The roof does sound like a good place to tunnel, and I'll try long arms if I have the presence of mind to. Hopefully that'll keep me alive to my next fort.

My last few runs of BTW have been all quite healthy, breezing through the prenether portion with ease. However, tracking down the nether fort is always the killer for me, with tunneling ending in water-speed lava and being generally unproductive. Does anyone have good advice for hunting down nether ...

BTW v 4.89667 Astrolabe v3.1 BetterItemFrameMaps Craftguide MC 1.5.2 MCPatcher tweaks Issue: When loading my world after normal saving and exiting, I occasionally find, for instance, myself to be in pitch darkness because I appeared in a section of cave I had lit up beforehand, but before I had tor...

I'm quite glad now that there's a difference now between being able to sustainably use iron tools and having steel tools. I'm not sure what you can do with the lens pre-anvil besides lighting, but the reduced cost is a nice change. And of course, the diamond change will almost certainly have me runn...

That sucks :-/. I wish you good luck on getting your computer problems sorted, Anbaric, your textures are great.

The first death that got me in my newest world was falling into a ravine that was exposed to the surface through a single-block hole. The other was the trolly lava from past versions flaming me in the nether fortress.

I don't have the best of luck.

MCedit has an entity removal tool; In the GUI the cows should appear as red rectangles. Draw a box around them, and look for the option "Delete entities". That should clear things up, just make sure not to hit your own stock with that.

In vioki's video, he fixed the problem by using mcedit to delete the corrupted chunks, and then have them regenerate normally.

Journal entry: The squid... they've mobilized their forces. It's not safe in the water. Listen - if anyone finds this entry, don' Do not worry, land-walker. Jump in the river and stand still. Perhaps hug a squid for company, they are your friend, and would certainly never think of eating your brains...

This puzzle really reminds me of this one flash game, "You have 1 day". In it, there's this one puzzle with various wizards crossing a swamp with a torch, which is the same puzzle in format. It was quite a great game, requiring a lot of careful thinking.

Legit: Have player A go to the surface, retrieve food for 14 minutes, and then head back down. The players may then leave at their leisure. Cheaty: Have player A take all the food for themself, quadrupling the time he has to 52 minutes, have all the other players log out, A hunts for all the time th...

It seems your changes to make minecraft a game are approaching complete realization. I think the only thing I'll notice at first is the fragile workstations, as I'm still emerging from the early game, but the rest looks fantastic too.

So at my first night, I was sitting in my scrape in the cliff, biding my time until the sun arrived. The sole light source for my little hole was from a single block so as to prevent the gloom from consuming me. Bored, I decided to close off the hole with a dirt block. Harmless, right? When I decide...

My applause goes out to Kahr for standing up against forge's "Join or die" mentality. If we're lucky, cpw and Lex might notice they're causing a good bit of carnage upon the community, though them caring may be less likely. Given the community's history, though, I fear they may try and pul...

My pants may not be soiled, but the horror motif the hard core of darkness adds is causing difficulty for me in pushing through the necessary early spelunking. Amazing (though simultaneously petrifying)!

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So today, I decided to try out 4.61, since Hardcore hunger was just introduced and it seemed like an exciting early-game obstacle. Food for me wasn't an issue, even though I spawned in the middle of a tundra. The numerous pigs and cows gave plenty of excess food and I was able to stash some extras i...

I'm glad you're back, Anbaric, I was just trying to get used to vanilla again before you came back. Great work as always!

A soul sand hopper, the basic component of XP storage, contains XP until it receives mechanical power, at which point the XP empties out through the bottom to wherever you want the XP to go. XP storage isn't an item, it's a multi-block structure. The only way the player can carry XP is in their leve...

Fed wolf pups poop and heal when fed. Though feeding multiple items to a wolf before it poops still has no effect, and wolf pups can't jump more than half a block.

Ooh, puzzles! I got the first 33, I don't want to spend too much time on this though. 1 2 3 4 (1+3) 5 (3+2) 6 (2*3) 7 ((2*3) + 1) 8 ((3+1) * 2) 9 (3^2) 10 (1&0) 11 (10 + (3-2)) 12 (10+2) 13 (10+3) 14 ((2&0)-3!) 15 (10+(2+3)) 16 (2^(1+3)) 17 ((2&0)-3) 18 ((2&0)-(3-1)) 19 ((2&0)-1)...

Anbaric, I'm glad to see you've overcome the internet problem. Your texture pack is great, and worth the wait! Edit: Either the download seems to be for the previous version of the texture pack, or you forgot a few textures. Mutton and boiled potatoes are invisible, and the stone benches/etc. still ...

Oh, wait, did your internet stop working? Did you download the mods before your connection broke? I thought you used a USB or something to transfer the files over from a working computer, but if you don't have any computer access, the most I can do is offer moral support. I can't help but notice tha...

An unarchiver? 7zip is a good (and free) one that I use when moving around archives.

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From my tests, the installer works without internet either, so that should help too.
Good luck with the update!

IGN - Crazylemon64 Why am I interested?: I've heard great things about BWR, and it seems like a very intriguing mod. Playing it in its natural environment (Resource-scarce wastelands) should be a great experience. You guys seem to be pretty far in the tech tree, so I might split off of the group to ...

If I'm not mistaken, the cauldron should be on the same level as the upper flames. In other words, try moving the cauldron down one block.