Redstone is incredibly easy to get. It is? Are you playing the latest BTW? Redstone is in the third stratum. That's diamond-pick level. The only way to get it is to either get a diamond pick or find AND explore a cave or ravine that goes three strata down. That's not "incredibly easy" in ...

them attacking everything with shovels is making me die a little inside. Actually, I saw that and had a moment of realization. I never thought of trying to kill something with a shovel but evidently it's better than beating them up with your bare fists. So in that horrible moment of, "Oh my Go...

Another interesting little trick (which I'm sure FlowerChild will nerf eventually, since he already mentioned something about not liking how water is so safe) is to always build bases on shorelines. Why? Because, once you have a few built, and you die and respawn in some freakish, terrifying wildern...

In reference to something Icy said about people thinking night time is boring: It's not night time that's boring for me -- it's rainy days. I find myself poking around my base, digging out more stone than I need and building random little branch mines until it stops raining -- cause I don't wanna go...

I thought it might be fun to hear about simple builds that make the early game easier to survive. I have a few, but I'll start with one: watchtowers. Build a hollow tower with a ladder inside that goes down into your base. Make it tall enough that skeletons can't shoot you from the ground. Build a p...

Yeah I think you're mistaking this for a combat game. There's plenty of danger, but mainly so that the process of getting resources to build with is a real accomplishment. In the late game, you want resources to be easier to get. First, it makes sense (the more infrastructure you have, the more reso...

sacrife wrote:Actually. We need more focus on punching. We should add kicking and knuckle brasses to the game. Sacrifice safety for manlyness.

And nunchucks and ninja stars.

Well, fear or toughness go a little beyond what I'm willing to try and do and this stage. I was thinking more along the lines of a quick tweak to just make some of the odder behavior less common. I'm fine with fists being a backup weapon for when you're really in a pinch, but I'd prefer people not ...

Speaking of chickens, I need help building an early game coop. I have some ideas, but I don't know much about BTW chickens. After I feed them seeds, I go out and do some work for a while and then come back later that day hoping for some eggs, but I don't find any. I'm thinking they either have desp...

As interesting as this premise is, it falls down when villagers get involved, as they too drop mystery meat, but creepers make no attempt to target them. Well, naturally not. Villagers are filthy savages. Who would want to live on one of them? :) They specifically target the players. Maybe it's mor...

They have a mouth but don't eat, and they have no roots. Realistically they have no energy supply...unless the creepers we see are in adult form, and therefore spent the earlier years of their lives hoarding energy for the coming of age. Which would logically mean that every creeper we see is essen...

Ore. Always Ore. Especially in the early game, if I walk by a cave with obvious iron, I just can't help running madly in, looking around for monsters, and grabbing the iron as fast as I can. I die to that more than anything else. Later in the game, though, I stand there looking at the ore thinking, ...

Back to my latest problem with creepers, they seem to get me most on ingress/egress from bases or barriers setup to seal my safe haven offs. Securing a base is relatively easy. Make sure you have a fair-sized clear area around your base with a few outdoor torches (to keep mob spawning to a minimum)...

I don't bother exploring much after respawn, since I die too easily without decent gear, all the villages will be abandoned and all the desert temples will be looted. Exploration is much better saved for when I can properly equip myself for an expedition, and use the nether to travel to where I'm m...

Is it even possible to build a fully automatic wheat farm? Correct me if I'm wrong, but dispensing wheat seeds on the ground, even if it's tilled, won't cause them to grow. You need to use the BlockDispenser for this. Ah. I didn't realize the BD would plant seeds. Good to know. Now to design my fir...

Is it even possible to build a fully automatic wheat farm? Correct me if I'm wrong, but dispensing wheat seeds on the ground, even if it's tilled, won't cause them to grow. So, after you harvest, you still have to go out and replant your wheat. With hemp and cane, it's different because you can just...

at that point you have nothing at all to lose. As I see it that's your biggest strength after a respawn. I just run around looking for good stuff and collecting what I can just in case I decide to hole up. I generally expect to die at least three or four more times immediately after I respawn, but ...

Oh man. I want to try the new update so bad but I'm scared now. My main base is smack in the middle of a taiga biome :) Maybe I'll post my adventures here after I sack up and unleash the wolves.

Ok, I should say that I realize this is quite possibly a vanilla bug. However, I have tried several ways to reproduce it in vMC (and with other blocks in BTW) and have not succeeded. On that basis, I'm reporting it as a bug in BTW. If it's not, I apologize. Basically, if you place a hand crank on to...

The lighting restriction was changed back in 1.8 beta (I think) and it has remained as a long standing Minecraft Myth. They can actually grow fine up to a 1 block gap between them and a torch, so long as they can't see the sky. Interesting. I guess I fell prey to the myth. I liked it better the oth...

Actually still kind of a cool (if risky) idea if for some reason you have limited space and need to use it efficiently. Right, that's why I specified that it's an early-game build. You'd use it when you have very little to build with but you need to collect stone anyway (so you're getting some use ...

I love HCS because while it brings the needed penalty for death, there is always something to work back towards. I never have and never will play vanilla hardcore mode, a large portion being because of silly mistakes, such add falling down you're mineshaft (which I have done all too often). Or, bui...

Vexalor wrote:I obviously don't really think destroying what a player has built up over time is ever a good idea, it's just that dying seems to me trivial to overcome in BTW and an absolute joke in vanilla.

Trivial? My God man. You must be an absolute god at BTW :)

I mean even you guys must see something wrong with re-spawning with full health and hunger? It's like you're not even getting punished for dying, only being forced to go on a small vacation from your ordinary base and start fresh. I don't know. It feels balanced to me. I see BTW as a mod designed t...

Yes, but he is saying that one can enable cheats in a world where cheats are disabled. You do this by: (I recommend not opening this spoiler for your own play experience) No, I mean I do know how to do that. I just don't. Same thing with switching to Peaceful mode -- I just won't. After I've cheate...