Man, it's been a while since I last posted in this thread!

Well, I started a new world in my "tech mods" profile. This time, I started on easy mode (instead of peaceful mode, which I usually play on) and intend to stay in easy mode (for the most part, at least).

So far, I've got a nice house built with a crafting room, a bedroom, and plenty of storage (most of which uses the drawers from the mod Storage Drawers).

The house also has a basement. I've dug out a furnace room that has 32 furnaces. I'm also digging out a room for an indoor fishing pond, but I have kind of neglected that project lately...

I've planted farms for gysahl greens (from ChocoCraft) and wheat along with some sugar cane. I also have some pumpkin seeds from pumpkins that I found, a carrot from a zombie, and some melon seeds from a loot bag (from the mod Loot Bags), but I haven't set up farms for planting those yet. I've also built pens for cows, chickens, and sheep.

I've tamed a couple of chocobos (also from ChocoCraft). One has a pack bag and the other has a saddle with saddle bags.

I've dug out a mine deep underground and have found some diamonds and redstone along with loads of iron as well as copper and tin (the copper and tin are from a couple of mods: Forestry and IndustrialCraft 2).

I've also set aside an area for a basic machine lab. I've got the main building for it built, as well.

I've set up a couple of outposts away from my main base, but there's not much worth noting about them.

That's the story thus far!

I'm gonna go ahead and be "that guy"...

I keep things fresh by playing with mods.

Some people don't want to use mods (in fact, some people are really strongly against using mods), but they can liven up the survival experience very nicely.

I also keep myself busy with large projects (along with smaller projects along the way). If something takes a long time to finish, it will keep you busy longer. (Of course, some people do get bored of these kinds of projects, but some people don't. )

Just a couple of ideas for ya.

I've gotten a couple of things done in my "tech mods" profile.

I hired (well, tamed) a LittleMaid (from littleMaidMobX) and used a name tag to name her "Ashley". I've had her smelt a bunch of items for me as well as carry some things around (they have 18 inventory slots, so they can be handy for carrying things) while I've been working.

I built a bridge over a river, as well. It's a pretty unremarkable bridge, just made from "disordered stone bricks" and "stone panel" blocks from Chisel 2 with some modififed (well, re-skinned) torches that are also from Chisel 2.

I built a chicken pen, as well. It's a structure built from full blocks since mobs can glitch through fences when chunks are unloaded and loaded.

I've also started working on a cow pen that is similarly built but much bigger.

Also...

I've started playing with a "Thaumcraft" profile that has Thaumcraft (obviously), some addons for it, and some other magic mods such as EssentialCraft.

Not much has happened in that world, though.

I did spawn near both savannah and desert, which isn't too common for me.

That's the story thus far!

I started playing in 1.3.2 (official release, not beta).

I knew about the game for a long time before that (I actually knew about it back in alpha from Notch showing it to people in the Ludum Dare IRC channel) but I didn't think much of it until I watched some let's play videos of it. (Of course, I'm glad that I eventually decided to pick it up. )

I've gotten some things done in my secondary world in my "tech mods" profile.

I've finished my house. However, I'm slacking a little bit on switching to easy mode (switching from peaceful mode). I'm going to, but I'm procrastinating.

My mining tunnel has reached the depth where I like to start my "deep" column mines (Y=14). I'm going to dig out an area that is 5 cells square and then dig a staircase down in the center of that. (I'm very inefficient when I'm mining, but I don't care ).

I've planted a wheat farm with 60 wheat. I'm going to expand it some time soon, though. I'm also going to grow gysahl greens (from ChocoCraft) so that I can tame and breed chocobos.

I've expanded my oak tree farm from 48 trees to 64 trees. I'm using oak wood for a lot of my charcoal since I don't really like building with oak. (Okay, the chiseled planks from Chisel 2 make it somewhat nicer to build with oak planks, but stilll...)

That's the story thus far!

There's a couple more things that I do to keep things fresh that I didn't mention in my last post in this thread.

Sometimes, I spend time in a creative mode world designing things. I have Schematica, so I can save schematics (using the same file format as MCEdit) and use those as a guide to build things in my survival worlds. I also have Map Making Tools, which makes building large structures in creative mode much faster (it does many of the same things as WorldEdit) and can also copy structures and paste them in other places.

I also spend time in creative mode worlds (usually I have one specifically for this) writing code for use with ComputerCraft. That mod has programmable computers (as one might expect) as well as "turtle" robots that can place blocks, harvest blocks (if they have a tool equipped), and even craft (if they have a crafting table equipped). The computers and turtles also support wireless networking if they have a wireless modem equipped.

Mainly, I like to write APIs for the computers and turtles (modules of reusable code that other scripts can use) for things like building and inventory management. I also occasionally write scripts that use those APIs for things like having a turtle build a simple shelter.

Those are a couple more things that I do.

So what if it's cheating?

From the perspective of someone who only plays singleplayer and plays with mods that are much more powerful than the vanilla F3 screen, I can say that some of us don't care if the things that we use are considered "cheats" by some people.

Also, if you think that the entire community is against using these exploitable features, just keep in mind that the outrage about the decision made in the snapshots of 1.8 to change the drops of iron golems (specifically so that they would only drop if killed directly by a player) was so vocal that it eventually convinced the devs to change it back for the actual release of 1.8. The fact that they (or Dinnerbone, at least) seemed pretty angry about it suggests to me that they were forced to by the community outrage, possibly making it a PR issue for Mojang.

For every person who hates everything that could be considered "cheating", there are several who are flexible about how much "cheating" they are willing to do.

