Poll of the Day > Oh haha I love the Nether it's so great it's my favorite thing in Minecraft

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Man I wonder if I should just explore my End for more shulkers. I was purposefully not exploring it because I was hoping 1.20 would be an End update. >_>

It's snapshot day my dudes

Also, apparently everything they showed off at Minecraft Live was not for 1.20. It's for 1.19.3 That's... super weird. o_O But anyway, yes snapshot with camels is live.

So Mojave is changing their development cycle. They want to do one massive update every year, then throughout the year theyll release smaller updates that add one or two new things to keep the game fresh. Well well see if they can deliver on that.

I got a hot tip for all you Minecrafters out there. A pro strat. Make a composter. Make a trapdoor. Place the composter down. Place the trapdoor on top. Open the trapdoor. Stand inside the composter. Close the trapdoor. You can thank me later.

papercup posted...

I got a hot tip for all you Minecrafters out there. A pro strat. Make a composter. Make a trapdoor. Place the composter down. Place the trapdoor on top. Open the trapdoor. Stand inside the composter. Close the trapdoor. You can thank me later.

Doesn't seem to do anything in Bedrock unless I'm missing something.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Doesn't seem to do anything in Bedrock unless I'm missing something.

Oh I think it's Java only actually. :X

papercup posted...

I got a hot tip for all you Minecrafters out there. A pro strat. Make a composter. Make a trapdoor. Place the composter down. Place the trapdoor on top. Open the trapdoor. Stand inside the composter. Close the trapdoor. You can thank me later.

What happens?

Revelation34 posted...

What happens?

You lie down. Inside the composter. Its pretty legit.

Built out my slime farm last night. Not as productive as I expected it to be, but realistically it is probably more than enough. I'll watch a few videos to make sure I didn't do anything terribly wrong and then I'll probably just leave it unless I need a stupidly large amount of slime blocks for something.

I can't figure out where the endermen are spawning. There shouldn't be a place big and dark enough here for them to spawn.

Might be a cave somewhere nearby you didn't find. That might also explain the low slime spawns, there are areas dark enough nearby for zombies and skeletons to spawn.

papercup posted...

Might be a cave somewhere nearby you didn't find. That might also explain the low slime spawns, there are areas dark enough nearby for zombies and skeletons to spawn.

That is going to be fun to try and find. I did walk around to see if I could hear any mobs and didn't find anything. Only other option would be to start tunneling out on each floor I guess. For now I'm going to call it good enough since I've already got several stacks of slime cubes and I don't really have any immediate projects to use them on.

*sigh* The most ignominious of Minecraft deaths, blowing yourself up with a bed while mining ancient debris.

Oh no D: at least the ancient debris cant burn

papercup posted...

Oh no D: at least the ancient debris cant burn

Yeah and given the risks of either blowing myself up or dumping lava on my head I always wear fairly crap gear when I'm doing it so at least I didn't lose much in the process.

Now that I have a slime farm though I think I may trade in the beds for a tunnel borer.

Ugh world gen sucks now, too many damn ravines. It's like cool, here's a village and oop half of it is 100 blocks down over there.

Zareth posted...

Ugh world gen sucks now, too many damn ravines. It's like cool, here's a village and oop half of it is 100 blocks down over there.

I do think they could stand to either tone down the ravines or at least update village generation to fill them in or something. I had to move half the houses in one village because the AI just stopped pathfinding to their beds and job blocks.

Yeah like where I built my base, I did not realize this at the time, but as I built it out and started digging underneath, I discovered that those planes are just littered with ravines. Ravines stacked on top of ravines. It's actually not a fantastic place to build, but I didn't know that at the time.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/9/5/AADH07AADz2L.jpg

Just let the ol froglight farm run for a couple hours while I afk'd and made and ate dinner. 9 chests, all about this full.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/9/6/AADH07AADz2M.jpg

And I didn't even think about the magma creams when I built this. I am set for life.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/1/0/AADH07AADz2a.jpg

Decided I should probably actually put that conduit I made last month to use and raid an ocean monument. Never done this before these guys hurt, even with my crazy gear. :0

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/1/1/AADH07AADz2b.jpg

Also, shipwreck on the ocean monument lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/3/1/AADH07AADz2v.jpg

Took for god damned ever but I managed to actually use the conduit. Took a while to get the shards to make the blocks, then it took longer to build it cus every time I came back down from refilling my air, like 10 more guardians spawned.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/3/5/AADH07AADz2z.jpg

There he is. There's the bastard that keeps fatigueing me.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/3/6/AADH07AADz20.jpg

Yer dead, son!

