Minecraft

[sleek bane]

I'll take a screenshot, alt-tab, and it looks like this. I was really wanting to show my house

[sweet trench]

Screenshot is f2, and you can disable the pausing with f3+p

[sleek bane]

I got it, the screenshot is F2

But I dunno where the screenshots are saved to

[sweet trench]

Do you know where your .minecraft folder is?

[sleek bane]

No

[sweet trench]

I find mine by using windows+R then going to %appdata%, which should work if you're on windows

[sleek bane]

Microsoft... why would you do that

[summer scaffold]

i love it

[gilded geyser]

Man I love sildurs shaders

[sleek bane]

It's the first thing I've ever built in MC

[little rampart]

Yay!

[flat geode]

Looks awesome

[glossy shore]

It’s not that confusing, really. Just a windows function. Linux does it too

Every program on your computer is stored somewhere

Windows keeps them nice and orderly in the Appdata folder

Doing Windows + R and typing %appdata% is way faster than manually searching for the file haha

[sleek bane]

Yes I know how to access it

But it was not the first place I would have thought to look

[glossy shore]

Ah

[shut bridge]

I need to get Mending for all of my things
My nicely enchanted pick is getting dangerously low, and i tend to burn through armor

[vocal eagle]

ahh yeah, mending book villagers are one of my major projects at a particular stage of the game

[glossy shore]

I once managed to base in an ocean monument with a friend of mine

We had a huge villager trading hall and a primitive guardian farm

and the villager breeder ran off the bread supply of one farmer villager

[crisp adder]

villager trade rebalance is also coming to 1.21 so I need to fill up my trading hall.

[shut bridge]

after the rebalance change, Mending will only come from Swamp villagers

and fun part about that

Villages do not generate naturally in jungle or swamp biomes. Thus, players must breed villagers or cure zombie villagers in these biomes to access their trades.

[flat geode]

Wait, the trade rebalance is happening in 1.21?

[little rampart]

I think i got most of my mending books from fishing

[minor moss]

You can also go directly to the screenshot folder by clicking on the underlined screenshot name in the chat listing

[vocal eagle]

mending books from fishing is slow

[shut bridge]

It's an experimental feature currently on the table for inclusion in 1.21

[vocal eagle]

if you get a villager who trades them, you can put mending on everything. If you get them from fishing, it's like ... well, I do have a mending pickaxe.

[flat geode]

Who hurt you?

[flat geode]

Can they still add it if 1.21 is already on Pre-Releases?

[dusty thunder]

Likely no

The pre-release phase of development means they slow down and start hacking away and whatever nests of bugs remain in 1.21 before release, and maybe add some very small tweaks and balance changes at most. It's effectively feature-complete. Release candidates are when the update is stable enough to be released, they just want to make sure it's not gonna immediately crash or something.

The villager trading reblanace is a massive feature that requires lots of feedback and playtesting. If it's not yet taken out of the experimental features, then it's unlikely to come to 1.21.

[shut bridge]

1.21 is scheduled to release 1 week from this coming Thursday, June 13th.

[barren nacelle]

mending shouldnt be a villager trade imo

[shut bridge]

without villager trades the only place to find it would be jungle temple, stronghold, or ancient city loot chests...or fishing.
it would make it far too rare.

[barren nacelle]

isnt that the point tho its sort of overpowered

u can get it right at the start of the game with trades

i think its around 27-40 emerald

not too hard with stick trading

[flat geode]

Can be low as 5 I think

I know it goes as low as 10

[barren nacelle]

i think thats a lame way to acquire such a book

it should be some rare dungeon reward

not just gained in such a non memorable/fun way

[flat geode]

I think the trade rebalance fixes it though

[barren nacelle]

like Elytra or sponges

[shut bridge]

Not after the Villager Trade Rebalance is implemented
Mending will only be available from Swamp Librarians
Villages do not generate naturally in jungle or swamp biomes. Thus, players must breed villagers or cure zombie villagers in these biomes to access their trades.

