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Before reading my outline for this new combat system, please bear in mind that I tried to approach this from an objective point of view. I happen to like both the current combat and the old combat, so I designed this system to incorporate features from both systems, in addition to some completely new features.

This is by no means a complete system, and some areas may not be completely fleshed out. However it is at the point where I am ready to share it with the community. I am fully ready to receive criticism as I believe this system is not perfect, although I think it is better than both the current systems we have. Please be honest with what you think, and help me build on my ideas. I would love to have (parts of) this implemented into the game, so to have more people collaborate on it would only make it better.

Now onto the meat of this post!

My combat system

Core

Composed of light and heavy attacks. Light attacks are like 1.8 combat (spam clicking). Heavy attacks are like the current system (timed attacks). Heavy attacks are charged by holding left click. This adds a percentage increase in damage on top of light attack damage. Light attack damage is the weapon’s base attack damage.

Weapons no longer have attack speed, instead they have weight. Weight determines time taken to fully charge a heavy attack, and this determines how strong the increase in damage is. Therefore, heavier weapons scale better with heavy attacks. An axe may do less damage than a sword with a light attack, but because it is heavier it may do much more damage with a heavy attack than a sword’s heavy attack. All light attacks are the same speed (identical to that of 1.8, with a max CPS of 10). Non-melee weapons/tools don’t deal any extra damage with a heavy attack as they have no weight.

Critical hits work as they do in the current system: applying a fixed amount of additional damage regardless of the type of attack.

Light attacks do not degrade shield durability, although heavy attacks do. Armour loses durability depending on the damage of the attack.

Weapons

True melee weapons are swords and tridents. Other tools (axe, pickaxe and shovel) may be used in the same way but are not technically weapons (even if they are effective as weapons).

Other weapons include the bow, arrows, shield and upcoming crossbow.

The sword, tools and trident all have special abilities:

Sword: a fully charged heavy attack while sidestepping or standing still will perform the sweep attack. A fully charged heavy attack whilst moving forwards deals increased knockback.

Swords now have a right click function. Holding right click with a sword (in either hand) will perform a block (like 1.8 blocking). Holding block reduces your movement speed. If you receive a melee attack while blocking you parry the attack (nullifying the attack as if you didn’t receive it). This starts a long cooldown for you, preventing you from using the sword’s right click function in that hand (however you can dual wield swords and parry with either one regardless of if the other is on cooldown. Essentially the hand is on cooldown and not the sword). Your enemy also receives a very short cooldown on their hand, preventing them from attacking (although they can still use items and mine blocks). If you are moving as you parry you will move quickly in that direction for a very short distance (essentially performing an evade of sorts). You are also able to block-hit a parry, meaning you can quickly attack straight after parrying (playing that satisfying animation from 1.7), although this will only be a light attack.

Axe: a fully charged heavy attack moving forwards will disable an enemy’s shield temporarily.

All tools: a fully charged heavy attack deals bonus knockback in the direction the attacker is moving (except backwards, which deals no extra knockback).

Pickaxe: a fully charged heavy attack will deal increased damage to armour (reducing the armour’s durability even faster).

Trident: a fully charged heavy attack will perform a thrust attack. A thrust attack deals some damage through armour. Tridents can be thrown with right click as they can currently.

Shield: Shields are used to block incoming damage. Blocking a light attack will result in no knockback or damage received. Blocking a heavy attack will block all damage and reduces knockback taken by 50%.

Projectiles and armour

Arrows can be deflected both by shields and armour. A critical bow shot cannot be deflected and is stuck in the armour or shield. A shield can deflect a non-critical bow shot and will not lose durability doing so. Armour has a chance to deflect a non-critical bow shot, this chance increasing with projectile protection. If the arrow is deflected, then the armour doesn’t lose durability. Projectile protection also reduces the durability armour loses to a projectile attack. Tridents cannot be deflected by armour, but damage is reduced by projectile protection.

Armour is classed into 2 categories: light armour and heavy armour (these are NBT tags, so custom armour is possible). Light armour is cheap to make and does not reduce movement speed, however is not as durable and protective. Heavy armour is more durable and protective but is more expensive to make and reduces movement speed slightly. Light armour includes leather and chainmail armour, as well as the turtle shell. Heavy armour includes iron, gold and diamond armour.

