Minecraft madness -- Come join us, Saga-ites!

[PinkRose]

Elly, I have 2 potatoes and 2 carrots and they are all yours.

[Askari]

I need to figure out how to start farming. I put water in the middle of dirt but it is not irrigating.

A cube of water will irrigate four squares in of hoe'd dirt on the same level in each direction.

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Equip a Hoe and right-click the dirt to till it into soil.  Equip seeds (found by beating up grass) and right-click the dirt the soil to plant seedling.

Once you have the above setup, people often put a Slab (half-block, made by putting three blocks horizontally to cap the water source, so they don't have to jump over the water. Jumping on 'hoe'd & irrigated' farmland makes it return to normal dirt. Wheat will grow when light=9 or better (torch spot is 14), so if you circle the spot with torches it will keep growing at night.

Lure animals by holding Wheat in your hand (cows, pigs, sheep) or Seeds (chickens) to get them to follow you. Can also throw eggs at the ground for an ~1/8th chance of a Chick popping out. Breed animals by right-click feeding them Wheat (or Seed for chickens), once two have been fed and have heart graphics rising from them, they kiss and make a baby.

[Mixxi]

I just had to share the hellishness that Minecraft has brought to my life.

Family outing to chop down the Christmas tree. Crisp, clear day. We wander through the trees...

...with Scazzaf making chicken and egg-laying sounds.

[Elly]

Elly, I have 2 potatoes and 2 carrots and they are all yours.

I'll look for the next time you're on, and head back towards civilization to find you.   Thanks!

[oakmist]

Due to popular demand I have now enabled world structures and restarted (NOT reset) the server.  Hopefully we now have villages and stongholds for those that want them.

[oakmist]

Bah, sorry, as suspected this only takes effect when the world is created.

I will look into adding a villager or 2 inside Saga mountain.

[oakmist]

I dropped a load of villagers into Saga mountain last night but it sounds as if they were not well trained and kept letting zombies in at night.

I (think) I have found a way of expanding the map which should allow villages and strongholds to be created in the new chunks.  This will allow us to add structures as requested by some people whilst not having to destroy the world as we know it (it will just get larger).

In other news, the world no longer allows PVP so we should all be safe from friendly fire.

[Mixxi]

No friendly fire? You mean I can't hit Talon anymore? Damn.

Er.

I mean, that's great news, Oakmist!

[Talon]

No friendly fire? You mean I can't hit Talon anymore? Damn.

!!!!

*showers Oakmist with gifts and finally gets to put away his first-aid kit*

[Pedekele]

I plan on building this "automatic melon/pumpkin farm". I invented this design *proud*.



I was mining resources today, still need melon seeds (pumpkin too).
I play minecraft since a week. I'm new to redstone(minecraft machines) and its a quite cryptic, but i was able to make stuff work.
If some of you are interested you can join me as I'm building, I'm happy to explain stuff (even though i know only a few things so far) if you want to hear about redstone basics.
Probably some of you know much more than i do, so i can learn from you too.

[PinkRose]

I have never played with redstone, so I know less than you. I just like to make a world, survive a day and then usually start a new world. I've been doing this since it first went live for sale. I'm a bad Endgamer. It's why Menemas doesn't talk to me anymore.

[Askari]

I made a new video to capture the establishment of my new Deep Ocean base.

I just blather on for 30 minutes, so don't feel like you need to watch it. It's probably pretty boring.

Although I do show my Enchantment Library, if you were wondering how (and where) to enchant your gear near Saga Mountain. That's in the first 5 mins, after that it's just a tour.

Anyway, this video is mostly so I can go back and look at it in the future to reminisce, but if you're interested... have a look!

Grimwyrd's Ocean Base, Part 1

[Pedekele]

I made a new video to capture the establishment of my new Deep Ocean base.

Your base is even bigger and more ambitious than i expected.
Its nice to see what you're up to, cool video!

[Talon]

Just wow, Askari. As always. I never would have considered using water to flood a room to harvest. Genius.

I just run around and collect my eggs.

Speaking of efficiency, Askari. I noted you dropping off your sand to your chest.

Did you know that holding shift and left-clicking switches items between containers? I think it fills horizontally from top left to bottom right, though. But it's still a very quick way to grab things from inventory and bank them or vice versa.

The sand to torch is incredibly clever!

[Gith]

Yea, I figured that out. The controls are very intuitive. I figured there had to be a button for that and pressed the first one that came to mind and it worked.

Do your crops not grow while you are logged off? Sometimes I log back in hours later and stuff is not grown but then 10mins later it is fully matured.

[Pedekele]

Do your crops not grow while you are logged off? Sometimes I log back in hours later and stuff is not grown but then 10mins later it is fully matured.

Stuff grows only if the chunk it is on is loaded. Chunks are 16x16 squares (as high/low as the map) that get loaded around the players. The answer is your crops may not even grow while you're online if you're not close to them. if someone walks by your base the chunk gets loaded and "unfrozen" and stuff will grow and a bit later it will be frozen again.

[Gith]

I hear there is also endgame content to minecraft where you go through portals and fight dragons?

Also, those ender men guys. Can I kill one with iron armour and a sword? Or will they own me?

[PinkRose]

I'm going to go with OWN.

[Mixxi]

You need drops from Enderman for endgame content, and I know Scaz at least can kill him. Askari, too, probably. Maybe do it ranged? And with diamond/enchanted gear?

[Elly]

Ethawn's killed Enderman without any armor at all. He said to try and get him into a corner where he can't run or teleport.