Okay, my Realm has been created. I don't have my nephew added yet, but both kids have been. The 5 year old has been a bit less helpful so far... go figure.
No pictures yet - survival is still a bit tough. We've all died several times. This first post will be more discussion of the problems we're experiencing in the Realms environment.
1- I'm still experiencing the bug where everything environmental goes black about 10-15 blocks away. It appears to be a texture bug, because my son had it, but it went away when he bought and installed the Plastic Texture pack.
2- There's occasionally a bit of a lag issue, unsurprisingly. Sometimes you have to wait up to 10-15 seconds for a block you destroyed to actually pop and give you the drops. One time I lagged out facing a zombie villager. Then when we re-established connection, he Jet Li'd me across the island with about a dozen lightning-fast punches.
3- Do NOT just destroy your chest if you need to move it. We've lost almost all of our gear because I did that a couple of times. Most of it just vanished. I didn't notice it the first time though, but some of it did vanish, I realized later. Empty your chest out first into your inventory or another chest, then break the old one.
All told though, we're making progress. I just started building our starter hut at the spawn point. Didn't do any exploring at all. We're on a small peninsula, surrounded on three sides by some pretty deep waters. I got killed once out in the water by a skeleton, and couldn't reach the bottom to try and retrieve what I'd been carrying before I started drowning. I've built us a protective wall all around the water to keep mobs from coming at us from there, although the land side still needs work.
I've also built a channel from the water up to the side of our house that functions as a drowning pit for mobs. I've formed a bit of a current that forces them in if they get too close. Then they drown and drop their stuff into a window slot inside the house. If you're quick you can get a hit on them coming in and get the xp too. But you have to be sitting their waiting for that to work. It's an easy way to collect some needed ingredients.
Either we've been unlucky, or seeds and wheat drops are less in Realms. I typically get 1 seed and 1 wheat from each fully grown wheat I harvest. And I only got 1 seed from about 10 grass the first time I tried to collect some. We're saving our food up, letting ourselves starve to death first. We've got 2 chickens, 2 sheep, and 1 cow (used to be 2 until a sand overhang collapsed). We're using our food for our animals first.
Mining-wise, we started out good. There's a good-sized pit next to our house that had 23 coal and 7 iron just sitting there for us. I got a bit of use out of those before the chest bug wiped them all out. We've cut two more mineshafts into the sides and picked up a bit of replacement iron, but that's it so far. I'm digging mine into a downward spiral and found nothing so far. But I will once I start expanding it.
That's all I've got for you so far, after about a day's play. I'll keep you updated and get you a screenshot or two while I'm at it.
Here's the first batch of pictures showing off my *beautiful* architectural skills. I'm going to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright of Realms, I can just tell.
I've had to rebuild the suction device for the mob drowner twice in the last 24 hours. Creepers keep blowing it up because we have to stand too close to lure them in.
So I'm trying to plot a way to put a current across the entire surface of the lake to draw everything in, like a Giant Vortex of DOOM.
Well, I've got all the kids joined to my Realm. They're not fully active in it yet, but they can get in whenever they want. I put out tasks for them to do if and when they want to. They're not really invested in the world yet, and may never be, so I'll probably handle most of the heavy lifting for a long time, and that's fine.
Here is the message board system I set up for us to use:
Not much else yet to report. I think I know how to build the vortex of doom I mentioned above, but it's going to take some time to actually build. Keeping me from getting swarmed by mobs while working on it will be the hardest part, probably.
Hehe... this witch is refusing to drown. She keeps coming up with water breathing potions, apparently. 2 others have drowned here before, and she will too... eventually. >:)
Because the other main players are my kids and nephew (the oldest of whom is only 10), I'm going to be very restrictive of who I allow into the server. This is primarily a family realm, but I may allow people I know I can trust on. I appreciate you wanting to join, but I'm going to have to decline for now.
Layer 3 of the Mob Vortex of DOOM is in place. I still need to go through and dig out the dirt I used to support it, but that's mostly trivial, other than making sure not to drown.
Layer 3: The Making Of:
Layer 3: Finished:
I'm thinking I'm going to build some platforms using the posts as supports, to give mobs a place to spawn. That will be the next phase of the build, I think.
