Slime-proofing tips pls?
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 2:40 am
Took a work-induced hiatus, dove back in. Found at least a mating pair of all villager castes across four different villages, clustered around a portal that I estimate with back-of-the-envelope math to be about 5.5km north of OS. I've developed a list of pressing questions, so rather making a series of threads each with its own one-liner question, I've consolidated them here. For ease of replies, I've numbered them in the order in which I prioritize finding the answers. Context -- I'm at diamond-tech, weighing my options for relocating villagers to a single location.
1. My current project is constructing a manual mushroom farm at OS. I've adapted a design that worked for me back when brown shrooms didn't require total darkness. I intend to use largely the same design for red mushrooms, since stump remover is becoming increasingly desirable. The modifications I've made to the design is to make it into a dirt surface with cobble spawn locations instead of the other way around -- that way, with a single block of mycelium from the villager trade, I can convert it to a full function farm for both strains. (Afterward, I intend to expand the tree farm and then build a mob grinder.) Problem: these damn slimes, man. I've mapped out the perimeter of what I intend to be an 82x82x5 block enclosure, and I have a 2-height expanse so riddled with slimes that Peter Venkman himself would be proud. I've decided to place it so that the harvesting surface is at lava level. With buckets, I hope to harvest the obsidian for a future build project I have in mind that would use a decent amount of it, and that depth has also afforded a bounty of diamonds and gold already, so say nothing of the other ores that are all useful. (Almost 3 stacks each of combined-redstone blocks and of yet-unsmelted gold ore for the mob farm in particular.) It's also an excuse to keep my main food farms loaded so as to build a buffer on my food and rope stockpiles before heading back north to my villagers.
1 tdlr: how do I mitigate slime spawns? It's delaying construction, the area is already well torched, and I fear that the completed structure will be a chore to harvest and cultivate. Obviously, the expanse extends well past a swamp biome boundary at OS, but it's placed in anticipating of future ladder shaft and elevator shaft and water column placements. Is this just unavoidable without keeping my mushroom farm out of the swamp biome?
2.) Dear god these wolf howls. I intentionally slaughtered my captured pair of wolves a while ago at my OS base because it became impossible to be able to concentrate with their incessant howling. I note in other threads that their cries can carry for some distance, possibly several biomes distant. There is no volume setting on my speakers that makes it less disturbing for my roommate or neighbors, and the incessant duration and volume of the howls just makes me angry and uptight. Nails on a chalkboard to me. What in-game mechanic exists to stop this behavior or muffle their sounds?
3.) I have indeed obtained wheat and potatoes, but no carrots. Is this just luck of the draw, and I should seek more villages, or is there a different location to seek carrots? (I've located an abandoned mineshaft near one of the villages which I've dirted off for the time being, could carrots be in there?)
4.) For cosmetic reasons, I ask about portal orientations. At one key portal junction, my facing direction seems to be random when I transit the portal inn either direction. I've tried re-digging the walls and re-positioning the portal itself, rotating both the portal archway and the chamber around it in ninety degree increments. Still, each time I use it, I can't seem to identify the pattern that dictates which way I face upon emerging. It's annoying now, but once I have the iron, I want to experiment with automated minecart systems that could benefit from better understanding what's going on here.
5.) Can lilypads or bats be farmed? Best I can tell, they just seem to either be around or not, with no known spawn mechanic.
6.) What uses are there for LARGE stockpiles of sawdust, ink sacs, or slimeballs? I have a full monochest of slimeballs, almost three chests of sawdust (I'm a hoarder) and I've gotten enough ink sacs from manual panic-swinging to know that once my squidfarm is up and running I'll have the things coming out my ears well past the needs to create journals or to dye wool.
7.) I note that all slab-block recipes I've encountered so far are reversible, such that stacking two slabs in the crafting grid yields the full reconstituted block as a result. However, smoothstone slabs do not recombine. Is this a bug or a feature?|
8.) I've experienced a bug where using an item to exhaustion causes the nearly-spent item to respawn in my inventory? This was way more common back with stone tech, but I sometimes see it when planting seeds or laying blocks / terraforming, where the final iteration of the stack seems to glitch-duplicate. Is this anything to be concerned about? I only ask because about last October or so I had a savefile badly corrupted, and I could never identify the cause before resigning myself to simply recreating the world from the beginning with the same seed (mostly out of stubbornness in attempting to tame a damn swamp.)
