Minecraft
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sendos
Immortal
I know! I love it! So scary
Indeed. Make sure you stare down at the ground and don't look at the endermen or they'll deal 5 damage per hit. It'll be like fighting an enemy equipped with a diamond sword.
What really surprises me a lot in multiplayer is that very few people put on armour, preferably iron armour as making diamond armour is relatively impossible unless you manage to find more than 24 diamond. It gives damage reduction to nearly everything and it has saved me on numerous occasions. I never explore caves without armour. I guess it might exhaust the hunger bar more, but that is solved by simply bringing food with you as explore the world.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
I never bothered with it because it seemed like a waste since it takes fall damage and I tend to jump around and take small falls jumps a lot. Although I've always acquired far more iron than I ever end up using anyway so it doesn't really matter.
People also probably like to show off their skins too.
People also probably like to show off their skins too.
Indeed. Make sure you stare down at the ground and don't look at the endermen or they'll deal 5 damage per hit. It'll be like fighting an enemy equipped with a diamond sword.
What really surprises me a lot in multiplayer is that very few people put on armour, preferably iron armour as making diamond armour is relatively impossible unless you manage to find more than 24 diamond. It gives damage reduction to nearly everything and it has saved me on numerous occasions. I never explore caves without armour. I guess it might exhaust the hunger bar more, but that is solved by simply bringing food with you as explore the world.
I've never made iron armor (or tools - except for pickaxes to get redstone, gold, diamonds, etc.) either, since iron seems so rare (although I've heard it's more plentiful now). Plus, you can eat through a lot of it making buckets, rails, shears, iron doors, Flint & Steel, compass, maps (needing the compass) and pistons.
Because of that, I prefer stone tools, since stone is readily available (and can be generated), and wood is extra plentiful now with dense forests (I miss the alpha days of sparse forests!). For me to use iron, or even diamond, the durability has to go up maybe exponentially (With new metals, like copper and tin). Something like -
Wood - 4 uses.
Stone - 12 uses.
Copper/tin/gold - 48 uses. (i.e., unrefined metal - gold could be 32 uses)
Bronze - 196 uses. (copper + tin. Copper would be found in mountain biomes, tin in rivers)
Iron - 512 uses. (unrefined iron)
Steel - 2084 uses. (iron + coal)
Diamond - 9k uses.
I also saw a mod that adds metal rods for the tools (I'd use that for increased durability).
Ore veins need to be longer, too, like it was in the .30 version (I'm guessing that was like that only because it was essentially one set of chunks).
I so want to heavily mod this game (if I had the time to do so).
The main iron eater is rails as far as I know. But yes, it's now a lot more common. I rarely find myself running out of iron (and coal! which I used to hesitate to use in furnaces). Only when I want to do a long rail system do I run out.
Add me to the list of people annoying by how armor gets damaged by falls.
Add me to the list of people annoying by how armor gets damaged by falls.
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
1)get 1 piece of coal
2)smelt 8 pieces of wood into charcoal
3)???
4)infinite charcoal
sendos
Immortal
Small falls may be irritating because they unnecessarily damage armour, but in large falls, they do save you from possible death it weren't for armour. Another reason is creepers. One creeper can instantly kill anyone unless their difficulty is on easy. In fact, even with 4 armour, a creeper can instantly you. There was also a time when I found a mob spawner in a cavern (underground ravine) spawning skeletons and even though I lighted up the dungeon, it still kept spawning skeletons where I only had 2.5 hearts left and I would have died, if it weren't for armour. I fled by using the /home teleport command.
However, armour does consume a lot of iron and without any repair mods, (I don't seem to like the proper repair ability as much) you would end up consuming a lot of iron. So I guess that does explain my observations. Presenting your skin could be a reason, too.
Chieftess, iron is never rare, even in previous updates of minecraft. They're slightly less abundant than coal and sometimes in just one cave system, you can find about a stack of iron ore rather easily.
As for the triple ravine, nice find!
However, armour does consume a lot of iron and without any repair mods, (I don't seem to like the proper repair ability as much) you would end up consuming a lot of iron. So I guess that does explain my observations. Presenting your skin could be a reason, too.
Chieftess, iron is never rare, even in previous updates of minecraft. They're slightly less abundant than coal and sometimes in just one cave system, you can find about a stack of iron ore rather easily.
As for the triple ravine, nice find!
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Yeah iron has not been rare since at least before I started playing Minecraft last December. Stone tools are necessarily slow in comparison, I only use them to get iron so i can get iron tools to get more iron for more tools, weapons, useful objects, diamond & redstone (which have to be mined with iron picks), etc.
Iron minecart tracks are no longer a huge issue either, because there are dozens of them in fairly common abandoned mines too. Though if you're building a massive railway you'll still need more, but again iron is extremely common.
Iron minecart tracks are no longer a huge issue either, because there are dozens of them in fairly common abandoned mines too. Though if you're building a massive railway you'll still need more, but again iron is extremely common.
That reminds me, I forgot to mention the minecarts, but who uses them a lot now, anyway? (old rail systems that needed many carts for boosters and such are obsolete now)
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Minecarts take only 5 iron so that isn't much, you do need redstone and stuff for booster tracks now which really speed up the whole minecart railway. Minecarts are great if you have to connect a bunch of areas as it looks cool and is fun. Although /warp kind of eliminates the actual need for it
CivCube
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Funny, I have sea cliffs and caves all around me and I've found only about 6 iron.
In my world I'm still cowering from Endermen in a mound of dirt. But hey, I haz a helmet and sword! Once I actually expand my hill fort by, you know, building, I'll have a better chance.
In my world I'm still cowering from Endermen in a mound of dirt. But hey, I haz a helmet and sword! Once I actually expand my hill fort by, you know, building, I'll have a better chance.
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Some more of my industrialized Travancore city. Lining the canal is done, there's an ironclad to the right, added a few apartments and shops and plopped a war college in the middle of the city, based off the Empire:Total War buildings for the Maratha Confederacy. Going to speckle more Empire buildings around the place and especially more factories at the far end of the city.
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
is that a texture pack? if so, which one?
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
Built an observatory tower in a lagoon in a river, with a bridge connecting it to the mainland
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
I'm using De Graph's Decraftik for this project
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/492800-32x18-beta-decraftik-v18/
croxis
Chat room op
Is that marble in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
mythmonster2
BEC NOIR! RUN!
Interesting, it takes smooth stone to create. But it looks nice, so it'll be worth the extra coal to make smooth stone!
croxis
Chat room op
The plugin that allows this for our mp server is going to integrate custom blocks into the world generation system for our next world. the crafting is just a temporary shortcut. i'll pass your complements to the artist!
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Link to video.
Now I hope that there is gonna be a mod that wont destroy the terrain or the Ender Dragons stay in their own dimension
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