experimented with the 1.9 v4. Potions and Enchantment are pretty awesome. Hardcore mode is awesome. One creeper, it's over. Wonder if there's a way to get proper multiplayer hardcore.
Did some hardcore playing in 1.9 v4 this weekend. Here's my totally rockin' plan to reach The End from the beginning.
Item Req.
Nether Portal
10 x obsidian (or buckets of lava)
1 x flint & steel (activate portal)
End Portal
(at most) 12 x Eye of the ender
which requires Ender Pearl and Blaze Powder to create.
SHELTER & FOOD!
First thing I do is punch a tree, find some stone and make stone tools for everything. If you're lucky, you'll find some coal. Kill anything that drops meat, at least 3 cotton from sheep and run towards any desert or plains biome. Most of the time you can find a village within the first day. If not, you can dig a quick hole, toss down a bed and start fresh in the morning. The awesome benefit of a village is tons of resources (mostly wheat for bread). Since they are usually in open areas (plains, deserts) it's easy to fight mobs which will come in later collecting Ender Pearls. If you can't find a village, that's ok as it's a commodity that makes things easier. the goal here is SHELTER & FOOD!
Mines & The Nether
Once you're comfortably not starving to death, it's time to MINE! An Abandoned Mineshaft is a great find, and they are seriously everywhere, seemingly endless and again, FULL of resources. Find some iron to make a bucket. Use lava and water to build a Nether Portal. It took a minute, but I did this with a single bucket on my most recent End run. Entering The Nether at this point is scouting for a fortress. You must find a Blaze spawner, (and some Netherwart is worth looking for too). Again, if lucky, you can find the fortress easy. For me, it was like the Arcane Sanctuary in Diablo 2. I went all the wrong ways first, and this took a while. BTW, don't get in a bed in the Nether, it'll explode.
Blaze Rods
Unless properly geared-up, the Blaze mob can kill you easily. It spits multi-shots of fire that ignite the player. The Ghast's explosive blast damage now is a 1-shot killer too, but that's why this visit is a scouting mission. Once discovered, I suggest going back to the overworld to equip for the Nether.
In Abandoned Mines, iron can be found in abundance, and there are a lot of chests with all sorts of goodies. 24 iron is enough to make a full suit of armor, a sword, lots of food and some building supplies, reenter the Nether, and setup a little base camp to hold all extra stuff. Dying here is annoying when you lose everything. I setup a clean path to the Nether Fortress and get ready to farm Blaze mobs.
Understanding Spawners
They come in spawners shaped like overworld dungeon spawners, though usually, they have an open roof as this mob can fly. If you're accustomed to spawning blocks, you know they have a small model of the monster inside that spins. It's speed increases spinning until it spawns a monster, then is slow again. If you know this, you can get very comfortable here. I quickly build a roof and door for this spawner so the blaze cannot escape. Then, stand next to the spawner, just waiting. As soon as they spawn immediately bum-rush them with sword swipes, and you should kill them before they can even attack. At most you'll only take damage from bumping into them, and food quickly regens health while waiting on next spawn. For me, I was running out of swords before anything. At the most, you may only need 6 blaze rods as each 1 converts to 2 blaze powder. However, collect more so you can build a Brewing Stand for potions and extra eye's for finding the stronghold in the overworld.
Potions
Speaking of potions, you need netherwart to start potions. This only grows in the Nether, and only grows while you're IN the nether and on soulsand (all things in other worlds stop if you're not actually in them). They grow relatively fast, and I quickly setup a farm in my nether base. More than enough in no time. Potions aren't required, but it's easy once you have these ingredients setup to make speed and strength potions. Fire resistance is huge, but difficult since it requires slimeballs.
Enchantments
Enchanting gear is worth it too, and with all the mob killing might as well spend these points. A good way to farm exp orbs is find a dungeon in the overworld, knock out a single block so you can sword the mobs, but they can't get out to you. Unlike most drops, the orbs are attracted to the player so they are easy to pickup.
