This is getting too addicting!!! I think i'm having more fun trying to create and modify the terrain than I am playing the game. Then again, I've barely played since I started doing this! I think I'm a good point now to stop and play for a bit before starting up again! :biggrin.gif: :biggrin.gif:
I know exactly what you mean! Start messing with textures and I find myself hardly ever playing the game.
I'm not much of a builder. More of a miner/sculptor. So I sketched out some ideas for a megalomaniacally huge but ridiculously inefficent mine. It's going to take a long time, but it'll look seriously cool.
This thread is mostly to keep me motivated to finish the project... also to help demonstrate the legit-ness of this mine. In times past I've used flying mods and inventory editors to explore and sketch out ideas, but this world is going to be 100% legit, on normal difficulty.
The portal must be made out of TNT, and the framework has to be suspended in the air high enough to not damage a single block when you set them off. After the explosion creates a portal hanging in mid-air, then you can build stairs or a ladder to it.
Make a portal out of rare materials. I don't really care which materials.
Here's the trick: instead of a vertical doorway, the portal is horizontal like a pool you jump into, and can only be created at the very bottom of the world. Let's say no higher than level 3. So you'll need to find a large enough flat space at the bedrock layer. This will probably take a lot of digging to find a place to build the portal.
I bet Minecraft furniture would sell. Blocks make good end tables, footstools, trashcans, ottomans, etc. The double chest is a good coffee table. The oven is a... well... oven.
Ok, the Curse lost password utility actually worked for me (I don't even remember when or why I registed with Curse...) and you already know about the broken search and no avatar.
Where is my list of bookmarked threads? Is it lost, or just hidden somewhere?
Edit: holy crap my avatar wasn't there a second ago! LOL
Sandstone is now updated to 1.5_01, with a great big thanks to Kahr, Misa, and Dante80. This version adds several of Misa's textures, including the bed, powered tracks, extra WildGrass vegetation, and I decided to change over to her beech bark. I'm also using Misa's armor and items, since those look so incredibly cool.
The copper wire style of redstone lines has been replaced with Misa's texture that closely resembles the game's default.
The old dayglow bright orange and pink sandstone block has been toned down to almost but not quite blend in with the sand, so that's closer to the game's default textures. I really do want to keep things mostly compatible with more traditional texture packs; that first sandstone texture was a mistake.
Once when I was a kid, I found a little black spider with the most intensely blue eyes. It looked so cool, I remember it twenty years later. So I changed the spider eyes here to reflect that memory.
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I know exactly what you mean! Start messing with textures and I find myself hardly ever playing the game.
Your pack looks great. :smile.gif:
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This thread is mostly to keep me motivated to finish the project... also to help demonstrate the legit-ness of this mine. In times past I've used flying mods and inventory editors to explore and sketch out ideas, but this world is going to be 100% legit, on normal difficulty.
So here we go. The central spiral staircase has already been sunk from the surface to bedrock, and I'm starting on the main dome. I'm replacing dirt and gravel with smoothstone as I carve it out. Eventually I want to go back and make patterns on the ceiling with other materials, but right now the plan is to get the main dome carved out first. I hit a lava pool, so now I have obsidian. That's good, because I want to use glowstone in the ceilings. [sIMG]http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab310/Winter_Owl/gaming/Minecraft/2011-05-16_012014.png[/sIMG][sIMG]http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab310/Winter_Owl/gaming/Minecraft/2011-05-22_034038.png[/sIMG][sIMG]http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab310/Winter_Owl/gaming/Minecraft/2011-05-22_230513.png[/sIMG]
Here the main dome's ceiling is shaped and I was starting to dig the floor down to level 12, but I distracted myself experimenting with different floor patterns.[sIMG]http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab310/Winter_Owl/gaming/Minecraft/2011-05-22_230520.png[/sIMG]
As little as I play in any given week, this thing will probably take months. I'll come back and update occasionally.
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Here's the trick: instead of a vertical doorway, the portal is horizontal like a pool you jump into, and can only be created at the very bottom of the world. Let's say no higher than level 3. So you'll need to find a large enough flat space at the bedrock layer. This will probably take a lot of digging to find a place to build the portal.
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Where is my list of bookmarked threads? Is it lost, or just hidden somewhere?
Edit: holy crap my avatar wasn't there a second ago! LOL
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Thanks! I may eventually tinker around with the other textures, but that smoothstone is here to stay. It's the core of the whole pack.
The terrain.png is in the fourth post in this thread.
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The copper wire style of redstone lines has been replaced with Misa's texture that closely resembles the game's default.
The old dayglow bright orange and pink sandstone block has been toned down to almost but not quite blend in with the sand, so that's closer to the game's default textures. I really do want to keep things mostly compatible with more traditional texture packs; that first sandstone texture was a mistake.
Once when I was a kid, I found a little black spider with the most intensely blue eyes. It looked so cool, I remember it twenty years later. So I changed the spider eyes here to reflect that memory.
As always, constructive criticism is welcome.
Hope you like Sandstone.
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How about a sheltie? I love shelties.