evil Spirit carried out the next part of its plan. It animated leaves to create the first creepers. It borrowed the explosive power of three ghasts, and infused the creeper with it. The new creeper was not affected by sunlight, and could detonate at will. Even iron golems were too scared to attack them, and the end of the villagers seemed near.

Later, a group of explorers found an ancient blueprint for creating nether portals. They brought it to the officials, who decided retreat back to the nether to keep safe from the monsters. Now remember, the villagers did not know what the Evil Spirit had done to their old dimension, and had assumed that without them, the Nether had turn back to a peaceful environment. They brought it to the scientists, gathered the necessary materials, and lit the portal. Then a wave of zombie pigmen blasted out of the portal.

At first, the zombie pigmen seemed to be harmless. However, when one foolish person attacked them, they suddenly began attacking every single villager. This attack eventually evolved into a full war, with villagers and their iron golems against the zombie pigmen. When magma cubes emerged from the portal and remembered what the villagers had done to their ancestors, they joined the zombie pigmen. However, iron golems were overpowered beings, and the villagers gained ground and eventually made their way back to the portal.

Instead of closing the portal, the villagers decided the follow the mobs into it.They were surprised to meet a labyrinthine landscape, full of lava and blocked off from rain and sunlight. The ghasts, under instructions from the Evil Spirit, fired upon the newcomers. Iron golems were helpless; they could not fly, after all. However, the villagers were armed with bows and arrows, and fired upon the ghasts. Blazes posed more of a problem; they could light villagers on fire, and the villagers soon discovered that all their water evaporated in the nether. However, their bows and arrows took care of the blazes too.

Instead of closing the portal afterwards, the villagers built even more portals! They had decided that the Nether was too valuable to close off. The pigmen were a source of gold other than mining, blazes provided just the magical sticks scientists were looking for to make their hypothetical brewing stand, glowstone was considered very valuable, netherrack could be used to finally make fire places, and there were tons of potion ingredients just waiting to be taken. However, even more trouble started when overworld monsters found the portals.

The zombies, creepers, and spiders simply perished to the lava. However, when the skeletons traveled, the ash in the Nether's air merged with the skeletons' bones, creating a fearsome new mob: the Wither Skeleton. Their bones were black with soot; they even dropped coal when they died. Their reinforced were now strong enough to support heavy stone swords, so they discarded their light bows and arrows. The ash, imbued with the Nether's corruptive power, lent them the power to make people wither away.

The wither skeletons, unlike zombie pigmen, were naturally hostile to the villagers. The nether became more dangerous for them, but an even greater danger was soon to come. A villager once slaid three wither skeletons on top of soul sand. The villager quickly went away, but the skeleton heads dropped onto the soul sand. The spirits of the deceased ghasts from four blocks soaked into the heads, resurrecting them as a single Wither. The Wither could fly like ghasts could, but it was much faster. It had the general shape of a skeleton, albeit it had three heads. It could fire like ghasts could, but it could shoot three at a time, and its heads could cause entities to wither away, like the wither skeletons' ability. On top of that, it could regenerate health and absorb villagers' health! The Wither made it way too dangerous for villagers to explore the Nether, so they closed the portals from both sides. Those who were stranded in the Nether tried to defeat the Wither, but it was too powerful.

However, the ghasts were jealous of the Wither. In a great battle in which many ghasts perished, the Wither was finally defeated, which is why we don't see it in the Nether today. However, the villagers did not know this. Eventually, they ran out of glowstone, netherrack, and their Nether potion ingredients. On top of that, overworld mobs continued to attack their villages.

About half the villagers lost the will to survive, and decided to just live their lives as best as they could. Eventually, all monsters except for zombies began to ignore them, but zombies began to pursue them extra-agressively.

Some scientists created underground bunkers, or strongholds, to experiment with portal technology to try to create a dimension that the Evil Spirit could not touch. While they eventually succeeded in creating three portal frames in three strongholds, it was too much effort, and they gave up. The villagers that did not lose hope eventually came to be known as "Steve"s. Their fighting spirit remains, and they try to this day to vanquish the Evil Spirit from the multiverse.

However, the Evil Spirit carried out its final stage of its plan. It flew to the moon, then broke off a huge chunk of it, sending it flying into space. It then invaded the abandoned strongholds, and gave corrupted enlargening potions to the silverfish to stop any Steves from intruding. It activated the portals, then converted the souls of all deceased skeletons into beings of pure darkness - the endermen. It then took the endermen into the portals, which led to the chunk of moon flying out into space. The Evil Spirit deactivated the portals, and the endermen thrived and multiplied in this dark, empty environment. Occasionally, they teleport to the overworld, causing havoc and removing blocks from nature.