Endermen
The most difficult part in my experience is getting Ender Pearls. Seems like these guys used to be everywhere. Now I'm spending all nights out running around maybe finding three endermen a night, with only one dropping pearls that I need 12 of. It's a slow process. Additionally, they are tough to fight. Without armor they hit hard, and teleport away before you can hit them often.
Strongholds
They can be found by tossing an Eye of the Ender in the air, and it will move in the direction of the stronghold. These can really be anywhere in the overworld, usually deep underground. Strongholds contain a room with the End Portal, lava and a silverfish spawning (I suggest destroying immediately). The End portal needs to be activated by filling all the slots around it with Eye of the Ender. Once active, the portal itself looks like looking deep into the universe.
The End
Once here, you'll find obsidian towers on a whitestone floating island filled with endermen. Currently, there's nothing you can really do here beside die to return to the overworld. But you made it to the end. Future releases I hear you'll be able to fight Ender Dragons here.
Based off Cholden's video, anyone else up for the idea of a "PC Town" when 1.9 hits? Everyone would get an equally sized large plot of land, maybe have a community farm or something like that. No uber huge buildings, maybe 2 stories at most, it'd be like a social 'home base' and you could go off and build your own uber castle somewhere else?
I love the idea, it could be random, connects roads however you want, must build a fence this size, anarchy kinda thing. Or it could be a well organized thing like this or a cube variation...
I think a grid or cube version would work better, MC doesn't really lend itself well to curves.
Other option is to have one big ol' hotel kind of setup where everyone gets a room with just the basic necessities, though I'm more partial to the town setup myself.
I love love love community projects like this! If I'm allowed to join you all in 1.9 I would love to be a part of it
On another server I helped design what we called sky city. We built a bunch of cups in the air and connected them with wood planks. Each hemisphere was only about 16 blocks in diameter and each person on the server got one to do with what they please.
I was on earlier, currently making a mini cave but I couldn't get out because the destroy blocks / make blocks was blocked, not sure if I was in the wrong area but it was pretty desolate where I was.
Perhaps, Mistava should be a sub admin because she is on almost all the time. This really could cut out the waiting period for all of us wanting to mine.
Just saying.
Me as "Nitewalkr" and Shadownami92 cant mine either.
Perhaps, Mistava should be a sub admin because she is on almost all the time. This really could cut out the waiting period for all of us wanting to mine.
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Item Req.
Nether Portal
10 x obsidian (or buckets of lava)
1 x flint & steel (activate portal)
End Portal
(at most) 12 x Eye of the ender
which requires Ender Pearl and Blaze Powder to create.
SHELTER & FOOD!
First thing I do is punch a tree, find some stone and make stone tools for everything. If you're lucky, you'll find some coal. Kill anything that drops meat, at least 3 cotton from sheep and run towards any desert or plains biome. Most of the time you can find a village within the first day. If not, you can dig a quick hole, toss down a bed and start fresh in the morning. The awesome benefit of a village is tons of resources (mostly wheat for bread). Since they are usually in open areas (plains, deserts) it's easy to fight mobs which will come in later collecting Ender Pearls. If you can't find a village, that's ok as it's a commodity that makes things easier. the goal here is SHELTER & FOOD!
Mines & The Nether
Once you're comfortably not starving to death, it's time to MINE! An Abandoned Mineshaft is a great find, and they are seriously everywhere, seemingly endless and again, FULL of resources. Find some iron to make a bucket. Use lava and water to build a Nether Portal. It took a minute, but I did this with a single bucket on my most recent End run. Entering The Nether at this point is scouting for a fortress. You must find a Blaze spawner, (and some Netherwart is worth looking for too). Again, if lucky, you can find the fortress easy. For me, it was like the Arcane Sanctuary in Diablo 2. I went all the wrong ways first, and this took a while. BTW, don't get in a bed in the Nether, it'll explode.
Blaze Rods
Unless properly geared-up, the Blaze mob can kill you easily. It spits multi-shots of fire that ignite the player. The Ghast's explosive blast damage now is a 1-shot killer too, but that's why this visit is a scouting mission. Once discovered, I suggest going back to the overworld to equip for the Nether.