Also, the other day, I was digging random shafts out from the spiral staircase mine and ran into an abandoned mineshaft. I've given the boys the task of exploring, lighting up, and looting it. They don't get on very often yet, so we'll see how long it takes them to finish the job.
Layer 3 of the Mob Vortex of DOOM is in place. I still need to go through and dig out the dirt I used to support it, but that's mostly trivial, other than making sure not to drown.
Layer 3: The Making Of:
Layer 3: Finished:
I'm thinking I'm going to build some platforms using the posts as supports, to give mobs a place to spawn. That will be the next phase of the build, I think.
Also, the other day, I was digging random shafts out from the spiral staircase mine and ran into an abandoned mineshaft. I've given the boys the task of exploring, lighting up, and looting it. They don't get on very often yet, so we'll see how long it takes them to finish the job.
I REALLY want to know what your main source of food is, as food is a REAL issue when I play realms
I REALLY want to know what your main source of food is, as food is a REAL issue when I play realms
I understand completely! To be honest, I only just recently released the ban on eating in the Realm. The habit has been to put everything in a chest and commit suicide when you start starving. The food level might have been sustainable for just 1 player, but with 4 of us, and only me doing the majority of the organizing work, no way. All food was earmarked toward building up the farms or breeding and luring animals. We now have a pretty good sized farm going, and a good stock of foodstuffs. I think it's sustainable now.
I haven't posted recently, but I have been busy. I'll post a series of updates as soon as I get back to a stable place.
I understand completely! To be honest, I only just recently released the ban on eating in the Realm. The habit has been to put everything in a chest and commit suicide when you start starving. The food level might have been sustainable for just 1 player, but with 4 of us, and only me doing the majority of the organizing work, no way. All food was earmarked toward building up the farms or breeding and luring animals. We now have a pretty good sized farm going, and a good stock of foodstuffs. I think it's sustainable now.
I haven't posted recently, but I have been busy. I'll post a series of updates as soon as I get back to a stable place.
I know you might not condone this but try duplicating food, it's not game breaking as it's only food
I understand completely! To be honest, I only just recently released the ban on eating in the Realm. The habit has been to put everything in a chest and commit suicide when you start starving. The food level might have been sustainable for just 1 player, but with 4 of us, and only me doing the majority of the organizing work, no way. All food was earmarked toward building up the farms or breeding and luring animals. We now have a pretty good sized farm going, and a good stock of foodstuffs. I think it's sustainable now.
I haven't posted recently, but I have been busy. I'll post a series of updates as soon as I get back to a stable place.
Also for some reason there is only one page on your blog and it says you posted the first comment on Jun. 19th, 2016
I know you might not condone this but try duplicating food, it's not game breaking as it's only food
I only just found the duplicating bug this morning, by accident. Or, at least, *a* duplicating bug. I used it, but I'm not a big fan of "cheating" like this, so I don't know if I'll use it again. I don't think I'll destroy what I created, nothing was too out there. I did a stack of torches, a stack of glowstone dust, a couple blocks of lapis lazuli, and the biggest one, enough books to make a full library for the enchanting table and a bunch left over for enchanting.
I only just found the duplicating bug this morning, by accident. Or, at least, *a* duplicating bug. I used it, but I'm not a big fan of "cheating" like this, so I don't know if I'll use it again. I don't think I'll destroy what I created, nothing was too out there. I did a stack of torches, a stack of glowstone dust, a couple blocks of lapis lazuli, and the biggest one, enough books to make a full library for the enchanting table and a bunch left over for enchanting.
Can you tell me how to duplicate food, I know how to duplicate blocks from fences and items through an anvil but with the anvil I have to spend levels renaming the item plus it takes up inventory space because it has a different name. I just need to know how to duplicate food or items that are not blocks in general
*shrug* Sorry, only duplicating bug I know is by placing the block on top of a fencepost. It works for melons though, and would probably work for pumpkins and hay bales too. It's not all food, but you don't need a balanced diet in Minecraft, just the raw materials to not starve.
*shrug* Sorry, only duplicating bug I know is by placing the block on top of a fencepost. It works for melons though, and would probably work for pumpkins and hay bales too. It's not all food, but you don't need a balanced diet in Minecraft, just the raw materials to not starve.
HAY BALES OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUGGESTING THAT I DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF THAT
Alrighty, time for a minor update, and a few pictures.
