Getting started -- rambling, but could use some tips
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:12 pm
I had to put gaming in general down for a while due to my studies. And really, for the same reason I can't officially afford to pick it up again, but I needed some sanity, so I started a new single player. Literally all of my Minecraft experience is BTW, and 90% of that is on a group server where an End-farm is active and food is essentially free. I was only barely ready to grand out on my own again.
I ended up on a seed where OS is in a swamp biome. I cannot figure out how to make any location, lit or unlit, safe from slime spawns, and holy crap are they a bitch to deal with at stone-tech.
I'm also feeling a LOT of food pressure. I went hoe-first, and like an absolute friggin idiot invested after that in an iron sword, but in my defense, I was skittish when my nearly-completed indoor hemp and pumpkin farm took not one, not two, but three creeper blasts in the same night-cycle during a rainstorm. I managed to survived unkilled, my chest of stockpiled cooked meat and almost a full stack of glass blocks was destroyed, and I lose all but 1 hemp seed and 1 pumpkin seed. Three chickens were killed, too. I myself died the following night, during a new thunderstorm, when an enderman took refuge from the rain in my farm while I was repairing it and it spawned in front of my swinging stone shovel.
By sheer luck, I happened to HCS into an area that I recognized from a previous hunting trip, and with the next day I managed back to base. My hoe and sword are safe, though the sword is in the orange so that's getting stowed until I manage to get an iron pick. For slimes, I've simply resolved to always carry two stone axes on my hotbar.
Food is now a serious issue. Prior to what I'm referring as The Creeper Incident, I had spent several gameplay hours doing nothing but venturing out and literally power-hunted through all the animals I could find in any direction within a systematic three-day radius and distinctly recall stockpiling more than three rows of cooked food in my storage chest. I found one chicken stuck in a hole, prolly injured from the blast that destroyed the chicken pen and the other two chickens I had, but until I can harvest from my single-seed recovery it'll be a while before I have any eggs. Occasional zombie-flesh drops inspired me to build a squid-proof fishing spot with underground access, with the last aboveground portion encased in cobble because screw that. My problem is that spiders do not seem to be dropping any spider-eyes (I haven't seen one all seed) and without a zombie spawner that I know of, I cannot rely on those for bait.
On a lark, I backed up my save and intentionally suicide a few times, just to see if HCS could put me anywhere animals are accessible, but right now I'm simply stubborn and I wanna continue my main base.
Any ideas? I just have over an ingot of iron and I'm low on torches, as well. My first-planted saplings are only just now starting to sprout. I've built up a nice buffer of stone tools, and repaired a small starter plot in my underground farm, but I'll need a lot more glass before I can have it back up to its prior glory again. Should I just say fuck it and use up the hoe looking for random hempseed drops to replenish my chickens?
I ended up on a seed where OS is in a swamp biome. I cannot figure out how to make any location, lit or unlit, safe from slime spawns, and holy crap are they a bitch to deal with at stone-tech.
I'm also feeling a LOT of food pressure. I went hoe-first, and like an absolute friggin idiot invested after that in an iron sword, but in my defense, I was skittish when my nearly-completed indoor hemp and pumpkin farm took not one, not two, but three creeper blasts in the same night-cycle during a rainstorm. I managed to survived unkilled, my chest of stockpiled cooked meat and almost a full stack of glass blocks was destroyed, and I lose all but 1 hemp seed and 1 pumpkin seed. Three chickens were killed, too. I myself died the following night, during a new thunderstorm, when an enderman took refuge from the rain in my farm while I was repairing it and it spawned in front of my swinging stone shovel.
By sheer luck, I happened to HCS into an area that I recognized from a previous hunting trip, and with the next day I managed back to base. My hoe and sword are safe, though the sword is in the orange so that's getting stowed until I manage to get an iron pick. For slimes, I've simply resolved to always carry two stone axes on my hotbar.
Food is now a serious issue. Prior to what I'm referring as The Creeper Incident, I had spent several gameplay hours doing nothing but venturing out and literally power-hunted through all the animals I could find in any direction within a systematic three-day radius and distinctly recall stockpiling more than three rows of cooked food in my storage chest. I found one chicken stuck in a hole, prolly injured from the blast that destroyed the chicken pen and the other two chickens I had, but until I can harvest from my single-seed recovery it'll be a while before I have any eggs. Occasional zombie-flesh drops inspired me to build a squid-proof fishing spot with underground access, with the last aboveground portion encased in cobble because screw that. My problem is that spiders do not seem to be dropping any spider-eyes (I haven't seen one all seed) and without a zombie spawner that I know of, I cannot rely on those for bait.
On a lark, I backed up my save and intentionally suicide a few times, just to see if HCS could put me anywhere animals are accessible, but right now I'm simply stubborn and I wanna continue my main base.
Any ideas? I just have over an ingot of iron and I'm low on torches, as well. My first-planted saplings are only just now starting to sprout. I've built up a nice buffer of stone tools, and repaired a small starter plot in my underground farm, but I'll need a lot more glass before I can have it back up to its prior glory again. Should I just say fuck it and use up the hoe looking for random hempseed drops to replenish my chickens?