Lurker > rjsilverthorn

I understand why people build some of these giant farms, but who in the hell needs a farm that generates 1800 froglights an hour?

So I built a giant bubble column to get the star trader achievement and it wasn't until I was done that it occurred to me that, since it is just sitting in front of my house, that eventually I'm probably going to want to tear this thing down...all 1,038 blocks of it. That is going to be incredibly tedious.

Ogurisama posted...

I need to work on my farming machines that will produce me unlimited metal. And red stone, but I havent found the item I need to work on red stone or enderpearls. Blaze will be fine though.

That or I can download a mod that I can exploit for more metal.
2 gold = 4 gold stick
4 gold + 1 gold stick = 4 gold gears
4 gold gears + 4 sand = 16 gold

I got a machine set up that gets me unlimited sand (and glass, as glass is very good in the mods im using)
Once I got a setup for tons of gold, i just get an item called "flawless calculator" which goes to
4 gold = 1 diamond

I just buy my enderpearls, I think it is like 3 emeralds per pearl even without any discounts.

Finally got around to shipping a new villager out to the raid farm and getting that working again. Nice to have my source of totems back but I do wish it generated less trash loot, or at least there was a better way of dealing with it.

So I'd been trying to build a kelp farm to generate bone meal to power my sugarcane farm and I just could not get it running. Tore it down and rebuilt it multiple times, triple confirmed my chunk outlines, just couldn't figure it out....

Turns out I had planted sea grass instead of kelp *facepalm* I have no idea how I managed to not notice that multiple times as I built and rebuilt this thing. Once I corrected that it works fine.

papercup posted...

Okay Creeper farm finished, I tested it and it works. So time to go afk. Unfortunately it's kind of also a spider farm, but that's fine, I do need string too to make more scaffolding. Wish there was a way to make this just creepers but that's not really viable with this design. It's gonna be good though.

What design are you using? Most of the things I see use slabs in the spawning area to make sure there is no place big enough for spiders to spawn.

I was bored and decided to dry out this massive water filed cave that is near my base. Dried it out from around 65 down to 15 and then ended up at the top of a massive cave complex that, as far as I know, I haven't been in yet. I don't think I'll explore it from the side, I'll try tunneling over to it from the caves I have explored so I have a relatively clear path back.

Villager in the raid farm somehow got killed despite being surrounded entirely by non-spawnable blocks. Not sure what happened there but I can't be bothered to ferry another one out there right now so I guess that farm will be out of service until I run low on totems.

Hard_Light posted...

lmao

well now you have a submarine

skeleton horses don't take damage underwater, because they uh

well they don't need to breathe

Which makes it even more odd that they will die in powder snow.

I spent my evening breaking and replacing lecterns to reset librarian inventories. I think some of the existing librarians here may have some 'accidents' to free up space for new librarians.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I think there is a trick with red stone and a lightning rod but I have to look for it.

There is not, or at least I couldn't find one. I wonder if the prevalence of thunderstorms varies depending on the biome because I seem to get a lot of them in my game where I'm in the jungle biome.

In other news I think my wither skeleton farm is a loss. I finally got the nether portal mess straightened out, but the spawn rate is terrible and the skeletons that do spawn get hung up on the edge of the portal for some reason and don't drop into the kill chamber.

papercup posted...

Doesnt that still require a thunderstorm though?

I think there is a trick with red stone and a lightning rod but I have to look for it.

papercup posted...

So I learned a new thing last night. If a Creeper is struck by lightning it turns into a charged creeper, and any zombie, skeleton or creeper that is killed by a charged creeper drops its head as an item. Thats cool but man in like 850 days I think Ive only experienced like 6 thunderstorms. Idk if Ill ever get to make zombie or creeper heads. I already have skeleton heads from Ancient Cities.

Funnily enough, like the second or third night in my world, there was a thunderstorm and it turned one of my pigs into a zombified piglin. That guy is still alive living in a hole near my base. lol

You can do it with a channeling trident too.

Wasn't sure what to do tonight so I went back to one of my early mob farms and installed a trident killer on it to give me a easy place to repair all my mending gear.

I need to make some improvements to the raid farm. I was using leaf blocks for spawn proofing but they keep getting destroyed by something. The Ravagers also occasionally end up outside the kill chamber, the last one was perched on top of the villager and had destroyed half the enclosure.

Also need to add some item sorting because this thing generates a ton of crap loot and mostly I just care about the totems and maybe the emeralds.

papercup posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/0/6/AADH07AAD2Sm.jpg

start of the transport bridge. I'm gonna need a lot more rails :0

Yeah, I raided a lot of mines to build up my supply of rails.

papercup posted...

Soul sand water elevator would be my guess

I ended up going with minecart just because I had a decent amount of horizontal distance to cover as well and there was a bit of a mountain between the village and the farm anyway. I actually had him all the way up at the spot and broke the cart to push him in and he somehow ran through me and all the way back to the village. Got him in on the second attempt and raid farm 2.0 is up and running and WAY better than the first one.

