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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 11:10:52 GMT
The Castle references for the win! Anyway, I started up a new Minecraft world (named it West I , thank you Pratchett and Baxter) today, because running around in an unworked world in this game is really fun and I felt like it after finishing The Long Earth. I am mildly proud of the achievements in my very first world and will go back to work on the house one day for sure. But for now, back to basics! For now, I spent my first night rather classic in a small alcove excavated in the side of a hill, since I didn't find coal right away and had to make due with charcoal. So used that time to dig a staircase downwards. Still no coal, but a good find of iron ore, leading to an iron sword and a pair of scissors, since my next morning I discovered sheep. So now I have a bed, a small patch of wheat growing, mix of iron and stone tools. Nice river/wood area I'm in, plenty of clay in the rived beds, that's cool for later. No armour, so I avoid the skeletons hiding from the sun under the various trees, sneaky buggers. No heart stopping, hisssssss as of yet.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 28, 2013 11:22:03 GMT
In the first world he made a big glass, stone and lava wall in the house with R <3 B on it. Looked really awesome. Very romantic in a very geeky sort of way.
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 11:38:06 GMT
Actually a large cave I found on one of my digs (rather deep down too iirc), which gave me the idea. I excavated it, do it up (had to replace some smooth stone where I removed dirt and had gaps) and put the flowing lava behind the glass letters. Job and a half, but good fun and Lady RB really liked it, so all worth it.
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Post by charliebrown on Aug 28, 2013 11:53:16 GMT
Gee, I have to tell Franek about it, he is rather crazy about Minecraft. He'd be so happy to know a real adult that doesn't need to pretend he/she understands what he chatters about all the time.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 28, 2013 12:50:51 GMT
They can talk about it at the moot.
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 12:51:48 GMT
I'm a real adult!
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 16:28:10 GMT
Ok, so digging a significant way down yielded no coal, almost took an arrow to the head, carried up a fair amount of stone and noticed a severely depleted hunger bar. Scouted out the countryside a bit more and located some cows. Took down two and cooked me some steak which solves the hunger situation for the foreseeable future. Continued scouting, noticed none of the open rock of any of the hills contained any coal. I was getting miffed, but finally spotted some in a rather deep and slightly hidden pit. Of course, by the time I dug that up, it was getting dark and I had sort of lost my bearings. Took an educated guess and managed to make my way to my hidey hole before my face was eaten off.
Might as well craft some proper stairs, plenty of stone now, and fix up my dig site. Not even at bedrock yet.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 28, 2013 16:39:46 GMT
But you haven't fixed my hunger situation yet....
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 16:43:14 GMT
That one requires a bit more than a mouse and keyboard.
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Post by charliebrown on Aug 28, 2013 16:50:10 GMT
I believe Franek would love to have a few words with you DG at the moot. You sound similar Ah DG, do you know AntVenom?
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 28, 2013 16:50:29 GMT
Nope. Life is hard.
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 17:08:57 GMT
I'm moving to Oz soon, there is a concern I might learn all there is to know about ant venom.
Cool CB, we'll be digging up stories of lengthy cave explorations and abandoned mine shaft conquests.
I never found a Nether Fortress on my first world, that was a bit of a bummer.
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Post by Moose on Aug 28, 2013 17:15:11 GMT
It sounds like something I would enjoy .. howdoes it work and do you have to pay real money?
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 17:25:37 GMT
One time payment for the game access of 25 euros iirc. No paying for further upgrades. There is also multiplayer where people build the most amazing stuff (although some people build by themselves). This guy is a small celebrity amongst the minecrafters and has a very nice tutorial made (in the game on single player survival mode, you are on your own): youtu.be/B36Ehzf2cxEThere is a peaceful mode without monsters, but where is the fun in that? Which reminds me, I never upgraded to 1.6... No horses in my new world... That was silly.
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Post by Moose on Aug 28, 2013 17:36:43 GMT
Sounds likeI WOULD enjoy it - Col is just telling me about it - but I on't have 25 euros atm lol. Maybe one day
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Post by Alvamiga on Aug 28, 2013 17:45:37 GMT
What's the network load on it? Moose's connection is not exactly premium!
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 18:02:38 GMT
Dunno. Not even sure if singleplayer requires online play... You might want to look on their website: minecraft.net/The help section has a decent amount of info on it, I presume you should be able to find that sort of info.
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 18:40:03 GMT
So, went down practically to bedrock before hitting the first seam of coal, but by digging that up, I hit diamond! Hilarious. In my first world I don't think I saw any diamond until after quite some time. Funny that. I hadn't even made a iron pickaxed yet, so can't even mine it until I do that.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 28, 2013 18:41:28 GMT
Ooooh diamond! You can make me something nice out of diamond. I like the lapis too.
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 19:02:35 GMT
The lapis is very pretty, gives cool colour to the wool.
