Having them two blocks apart and digging a hole one block deeper under the lava so it always flows downward help keep the generator running. Surely the hole will clog up with cobblestone? Testing this now. My factory uses only a single water stream/setup instead of two; two of four setups consisten...

I tried to learn Java last summer; I was very glad to go back to Python. Java is horrible by comparison. I imagine I'll give it another try some day in the distant future (Or I might try C++ instead, try to be a Real Programmer).

Not that I'd want to put you guys off or anything =P.

Yes. Hell yes. I wasn't expecting this for ~another week, FC you are awesome. I am going to play the living daylights out of this.

On Tuesday maybe. Maybe next time I won't procrastinate until the last possible weekend to do important work? Hahah, no.

Bah, humbug.

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In my mind, creepers make for the best fights in the game. There's tension, and a pressure to play near-perfectly or be punished for it. But ~90% of the time they hurt you, it's not going to be because you lost a duel at dawn with the green camo buggers. They'll drop out of nowhere and mess up your ...

A wise old website once told me to read more than you write. Good advice, I've found.

To return to the topic, how about something that renders the world below it transparent, like giving a block a see-through texture when it's supposed to be opaque? Something in the vein of a multi-block-system "scrying pool" perhaps? Seems more appropriate than a widget that goes ding when...

There is still the insanely expensive mobtrap that uses pistons and pressureplates. Mobs spawn on plates only, and as soon as they spawn pistons push them to your funnel, which directs them to the grinder with either water if you don't want endermen, or piston funnels if you do. How about periodica...

Stormweaver wrote:- hardcore breeding (wheat is too simple)

Do we think the problem is more with the simplicity, or is it just that wheat is very abundant? In the latter case, it might be possible that making farming harder will solve this problem as well.

This thread lives again? Welp. Here's a distinctly disturbing video; not worksafe but then if anyone here has a job where the rest of this thread is okay, I can't imagine you'll get fired over this in particular.

You put a portal on the Moon.

Thankyou Stormweaver, that was a very useful clarification. Yes, proto-science (philosophy I think?) frequently echoed religious ideas, and they definitely both have roots in trying to explain the world, but the visible difference today I think underscores how fundamental the difference is between a...

So I'm getting on with my first playthrough using Hardcore Bucket mode and figured I'd avoid necromancy and compliment it here.

Yeah it was a pretty brilliant idea :). I never realised how much I was missing messing around with planning water courses in Dwarf Fortress, you know?

The point is that if you 'believe' in the scientific method, then you don't really believe in anything else than that you exist inside this world you experience, and in 'what you see'. The problem is, that's a HUGE assumption, definitely comparable to any religious tenet. What. I'd say science is a...

Leonard tricks himself into killing Teddy.

I see a twisted BTW-specific ending story in the cards ;) Perhaps involving that Lovecraftian compulsion to keep writing even as one is being devoured ? I've certainly sometimes envisioned an endgame in contrast to "kill dragon, receive Winner's Medal," with Steve being dragged through a ...

-I fail to see how something that is inherently passive like a story, can make a game somehow less mindless. It basically turns off any part of your brain that may have been considering what it is you're doing in the game, and turns you into a passive observer. I don't think anyone would argue that...

Disclaimer : this post contains liberal quantities of negative opinion. To be upfront honest: the end seems to me better than a lot of possible ends, but... Eww, seriously? Bad story. Worst end. I guess at least it was written well, but man, that was comparable to the last volume of The Dark Tower ...

Personally I love the water-wheel and windmill most - they just look absolutely excellent. It means a lot to me that not only can I industrialize the world with BTW, with these (and honorable mention to concrete) I can make it look and feel industrial, even without spending time doing anything "...

Hmm, you have good taste. It's one of the better fanfics on the 'net, though it's a bit rationalist-preachy. If I didn't overwhelmingly agree with the author's reasoning, it might seem terrible. It IS pretty much hilarious though. As to feeling inferior, you have a huge advantage on update speed :P....

You made a farm for ghasts. You made a FARM for GHASTS. That is completely crazy awesome. You might say it leaves me... aghast 8).

From what I can see though, there were no women in that experiment; all the students are referred to as boys. Can you imagine women doing the same thing? Yes. Easily. I mean, really really easily.* The hard part is usually imagining *yourself* doing bad things. You'd never kill someone because you ...

Stormweaver wrote:I always feel good. You trying reverse psychology on me bro? No matter.

Drat. Foiled again. xD

On another post you said about how you had many decimals to use before you had to release 3.0. I hate to seem over critical, but you could have called this one 2.97.5 as it is only a bug fix. Psht, there's still infinitely many real numbers between this and 3.0. That's probably enough. On a more se...