I was hoping to last longer than 5 minutes after the server went live. I was planning to drop off my decent gear, grab my trusty stone axe and wonder off into the outback. I never made it through my own base before I was ambushed by the green squelching mass. They escaped the saws of my grinder and ...

Raymond Scott's 'Powerhouse' performed by a live orchestra.

https://youtu.be/xthn6syCvf8

Today I ate my words. After seeing the trailer and not really thinking much for it, I condemned it as something to grab from the bargain bin sometime next year. Then this thread cropped up. And now I want to watch it again. Some of the spectacle was more than a little ridiculous in certain places, b...

This is an entirely theoretical observation based on my limited personal experience of sheep breeding. How 'purebred' are your coloured sheep/How many generations since a white parent? I'm fairly certain sheep follow Mendel genetics; dominant and recessive colour traits. If any of your sheep have a ...

Maps work a lot better in the overworld- they are fairly good at measuring long distances.

I'm not on much at the moment; but head over the the Everfree. [portal 9 on the map]

There's a jungle tree farm between the mob grinder and western desert- trees should [hopefully] be grown.

Where did you go? Peek-a-Boo! I found you.

Version 4.99999A0F Marsupial!?!? -Changed the brightness of the changes I made to Hardcore of Darkness recently so that when Gloom isn't present, the overall brightness of the game should be much closer to what it is in vanilla (especially underground). In other words, things should appear a bit br...

I think I've been playing since beta 1.6? It wasn't the first mod I'd played, but was certainly the first one I fell in love with- and the reason I still play MC today. As for my favourite memory? Those moments of pure stunning beauty and paralysing dread. http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab14/the...

My astronomy tower; comes with a free windmill. It sprouted a pair of wings when I added a rain detector. http://i.imgur.com/qxWfe0C.png http://i.imgur.com/svYR4Fd.png http://i.imgur.com/nfN4ODb.png The Teapot- automatic clay turner/recycler. Ever a time to over engineer things; this was a lot of fu...

Well speaking of spiders and interesting caves; I found this under my base last night.

Its probably a surface ravine/pit intersecting the mineshaft- looks like it lines up with a regular cave on the other side too. Chances are this is normal generation- MC does some fairly cool stuff when things line up.

There isn't an exact answer; and what you do will differ from world to world. My last run was hoe first, then pickaxe, shears, pick, pick, and finally cauldon + pick. Or it would have been a cauldron had I not lost my last 30 ore, pick, and shears down a sinkhole on the way out. Swords, shovels and ...

If you want you can go to my base and theres probably a stack or so of oak saplings in my plant box :o it's on the first floor, leave some wood if you want :p I dont care what happens to them ^^ if you want the other saplings go ahead and take them too :) oh please feed the puppies on that floor <3...

GalaxyTreader wrote: Exactly how many saplings do you want? I have 6+ stacks of oak I keep in case of a server-wide fire :P

What do you want for the lot?
(thats enough to plant about 4-5 chunks of forest. There area I'm planting is about 10x16 chunks)

This is possibly one of the few I feel guilty about As for my manual breeding pen

Well the cauldron is needed to make the hopper; so it'll work until you get the other pieces in place to get one going. ( depending on your strategy you could get a cauldron with your 3rd iron pick; long before a hemp plantation becomes established ) Though if you're this early in the game- I assume...

Wood is a byproduct of farming saplings. If anyone has some spare saplings [oak/jungle]- I'm happy to trade you some wood (or rope). While I'm waiting for my computer, I was trying to flesh out my idea. The cloud layer is too low for the proportions I had in mind and fixing it means I'll need 3 stac...

The simplest mushroom farm I know of is just a sloped field that you flood daily; washing the shrooms into a collection channel. I have no idea what the optimum field width/inclination is- or the ideal number of 'seeder' mushrooms that don't get washed out. If you want something high tech, a lens w...

How many mushrooms will you use living off stew anyway?
Automatic mushroom farm isn't too hard to build- certainly a lot simpler than wheat farming.

Quick update; Figured out a auto sorting mechanism for the nether grinder, and fired up the killing mechanism. Silverhold now has some more peasants, and a second butcher. Also I sold a load of Serra's stuff to that librarian (again). I've also tinkered with the sorting mechanism under Silverhold's ...

For long trips out I take 2 stacks of flour, and rely on hunting to provide enough meat for sandwiches.

Stakes are pretty good for creating suspended objects; fancy lighting, 'blinds' over the windows, bridges/platforms ect.
Also they combine rather well with axles and fences.

I feel the survival phase is a cognitive challenge in its own right. Albeit its a very different challenge to the late game building; but pulling a last ditch shelter out of your arse with almost no material and designing it to keep you safe takes a fair bit of skill. Likewise when it comes to defen...

The biome thing would be vanilla [everything changed around b1.8]. FC also added his own tweaks to the terrain gen; but nothing that affects the surface morphology of the world. If the world still runs, you might be able to cut your base out with MCedit and paste it into a fresh world; allowing you ...

It seems the Groth is doing a lot of the work for me. I'm filling the rest of the fort with cement as slabbing is hard work. I think Bio's working on a rail line. Its not that far to walk now its hooked in nether side. I like the name, certainly part of the build will be called Cellar of George. Tha...