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 20:29:56 GMT
Before I got too stuck in, decided to upgrade to 1.6.2, which is supposed to have horses and carpet and whatnot. Now the New World put me up in a giant jungle tree, chopping my way down took half the morning and then I got distracted by an abandoned temple. One of the booby-traps even hit me, bloody hell. Looked around after I died to zombie assault and decided I wanted to move on, too much jungle, bit too steep a mountain. Too much work to terraform that to my liking, even with using the temple as a home base.
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 21:11:16 GMT
West III turned out much more promising. I spawned almost right next to a family of brown horses, really cool. Problem is, horse country in this game is wide open plains, so no trees. Not much you can do before you kick over a few trees in this games, but I spotted some on the horizon which turned out to be a decent forest area on the coast. Nice spot to set up, even a few pigs for the first food needs. As soon as I have some sort of basic HQ set up, I'll go back and see if I can tame those horses.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 28, 2013 21:14:02 GMT
Horses. Can you make sausages?
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 28, 2013 21:50:06 GMT
Not sure killing a horse gets you any food items... I don't think so anyway.
Got killed by a baby zombie! The odd horror. Didn't even know those were introduced. Showed it to Lady RB, but forgot I was kinda low on health and got attacked by the little bugger and killed.
Not falling for that one twice. Yes they look sort of cute, but they still get a sword to the face from now on. Which reminds me, I need to make a bow.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 29, 2013 6:57:17 GMT
It was pretty hilarious. And the baby zombie is cute. But still able to kill.
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Post by DGoeij on Aug 29, 2013 18:53:22 GMT
Hadn't even made a bed yet so had to leg it over the fields all over again, in the night time (ie infested with skeleton archers, aggressive giant spiders, exploding creeprs and zombies to boot) and in a bloody hurry, because my stuff dropped by the death event would disappear soon. That game can get very stressfull very quickly.
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Post by DGoeij on Sept 2, 2013 18:47:27 GMT
Over the weekend managed to dig enough of a branch mine and found enough ore and coal to fix me up with a suit of iron armour. Very helpful on my continued encounters with various baddies. Especially skeletons. These tricksy nasties have a bow and arrow and are not bad shots. They burn up in daylight, but under the shade of a tree they can manage, making a walk through the forest without plate armour on, a bit less advisable. Not to mention that I easily made a bow, but lacked arrows. To make arrows, you need feathers, amongst other things and arrows come from chickens. To breed enough chickens for a reasonable supply, you need to feed them seeds, which come from farming. Not to mention you have to lure the slow pokes to your home base and fence them in, or they scamper off in no time. Not to mention a distraction by a zombie spawner (which spits out zombies every now and then) which I found at the back of a cave, which I had to turn into a zombie processing plant of course. Neat trick, I managed to create a water flow underneath the spawner, flushing the zombies out into a drop chute, hurting them, but not killing them. At the bottom of the chute, I could then quickly finish them off and collect the drops and experience points that generated, thereby being rewarded with both several carrots and a single potatoe. Rare drops and the only way to get these is to keep killing zombies. Now I have a well arranged farm with potatoes, carrots and of course wheat. I have a corral with cows and chickens and a pig pen. The cows had to come from all the way across the horse fields, which was a bit of a tight squeeze in a single day. Glad this wasn't the first time I tried this. Last but not least, I am now the proud owner of a horse! Had to tame it, but luckily, since the small dungeon with the zombie spawner had two saddles, I even get to ride it. Can even go and get me another one and look into breeding horses perhaps. Horses are brand new and some of them look really nice. I had Lady RB help me pick our first one, a nice brown one with a speckled back. I also saw a grey one with cloud like white pattern I really liked. See if I can catch that one. Plenty to do, I technically don't even have a house yet really. Just a somewhat secure wall around the cave entry I use as a home base.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Sept 2, 2013 21:07:47 GMT
We are gonna call our horse Apple. And the grey cloudy one Storm.
But now there is a third one.
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Post by DGoeij on Sept 3, 2013 21:17:22 GMT
Yeah, I think that one's going to be the war-horse. I like Apple and Storm though.
Lots of health on that new one. The others seems less bulky, more speed, if I understood the stats on horses right. They're really quick to get about on, lots faster than running on your own legs. And they hop over single height difference without having to jump, unlike yourself on foot. Nifty.
Problem is, to put a name tag on, I need an anvil to edit the tag. Those cost an awful lot of iron and I'm needing part of that stuff for armour for now. The home base is far from secure as of yet and the armour is getting quite the workout. I even died before, too many skeletons shooting me full of arrows right outside my hideout. Unfair really.
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Post by DGoeij on Oct 24, 2013 18:37:16 GMT
Heh, been a while. Definite improvements to the home base and dug up a lot more iron, allowing me to craft an anvil, which I placed at a forge area next to the stables.
Apple has now officially been named. No more name-tags for now though, so Storm and horse number three will have to wait a bit.
Scouted out a very nice looking lagoon for a beach house area, but it is just a bit too far to easily travel back and forth, so going to have to set up a building zone or something. You can be sooooo busy in this game.
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