Armour weight is per piece of armour (so you can mix and match light and heavy armour to find a balance of movement and protection). Heavy armour all weighs the same, so there is still a reason to upgrade to diamond from iron and gold.

Chainmail armour can now be crafted from iron nuggets.

Customisation

All the combat mechanics are editable via datapacks. All damage, chances, durabilities and other stats are completely customisable. Other toggleable options include disabling light/heavy attacks, weapon exclusive attacks, parries, evades etc. This allows players and servers to use their own combat system (even being able to recreate 1.8 combat) without too much effort. Servers can also have different gamemodes with different combat systems.

This concludes the outline of my combat system. Please leave your thoughts below, and add any features you would add/change. Thanks for taking the time to read this, please share this with anyone you feel would be interested.

I will add to the OP if/when new revisions come around. I will try my best to quote and credit anyone as necessary.

This happens to me quite a lot. I believe it is a bug that occurs when an arrow entity is updated/reloaded. The colour of the particles is that of water, as if it was a water tipped arrow, so it is definitely not a stray's slowness arrow. I don't really know the specific reasons as to why this occurs, all I know is how to reproduce it by exiting and rejoining a world where either yours or a skeleton's arrows are in the ground (like that Sharpe has shown above).

I used to watch Paulsoaresjr's "Survive and Thrive" series. In the second series (after the game was released) he started to call skeletons in full gold armour "Skelebling". I don't know why but I remembered this and when I got to pick my username for my account back in 2013 I thought Skelebling sounded cool. I had thought about changing it but decided not to after I started using it on other platforms like Steam and social media. 4 years later and I have never changed my Minecraft account's name, and never intend to.

Hi there! Today I want to talk about gold equipment. It has barely any use in the vanilla game besides looking fancy. I believe gold should be a viable option when creating gear for use in survival and PvP scenarios without replacing iron and diamond gear.

Introduction

I know the general idea of improving gold gear idea has been suggested multiple times in the past, but a lot of those suggestions revolve around giving gold gear unique enchanting and repairing properties. I disagree with those threads as I think the enchantability of gold is fine as it is, and anvils should be reworked entirely (so I will not discuss that here as that would be off topic, I may make a separate thread in the future).

Instead I just want to focus on the main drawbacks of gold gear - the durability and the statistics. As I disagree that copper of bronze should be added to the game to fill the tiers of weapons and armour, it would make more sense to buff an existing material that is seldom used to the tier that a material like copper would fill if it was in the game.

Increasing the durability of gold tools and weapons

Currently gold tools have a durability value of 33. That is nearly half that of wooden tools (value of 60) and is very poor considering how much rarer gold is as a material. I propose significantly increasing this value to something more representative of a metal. This value should be in the range of 200-300. To make sure iron still has a more stronger durability, iron tools would now have a durability in the range of 300-400 (about 100 more than gold). This would mean it has nearly double the durability of stone tools allowing it to be more practical by lasting longer (but still not phasing out iron and diamond equipment, as I will explain in my conclusion).

The durability of gold armour will not change however, due to it already lasting longer than leather armour and still being considerably weaker than iron, chainmail and diamond armour.

Reworking attack speeds and attack damages

Currently gold tools have some of the weakest attack damages while having fairly average attack speeds. Compared to cheaper alternatives such as stone or iron, gold weapons have almost no place in combat. Even if the durability of gold tools was increased, that would not be enough to buff gold swords to be used over stone ones.

• The gold sword would have a damage of +5.5 with the attack speed staying at 1.6.
• The gold axe would stay as it is.
• The gold pickaxe would have a damage +3 with the the attack speed staying at 1.2.
• The gold shovel would have a damage of +3.5 with the attack speed staying at 1.
• The gold hoe would have an attack speed of 3 with the damage staying at +1.

I see the gold axe as balanced as it is due to having the same speed as the diamond axe while having a lower attack damage. Increasing its damage (to +8) would make it almost as good as the iron axe as it would deal almost the same DPS (iron would still have 0.1 more DPS but that would be hardly noticeable). The iron axe should still be the overall better weapon.

