Happy international hangover day everyone.
crawls back under the covers

If I can get my hands on enough gold, I want to deck a couple of zombies out in full armour and post them as 'guards' by my nether portal.

Wayhey! Someone else can join me out in exile.

In other news; if anyone has any designs/ideas for the southern nether fortress [also in need of a better name], if anyones interested in teaming up give me a poke.

Clink

Merry Christmas FC

I'm generally building roads, and digging out riverbanks
- boats are pretty decent, but rivers often have a few tight spots that need fixing.

My only experience with SF beacons has been on Pk's server. I've suffered multiple deaths when bound to that beacon- while only about 2 of them landed me back at the beacon. Given the beacon is at spawn, and my base is on a different continent- I generally head home via the nether. Could be related ...

Mason11987 wrote:Not that mycelium is all that great anyway before you can get enough steel to survive the nether groth.

I beg to differ; steel just makes groth easier to remove.
Surviving and living without steel is seriously fun- usually in the 'oh shit this is dangerous' way.

I can see a few things to help reduce the size. Though my first point would be to recommend tinkering in your survival world; I find playing around and climbing into the build helps me think things through it a little easier. It almost becomes a form of meditation sometimes. As for your design; turn...

I can't really give you a solid yes or no without knowing what I'm agreeing to. Going by the previous pattern- the world resets didn't really feel unnatural or forced. I felt your updates followed a fairly smooth transition that allowed players to switch over in their own time. If its something that...

I'll put a named chest of "wolf feed" next to my cages.
- if anyone wonders through then please do.

(thinking about how many people live in the HCS zone, it might be a good idea to mark your wolf location)

You weren't kidding about blunt force trauma - I'm sitting here cross legged contemplating starvation over getting kicked down there again.

This is pretty easy to test; check your detectors when the wheat is fully grown- If you can invert a few torches than its working. I've never used them vertically above the wheat before. [I can't see why it'll make a difference but you never know] If that works then try controlling your circuit from...

Just wondering; could you change the 'server shutting down' warning to 30 seconds?- right now 10 is a little on the short side.

Flowerchild plunges the world into darkness.
and all I do is build this astronomy tower for a better view.
Theres just something about sitting on the roof watching the sunset.
The way gloom just ebbs and flows is beautiful.

Just keep trying for caves. Though if you've already found some diamond around the lava; then a stone shovel or two will sort that. If theres a decent air pocket above the lava, bridge over it; sometimes theres a continuation of the cave or a side passage worth exploring. A recent run of mine took 4...

Slightly gold intensive- but you can use pistons to make a counting mechanism. [vanilla style tech]

Edit: if you're building a chicken farm [or some kind of animal feed]
- why not leave the turntable on its slowest setting, and have enough chickens to eat the resulting flow of seed?

A few people have suggested that I join this server- I already see a few names I recognize from PK's and Eric's. 1) CelestialPhoenix 2) Playing for over a year on PK's server. I prefer out and out survival and building everything from scratch. 3) Normally around 70. 4) Triple Chocolate. Only due to ...

Look at automatic melons/pumpkin/sugar, and auto harvest for wheat ect
Its fairly simple to design, and does something cool.

A good second project would probably be a mob grinder- with divertable water to control autokill [items] and manual kill [exp].

ylogaj wrote:Guilty. I need to get around to making some BTW shirts.

and Hat hats.

Recently re-obtained internet...and a home, actually, come to think of it. So I might be on sometime. Doesn't look like much has changed on the map though. Welcome back. A lot of my recent building has been underground, or in the nether. -There is one large development of mine that shows on the map...

Looks like it might just be cosmetic damage.
The pistons seem to respond ok when I go over.

Looks like Hammersley nexus got ghasted/creeped :( - I could patch the hole next time I pass through, but some else will have to repair the redstone. Also http://i.imgur.com/ZOICA73.png Please don't fall down the hole like you all do in my overworld base. Quick update- connected my rail station into...

Local radio station, or my iPod.
Sometimes its the comforting voices of Icy and Flowerchild.

Only bummer in the temptation to hop off to decend quickly (I have murdered myself countless times :P) A water pit 5-6 blocks deep might solve that :P As a sidenote, do you guys ever bother fully exploring abandoned mineshafts for on-topic reasons? They are my biggest nightmare atm, they just never...