Being that you can craft it in your 2x2 personal crafting window I'll have to disagree. Sure it will take up three slots for a bowl, brown and red mushroom but each stew gives you far more hunger meter bars than bread does. You can get a lot more mushrooms per bonemeal use (giant mushroom) compared to wheat, too.
I have to totally agree here. Mushroom stew quickly becomes my main source of food in these brutal maps. All 3 ingredients, including the empty bowls, are stackable. But, what do you mean by crafting it in your 2x2 window? Unless I am way wrong, mushroom stew can only be crafted at a 3x3 workbench.
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btw, how long did you guys take for Sea of Flames II ?
Just curious if my 57h are below/around/above average. I have this feeling that I'm way above and beyond the average completion time though !
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Hey Ap2000, congrats on finishing Sea of Flames. That was my first of Vechs' maps, and still my favorite. I am sure everyone's results vary a good bit, bit I'd say you are right in the ballpark as far as average hours and deaths. I finished in about 48 hours, and suffered 44 deaths ('Normal' mode all the way of course). Loved it so much I went back and repeated it in 'Hardcore' mode. Got half way through the VM before dying. Ahg!!!
Then I then went on to Infernal Sky, still plugging away at it, great map so far.
Though I will say...
Once I hit the Ghost Town area, things seemed way too easy. In that town he basically gives you all the armor, diamonds and weapons you will ever need. This was the second place I visited too.
Hey vechs! I have question for Sea of flames is the nether portal below the pig suppose to take u somewhere speccific or just to the nether?
Also me and my friend are doing all your maps in order! Even the rom hack one! But the race for wool (Not enough people)
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Hey BerlinRiver, yes (I'll just jump in here) that nether portal should take you to a very specific place that doesn't look anything like the nether at all. If you are spawning in average-every-day nether environment, then something is wrong with your map. You may be able to re-unzip the original and just replace the nether region section of your world. But without the Vechs-creted nether, you won't be able to complete the VM.
Happy trails, how far along are you? My first time completing the Sea of Flame, I didn't find iron till my last dungeon! Ugh, so I went back at it a second time.
Thanks for posting this here Krondelo. This really is a great seed for a Survival Mode map, think I'll wait till 1.5 like you. Don't pay any attention to the section police, the content of your post justifies it's placement.
It is mostly by chance. But you can guarantee at least a tall tree by planting the sapling on top of a pillar of dirt. 3 or 4 high, heck 20 high if if want a crazy tall tree. Then once it grows replace the dirt with log.
Also, if you have bonemeal just keep growing trees and chopping them down till you get exactly the tree you want. I've done this and it seems like every 4th or 5th tree is a biggie.
Hey rodabon, yes, this could definitely be automated further. The delay could probably be done with the new redstone repeaters now. I have not played with them much yet. I have a room upstairs from this where I tried to get the spin booster started as you've described. It does work, but ended up taking a lot more track and more space. The booster car would pick up both minecarts, but only when it was double boosted, (if this makes sense) the booster cart had to be boosted as it boosted the spinners into place. :-)
I may revisit this, the unlimited travel distance is priceless. I am going to build a station in the nether and want to use spin boosters...
Hi IsenMike. For traveling long distances on one-lane tracks in single player, you really can't beat the spin booster. The near-unlimited inertia and top speed are great! So, to deal with the disappearing minecarts I build in an automatic spin-down so the carts sit idle after I depart. Never lost one yet. Here's a picture of a typical station. This one only has 1 in and out, but switches could be added for more destinations. Basically Works like this:
Step up on the half block at A and push the minecarts (that's 2 carts sitting there) into the spinner at B. They always spin up perfectly due to being pushed in at the same time.
Then step over to the rider minecart at D, but before you get in drop an item (cobble, sand, whatever) into the water hole at C.
Give the minecart a push and hop in. The spin booster sends you out and up the track at E.
The item you dropped in the hole travels through 3 blocks of water then falls onto a pressure plate which causes the curve track at B to switch. This 'parks' the 2 carts back against the half block and it's ready to go again. Eventually the item disappears and the spin track becomes a circle again.