I've built us a small greenhouse for farming. Me being me, I built it just underwater.
Unfortunately, I put the lefthand wall one block too short, so I had to engage in a little rebuilding. I didn't want to waste all the glass if I could help it, and, lo and behold, I didn't have to!
Moving a piston along did the job wonderfully.
With the flip of a lever, 3 blocks lower and let in the ocean for a quick harvesting of the crops.
I installed a Nethergate underneath the mob drowner. My thinking was that if a zombie pigman did come through the gate, he'd swim upward through the water, then get trapped and drown.
So far though, the only one to show up didn't enter the water. That may be a recurring problem. I'll have to experiment and see.
At any rate, the first thing I did in the Nether was build a wall to protect the gate from ghasts. Then I started to dig a small tunnel for growing mushrooms, and the very first block I dug out released a lava flow that ran directly into my gate and shut it down. *sigh* So I had my son log in and reopen the gate. UNFORTUNATELY, that created a new gate, outside of my protective wall. Cue immediate blasting by at least 2 ghasts. What followed was a VERY frustrating couple of days of constantly going through the gate and immediately dying. Finally, one of the gates appeared in a protected zone, and I was able to build a new safety wall around the old gates where the ghasts couldn't shoot us. My son and nephew then kamikaze charged the ghasts enough times to eventually kill them. I'm thinking I'll bring some pistons into the Nether to start expanding my protective wall the safe way.
In my explorations of the mines, I found a skeleton spawner. It took me a little while to pacify it using a lava bucket to destroy the skeletons. Then I dug around it to create a skeleton grinder. I built an enchanting library around it to take advantage of the free experience.
Then I laid a path for the others to follow to get to it:
And then, finally, I tried my hand at a sugarcane machine to automate the harvesting so making books would be easier.
What's next on my plate? Well, I'm thinking about expanding our shack into a real house. Various items I'd want in it have been percolating through my skull, starting with a porch on the north side overlooking the submerged greenhouse.
Alrighty, time for a minor update, and a few pictures.
I've built us a small greenhouse for farming. Me being me, I built it just underwater.
Unfortunately, I put the lefthand wall one block too short, so I had to engage in a little rebuilding. I didn't want to waste all the glass if I could help it, and, lo and behold, I didn't have to!
Moving a piston along did the job wonderfully.
With the flip of a lever, 3 blocks lower and let in the ocean for a quick harvesting of the crops.
I installed a Nethergate underneath the mob drowner. My thinking was that if a zombie pigman did come through the gate, he'd swim upward through the water, then get trapped and drown.
So far though, the only one to show up didn't enter the water. That may be a recurring problem. I'll have to experiment and see.
At any rate, the first thing I did in the Nether was build a wall to protect the gate from ghasts. Then I started to dig a small tunnel for growing mushrooms, and the very first block I dug out released a lava flow that ran directly into my gate and shut it down. *sigh* So I had my son log in and reopen the gate. UNFORTUNATELY, that created a new gate, outside of my protective wall. Cue immediate blasting by at least 2 ghasts. What followed was a VERY frustrating couple of days of constantly going through the gate and immediately dying. Finally, one of the gates appeared in a protected zone, and I was able to build a new safety wall around the old gates where the ghasts couldn't shoot us. My son and nephew then kamikaze charged the ghasts enough times to eventually kill them. I'm thinking I'll bring some pistons into the Nether to start expanding my protective wall the safe way.
In my explorations of the mines, I found a skeleton spawner. It took me a little while to pacify it using a lava bucket to destroy the skeletons. Then I dug around it to create a skeleton grinder. I built an enchanting library around it to take advantage of the free experience.
Then I laid a path for the others to follow to get to it:
And then, finally, I tried my hand at a sugarcane machine to automate the harvesting so making books would be easier.
What's next on my plate? Well, I'm thinking about expanding our shack into a real house. Various items I'd want in it have been percolating through my skull, starting with a porch on the north side overlooking the submerged greenhouse.
Why do you want to kill zombie pigmen!? They don't attack unless you attack and they're nice enough to have around, you could even trap one as a pet!
Okay, my Realm has been created. I don't have my nephew added yet, but both kids have been. The 5 year old has been a bit less helpful so far... go figure.