Hey there, folks. I have something to discuss about play style.

Do you set up outposts away from your base(s)? Also, if you do, what do you keep in them?

I'm curious about how folks around here think about the matter of setting up small outposts.

I want to clarify that I don't necessarily mean full-out bases aside from your main base, but I also don't mean to say that I don't want to hear about those.

Personally, I occasionally set up a small outpost in the wilderness to use as a shelter while traveling long distances. Since I've started to play exclusively on easy mode (as opposed to peaceful mode, which I used to play in), I've found that having a place to sleep and restock my supplies is useful. If I am outside at night (and not on peaceful mode, of course) I tend to either get hurt or scramble to the nearest shelter (and preferably bed) as fast as I can. Having little outposts to retreat into here and there helps with that quite a bit. Having those outposts also makes it easier to get back to where I was if I die (as long as I sleep in the outpost's bed, of course). Since I play with the "keepInventory" game rule turned on (ie: I don't drop any items or experience if/when I die), that's mainly a matter of getting back to what I was doing when I died (as well as getting back to my chocobo if I left it near where I died).

I usually set up outposts either near valuable resources that I can't just pick up and take with me (such as large deposits of Chisel 2 stones that I want to dig up). I also set them up at points that take about 6-8 in-game hours to travel between on a yellow chocobo. That might be a little too close together, but I feel "safe" with them that close together.

As far as what I keep in them, here is a brief list:

• Food (usually at least bread)
• Items for healing tamed mobs (such as gysahl greens (from ChocoCraft) for healing my chocobo)
• Wood
• Cobblestone
• Torches
• Charcoal
• Arrows

I also keep any items or blocks that I gathered nearby in those outposts at least temporarily. That's mainly because I don't like to throw things away, though.

How about you folks?

Quote from Baryonic_Lord»

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A player who is more for exploration and adventure in Minecraft may consider farms cheating (snip, snip)

As someone who prefers to mine for minerals and use manual farms for food and wood, I wouldn't say that I consider mob farms of any sort cheating. It's not how I prefer to play, but it's certainly not cheating.

The definition of "cheating" is somewhat subjective in this game (and other sandbox games, for that matter), but I think that defining it in terms of what you do and don't prefer to do is kind of... well, an odd way to think about things.

That's just my 2c on that idea.

Passive mobs do spawn, but they have a very low spawn cap and a very low spawn frequency. Basically, if you have no passive mobs at all in an area for long enough, you will eventually have a couple of them spawn. That might include some mobs that are technically neutral, though; for example, I'm pretty sure that spawn cap counts wolves.

As another poster said, passive mobs don't despawn. The only exception to that is chickens that are being ridden by baby zombies. Those despawn along with their riders like spiders that are ridden by spider jockies. You don't need to worry about baby zombies stealing chickens, though, since "chicken jockies" spawn with their chickens.

The fact that the game is so stingy with spawning animals after chunk generation only makes things harder if you kill all of them (or they get killed some other way, I guess).

Not to pick on people who are assuming this, but I'm kind of unclear on whether OP has gotten into a situation where this causes a problem or is just asking out of curiosity (or to avoid such a situation, I suppose).

Description

Adds ships to the world generation, a new mob (Piranha, currently not in v2.0.0 for MC 1.11.2 and 1.12.2 but still available with older versions), and a diving suit. Currently adds rowboats, sailboats (upright and sideways), sloops, schooners, and the Waverunner to oceans and beaches.

Installation

More info on the mod below (and screenshots) but I figure this is what you are here for!

First get minecraft forge here

Then get:

v2.0.0 for Minecraft 1.11.2+ is on curse

v1.7.0 for Minecraft 1.8 direct

or

v1.7.0 for Minecraft 1.7.x direct

or

v1.7.0 for Minecraft 1.6.4 direct

Features

Random generation for each ship. A config with options for ship material, rarity, and min/max distance between ships.

The larger the ship the better the loot (rowboats have nothing, they are purely cosmetic).

The sloop and next ships I plan to add were designed by MCElex. You can check out more of his ships here.

New to v1.6.0, the Piranha! A hostile mob that will swim in a school. They are quite weak (a diamond sword kills in 1 hit) and dont do much damage on their own. But large shipwrecks can have 20+ piranhas swimming around.

A Diving Suit! The full suit adds waterbreathing. It will also slow you down on land.

Shipwrecks

Rowboat

Sailboat

UprightSideways. Chests and broken masts have a random chance of spawning within 20 blocks in any direction from the boat.

Sloop

There are 6 sections of torn sails that each have a 50% chance of spawning. The mast can also be broken. Dispensers in all ships have arrows or fire charges. Check all the chests inside!

Schooner

You will always get an iron block and a gold (50%), emerald (30%) or diamond (20%) block.

The Waverunner!

The largest ship to date. This ship is extremely rare. Its large enough that you will drown before you can explore the lower decks unless you come prepared. This ship is carrying a large load of valuable ore, as well as some interesting trinkets.

Other Structures

Stone Spire. These generate in areas when the ocean is deep enough. In the version for Minecraft 1.8, the spires can also generate with ore and different types of stone as seen in the screenshot.

Items

The Diving Suit

Wearing the full suit will allow you to breathe underwater. The helmet will add nightvision, so you can easily see underwater as well. If you are not in water while wearing the suit, you will be slowed down (this includes bobbing on top of the water). Each piece of armor will increase the slowness effect by 1 level. This armor is somewhat expensive to make and it will wear out eventually.

