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Microsoft Security essentials has always been terrible, I would suggest getting AVG free edition, it's one of the best you can get without having to pay.
I disagree. MSE is about as unobtrusive as a AV could possibly be, and after years of computing and gaming, I base 100% of my judgement of an AV program on this sole factor. Quite honestly, I think AV programs are a complete waste of time and the only reason I use one at all is because MSE is so invisible. I've been infected before even tho AVG was running. The fact is... if the virus signature isn't in the AV program's database yet, then it cannot and will not stop it from running. People who use viruses to spread their crap know this fact. So every virus is a new virus, for the most part. AV's wont' stop em immediately, and when they do, the perps will just move on to a new one.
For the average computer user, any AV is fine. Just don't pay for one, that's all. I just talked my mom out of paying Symantec for yet another year's worth of her beloved Norton. The fact I was installing a Microsoft product seemed to put her at ease. PT Barnum effect.
(furiously clicking THIS ISN'T AN ATTACK SITE but it refuses to listen lol)
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When I researched if this was a bug, it became quite clear from the responses I read that it isn't a bug at all. Sadly, you cannot push redstone blocks vertically with pistons I guess, which I thought was the whole idea of having the redstone blocks in the first place - so you could insert the block for powering something and then retract it to unpower it.
Maybe it works from the side, but I like to build ground-level stuff and power them from below so the messy stuff is all hidden.
MInecraft often disappoints me these days, but that's just me I guess. People tell me I whine too much. Oh well.
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My bad, I didn't see it had been discussed already. I only play survival mode, so the "good one" was never an option for me either due to material requirements.
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Ingenious!
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I've had people call me a cheater for doing this, that's why I said it and put it in quotes. Like I say... it's my game after I purchased it, and it's my worlds. I can do whatever I want.
I had a difficult time adjusting when I tried playing on a multiplayer server because I don't have the backup plan. In fact, I was building a blaze grinder and ran into some difficulty, and since Etho's method uses lava, I suddenly had lava flowing everywhere, blazes flying around, and I just could not fix the darn thing without dying over and over and over... that was exactly the moment where I gave up on playing multiplayer, precisely because I could not generate backup saves of my work. I went back to playing boring single player. Kinda sad story, I know, but true. I'm weak and worthless.
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Peek a boo, I see you!
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Incorrect. sethbling made a video showing how to build a "poor man's enderman farm" and I have copied it and it works well.
I modified it to add a second row of pistons around the outside so I can fit many more enderman in before I flip the switch and begin counting. sethbling's has three pistons on each side, mine has those three, plus five more behind those on each side.
found it - thank you sethbling as always... and enjoy!
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Yep, I understand the feeling well. Been there, done that.
I add the date and time to the World folder name when I put it into the archives, to keep them easy to identify, and I delete most of the old World backup folders after I accumulate a whole bunch of em. The only one I really need to keep is the most recent one.
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And same as others, I never throw away a single item, I made a storage facility with plenty of chests and item frames to make the task easy to sort and save everything I collect.
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Yeah, it's "cheating", but so what... it's my game and I prefer not to lose my months of hard work gathering stuff like 57 diamonds.
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I just don't know how you guys got so much quartz. I filled my inventory in an hour, yeah (which is why I stopped and went back to home base). But that was only like 20 stacks of 64 of quartz ore since I had some spots filled.
But I guess my math is way off on the conversion, apologies. First of all, I saved half my ore blocks. I used Fortune III on the rest, and combined the quartz crystals into quartz blocks and only ended up with 44... but what I forgot was that I made a whole bunch of quartz stairs too because I am so sick of the cobblestone stairs and there aren't any smooth stone stairs (which I've always hated and never understood). So the 44 quartz block remark was very misleading I guess.
I haven't been back to the nether to collect more ore, mainly because I have to go further and deeper from my portal, and every time I do that I take a big risk of getting lost, or falling into lava, etc etc. There's just not a big need for quartz, I built my one daylight sensor and I don't build a whole lot of buildings. I just like having a collection of every block in the game for my storage facility... but then it just sits there in chests.
Just wanted to clear that up. Yeah, quartz was easy to find, but it's still tedious collecting it. I'd rather mine for diamonds even tho that gets real boring too.
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Yeah, I hear ya. I used to be so excited when I first bought Minecraft (last summer, on xbox, when it first came out on the console).
But nowadays, it's like everything is just kind of boring. I know that's my problem, not the game's problem. But it's still sad. I played xbox Minecraft for 12 hours a day for 2 months straight, I loved it so much and that was beta 1.7.3 version. Then I switched to PC to get all the new updated stuff and play in a much bigger world (xbox was TINY), but the game isn't the same anymore.
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No you didn't, that's just ridiculous. I spent one hour wandering around and collecting quartz ore, and I ended up with 44 blocks of quartz after Fortune III on the ore. Like the OP said, you need a HUGE amount of quartz ore to make a small amount of quartz blocks, and I also find it disappointing.
The main problem for me is, I have to travel so far into the nether, because I had explored so much of it previously searching for Fortresses. Just to get there, I had to build a new rail line to get me far enough away from my nether portal to create a new one (1028+ blocks away), and even then I wasn't far enough in the nether, then I had to tunnel another 200 blocks before I finally found quartz ore. So the whole quartz prospecting thing was very tedious and time consuming.