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Quote from Gordan_Creeper »

They can't climb glass either.

3 hearts of damage says they can. I had the sides of my mob drowning trap lined with glass to make the water currents go faster, but forgot to put an outer lip to keep spiders from climbing to the inside when I was there. Well, one got in and started attacking me. I had to shoot quite a few arrows into it before I killed it as it kept jumping around, and had to use 2 slices of the cake I put on the 2nd floor of my house for just such a situation.

They can't cling to a single block section of wall upside down very well, so if you build high enough walls with an outer lip, they will keep trying until they are killed by falling damage.

I have a small 3x3 shaft up to the floating island east of my house. One night while going up there, I think a spider may have tried climbing up the outside of it to come after me. I found string on the ground below next morning.

I have one that is 80x80x2 blocks on some levels, 80x81x2 blocks on others, begins at level 52, and goes down to level 13 so far. I started out mining in single rows with single walls like this:


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I found that to be not as efficient and required a greater use of tools, torches and so on. So down around level 31, I switched to doing the mining like this:



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Every 20 blocks, I would run a cross tunnel, going N-S. The main tunnels ran E-W. I'm almost done mining it, having two more levels (10 & 7) to go.

I've put torches every 10 blocks. Spawning of aggressive mobs is not an issue, because I mine on Peaceful.

I want to build a fairly large castle, with an outer wall made entirely out of obsidian. I have so far collected 461 blocks of the stuff, all of it without going to the Nether. The one time I went there, I came back to find a chunk error had wiped out part of my house and parts of a nearby minecart line. So I dismantled the portal and stored the obsidian. I have recently found a large lava pool down on layer 10 near another I had gotten 3 full stacks of obsidian from, but at the time I saw it, all my buckets were full of lava, and I wanted to return to the surface with what I had.

One issue is finding a large flat area I can build on. I may have to level a mountain to do so. It took me several hours just to remove by hand a smaller one east of my house for my wheat farm, so a bigger one could take much longer to level in the game.

Has anyone noticed that white wool, when placed, sometimes turns a very light shade of gray with this texture pack? It seems to be most evident, at least for me when I was replacing my wood floor in my house with alternating black and white wool blocks. Some of the white wool looked white, while others looked slightly gray.

I'm not yet sure if it is due to this as I don't like the look of glass with the default pack, and haven't used it since I put down the wool floor.

I did a lot of deleting of worlds and a little bit of ragequitting at the very beginning, and got discouraged in playing for a while. Then I found that on Peaceful, no aggressive mobs would spawn, and also found a world where I was able to get coal within a day's distance of my spawn point. I have since kept that world, and have only died once in it, in lava. I had no diamonds on me, but some iron, and lost compass, watch and bow at the time it happened. I almost ragequit then, but went back to my base and replaced everything I lost.

Also, that first time I fell into lava, I did not have a water bucket, and no armor. I have since gotten caught on fire by lava a few more times while mining obsidian, and each time I was able to put myself out, restore health (I was on Peaceful all of those times), and only lost some armor protection (I was using leather armor, the lowest durability).

Sand is one of the most susceptible blocks to TNT (or creeper) explosions. The first time I made a block of TNT, I tested it in a desert biome not far from my house. It blew a sizeable hole in the sand, much larger than the typical hole you would get if you were to detonate it on grass or stone.

I would move the sugarcane outdoors or on a separate farm, and let the animals spawn on it. They cannot harm it like they can with wheat. Or if you don't want to do this, replace the dirt/grass where the sugarcane is growing with sand. You'll need to regrow it, though it grows pretty fast. IIRC, it has one of the highest spawn rates of any plant.

Earlier today while working on an underground mob farm not far away from my first mine, I kept encountering chunk errors that were filling in mines and destroying surface construction. One more than one occasion I had to go back to a previous save using MineTime, as the chunk errors were in areas where I had mined or built.