[barren nacelle]

interesting

i still would prefer it be some dungeon reward

i feel like caves really need a dungeon overhaul no?

the stronghold hasnt been touched since Beta 1.8

its very outdated... and there should be more dungeon either way

[crisp adder]

As low as 10 emeralds (level 1 enchant goes as low as 5, but treasure enchanement has x2 multiplier)

[flat geode]

What about the Deep Dark?

[shut bridge]

in fact
all tradable enchantments will now be locked behind a specific biome after the trade rebalance

[flat geode]

Ah, that's what I missed. Thanks for the correction

[barren nacelle]

funny right

trading went from useless novelty to overpowered/game breaking

[flat geode]

Well, they're also breaking all the emerald farms this update

[crisp adder]

At least the witch drop buff will make trading for redstone irrelevant.
I've mostly found trading to be useful for renewable quartz blocks, terracotta, and lapis, specifically when I was building map art.

[barren nacelle]

honestly i also want a rework for tridents.
getting them is so frustrating and unrewarding

id rather some ocean dungeon with a nearly guaranteed trident reward

[crisp adder]

Getting them in easy / normal difficulty is very frustrating.
Getting them in hard is easy, because of zombie reinforcement mechanics.

[barren nacelle]

i really really want a TNT rework

thats been my biggest complaint with mc

terraria has such amazing tnt

but MC tnt is nearly useless

[flat geode]

that affects drowned? Intresting...

[shut bridge]

PonyCraft update: The server is now Hard difficulty Hardcore mode. Good luck!

[crisp adder]

no, zombies reinforce and then drown them in water

[barren nacelle]

terraforming large builds and terrain is so hard

[flat geode]

Ah I see

[barren nacelle]

and tnt is too weak or uncontrollable

beds also remove the need for tnt as well in the nether

[crisp adder]

... tnt rework how? Minecraft tnt is already plenty strong with tnt duping and is the only way to break blocks with 100% drop rate.

[barren nacelle]

i think TNT is the most necessary rework

[crisp adder]

beds, end crystals and wither explosions (not crunching) are only 30% (iirc)

[dusty thunder]

Honestly, that's just a normal singleplayer world for me. I usually play on hard, which is why the only death I've gotten on PonyCraft was because of a bug, not from any mobs or any of the other usual causes.

[barren nacelle]

ancient debris dont break to beds

[crisp adder]

yeah duh, but tnt tunnelbores are so much cheaper and requires less effort (if you allow tnt duping)

[barren nacelle]

i would prefer terraria tnt

using tnt for terraforming was very frustrating

[flat geode]

Ponycraft is the best singleplayer world lol, until people started playing recently

[barren nacelle]

remember when every mlp mc youtuber used the pony mod

for fabric i think

forgot

[flat geode]

They did?

[crisp adder]

it still exists and a lot of people use it on ponycraft https://minelittlepony-mod.com/

[sleek bane]

I need to install that

[flat geode]

Do you know how to make a skin?

[barren nacelle]

mine little pony

[sleek bane]

No, I don't even know how to change my current one

[barren nacelle]

so many used that

[barren nacelle]

mc site

just drag a skin file

[flat geode]

http://ponyskincraft.com/ This site is a bit out of date, but you can play around a bit with it

For applying the skin, just ask for help whenever you're ready

[dusty thunder]

I'm currently making a short list of essential optimization and visual mods for when you start using them.

Mine Little Pony is one of them

[flat geode]

How short is short?

[sleek bane]

Don't ping me while I'm still here please

[barren nacelle]

optifine works for performance

[sleek bane]

Also that doesn't really explain anything

I also mean this in the nicest way possible but I am declining your assistance

[dusty thunder]

It's short. Stuff like Sodium, Iris, Controllify, etc. Just the basics to make the game run a little better, and also to help PK play the game closer to his prefered style (with controllers).

[flat geode]

Good, don't need to overwhelm

[dusty thunder]

I know. :P

I use close to 90 mods, but I think PK really only "needs" like 10 or so.