The Evil Spirit then used its remaining power to embody a fearsome creature - a large, dark dragon. It created towers that could heal it when it was in a critical situation. This dragon could fly at super-high speeds, fast enough to knock any challenger off the side of the piece of moon, spiraling forever into the universe's emptiness.

This Enderdragon now waits, enjoying watching the destruction of the Overworld. Waiting for someone to come and challenge its might...

The main island where you spawn.



Sand Island with Cactus and Cane. Yes, there is nothing under the sand, so you need to figure out how to obtain everything here without it falling into the void in Survival Mode.



For an extra challenge, there is a pool of Lava floating in the sky. There should be enough blocks here to make a portal into the Nether.


Optional house for villagers. Select "Generate Structures: On" to create this building if you want it.



If you are getting hungry or simply want to make some snowmen, Pumpkins are somewhat close, but you need to build out to get them.



The Sky Zone extends even into the Nether, with just a few pieces of Glowstone for various projects.



For some extra touches of home, you can even grab some Netherrack, where a second source of water can be found... if you want to make the effort to get it. A couple of mushrooms can be found there too.

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2.2 Update for 1.6.2 Added section in Nether replicating more closely Nether Fortress and spawning Wither Skeletons, fixed "bug" replacing coal ore block with iron ore block
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2.1 Update for 1.6.2 Replaced villagers with witches, added plains biome for horse spawning
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WorldGen API 1.6.2
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2.0 Update for 1.6.1
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WorldGen API 1.6.1
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2.0 Update for 1.5.2 Added saddle back into chest in the dungeon (for now) in anticipation of horses.
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WorldGenAPI 1.5.2
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1.0 Update for 1.3.2 and simply declaring the main part "feature complete". More updates may happen though.
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WorldGenAPI 1.3.2:
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http://adf.ly/D6i1P (WorldGenAPI 1.3.2a this is a bug fix)


0.99 The End generator Added
Removed Saddle from Dungeon (now can be purchased from Villagers)
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0.98 End Preview version (not widely released)

0.97 Bug fixes for 1.3.1
Removed Vines
Added Cocoa Bean pod on Jungle Tree
Fixed issue with random spawn location (with help from the updated WorldGenAPI)
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WorldGenAPI 1.3.1a (2nd version for 1.3.1):

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0.96: Emergency Update due to some fatal bugs (sorry about that if you got 0.95)
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0.95: Updated for version 1.3.1
Very minor tweaks and changes
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also updated WorldGen API for 1.3.1
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0.9: Added Birch tree
Fixed flowing lava bug
Added some new achievements
Cracked and Mossy Stone Bricks added to Stronghold
Minor cleanup and bug fixes
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0.8: Added Jungle biome in a fashion similar to the Tiaga biome with a "Jungle" tree and a vine
Added additional achievements and integrated achievement system into native Minecraft system more completely
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World Gen API update (not strictly needed, but provides more compatibility with Minecraft Forge mods):
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0.7: Added Achievements for only SkyZone worlds
Added Tiaga biome in a small area with "Spruce" tree
Minor bug fixes
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0.6: "Downgraded" to Java SDK 1.6 (for Java version 6)
Fixed bug with End Portal Frame (any frame block can be the last one to activate the portal)
Fixed lighting bug on sand and "melon" islands
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WorldGen API for Java 6 "downgrade":
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0.5: Updated for Minecraft 1.2.4
Added "hack" to try and deal with lava issue in overworld
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WorldGen API for 1.2.4:
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0.4: Added micro Nether fortress
Added micro Stronghold with End Portal (Eyes of Ender not included!)
Added micro Dungeon with Skeleton Spawner and "secret surprise"
General bug fixes and cleanup
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0.3: Added alternate Nether generator
Added Netherrack Island with mushrooms & 2nd water source block (in Nether)
Added Mycellium Island with Pumpkin & Melon (in Overworld)
Updated WorldGen API to introduce custom Nether generator
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World Gen API for 1.2.3 (needed for version 0.3 +):
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0.2: Added functioning village when structures are turned on with two villagers
Fixed door bug
Fixed roof material for village hut
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0.1: Initial public release
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Disclaimer: This mod require altering minecraft.jar, and SMP or other aspects of Minecraft may or may not work with this mod installed. This mod may add new content. Do not load worlds with this new content if the respective mod is not installed. I am not responsible for any damage done to your computer, worlds, network, time lost and lowered productivity, or your copy of Minecraft. That said, backup your worlds and bin folder, but that is just friendly advise!

Copyright © 2012, Robert Horning (aka "King Korihor"), all rights reserved. A license is granted in perpetuity to Mojang AB to fold, spindle, and mutilate to their heart's content as per their user agreement or simply as a gift to that company with thanks to Notch for creating this game in the first place, and to nobody else unless explicitly authorized in writing. This includes mod packs and alternate distribution systems.

