I find if you're dead set on getting back to your "main base" you'll find yourself rushing through the early game and dying repeatedly, getting frustrated and ragequitting. IMO, it has to be taken slowly and enjoyed. The sooner you accept you're not getting back any time soon, the more fu...

DaveYanakov wrote:Permeable to humans but disintegrates all mobs automagically. Had to spend a bit of time redesigning it after hardcore buckets but a few pumps and saws work quite nicely to justify a much bigger than necessary wall project.

How does it work?

So a while back I died hunting for wolves (got mobbed by about five hungry ones at once) and respawned. It was ok, though. In fact, it was great. I respawned right next to a tower I had lost some time back just shortly after finding a compass. The compass was inside, my huge tree farm was outside, t...

Technically you can feed them any meat, but their favorite food is wolf chops. Also note that if you ever get randomly attacked by a formerly peaceful wolf, feeding wolf chops to other nearby wolves will distract it.

Well isnt this a stressful thing to have happen ;) ... I've been searching for pumpkins for the past few days in my world and i finally found them.. buried into the edge of a dense jungle. And the only jungle spider in sight was directly on top of them. I had no choice but to sit and wait for the s...

Gilberreke wrote:Can I interest you in some grates?

You may be gratified to know that ever since you pointed out how amazing grates are some time back, I've been using them for every new base I build :)

Sheesh, I'm getting really frustrated with that guy who likes to figure out blatant exploits and then tell everybody how to do it. I like to think I've got the self-control to avoid it but I'd still rather not hear about it :P

Frankly, it comes down to your playstyle, as there isn't really a "best" solution to this. Heck, you can even do both! It's not a binary choice. Oh, I do. I plant mushrooms as soon as I have any, and make omelettes as well to cut down on time I have to spend hunting. However, it takes a b...

A note, though: I find that if I collect chickens/pumpkins early on and combine their eggs with pork chops to make ham and eggs, I can easily sustain myself with no fishing and very little hunting (considering 1 egg+1 chop=6 hunger pips). EDIT: To clarify some numbers, my last hunting trip netted me...

I cant remember the last time i removed it from my hotbar, and yes i do wave it around in the air after a good day's fishing ;) One day I had caught 9 fish, all before sunset, no rain at all. Whats the usual amount of fish people get per day? (of those who rely on fish) I rarely fish unless it's a ...

So something odd happened today that I didn't expect. I've had a beast trapped in a ravine near my base for some time. I figured he'd stay there until I could deal with him. I died, respawned, worked my way back to that base...and he was gone, despite having no way to exit the ravine. I miss my furr...

Make that two iron ingots ;) As soon as it becomes morning, im taking my shovels and making a farm plot by the water. Since im in a swamp the squids arent a problem, plus there should be a chicken or two somewhere to lead back... But the witchs are almost an issue. I've seen 2 so far but both have ...

Because wooden doors have a tendency to be busted down, what do you use as a front door? A basic dirt block with a stone shovel near by? Or maybe a complex piston door leaving a smooth surface along your hidden volcano underground base? Post existing or planned entrances below :) My early-game entr...

Gunnerman21 wrote:I'm so f*cking proud of myself right now!!! link to reason

Woot! Congrats man :)

...alright, then, that is a hopeless case. Lol yeah, it was pretty bad. On top of that, we had had the following discussion earlier when I dropped a dirt block in our base entrance to keep the mobs out: Him: "Dude, don't block up the entrance!" Me: "Why not? If I don't, mobs are gonn...

I'm now stuck in a walled off cave, wounded because a spider got in, and only 3 steak left. You're fine then :) Sit there overnight, nurse your wounds, eat a steak if you get hungry. In the morning, run out of the cave and avoid any creepers, and start collecting the other resources you need. 3 ste...

In a situation like that, the most readily apparent alternative to going out and getting wood is to wait out the night. In the end, you'll end up without a furnace the first night. Especially if you're still making simple hunger-related mistakes, you may be hungry and unable to run from creepers co...

I mean, gunnerman's feelings about BTW pretty much mirror my feelings about DF. There is such a large number of things I have to learn that, in my attempt to become better at one aspect of the game, another aspect of the game will often kill me before I get to see the results. There's no shame in d...

I think i've died 20, maybe 25+ times. So...the objective here is, figure out why you died, and don't do that again. get shot up by skeletons waiting in the shade by my entrance That should tell you, "Shade in the morning is dangerous!" So, make sure there's no shade near your entrance. g...

...or you think "harmony with nature" means not spreading a zombie apocalypse that exterminates all life around you in your travels :) No doubt :) But, a nomadic lifestyle (in BTW) is far more likely to do that than settling down in one place. EDIT: On second read, that's pretty clearly w...

It's not that it feels like bad gameplay...I just personally wouldn't be doing it if I were thrown into a survival situation. I prefer the idea of living off of the land more than decimating every creature in a 10 mile radius. I prefer to feed the angry wolf who is trying to bite my head off than t...

Sorry if this is a necro, but i thought about if using a slimechunk finder would be cheating, some people say it is, some say it isn't. Thought it would be interesting to see what other people think. Yeah honestly, I'd say that's cheating. Finding a slime chunk requires doing some work to open cham...

I wouldn't bother punching the chickens. If you quickly punch 14 wood, you can make a stone axe. Then go out and kill one (only one!) animal for a snack during the night, chop some wood with the axe (making sure to save a little durability for making planks), then go into your hole and start with so...

Besides, I don't think the OP has actually tried punching a chair as hard as he can 42 times...

I'd pay to see a video of him trying it :)

the_fodder wrote:So I have been playing around with blight in a test world, I can't thing of a good reason to let it get to level 5. The only 'good' use would be to clear out a jungle you don't care about or griefing a server.

What am I missing?

If you eat it you get really high. Try it.