Minecraft

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Yeah a new world. I have chickens, wolves, cats, squids, sheep, and I seen a few pigs. Not a single cow in 15 hours. I even took a boat and went from island to island just locate a cow and nothing. Going to have to make a bunch of books before the update because I'm going to be short on leather.

If that's the case, I say go into your game save and switch it to creative, grab some cow eggs and spawn a ton of them in a pen. That's seriously weird. Probability fail, or a bug. No idea which.

Maybe you just haven't located a biome that spawns cows?

Dakuna wrote:

Maybe you just haven't located a biome that spawns cows?

That seems odd though, doesn't it? I can see that with Mooshrooms, but a now-cow biome seems odd. Is that a thing?

CY wrote:
Dakuna wrote:

Maybe you just haven't located a biome that spawns cows?

That seems odd though, doesn't it? I can see that with Mooshrooms, but a now-cow biome seems odd. Is that a thing?

I've had issues finding various animals, and yes, it was tied to biomes loading in a pattern that simply kept me going for a long time before finding them. Jungle biomes, I literally travelled for a good hour before finding one once, ergo no ocelots until I found it. And that was in a new game, ie. very little explored area. I had a ton of sea biomes, or whatever they are calling them, with tiny islands and tons of water.

Is anyone here using a modpack? Any recommendations?

I'm trying out OptiFine with the Magic Launcher. My primary goal is to hit higher than 20 sustained FPS with windowed MC with a short render distance on my Intel integrated graphics. OptiFine is purported to increase FPS in many cases, but I haven't seen it yet. However, it includes all kinds of other enhancements, and seems widely liked.

One question, for anyone: if I'm going to be loading mods, should I also increase the RAM limit for MC?

CY wrote:
Dakuna wrote:

Maybe you just haven't located a biome that spawns cows?

That seems odd though, doesn't it? I can see that with Mooshrooms, but a now-cow biome seems odd. Is that a thing?

All of the animals are biome specific since 1.2. Sheep tend to crop up in mountainous areas. Cows appear on grasslands. Pigs are in swamps.

Moggy wrote:

Is anyone here using a modpack? Any recommendations?

I played with AMCO and really liked it. Just doing the plain old game now though.

Creeper has blasted my monster trap twice. Going to extend the fall so they have less hitpoints when they land. I think the skeletons were hitting them and he creeper attacked by blowing up. I'm hoping the skeletons will kill them in one shot if I extend the drop.

Yeah I think my cow problem is a biome problem. I haven't seen any flat grasslands yet, only snow land, forest, deserts, and swamps. When I do find one, I have no idea how I'm going to get it back to my jungle base.

The cool thing about my current game is I found a huge dungeon or stronghold below my spawn point. The thing goes on forever. I managed to make a skeleton trap down there for a endless supply of arrows. I also tried making a cave spider trap but a creeper blasted the spawner. Could figure out how he got there until I noticed one of the hallways I had lit up didn't have a ceiling or rather it had a ceiling but also had 3 floors above it. And wouldn't you know it, a creeper was looking down at me. Had to build a ceiling quickly before it jumped down. The game didn't have dugeons or strongholds that last time I was really into minecraft. And now there are pistons, red stones, villages and other crazy stuff.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Yeah I think my cow problem is a biome problem. I haven't seen any flat grasslands yet, only snow land, forest, deserts, and swamps. When I do find one, I have no idea how I'm going to get it back to my jungle base.

You can lure all farm animals with wheat held in your hand. Sheep, cows, pigs and chickens will follow you as long as you are holding wheat in your active spot. Although I'm not sure if that works in the xbox version..

Animals also love to ride the train. Get Bessie and Elsie to pack their bindles and jump on! You can come back to gather the tracks later (water helps with gathering).

For anybody looking for a different experience, I recommend the Technic Mod Pack. Download the launcher from here and let it do the updates.

It adds a ton of stuff seamlessly. Right now I'm still playing with Industrial Craft (just elevated myself to level II tech) but there's a complex magic system I've yet to explore. Never mind the adventuring/questing/villages stuff.