Recipe

Helmet

Chest

Legs

Boots

Screenshots

Mobs

The Piranha! The fish will spawn and move in schools. They have low health and attack strength, but you may run into a group of 20+ in some shipwrecks. Spawning of these fish is currently tied to the larger 3 shipwrecks.

Textureand a video of the movement (attack movement is slightly updated since the video, piranhas will spread out more when attacking)

Old Versions:

Compatibility

Should be compatible with most mods. Any mod that overwrites vanilla Ocean and Beach biome generation is currently incompatible. This mod will not work with Better World Generation 4 or Terrafirmacraft (nothing will crash but no shipwrecks will appear in any of the biomes). It will work with Biomes OPlenty, ATG, and Extrabiomes XL (but only in vanilla biomes, no mod-created biomes will have shipwrecks).

Changelog

Progress on Next Update (most recent update 6/2/2015)

Plans for the Future

Want to add it to a mod pack/make a video/talk about it?

Currently, this is the only place I have officially released this mod. As long as you dont redistribute the mod, claim credit for the mod, or link directly to the downloads (please link to this page) I will be happy.

You can also use it in modpacks (just give me credit please).

You may not use this mod on a server if you lock any parts of this mod, any other mod, or vanilla minecraft behind a paywall.

Acknowledgements

MCElex for the better ship designs!

(video courtesy of qmagnet)

VILLAGE MECHANICS: A NOT-SO-BRIEF GUIDE
by IronMagus

...or "Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about NPC villages, but were afraid to ask." If you're trying to spawn golems for an iron ingot farm, or just want a few more noses to trade with in your local testificate township, then you've come to the right place. Much of what's in here comes from another forum thread originally posted by Marfagames. Among the many others who have helped me piece together this knowledge, special thanks must also go out to forum members trunkz and KyoShinda, both frequent posters in that same thread. Together the three of them made most of this information available in the first place -- all I did was digest what they wrote and re-word it into something that I, and I'm hoping you as well, could understand a little easier. And now, on to the good stuff!

SECTION ZERO: TERMINOLOGY

...or "What is this I don't even." A village is defined by several factors: the village center, radius or "size", number of houses, population (number of villagers), population cap (max. number of villagers, based on housing), number of golems, and golem cap (based on population).

You might be asking yourself, "what does it take to make a village?" In order to be recognized as a "village," two things are required: at least one villager, and at least one house. A "house" is defined simply as a wooden door with an "inside" and an "outside" (see the next section for details.) A village's population is capped at 35% of the number of "houses" (doors.) Under ideal conditions, villagers will breed up to this limit, and then stop. Iron golems can spawn in villages of sufficient size, and the golem cap is 10% of the village's current population.

The village center is the geometric center point, or "average coordinates" of all the doors. The village size or radius is the greater of either 32 blocks, or one plus the distance from this center point to the furthest door (measured in "straight line" or Euclidean distance). This means that the radius is always at least 32, no matter what, but it can be more than that if there are any houses further than 32 blocks from the center. If there are, then the radius is one block larger than the distance to the farthest one.

Both the center point and radius are rounded to whole numbers. The center point is rounded "towards zero" (down if the value is positive, up if the value is negative. Or in other words, it is not "rounded" at all but simply truncated at the decimal point). In preliminary testing, the radius appears to be the raw distance from the rounded center point to the furthest door, plus one, rounded up, although more testing or a look into the game code are required to confirm this.

SECTION 1: HOUSING

...or "You can't park here." How does the game recognize a "house"? A house is defined as a wooden door with an "inside" and an "outside." The inside is the side which has more spaces covered by "roof" blocks than the other, within five spaces horizontally of the door in the two directions it faces. A "roof" block is an opaque block, at any height not lower than the door, that blocks direct sunlight from reaching the spaces below it.

Another way to put it would be to say that an "outside" space has a direct view of the sky, and so has a "SL" (sky light) value of 15. An "inside" space does not have a direct view of the sky (not looking straight up, anyway) and a "SL" value of less than 15. The "inside" is the side which has more "inside spaces" than the "outside" (which, in turn, has more "outside spaces" than the "inside.")

A door is not counted as a house without a "roof," or with the same number of covered spaces on either side.

Example - The door is placed on the wooden planks. The game checks the spaces represented by the light blue wool, to see if they are covered by a "roof" block or not:

Fig. 1

The simplest house looks something like this. Just a wooden door, with a dirt block on the ground next to it:

Fig. 2

Yes that is a valid house! Not much to look at, is it? But it fits the criteria. The dirt blocks the light from reaching the space below it, and so counts as a roof block.

There is one "inside" space, covered by a roof block, on the right side of the image, and zero on the left. Since "one" is more than "zero," there are more covered spaces on one side of the door than there are on the other, and so the game counts this as a house. Here is a cutaway view of the same setup, with colored wool for a visual aid. The red wool is covered by a roof block and considered an "inside" space; the blue blocks are "outside":

Fig. 3

The following are all examples of houses as well:

Figs. 4-7:

Fig. 4


Fig. 5


Fig. 6


Fig. 7

It doesn't matter what you build, except for what's directly above the colored wool. Anything to the sides of this can be whatever you want, or nothing at all:

Fig. 8

The dirt blocks on the far side (top of image) do not affect this house's "housiness," nor do the lack of any blocks on the near side.

