first thing's first...
we need to identify wat is the main motive of the game?
yes! SURVIVAL!!!
so how do you survive?
mushrooms!!!
so dat you dun die...
start the map by locating areas that might have a high chance of finding mushrooms...
look inside holes in cliffs...
look for pigs...
hunt them for mushrooms...
never say no to more mushrooms...
see a mushroom? pick it...
see a pig? kill it...
you'll need all the mushrooms you can get if you wanna survive long enough to get a significant high score...
try to maintain a minimum of 20 mushrooms in your inventory at all times...
you'll never know when you might be outnumbered by mobs or get cornered with 5 crazy zombies hammering on you...
once your supplies get lower than 20 mushrooms... go hunt for more...
once you got your supplies ready...
you're ready to start building your fort...
find a strategic location to place it in...
you'll need it to fend off the constant attacks from mobs...
you don't need a massive fort... just a small one to defend yourself from getting attacked will do...
the bigger your fort is... the higher the chances of mobs spawning INSIDE your fort...
thus defeating the purpose of building it in the 1st place...
design your fort so that it would be rather difficult for mobs to enter by normal means...
my suggestion would be to build a moat 2 tiles wide and 2-3 tiles deep SURROUNDING your fort...
DO NOT put in any water... mobs can still swim across in case you didn't know... >. O || [ ]
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[ ] = tile (fort wall)
with this design... you could kill mobs trapped in your moat very easily without the fear of being attacked...
you could just see their legs and whack at them...
even the arrows from skeletons can't reach you (though some arrows might reach inside... but the chances are slim)
and there you have it... your impenetrable fort...
once u get ur fort set up nicely... u could go mining or upgrading your fort to beautify it...
or exploring... and occasionally come back to ur fort to kill the trapped monsters...
note though... DO NOT kill creepers trapped in your moat... or anywhere in your fort...
their blast is big enough to cripple all your defenses... lure them away from your fort to take them out...
or u stand the chance or repairing your fort walls...
u could practically camp in your fort just to take out trapped mobs...
and go out hunting for mushrooms when supplies run low...
hope this helped in bringing up your high score a notch...
or letting you survive in the game longer... :tongue.gif:
other things to note...
-monsters killed by creeper's blast DO NOT give you any points...
-same thing goes for monsters which are killed by skeleton's arrows...
-NEVER dig vertically down... you'll never know if the tile below the one you are standing on is lava...
-always have your mushroom selected when not building so you can right click to heal instantly if u were ambushed...
-save often... and always save in your fort
-remember: the bigger your fort is... the higher the chances of mobs spawning INSIDE your fort...
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In your base entrance, if you do have the entrance at roughly ground-level, you can dig down one brick. Then, when you are attacked, place a single block one space from the ground, leaving a one-block space open at the bottom of the door. This will allow you to stand in the spot you dug and see the enemies' legs at your eye level, and they will be unable to attack you due to you being too low. This will also afford you protection from skeleton arrows, because the skeletons try to arc them at you, placing the guarding block directly in the line of fire and saving you the trouble of getting hit by them. The one problem that would be facing you at this point would be the creepers. For them, I like to dig a pit in front of my base, so when I hit the creepers, they fall back and into the pit, increasing their distance (and thus, their blast radius' distance) from me and the front of my defenses.
Also, if you want to build a bridge, build it either over a very large drop, or build a corner into it like this:
My fort is pretty simple. It's a 5x5 tower with a 3x3 staircase in the middle. Around the tower is a 4 high wall (yes, 4 high) that's 4 away from the actual tower. Around this is a moat 1 wide. The only entrance looks like the following...
The lava was lucky built. Had lava under my entrance (intenional), and the creepers made a hole to it. :]
The paths design mean that any mobs will fall into the lava and die. Walls + moat also make it impossible to get in.
The tower looks like this. T = Tower wall, W = wall, M = Moat, S = staircase, G = ground.
Only one side btw. It's copied for the other 3 (with the entrance on one).