In other words, please ask if you want to redistribute this mod. I won't bite and the words "please" and "thank you" go a long way with me as well as others. Links to this thread are strongly encouraged through if you like this mod. Request for this permission can be done on this thread, but "private messages" are strongly encouraged.

Q: Minecraft seems to crash when I install this mod. What is going on!

A: If you want some help fixing problems like this, please make sure that Minecraft is running correctly with Rigusami's Mod Loader first. If that seems to be working (or you have other ModLoader mods you are working with), try to find the "ModLoader.txt" file in the ".minecraft" folder and post the contents where perhaps if the stars align and somebody cares, there might be an answer to help you in configuring your system for this to work.

Also, don't forget the WorldGen API. These classes are important for getting this mod to work correctly.

This mod was also created with the Java 6 SE SDK (JDK version 1.6), so if you are using earlier versions of Java there might be some conflicts where this mod won't be recognized. No, I won't be rolling back to an earlier version of Java, so update if you want to use this mod. Earlier versions of this mod used Java 7 SE, but due to many problems from other users I "downgraded" to Java 6. Try to resolve your Java system issues first if you can before posting on this thread, but I will try to help if I can and if I have time.

If you want to know where to get the latest version of Java, please go to:

http://www.oracle.co...ad-1501631.html

Additional note:

Minecraft Forge unfortunately also uses some of the same classes that the WorldGen API is using. The latest version of the API tries to offer some partial compatibility with mods that need the Forge API. It should work for everything except those mods which open alternate "dimensions" besides the Nether and The End with custom world generation. I'm working on ideas to give better compatibility to those mods, but it may take some time and working with the Forge team to get this to be "100% compatible". Consider it to be more like "95% compatible" with Forge mods.

Q: My block of water keeps freezing. What is going on!

A: To add an extra challenge in this world, the entire world (with possibly a few chunks that are an exception that may be added in the future) is a frozen tundra biome. If you don't want the water to freeze, you need to put a block over the top of the water source block covering it from the sky.

Q: I need a bucket to move the water and lava. Why don't you put one in?

A: That is part of the challenge of this world. If you need a bucket, you need to craft one by killing some zombies and getting some iron ingots. There is also a village where eventually the villagers will build an Iron Golem, but that may take some time and considerable resources to expand the village and can only be accessed if you create a world with "Generate Structures" turned on.

Q: How do I mine Obsidian without a diamond pickaxe? I turned the lava into Obsidian, but now I can't build a portal.

A: Another challenge you need to figure out. Hint: Once you have a bucket, you can place the lava source blocks and turn them into obsidian at the location you want them at, then pour the water on top of the lava and "freezing" them into pace. Using blocks of stone to make "molds" is strongly recommended. It takes a bit more time to make a portal this way than simply placing obsidian blocks, but it does work and does not require advanced tools.

In addition, with Villager trading you can obtain Redstone dust as of 1.3.1 and later, which can in turn be used to create obsidian using the "Redstone Glitch". The trick is to place some redstone dust under falling lava that is also sitting next to a block of water. From a side profile, the "obsidian generator" should look something like this (air is represented by glass blocks due to limitations of this forum software, and obsidian where you should put the redstone dust):







Q: How do I light the portal to the Nether without Flint?

A: Again, a bit of a challenge if you wish to enter the Nether and complete all of the achievements. There are several videos on YouTube and elsewhere as well as several websites which show how to light a portal without flint, but the issue is that you need to create a "fire block" inside of the portal flame. If you have been careful, there should be at least one remaining block of lava after the portal has been built.

From the front, your portal should look like this:

(using glass blocks simply as placeholders.... please just leave them as "air" if you build this):







From the side profile, you need to put in some blocks that can catch fire from some lava:







After the blocks are placed in this fashion, what is needed next is simply waiting for the portal to light up. It may take a couple of minutes or happen shortly after you've placed the lava and the planks, but the portal will eventually open if this is done. Remember, nothing else can be inside of the portal except "air". What lights up the portal is having a "fire" block appear inside of the portal area, which happens when the side of one of the plank blocks catches fire on the face toward the inside of the portal.

Q: How do I get Emeralds?

A: Since you can't mine them directly, you need to obtain them by trading with the villagers. The two villagers that are spawned in the beginning may have an offer for some items you can get early on, but mainly you need to expand the village so they will breed and have more villagers which can make offers to you.

Q: How do I get a 2nd source block of water for an infinite water source?

A: It can be found in the Nether. You may need to look around a bit, but it is there.

Q: But that source block is a block of ice! It shatters when I try to break it in the Nether and I can't bring it back through the portal! How do I get that ice block back to my main island?