Tomorrow me's problem will be how to get a villager 120+ blocks in the air. I'm tempted to just take them up to the limit first and get the trading achievement, but I'm not sure trying to take them back down a hundred some odd blocks without killing them is any better.

Ha ha, very amusing Nether portal. I was setting up a farm in the Nether and dropped a new portal to try and get me close to the farm in the overworld. Somehow it dropped me over 100 blocks away and underground....in a spawner room.

papercup posted...

How do you build a tunnel boring machine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7fVRqKjcg

Basically sticky piston/sticky block shenanigans combined with the TNT duplication glitch. (There are some that actually use dispensers for the TNT but most of them use duplication due to the sheer quantity involved.) It probably isn't substantially better than just mining, but I love the stupid red stone stuff people come up with.

So I decided to mix things up and built a tunnel boring machine down at -58 in the overworld, figuring that would be low enough that I should be under most of the big lava pools. Immediately dug into a MASSIVE lava pool, probably the largest I've ever found this deep. Only good news is that I did find a couple pockets of diamonds as I was cleaning out the lava that I likely wouldn't have otherwise found, but it was not a banner inaugural run.

Meanwhile my raid farm is still borked because for some reason they approach from the opposite direction of the outpost. So instead of coming down the big wide open path I made, they come from the side with the cliff and river and get stuck, because what is pathfinding?

papercup posted...

So I learned something last night. I learned that block conversion was a bigger thing than I realized. I knew you could convert natural blocks into moss with a moss block and some bonemeal, and of course you can convert natural blocks into sculk by killing mobs near a sculk catalyst. But I also learned that you can convert coarse dirt into dirt with azalea trees. You can convert dirt into mud with water, and you can convert mud into clay by placing a dripstone underneath it. That's cool! Dirt, clay and mud are all fully renewable resources. I wonder if there's more I don't know about.

You can also make coarse dirt into dirt by tilling it and I think you may also be able to convert coarse dirt into dirt by turning it into a path block and then breaking it.

Well that was annoying. Died and the one piece of gear I didn't manage to recover was my Looting III sword, so now I'm back to farming levels and enchantments to replace it.

At some point in the near future I'm either going to have to do some major terraforming around my main base or I'm going to have to relocate because I'm running out of room here. The fact that I'm sitting on top of a huge cavern is going to make terraforming a pain, but I also have a lot of stuff built up here that would be annoying to move as well. I guess I could just leave those here as an outpost and create a shortcut through the nether.

papercup posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/8/AADH07AAD0Be.jpg

Oh yeah also I learned a thing about beacons! You can place colored glass in front of the beam to change the color of the beam. And you aren't just stuck with the colors of glass, you can mix and match glass colors and the game will calculate what the color of the beam should be. Pretty neat!

Which leads to stuff like this:
https://imgur.com/gallery/iCc1MHF
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/fgrusw/i_made_a_pixel_art_whit_beacons_and_glass_panels/

papercup posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/5/AADH07AAD0Bb.jpg

Killed 2 more Withers, and hatched some chicken eggs in the cage where I built them so I got some roses. Not sure what I need these for, but hey I have them now. Also I'm restructuring the way I use beacons. Instead of having all effects on at once, I want to build speed beacons strategically throughout the base. And that means I need waaaaaay more gold. Time to go caving!

I know some Wither skeleton farms use roses so that only skeletons spawn. I've also seen them used as the kill mechanism in some AFK farms.

papercup posted...

Well now the question is whether or not I want to break down these monuments for the blocks. Sea lanterns are a nice looking light source, but, I do have thousands of froglights. Idk, the idea of breaking down the naturally occurring structures seems wrong somehow.

I just emptied mine of water and kept it. Tonight's project was a blaze farm. Got it up and running but I need either build a dedicated nether portal for it or setup a more direct path so I'm not parkouring on one block paths over lava.

Zareth posted...

Ugh world gen sucks now, too many damn ravines. It's like cool, here's a village and oop half of it is 100 blocks down over there.

I do think they could stand to either tone down the ravines or at least update village generation to fill them in or something. I had to move half the houses in one village because the AI just stopped pathfinding to their beds and job blocks.

papercup posted...

Oh no D: at least the ancient debris cant burn

Yeah and given the risks of either blowing myself up or dumping lava on my head I always wear fairly crap gear when I'm doing it so at least I didn't lose much in the process.

Now that I have a slime farm though I think I may trade in the beds for a tunnel borer.

*sigh* The most ignominious of Minecraft deaths, blowing yourself up with a bed while mining ancient debris.

papercup posted...

Might be a cave somewhere nearby you didn't find. That might also explain the low slime spawns, there are areas dark enough nearby for zombies and skeletons to spawn.