In Abandoned Mines, iron can be found in abundance, and there are a lot of chests with all sorts of goodies. 24 iron is enough to make a full suit of armor, a sword, lots of food and some building supplies, reenter the Nether, and setup a little base camp to hold all extra stuff. Dying here is annoying when you lose everything. I setup a clean path to the Nether Fortress and get ready to farm Blaze mobs.
Understanding Spawners
They come in spawners shaped like overworld dungeon spawners, though usually, they have an open roof as this mob can fly. If you're accustomed to spawning blocks, you know they have a small model of the monster inside that spins. It's speed increases spinning until it spawns a monster, then is slow again. If you know this, you can get very comfortable here. I quickly build a roof and door for this spawner so the blaze cannot escape. Then, stand next to the spawner, just waiting. As soon as they spawn immediately bum-rush them with sword swipes, and you should kill them before they can even attack. At most you'll only take damage from bumping into them, and food quickly regens health while waiting on next spawn. For me, I was running out of swords before anything. At the most, you may only need 6 blaze rods as each 1 converts to 2 blaze powder. However, collect more so you can build a Brewing Stand for potions and extra eye's for finding the stronghold in the overworld.
Potions
Speaking of potions, you need netherwart to start potions. This only grows in the Nether, and only grows while you're IN the nether and on soulsand (all things in other worlds stop if you're not actually in them). They grow relatively fast, and I quickly setup a farm in my nether base. More than enough in no time. Potions aren't required, but it's easy once you have these ingredients setup to make speed and strength potions. Fire resistance is huge, but difficult since it requires slimeballs.
This chart game in handy, though I quickly modified it to only show the useful potions.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/b/b3/Potion_Flow.png
Enchantments
Enchanting gear is worth it too, and with all the mob killing might as well spend these points. A good way to farm exp orbs is find a dungeon in the overworld, knock out a single block so you can sword the mobs, but they can't get out to you. Unlike most drops, the orbs are attracted to the player so they are easy to pickup.
Endermen
The most difficult part in my experience is getting Ender Pearls. Seems like these guys used to be everywhere. Now I'm spending all nights out running around maybe finding three endermen a night, with only one dropping pearls that I need 12 of. It's a slow process. Additionally, they are tough to fight. Without armor they hit hard, and teleport away before you can hit them often.
Strongholds
They can be found by tossing an Eye of the Ender in the air, and it will move in the direction of the stronghold. These can really be anywhere in the overworld, usually deep underground. Strongholds contain a room with the End Portal, lava and a silverfish spawning (I suggest destroying immediately). The End portal needs to be activated by filling all the slots around it with Eye of the Ender. Once active, the portal itself looks like looking deep into the universe.
The End
Once here, you'll find obsidian towers on a whitestone floating island filled with endermen. Currently, there's nothing you can really do here beside die to return to the overworld. But you made it to the end. Future releases I hear you'll be able to fight Ender Dragons here.
End.
Other option is to have one big ol' hotel kind of setup where everyone gets a room with just the basic necessities, though I'm more partial to the town setup myself.
On another server I helped design what we called sky city. We built a bunch of cups in the air and connected them with wood planks. Each hemisphere was only about 16 blocks in diameter and each person on the server got one to do with what they please.
Treecapitator.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uKrDHNqvcZ4
Crazy stuff :S
That would be awesome, especially if it works with the new metal grating! :poly142:
Better watch your carbon footprint!
only takes a sec to reboot.. someone has to tell me tho...
*edit apparently there are lot more skin editor .. and more realtime feedback if i use photoshop to edit
Getting bored of modded 1.8.1 servers -.-
My name is Endzeit666
Btw whats the ip? Oo
Just saying.
Me as "Nitewalkr" and Shadownami92 cant mine either.
Perhaps im already and its a bug or so.
Second this notion.
new sounds, new animations, new new new...
There's a Minecon???