I’m in the process of making my mainbase island/peninsula as safe as possible and to this aim, I have converted one of my old bridges into a Seagate. It still functions as a bridge, but now also serves to secure my inland river. It’s nothing too fancy. The gate consists of pistons at the bottom and ...

Oh man, cool update! Just yesterday I was dreaming of one day owning a (cobble)stone generator providing me with free unlimited stone blocks. I guess that's never gonna happen. The new stone bricks mechanics look really cool. I'm excited about mortar and gravity becoming bigger and bigger elements o...

-Changed lightning strikes to take entities into account in determining the highest point in an area to strike. This makes stuff like standing in an open field, or on a hill, during a lightning storm, an exceedingly bad idea. That's such a cool change! Really love how your making lightning into a r...

I'm really enjoying the new early game! Have someone found out if there's a new recipe for the stone furnace? Or is it completely replaced by the brick oven? Maybe I just have to make more ovens, because I find the smelting speed so damn slow! :D The stone furnace has indeed been completely replace...

Well in that case, I'll be sure to plant a rose garden in the pig pen. (And maybe get them some sadles too.)

Dogs are just completely chill with being killed by their owner. This feels like an exploit. I can just turn a dangerous wolf into a compliant dog by the expense of a few bones, after which I can easily dispose of the former threat.

FlowerChild wrote:

Fret wrote: Haha I'll believe that

If you prefer I can make pigs breed with a chocolate/red flower combo to be a tad more obvious :)

YES PLEASE!

FlowerChild wrote: The internal logic I settled on in the end is "ok, what food makes these guys super happy horny fun time?"

Haha I'll believe that

Love it! The changes to fire, campfires and fishing make a lot of sense. The wheat nerf is also really cool. But I have to say: sheep and cows eating cookies and cake does seem a bit odd.

So yeah, I promised a follow up story. And I played quite a bit the last week. But honestly, the latest update completely nerfed wheat, and therefor nerfed my story. Because, since I died in an already developed world. I have been spawning pretty far out and found villages twice. Having wheat and se...

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Might be a few days before I get to play agian, but will do.

So… I died. I was building at my base and ran out of jungle wood. I had nothing growing, so I decided to go over to a jungle biome nearby. The spiders shouldn’t be a problem…, unless they kick you of the top of a tree I guess. I fell all the way down (and I don’t have feather falling yet). So I died...

Thanks for the confirmation Niyu, although I still have to sight the metamorphosis in situ. Generally there are a bunch of squids beached like whales on my portal island, but no matter how long I stare at them, they apparently are only willing to transform (evolve?) behind my back. The new mechanic ...

So, since the last few updates, I’ve had ghasts spawning in the Overworld at my main base. So far I’ve shot them all down, but I’m afraid that at some point they’ll hit something of value. Because I also like building with wood, I would really like them to stop spawning, but I’m not sure how they ar...

-Added the ability to use the Anvil (formerly "Dead Weight") as a Workbench, while removing the ability to craft Workbenches. This means that Stumps and Anvils have now completely replaced vanilla Workbenches in terms of functionality. I also changed a number of aspects of the Anvil's beh...

Thanks a lot for the explanation, it should be an easy fix for most buildings. I do really like the recent changes, I got away with just building out of wood blocks for too long. Now I actually have to think about the material qualities of the blocks.

So, I haven't been playing for the last few months and I saw that in the meanwhile a few new updates came out. Very cool! But, since my base mostly exists of wooden structures, I am a bit worried about the new lightning and new fire mechanics. So what are some good ways to make my base lightning pro...

In my old world, if I place a spider web (one of the 'old' ones) and then harvest it with shears, it won't stack with the other spider webs in my inventory. They are still called spider webs, so no name change, but they seems to behave like a different item. Is this intended?

You're overthinking it, just play the game. You'll find that you got all the tools you need to deal with jungles, oceans or whatever you encounter.

Some really cool changes man. -Changed book items so that they can no longer be crafted, and thus must be found as loot in the world to be used in enchanting. This is intended to increase the significance of leveling up your enchanting capability, as well as the value of loot locations and stronghol...

Fair enough point about the relative iron still being the same, but it doesn't change the overall point. The pick is still going to make acquiring the rest of the iron much easier. The line about torches isn't meant to imply that having a pick solves torches, but rather that the torch changes make ...

I don't really have a 10-day game plan, but I try to have a campfire every night with some food cooking. First two nights only one campfire and after that, once I got enough wood and a bow drill, I tend to stick to two campfires a night. During the day I gather all the string I can and try to farm/k...

Personally, I still go with pick. Once you have it, finding another 18 iron is pretty easy since you can mine out old veins where you simply scratched the surface, whereas an axe requires you to find 27 iron ore from completely new sources. I'd rather put up with baskets, inefficient wood usage and...

I'm thinking iron pick only when I really have to. I might even skip it entirely if I luck out on diamonds. So how do you get those diamonds without an iron pick? For me it is definitely the axe. Because the next stage basically is caving and colleting more iron. The axe allows you to gather wood q...

-Added the ability for some specific blocks to spread fire between each other. This does not affect pre-4.AAAAAAAAAAHHHH blocks or builds. -Changed grinding of netherrack to resolve the issue of it being too unpleasant to stand nearby due to the noise. -Changed how torches work just a wee little bi...