Like the axes, the iron sword should still be an upgrade form the gold sword (until enchantments come into play, which is the one reason to pick gold weapons over iron ones). Gold swords have a slightly better damage than stone swords, but not quite as good as iron swords. They could still be useful in PvP games as a mid-tier melee weapon for kits and classes, as well as being a better base weapon for enchantments to be applied to (which is again, the main reason you would choose a gold weapon).

The pickaxe and shovel have merely had their damage boosted to that of their stone counterparts. Since these tools are hardly ever used as weapons, their DPS did not need to be increased that much and instead this is merely a slight buff to make them better than wooden tools (as gold pickaxes will receive another change below).

The hoe again is hardly ever used as a weapon, so an increase in attack speed to that of an iron hoe is again just a slight buff (the gold hoe is still quite obsolete due to all hoes tilling land at the same speed, and iron still has a better durability.)

Better mining properties

Since diamond tools should still be the best tools overall for mining and excavating, the mining speed of gold tools should not be tampered with (they are already pretty fast anyway). Instead, the gold pickaxe would receive the ability to mine almost every block that its diamond and iron counterparts can. The exceptions to this would be obsidian and diamond ore. Combined with the increased durability, a gold pickaxe may be used as a "main" pickaxe until one has acquired a diamond one.

Conclusion

In short, I would like the durability and attack damages of gold tools to be increased to a spot in between stone and iron on the tier ladder. This would better represent the rarity of the material and how it is used. Iron would still be statistically better in most situations (outside of enchanting) and still more practical due do it being a lot more abundant, easier to acquire and more durable. Essentially gold is to iron like what iron is to diamond, only with a slightly smaller difference in durability and rarity.

To be honest this isn't really needed in the game, but I would really like to see a rework to gold equipment at some point; this thread is just the ideas I had that I wanted to share. Thanks for reading, please point out any flaws or parts you like/dislike and state what they are.

Buy a gift card for it. You can find them at most shops that sell Steam gift cards and other gift cards. Then simply give them the card and they can redeem the code.

Play a survival world locked on hard difficulty with cheats disabled (don't even switch to a LAN world to change these settings) and try to complete every advancement. Whilst doing so build a large base of some kind and find creative ways to store all the loot you've hoarded.

Update - 14th August 2017

I have just finished raising all four walls to 20 blocks. Didn't take too long as I just left 20 stacks of cobble to smelt overnight and then crafted the stone into bricks the next morning (new recipe book is a godsend). I don't have a picture for this as it's nothing special and looks like my last picture.

However here's where things start to get difficult. I am terrible when it comes to designing patterns and using a wide palette of blocks. But I need a really cool pattern on the floor. I am currently experimenting with different designs on a creative world until I find the perfect design, then I will start building it in my survival world.

I have decided to use prismarine as a key component in the floor, so the rest of my palette needs to work with prismarine. At the moment I'm trying cyan concrete powder and sea lanterns (for lighting, as I said before I want a lot of natural light coming from outside, so all the other light needs to come from the floor and ceiling). I've worked out a rough pattern for the centre and I'm just trying to find the right blocks to flesh it out. I have 2 pictures below, one where the sea lanterns are covered with cyan glass, one without the glass.

If any builders are reading this, please state which one you think looks better, as well as some other blocks I should consider using for the rest of the floor.

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Enchanting is one of the things I hate most about Minecraft (that, and enderman griefing). The whole random nature of enchanting is nonsense. This is mine-CRAFT after all, so why can't we craft enchants? {deep breath... calm down, CM...}

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I play locked on hard difficulty. I'm sorry, but I don't recall if it will kill them in one hit or not, but I doubt it. Probably two, or even three if one's not a good hit, actually.

I'm seriously considering switching to my Sharpness V, Fortune III, etc. axe, Arborcide. I just can't get over that I'm using an axe to attack.

Hello all,

Welcome to my thread where I will be posting a progression log for my survival singleplayer base. I will regularly add images with descriptions, however I will only update the log once some significant progress has been made. Once the whole build is done I may record a tour and upload that so that you will be able to see the whole structure when it is complete.

