Building a road to the nearest sea I had to travel over ice. Travel on gravel slabs over the ice seems to be picking up the ice movement adjustment (and slide-y aspects).

Version 4.AB4 Bonnets

Yay! My wife and I just entered the nether and I have to admit that we've been doing more of a dress rehearsal than a play through because the thought of HCS has been dreadful (in the full sense of the word). I'll see if I can sweet talk her into a restart. Maybe if I go with, "Sorry, honey. Se...

Certainly no offense taken here. My wife and I have done 6-7 playthroughs and now starting our next. I drive her crazy wanting to count the grains of sand. :) On the other hand she likes not having to know how to construct animal feeders or item-sorting systems (but is more than happy to take advant...

Just did a test and Ok. So you are keeping the flame as high as possible without going to the big flame? If so that makes sense and explains why I see different results if I feed the campfire in different ways. My numbers were for feeding the fire when it goes down to "low". I had read yo...

Anyways, just to say, counting is in no way a prerequisite to use. Agree and why I was careful with the spoiler tag. The UI you've put on the campfire gives a huge amount of feedback to guide people toward correct use. But it's also really fun to try and figure out the "rules" on the thin...

Hey I'm a caveman and I've just discovered fire. I think I'm doing pretty well considering it's BRAND NEW TECH. Hi Mesh, You did a lot better than I did! Your by-feel approach is working great. My comment was more about how entertaining it was every time you'd turn around and some fire had gone out...

So I'm watching Mesh flagellate himself on the campfires. It's painful. The spoiler ban has been lifted but there might be some people that don't like this sort of min/max information. If you play BTW I suspect you aren't that type of person but there must be some of you out there. As such final det...

We started a new 4.A*H*b5 playthrough after I assured my wife we wouldn't be HCS every day like last time. Luckily I didn't lie. The only regret I've run into so far has been wool knit. You can't unknit it or use it for padding. Makes me wish she hadn't knitted us an extra 23 pieces. :/ She says tha...

Campfires are a neat puzzle. The starter campfire is worth 6 sawdust. A fire will "hold" 10 sawdust before becoming a big-fire on the 11th. I think there's another subtle mechanic going on which seems to be either a cumulative cooking effect or some sort of quanta of cooking. I find better...

I knew it may have just been my experience, however I would like some clarification about hardercore spawn So I've played and died a lot. My mental picture of the HCS mechanic is that there's list of locations where you can spawn that's of a fixed length with a joker (or jokers) in the deck that ca...

I think he meant the premade baskets you can find in deserts (hence the "lucky" part). Nope. My memory was that reeds spawned in deserts but just rarely. This is what I get for reading every changelog but not remembering every changelog. This *also* explains why I felt I was so unlucky th...

As an aside I just built my first A*H* iron axe this morning before work -- I've played BTW with my wife/family for several years with 6-7 ender dragon kills and except for that first dragon kill I can't remember a larger feeling of accomplishment. Some spoilers I've noticed - Starting in tiaga used...

Oh, no worries man. I appreciate the positive sentiment, but I took no offense. Was just curious if you had spotted issues with it I hadn't anticipated :) Didn't think you would take offense. It's not like THINGS THAT WILL PISS OFF FLOWERCHILD aren't well documented on the forums for people to read...

Hoping I'm overlooking something as well. I'm curious what is behind this sentiment. Oops. I should have watched this thread. I posted a follow-up of sorts in the main release thread but I can sum up by saying the sentiment was driven by my reacting and not thinking. I'm one of those guys that woul...

Ok. I'm sorry, FC. I got rattled there for a second. I should have had more faith. The biggest change seemed too much of a push towards food micro-management until I stopped for more than 2 seconds of thinking how much better the previous mechanism was and realized the obvious solution. I now see th...

But this will totally ruin my, "Danger! Fire" signs. Safety first!

For casual play without long-range HCS you want 4.A8. My family has mutinee-d and says they won't play on anything higher. (Well, my 7 year old is with me. We're starting a "scout" edition of 4.AAABABA [FC. Really?] to show her mechanics and after I'm hoping I can have a partner for a play...

Yay! Thank you. I felt like I was cheating terribly when I cranked the gamma to pick out stone during the night more easily. I'm hopeful the shovel change will push the current balance back enough for me so I don't feel like I need a lucky break to last the first few days. (Sadly on a business trip ...

So I showed my kids and they were like, "Nope!" Luckily I've got a 4.A8 world we are playing together and can just keep that around eternally to let them play in. My first time in 4.AA I figured out dirt and was thinking, "There goes my simple base." (Dig 5x5x1 hole. Almost enoug...

My wife is gonna kill me. Been throwing changes at her with all the recent changes. We're to the point of a committed explore of the world to find villagers (I didn't load hard-core-hard-core respawn since I didn't want to see her [or me] crying.) And NOW I get to suggest we restart and oh by the wa...

This is quite odd. I'm playing around with `fcPlayerSkinURL` in an attempt to statically serve up skins. I'm using Wireshark to watch my traffic. I see the skins request when I log in but it is invariably trying to go to skins.minecraft.net no matter what setting I put in for `fcPlayerSkinURL`. I ca...

fcPlayerSkinURL=http://IP-IN-QUESTION/MinecraftSkins/ Whose IP address is that man? The IP comes from the author of * https://github.com/blalp/replacement-for-minecraft-lagacy-skin-servers which was mentioned (obliquely) earlier in the thread as having figured out how to resolve legacy skins. Instr...

So I've never once played even to the nether solo but my wife and I have played through many times and are starting our 6th or 7th time. Once we kill the dragon I'll occasionally improve some automation but at that point we call the play through done. So what's required to get there. 1. Punch trees....

I vote not too expensive. If there's an early stump or two that gets in the way you can take the time to axe em out. Otherwise it's just motivation to work on the mob farm.