I'm partly making this suggestion due to the new(ish) change which makes you only get 1 torch per coal, and partly because the whole concept of reducing spawn locations to make mobs spawn more in player-built traps seems kind of immersion-breaking. My idea of how to go about achieving this is to mak...

I'd like to join too. My IGN is Fozzel, same as my forum name.

What the title says. Sometimes, when I open minecraft, the game is silent. I have to restart it to get sounds back. This happens more than half the time I open the game, and is getting really annoying now, so I'd appreciate some help fixing it. I'm currently running BTW 3.96, MCPatcher HD Textures a...

You can't climb up ropes and soulforged steel armour's water-related properties don't work. I wouldn't recommend trying to use them together.

#1 is built into vanilla. It's not. I've experienced this too -- in vanilla, attacking wolves or their owner will make the wolves attack you until you're dead . They don't go into the hostile state, they just protect their owner. The bug introduced by BTW is that hitting a wolf that you don't own c...

Doesn't having a perfect starting location kind of defeat the object of large biomes? Part of what makes large biomes what they are is the way you have to explore much more than you would otherwise to find each resource, etc.

My suggestion was never about suspension of disbelief. It was about wanting a more interesting way to automate vine production.

I think you can place vines on new trees and they will grow down like on the original swamp trees. It might not even need trees at all but I've never used them except as ladders so I'm not sure. This doesn't make it possible to farm vines based on swamp trees though, which was the main reason for m...

I just noticed how all trees in swamps are covered in vines, and immediately had the idea to make an automated vine-and-wood farm using swamp trees. I grew a few new trees in the swamp to figure out how I wanted to do it, but to my disappointment the new trees didn't have vines on them. Now, I know ...

So it is. Note to self: read things.

Apparently it's a private video and you need a password to watch it.

JL2579 just posted this video, the first overworld Zombie Pigman spawner that I've seen: oASYNT0Xdus I think that this video shows that a mob trap requiring a large number of portals might not actually be as laggy as you may have thought. Yes, the huge one with tens of thousands of portals causes a ...

What is it with random places in England? Huddersfield (mentioned by cleverbot in the OP) is a fairly unheard-of town near me, in Yorkshire, and Sussex (gormador's post) is a county in the south somewhere. I would guess that not that many people outside of the UK would have heard of Sussex and even ...

That sounds like a bug to me, if feeding them manually works...

That's actually quite a good, compact design. Personally, I just use a turntable to do my timing where each setting is a different kind of pottery, but yours seems more elegant.

First of all thanks for the response, I have set my computer up to devote 16 gb of ram to the server, however for some reason no matter what I do I am having trouble setting up the port as I have no experience in port forwarding, and I am having trouble understanding the ones I have been reading on...

I would suggest a binary counter. The fastest I know of is this one: ybY_iYW_HHA Use that in conjunction with a fast pulse generator (4 tick) and an RS NOR latch. When the first pressure plate is pressed, the latch flips, turning the pulse generator on. The pulse generator sends pulses to the binary...

The title. Should be "Beginners' Guide" (note the apostrophe).

Thanks for the warm welcome guys :D

As to posting my builds: maybe, when I make something that I'm actually proud of.

This might be a vanilla bug, but I've never noticed it until installing Better Than Wolves (3.72). I have a cow farm which consists of several 2x2 areas surrounded by fences, as an alternative to the laggy mess approach before automation. However, I find that whenever I log out and in again, some of...

So I saw DIG_down's introduction post and decided to shamelessly copy the idea. I'm English and 16 years old, and I've played Minecraft since the Summer of 2010 (so poetic). I pretty much played vanilla minecraft exclusively for a good year and the first mod I installed was actually the piston mod. ...