A door is two blocks tall, and this check is performed twice per door, if necessary. If the initial "roof check" (see Fig. 1) fails, then the bottom-most layer is ignored and the check is performed a second time, starting one layer higher. This time, only the spaces above the lime-green wool (and not the first layer, here occupied by the wool itself) are checked for roof blocks:

Fig. 9

Example - For the door pictured below, the initial roof check finds there are two spaces covered by roof blocks on the left side, and two covered spaces on the right side as well. With the same number of covered spaces on each side, neither one can be designated the "inside" or the "outside," and so the door is not counted as a house (yet. But but we're not through yet, either.):

Fig. 10

Then since the initial check failed, the bottom layer is ignored, and we perform the test again, this time starting one block higher, checking for roof blocks only above (not level with) the green wool. This time, only the two spaces on the left-hand side of the image are covered. Since the "roof check" passed on this second try, the door counts as a house, and its "inside" is on the left where the more covered spaces are:

Fig. 11

In the next example, the door passes the test on the initial first check. It has one covered space on the left side and two on the right. This makes it a house with the "inside" to the right. The second check would pass as well (with the "inside" on the left this time), but since the first one already passed, we don't even bother testing again. This door counts as a house, with the "inside" on the right:

Fig. 12

"Inside" on the right.

The covered spaces don't have to be contiguous. The door below is a house, with the "inside" on the right, which has three covered spaces, versus only two on the left.:

Fig. 13

"Inside" on the right.

This next door has three covered spaces on each side, and is not a house:

Fig. 14

NOT A HOUSE!!

For a house to be a house, it has to be "seen" by a nearby villager. (I use the word "see" here loosely. This is actually based on proximity, not line-of-sight. A villager doesn't literally have to see the door to recognize it, it's enough just to be within range.) Without a villager nearby to "see" the house and recognize it as such, it is not considered a "house" but just some blocks and a door. The following image utilizes Trunkz' "Village Info" mod which adds info about the nearest village to the F3 display. Note the phrase "No Village Found" in the bottom-left:

Fig. 15

Not technically a house, since there is no villager here.

But as soon as a villager shows up, it becomes a proper village, with a house and everything:

Fig. 16

The "Houses" value in red indicates that there are not enough to support an iron golem. If there were 21 or more it would shift to green indicating that a golem(s) can spawn in the village.

Villagers will recognize a house within sixteen blocks along both horizontal axes, and up to three blocks above or five blocks below the level of the ground the villager is standing on:

Fig. 17

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Combining villages:

When two villages' boundaries overlap, they will merge into a single, larger village. A new house that's within (radius + 32) of an existing village would, were it considered a village in its own right, overlap with the existing village and so just becomes a part of that village. This causes a recalculation of the village's radius and center point, which can sometimes cause it to overlap with another already-existing village. When this happens, the game doesn't always handle it correctly right away. It is possible to end up with a situation where two (or more) villages overlap and are still treated as separate villages. Villages can also overlap if the removal of a door shifts the center point closer to the other village. Tango Tek took advantage of this behavior to design several "overpowered" iron farms that tricked the game into overlapping several villages in a small space so they each could spawn golems individually.

The same thing can happen in reverse: if houses are removed from the center of a large village, the remaining ones may constitute two separate, smaller villages whose radii do not overlap, but the game may still treat them as a single, large village. Or, likewise, additional houses may shift the center point away from the furthest houses so they should not be included in the village yet still are.

When the placing or removal of blocks causes what-was-once-a-house to become no-longer-a-house, the game can fail to update this as well and still treat the door as if it should count as a house. Relogging used to fix this issue, reevaluating the village from scratch when you came back, but now, since 1.4 and later, the village is saved to the world file and so simply relogging does not cause a reevaluation. You will actually have to bust out and replace the door itself (or use the fix below) for it to stop being counted as a "house."

In all three circumstances, the fix is rather simple. Just walk, ride, fly, or boat far enough away that the chunks are unloaded from memory (a bit past your render distance, and then wait for a bit), and this will cause a reevaluation upon your return, correctly identifying only whatever houses remain. If the village(s) are within your world's always-loaded spawn chunks, they will never get unloaded from memory while the overworld is loaded, and so the village never gets reevaluated no matter how far you run. In this case, you can hop into the nether or the end for a minute; after sixty seconds even the spawn chunks will be unloaded (unless another player or entity travels through the portal in that time, which is how Tango Tek kept his creations from breakin every time you left the overworld.)

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A word on "roof" blocks:

It seems there are two kinds of transparent blocks. There are fully transparent blocks such as glass, torches, and fences, and then there are what I call "partially transparent" blocks such as slabs, stairs, and leaves, which are treated as transparent by the rendering engine (since they don't fill up the entire block space -- you can see through to what's behind them, so the game has to know to draw that part of the world anyway, even though there's a block between you and it. It knows to do this because the block that's in the way is flagged as a "transparent" block), yet they still block light from passing through (at least partially, as is the case with leaves or water), so they're still somehow considered opaque to the lighting engine, which appears to be where it counts. These partially transparent blocks will block the sunlight, and so will count as roof blocks. Fully transparent blocks still do not count. Water and lava (both flowing and source blocks) are partially transparent, and will count as roof blocks. Leaves count as roof blocks. Slabs and stairs count as roof blocks (and they don't even have to be upside-down.) I haven't tested every single block type so I don't have a full list of what does and does not count, but I know that torches don't count, fences don't count, chests don't count. The list goes on...

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The infamous "facing doors" myth:

There is a rumor going around, that two doors facing within a certain distance of each other will somehow cancel each other out, and neither one of them (or sometimes only one, depending on who you hear it from) will count as "houses." This is not a thing! It is nothing more than a misconception, a rumor, brought about by a misinterpretation of the significance of a particular image posted by Marfagames, who did much of the initial testing on villager houses, and the meaning of his caption:

Quote from Marfagames

And here left are 0 houses and the right 2 are 2 houses. The doors on the left get not negated through the other door, but through the one "roof" tile only in the range of 5 left and right from it.
[The original image is no longer available, but it looked something like this]:[INSERT IMAGE HERE -- coming soon!]