I later discovered I had missed one of these, and it had gotten onto all of my MineTime saves. A section of underground minecart line with around 30 tracks and a booster cart had been filled in, and part of a mountain I had spent several hours removing by hand had been recreated right on the eastern edge of my wheat farm, taking out the glass and wood there in the process. I had to use MCEdit and INVEdit to restore everything the way it was before (I found it easier to replace the ground level dirt blocks that were where the mountain was with INVEdit than MCEdit).

The wiki says that this bug usually occurs after visiting a distant cave, but I have found that it also occurs if you travel more than 300 blocks on the surface or underground in a short time. It occurs on the surface if you travel by foot or boat, but not by minecart. The area where I was building the mob farm is less than 300 blocks away if you measure straight, yet every time I would go there or come back, chunk errors kept occurring.

Aside from regularly backing up saves, and stopping for a while (seems half a day or night does the trick) when going 300 blocks or more, is there any other way to prevent these chunk errors from occurring?

I've had to repair quite a bit of surface construction, and re-dig a lot of mining and minecart tunnels; this bug is really getting annoying and old, and I've seen a few topics regarding it happening on both SSP and SMP. At least on SMP, according to one recent topic, the /kill command seems to fix these when they occur.

Quote from gameaddictwn »

Quote from Szpw »

When a creeper decided to enter my home and blow up.

Remember Kids: ALWAYS close your door

I learned this lesson once early on, though not with a creeper. A skelly was waiting for me when I got back to my house from exploring. I lost 4 hearts before killing him, and then had to go out killing some pigs for their meat. Since then, I never leave a door to the outside open. And the front door to my house is an iron one with a lever on the outside and a pressure plate inside, so it closes automatically when I go out.

A recent scare involved a pig - it fell from a floating island near my house from 18 layers above and died right in front of me. I jumped half out of my chair. I had been hunting creepers at the time.

Quote from MasterHiku »

Sure, also, I haven't encountered any mobs going downwards, nor have I hit a lot long drops.

I found one of these on the surface. It's posted in the Beta Survival Pictures thread. I estimated the distance to the bottom to be about 27 blocks, likely enough to kill me were I to fall down it. Fortunately, there was a 1 block high ledge in front of me, so the only way to fall down it would have been by jumping.

Gravel is not an entirely useless block - not only can you mine it for flint for arrows and flint & steel, but the blocks can be used to drop down into a pit to make a safe route down it. But beyond a certain level, I believe that the blocks are destroyed and turn into a resource. I've seen it happen with sand, so gravel likely behaves the same way with long drops.

Quote from TheSeer »

Sorry i'm a noob, define chunks?

A chunk is a 16x16 block area of terrain in Minecraft. It goes all the way from the world's ceiling down to the lowest bedrock layer (127 blocks in all). Sea level is at layer 65, BTW (counting the bottom bedrock layer as 1, not 0 as some mapping mods do. Minutor is one of those).

Newly Spawned
Out Of The Water
Tree Puncher
Carpenter
Stone Miner
Coal Miner
Iron Miner
Gold Miner
Redstone Miner
Diamond Miner
Build Master
Mining God

There may be others, but those are the ones I've seen, and AFAIK, they are in order by post count.

BTW, when you hit 42 posts, it will say "The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything". A nod to fans of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in case you didn't know what it refers to.

Also, at 64 posts, it will say "Full Stack". As it does for now.

I might just double the height of the outer walls around the sides of my house so that spiders trying to climb up it would take falling damage when they hit the outer lip and try to hang there upside down only to fail. It would save me the use of arrows better spent on killing skellies and creepers.

I've got 19 of them, and one cake on the 2nd floor of my house, which I've already used 1 piece from after jumping a little too far from the ledge of my mob trap and taking 1/2 heart falling damage as a result. This was in late morning, and there were no creepers nearby at the time.

Before the 1.2 update, I threw every egg I picked up, (maybe a dozen or so), and not one hatched into a chicken.

According to the wiki, it can be found between layers 1 and 19, with it being most common from 10 to 16. Lava is much more common at or below layer 10, so bring a water bucket if you're going to be mining diamonds.

It is found in only 0.08% of all rock, meaning you would have to mine 867 blocks to have a > 50% chance of finding at least 1 diamond.