Minecraft! (single player dwarf fortress)

Pogo · 2011-09-21T16:03:10.000Z

I might have to get that mod. Exploring by boat is taking forever.

lordkosc · 2011-09-21T16:16:00.000Z

Where do you gents find these map seeds ?

Pogo · 2011-09-21T16:45:24.000Z

I think most people just type in seeds that were interesting before, or just start throwing in common words. It’s easier to communicate finding a cool world from a named seed than by hoping to get lucky with just random generation.

Bad_Neighbor · 2011-09-21T16:54:55.000Z

I typed something like “This is where it ends” and the result was a jungle with a floating island above it and an abandoned mine underneath.

PeterK · 2011-09-21T17:03:38.000Z

Speaking of which, any tips for finding abandoned mines? I haven’t seen one yet. Do they tend to be in certain biomes? Are they accessed from the surface or from underground (or possibly both)?

DocLazy · 2011-09-21T17:52:03.000Z

Shellfishguy:

Does throwing chicken eggs still have a chance to spawn chickens? Since they’re the only source of feathers now I’m woefully short on arrows. I’ve managed to fence in a single chicken off away from my house and have been collecting whatever eggs it lays and tossing them into a coop I’ve built by my house. So far about a dozen eggs and no new chickens.

Yes. It’s about 1-2 chickens per stack of 16 eggs. The trick is to find find a pond full of chickens or make a pit for them to fall into. Collecting starter eggs is much easier this way.

Fugitive · 2011-09-21T18:06:33.000Z

I’m too lazy to rehost the pics right now, but someone in the SA thread made a chicken factory farm. Make a bunch of little 1x1 pools of water that drain to a common area below, box them in, and put a chicken in each pool and you’ve got a constant supply of eggs.

Sir_Digby · 2011-09-21T18:06:50.000Z

lordkosc:

Where do you gents find these map seeds ?

Randomly for the most part; my latest one was “Ashi” and I spawned on a massive flat forested island surrounded by mountainous islands all around, pretty cool stuff.

DocLazy · 2011-09-21T19:40:27.000Z

Pogo:

I might have to get that mod. Exploring by boat is taking forever.

Now that we have oceans the Zeppelin mod is the way to go. You can build airships and ocean going ships out of in game blocks.

Volksy · 2011-09-21T20:14:32.000Z

With all the damn eggs I run across now, we need an Omelete mod.

Theodore_Rex_DX · 2011-09-21T20:21:31.000Z

Eric Majkut:

Endermen should continue to steal blocks, but they need some sort of nefarious secret scheme fueling their theft. Maybe they actually construct some crazy structure or contraption somewhere on the map using the blocks they’re stealing. I mean, knowing they were actually DOING something with the stuff they’re swiping would make them so much creepier. Plus you’d have the incentive and excitement of finding their secret thingy and getting some sort of reward for it.

I think they are/were meant to create geometric patterns.

I’ll be pretty pissed if he removes their block-moving completely. Just make it so they only move dirt blocks or something.

Sir_Digby · 2011-09-22T05:08:40.000Z

Er… was snow removed? I haven’t seen a snow biome in ages!

Lamalo · 2011-09-22T05:12:49.000Z

Yup, should be back in 1.9.

Zylon · 2011-09-22T05:20:30.000Z

It sure would be nice if there were rain levels other than “none” and “torrential downpour”. Ease into it a little, eh Minecraft?

Eric_Majkut · 2011-09-22T06:51:32.000Z

My current single player game has a lot of forests but I’ve never seen it rain once. I’ve been through probably 40-50 in-game days and not a drop. What gives?

DeepT · 2011-09-22T06:56:45.000Z

MrPerson:

Unless the code has changed, irrigation is binary. Either the block is in range, or it’s not, and my crops are in range and their land is irrigated. Nearby farmland modifies the growth rate, but not adding more water.

How does nearby farmland affect the growth rate? Does it improve it or worsen it? I guess I am asking, what are optimal build patterns maximize wheat growth?

I heard it is supposed to take a full day for wheat to grow, but I usually end up with some wheat that matures quickly while a lot of the rest take several days for the entire field to become mature. I have the right amount of water with all my blocks as dark brown.

I have not played since 1.5 so things might have changed with the growth speed since then.

Fugitive · 2011-09-22T07:30:04.000Z

The 1.9 pre-release is now out here.

Shellfishguy · 2011-09-22T08:54:50.000Z

Paul put up a video about a neat seed “umissedclay” It starts you out in a swamp and nearby is a waterfall decent down into a huge abandoned mine with attached dungeon area. He suggested it might make a good 404 challenge type map so I started one up. It really is an enormous mine system, though the challenge is a bit less since you have all that wood at your disposal. Food is going to be key as usual though.

barstein · 2011-09-22T09:25:16.000Z

Fugitive:

The 1.9 pre-release is now out here.

List of known 1.9 pre-release 1 bugs (unofficial of course)

The 1.9 pre-release took down my system within a few minutes and required hard reboot, so I will hold off for a while.

docvego · 2011-09-22T10:05:52.000Z

lordkosc:

Where do you gents find these map seeds ?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraftseeds/

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