@Sonic: I debugged something that might have been giving you problems at login. You should be good now.
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EDIT: Christ, Kiey has a lot of wolves. man, I just want one.
I just tamed all the ones I found inside my walls, and the gate seemed to be the best place to keep them. Maybe I need to put up a "beware of wolves" sign.
I finally found a secret cavern with tons of shinies in a small area. I found the Lapiz stuff, a lot of red stone, more iron & coal, and finally gold. I was like a kid in a candy store.
Is there anyway of getting bonemeal on this server? Only there is a distinct lack of mobs to hunt.
It can be traded in the marketplace near the spawn point. Explore the large city around the spawn point. The market can be found under several brightly-colored tents.
Yeah, but one stack of wheat is 12 gold. It takes 6 stacks of cobble to do that. Plus, I need lots of cobblestone. Got a metropolis to build.
EDIT: Really, wheat and wood are the best ways to go. Harvest and replant wheat while waiting for your forest to grow, then harvest and replant your forest while waiting for your wheat to grow.
So this is run by the computer? I thought the market was just where players went to exchange things and gold was the currency of choice due to it's relative uselessness and rarity.
So this is run by the computer? I thought the market was just where players went to exchange things and gold was the currency of choice due to it's relative uselessness and rarity.
Yeah....no. It's pretty awesome, this market. I always have a ton of cobble, so I just turn them into gold, then into diamond picks, so I can mine more cobble...
So this is run by the computer? I thought the market was just where players went to exchange things and gold was the currency of choice due to it's relative uselessness and rarity.
Yup. And it's finite from a practical standpoint, as you still have to mine in order to be able to exchange. The rate of exchange is such that you don't really wind up getting something for nothing. It still takes a while to get to 64 gold for that diamond pick. And if you think about it, since 32 cobblestone is 1 gold, that means you need 2048 cobblestone in order to get one diamond pick. The actual rate of occurrence of diamond is around 0.08%, which means you need to check 1250 blocks to find one diamond vein.
So, actually, it's still technically more efficient to mine it yourself.
Yup. And it's finite from a practical standpoint, as you still have to mine in order to be able to exchange. The rate of exchange is such that you don't really wind up getting something for nothing. It still takes a while to get to 64 gold for that diamond pick. And if you think about it, since 32 cobblestone is 1 gold, that means you need 2048 cobblestone in order to get one diamond pick. The actual rate of occurrence of diamond is around 0.08%, which means you need to check 1250 blocks to find one diamond vein.
So, actually, it's still technically more efficient to mine it yourself.
Well just being able to turn relatively useless resources into something I need is a big difference from the game I've been playing for the last week.
So this is run by the computer? I thought the market was just where players went to exchange things and gold was the currency of choice due to it's relative uselessness and rarity.
Yup. And it's finite from a practical standpoint, as you still have to mine in order to be able to exchange. The rate of exchange is such that you don't really wind up getting something for nothing. It still takes a while to get to 64 gold for that diamond pick. And if you think about it, since 32 cobblestone is 1 gold, that means you need 2048 cobblestone in order to get one diamond pick. The actual rate of occurrence of diamond is around 0.08%, which means you need to check 1250 blocks to find one diamond vein.
So, actually, it's still technically more efficient to mine it yourself.
This is a really good analysis. It's set up purposefully with these numbers because the utility of chests upon chests of dirt, cobble, redstone, etc. is near zero. You might as well get SOMETHING for them. However, I don't want people strip-mining the countryside, so I made it more costly to mine for mining's sake than it's worth.
So this is run by the computer? I thought the market was just where players went to exchange things and gold was the currency of choice due to it's relative uselessness and rarity.
Yup. And it's finite from a practical standpoint, as you still have to mine in order to be able to exchange. The rate of exchange is such that you don't really wind up getting something for nothing. It still takes a while to get to 64 gold for that diamond pick. And if you think about it, since 32 cobblestone is 1 gold, that means you need 2048 cobblestone in order to get one diamond pick. The actual rate of occurrence of diamond is around 0.08%, which means you need to check 1250 blocks to find one diamond vein.
So, actually, it's still technically more efficient to mine it yourself.
This is a really good analysis. It's set up purposefully with these numbers because the utility of chests upon chests of dirt, cobble, redstone, etc. is near zero. You might as well get SOMETHING for them. However, I don't want people strip-mining the countryside, so I made it more costly to mine for mining's sake than it's worth.
Except I'm stripmining the sand underwater and the cobble in my portion of the mountain. Captialism, HO! Thankfully, structural support is an unknown concept in the minecraft world.
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EDIT: Christ, Kiey has a lot of wolves. man, I just want one.
Right now, I farm wheat to get gold.
I'll be turning my food source into gold, to build the powered rails to transport said food.
I'm just too American for my own good.
EDIT: Really, wheat and wood are the best ways to go. Harvest and replant wheat while waiting for your forest to grow, then harvest and replant your forest while waiting for your wheat to grow.
5 wheat sells for 1 gold. 1 gold buys 32 cobblestone. 64 gold buys a diamond pick.
At least use iron instead of diamond. It's far more plentiful. Yeah, I had that problem until I started building a lot. Now I'm always short of cobble and wind up buying it for the sake of expedience.
So, actually, it's still technically more efficient to mine it yourself.