No pictures yet - survival is still a bit tough. We've all died several times. This first post will be more discussion of the problems we're experiencing in the Realms environment.
1- I'm still experiencing the bug where everything environmental goes black about 10-15 blocks away. It appears to be a texture bug, because my son had it, but it went away when he bought and installed the Plastic Texture pack.
2- There's occasionally a bit of a lag issue, unsurprisingly. Sometimes you have to wait up to 10-15 seconds for a block you destroyed to actually pop and give you the drops. One time I lagged out facing a zombie villager. Then when we re-established connection, he Jet Li'd me across the island with about a dozen lightning-fast punches.
3- Do NOT just destroy your chest if you need to move it. We've lost almost all of our gear because I did that a couple of times. Most of it just vanished. I didn't notice it the first time though, but some of it did vanish, I realized later. Empty your chest out first into your inventory or another chest, then break the old one.
All told though, we're making progress. I just started building our starter hut at the spawn point. Didn't do any exploring at all. We're on a small peninsula, surrounded on three sides by some pretty deep waters. I got killed once out in the water by a skeleton, and couldn't reach the bottom to try and retrieve what I'd been carrying before I started drowning. I've built us a protective wall all around the water to keep mobs from coming at us from there, although the land side still needs work.
I've also built a channel from the water up to the side of our house that functions as a drowning pit for mobs. I've formed a bit of a current that forces them in if they get too close. Then they drown and drop their stuff into a window slot inside the house. If you're quick you can get a hit on them coming in and get the xp too. But you have to be sitting their waiting for that to work. It's an easy way to collect some needed ingredients.
Either we've been unlucky, or seeds and wheat drops are less in Realms. I typically get 1 seed and 1 wheat from each fully grown wheat I harvest. And I only got 1 seed from about 10 grass the first time I tried to collect some. We're saving our food up, letting ourselves starve to death first. We've got 2 chickens, 2 sheep, and 1 cow (used to be 2 until a sand overhang collapsed). We're using our food for our animals first.
Mining-wise, we started out good. There's a good-sized pit next to our house that had 23 coal and 7 iron just sitting there for us. I got a bit of use out of those before the chest bug wiped them all out. We've cut two more mineshafts into the sides and picked up a bit of replacement iron, but that's it so far. I'm digging mine into a downward spiral and found nothing so far. But I will once I start expanding it.
That's all I've got for you so far, after about a day's play. I'll keep you updated and get you a screenshot or two while I'm at it.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
Here's the first batch of pictures showing off my *beautiful* architectural skills. I'm going to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright of Realms, I can just tell.
Realm Album #1
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
I've had to rebuild the suction device for the mob drowner twice in the last 24 hours. Creepers keep blowing it up because we have to stand too close to lure them in.
So I'm trying to plot a way to put a current across the entire surface of the lake to draw everything in, like a Giant Vortex of DOOM.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
Well, I've got all the kids joined to my Realm. They're not fully active in it yet, but they can get in whenever they want. I put out tasks for them to do if and when they want to. They're not really invested in the world yet, and may never be, so I'll probably handle most of the heavy lifting for a long time, and that's fine.
Here is the message board system I set up for us to use:
Not much else yet to report. I think I know how to build the vortex of doom I mentioned above, but it's going to take some time to actually build. Keeping me from getting swarmed by mobs while working on it will be the hardest part, probably.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
Stage 2 of the Mob Vortex is built:
I'll add Stage 3 next...
Hehe... this witch is refusing to drown. She keeps coming up with water breathing potions, apparently. 2 others have drowned here before, and she will too... eventually. >:)
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
I want to also join your realms
Please add me
Because the other main players are my kids and nephew (the oldest of whom is only 10), I'm going to be very restrictive of who I allow into the server. This is primarily a family realm, but I may allow people I know I can trust on. I appreciate you wanting to join, but I'm going to have to decline for now.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
Layer 3 of the Mob Vortex of DOOM is in place. I still need to go through and dig out the dirt I used to support it, but that's mostly trivial, other than making sure not to drown.
Layer 3: The Making Of:
Layer 3: Finished:
I'm thinking I'm going to build some platforms using the posts as supports, to give mobs a place to spawn. That will be the next phase of the build, I think.