Let's take another look at what he wrote there: And here left are 0 houses and the right 2 are 2 houses. That's true, the two doors on the left do not count as houses, and the two on the right, do. But then look at what he says immediately after that: The doors on the left get not negated through the other door, but through the one "roof" tile only in the range of 5 left and right from it.

Marfagames' english is a little rusty, but what he is saying is basically this: The reason the doors on the left do not count as houses is NOT because they are facing each other, but rather it is because each one has exactly one space covered by a roof block on either side. So as you can see, even he said from the very beginning that it has nothing to do with the fact that they are facing each other! However, somewhere along the line, someone misinterpreted this to mean that facing doors somehow cancel each other out, and then everyone else took that rumor and ran off with it. If anyone ever tells you that facing doors will cancel each other out, you can send them here to get set straight.

Here is an image that demonstrates the overlap between the areas checked for roof blocks by each of the two doors. The door on the left checks above the pink blocks, and the door on the right checks above the blue ones (but only in the center row that's inline with the doors, of course -- additional wool to the near and far sides is just for clarity of demonstration.) Purple blocks represent the area where the two zones overlap, and these spaces are checked by both doors. Doors themselves are transparent and do not count as "roof blocks" for the other door:

Fig. 18

So looking at the blue door only, it has one covered space on the left side, and one also on the right:

Fig. 19

And likewise with the pink door:

Fig. 20

(Rotated 180°, viewed from the "far side" versus other images)

Since these doors both have the same number of covered spaces on either side, they don't have an "inside" or an "outside," and therefore can't be called "houses." However If you put additional blocks behind these (or just move the existing blocks back by one space, that would have the same net effect) then these additional blocks will be six blocks away from the far door, too far to be counted, but are still within range of the nearer door, creating the imbalance necessary to call them "houses":

Fig. 21

With these additional blocks in place, the doors now are valid houses. This is my understanding, and the Village Info mod agrees!:

Fig. 22

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SECTION 2: BREEDING AND POPULATION CAP

...or "How is babby formed?" A village's population is capped at a certain amount, based on available housing. Villagers will breed, provided there are at least two to begin with, until the number of villagers reaches but does not exceed 0.35 times the number of "houses" (defined above.) Previously, all that was needed to get villagers to breed was to provide them with enough houses. Since version 1.8, however, in addition to having enough housing to support the population cap, villagers must also be made "willing" to breed. Willing members of a village which has not yet reached its population cap will occasionally go in and out of "breeding mode" (indicated by animated heart particles above their head) at irregular intervals until two of them come together and produce an offspring in the same block space as one of the parents. This new villager will be assigned a random profession (indicated by the style and color of its clothing,) not necessarily the same as either parent. Like farm animals, the new baby will grow into an adult after exactly twenty minutes, and also like animals, villager parents have a five-minute "cooldown" period before they can enter breeding mode again (although I believe they can still be made willing again immediately, it just won't do anything until the five-minute cooldown has elapsed.)

**The wiki used to state that "once the cap is reached, any remaining baby villagers will grow to adulthood, but no new babies will be born, bringing the total population to somewhere slightly above the actual population cap," indicating that only adult villagers are counted towards the cap. I have not seen any evidence of this, and all my testing indicates that baby villagers are counted just the same as adults are. As soon as that last baby is born, all "love mode" animations cease to occur; killing either a baby or adult villager at that point will cause them to start up again.

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Killing villagers:

If a villager from a village dies to a non-player, non-mob source (i.e., environmental damage like fire, lava, drowning, cactus, suffocation, or fall damage) within sixteen blocks of a player, or if a monster kills a villager at any distance from the player, no villager in that village will be able to breed for the next three minutes. Further deaths within this time will reset the clock, not add to it. Breeding may resume three minutes after the last villager has died this way.

If a player attacks or kills a villager directly, it will affect their reputation in the village (see Iron Golem section, below), but it will not affect breeding.

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Curing zombie villagers:

Breeding requires at least two villagers to begin with. If you are starting a village from scratch, or if yours was wiped out by zombies and there are no villagers left (or only one), then the only ways to acquire more are hauling them in from another village (such as by boat, minecart, or nether tunnels), curing infected zombie villagers, or to cheat them in using creative mode spawn eggs.

To cure an infected zombie villager, you need a splash potion of weakness, and a golden apple. When you find a zombie villager, toss the potion of weakness at it, and then right-click it with the golden apple. The zombie will make a loud sizzling sound, emit orange particles, and begin to shake violently. It takes a couple of minutes for them to convert, so go ahead and trap him somewhere, and make sure he won't burn in the sunlight. After a few minutes, he will turn into a regular villager, at which point you can let him out to roam the village or do whatever.

Finding zombie villagers in the first place shouldn't be all that difficult. Each zombie has a 5% (1/20) chance to be a villager zombie instead, so it shouldn't take you too long (only about forty zombies, total) to find two of them you can cure back into villagers and get the population booming by more..."natural" means. Additionally, when a villager is attacked by a zombie (any zombie) there is a chance (based on difficulty: 0% on Easy, 50% on Normal, 100% on Hard) that they will turn into a villager zombie instead of just being killed.

