I'm glad that sea travel/sea as a safe spot has finally been nerfed to some degree. And aside from all the head hugging, squids can also now send you GOD DAMN FLYING. I ran into a group of them in a boat and I got thrown across the water like a rag doll, although that's probably the most optimal res...

I go to the exact corner of my first map and make a new "placeholder" map. I don't fill this one in; I just go to each corner and use it as the starting point for a new map that will line up with my first map. Say my placeholder was in the SW corner of the first map. Then I could make thr...

I've never done much mapping in MC before, mainly because I've never had a use for it. Now that I'm playing with HCS enabled I've found that making a few maps might make things a bit more manageable. The problem is that mapping is a lot more complex than I imagined and this is further compounded by ...

The only beef with HCS I have is this: it's trivially easy to just build a boat and wander the high seas till you find your original base...and often takes quite a bit less time than building a new base and working up to a compass. Yes, I know, FC has promised to balance the oceans :) But till then...

I've tried a cauldron, stoked and unstoked, furnace, mill, hopper, saw, shears, every tool...nothing. I'm guessing the functionality just isn't there. My only gripe with that is that I've now gone from a stack of useable wool to a stack of decorative blocks. Although I also understand the balance is...

We just restarted on our server a few days ago, up until then we had HS disabled. I have to say that although I was apprehensive at first, I finally get why you're so passionate about it. After dying once, spawning on a cliff and committing suicide twenty times just to get out my frustration, then s...

Quick Q, and I'm going to feel silly if the answer is obvious but I haven't been able to find it anywhere. Is there any way to break down wool blocks?

I would say pickaxe just because it speeds things up so much relative to any other tool. If I could impart a single word of advice to any new BTW player it would be 'DO NOT WASTE TIME!' In BTW, time is always against you, you should always be doing something to improve your efficiency and the iron p...

For me, BTW is the only mod that I've ever played that actually adds a gameplay element to MC. Going back to vanilla or any other mod now just feels like playing with a giant virtual Lego set. That's not to say that BTW is inherently more challenging, but that it's the only mod that I've played that...

This was the first texture pack I used with BTW too. It really suits the mod. Great to see it updated!

Have only played on private servers before so I'd love to give a more public one a shot. Not sure how good my connection would be though.

Name: Daisjun
Age: 24
Location: Australia
Experience: About two years or so

Cheers!

Secondly why is there is so much hate against nerfing wood and stone tools? Combine the 9x hit to iron and stone picks now only lasting barely long enough to gather resources for another tool; yeah, lots of tedious rebuilding of tools. I think that's what people are most hit by; The shear minimal u...

Firstly great job up the update FC! It was only the other day that I was building a pillar just to see the surrounding area and thought it was a bit silly how someone could physically jump in the air and place a block underneath them while airborne. Secondly why is there is so much hate against nerf...

I found myself being largely nomadic the first time I restarted with HCH. The first day I frantically gathered some wood and stone and slaughtered as much as I could. I then spent the night in a hole and heard the screams of the rest of the animals being mopped up around me. Then of course there's a...

Good point. My apologies.

I'm currently using version 3.0.3_01. As TGL said, Modloader > BTW > Everything else. I have all the MCPatcher mods activated. Should work fine. Edit: People seemed to be reporting a lot of problems using a non-3.1.0 version, not sure why mine is OK. I might be missing mods and not realizing it. Use...

If you're desperate, I managed to find a version someone had made to work with 1.5.1 and Modloader:

Snip -Flower

Like FC said though, it does throw the balance of the mod off a little and I do feel a bit guilty about using it.