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If you don't have a nearby source of lava, you can make a 2 block hole in the ground and drop your excess blocks into it. That's what I do when mining and my inventory fills up.

For one in your base, you do something like this (side view)
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Sometimes I will leave out the block in front of the hole and just make it as a simple pit in the wall.

The wall needs a lip around the outside (or ladders on the top blocks) to keep spiders out. As it is right now, there's nothing to stop them from getting inside or on top of the castle.

Double doors in Minecraft have a screwy logic to them, so that when placed, one will be rotated clockwise, the other rotated counterclockwise. Though both will appear to be closed, placing siwtches on them will cause one to be open with the switch activated, the other closed. Which is why you need an inverter on one of the doors if you want both to open and close together if you're wiring redstone to them.

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Notch did something with the way mobs spawn last patch, either directly or indirectly. All I can tell so far, is that I have much more spawning happening even in well lit locations. I.E. I had a corridor all well lighted and suddenly there is a skelly behind me. Or I climb down a ladder, climb back up, there is a creeper in a well lit room.

My theory is that the new performance increase allows the spawn cycle to run much more frequent, and since it takes a light level of 7 to be able to spawn a mob, they can pop in rooms that appear to be well lit, but there is one block that is just at level 7 and you don't see it.

I had this happen with a zombie that had spawned inside my castle. After using the bed on the 2nd floor of my nearby minecart station, I head over to the castle grounds the next morning only to hear zombie sounds close by. I went into the castle, and there he was, off to one side. Two hits with my diamond sword and he's toast.

I tried the Safe mod from Zombe's modpack and found a 5 block area in the front room of my castle lit up red. I put two wood blocks on the ceiling (it's 4 blocks high on the ground floor) and added torches there, and that took care of the problem.

Black or white wool. Or maybe even yellow wool would do as a complement.

Orange or red wool might not be too bad, either.

Well this is odd. I'm standing near one of the dungeons I turned into a drowner trap to collect bones & arrows, and I keep hearing zombie sounds as well as those the skeletons are supposed to make. I am hearing mostly their idle sounds, and on occasion, the damage taking sounds as if it were the zombie that was drowning.

Anyone else had an unusual bug like this where one or more mobs were making the wrong sounds?

My three most recent encounters with them:

One morning, I saw two on the ground below the north side of my castle. I shot both with arrows and got 4 gunpowder, but didn't see the third one behind a tree to the left as I came down the stairs. After picking up some bones and arrows, he came at me, and I didn't have enough time to kill him with arrows before he blew up. I was out of his range, though, so all he did was blow a hole in the ground and destroy the tree he was hiding behind.

Another night, I saw a dark shape outside the iron doors to my outer wall around my castle. I had recently moved all of the doors to the outer edge of the wall so that mobs couldn't attack me from outside. An earlier creeper encounter with the doors placed wrong ended in him blowing them off and putting a hole in the ground. This time I was able to hit him twice with my diamond sword and kill him.

A third encounter with one occurred in the late afternoon. I was not far from a cave entrance, so I suspect he saw me as I walked past it and came out after me. I didn't have my bow selected on my hotbar, so I had to back away from him until I could shoot him.

I learned that lesson the hard way once when coming back to my base and getting shot by a skeleton that had taken refuge from the sunlight inside.

Now whenever I go out, I always close doors.

Currently playing on Easy difficulty, I have

1. torches
2. bow
3. empty
4. diamond sword
5. diamond pickaxe
6. empty
7.diamond axa
8. empty
9. clock

If I'm playing on Peaceful, I will not have the sword or bow with me.

If I'm mining, one slot will have cobblestones, and if I am going to be in an area where lava is nearby, another slot will have a water bucket.

I found myself being awakened when I put the bed in the basement of my castle. At that time there was a single block opening in a wall one level above that was likely allowing mobs to get in. Since moving the bed to an above ground floor away from walls and completely closed off, I have not been awakened once.

Another thing I read about this from the wiki: "Certain users have reported that sleeping in a bed while a furnace is smelting may interrupt the player's sleep and spawn an aggressive mob near the bed. "

I believe that is what happened when I had the bed in the basement. It was where my workshop was located, and I had several furnaces going, IIRC.

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Lmao they can be useful for the leather but also annoying when they just go MOO every 3 seconds.

They're the noisiest mobs outside the Nether, and when you get a whole herd of them outside your house, they can be quite annoying.

Powdered creepers? I heard they taste like chicken.

I have never encountered a powered or charged creeper, though I have encountered thunderstorms a couple of times.

The wiki says that the damage from a charged creeper is doubled, and that their range is also increased. I'll bet that means a charged creeper has double the blast radius.

My two wolves inside the house I made for them:



It is located on the south side of my castle, but still inside the perimeter wall. I have a small wheat farm on the north side.

Some trees I planted on the top of my castle. It took a few attempts to get all four the same height:



4 block high sugar cane, growing through a tree. A pretty rare find, IMO:



I made most of the 3rd floor of my castle into a library. There are 72 bookcases on the left side, 90 on the right. It took a lot of sugarcanes and wood to complete it. Having two farms helps.



One of the two sugarcane farms. This one is on the west side of the castle, while the other one is near my house.



I've finished the first three floors of the castle, as well as a basement. Here is what each contains:

Basement: storage and workshop, 15 furnaces.
Floor 1: Throne room, treasury, dining hall
Floor 2: Barracks, mess hall, armory, commander's offce & quarters, infirmary
Floor 3: Royal library

This was the second one I found. He was in front of my house:



Later I found a third one outside the back door of my castle.

I have a fair amount of gold stocked up from almost 6 months of playing, and while I do agree that booster rails are underpowered as they are, I've found that if you space them close enough, they build speed over time, almost to what booster minecarts could do.

On my latest expansion of minecart tracks, I used a combination of both booster rails and minecart boosters. Where I used the booster rails, I found that spacing them 24 blocks apart was the best balance between speed and use of materials.