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Infinite Breeding:

There is also a bug or glitch where sometimes the villagers will continue to breed indefinitely without regard to the population cap. Here's a quote from trunkz explaining how this works:

Quote from trunkz

[V]illagers need to be inside a sphere (radius = village radius) around the village center in order to breed. But the village counts only villagers that are inside a box (width, length = 2x village radius, height: 9 [always!]) around the village center. So with a sphere that can grow to any size, and a box that's always only 9 high, it should be apparent that there are some zones only covered by the sphere (above and below the village center).

You can simply reproduce/abuse this behavior by building 6 houses on the ground level (enough to set the villager limit to 2), drop 2 (or more) villagers into a 6 blocks deep hole, and leave one villager at the top to keep the houses "alive". The villagers in the hole will breed indefinitely, because they're not counted against the cap.

[images coming soon]

This nine blocks high is the same height as the range in which a villager can identify a house. I have not confirmed this, but perhaps these two are related -- that is to say that maybe a villager would be counted towards the cap if they are up to three blocks below or five blocks above (or exactly on) the level of the village center point.

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SECTION 3: TRADING

[coming soon]

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SECTION 4: IRON GOLEMS

...or "It's okay, he's with me." An iron golem's main purpose, "in-world," is to protect villagers from zombie sieges. In practice, they actually do a rather poor job at this, but it is also possible to "farm" them for the iron ingots they drop on death. Golems will roam the village and attack any hostile or neutral mobs they see except for creepers, wolves, polar bears, and llamas. They have extremely high health (100 points, or 50 hearts) and do not suffer fall or drowning damage. Their long arms can reach an enemy through a solid wall one block thick with a long-range melee attack that does not require line-of-sight and deals anywhere from 3.5 to 10.5 hearts of damage, or 7 to 21 half-heart "points" (on normal difficulty; 4-11 points on easy and 10-31 points on hard) as well as tossing enemies into the air, likely causing fall damage in addition to this.

When provoked by attacking them or a nearby villager, naturally-spawned golems will become hostile towards the player, moving toward the player whenever they are in sight and attacking whenever they are in range. They can sense an attack on a villager even without direct line-of-sight, they don't actually have to "see" it take place. Attacking one golem will not cause any other golems to become hostile, but attacking a single villager will bring the wrath of every golem within range (~12 blocks.) Running far enough away from a hostile golem will cause it to become neutral towards you again. Additionally, contact with water momentarily renders them passive -- they will not attack any players or mobs while standing in water and their neutrality towards players will be reset.

Iron golems will spawn naturally in a village of sufficient size, but can also be constructed in-world by the player, by placing four iron blocks in a T-shape (physically build it, not on a crafting table) and then placing a pumpkin or jack-o-lantern on top (the pumpkin/jack-o-lantern must be placed last, or else it won't work.) Player-created golems will never attack the player who made them, even when directly provoked.

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Reputation

Since 1.4, villages now track the "popularity" of players. Popularity is unique to each village/player pair, so one player can have different reputations in different villages, and different players can have different reputations in the same village. Popularity starts at zero for each player and is affected by their actions inside a village. Popularity is a numerical value that ranges from +10 to -30. If a player has a popularity of -15 or lower in a village, iron golems from that village will become hostile to the player without provocation. The following table shows what actions affect popularity, and by how much:

*(Note: this is an old image, when only trading a villager "for the last offer on their list" would update their trades, and was guaranteed to do so every time. Mechanics have changed since then so that now any trade has a chance to update their trades but is not usually guaranteed to do so. I find it likely, but have yet to confirm, that increasing reputation works the same way, so that a particular trade will always increase popularity [and update the villager's trades] the first time, and then have a 20% chance each time you perform that particular trade thereafter.)

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Golem farming:

Upon death, golems will drop 3-5 iron ingots and 0-2 poppies (formerly roses), which makes farming them a viable alternative or addition to caving or mining for your iron.

Golems will spawn near the center of a village if it has at least ten villagers (previously sixteen, before 1.4) and 21 houses. Additional houses beyond the 21st will make no difference as far as golem spawning is concerned, however, having additional villagers beyond the tenth will allow more golems to spawn, in increments of one golem for every ten villagers (so 0-9 villagers allows no golems to spawn, the cap is set at zero; 10-19 raises that cap to one, 20-29 raises it to two, etc.) This cap only limits the number of golems in a village at any one time; as soon as one is killed or leaves the village boundaries, a new one can spawn in its place immediately.

The golem spawning zone is a 6-high, 16x16-block area centered upon the village center point. As long as all the conditions are met (10 villagers, 21 houses, golem cap not reached,) then each game tick (1/20 of a second) there is a 1/7000 chance the game will try to spawn a golem. Basically it picks a random number between 0 and 6999, and if it picks 0, then up to ten attempts are made to spawn a golem. A random spot is chosen inside the spawning zone, and if that spot contains a solid block with at least 2x2 x4-high space above it (liquids are okay here -- golems can spawn in water, which is key to the iron farm designs linked below), then a golem is spawned there. [NOTE: For a long time, I had "3-high" written here. But it looks like that was incorrect, and while the golems themselves are only 3 blocks high, they actually need a four-high space to spawn in.]

This is repeated up to ten times or until a golem is spawned, whichever comes first. Then, the check is repeated each game tick, until enough golems have been spawned to reach the cap, at which point spawning is put on hold until either a golem is eliminated or the cap is raised. This means that, as long as the cap isn't reached, you can expect one golem spawn about every six minutes, on average, or roughly ten golems (30-50 ingots) per hour. Remember, though, that this is just an average, and the actual interval between spawns will necessarily vary to some degree. If you watch vigilantly, you will likely see spawns spaced much closer or farther apart than this six-minute average, but in the long run, it should all even out.