Feel free to leave feedback and suggestions, thanks for reading.

11th August 2017

Overview

"Better Than Adventure" (BTA) is an extensive mod for Minecraft beta 1.7.3, bringing out regular updates attempting to create a more "finalized" version of beta Minecraft while also maintaining the look and feel of the game pre-adventure update. BTA works very different from other mods as it acts as more of a “fork” of Minecraft, than an addition to it. As of beta 1.7.6, As such, existing mods for beta 1.7.3 are not compatible with BTA. However, we are working hard to allow the community to make and publish their own mods for BTA specifically.

Beta 1.7.7.0 Overview Video

For easiest access to the latest updates and news - visit our new website

https://www.betterthanadventure.net/

Introduction

Minecraft has changed a lot since its initial beta period in 2011. The game has grown substantially, and new features, mechanics and systems continue to be added even to this day. While this is all well and good, there are still players out there who don't enjoy the direction the game took post-release, or simply have nostalgia for beta minecraft and wish to return to a time without hunger, experience or enchantments with a few bells and whistles on.

Better Than Adventure is designed to appeal to these players who enjoy the simpler gameplay of the old beta versions of Minecraft, yet also want to try something new and exciting. Think of it as an "alternate universe" version of minecraft that attempts to maintain the look-and-feel of beta 1.7.3, while also keeping things fresh with new features and additions such as new blocks, biomes and quality of life improvements. Despite what the name implies, this mod isn't necessarily trying to offer something inherently better than modern Minecraft, just something different. Think of it as a long-lost branch of Minecraft, what could have been if Notch and Jeb took the game in a slightly different direction.

While BTA is designed mostly to appeal to older players who grew up with beta, the aim of the mod in general is simply to offer an alterate take on the game. So if you're just looking for something new to enjoy, try this mod out too. You may like it!

Check back for more updates!

Features and Changes

Technical Changes

New Features and Gameplay Changes

Changelogs available on our Discord in the #changelogs channel.

Download

Auto-Updating

Download MultiMC Update Utility (Recommended!)

Latest - BTA! v7.1

Download links on betterthanadventure.net

Mirror:

MultiMC Update Utility (Recommended!)

BTA! 7.1 MultiMC Instance

BTA! 7.1 Server jar

Older:

Installation

Installation: MultiMC/Prism Update Utility

The MultiMC update utility will allow you to automatically update/load the latest release of BTA without having to install a brand new instance from the forum page!

• To install the utility, simply drag and drop that link onto your MultiMC instance list, then run it. It'll generate a managed instance of BTA, which you can then run to launch the mod.
• Whenever the mod releases a new update you can just run the update utility again and it'll automatically upgrade your managed instance to the latest version! No more messing around with jar files, and all your saves, screenshots and settings will be in exactly the same place

Installation: MultiMC/Prism Instance

• Download MultiMC and load it up
• Simply drag and drop the 'MultiMC instance' zip file into your MultiMC and it should appear on your instances screen. Alternatively, click "add instance" and "import from zip" then locate the file and click "OK"
• Load your newly created instance and play!

How to run the server jar

• Simply run it like you would an exe. Warning, it will use the server.jar's host directory as a local directory meaning all the files it creates will be placed in whatever folder your jar is in! So try to put it in its own folder somewhere!

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What's Better than Adventure?

Q: How can I get Better than Adventure?

Q: What does this mod do?

Q: Who works on this mod?

Q: How can I help with this mod?

Q: Is BTA compatible with other mods

Q: Why can't I craft a Bed?

Q: Can you backport <feature> from modern Minecraft?

Q: When's the next update coming out?

Contact

For any other assistance feel free to leave a comment below.

Please visit our official website for update changelogs, downloads and guides.

Please submit bug reports or suggestions to our Github issues page.

Alternatively join our Discord server for more frequent updates on the project, as well as access to exclusive snapshots and development builds.

Notes

Special thanks to Jonkadelic for being a very helpful co-developer.

Special thanks to the members of our Discord server for their help bug-testing releases, providing textures and suggestions.

