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Or if you're heart is set on wooden planks, try some different kinds of wood. There's more than just Oak to choose from.



Even just a little bit of color variation can go a long way.

Aside from that, it's looking good.

Is using a lever critical in your design? It seems to me that a button with a redstone wire leading underneath the doors would be simpler as a button is only ON temporarily vs a lever which must be actively turned off.

Then just place a button or pressure plate on the other side of the door that connects to the same wire. With the door open temporarily closing will happen automatically.

Granted, the length of time that a button is active is at times annoyingly short.

It sounds like you ended up with an unfortunate situation. Your overworld portal was in a spot that probably corresponded to a lava ocean in the Nether, however there were caves beneath that lava sea so your nether portal spawned in one of those caves.

This likely means that there is either lava ocean or no caves for a 128 block radius from your portal in the Nether. You could try tunneling in another direction testing for lava every 10 blocks or so.

Another idea is to travel roughly 1100 blocks away from your first overworld portal (away from the 200 some blocks tunnel you built in the Nether) this should give you enough space to ensure that your overworld portal will spawn a new portal in the Nether.

This comes from the fact that when spawning destination portals the game looks for a suitable places within 128 (ignoring height) blocks around your current position. But there's a 1:8 horizontal block distance ratio in the Nether compared to the overworld. So while you only need to walk more than 16 blocks away from a portal to get a new one in the overworld 128 blocks away you'd have to go AT LEAST 1024 blocks away in the overworld to get a new portal 128 blocks away from the existing one in the Nether.

More information about portals.

Another way is to get some enchanted armor of fire protection (like lots of protection) or some potions of fire shield and then just swim up through the lava... but potions require getting stuff from the Nether...

Long post ahead:

I first got the game back in the 1.8.1 beta days. Before I even started up a new map I first went through the options menu, like I do with every game, I came across "3D Anaglyph" and wondered what that was. So I turned it on and forgot about it by the time I started the game proper.

I spawned on an island in an ocean... with double vision. Everything showed up twice, once in red and once in blue. I spent about two minutes trying to play the game regardless thinking that my version had somehow been seriously glitched but after searching the options menu again I found the 3D setting, felt like an idiot, and turned it off.

Then I could actually see the tiny (<20 blocks) island I was on. There were some bigger islands close by so I went over to one of them. It had trees (about 20 or so) some slight mountain-like hills and a single pig. It was paradise compared to that teensy island from before. Shortly after figuring out that I can BREAK, PICK UP, and PLACE ANY BLOCK IN THE WORLD, ANYWHERE I WANT (mind you, all I had done was break and pick up ONE block of dirt) I was ecstatic and immediately began digging a random trench.

All of a sudden I hear footsteps on grass that are not my own, which surprised me as I knew that monsters spawned at night. I turn around and a see a creeper approaching.

At this point I knew one thing about creepers that was accurate, and one thing about them that was false. Both of these things were based on the oft quoted meme: "That's a nice [insert name of thing here] you have there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it."

The true thing I knew was that creepers could destroy your creations.
The false thing I thought was that creepers specifically targeted your creations. As in NOT the player himself.

I thought they were just things that attacked your stuff when you weren't around, sort of a server clean up tool (despite playing single player at the time).

What I didn't know was that they exploded.

So when the creeper was walking towards me I freaked out, jumped out of the pit and then punched him. He blew up out of range and I collected the spoils. Thoroughly frightened.

Later, I initially tried to build a crafting table out of logs, then made a small 3x3x3 wooden hut and some tools. I didn't make a door, merely an open doorway.

Come nightfall I had a creeper standing outside my one block wide window. I went out and punched him, making a new big hole by the shore near the house. At that point I thought some high ground would be a good idea, so I made a wood stair to the top of my hut, harvesting the wall opposite the door in the process. From there I watched out the night seeing Zombies, Spiders, Endermen, and skeletons, thoroughly paranoid of them all.

Somewhere in day two I switched to Peaceful mode after I hade eaten the one pig, and failed to get pork from a pig in the ocean. There was another Island I could see over a hundred blocks of ocean away, I saw lots of trees on it, but that was about it, so I didn't consider it worth the effort to swim over. Turns out that when I actually went there MUCH later it was actually a peninsula. It had a TON of pigs, cows, sheep and mushrooms on it withing easy reach.