There's something very gratifying in pumping up lava from level 5 to power my geothermal generators to power my diamond factory Of course, my diamond factory goes through coal and clay like nobodies business, so I'm off to drain a swamp...

There's also a set of 32x32 textures for most of the add-ons here.

and a Sphax 128x texture pack here!

Moggy wrote:

For anybody looking for a different experience, I recommend the Technic Mod Pack. Download the launcher from here and let it do the updates.

Those do sound like great fun, but I get sad that I can't share with other people. I see they make a server thing too, but does that mean everyone connecting needs to have it too? Might make a fun alternative multiplayer experience, but wouldn't be that popular due to the extra installs required.

Moggy wrote:

For anybody looking for a different experience, I recommend the Technic Mod Pack. Download the launcher from here and let it do the updates.

That's what I'm playing now . I went through most of the basic industrial craft, some red power 2 and now I'm playing with buildcraft , I tried the new weapons and I also got corrupted by equivalent exchange (including enabling the glowstone recipe but it's fairly expensive.

I tried most of the mods on peaceful but I've restarted on easy and normal. In normal games there are ogres which can break some blocks so you should make sure your house is properly reinforced.

If you want to use equivalent exchange but want to avoid cheating too much just avoid building energy collectors and stick to transmutation tablet and maybe a condenser to make mass transmutation . The power items are also nice but not as unbalanced (well they are really OP). Energy collectors create energy you can turn into matter using light. This basically means that if you link them together and upgrade them you can make 4 diamonds per minute with the most advanced setup. Collectors are still somewhat balanced by the fact they cost about 10 diamonds and the first upgrade cost you about 18+ diamonds and the second one costs you about 58 diamonds. The worst form of cheating in EE is building energy collectors linked to a condenser letting it sit idle for hours ;).

You should also watch out for large predetors during the day if you are playing in easy difficulty or higher. Those Lions/Panthers etc bite really hard if you are naked.

In my opinion Industrial craft is fairly balanced and I like it's automated mining method better it's despite the fact it's tough logistically (providing power to it) and it's fairly resource intensive (steep energy consumption) and time consuming ( I think 3-4 game days for 9X9). It's still easier to start up compared to a query (needs a few diamonds to craft) and it doesn't leave a mining pipe like a mining well . The main advantages of Industrial craft miner is that it doesn't dig a huge pit. after it's done you can still use your electric jetpack and go down the tube to check what it missed. Industrial craft also has mining laser which is probably less cheaty than destruction catalyst (equivalent exchange) .

I haven't tried the textures but I might try them out. The graphic doesn't bother me much.

I'm still working through IndustrialCraft and BuildCraft. I've built a lava pump and tank system (tank column is 40 high) which feeds my geothermal generators.

I'd just built a mining laser and MFS charger hooked into a transformer and a bank of geothermal generators. Had a nice space underground for a factory. Then I managed to punch a hole on the roof with the mining laser and I'd been playing with the scatter mode so had an unholey (pun intended) mess to deal with.

I walled it off and worked on some other stuff - including playing with the zeppelin.

I learnt about the ogres after they smashed through my house a few times trashing everything! Their sound is recognizable so I now look for them and take them down with a few whacks of my emerald sword. So I heard ogre sounds coming from my walled off space. Knocked a door through the wall and found SIX of them in there! In taking them down they (along with a tactically placed creeper) managed to take out my whole tier 2 power generation system!

I have built a transmutation tablet, but not using for much other than converting cobblestone onto stuff like torches and nikolite into coal.

My experiment in draining a swamp failed and cost me some good stuff when a croc got me. At some point I'm going to try using the teleport pipes and the pipe that allows you to flow water out of it to pump the water into the sea.

So much stuff!

You are obviously playing a different game than I am! This sounds fascinating, I may have to explore some mod packs...

I'm nowhere close to exhausting the riches of vanilla MC. The prospect of all these extra branches makes head masploding.

muraii wrote:

I'm nowhere close to exhausting the riches of vanilla MC. The prospect of all these extra branches makes head masploding.

