more Minecraft. yes, I will shut up about this eventually.

[ysobel]

AutoMap (thanks sophie!) seems to be what I needed for Minecraft funtimes -- World 2 (fresh start, with a lava source on the outside close to spawn point) is happyshinynew:

* base, again stone and glass, accessible only by ladders, set up with two double chests, two crafting tables (not that I need two but it is symmetry), six furnaces (because after the spelunking I did I had shittons of stone

* fair amount of iron and some diamond and even some obsidian

* a farm area, walled off to keep wandering critters out; not the best setup ever because I just went with natural shoreline but it'll do for now. Sugar cane and some wheat.


I want some way of zooming from home base down to the farm area and back. Downhill is not a problem (water slide, if nothing else) but getting back up is ... not so much. I'd set up a water elevator plus water channel, but ... idk. I vaguely know what I want, just not how to achieve it.

I can't get a handle on minecart physics - with or without boosters - and I would set up a system of water canals or something, except that boats can't go uphill, and long downhill risks breaking the boat at the bottom of whatever, and ... idk.

...meh.

Comments

[sophie]

Actually, boats *can* go uphill, though I strongly suspect it's the result of a bug more than anything else. Make a column of water going *directly* down by placing a source block at the top of wherever you want it to be, and try riding a boat into it from the bottom. You'll find that the boat actually floats to the top of the column, and quite quickly at that. It's a little difficult to control while that's happening but you could always make a 4x4 column instead of just a 1x1 column.

Minecraft physics is weird. I suspect it'll all get fixed eventually, but in the meantime... yeah.

[edit: Oh, and you probably already know this, but the AutoMap patch will disappear when the game auto-updates because of the way it does it, and you'll probably need to redownload it if the patch doesn't work with the new version. I'm glad you find it useful, though! It's the best in-game mapping tool I know of so far.]