Though before I had figured out what such a silly noob I was being, I had spotted something under the water about 30-50 blocks off shore on the other side of the island. It looked (to me) like a village that had spawned completely underwater. Through trial, errorand lots of sand, gravel, cobblestone, and glass I made an undersea tunnel across the seabed to where the village should have been.

Turns out it was just terrain. But that tunnel looked hella cool. The broken and choppy rapids on top of it at one side (before I knew anything about Minecraft's unique fluid physics) were a nuisance though.

Eventually deleted that map, too reminded of my earlier foolishness, plus some updates happened and thus caused some weird chunk transitions. Now I kind of regret deleting that map. I should have kept it. I had never given it a seed (plus I didn't know how to view the seed after it was made) so now it's lost forever.

Something along the lines of "Oh that's how the chat works."

I'm whatever I feel like being at the moment. So I guess all of the above? Just not all at once.

Is the 2x3 hole open in both the front and back?

So that:

Front view:







Side View:






I've had an instance where I was messing round in creative where I closed one side off with obsidian and the portal would not open until I had cleared the bottom two blocks next to the 2x3 portal hole.

Basically I built this:

Side View:






But would not work until I did this:






I guess it messes with the game's ability to recognize it as a portal frame. After the portal is lit you should have no problem placing blocks to add a back wall if you so choose.

I also don't think this happens with a back wall of any block OTHER than obsidian.

Scoop up the water source blocks with an empty bucket, either that or replace those blocks with other blocks. That should get rid of the water.

*shrug* Sometimes you really can't tell. Though, if he is joking, then this thread is completely useless.

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Why's there so much hate on lighting bugs? I've captured a few in my bottle and they light up my house quite well.

*facepalm*

You're thinking of lightning bugs. (Emphasis on the n) A.k.a. fireflies. There are no fireflies in Minecraft. Never have been as far as I know. If they do exist in minecraft for you then it's part of a mod you downloaded.

The lighting bugs being by referred to Jeb and everyone else in this thread are glitches, unintended shadows in areas that sould otherwise be lit up. In computer programming 'bugs' are synonomous with 'glitches' and are things that should be removed.

Peaceful mostly. I like to build uninterrupted, and mob noises in caves, etc. make me paranoid.
I'm not quite satisfied playing on peacful though.
I just need to get over my silly fear of death.

I may have to give this a shot myself, it sounds interesting. Also the name keeps making think of Iron Chef, and then I can't help but imagine a simultaneous competition between two "Iron Mayors" recorded and then commentated in the same way as an episode of Iron Chef.

My first impression:
"What the heck is that!?"
*punch*
Explode!
"WHAT"

Came across one MINUTES after starting to play minecraft, apparently there was a cave nearby my spawn point which was on a tiny strip of land off the coast of a moderately sized island with a few trees on it, and not much else. That was a challenging world to start out in.

There is another way to kill mobs aside from lava and gravity. Suffocation. You'd need to set up a field of piston's to shove the pigmen's heads into blocks or blocks into their heads. The Tricky part is collecting the pigmen into a trap. As it was mentioned they spawn at any light in the nether. So the best thing I can think of is bait.

Unfortunately it would probably have to be you being the bait. It requires active participation and carries a fair bit of risk, but heck man, so does the Nether.

1st moment on the first server hosted by my brother, just he and I playing on it, I was minding my own business building the foundation for a decent cobblestone fortress. When, all of a sudden, I see a whole bunch of squids rise out of the river and float into the air. About five minutes later I timed out and got kicked from the server.

2nd moment about 20 minutes after the first I was still having lag issues. I joined the server, only to marvel at how only one chunk had loaded. Our kickass giant mushroom highway just ended at the edge of the world which was drastically smaller than it had been. After getting kicked I logged on again and the same thing happened except then the world started loading more chunks, but it started with the ones further in the distance for some reason. I got a chance to scope out a few underground lava lakes. I never did get back to that world to find them though.

Aside from those epic moments I've had other occasional lag-related issues such as being completely unable to place blocks in a small area, and creepers momentarily showing up inside our house in a corner only to not be there an instant or two later.

Glitches make the best WTF moments.