The readableness of a world journal (or anything else, for that matter) is largely based on a compatibility between how the author likes to write (both content and style) and what the reader likes to read.

If you would enjoy documenting the development of a world, by all means do so; the membership is large enough and diverse that it is likely some will find the log (whatever form it takes) to be of interest.

[Shifting interests and time commitments are only to be expected in life; if, however, one once thoroughly enjoys an activity, it seems doubtful one would ever voluntaroly give it up completely. {And I suspect MC has more staying power than many hobbies }]

As the title indicates, this is the first (non-demo) world I created when I got the game, appropriately named "World1", based on the seed -123775873255737467 in 1.5.1-1.6.4 (created in 1.5.1, 1.6.4 is almost the same except for no water lakes in deserts and different chest loot); the seed was randomly generated by the game (I don't think I even knew about seeds back then) and as it turned out it has been a very good seed, starting right from spawning, which places you near a village, no blacksmith but that doesn't really make a difference, near the intersection of a plains, desert, and jungle (open space for building, sand for glass, and wood). Of course, there are also plenty of caves underground, including several mineshafts within a couple hundred blocks of spawn (two overlapping at different levels to the southwest, where a large surface cave opening leads down to them, a third under the desert to the east), and an exposed ravine to the west, although that part came much later; I initially made a network of tunnels under my base and didn't really start caving until around two months had passed, based on an old copy of the world (caves that I intersected were walled off, much of this has since been "cleaned up").

Here are surface and underground maps of the area around spawn, as seen in the actual world and a recreated world in 1.6.4:

(I did not post an AMIDST map because I don't want to see what I haven't explored yet)

I had initially played on this world for around 6 months before I went off of it for about a year while playing around with modding the game, before returning back to it, first by modding a copy with a version of my mod "TheMasterCaver's World" (biome generation modified to have similar parameters to vanilla biomes they replaced so as to minimize chunk borders; here is a rendering of the modded world), then a second time after I'd played more modded worlds (for example); currently this is the only world I am playing on, with a total of around 1 1/2 years of daily gameplay, far longer than any other world I've had and representing about half the total time I've had or played Minecraft.

The world isn't entirely vanilla (beyond an area about X= +/-800 and Z= +1600); I modified the way mineshafts generate by removing their torches so unexplored mineshafts do not show up when I render the underground with MCMap (the mapping utility I used to make the 3D renderings you see in this thread), as well as preventing them from generating in areas with a lot of caves (they are still much more common than they are in 1.7 and later). This includes removing naturally generated torches from existing chunks (before I'd removed them from new mineshafts) by scanning them with code that removed torches attached to wooden planks in a particular manner underground (most of the torches I placed were left alone). I also made a few other modifications to my game, such as changing the way maps render and center themselves (similar to 1.7/1.8) and adding "rail blocks" and "cobweb blocks" which allow me to compactly carry and store rails and cobwebs, much like resources or wool (prior to this I crafted string from cave spider spawners into wool); note that I do not use them for long-term storage and there should be none in the world download (versions before 1.7 are particularly finicky about invalid items, regenerating chunks that contain any). In addition, this world has gone through a name change, by which I mean I had to manually edit the save so tamed animals would recognize my new name after I changed it when name changes came out, as 1.6.4 uses player names instead of UUIDs to keep track of data.

That being said, here are some renderings of the whole world (this and some of the following information may not be current; for example, I've since explored a large area to the east of what is shown below):

Minutor (day):

Minutor (night); yes, most of the light you see comes from cave openings, you can also see my main base in the center and villages (18 bases and 12 villages, including one in my main base):

Minutor (night at layer 22, near the layer of peak cave and mineshaft density):

Unmined, showing all explored caves underground after trimming away chunks without torches within a 1 chunk radius:

One thing that stands out is the lack of mineshafts closer to the origin (center), since they are less common within that area (linearly decreasing in frequency down to 0 at the origin from 80 chunks away along either axis)

Here is a close-up of my main base, along with some screenshots (a bit old but nothing major was changed):

This is the first part of my main base that I built, which has had changes to its layout since but has not been changed otherwise (enlarged, etc); I added the area shown above to expand it:


