more Minecraftian babble
Jan. 29th, 2011 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelSo 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.)
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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.)
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Date: 2011-01-30 12:14 am (UTC)You could, maybe, put the difficulty level to Easy, track enemies by their noises, then turn it back to Peaceful once you're actually at the cave system, which will erase the enemies as soon as you do that.
The trouble with that is that when mining on Peaceful you probably haven't been placing lighting in such a way that enemies are guaranteed not to spawn in your base, since of course you haven't had any. So it's potentially possible to find a creeper coming up behind you. Of course, if that does happen and you hear the telltale "Sssssssss..." sound, you should immediately go to Peaceful. Since hitting ESCAPE pauses the game in single player, that's pretty easily doable. (Edit: And of course, I forgot you didn't have speakers set up. So this is probably a no-no. :/)
I hope this helps somewhat!
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Date: 2011-01-30 12:40 am (UTC)World 3 I have a couple of explored cave systems but really not very much iron. I think I need to go off and find a different cave system or something. But I am ironically afraid of Messing Something Up.
And I know there are probably more efficient ways of mining than what I am doing but it feels like the best mining systems use, like, water elevators (which I can't for the life of me figure out) and minecarts (which require iron) and all sorts of stuff.
I don't have enough materials to do what I see other people doing (on youtube etc), and I don't have enough creativity to do useful things with what I have, and what I have is scarce enough that I'm afraid of wasting it on whatever.
Sigh.
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Date: 2011-01-30 01:48 am (UTC)If you don't want to do that, I do know of another program called AutoMap, which consists of two parts - a patch to Minecraft itself and another program that you run at the same time as Minecraft. It lets you see a map of your surroundings, including underground, and you can use it to help find cave systems.
Of course, using either of those is kinda cheating, but I think that if it takes cheating to have fun, then it's not such a bad idea. And it *is* a sandbox game, so...