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Golem farming:

An iron farm is an artificial village in which golems are spawned and then funneled into a killing chamber where their drops can be collected. You can either hold the golems (outside of the village boundary, so more can continue to spawn in their place) until you come and kill them manually, or you can force them into cactus or lava to kill them immediately and use hoppers to collect the drops.

There are several ways to build an iron farm, but the most effective versions seem to be the ones that utilize two floors in the central golem-spawning zone, and keep all doors and villagers outside the zone, either above and below the center or in an outer "ring" on the same level. This is in order to maximize the number of available spaces for the golems to spawn in, which in turn will reduce the number of failed attempts, and keep the spawning rate as high as possible. This is much more effective than simply increasing the villager count to raise the golem cap, which only matters for the few seconds between the time when a golem spawns and when it is flushed out or killed, anyway. To further increase your output rate, you can build several separate "modules" and bring the golems or their drops to a central collection area. Since golems are immune to falling or drowning damage, the available killing methods are lava, cactus, or suffocation.

I have linked several iron farm tutorials at the end of this guide. Many of these creations were designed in earlier game versions so some of the details might be different (specifically, they often say you need sixteen villagers when now only ten are required, and they often have you start with minimal villagers and let them breed up to the required numbers based on the doors included in the farm, which now does not work unless you feed/trade with the villagers once they are in place.) Prior to version 1.8, MAGUS-APPROVED™ designs included those presented by trunkz, docm77, and MegaTrain. In my world I use a variation on the one from docm77's video but with only two pods of five villagers each instead of four pods of four (since you only need ten now instead of sixteen) and only 24 doors (since I bring them in from elsewhere, I don't need all the extra doors which were just there to facilitate breeding. Technically only 21 doors are needed but with 24 I still get the 4-way symmetry that puts the village center right smack in the middle of the structure.) I used to use one based on MegaTrain's MegaVillage concept, but since 1.8 that requires significant reworking to account for the new farming/willingness mechanic.

CSPerspective's videos detail earlier incarnations of the idea that do work, but fall short on efficiency in some of the areas I mentioned above. He also has a fourth iron farm video which does remedy these shortcomings, but I did not put a link to it as it's basically just a rehash of JL2579's design (from docm77's video, which I feel has a better presentation.) If you're going to follow the designs exactly, stick with docm77's or trunkz' video. If you want to design a farm yourself from the ground up, go ahead and watch them all to get some ideas.

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SECTION 5: ZOMBIE SIEGES

"...braaains!" At night, there is a chance that a zombie siege might occur. This is when a large number of zombies spawn in or near a village, attacking what villagers they can reach, crowding around and pounding on the doors of those they can't. On hard or hardcore mode, they can actually break down the wooden doors of the villagers' homes (this is true of all zombies, not just during sieges.) A zombie siege requires a village of at least 10 houses and at least 20 villagers. At midnight each night (18000 in Minecraft time), there is a 10% chance that a siege will be attempted that night. If a siege is to occur, attempts will be made each game tick until a siege is successfully initiated or the sun rises (technically, the attempt is abandoned when the sky light reaches level 12. Typically, this occurs at dawn although rain or thunderstorms can delay this brigtening since they reduce the light level significantly.)

For each player, the village with its center closest to the player is considered as a candidate village for a siege to occur if the player is within (radius + 1) of the village center; essentially, the player must be "inside" the village for a siege to occur. If the player is not within range of any village, the next player's village is considered. If the village has fewer than ten doors, fewer than twenty villagers, or has not been stable (no doors added or removed) for at least one second (20 game ticks), then the next player's village is considered.

Ten attempts are made to choose a starting point, on the y-height of the village center, at a random point on a circle with radius 0.9 times that of the village, that is not within the boundaries of any other village. If a valid starting point is found, a location is chosen as if to spawn a zombie there. If that check succeeds in finding a valid zombie spawning location, a siege is initiated at the siege starting point. Otherwise, the next player's village is considered.

Once a siege is initiated, up to twenty zombies may be spawned over the course of 2 seconds. For each zombie, up to ten attempts are made to randomly choose a spawning point within a 6-high, 16x16 zone centered on the siege starting point. If a valid spawning point is found, a zombie is spawned. During a siege, zombie spawns ignore player proximity, light levels, and other mobs, meaning even a well-lit and fortified village may suffer a siege. The best way to prevent them is to either keep your village small enough that they can't occur, or stay outside them at night.

SECTION 6: SOURCES AND ADDITIONAL INFO

I don't look at the game code myself, or anything. My info comes from in-game observations and the word of others. This is how it works, according to my understanding. I haven't included anything on trading in here yet, but for the time being, the wiki covers it pretty well. We also have a discussion going on over here about all the math and stuff behind how a villager's trade offers are generated.

We're all human (or most of us are, anyway) so there's always the chance that I have made a typo, or even that I am just plain wrong about something in here. If you see anything that you feel needs attention, please post it in this thread or shoot me a PM.

Sources: the wiki; trunkz' Village Info mod; various posts on these forums; and personal experience from building several different types of iron farm, from fixing up and expanding two NPC villages in my main survival world, creating my own villages from scratch, and from my own testing in creative mode.