If any of these deserve their own threads please lemme know and I'll branch it off. Thanks!
1. My current project is constructing a manual mushroom farm at OS. I've adapted a design that worked for me back when brown shrooms didn't require total darkness. I intend to use largely the same design for red mushrooms, since stump remover is becoming increasingly desirable. The modifications I've made to the design is to make it into a dirt surface with cobble spawn locations instead of the other way around -- that way, with a single block of mycelium from the villager trade, I can convert it to a full function farm for both strains. (Afterward, I intend to expand the tree farm and then build a mob grinder.) Problem: these damn slimes, man. I've mapped out the perimeter of what I intend to be an 82x82x5 block enclosure, and I have a 2-height expanse so riddled with slimes that Peter Venkman himself would be proud. I've decided to place it so that the harvesting surface is at lava level. With buckets, I hope to harvest the obsidian for a future build project I have in mind that would use a decent amount of it, and that depth has also afforded a bounty of diamonds and gold already, so say nothing of the other ores that are all useful. (Almost 3 stacks each of combined-redstone blocks and of yet-unsmelted gold ore for the mob farm in particular.) It's also an excuse to keep my main food farms loaded so as to build a buffer on my food and rope stockpiles before heading back north to my villagers.
1 tdlr: how do I mitigate slime spawns? It's delaying construction, the area is already well torched, and I fear that the completed structure will be a chore to harvest and cultivate. Obviously, the expanse extends well past a swamp biome boundary at OS, but it's placed in anticipating of future ladder shaft and elevator shaft and water column placements. Is this just unavoidable without keeping my mushroom farm out of the swamp biome?
2.) Dear god these wolf howls. I intentionally slaughtered my captured pair of wolves a while ago at my OS base because it became impossible to be able to concentrate with their incessant howling. I note in other threads that their cries can carry for some distance, possibly several biomes distant. There is no volume setting on my speakers that makes it less disturbing for my roommate or neighbors, and the incessant duration and volume of the howls just makes me angry and uptight. Nails on a chalkboard to me. What in-game mechanic exists to stop this behavior or muffle their sounds?
3.) I have indeed obtained wheat and potatoes, but no carrots. Is this just luck of the draw, and I should seek more villages, or is there a different location to seek carrots? (I've located an abandoned mineshaft near one of the villages which I've dirted off for the time being, could carrots be in there?)
4.) For cosmetic reasons, I ask about portal orientations. At one key portal junction, my facing direction seems to be random when I transit the portal inn either direction. I've tried re-digging the walls and re-positioning the portal itself, rotating both the portal archway and the chamber around it in ninety degree increments. Still, each time I use it, I can't seem to identify the pattern that dictates which way I face upon emerging. It's annoying now, but once I have the iron, I want to experiment with automated minecart systems that could benefit from better understanding what's going on here.
5.) Can lilypads or bats be farmed? Best I can tell, they just seem to either be around or not, with no known spawn mechanic.
6.) What uses are there for LARGE stockpiles of sawdust, ink sacs, or slimeballs? I have a full monochest of slimeballs, almost three chests of sawdust (I'm a hoarder) and I've gotten enough ink sacs from manual panic-swinging to know that once my squidfarm is up and running I'll have the things coming out my ears well past the needs to create journals or to dye wool.
7.) I note that all slab-block recipes I've encountered so far are reversible, such that stacking two slabs in the crafting grid yields the full reconstituted block as a result. However, smoothstone slabs do not recombine. Is this a bug or a feature?|
8.) I've experienced a bug where using an item to exhaustion causes the nearly-spent item to respawn in my inventory? This was way more common back with stone tech, but I sometimes see it when planting seeds or laying blocks / terraforming, where the final iteration of the stack seems to glitch-duplicate. Is this anything to be concerned about? I only ask because about last October or so I had a savefile badly corrupted, and I could never identify the cause before resigning myself to simply recreating the world from the beginning with the same seed (mostly out of stubbornness in attempting to tame a damn swamp.)
If any of these deserve their own threads please lemme know and I'll branch it off. Thanks!