There was no sponge room in that monument, but I am undeterred, I know where two more monuments are.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/4/AADH07AADz3Q.jpg

Sponge room, baby!

Well now the question is whether or not I want to break down these monuments for the blocks. Sea lanterns are a nice looking light source, but, I do have thousands of froglights. Idk, the idea of breaking down the naturally occurring structures seems wrong somehow.

papercup posted...

Well now the question is whether or not I want to break down these monuments for the blocks. Sea lanterns are a nice looking light source, but, I do have thousands of froglights. Idk, the idea of breaking down the naturally occurring structures seems wrong somehow.

I just emptied mine of water and kept it. Tonight's project was a blaze farm. Got it up and running but I need either build a dedicated nether portal for it or setup a more direct path so I'm not parkouring on one block paths over lava.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/7/AADH07AADz4Z.jpg

Decided to farm wither skeletons for more beacons. It took me like almost 2 hours to get 6 skulls. In that time I killed this many wither skeletons worth of bones and coal to get those skulls. There's got to be a better way!

Anyway, it's late, I'm tired, I'll fight these withers next time I play.

Oh, also, Kingbdogz confirmed on Twitter that while 1.20 will be adding new blocks and features, even more than we know about, 1.20 is going to be overall a QOL update, and they're doing a lot of technical work to fix bugs and make the game more stable. Like in the snapshot, you don't need to fiddle around with the inventories of mounts to give them saddles and armor and chests and carpets and things anymore. So hopefully player inventories will get some tweaks? Please?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/5/AADH07AAD0Bb.jpg

Killed 2 more Withers, and hatched some chicken eggs in the cage where I built them so I got some roses. Not sure what I need these for, but hey I have them now. Also I'm restructuring the way I use beacons. Instead of having all effects on at once, I want to build speed beacons strategically throughout the base. And that means I need waaaaaay more gold. Time to go caving!

papercup posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/5/AADH07AAD0Bb.jpg

Killed 2 more Withers, and hatched some chicken eggs in the cage where I built them so I got some roses. Not sure what I need these for, but hey I have them now. Also I'm restructuring the way I use beacons. Instead of having all effects on at once, I want to build speed beacons strategically throughout the base. And that means I need waaaaaay more gold. Time to go caving!

I know some Wither skeleton farms use roses so that only skeletons spawn. I've also seen them used as the kill mechanism in some AFK farms.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/8/AADH07AAD0Be.jpg

Oh yeah also I learned a thing about beacons! You can place colored glass in front of the beam to change the color of the beam. And you aren't just stuck with the colors of glass, you can mix and match glass colors and the game will calculate what the color of the beam should be. Pretty neat!

papercup posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/8/AADH07AAD0Be.jpg

Oh yeah also I learned a thing about beacons! You can place colored glass in front of the beam to change the color of the beam. And you aren't just stuck with the colors of glass, you can mix and match glass colors and the game will calculate what the color of the beam should be. Pretty neat!

Which leads to stuff like this:
https://imgur.com/gallery/iCc1MHF
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/fgrusw/i_made_a_pixel_art_whit_beacons_and_glass_panels/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/5/3/AADH07AAD0CB.jpg

Interesting. I did not know bean blocks were naturally occurring. Must be one of those massive iron veins I've heard about.

Edit: also, yes, I AM using froglight as my caving lightsource. I have such a stupidly ridiculous amount of froglights, why shouldn't I use them in place of torches?

rjsilverthorn posted...