Oddly, even with the months of game time I have sunk into this game, I also have not exhausted vanilla, mainly because they keep adding stuff and I haven't made the time to explore it all. Too busy with Diablo 3 and before that MW3.

EDIT: Months of real time, I mean.

Baron the II died by cave spider. Knocked down a wall and a ton of spiders came out to eat his face.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Baron the II died by cave spider. Knocked down a wall and a ton of spiders came out to eat his face.

When did Toady put bath salts in?

Stengah wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

Baron the II died by cave spider. Knocked down a wall and a ton of spiders came out to eat his face.

When did Toady put bath salts in?

+1

So I finished my Diamond making machine. Works pretty well and pops out a diamond every minute (or so). At the moment its limited by the speed at which a redstone engine fully heated up will remove coal from a chest. Plenty fast enough at the moment.

Next up on the agenda:

Create a Tier II power system and get that mining laser back in action. I need to increase the size of my rubber tree plantation to get more rubber. I also need to head back into the Nether for some glowdust. Not looking forward to it as last time a Ghast blew out my portal and I didn't have a flint and steel to relight it. Tried to get the Ghast to relight it for me but ended up dying by burning in lit netherrock.

Then I think I'm going to start playing with ComputerCraft turtles to create some mining bots. With some crafty programming and a large enough swarm, I should be able to start strip mining pretty efficiently.

Meanwhile, I'm going to start exploring the villages and see if I can kick off the creation quest.

and those werewolves HAVE GOT TO GO!

Minecraft is a lot like witchcraft, they both have craft in their name. Think I'll make a giant creeper statue. Maybe turn it into a house. Then wire it with TNT and blow it up. Boom!

Moggy wrote:

Then I think I'm going to start playing with ComputerCraft turtles to create some mining bots. With some crafty programming and a large enough swarm, I should be able to start strip mining pretty efficiently.

Have you tried building a BuildCraft Quarry? I like quarries. There's something oddly satisfying about watching a big machine slowly dig a giant hole in the ground.

muttonchop wrote:
Moggy wrote:

Then I think I'm going to start playing with ComputerCraft turtles to create some mining bots. With some crafty programming and a large enough swarm, I should be able to start strip mining pretty efficiently.

Have you tried building a BuildCraft Quarry? I like quarries. There's something oddly satisfying about watching a big machine slowly dig a giant hole in the ground.

I haven't. Watching videos online convinced me that they're far too inefficient. Instead I am going to use ComputerCraft.

Today I made a miner - which was made pretty easy thanks to the few diamonds I'd made in my diamond factory (it requires a diamond pickaxe). It comes with a built in program called excavate, which digs a quarry until the miner's built in storage is full. Fun to watch, but after getting pushed down the hole a few times (damn animals!) I decided to write my own control program as a wrapper around excavate. With luck, I'll be able to have the miner shoot off, mine, come back and drop it's inventory over a conveniently placed Obsidian pipe which will suck the drops into a series of chests.

Moggy wrote:
muttonchop wrote:
Moggy wrote:

Then I think I'm going to start playing with ComputerCraft turtles to create some mining bots. With some crafty programming and a large enough swarm, I should be able to start strip mining pretty efficiently.

Have you tried building a BuildCraft Quarry? I like quarries. There's something oddly satisfying about watching a big machine slowly dig a giant hole in the ground.

I haven't. Watching videos online convinced me that they're far too inefficient.

Yeah, they're pretty slow and you'll end up with a buttload of cobblestone and dirt before they finally dig down to the good stuff. I just like digging giant holes.

Tried to get the Ghast to relight it for me but ended up dying by burning in lit netherrock.

You know you can snuff out fire blocks by hitting them with a shovel? I've used that in fights to clear burning areas so I can move.

You can hit them with anything really.

I didn't know that. Thanks!

I need to head back in there soon but I'm not going until I'm properly kitted out...

I grew up with Smokey the Bear. He always used a shovel.

Must resist urge to install this at work.