TTTGGGWMG
SSTGGGWMG
TSTGGGWMG
SSTGGGWMG
TTTGGGWMG
The reason for the wall being 3 away from the tower, is that any creepers that blow up part of the wall won't hit it. I can simply repair the ground and wall that way, which is very easy. :]
The tower itself is high enough to see the entire map, and goes underground too.
lava is good...
however... u dun gain any points for mobs dat die in lava or drown in water... or fall from heights...
and building in lava areas means dat u gotta build ur fort quite deep... (unless ur're real lucky... XD)
and if it's too deep... chances of mobs spawning there will be lesser...
so u can't camp in ur fort... :tongue.gif:
we need to identify wat is the main motive of the game?
yes! SURVIVAL!!!
so how do you survive?
mushrooms!!!
so dat you dun die...
start the map by locating areas that might have a high chance of finding mushrooms...
look inside holes in cliffs...
look for pigs...
hunt them for mushrooms...
never say no to more mushrooms...
see a mushroom? pick it...
see a pig? kill it...
you'll need all the mushrooms you can get if you wanna survive long enough to get a significant high score...
try to maintain a minimum of 20 mushrooms in your inventory at all times...
you'll never know when you might be outnumbered by mobs or get cornered with 5 crazy zombies hammering on you...
once your supplies get lower than 20 mushrooms... go hunt for more...
once you got your supplies ready...
you're ready to start building your fort...
find a strategic location to place it in...
you'll need it to fend off the constant attacks from mobs...
you don't need a massive fort... just a small one to defend yourself from getting attacked will do...
the bigger your fort is... the higher the chances of mobs spawning INSIDE your fort...
thus defeating the purpose of building it in the 1st place...
design your fort so that it would be rather difficult for mobs to enter by normal means...
my suggestion would be to build a moat 2 tiles wide and 2-3 tiles deep SURROUNDING your fort...
DO NOT put in any water... mobs can still swim across in case you didn't know... >. O || [ ]
__ || [ ][ ][ ][ ]
[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
[ ] = tile (fort wall)
with this design... you could kill mobs trapped in your moat very easily without the fear of being attacked...
you could just see their legs and whack at them...
even the arrows from skeletons can't reach you (though some arrows might reach inside... but the chances are slim)
and there you have it... your impenetrable fort...
once u get ur fort set up nicely... u could go mining or upgrading your fort to beautify it...
or exploring... and occasionally come back to ur fort to kill the trapped monsters...
note though... DO NOT kill creepers trapped in your moat... or anywhere in your fort...
their blast is big enough to cripple all your defenses... lure them away from your fort to take them out...
or u stand the chance or repairing your fort walls...
u could practically camp in your fort just to take out trapped mobs...
and go out hunting for mushrooms when supplies run low...
hope this helped in bringing up your high score a notch...
or letting you survive in the game longer... :tongue.gif:
other things to note...
-monsters killed by creeper's blast DO NOT give you any points...
-same thing goes for monsters which are killed by skeleton's arrows...
-NEVER dig vertically down... you'll never know if the tile below the one you are standing on is lava...
-always have your mushroom selected when not building so you can right click to heal instantly if u were ambushed...
-save often... and always save in your fort
-remember: the bigger your fort is... the higher the chances of mobs spawning INSIDE your fort...
Also, if you want to build a bridge, build it either over a very large drop, or build a corner into it like this:
_____________
| |
|##### |
|##### |
| ## |
| ## |
-------------------
This way, you can easily shove pursuing mobs into the abyss below or lead them into it, exploiting their straight-line path finding algorithms.
G = ground, L = lava, W = wall, g = "gate".
WWWWWWWgWW
LLLLLLLLLLLLGLLL
LLLLLLLLLLLLGLLLL
LLLLLLGGGGGLLLL
LLLLLLGLLLLLLLLLL
LLLLLLGLLLLLLLLL
LLLLLLGGGGGLLLLL
LLLLLLLLLLLLGLLLL
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The lava was lucky built. Had lava under my entrance (intenional), and the creepers made a hole to it. :]
The paths design mean that any mobs will fall into the lava and die. Walls + moat also make it impossible to get in.
The tower looks like this. T = Tower wall, W = wall, M = Moat, S = staircase, G = ground.
Only one side btw. It's copied for the other 3 (with the entrance on one).
TTTGGGWMG
SSTGGGWMG
TSTGGGWMG
SSTGGGWMG
TTTGGGWMG
The reason for the wall being 3 away from the tower, is that any creepers that blow up part of the wall won't hit it. I can simply repair the ground and wall that way, which is very easy. :]
The tower itself is high enough to see the entire map, and goes underground too.
however... u dun gain any points for mobs dat die in lava or drown in water... or fall from heights...
and building in lava areas means dat u gotta build ur fort quite deep... (unless ur're real lucky... XD)
and if it's too deep... chances of mobs spawning there will be lesser...
so u can't camp in ur fort... :tongue.gif:
umm.. off topic.