Currently using minecraft snapshot 12.41 trying out the new additions. Still adding on to the house and I find the pattern of placing the lots of farm area around the house helps keep out many unwanted exploding creepers when you walk out your front door. I made the map using Large Biomes so the snowy Taiga goes on what seems forever. I found some Cows in the south in a swamp but much too far to bring a couple back for breeding. I may make a 2nd farm in the swamp and commute. I've yet to find a single chicken.
Currently Farming:
Wheat
Sugar Cane
Carrots
Potatos
Pumpkins
Mushrooms (underground)
I'm not 100% if it's still true for the snapshot, but animals will not sawn on snow, so you need to torch up an area so they could spawn. Could help with getting chickens/cows.
Looks good, at least with chickens you can get eggs so they're easier to transport.
When I find some chickens I shall steal as many eggs as possible hopefully if I can get at least 2-3 chickens to spawn from the eggs I'll be doing well.
That house is really cool, love the farm in the yard. Gives it sort of a garden feel, very nice!
Thanks! I based it losely off a Jamziboy tutorial I saw some time ago but survival you don't pay as much attention to the details, just make sure its got 4 walls and a roof.
I'm not 100% if it's still true for the snapshot, but animals will not sawn on snow, so you need to torch up an area so they could spawn. Could help with getting chickens/cows.
Thanks for the heads up I see plenty of pigs, wolves and sheep, but I figured it maybe have to do with types of animals that spawn in each biome. I found some cows in a swamp but its so far away it may take a day or two to get them to follow me back.
Looks nice could you show some more pics of the house?
And did you find the carrot as a rare drop from a zombie, or from a village?
The zombies were not forth coming with the carrots, so I cheated a bit and used AMIDST to map out village locations using the level.dat file. Found one farther north of my home in a grassland area. I stole some carrots, and potatos. I built them some doors and fixed the roads so we called it even. Once I get a substantial amount of resources I may go back and try some villager trading.
That's a nice little homestead you've got there. Quaint and effective
Title of the thread confuses me though as there's no dirt hut >_>
I like to throw out a mental curve ball from time to time. Bit of a running joke, and much more modest than "OMG CHECK OUT MY EPIC CASTLE IT ROX!!!!!11!!1!" and then show you a pic of some ugly 4 wall square cobblestone block.
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Now added a few Cows, took a whole two days to herd them back home, lost a few along the way but as long as you have 2 you can breed them.
I managed to find a few chickens, however I was not aware of the change in game mechanic so I wasted a good portion of the day chasing them around with wheat in my hand and they would not chase me. I looked it up on the wiki, they use wheat seed now, sounds reasonable. I'm of the impression this chicken must really hate me, the horror every day of me coming out to its pen only to pick up its newly spawned egg and then thrash it against the wall of my home trying to force another chicken to spawn with no success must be traumatizing. I may just go back out into the wild and lure a couple more in.
I also added a greenhouse, a project I had just started working on in another thread, a bit resource intensive but the payoff should be well worth it. Water flows from one source block at the top and floods each level dropping the seed/items into the drain at the bottom for easy harvesting. So far I've planted 2 layers of wheat, 1 potato, 1 carrot... we'll see how this goes, it worked in creative.
PS Any clever ideas on how to keep the cows from climbing ladders? A very curious problem as you can see on top of the roof.
Lookin good. I've been meaning to get back into survival mode. Maybe I will after I finish my manor.
I find it fun to go back to a survival map every now and again. Mainly to try out new items added to the game but also I find it rather relaxing. Creative is fun to build but Survival is more of a challenge.
Currently Farming:
Wheat
Sugar Cane
Carrots
Potatos
Pumpkins
Mushrooms (underground)
Sheep
Pigs (now using the carrots to breed)
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Title of the thread confuses me though as there's no dirt hut >_>
When I find some chickens I shall steal as many eggs as possible hopefully if I can get at least 2-3 chickens to spawn from the eggs I'll be doing well.
Thanks! I based it losely off a Jamziboy tutorial I saw some time ago but survival you don't pay as much attention to the details, just make sure its got 4 walls and a roof.
Thanks for the heads up I see plenty of pigs, wolves and sheep, but I figured it maybe have to do with types of animals that spawn in each biome. I found some cows in a swamp but its so far away it may take a day or two to get them to follow me back.
The zombies were not forth coming with the carrots, so I cheated a bit and used AMIDST to map out village locations using the level.dat file. Found one farther north of my home in a grassland area. I stole some carrots, and potatos. I built them some doors and fixed the roads so we called it even. Once I get a substantial amount of resources I may go back and try some villager trading.
I like to throw out a mental curve ball from time to time. Bit of a running joke, and much more modest than "OMG CHECK OUT MY EPIC CASTLE IT ROX!!!!!11!!1!" and then show you a pic of some ugly 4 wall square cobblestone block.
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Now added a few Cows, took a whole two days to herd them back home, lost a few along the way but as long as you have 2 you can breed them.
I managed to find a few chickens, however I was not aware of the change in game mechanic so I wasted a good portion of the day chasing them around with wheat in my hand and they would not chase me. I looked it up on the wiki, they use wheat seed now, sounds reasonable. I'm of the impression this chicken must really hate me, the horror every day of me coming out to its pen only to pick up its newly spawned egg and then thrash it against the wall of my home trying to force another chicken to spawn with no success must be traumatizing. I may just go back out into the wild and lure a couple more in.
I also added a greenhouse, a project I had just started working on in another thread, a bit resource intensive but the payoff should be well worth it. Water flows from one source block at the top and floods each level dropping the seed/items into the drain at the bottom for easy harvesting. So far I've planted 2 layers of wheat, 1 potato, 1 carrot... we'll see how this goes, it worked in creative.
PS Any clever ideas on how to keep the cows from climbing ladders? A very curious problem as you can see on top of the roof.
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I find it fun to go back to a survival map every now and again. Mainly to try out new items added to the game but also I find it rather relaxing. Creative is fun to build but Survival is more of a challenge.
Yes, I did slap a few pigs with wheat before going back to read the wiki.... Hence the main reason for the carrot farm.
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