Minecraft

Ender Dragon tomorrow (Jan. 23)? Say 3:30 PST?

What's the best mod launcher to use for a kid first getting into modding? ATLauncher pops ups first, but SKlauncher is cleaner looking.

Oddrune wrote:

Ender Dragon tomorrow (Jan. 23)? Say 3:30 PST?

Whoops, sorry, I missed this. Still up for this if you haven't already done it.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Whoops, sorry, I missed this. Still up for this if you haven't already done it.

DuckLucy, agl_buttons and I killed her yesterday. But, we don't like the far isle portal we got, so we'll probably kill her again.

This was the first time Lucy and Anne had killed her without a casualty in the party, so that was nice.

Nice!

I think we're going to kill another dragon tomorrow at the same time, QS.

So in my single player world I found my Stronghold and set a Nether portal outside the End portal room and found a path through the Nether back to my base. But when I went back to through to the End room, it made a new portal in a cave under the ocean instead. I've tried 3 times to destroy the new portal and relink the one by the End portal, but it keeps throwing me into different caves. Really annoying.

Nether portals in vanilla Minecraft don't "link". Every time you enter a portal in the nether, it looks for the nearest portal in overworld within a certain radius and then spawns a new one if no overworld portal is found. But when searching, a portal in the nether uses its X and Z coordinates multiplied by 8. A portal in overworld uses its X and Z coordinates divided by 8. Because of this, it's possible to build a portal in the overworld that creates a portal in the nether that does not bring you back to the portal you just built. In fact, it's quite common, as you've found out.

So you need to take the coords of your portal in the stronghold, divide X & Z by 8, then move your portal in the nether to be as close to the new coords as you can.

(Apologies if you already know all this. Many people do not.)

Thanks. Sort of knew all the bits and pieces of that, but hadn’t put them all together as to how to solve this issue. Now I know what needs to be done.

I guess in the past I’ve been lucky with almost all my portals linking back to the one I made. I can only recall one instance where it didn’t and that time I really didn’t care about where the entrance was.

EDIT: I got it linked. I had to dig under a sea of lava get to the right coordinates, but I've got a safe path through the Nether to the End now.

Yeah, digging under a lava sea is always fun!

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I'm cursed. This is the 5th End City structure I've found (and the largest) and none of them have had an End Ship. I'm tired of bridging. Give me some Elytra so I can FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

UPDATE:
I'm on a boat!
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Never thought I'd see the day
When a big boat coming my way
Believe me when I say, I used a full shulker box of netherrack to get here.

Once I found this one, there was a second end city with a ship within site, and I found a third ship while looking for a portal home. Used up almost one Elytra's durability too on the trip home. Good thing I have spares now.

I never feel like I've "won" Minecraft until I get that Elytra, so I'm feeling good right now. Now to work on a way to farm gunpowder...

Tscott wrote:

Once I found this one, there was a second end city with a ship within site, and I found a third ship while looking for a portal home. Used up almost one Elytra's durability too on the trip home. Good thing I have spares now.

You know you can put Unbreaking III and Mending on Elytra, right?

Oddrune wrote:
Tscott wrote:

Once I found this one, there was a second end city with a ship within site, and I found a third ship while looking for a portal home. Used up almost one Elytra's durability too on the trip home. Good thing I have spares now.

You know you can put Unbreaking III and Mending on Elytra, right?

Yep! First thing I did once I got back to my homebase. It just took me a while to find a way home, and I didn't bring an anvil and enchantment books with me- just a stack of rockets.

I was watching some videos on XP/Mob farms, trying to figure out which were worth the effort I'm willing to put in, and which actually work in the current version I'm using (Java 1.18.1). And I saw one where the person used upside-down stairs, all facing out, as blocks for the outside of the build. Of course they didn't explain anything in the video --- just build it like this and it'll work--- but one of the comments seemed to suggest that mobs tend to pathfind to solid blocks and so using stairs will make it less likely for them to move to the edges of the darkroom they spawn in. It seemed to suggest that it also would make spiders less likely to climb the walls.

I currently have a double cave-spider spawner XP farm, so I figured I had to test this out. I lit up the room and rebuilt the entire outside using upside-down stairs. After restarting the farm, I must say while it doesn't keep the spiders 100% from climbing the walls, it does seem that fewer do and it is running even more efficient. Take this with a grain of salt, because I did not run any before/after tests. But it might be something others might want to try- plus it looks kinda cool and you'll be unlikely to mine into it by accident.