A: You need to get a pickaxe which has been enchanted with silk touch. This can be done either through trading with the villagers (hint: the "priests" or guys in the purple robes will perform some enchantments on some items) or you need to build an enchantment table and make a few pick axes with some enchantments. There are two diamonds which can be mined in the "overworld" to build the enchantment table, but you need to search for them. Obsidian can be made from the lava or using the redstone glitch (see above) and may be "mined out" with a diamond pickaxe that can sometimes be purchased from villagers or by finding the extra diamonds which are in the Nether.

Q: I am trying to build down in the Nether, but a "water ladder" doesn't work there! How do I build down in the Nether with nothing under me?

A: There are two possible ways, both of which do work. One is to manufacture a potion of Fire resistance and then use lava as a ladder as you may have used water in the overworld. Since the potion lasts for several minutes, it will give you time to place blocks going down and then allow you to get out of the lava before the potion expires. The other way is to build a contraption with pistons which push blocks down, then you can mine out those blocks to safely travel downward without having to resort to flying or some other cheat.

Q: How do I expand my village?

A: Building structures with a whole bunch of doors. A really good general Minecraft thread on the topic can be found here: http://www.minecraft...wander-off-aso/

I will note that expanding a village will likely take a whole bunch of resources, so be prepared to gather items like wood and cobblestone ahead of time.

DAY 1





This is where I spawned. The reason I chose this seed is because when i turn around...


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.. yeah... Let's take a look inside, shall we?




Chest 1




Chest 2




Let's not forget to take them!




It just killed me to have to break mossy cobble with my hands to get out . It was a pain in the eyes seeing them break and not dropping any blocks.




After I get out of there, I immediately punch down some trees.




Got out of the jungle, met some mountains




Grabbing some clay. I think bricks are going to be a key building material in this.




Also, a little more ways out, there is a small village. Really happy that there is a blacksmith for smelting and extra materials.




Blacksmith contents: Armor, some food, iron, and most importantly, a PICK!




Harvest some wheat before I hole up for the night.




I think ill just afk for a bit for the night. *yawn*, that concludes day 1!



DAY 2





Cock-a-doodle-doo! It's daytime, Lets get more things done!P.S. After this screenshot, I fought skellies and zombies, and a few spiders as soon as I stepped through the door. Forgot to take some screenies.




This is my inventory starting day 2.




And this is the blacksmith's trade! I think I'll farm emeralds and grab a few picks from this guy.




I was low on wood (as I always am) so i decide to remove the border on all the farms and replace them with planks. It is much easier than punching at trees.




Start getting some charcoal,




And some food.




punch more wood,




And the sun's already setting! I didn't get quite the amount of things i wanted to get done, but it will do.




Hole up for another night.



DAY 3





More afking! day 3 has arrived!




Surprisingly, only 1 spider was awaiting me outside. I heard some zombies and skellies burn, too.





(Intense action music)




Finally, my first creeper encounter! Lets get some mining done!




Taming a creeper isn't as hard as I thought .




Ooohhh, iron! let's get this creeper to get some of thi-.


..

F.A.I.L...




And only 2 cobblestone. At least I have some iron from the temple and the village.




Finish punching away the last of the farm, so far, no crops had been trampled yet. I still have yet to put a case around it, because...




...this. I am gonna need WAAAAY more sand though.




Hollowing out a beach, something that I usually woudn't do in normal survival, but I still haven't explored for a desert and I know my crops will get trampled on if I don't put a case around it soon.




Well, after hollowing out the beach, the sun already set. I was bombarded by mobs and had to run for it.




I hate night shifts...




After I regen my health, I run back to the village and do some renovations and connect a house and the blacksmoth's together. Punching at cobble is no easy job.




DAY 4





As soon as I finish the renovation, it turns day. Good to see the zombies and skellies burn to the ground!




Renovation results.




Another creeper! More cobble! This is probably the only time I have actually liked seeing creepers



Got some cobble!




Only 5... This is going to be hard getting even a stack...




Finish hollowing out that beach, glass is an important element in this game. (for aesthetics)




More renovations to the blacksmith's :3




And night again. Well, so far, so good, but not much progress has been made. Looking forward to day 5!


DAY 5





All night, this zombie has been pounding at the door. Even though i feel bad for him, as he can't break it, it got real annoying, real fast.




Sorry, it's your time to go...




More night work! I start putting the glass casing around the farms, but abort the mission soon enough due to skellies.




I manage to finish the glass casing on one of the farms. I already ran out of glass, and still have 2 more to go.




Daytime!!! wait... this villager... I don't think I've seen him before...




Nope! got a mighty fine deal though! Guess I'll make a sheep farm sometime soon!




What?!?! Redstone without crafting tables???
P.S. Redstone and piston was from the jungle temple.




More glass casing! If any of those villagers fall and trample my crops, I WILL kill them...




Wow, night already? It seems like I get nothing done on this game... sigh...



DAY 6

To be continued...