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coords x -270 y 74 z -1265, I traveled around teleporting.
You certainly have the right to your own opinion, but you run the risk of coming across as unnecessarily negative. Personally, I like to avoid that outcome as map creators are putting something out there for others to enjoy, and while some maps are less successful than others, it's still time and creative energy expended on the minecraft community and should therefore be handled with a little more consideration. 
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No lava.
No stone.
Just you, some trees, and a couple friends.
Skyblock is a wonderful map, but this is NOT Skyblock, and is nothing like it. Play it for 20 minutes and you'll see.
CHANGELOG:
4.0 Initial release. You can pretty much make, breed, grow, spawn, or trade for everything in the game, eventually. If you're smart
4.1 Incremental Update to Minecraft 1.5. Added Quartz and more Soul Sand. Put most starting items in a chest. Increased biome sizes and replaced the Desert with a Mushroom biome. Modified the challenges to be much easier to mark completed. Moved the spawn point so slimes are easier to get. NOTE: This does not seem to have taken. I'll fix it again in 4.2, but for now follow the below instructions.
TO FIX SLIME SPAWNING:
KNOWN BUGS:
TO FIX ZOMBIE PIGMAN SPAWNING:
Normal Mode:
ADFLY LINK: OceanBlock 4.1
DIRECT LINK: OceanBlock 4.1
Hardcore Mode:
ADFLY LINK: OceanBlock 4.1 Hardcore
DIRECT LINK: OceanBlock 4.1 Hardcore
Version En Español (Thanks to MsFenixWolf):
ADFLY LINK: OceanBlock 4.1 En Español
MEDIAFIRE LINK: OceanBlock 4.1 En Español
Multiplayer server! (Thanks to BritishCommando2 for setting up and running this):
URL: oceanblock.us
Just paste that into Minecraft and head on over!
Alternate urls: oceanblock.me oceanblock.co oceanblock.in oceanblock.org
Once connected hit T, then type /server Oceanblock
Then read all the signs for what to do next!
Rules:
Notes:
Challenges:
MILESTONES (Do in REVERSE order):
(the remaining lists are actually in reverse order, the same order they are in the book. Do them in any order you wish, but the ones at the bottom of each category are a bit easier than the ones at the top)
BUILDING:
CRAFTING:
GENERAL:
COLLECTION:
FARMS:
WOOL (Min. 16 of each):
POTIONS (Min. 6 of each):
FAQ:
How do I get cobblestone? Where's the Lava?
Until you get to the Nether, there IS NONE. This is not Skyblock, no matter how similar it appears on the surface.
Anything you can do with cobblestone, you can do with wood, except maybe holding lava.
What about Iron?
Iron is a renewable resource, and getting it is one of your goals. If you do the challenges in order you'll get iron in no time.
What about Whithers? I bet you didn't think about those.
You're right, I could have accounted for Withers but I didn't.
Your map is dumb and you're dumb and how can you mine diamond without iron you dummy.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but you'll need iron to mine diamonds.
Spawn Island
The Nether
The Emergency Cache
Others' Maps:
OceanBlock 5.0 by Slytherite - Includes spawn fixes (both for players and monsters), the new Flower Forest biome, and the new tree types!
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I not only don't mind this, I encourage it! Make your own thread for it and post here and I'll update the first post. I will link to all versions posted here and won't have a ton of time to devote to checking them out, so will preferentially list maps from names I recognize and maps reported to be good.
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That said, OceanBlock 4.1 in its current state will always be available for download. I have no plans on removing it from the server its on and that server is my own personal site that I have no plans on discontinuing, ever. I will also continue to visit the forum and this thread in particular, of course.
Also, if someone would like to take a try at maintaining the map and bringing it up to the current version, I wholeheartedly support that. I may even play it, eventually
Sorry to anybody who feels led on by this. I truly thought that the past few weeks' of extra spare time would afford me a chance to work on the map, but I've just had 0 desire to do so. And I don't think that will change.
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I'd say it's pretty likely. However I cannot guarantee when it'll come out. I'm going to have some free time over the next month or so but I'm not sure when that time is, and I basically haven't played (or really followed) Minecraft since 1.6 came out so I'm not up on anything that's come in the snapshots since then.
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Did you have anything else in the portal? You need NOTHING but AIR and FIRE in the 6 blocks that make up the interior of the portal.
Don't put a block inside the portal and light it on fire. Put blocks in front of and behind the portal and light them on fire.
If you are already doing that, do it several times. Eventually it'll light.
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Thanks go to BritishCommando2 for setting up and running this. I have nothing to do with it.
URL: http://oceanblock.us
Just paste that into Minecraft and head on over!
Alternate urls: oceanblock.me oceanblock.co oceanblock.in oceanblock.org
Once connected hit T, then type /server Oceanblock
Then read all the signs for what to do next!
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I refer to them as "Pappy" and "Red"
I've actually thought about this, but never did the legwork and research to see what is needed. The perfect librarian is probably the easiest to get done especially if you start with a guy who already has a gold trade. I'm surprised it's just 9 trades. That seems pretty easy though the last few have got to be a chore to get even if you do start with gold. I guess what would make them perfect in Oceanblock is a paper trade, but I'd be happy also with buying a bookshelf as the final trade. They're pretty cheap and at worst you can eventually break them down and sell the books back to him, likely for the exact number of emeralds you paid for the shelves. The perfect butcher wouldn't be too bad either, with any "buy cooked meat" trade last or (my favorite) buying (char)coal. Though with the probability of that one, I can't see expecting it to show up last very often.
I'd assume the book enchant can change, but only if the cost is lower than the last one. It probably generates a random book enchant for a random cost, and then (like with any other trade) sees if there's already a book enchant for more money already there. I'd like to test it though and you need to test to see what happens when the cost is the same, as there's no way to know how they programmed that even by guessing.
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I have no moral objections to hacking in a chestful of the things, either.
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If only there was a vast network of interconnected computers that contained an easily searchable archive of most all human knowledge!
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You have multiple options, depending on what you can and are willing to do:
Make big platforms at y=64 (which is always within a fortress zone if one is present, as far as I have seen) until you get lucky. This will likely take a LONG time, but is probably the "purest" way to do it.
Search through this topic, I'm sure someone has posted the coordinates somewhere. I don't know them else I'd toss them in here behind a spoiler tag.
Find an online resource that will show or tell you the coordinates of the fortress, given the map's seed (which you can get in the game).
Once you get the seed and coordinates in the Nether of the portal, start a new world in creative mode with that seed, go to those coordinates and look around until you find the fortress. This is what I'd do. It's a good mix of "do it yourself" and "doesn't take 30 years."
(You said no mods but I love this one so include it here) Install The Bounding Box Outline mod.
EDIT: One more I forgot about:
AMIDST which is a separate program so not actually a mod.