F is just where any incoming carts end up.
I should video this in action, I just don't have recording software installed. Picture will have to do for now.
I know what you mean. The same old familiar scenery can get pretty boring after a while. What I do is this...empty your inventory, dump it ALL in a chest somewhere. Then take all your diamonds, or just a stack if you have more than that, so that's all you're holding. Then use the "Lose Me" tool ( http://mc.42nex.us/ ) and send yourself 10km away. The challenge is to find your way home without dying. The diamonds are incentive not to die, there'd be no way to recover them if you die that far out. This means, of course, finding iron, redstone, making a compass, shelter, food, etc... quite the excursion.
Gives you a whole new view of your world. And when I finally find my boring old home base, what a sight for sore eyes!
Well, I've seen A squid in A pond... but you've got like 5 there! nice catch. Is that the only patch of water around? Maybe they had no where else to spawn.
I dig 3 blocks down then cover up the top. the end.
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Never felt quite like this upon creating a new world, BUT, I certainly feel like doing this when respawning into my existing world having just died some creeper-related death deep in a mine holding 10+ diamonds. It's times like that I like to go sit in my mob grinder for a while and laugh at all the helpless mobs churning into the lava blade.
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I have to totally agree here. Mushroom stew quickly becomes my main source of food in these brutal maps. All 3 ingredients, including the empty bowls, are stackable. But, what do you mean by crafting it in your 2x2 window? Unless I am way wrong, mushroom stew can only be crafted at a 3x3 workbench.
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Hey Ap2000, congrats on finishing Sea of Flames. That was my first of Vechs' maps, and still my favorite. I am sure everyone's results vary a good bit, bit I'd say you are right in the ballpark as far as average hours and deaths. I finished in about 48 hours, and suffered 44 deaths ('Normal' mode all the way of course). Loved it so much I went back and repeated it in 'Hardcore' mode. Got half way through the VM before dying. Ahg!!!
Then I then went on to Infernal Sky, still plugging away at it, great map so far.
Though I will say...
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Hey BerlinRiver, yes (I'll just jump in here) that nether portal should take you to a very specific place that doesn't look anything like the nether at all. If you are spawning in average-every-day nether environment, then something is wrong with your map. You may be able to re-unzip the original and just replace the nether region section of your world. But without the Vechs-creted nether, you won't be able to complete the VM.
Happy trails, how far along are you? My first time completing the Sea of Flame, I didn't find iron till my last dungeon! Ugh, so I went back at it a second time.
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Also, if you have bonemeal just keep growing trees and chopping them down till you get exactly the tree you want. I've done this and it seems like every 4th or 5th tree is a biggie.
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It can be done with any kind of half-block. I made the entrance to my mini castle with smooth stone like this. The lava looks great at night!
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I may revisit this, the unlimited travel distance is priceless. I am going to build a station in the nether and want to use spin boosters...
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Basically Works like this:
Step up on the half block at A and push the minecarts (that's 2 carts sitting there) into the spinner at B. They always spin up perfectly due to being pushed in at the same time.
Then step over to the rider minecart at D, but before you get in drop an item (cobble, sand, whatever) into the water hole at C.
Give the minecart a push and hop in. The spin booster sends you out and up the track at E.
The item you dropped in the hole travels through 3 blocks of water then falls onto a pressure plate which causes the curve track at B to switch. This 'parks' the 2 carts back against the half block and it's ready to go again. Eventually the item disappears and the spin track becomes a circle again.
F is just where any incoming carts end up.
I should video this in action, I just don't have recording software installed. Picture will have to do for now.
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Gives you a whole new view of your world. And when I finally find my boring old home base, what a sight for sore eyes!
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Never felt quite like this upon creating a new world, BUT, I certainly feel like doing this when respawning into my existing world having just died some creeper-related death deep in a mine holding 10+ diamonds. It's times like that I like to go sit in my mob grinder for a while and laugh at all the helpless mobs churning into the lava blade.
DIE you scumbags!!!