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more Minecraftian babble
Jan. 29th, 2011 02:34 pmSo I figured out why I am getting stuck in Minecraft.
There are plenty of beginner-level tutorials, both in text and in video. How to punch trees to get wood (insert bad jokes here); how to build tools; how to build your first shelter (which I will admit is less of an issue when playing on Peaceful). I know the basics of cave exploration and similar.
There are also plenty of advanced-level tutorials, mostly video but a few in text. Building mob farms; doing cool shit with minecarts; building epic structures; doing fancy stuff with redstone circuits; etc.
What I haven't yet found are midlevel tutorials. Like: how to find the vast amounts of iron that you need for minecart tracks. Like: how to find lots and lots of diamond so you can have diamond tools and diamond armor and stuff like that. Like: how to use minecarts for the best effect, and the dynamics of boosters and where to put them.
(Okay, so there are some booster tutorials, but I don't really know how best to set up tracks, and idk)
So I end up starting a world, getting to a certain point, getting frustrated because I can't go anywhere, and then starting a new world.
(I also seriously need to set up speakers so I can have sound so I can play on non-Peaceful levels without dying every night. Though I wish it were possible to, like, turn off creeper spawning but leave the rest.)
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World 3 currently has a mob farm - as described here, and yes it did take a while to make -- but the design is less than optimal because I kept getting foiled by lava. There is also a sealed shaft from the collection-point work area to the surface.
I have shittons of stone, several stacks of redstone, a couple of lava buckets, and all of one iron because I lost the rest of what I had to lava. And the world does not seem to be very providing of iron.
World 5 currently has a pretty awesome mini-castle (stone and glass), and almost two full stacks of iron because it just kept appearing everywhere. But it doesn't have much else.
(Worlds 1, 2, and 4 are not really much of anything.)
There are plenty of beginner-level tutorials, both in text and in video. How to punch trees to get wood (insert bad jokes here); how to build tools; how to build your first shelter (which I will admit is less of an issue when playing on Peaceful). I know the basics of cave exploration and similar.
There are also plenty of advanced-level tutorials, mostly video but a few in text. Building mob farms; doing cool shit with minecarts; building epic structures; doing fancy stuff with redstone circuits; etc.
What I haven't yet found are midlevel tutorials. Like: how to find the vast amounts of iron that you need for minecart tracks. Like: how to find lots and lots of diamond so you can have diamond tools and diamond armor and stuff like that. Like: how to use minecarts for the best effect, and the dynamics of boosters and where to put them.
(Okay, so there are some booster tutorials, but I don't really know how best to set up tracks, and idk)
So I end up starting a world, getting to a certain point, getting frustrated because I can't go anywhere, and then starting a new world.
(I also seriously need to set up speakers so I can have sound so I can play on non-Peaceful levels without dying every night. Though I wish it were possible to, like, turn off creeper spawning but leave the rest.)
#
World 3 currently has a mob farm - as described here, and yes it did take a while to make -- but the design is less than optimal because I kept getting foiled by lava. There is also a sealed shaft from the collection-point work area to the surface.
I have shittons of stone, several stacks of redstone, a couple of lava buckets, and all of one iron because I lost the rest of what I had to lava. And the world does not seem to be very providing of iron.
World 5 currently has a pretty awesome mini-castle (stone and glass), and almost two full stacks of iron because it just kept appearing everywhere. But it doesn't have much else.
(Worlds 1, 2, and 4 are not really much of anything.)