Which leads to stuff like this:
https://imgur.com/gallery/iCc1MHF
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/fgrusw/i_made_a_pixel_art_whit_beacons_and_glass_panels/

Whoa that's awesome.

Also, so you know how the end ships have the purple block of glass in the floor, and a hole above it in the crow's nest? It's because originally the reward wasn't going to be Elytra. The reward was a beacon. So the end ships would emit a purple beam you'd see from far away. But that's kind of a redundant reward considering how easy it is to get beacons from Withers, so they changed the point of the end ships.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/1/AADH07AAD0EV.jpg

After spending all afternoon inside of various caves and cliffs (heehee) this is my haul. The bell was inside of a chest at a ruined portal literally jutting out the side of a cliff.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/1/0/AADH07AAD0GC.jpg

Turns out that wasn't enough gold for another beacon, so I had to go do even more caving. x_x I did get enough gold for an entire third beacon though.

Also I made a statue of me.... I'm not a builder, okay? I'm not good at these things.

papercup posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/1/0/AADH07AAD0GC.jpg

Turns out that wasn't enough gold for another beacon, so I had to go do even more caving. x_x I did get enough gold for an entire third beacon though.

Also I made a statue of me.... I'm not a builder, okay? I'm not good at these things.

Looks kinda like a cactaur.

At some point in the near future I'm either going to have to do some major terraforming around my main base or I'm going to have to relocate because I'm running out of room here. The fact that I'm sitting on top of a huge cavern is going to make terraforming a pain, but I also have a lot of stuff built up here that would be annoying to move as well. I guess I could just leave those here as an outpost and create a shortcut through the nether.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ydxj1v/walk_like_a_camel_minecraft_snapshot_22w43a_is_out/

It is snapshot day my dudes.

Big change this week is camels have a more realistic walking animation, they lift both legs on one side at a time, instead of alternating legs. Yes, lifting both legs at a time is actually how real camels walk! Also, tons of more bug fixes, and more reorganizing of the creative menu.

Well that was annoying. Died and the one piece of gear I didn't manage to recover was my Looting III sword, so now I'm back to farming levels and enchantments to replace it.

So I learned something last night. I learned that block conversion was a bigger thing than I realized. I knew you could convert natural blocks into moss with a moss block and some bonemeal, and of course you can convert natural blocks into sculk by killing mobs near a sculk catalyst. But I also learned that you can convert coarse dirt into dirt with azalea trees. You can convert dirt into mud with water, and you can convert mud into clay by placing a dripstone underneath it. That's cool! Dirt, clay and mud are all fully renewable resources. I wonder if there's more I don't know about.

papercup posted...

So I learned something last night. I learned that block conversion was a bigger thing than I realized. I knew you could convert natural blocks into moss with a moss block and some bonemeal, and of course you can convert natural blocks into sculk by killing mobs near a sculk catalyst. But I also learned that you can convert coarse dirt into dirt with azalea trees. You can convert dirt into mud with water, and you can convert mud into clay by placing a dripstone underneath it. That's cool! Dirt, clay and mud are all fully renewable resources. I wonder if there's more I don't know about.

You can also make coarse dirt into dirt by tilling it and I think you may also be able to convert coarse dirt into dirt by turning it into a path block and then breaking it.

I think I'm gonna build a mud making machine

Also

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/0/4/AADH07AAD038.jpg

My enchanting level is nice.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/7/4/AADH07AAD05C.jpg

Mud farm working! Now to make a big cube of mud and dig it all out! :D

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/9/0/AADH07AAD05S.jpg

There we go, big 8x8x8 cube of mud :D

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/9/3/AADH07AAD05V.jpg
It was so satisfying digging all that up :D Now to turn it into packed mud and mud bricks!

Meanwhile my raid farm is still borked because for some reason they approach from the opposite direction of the outpost. So instead of coming down the big wide open path I made, they come from the side with the cliff and river and get stuck, because what is pathfinding?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/0/2/AADH07AAD05e.jpg

Mud bricks are such a nice looking block!