Additional links:
- Marfagames' original post on village mechanics - Much of this information came from there initially, but it's a little hard to follow since everything is mixed in with discussion and scattered across over 500 posts on more than 20 pages, plus I think English is not his first language: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1071744-
- Village Info mod by trunkz: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1077712-
- Imgur gallery by Derrick - A briefer, more compact visualization of what makes a "house," and a bonus "villager breeding unit" that can support up to 35 villagers in an 11 x 10 or so space (the unit takes up that much space, the villagers themselves wander around outside of it, gettin' freaky in the daylight): http://imgur.com/a/xGhDP
- [Tutorial] Guide to Breeding Villagers in Minecraft - A video crash-course in villager breeding and housing presented by qmagnet:

- trunkz' iron golem farm tutorial video: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1078108-
- Another iron golem farm design by JL2579 (tutorial video by docm77):

- MegaVillage: Manage 100+ villager trades + iron golem farm - A trading village with built-in iron farm (or vice versa) presented by MegaTrain: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1762291-
- CSPerspective's iron farm:

- Minecraft Wiki page on NPC Villagers: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Villager
- Minecraft WIki page on Villager Trading: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Trading
- Minecraft Wiki page on Iron Golems: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Iron_golem
- Minecraft WIki page on Zombie Sieges: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Zombie_siege

Description

The Minecraft Is Too Easy (MITE) mod was created to emphasize and enhance the survival aspect of the game. It accomplishes this by increasing the difficulty of survival mode and introducing new content and game mechanics. MITE is a comprehensive mod that alters roughly 500 of the game's class files and adds many new ones. Some highlights of the MITE mod are listed below:

Reduced Player Starting Health And Nutrition

• Begin with 3 heart and food icons instead of 10, and gain one of each for every 5 levels of experience

Reduced Player Harvesting Capabilities

• Logs may be harvested only while wielding a hatchet, axe or battle axe
• Stone and ore blocks cannot be harvested unless you have a mining tool such as a pickaxe or war hammer
• If you begin to starve you will be too weak from hunger to break or place blocks, and your movement speed will be reduced

Subsistence Living

• Embark as a hunter/gatherer in the Stone Age, only able to hunt animals and gather plants for sustenance until you discover flint tools
• Struggle to find enough food each day to make it through the night and see another sunrise
• Adopt a nomadic lifestyle as you deplete local resources and are forced to move on
• Find a better way to live once you have stockpiled enough food to make a stand against hunger

Improved Mob AI

• Mobs detect players from further away and their missile attacks have increased range and accuracy
• Mobs will not despawn if you can see them or they can see you
• Animals require food and water, and are able to seek it out on their own
• Animals are also more effective at evading predators (you will see a lot of this)

Four New Ores And Metals

• Copper, silver, mithril and adamantium have been added to the mix; each metal has its own characteristics
• Search deep within the bowels of the earth to discover the largest and most precious ore veins

New Furnaces And Heat Levels

• Introducing the clay oven, sandstone oven, obsidian furnace and netherrack furnace, each with its own capacity for withstanding heat
• Wood and charcoal can be burned in any oven and produce enough heat to cook meat
• The lesser metals (copper, silver, gold and iron) can be smelted in a stone furnace burning coal
• A lava-fueled obsidian furnace has enough heat to smelt mithril
• Netherrack furnaces are the only furnaces capable of withstanding the intense heat of blaze rods; these are used to smelt adamantium

Ten New Mobs

• Introducing the dire wolf, wood spider, ghoul, wight, shadow, invisible stalker, hellhound, demon spider, infernal creeper, and fire elemental
• Most of the new mobs are encountered only at deeper levels; the game grows more perilous the deeper you delve

A Dozen New Achievements

• They will provide you with a roadmap of how to survive in this new, harsh world

New Tools and Durability System

• MITE adds to your arsenal the cudgel, club, hatchet, knife, dagger, war hammer, battle axe, mattocks and scythe
• Tool durability is reduced according to the hardness of the harvested block
• The flint hatchet is the simplest tool that will allow you to harvest wood from trees
• The copper pickaxe is the most easily crafted tool that will allow you to harvest stone and ore blocks

Added Enchantments

• Speed (boots)
• Stun (war hammers)
• Fortune (fishing rods)
• Regeneration (torso armor)
• Fertility (hoes and mattocks)
• Tree Felling (axes and battle axes)
• Vampiric (swords, daggers and scythes)

Enhanced Farming

• Cultivate the new onion crop and use it to prepare delicious food dishes
• Beware the blight, a dread disease that can afflict your crops and ruin their yield
• Manure, a valuable resource periodically dropped by livestock, can be used to fertilize farmland
• A new time-forwarding mechanism allows crops to grow even when no players are nearby

Weather Effects

• Player's hunger rate is increased while standing in the rain; it pays to find shelter
• Fishing is more productive during rain storms

Security Of Valuables In Multiplayer Games

• Strongboxes are chests that are crafted from metal; they can only be opened by the player who places them

Crafting Recipes

MITE adds many new recipes to the game and alters some of of the existing ones:




Download

The MITE mod can be downloaded from the Minecraft-Is-Too-Easy.com website.

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I believe you should be aware that some positive potion effects actually have a negative effect on undead mobs, like Zombies, Skeletons, and Zombie Pigmen. So that's one use for it. Other than that, they make good for some particular games, and are especially useful for mapmakers. You are obliged to use the items at your own will, there is no downside if you use them or not, unless you use the arrow you weren't intending to use or just have terrible aim.

The only issues you seem to be having in this thread can be easily resolved. The first being is the idea of certain arrows providing an upside to opponents, simply don't use them if you're so keen on ranting on them. Also, mentioning how they take up space in the game is a very petty excuse, Minecraft has an incredibly large Creative Menu, and more items can be added in as well with little affect to the overall play of the game.

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