Also, the other day, I was digging random shafts out from the spiral staircase mine and ran into an abandoned mineshaft. I've given the boys the task of exploring, lighting up, and looting it. They don't get on very often yet, so we'll see how long it takes them to finish the job.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
I REALLY want to know what your main source of food is, as food is a REAL issue when I play realms
I understand completely! To be honest, I only just recently released the ban on eating in the Realm. The habit has been to put everything in a chest and commit suicide when you start starving. The food level might have been sustainable for just 1 player, but with 4 of us, and only me doing the majority of the organizing work, no way. All food was earmarked toward building up the farms or breeding and luring animals. We now have a pretty good sized farm going, and a good stock of foodstuffs. I think it's sustainable now.
I haven't posted recently, but I have been busy. I'll post a series of updates as soon as I get back to a stable place.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
I know you might not condone this but try duplicating food, it's not game breaking as it's only food
Also for some reason there is only one page on your blog and it says you posted the first comment on Jun. 19th, 2016
Never mind I realized that was you survival blog not realms
I only just found the duplicating bug this morning, by accident. Or, at least, *a* duplicating bug. I used it, but I'm not a big fan of "cheating" like this, so I don't know if I'll use it again. I don't think I'll destroy what I created, nothing was too out there. I did a stack of torches, a stack of glowstone dust, a couple blocks of lapis lazuli, and the biggest one, enough books to make a full library for the enchanting table and a bunch left over for enchanting.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
Can you tell me how to duplicate food, I know how to duplicate blocks from fences and items through an anvil but with the anvil I have to spend levels renaming the item plus it takes up inventory space because it has a different name. I just need to know how to duplicate food or items that are not blocks in general
*shrug* Sorry, only duplicating bug I know is by placing the block on top of a fencepost. It works for melons though, and would probably work for pumpkins and hay bales too. It's not all food, but you don't need a balanced diet in Minecraft, just the raw materials to not starve.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
HAY BALES OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUGGESTING THAT I DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF THAT
Alrighty, time for a minor update, and a few pictures.
I've built us a small greenhouse for farming. Me being me, I built it just underwater.
Unfortunately, I put the lefthand wall one block too short, so I had to engage in a little rebuilding. I didn't want to waste all the glass if I could help it, and, lo and behold, I didn't have to!
Moving a piston along did the job wonderfully.
With the flip of a lever, 3 blocks lower and let in the ocean for a quick harvesting of the crops.
I installed a Nethergate underneath the mob drowner. My thinking was that if a zombie pigman did come through the gate, he'd swim upward through the water, then get trapped and drown.
So far though, the only one to show up didn't enter the water. That may be a recurring problem. I'll have to experiment and see.
At any rate, the first thing I did in the Nether was build a wall to protect the gate from ghasts. Then I started to dig a small tunnel for growing mushrooms, and the very first block I dug out released a lava flow that ran directly into my gate and shut it down. *sigh* So I had my son log in and reopen the gate. UNFORTUNATELY, that created a new gate, outside of my protective wall. Cue immediate blasting by at least 2 ghasts. What followed was a VERY frustrating couple of days of constantly going through the gate and immediately dying. Finally, one of the gates appeared in a protected zone, and I was able to build a new safety wall around the old gates where the ghasts couldn't shoot us. My son and nephew then kamikaze charged the ghasts enough times to eventually kill them. I'm thinking I'll bring some pistons into the Nether to start expanding my protective wall the safe way.
In my explorations of the mines, I found a skeleton spawner. It took me a little while to pacify it using a lava bucket to destroy the skeletons. Then I dug around it to create a skeleton grinder. I built an enchanting library around it to take advantage of the free experience.
Then I laid a path for the others to follow to get to it:
And then, finally, I tried my hand at a sugarcane machine to automate the harvesting so making books would be easier.
What's next on my plate? Well, I'm thinking about expanding our shack into a real house. Various items I'd want in it have been percolating through my skull, starting with a porch on the north side overlooking the submerged greenhouse.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)
Why do you want to kill zombie pigmen!? They don't attack unless you attack and they're nice enough to have around, you could even trap one as a pet!
So I can loot their gold fillings.
TMO's Realms Blog (v0.15+)
MCPE Survival Blog #2 - Rhageos (v0.11-0.12)
My MCPE Survival world Blog (v0.9-0.10)
MCPE Hardcore Blog (v0.10)