The Unofficial Minecraft Thread

[Joben]

You can pour cobblestone as a fill, but the effective procedure is:

Pour lava, wait for it to flow to bottom of hill.

Pick up lava.

Pour water over lava flow before it disappears.

Not though, there are likely to be gaps.

[the-manta]

Thanks, I'll give it a go

EDIT: hmm, I don't think it's a viable technique, or I can't get the hang of it. When you take into consideration the amount of lava used up, its not really any better to manually placing the stone

Edited February 25, 2011 by the-manta

[Galvon]

Always did take a look at MC but the price has put me off. Not that I don't think it doesn't deserve the price tag but I just haven't got enough for it :L

[Joben]

Thanks, I'll give it a go

EDIT: hmm, I don't think it's a viable technique, or I can't get the hang of it. When you take into consideration the amount of lava used up, its not really any better to manually placing the stone

Wel the point is if you do it this way it doesn't use up any lava. You only need one bucket of it and you still have it at the end.

Pick up the lava source before pouring the water

[the-manta]

Ah, I finally got the hang of it I was being to quick with the water, so all that happened was the block immediately surrounding the source turned o cobbles, and the water stayed, without producing any more. Now I wait until the lava level has sunk to one block below the source spot, then pour the water, works a treat

[_echo]

My new Passive mob spawner/Sanctuary.

Yes, those are all legitly dug Lapiz blocks. The one with yellow on it is a glow-stone for the "sun"

[the-manta]

That's so cool! I love the "sky". I have yet to find a single lapiz lazuli vein, that amount is inconceivable to me I would like to use some for my new castle's throne room floor, but as I say, I have none

[_echo]

If you havnt started a new map since it was added, you have to travel out to newly generated chuncks. And i warn you, its rarer then diamond and you are lucky to find more then 2 block veins.

[Joben]

That's a very nice room Echo.

grrrr Cartograph has stopped working. I can't generate new maps of my world.

I checked for an update but it didn't help:(

[_echo]

Check first post. Cartographer G is an unofficial update since the author went MIA

[Joben]

Lynrae has made her home underground on the landmass across the water from the public fort.

I found a rich cave near there, we've taken a ton of iron out of it.

I tried out a neat trap design I found on the wiki, it uses a preasure plate to release a lava flo. I've got a non-lethal water version set up in the experiment courtyard of my castle. It exploits a technical quirk of how liquids calculate where to flow. link

I need a new building project...I kinda want to make a small town. several buildings, roads, yards etc.

[_echo]

Underground canal system using water elevators. =P

[the-manta]

Oh I do like the idea of a town Joben Finding a safe location to build something so spread out may prove tricky, but I think it would be rewarding in the end I'd love to help out with that.

[Joben]

I think we should put the town in the area around the safehouse on stilts. It's a nice climate, and the ground there is already fairly level and clear of trees.

[the-manta]

You're very right, that does sound like a good spot it's especially convenient for me because it's almost half way between my castles

[Joben]

I've cleared some trees from the site and spread out torches to make it safer to build at night.

I've also started building a commuter bridge from near my castle across the sea to the land mass the village will be on.

[the-manta]

With some fleshing out, that bridge will be awesome an engineering feat! I'll try to be on a bit more frequently, I've just been busy this week

[ub3rman123]

Apparently my brother figured out my password (Need to hide the paper better) and claims to have griefed someone's castle on the server. I'm not sure what he did, but I'll be trying to find out. And change my password at that.

Edit: I found it, it's on a castle away from the spawn across a short ocean section. He burned out the flooring inside of a tower, but the damage appears minor. I'll see if I can fix it best as I can.

'nother Edit: Joben's fixed it. The damage was to the-manta's castle, with the bedroom having had its floor burned away. You might want to make sure nothing else happened, but the floor there was all he said he burned.

[Joben]

Did some more work on the huge bridge.

It's now 5 blocks wide, and has 1 lane of track layed down.

Also I constructed two sets of support pylons on the end closest to my castle.

At the far end it's going to need an ending point and road(s) leading up to it. As it stands now it ends above tree-top level over a small island.

If anyone wants to start buiiding a slope closer to ground level that would be cool.

[the-manta]

@Ub3r: as far as I can tell, nothing is out of place in the castle

I only remembered when I logged back on that last time I played I died horribly in a deep dark cave I had no hope of getting back to, so I lost all my armour, tools, etc oh well, that's the game right?

@Joben: I'm currently in the treetop safehouse- there is a huge amount of cobblestone and brick there, am I to assume this for the town/bridge? If so I can get working on the bridge, if not I'll go mining (I used up all my cobblestone building a new castle, or starting to).

[Joben]

Yes that stuff is for building.

You can use the cobble for the bridge. save the brick for houses though.

[the-manta]

Yeah that's what I was thinking

[_echo]

aww, the bridge goes right over where i was gunna make something

Can I be a hermit under the pylons?

[the-manta]

@Echo: Yay, you're joining us No worries, the bridge is very high

[Joben]

lol yes Echo you can be a hermit under my pylons any day.

...wait that sounds wrong somehow...