Delta
2881
Argh! The HD Texture fixer is working, but not patching actual HD textures. All it’s doing for me at the moment is just adding a basic 16x16 texture pack. I know I’m not doing the process wrong because with the same zip file, it worked perfectly last night. I’ve reinstalled both programs, but no dice.
Pogo
2882
Redownload Minecraft and start afresh.
Meh. I don’t think anyone except first time players thought being closed inside all night was cool and interesting.
Zepo1a
2884
Beds should have a small percent chance of sending you to the Nether World while sleeping.
Pogo
2885
That’s fine. But I would just open inventory and slide the window over so that I could see when the sun came up while I browsed the internet.
roBurky
2886
Yes! It would plop you in the Nether without your inventory, until you die, whereupon it returns you to your real body, getting out of bed.
Then the portals to the Nether would be literal portals to your nightmares.
I’ve always just worked inside all night, tunneling into the mountain and building rooms, or digging down and starting a mine. The day night cycle provides a good routine for me, outside harvesting during the day, inside using the stuff I harvested during the night.
Pogo
2888
Sure. That routine doesn’t necessarily go away if you don’t want it to, but if my first day hovel is some very temporary thing, I don’t particularly care to just dig aimlessly. I prefer going out during the day and finding a cave in a hillside somewhere.
I really like the bed. It lets me dig down at my leisure after getting everything topside how I like it, rather than omgomgomg furious wood chopping followed by the all nighter to bedrock.
Delta
2890
Done that already. No dice. It’s uncanny how it manages not to work even then.
Pogo
2891
Yeah, shitty when that happens.
There’s another upside to getting used to a 16x16 pack, though!
Did you also delete %APPDATA%.minecraft?
Pogo
2893
Should be able to just delete the ‘version’ file in .minecraft/bin to get a fresh copy of all the files.
After a couple hours branch mining I have to say that redstone is the Noid of ores. Not only is it useless for the normal game, it takes forever to dig out.
The irregular bedrock is also aggrevating as hell; the only way to keep from going up and down all the time is to just mine at height 6 or so.
After a couple hours branch mining I have to say that redstone is the Noid of ores. Not only is it useless for the normal game, it takes forever to dig out.
A thousand times yes.
The irregular bedrock is also aggrevating as hell; the only way to keep from going up and down all the time is to just mine at height 6 or so.
For the sake of efficiency - in terms of number of blocks exposed per time mining - you want to have no bedrock showing on your floor.
Thanks for the advice. I poked around some and using the advice of “mine at 11-16” I’m having a way easier time of it.
Also, I have diamonds coming out my ears. Diamond picks are like a zen dream, I swim through the rock.
I don’t go that high - I think the logic there is to avoid the greatest number of lava pools, which I find pretty trivial as a danger. There is probably a consensus somewhere on the minecraft forums where the efficiency nerds live, I haven’t checked.
Spam
2898
The MOST OPTIMAL wasn’t convenient for me. Mining equals grinding to my mind and I saw it as a sort of zen, relaxing experience. Anyway, my main point is just to start at 16 and work your way down. I never ran across lava that slowed me down or otherwise hindered me when using this approach.
Merrily tunneling along just above bedrock and hitting 10z deep lava could seem like a major setback, though.
Well, the thing about the branch mining concept is you’re meant to go back to the main line and start a new branch anyway, not just go on forever. So when I hit lava I generally just seal up the passage (I’ve been burned that way once, via my own stupidity, ever.) Going back and sealing up the branches is the way to economize on torches, after all. Wouldn’t want to leave them all down there uselessly.
Late to the party as usual, but I finally pulled the trigger on this this weekend. So much fun. And I managed to learn my lesson fairly early on. When you finally get diamonds, go home, like right then. I was heading back out of my mine when I heard a new monster sound. Peeking down over a ledge I see a slime sitting on some lava. Then in what felt like slow motion, I fell off the cliff and managed to hit that 1x1x however deep lava tube and burn to death. All my iron armor, weapons, tools and about 6 diamonds and the rest of my gear kaput. I think I almost cried.
