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7. How many friends have you gained through gaming (IRL and In game).
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Quote from danaphanous»

Creative Killing is the best. Try using weapons that aren't weapons to do in your opponents.

My weapons of choice: (keep these on the hotbar)

1. Fishing Rod
2. Cactus + Sand
3. Cobweb + Shears
4. Bucket of Water
5. Bucket of Lava
6. Flint and Steel
7. Eggs...lots of eggs

Here's a few hilarious scenarios:

You are being rushed by a player. Run down a hill and place cobwebs after you. Player gets stuck and can't attack through the web at certain angles. You're free to kill him any way you like. One sadistic way: Dig out under the cobweb as they fall and place lava. They'll burn to death trying to get free as they slowly fall through into the lava.

You are sprinting across the desert. Turn around and plant cactus in an arc. Your pursuer smashes straight into them. He gets free and runs at you again. Use the fishing rod to fling him into other cactus. (though this might have been disabled recently for players...still fun for mobs though). Carrying some sand makes this strat work in any terrain but takes a couple seconds longer.

Creeper is on the other side of a ravine giving you the stink-eye. Most players would whip out the bow and place a few shots. Try instead going creeper fishing. Cast your line and pull him and other ravine mobs of the edge to their deaths. they don't die? Drop lava on their heads. Easy.

It is hilarious to be running up a hill and place water at the top all your pursuers get washed back down hill. If you had a weapon like a bow you could now get a few shots off. But that's not allowed. Try pummeling them with eggs instead. Eggs are more fun than snowballs bc then they get lots of little chicks running around them making noise.

Flint and Steel: enough said. Fun way to damage your pursuers by lighting the ground behind you. If they aren't carrying a bucket of water sucks to be them. That's half their health right there.

Anyway, brains over brawn I always say.

There are even more fun trap designs that require a bit of work beforehand and infuriate your attackers. It's quite easy to lure people in when you are being chased:

1. Pool of water with signs below at the base of a hill. Player jumps in after you and plunges through to their death.
2. place in floating sand/gravel by avoiding block updates. Create a block update as your pursuer enter the patch and he falls through with all the sand/gravel.
3. Punching passage: I like designing passages in my house with smooth stone floors, shadows, and smooth stone pressure plates. You know where they all are but it's too shadowy for the pursuer to tell. You jump over each one. He runs into them and pistons come out from the sides punching him in the head repeatedly. It is freaking hilarious. Just activate the top 2 from each side and they seriously look like boxing fists popping out of the wall for a headshot. You can also make variants to trap them in a recess or pitfall them, but head-punching is my favorite as it is so annoying. At the end of the passage to top things off you can have 4 machine-gun repeaters to finish him off. Just run around the corner and step the plates and the guns go blazin! You could have them behind a lava wall for flaming arrows and disguise.



Not available in survival but fun:

Stack of Zombie Pigman Eggs

When a player is running at you swinging a sword tap the ground in front of them as they run forward. They hit the pigman and it rushes them. Place a few more to sic a swarm on him then pillar up so they don't go after you next. hehehe. Watch the massacre from above.

Quote from eyedjellyfish78

Changing the minecraft launcher over to your nvidia card should do the trick, it's working for everyone else I've told who has nvidia. You might have done it wrong. Do this: Right click the new minecraft launcher. Hover your cursor over "Run with graphics processor". In that, select "Change default graphics processor". Once this window is open, select the "Global" tab near the top of the window. Then, change it from "Integrated Graphics" to your nvidia card.