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That's cool. I'll get it a try on my next farm. I've been using flowing water to a water elevator on my skeleton farm.

Hi all I’m hoping you might be able to help me with something. The 7 year old mini bbk has asked to watch a minecraft YouTuber. Does anyone have any suggestions for an age appropriate person who isn’t going to start dropping f bombs or recruiting him as a future nazi? Sigh the modem world…

Logdotzip has been my kids favorite in general. He stays ‘family friendly’ and as far as I can tell is not an alt-right recruiter either.

bbk1980 wrote:

Hi all I’m hoping you might be able to help me with something. The 7 year old mini bbk has asked to watch a minecraft YouTuber. Does anyone have any suggestions for an age appropriate person who isn’t going to start dropping f bombs or recruiting him as a future nazi? Sigh the modem world…

geminitay I think is one

If modded Minecraft content is on the table, Vallen Frostweaver on his "Mischief of Mice" YT channel is delightful. Super chill guy, really relaxing to watch him play through all sorts of modpacks, and video tutorials of specific mods.

Spoiler: Example Vallen YT

 

I'll second merphle's recommendation of Mischief of Mice. He's very relaxed and also a pretty skilled player. He might actually be too chill for a seven year old's attention span.

Oddrune wrote:

I'll second merphle's recommendation of Mischief of Mice. He's very relaxed and also a pretty skilled player. He might actually be too chill for a seven year old's attention span.

That was actually the one concern I had. I was going to suggest another modded YTer "System Collapse" who has a significantly higher-paced energy and also strives to keep his produced content clean.

Thanks all! Really appreciate the help ill have a look at at these and then see if he does his homework without complaining tonight

Pixlriffs is my go to Minecraft guy. He's 100% family friendly and seems like an all around good dude. However, he focuses on detailed explanations of builds and game mechanics while he advances in the game, so he might be a little dry for 7 year old if they're hoping to watch a lot of close encounters with creepers and dangerous fights in the Nether.

Pixlriffs just spent a recent video explaining for 20 minutes mechanics and tips for flying with Elytra, for example.

Tscott wrote:

Pixlriffs is my go to Minecraft guy. He's 100% family friendly and seems like an all around good dude. However, he focuses on detailed explanations of builds and game mechanics while he advances in the game, so he might be a little dry for 7 year old if they're hoping to watch a lot of close encounters with creepers and dangerous fights in the Nether.

Pixlriffs just spent a recent video explaining for 20 minutes mechanics and tips for flying with Elytra, for example.

He’s the only one I’ve watched much of, but I agree. My kids mostly play creative, but we watched a few episodes of his survival series that I think he does with every major update. I thought it was a great intro of how to survive Survival.

Pixlriffs went down a storm although that maybe just being allowed to watch YouTube more than anything. Thanks so much all and I’ll keep the others in my back pocket.

bbk1980 wrote:

Pixlriffs went down a storm

I've heard of taking the world by storm, but never something going down a storm. I've learned a new expression today. Glad the suggestion is working out so far.

Anyone have experience with swapping accounts on a samsung tablet. Been logged in to my account for years while mini me plays with lava offline, finally got to the point where we want to build a word simultaneously so I bought him a copy through his google account.

Uninstalled my copy (off the amazon store no less) and installed his, and the damned thing won't let me log in as anyone but me. Let me set him up a microsoft account and everything. Just auto logs in as me.

Online resources best guess is disabling the samsung browser that it auto connects to to log in... Except it's not installed. I installed it... logged in as him... still no dice.

Spent hours trying iterations and now he's sad and I'm mad about the whole thing. I just want to play.

Did you wipe data when you uninstalled? Most apps leave some config and session data in a special folder that might be storing account info. Not sure if Minecraft does, but that's the first place I'd check.
Just checked my Android version. In settings, storage, games, Minecraft I have a clear data and clear cache button.

Wow, thanks!! that did it!!!

Has anyone tried mining for ores with moss yet?

Basically on a flat surface of stone/deepslate replace one block with moss and bonemeal it. The block around it turn to moss, keep bonemealing around the area you want to mine and then use a hoe to remove all the moss. This process doesn’t convert ores, so basically you make a large hole quickly and collect all the ores as you go.

I just tried it in a one chunk area pretty and got 14 diamond ores in short order. You wind up with a ton of moss, etc. but that all can be composted to make more bonemeal to convert more moss.

I saw pixlriffs do this to clear out a whole chunk from top to bottom of the world. I’m not trying that, but it seems like nice alternative to strip mining for diamonds.