Lightning rods definitely do (and always have) fully protect everything in a certain radius around them, since the game only checks for a lightning rod after choosing the final location to strike. A single cobble pillar is still not sufficient, this has been noted on github https://github.com/BTW-Co...

Here's the full story as I understand it: RTH was originally intended to be part of BTW that would serve as new post-endgame content. It would be a separate dimension that would be unlocked using steel and fortresses. (At this point it wasn't called RTH yet, but referred to as the "anniversary ...

I'd say the balance feels good to me in the part of the game I've reached so far. Having a small pen with a few chickens is no problem. Building a nice big pen for cows was a pretty significant undertaking, but it felt like a nice project to work on and well worth the effort for the reward of having...

My preferred strategy is to dig into the side of a hill. If you've only watched videos so far, my advice is: don't be scared, just try it out! No shame in dying a few times until you figure out something that works for you :)

I remember Whuppee made one on stream a couple years ago, here's a clip of that one (doesn't show much but you can see where the saws are) https://www.twitch.tv/whuppee/clip/Hedo ... dvarkKappa

In version 4.ABCDEFPotato, we had the following change: Added a whole new set of snow blocks that serve as an early game building material. The details of these are left to the player to discover, but one thing to note is that you can build out sideways with them if proper care is taken. Old snow bl...

And a final one that doesn't really fit the theme but that has been bothering me a lot : the dichotomy between villager trading being the perfect incentive to incite players to make big automated farms, yet the most important blocks needed for those projects are gated after you went to the end, aft...

One sentiment that FC would regularly express about Hardcore Spawn is that even if you die, you've still made progress because now you have a partially built-up base that you could find in the future, the "persistent roguelike" aspect. Personally I really like that - if we're going to make...

*clink* +1 to that!

Thanks for everything FC. I was never much of an active participant here but I always checked up on the forums at least once every week or two. I could say a lot more about the effect that you and this community have had on me but I'm not great with words so I'll just leave it at: thank you, and bes...

Huh, I didn't even realize you could get dynamite pre-end, because of the need for gunpowder. The crafting tree to make explosives was always complicated enough that I never bothered to learn all the recipes (and also explosives not really being required for anything in the tech tree). I'll have to ...

Merry Christmas! Thanks FC, and a small *clink* :)

Looks like this game just came out on Steam (still in early access). Anyone here tried it out (in its most recent update)? Would you recommend it?

Ah, randomness. Driving people crazy and fueling crackpot theories since the beginning of video games. Don't listen to FC - the fishing rate is really determined by your IRL timezone and your CPU core temperature, and you can guarantee you'll catch that pokemon if you hold your Gameboy upside down a...

Since it's almost that time of year again, I thought it'd be fun to share some of our favorite BTW memories like we have in years past. My first experience with BTW was back in MC beta 1.6, a couple months after BTW's initial release, and I'm pretty sure I tried to add it to my very first Minecraft ...

I can't help you with any of the specifics (never built a with farm myself), but regarding spawns: Added the ability for witches to spawn in swamps. They will spawn in darkness around and above sea level in swamp biomes and this replaces their witch hut spawns, making swamps slightly more dangerous ...

It's possible that the trap just isn't big enough. I did some testing of spawn rates several months ago when Whuppee was building a jungle spider trap on his stream and having problems getting spawns. As far as I know spawning mechanics haven't changed since then. The problem is that jungle spiders ...

I'm a little confused by your description - if the interior is 5x5, wouldn't that make the whole thing 7x7, not 6x6? And when you say the fence perimeter was grass, do you mean there are grass blocks under the fence blocks?

thats the problem...my cow has a 15x9 area...and still starving =s Does the area have grass in it still? If so, the cow isn't starving to death - must be getting killed by zombies. If not, then it just needs to be bigger. Also keep in mind that milking the cow makes it need to eat more, so whether ...

Speaking of the Minecraft forum, I just came across this announcement from a few months ago... yikes. Not sure if people around here knew about that, but I don't remember any discussion about it. Guessing that probably has something to do with the decision to kill it altogether.

Renegrade wrote: Don't forget there's a limited draw distance for critters and monsters. They could very well just be beyond that. Personally, I'm more concerned about what looks like ghasts in the lower left corner :)

Nothing to worry about there, those are just bone blocks :)

Good to be back!

Whenever I attempt to log in to my wiki account I get the following message There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Go back to the previous page, reload that page and then try again. Any idea what's going on? This...

Merry christmas, thanks FC! Changing mob spawns to be based on material seems like such an elegant solution, and totally fits with previous mob spawning behavior (slimes+nether mobs). Glad to see the end of slabbing :) Also just to confirm, mobs should be able to spawn inside of all collision-less b...

It was spelled out pretty clearly in the change logs a few versions back. The summary is: Dormant soulforges can be found in nether fortresses, or crafted out of gold (but crafting them requires a 4x4 grid already, so you'll have to scavenge your first one). Dormant soulforges can be turned into sou...