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Honesltly I think it can still be called survival. But honestly people are saying that the adventure update and all these temples and stuff are crap... They're meant for people who are endgame players.

I mean, think about it. If you were sitting in your mansion/castle with a chest full of gold,iron,diamond and other things, with an automatic wheat farm that can be harvested at the push of a button, and a mob farm that gets you all the mob drops you could possibly ever need, would you REALLY want to keep playing the game?

These Adventure update are supposed to keep those endgame players IN the game, so that they arn't just sitting there and leaving due to boredom, its about getting out of your castle and exploring. not sitting behind a wall where the creepers on the other side are just face planted against the wall trying to get to you.

Strongholds, Temples, Pyramids, Villagers, Ravines, Abandoned Mineshafts, Nether Fortresses, Potions, Enchantments...The End. Its ALL there to keep people interested in the game, without its strong fanbase to support Minecraft, do you really think that it would be the game it is today? No, it would most likely be in some folder in Mojang's Recycle Bin.

So before you go "These updates suck, I'm downgrading back to *Insert Version # here.*" Just remember why they got added.

Hmm...How long would a server of 20 people maximum survive when the server is in permanant night time on hardcore style?

I give them 5 minutes

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Seems Legit...

Well duh, they arn't gonna do it if you're watching

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*facedesk* I felt a facePALM wasn't enough

I play CoD, I Play Skyrim, I Play BF3, I Play Minecraft... Its not the games they play my friend, they just haven't experienced the blocky epicness

No, The boys over at Mojang said 360 was going to be the SOLE provider of Minecraft on any console, and has for any upcoming hate comments

I live in Palm Bay Florida, has i am posting this right now its 9:26 PM

Awesome! When do we start?

I loved when Alpha turned into Beta. That was my favorite moment.

Looking at the abandoned mineshafts in 1.8 got me thinking, "Weren't minecarts originally intended for just this purpose--mining?" But hardly anybody uses them for mining.

One easy way to use them for mining would be to lay down tracks as you go into a mine and bring a storage cart. You could effectively double your inventory space each trip by pushing your ore-laden storage cart back up each time you go back up.

But there's gotta be a better, more automated way of using minecarts to haul out bulk when one is mining. Well, I think I've found one.

The idea is to use a powered minecart to push a storage minecart up to the surface, where the full storage minecart gets diverted to a dead-end track on the surface for later unloaded, but where the powered minecart continues on to snag another (empty, or laden with wood, food, or other supplies) storage minecart, returning then on its own back down to you as you mine.

Here are some screenshots of a simplified and somewhat haphazard schematic of such a design:

First, here's what the loading area might look like down in the mine. You could have some toggleable powered minetracks in order to stop and hold any returning carts.



Here's the basic plan of the area above ground where you would divert the ore-laden storage minecart from the powered minecart. As the storage minecart gets pushed out in front of the powered minecart, the storage minecart will hit the fork while the powered minecart is still on the detector plate, sending the storage minecart off onto a dead-end queue for later unloading. The powered minecart, though, would approach the fork with nothing on the detector plate anymore, thus sending it to continue on the default loop path.



Finally, here's the part where the powered minecart, still traveling the default loop path, picks up a new empty (or wood/food-laden) storage minecart to bring back down to you in the mine. As the powered minecart goes over the detector plates, the storage minecart zips out ahead of the powered minecart. Here's where you could even set up a pez-dispenser of empty storage minecarts to supply the loop each time around.



Finally, if you think that this would require a lot of track, consider that you can make two loops enclosing each end of the overall loop so that you can use the one track segment in the middle for going both ways.

Now, some quick caveats:

The working of this design depends on minecarts to be working properly. Storage minecarts are obviously glitched in pre-release 1.8, as can be seen by how the storage chests awkwardly hang to one side of the minecart. Plus, minecart interaction physics in general in pre-release 1.8 seem to be messed up. That said, assuming minecarts and especially powered minecarts do what they are supposed to do, I see no reason why this design would not work.