This is a more up-to-date look at the maps seen above (I modified item frames to render maps like 1.7+, in vanilla 1.6.4 they render like other items):



Part of my underground storage room, where I store all the resources I find while caving (the staircase in the screenshot above leads down to it); there are over two million resources stored here, and would be even if I did not use Fortune for a while after 1.6 came out, prior to which I also only mined what coal I needed, you can still find some caves with the coal left behind (I later re-explored most of these caves to remove the coal). I've mined more than a million coal ore alone, 400,000 iron ore, and some 100,000 other ores. Other resources include moss stone taken from dungeons, rails from mineshafts (also used in my railways), wool crafted from string mined from cave spider spawners (plus some cobwebs, which I only started collecting very late into the world after I added a mod block that let me craft them into blocks as you can with string and wool; these blocks are broken down for storage so there are no permanent modded blocks or items in the world), and loot taken from chests, plus some miscellaneous items such as a chest of mob drops):



A top-down view of the storage room made by deleting everything above it (made at a later date than the images above):



There is a large enclosed area with a glass roof, containing animals and oak trees; I originally made this area as an oak tree farm:

Besides my main base I have numerous secondary bases, of which a more recent one is shown below; most of these bases are relatively simple as they are mainly used as temporary storage areas (filling up a double chest, then I make a trip back to my main base) and to restock on food and wood; at least one older one has more things including enchanting setups and more farms, the latter of which are also seen in my newer bases since I've been trading to get emeralds so I can trade for diamond gear, which I started trading for after I found a villager selling diamond pickaxes, later on buying all gear:

Here is a full-size rendering (4256x3106 pixels, click to see a larger version) of an +/-8 chunk wide swath centered around the railway I made to this base, prior to exploring further; note the absence of caves around the base (which partly shows up on the cave map as parts of it are underground; my main base does not since I use glowstone), which is why I use MCMap to show my progress and removed torches from unexplored mineshafts (I even modified MCMap itself to use a small and more realistic range around torches, which also reduces near surface clutter in forests (MCMap counts any air space that has a 2+ block roof overhead as a cave):

Here is a list of the locations of the 22 bases that I've built, grouped according to the rail line they are on and numbered in the order I built them:

There are also a few structures not considered to be bases and which are not linked by railways scattered around, mainly in the area around base #3. Most of the railways are at y=58, though a short segment to the east of my main base is at y=63 (originally, most were but I moved them down; the railway to the east also went as deep as y=31 along the segment to the north, which I changed before the newest addition to the easternmost base).

Here is a list of the 15 villages I've found in the order I found them in (I did not actually record most of them but the way I explore makes it easy to figure out the earlier ones; #3 might have been found before #2).

Of course, as you can guess, the most notable thing about this world is the sheer amount of caves I've explored - nearly every cave, mineshaft, and ravine within generated chunks, save for a strip around the edges, has been explored with more than 3 million ore and nearly 4 million resources mined from them, and nearly a million torches placed; the exceptions are mainly caves that do not connect to anything else or the surface since the main way I find new caves is through interconnections underground, I'll also check out any surface openings I come across after I've explored an area but do not actively seek them out (most such openings are short dead ends).

Here are some statistics that give you some idea of just how much caving I've done in this one world, which has seen nearly half a year of continuous gameplay:

This is 4335 hours at an average of 3.53 hours per session, which is close to the average across all of my worlds; as an estimate about 90% of this time has been spent caving:



I've mined a total of about 3.11 million ore and 3.54 million blocks including moss stone, cobwebs, and rails, out of a total of 4.54 million blocks mined with a diamond pickaxe and shears (I used iron for a short time early on, now only used to dig out rail tunnels and build new bases using pickaxes taken from minecarts, keeping what I mine outside of caving separate):







I've also crafted 395,564 blocks of mineral resources (including 120 emerald blocks before I started mining it with Silk Touch), equivalent to 3.56 million resources, which when combined with moss stone, cobwebs (albeit most crafted into wool prior to using Silk Touch and cobweb blocks), and rails represents nearly 4 million resources collected over 1,228 play sessions, an average of 3,247 resources per session, even higher when only counting days spent caving:

