Can you get an eternal fire block or lava inside the furnace so you don't have to re-fuel it all the time?
Maybe if you find the lava spawn block. The better choice, though (because fueling a furnace with the spawn block might destroy the block), is to build a glass tank for lava surrounded by an obsidian hearth and create a lavafall with the spawnblock to feed it. Then, you have a light source for the entire building, and an infinite source of lava for your work. Be sure to have a drainage floe underground and out of the building that drops (literally; the lava needs to fall into water, or else obsidian will block your drain) into the sea so that the lava cannot flood the building. You will also have a solid source of obsidian if you use switches to redirect the flow using an iron door.
Can you get an eternal fire block or lava inside the furnace so you don't have to re-fuel it all the time?
Maybe if you find the lava spawn block. The better choice, though (because fueling a furnace with the spawn block might destroy the block), is to build a glass tank for lava surrounded by an obsidian hearth and create a lavafall with the spawnblock to feed it. Then, you have a light source for the entire building, and an infinite source of lava for your work. Be sure to have a drainage floe underground and out of the building that drops (literally; the lava needs to fall into water, or else obsidian will block your drain) into the sea so that the lava cannot flood the building. You will also have a solid source of obsidian if you use switches to redirect the flow using an iron door.
Wow... I'm so behind, and here I was proud of my lighthouse tower.
Gold is worthless. Store it in chests unsmelted and wait for updates.
Everything you do in this game is pretty arbitrary. Personally, gold is my second favourite resource short of diamond, for no good reason at all. Ideally I'd like to make a structure out of gold blocks, just for the sake of bling. Otherwise, there's always gold armour, which is better than leather and doesn't require you to go out killing cows. Also, if you find an apple you can make it into a golden apple, which could be very nice if you get into big trouble. I'd rather hoard it for a structure than do either of the above, though.
Yeah, it's a pity, but lava is finite. Nonetheless, there's quite a lot of it if you dig down, but if you want to do something with a large amount of it it will take a lot of buckets and/or a lot of time.
Yeah, it's a pity, but lava is finite. Nonetheless, there's quite a lot of it if you dig down, but if you want to do something with it it will take a lot of buckets and/or a lot of time.
Well, I set up a huge floe, but it's just kind of freestanding. i'm going to turn it into a massive incandescent tube.
Can you get an eternal fire block or lava inside the furnace so you don't have to re-fuel it all the time?
You can use a lava bucket as a fuel source, it lasts for 100 smelts but that makes it super easy to waste and you lose three iron ingots in the process (The bucket is destroyed in the process.).
It's pretty effective. That the skeleton for my castle's new keep. One of the four walls will be one side of that tube, lighting the entire inner tower. The top will be that "lava cap, to light the outside and act as a beacon. The majority of that tube will be out in the castle's courtyard, lighting it up enough for trees and the like.
I have taken a Minecraft break until the update hits, since I have a hunch once it hits beta the world may or may not be ready for it, however the good news is that Halloween is 10 days away.
Render of the area I'm messing around in the most in my current overworld. I'm hoping that the Halloween update doesn't bork our savegames, because the keep I'm planning is moving along fairly well.
I'll get some actual screenshots when I get home tonight. The tower in the lower right and the larger one on the left were test runs that I threw up with minimal planning. The larger one on the left actually sits close to the spawn point in my world (the enclosed beach below it), so it's an easy landmark to find if I fall off a ledge or get killed by an unexpected Creeper or something. It's directly over the top of the tunnel that connects to the one in the lower right, so I can get back and forth between the two areas in short order if I have to. The other two on the left (the far one and the half-finished one) are actually following some sort of plan and are landmarks for specific features in the world (the corner of the area I'm working in and the path down to the space I'm going to use for my boat launch grotto). I'm currently splitting my time between working on mining out a cave structure under the work area on the left (so I can build an underground wheat farm and reed farm) and flattening out the area above. I've also put a fountain up in there just as a proof of concept for myself and I've got a weird glitch involving an eternally burning block of wood that's floating up in the sky that I left sitting there because it's cool looking.
EDIT: I also remembered that I've got a series of renders of the world as it progresses that I can put up on imgur. I try to remember to do one after each Minecraft session where I've worked on the overworld so I can see how things are coming along. I'll throw those into my Minecraft images folder as well. If you want to see the full render of the shot above, check out this imgur.
You do realise that if you want to redecorate, that's going to be a bitch to get rid of.
It's on the bottommost floor of the main keep of my first castle. I won't be moving it any time soon.
Geek bonus: Said gate is lit by red torches, and has stairs leading to a set of wooden doubler-doors. The sign on the gate reads, "Ennyn Durin aran Moria. Pedo mellon a minno."
It's something dodgy in the fire mechanics of the game. You'll often see similar behaviour if you tend to burn down the tops of trees after harvesting the bottoms for wood.
It's something dodgy in the fire mechanics of the game. You'll often see similar behaviour if you tend to burn down the tops of trees after harvesting the bottoms for wood.
I thought that maybe the wood was re-growing slightly faster than it was burning.
In Alpha, a flammable block, like wood, may burn continuously when its sides are surrounded by non-flammable blocks, like stone or dirt (the bottom is not necessary, though it is best not to have anything explicitly flammable underneath). A fire will only stay burning at the top of a flammable block, not on the sides or the bottom. Once the fire is burning - and has continued to do so for ten seconds or more without consuming the block beneath - you may remove all the adjacent blocks, and it will keep going forever. If the block burns away, simply replace and re-ignite until it works. It is also possible to make larger blocks of endless fire by putting flammable blocks diagonally adjacent to block that is burning continuously. Since the already-burning block counts as non-flammable - it is already on fire - the adjacent block may also burn continuously. By igniting multiple blocks this way, you can make a grid of diagonally adjacent burning blocks, which you can then fill with more flammable blocks to complete the surface.
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Otherwise, there's always gold armour, which is better than leather and doesn't require you to go out killing cows. Also, if you find an apple you can make it into a golden apple, which could be very nice if you get into big trouble.
I'd rather hoard it for a structure than do either of the above, though.
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If you haven't already, bookmark the Minepedia Crafting Recipes and Furnace pages.
I'll have to give the lava lamp trick a try.
EDIT: I also remembered that I've got a series of renders of the world as it progresses that I can put up on imgur. I try to remember to do one after each Minecraft session where I've worked on the overworld so I can see how things are coming along. I'll throw those into my Minecraft images folder as well. If you want to see the full render of the shot above, check out this imgur.
Geek bonus: Said gate is lit by red torches, and has stairs leading to a set of wooden doubler-doors. The sign on the gate reads, "Ennyn Durin aran Moria. Pedo mellon a minno."
The tiered tower
The fountain (a proof of concept for me)
The eternally burning block of wood. It's been up there at least ten day & night cycles.
According to Minepedia