Does anyone else use stakes?
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Does anyone else use stakes?
I've recently started using them for things that aren't just aesthetic, man they help a lot. I just find it curious because I have never seen any of the streamers* (to be fair, I have not watched everything ALL of you have done) or basically anyone else utilize them. Is it because they are out of sight and mind by that point? Plus I like anything that doesn't break immersion and counting out blocks/perceiving the world as a grid definitely falls into that. Come on people, learn to love the stakes* ()i do not endorse gambling in any sense ;) )
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Other than for counting blocks, what do you use them for?
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Re: Does anyone else use stakes?
Only that and aesthetics, they just strike me as underused hence why I made this post. I do love the look of them though, beats the hell out of tripwires (or sepia redstone as I like to call it)
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Some potential uses:
- early waypoint marking
- poking loose blocks e.g. when traversing desert, as it will collapse them if they're unstable, and thereafter for marking a safe path (I wonder if anyone is patient enough for this? I just take the risk)
- waypoint marking for caving, though this seems a bit limited, considering they can only be poked into soft material
- mounting the heads of your enemies. Or your own
- early waypoint marking
- poking loose blocks e.g. when traversing desert, as it will collapse them if they're unstable, and thereafter for marking a safe path (I wonder if anyone is patient enough for this? I just take the risk)
- waypoint marking for caving, though this seems a bit limited, considering they can only be poked into soft material
- mounting the heads of your enemies. Or your own
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Re: Does anyone else use stakes?
Stakes =/= shafts.Wibbles wrote:Some potential uses:
- early waypoint marking
- poking loose blocks e.g. when traversing desert, as it will collapse them if they're unstable, and thereafter for marking a safe path (I wonder if anyone is patient enough for this? I just take the risk)
- waypoint marking for caving, though this seems a bit limited, considering they can only be poked into soft material
- mounting the heads of your enemies. Or your own
I mostly use stakes for aesthetics, but they're nice for making sure something is square. I find it slightly clunky for direct measurement but it works.
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Re: Does anyone else use stakes?
Agh. Brainfart...dawnraider wrote:Stakes =/= shafts.
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I only use them for aesthetics, but I do use them. Usually on outside walls of buildings to look like wood supports
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Re: Does anyone else use stakes?
I usually use them when I'm measuring out spawn distance from mob traps. I tend to do this both at surface level to mark out the area I want to light up, and at diamond level to mark how far out to branch mine.
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Re: Does anyone else use stakes?
Seen stakes used a few times for aesthetics; they look pretty neat on the wall just below a flat roof, or forming the suspension cables on a bridge.
Shafts (and axles) can make some neat posts/torch holders, and look can nice when placed vertically in a window (instead of glass).
Haven't used them for measuring, I get by fairly well counting blocks in/out of the hotbar.
Shafts (and axles) can make some neat posts/torch holders, and look can nice when placed vertically in a window (instead of glass).
Haven't used them for measuring, I get by fairly well counting blocks in/out of the hotbar.
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Re: Does anyone else use stakes?
One aesthetic use I've seen that I really liked was as containment for a bloodwood, while still allowing it to be visible, like it was in a cage, using stakes on the walls and floor/ceiling to have intersecting strings.
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