Here are charts of what I mined over a 4 month period in 2021, during which I spent nearly every day caving with the exception of 2 days in October when I built a new secondary base and railway, otherwise my playstyle is remarkably consistent, with an average of about 3,100 ores and 3,600 resource blocks mined, 337 mobs killed, and 5400 XP collected every day (these figures more accurately reflect my caving than the general statistics shown above):

As for why I mine that many resources even though I do not use many of them, they are a byproduct of caving, which I do for fun, not to get resources; when I start a new world I branch-mine for resources and save caving until after I defeat the Ender Dragon, which to me is the "end" game; some of my worlds have even been "caving only" worlds, where I either used MCEdit to copy a base and gear over from another world or used Creative to build a base and give myself the items I use (either way, I only play in Survival while caving).

This is a series of surface and underground renderings over the six main periods I've played on this world (early-late 2013, mid-late 2015, most of 2016, mid 2017 to early 2018, two separate periods in 2020, and mid-late 2021; the time between these was spent on other worlds) and a full-size animation of an area I explored over several sessions:

This is full-size animation of an area I explored over 10 play sessions, each one lasting for 3-4 hours and covering an area of about 700x700 blocks overall, giving you an idea of how quickly I explore underground, which has included entire large (by 1.6.4 standards) cave systems, up to three separate mineshafts, and half a dozen ravines (not all at once):

A few underground screenshots taken with MCEdit (similar to Spectator mode):

Under my main base at spawn; compared to other areas this area includes a lot more tunnels between caves, as well as branch-mining at diamond level, which I no longer do in this world or in newer worlds except to get resources when I start out. There is still a staircase down from my storage area:



At -800, -1050 is the largest and densest single cave system in the world, and one of the largest and densest I've seen in any world:





Here is an Unmined rendering of the cave above (in a recreated world) showing just how dense that cave system is (from sea level and y=20, the latter of which shows denser caves better); it is unlikely I'll ever find another cave as large and dense as this one (I've found much bigger ones by scanning seeds for dense caves, I estimate that around a million chunks, 18-19 times the size of this world, need to be explored to find a cave like this):



That is not the largest cave system overall though; around -50, -1700 is a huge cave system/complex with more than a dozen separate mineshafts intersecting it:





Another big cave system is around 900, -70:



Not the entire underground is Swiss cheese though, as seen in this sparse area, including unexplored caves (in the upper-left is a desert temple):



It is also interesting just how close caves can get without interconnecting; here is an unexplored mineshaft that is just one block away from another one that I explored. If there had been ore or gravel here I'd have broken through (there are also often breaks in narrower caves and ravines, and larger breaks in ravines under the ocean, which I'll usually mine through):

You can download the world here to see it for yourself (dated 12/6/2021):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjsawpqbhq1pbdv/World1.zip (503 MB)

Note that while it can be opened in vanilla I recommend using my "World1 custom client", the mod I use to play on this world which includes many bugfixes and optimizations (this includes many fixes for bugs still present in the latest versions). It also includes many minor modifications and tweaks to gameplay, such as "rail" and "cobweb" blocks (these shouldn't be present in the download as I only use them for temporary storage while caving and at secondary bases). However, 1.8's Spectator mode makes it possible to fly around underground to get a good look at what I've explored (I did make it so the suffocation overlay isn't shown in Creative but currently you can't freely move around):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k73ameapyc4qru8/World1_custom_client.zip

(the first few pages of comments were made back when I had posted this thread for the TMCW-modded version of this world; I decided to reuse this thread instead of making a new one with the same name)



Some relevant links:

Caving to the Far Lands - a detailed analysis of just how much caving I have done based on actual area explored and cave/structure frequencies.
I just mined one million coal ore
What's the longest you've played on one world? - includes some details on most of my other worlds
Does anybody else come close to this level of caving? - I've always been interested if anybody else plays like me (surely there are, some have even told me that 1.7+ is unplayable without mods to bring back 1.6.4-style caves, which is also how I feel)

I always thought witches not being considered illagers despite being a hostile villager-like mob felt strange, almost as if they were outcasts of outcasts. I feel officially making them an illager instead of their own thing, especially now with pillagers and illager patrols, would help to close this gap.