That is going to be fun to try and find. I did walk around to see if I could hear any mobs and didn't find anything. Only other option would be to start tunneling out on each floor I guess. For now I'm going to call it good enough since I've already got several stacks of slime cubes and I don't really have any immediate projects to use them on.

I can't figure out where the endermen are spawning. There shouldn't be a place big and dark enough here for them to spawn.

Built out my slime farm last night. Not as productive as I expected it to be, but realistically it is probably more than enough. I'll watch a few videos to make sure I didn't do anything terribly wrong and then I'll probably just leave it unless I need a stupidly large amount of slime blocks for something.

papercup posted...

I got a hot tip for all you Minecrafters out there. A pro strat. Make a composter. Make a trapdoor. Place the composter down. Place the trapdoor on top. Open the trapdoor. Stand inside the composter. Close the trapdoor. You can thank me later.

Doesn't seem to do anything in Bedrock unless I'm missing something.

papercup posted...

Yeah I'm gonna have to go through another generation of both green and orange frogs. Haven't even spawned the second generation of white frogs yet, but hopefully I only have to do one. Cus I want at least 4 of each, plus I want to leave breeding pairs of each color in case disaster strikes. And I'm gonna make 2 iron golems to break down the big magma cubes, cus the frogs can only eat the little cubes. I hear if set up properly it's like 5000 froglight/hour. Which, first of all, froglight is a fantastic decoration block, but also it's an infinite lightsource farm.

But I'm gonna have to do this all another day. I haven't even built the farm yet in the nether.

I think this guy kills the larger cubes with powdered snow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnzUmQpbirY

The build is interesting but he could do a better job explaining some of the aspects.

papercup posted...

I think it would be neat to build like a minecart hub under my base

My wife wants me to build one in glass underwater, or at least in glass where it passes through water. That would be a lot of glass though, and the track is already material intensive as it is.

papercup posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/4/7/AADH07AADvEv.jpg

And now I have a conduit. I know this helps with raiding ocean monuments. I just don't know how they help lol

They give you water breathing, underwater nightvision and improved mining speed in a radius defined by how many blocks you put around it. I put mine in the front courtyard area and had it cover the whole monument. They also attack enemies, but only within 8 blocks of the conduit.

There appear to be two:

https://800degreespizzas.com/

https://800degrees.com/

I'm assuming you were referring to the second one because the first looks like it is a single restaurant in Indiana.

hypnox posted...

Seriously beginning to wonder where these people got their information on the lives of truckers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhBoE56OEs

adjl posted...

And Katrina wasn't exactly a typical storm, so I guess I'm right to think that this is unusual. Wild.

It isn't actually that uncommon for storms to survive landfall, especially with Florida since it is so narrow and the storms can get back out over the ocean quickly and larger storms can span the land and be over the ocean on both sides.

You can filter just to Florida on this site to see the tracks that all the storms take.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/historical-hurricanes/

papercup posted...

Also I only have 3 Nautilus Shells still lol

I actually fished up 6 today to finish my conduit. Took a while but not stupidly long.

VampireCoyote posted...

very stressful too, I hate moving

This.

I had that game but I don't think I ever finished it and I remember almost nothing about it.

fettster777 posted...

So what happens to Disney World and stuff when the hurricane hits? Is it still open?

They will close, but prior to the pandemic I think they only closed 8 times since they first opened.

kind9 posted...

Earth is flat

Flat Earth is kind of in a league of its own when it comes to conspiracy theories because most of the adherents can't even provide a motivation for it and the sheer scale of people that would need to be involved is absurd.

hera posted...

dont you think that selling these shows would be more profitable than...doing nothing with them and getting a fraction of what they cost to produce back via tax write-off?

they're getting rid of shows and movies that are already done.

Apparently not, since they've written off around a billion dollars in content so far.

KodyKeir posted...

It's a fantastic show, House and Wilson are analogues of Holmes and Watson but they solve medical mysteries; remember it's never Lupus, (except for that one time) done to emphasize that Lupus is an easy diagnosis for doctors who don't want to do a full diagnostic of the patient.

Early House is good, later House not so much. You could tell they got to a point where they just didn't know where to go with the show anymore.

Jen0125 posted...

I've heard the opposite about Mr Robot. That the hacking and networking scenes are very realistic and there's a whole sub culture that analyzes those scenes for Easter eggs

I think that was his point, before Mr Robot portrayals of hacking were bad.

Straughan posted...

Ok so that's two of you mentioning it not being realistic nerd shit. I heard that from a few of the videos. I guess that makes sense. It seems fake and contrived to you. I can see how that would be off-putting. Kinda like how before Mr. Robot... most hacker depictions never got it right and instead replaced it with surreal visual aids that were meant to hold our hand and dazzle the average viewer.

I mean not being realistic was part of it, but to an extent it was also that the fact they did these things was, in itself, the joke rather than making jokes using that as a source that fans of those things would get.