Mud wrote:@jkievlan: I guess you've never heard the trick to enable cheats in a world that has cheats disabled either :P. The knowledge alone of things like this make the temptation a real challenge for some.

Oh, I know about the cheats. I never enable them lest I be tempted :)

Oh, my bad. I thought you said vMC not vHC. I get what you mean now. Yeah...I didn't think of using Peaceful mode to clear out the creepers before I run outside. That feels very...not how it should be to me. Lol I think I've got the self-control not to use it, but I could almost wish you hadn't even...

Also, here's a motivation to use a difficulty harder than Peaceful: if you don't have mobs, you can't fish, and if you can't fish, it's very hard to have renewable food sources. Nor can you tame wolves (you need bones to tame them), so you can't tan leather, so you can't advance to even the lower ti...

...by playing in vHC in the mean time, I'll get myself into the habit of a more cautious play style. I'm not sure I follow you. Isn't BTW much more geared towards a cautious play style than vMC? In vMC I find myself doing all sorts of crazy stupid things because, hey, if I die I'll just wake up in ...

How were you planning on getting water in the nether? :D Also I still allow myself to use sfs, so with this one I can reach the nether, thus get sfs, thus build new protals wherever I want. Both good points. Lol when I posted that I forgot you couldn't bring water into the nether. And you're right,...

While it would be interesting if this were the only way to make a portal, I feel that it is far less intuitive and a lot of newer players to both vMC and BTW would not catch on, and it could possibly be overly difficult to figure out how to do it right. I'm not saying the mechanic for doing so isn'...

After browsing the forum for a bit, I've seen several people asking about early-game mob farms and mushroom farms. I have a solution to both that I use on a regular basis, and I thought people might be interested to hear about it. Here's how it works. First, light can't pass through half-blocks. Sec...

Ok, so I don't know if you would classify this as a bug per se. Still, it's an odd behavior and I think it takes away from the playability of Hardcore Fishing. Namely, since the icon/texture for the fishing pole changes when it switches from baited to non-baited, it's actually possible to fish by ju...

Well, I tried a few map editors and couldn't figure out how to change the origin point. But no worries! I found both the old and new origins and I'm building a stone-brick road from one to the other. Thanks for your patience FlowerChild :)

I've used a map renderer (mcmapDZ) to render the world map, and yes, all my original bases are there, including the origin base. I'm working on finding out where the new origin is so I can build a path up to the old origin. However...even if I manage to do that, it's going to really suck if this hap...

No, I have no beacons -- it's a relatively new server and I haven't gotten anywhere near far enough to build beacons. But yes, compasses are pointing to an entirely new spot. I know this, because I have a fairly well-developed base at the original origin, where compasses were pointing in the beginni...

I posted earlier in bug reports that my SMP origin is in a new location. FlowerChild said it is a vanilla bug and can be fixed by quitting and restarting -- and suggested I should ask about it in tech support. So I am, because it was certainly *not* fixed by quitting and restarting. I've restarted m...

First off, I am not sure if this is a vMC bug or a BTW bug. I've tried to find out but I can't find good info on the bug. However, I am absolutely positive it is a bug. If it's present in vMC I do apologize and I'll try to get them to fix it. Unfortunately I don't have the expertise in Java I would ...