The ramifications of this would be;

• Retexturing them to appear more like illagers, namely grayer skin and a larger mouth
• Making "Johnny" vindicators no longer hostile towards them
• Making them hostile towards villagers and iron golems
• Spawn them in large numbers within woodland mansions, just like the other illagers
• Maybe act as a support character in illager patrols; throwing splash potions of healing/swiftness/etc at her fellow illagers

What do you guys think? Should witches continue being their own thing, or join the ranks of the illagers?

I thought about this while hearing about the latest snapshot and how they've FINALLY made writing in books easier. (SUPER pumped about this!)

How about an empty bookshelf block that can act as storage for enchanted or written & signed books?

I think it'd be neat if you could also dye the leather covers of books like leather armour. Though, given that signed books still have the shiny 'enchanted' glow to them, this might be hard to see...

Resource Pack: Painterly

Shaders: BSL, internals for interiors.

Local difficulty: 3.75

Current location: Chunk mountain border, Mount DOOOooom

Current XP: 34

Room restoration

So whenever I'm doing big projects like Mount DOOOoooom, or the Chunk Plaza - and now reducing this chunk error wall half-mountain, I occasionally take a small break to do a quick mini - project. Hence the title. Before I get to that however, here is in fact an update on how that "Removal" is going since temporarily moving my beacon there:

Originally:



Works:





The very latest, taken whilst making this post. Sorry for the rain!Also the night time pic..

I'm currently really trying to work on this part in the last screenshot to grade it back naturally - eventually. It'll look very fake at first but over time I'll get there. I also notice THIS cave hole on the shore. I ended up mining down there one night after digging down. Inintially it didn;'t go far down, just to a small pit with lava and a witch. I dug to level 11 and came back with some gold, 15 diamonds and over a stack of iron.


Return of a certain room..
After extending the villager hall/trading area into where the old art gallery was a long time ago, the gallery itself remained packed up in a chest, with hopes for restoration somewhere in a new location at some point. It's been a long time now and finally I can say the Art Gallery is coming back!

It meant however then end of another era...

By the acacia tree round the back there's a little glass bridge over the flow of water from the water fall that goes all the way into the ocean.

But it is to be no more!

Originally I was going to have the former library entrance, (When I deemed the entrance to long and halved it, the rest of it remained sealed up but with out use - just empty.); but I have other plans for that room involving 1.13. Then it hit me! In the waiting room of the underwater minecart tunnel & also tunnel to the iron farm, originally that room was twice as big. Eventually I did chop it in half and the back half remained walled out of sight. For a while I tried a squid farm there before realizing\ it wasn't the right place and ended up just filling the room with water out of boredom. After drying out the room with dirt (I don't have access to sponges) I made a load of white concrete and put up pictures yesterday:

No floor yet, I haven't decided on it - it's just nice to have the art gallery back. I didn't want to ahve to go through the villagers just to get to it however, so working from the original way down, I went up and came out the side of the mountain alongside the river, which meant the old bridge, the stream and the pathway around it and connecting it all had to change.

That stream going down from the waterfall has been there since Alpha when the bridge (More like a small overpass) was just a little wooden cross-over make of oak planks. My hope is to have more signs next to the paintings as you may have seen and maybe even some written books in item frames for information.

Back to the digging now though!

Full Support, but the name should be changed to something that would suit the end more. (Plutonium can't be found naturally and was first synthesized in the 1940s.)

Quote from Richardsmith»

Minecraft is a wonderful game however, I feel like we, players of Minecraft deserve to be rewarded for even downloading the game as it is them (mojang) that it will benefit. All I have to say is that we will eventually get bored of the game if there is never going to be another major update.

Thanks mojang, Richard smith

P.S.- I MEANT ALL EDITIONS

Really? That's quite the entitled attitude you have there. And most of what you said is completely wrong!

With Minecraft we have been greatly rewarded, with many hours of fun, and many, many updates we have gotten for free. Heck, the Java edition owners even get the Windows 10 version for free. That is quite uncommon, even with software. In this day and age when most developers release pretty basic games, then charge for DLC and even online play, Minecraft is truly remarkable.