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Essentially you have to repeatedly tear down and rebuild your portals until they align correctly, a fairly time intensive process.

Jungle Logs. and Oak. both seems to not work. Not sure why. Birch and spruce are untested. Ok, I just tested all 4 kinds of logs in my manual kiln. Me putting the logs in... https://dl.dropbox.com/u/98309451/Minecraft/Pictures/2013-02-08_09.11.11.png Me turning on my manual kiln... https://dl.dropb...

Yes sir, looting beacon here I come!

Guess I need to build a village then, eh?

The snow thing intrigues me, but only slightly. I'm a little curious how the collision box will work with it now, obviously the player won't just be able to walk through a 3-layer snow pile but does this mean that you also can no longer walk through the normal 1-layer? Also, will snow pile up in tun...

My first beacon:
It's only one level, but it's also right above where I'm digging out my slime farm, so it's very handy.

I've noticed that (at least in vanilla, especially in the end) that if I quickly glance over endermen they will make the aggro sound without actually coming after me. When you heard the noises, did one actually attack you?

Passive mobs most definitely do not affect hostile spawn rates. To improve your spawns I would recommend following the advice given in this thread and either light more caves or increase the amount of spawning spaces you have like you were thinking about.

Well, I've tried a couple things in regards to making this work but not performing an operation every tick. @Override public void clientConnect(NetClientHandler var1) { ModLoader.getMinecraftInstance().thePlayer.stepHeight = 1.0F; } This will work so long as the player doesn't change worlds, suggest...

FC has stated before that he dislikes the way vanilla is blending elements of the game together, such as giving xp for mining/smelting, as well as farming netherwart in the overworld. He has also removed both of these. Essentially he is against being able to do everything anywhere, in a small compac...

I'm pretty sure squid will spawn in any water block, source or no. After all, this is what made squids such a problem when people used water flows in their traps. Worth noting though, and not immediately obvious, is that squids only spawn below a certain height level (62 or around there) to prevent ...

@randomo Sorry about being redundant, youtube was blocked when I posted that and so I didn't realize you had just posted that very video. @wiggles In then end I guess it really comes down to how much xp/nitre/scrolls/whatever it is you want from your trap. For comparison, I have 3 floors of this... ...

I'm actually intrigued, why do you guys think it's a bad idea to go above height 128 ? A guy on youtube called JL2579 has a video or two going extensively into the mechanics behind mob traps and how spawning works. Basically, the game only tries to spawn monsters in the bottom 128 layers of the map...

The great randomo wrote:The steel beacon allows you to set your spawn anywhere, End, Nether and Overworld...

I believe this is what FC was referring to Foxy Boxes.

intresting, so your saying the SFS beacon basicaly decreases the area of HC spawn with each level? so with level one you might spawn just say a couple of thousand blocks away instead of several thousand? From what I understand, SFS beacons let you respawn at their location if you die within their r...

... Since the stepHeight field is public you should be able to change it in the entityplayer after the call to super in the constructor and not affect anything but the player. That's actually exactly what I did, I just meant to say EntityPlayer when I said EntityLiving. Either way, BTW modifies bot...

A whole week huh? That SFS beacon must do something really neat... ...too bad I don't have the resources for a beacon yet, nor will I for a while. Though the new method of getting groth is pretty conveniently timed, as I was beginning to think about setting out on a journey with a couple of maps in ...

..... Anyhow, here's the link to the mod if you or anyone ever wants it. Link Just put it in the jar like you would BTW and delete META-INF, and it should allow all players to step up 1 block instead of the default 1/2 a block. And yes, due to this being a baseclass edit on EntityLiving, which BTW a...

Unless I'm completely missing something, it should actually be really easy to make a mod that modifies the step height of the player, though it would require editing the baseclass EntityPlayer. If your son is playing on vanilla I can make such a mod really quickly, and it won't even need Modloader o...

...the work to reward ration being way too low. You can gain access to enchantments so rapidly that there's hardly any satisfaction to be gained from acquiring them and everyone just winds up constantly running around with enchanted gear as if it's the default. I totally agree. Once you have an enc...

Ok, thanks for the quick reply. I wasn't aware Flowerchild had already mentioned he was still working on arcane scrolls, so sorry for bothering everyone with a redundant question.

Though to clarify: there are no secret hidden ways of getting enchants that Flowerchild snuck into the mod?

Is it currently possible to get the respiration enchantment on the plate helm? A quick search of all posts regarding this suggests that it was once possible using the vanilla enchantment table before the ability to enchant steel was removed from it. Flowerchild even added a special case for it makin...