[crisp adder]

https://optifine.alternatives.lambdaurora.dev/

[barren nacelle]

i dont really think u need any mods for mc

but again the whole point of the game is there is no point. theres no objectives really

no main ones thats for sure

mods just add to that

(some people need performance mods tho like morefps or optifine)

[crisp adder]

90 how? I only have 30-ish mods when playing on Ponycraft

[barren nacelle]

a problem is

Java sucks

and ud throw up if u saw how it handles mods

lol

[flat geode]

Yeah, what y'all on?

[barren nacelle]

worse than yandere sim code

on my beast pc i still cant run the game well with like 50+ mods

it drops down to like 40-60 fps avg

with some framedrops

thats the one thing i desire from bedrock

the performance

[flat geode]

We're talking about Client-side mods, ones that can still play on Vanilla servers.

[barren nacelle]

oh yea ud want optifine

lol

it also gives u a cape

[flat geode]

Actually OptiFine is bad now

[barren nacelle]

its pretty swell

[flat geode]

u have to pay i think

[barren nacelle]

and u get a cape

[flat geode]

There are other cape mods

[barren nacelle]

1 time donation thats like $5

[crisp adder]

Optifine has worse compatibility and performance compared to Sodium.

[barren nacelle]

its fine

yeaaa but most use optifine and people use optifine capes often

if ur not using optifine

ur missing out

[dusty thunder]

Well, I suppose a more accurate number is 75, but I had to remove some of the ones I normally play with because they haven't yet updated.

These are the ones I'm using at the moment. I've got more waiting to update:

[shut bridge]

Optifine has been dropped in favor of other mods
Ones that're actually open source and don't fuck the codebase and break other mods

[slate parrot]

i dont really mod minecraft that much

[barren nacelle]

what years of mc does to someone

[crisp adder]

For older versions like 1.7 or 1.8, perhaps.

[barren nacelle]

break mods really? i had lots of mods depend on it

[barren nacelle]

yea but 1.8.9 is still one of the most popular versions of mc if not the most popular for multiplayer

[shut bridge]

Minecraft's codebase has improved vastly over the years
OptiFine has a very aggressive stance towards replacing entire swaths of code while being closed source which makes it very difficult to figure out why OptiFine has broken another modder's mod.
This greatly displeases the modding community.
It also does not natively support Fabric, and maintaining OptiFabric is getting increasingly more difficult.

[grave ravine]

Sodium + Iris is love, Sodium + Iris is life

[barren nacelle]

theyre not wrong

mcs code is so terrible

[vocal eagle]

My main criticism of making mending hard to get is that the whole durability/repair system in Minecraft is obnoxious bookkeeping to begin with

[barren nacelle]

id rather replace it

[grave ravine]

there isn't much reason to use OptiFine in 2024 unless you donated for a cape, I guess

[barren nacelle]

or to see others capes

^^

[grave ravine]

(because yeah, I am very surprised sp614x didn't get in trouble with Mojang for that :P)

[barren nacelle]

netherite basically lasts forever + just make it a cool final dungeon reward

more interesting way to farm it

[sleek bane]

Something else that's a bit troubling to manage is inventory

[vocal eagle]

"basically ... forever" not in my experience with the amount of mining / digging / tunneling I do

[flat geode]

That is somewhat a Minecraft problem

Tho Shulkers do help, but that is very end game

[barren nacelle]

its gotten way worse in silver/modern age mc

[vocal eagle]

to me, mending is essential for late game MC just because that's when I'm like ... I have all my cool gear and I want to just keep it and not have to worry about exponential repair costs and such

[barren nacelle]

cus of all the new stone blocks and decorative blocks

[sleek bane]

Please stop ping replying while I'm still here

[barren nacelle]

most u can do is use chests as much as possible

[sleek bane]

This is the third time I've asked

[barren nacelle]

sorry discord forces it as default

i swear u could turn it off

[vocal eagle]

shift-click on reply automatically forces it off, or you can click it off every time, or just not use the reply feature

[barren nacelle]

mobile

[flat geode]

Didn't know that, that's useful

[dusty thunder]

I still personally think backpacks and an inventory expansion, while not a perfect solution to the problem, would still help mitigate the negative issues a little more. The main problem is the management side of things. We need stuff like an auto-sorter button, tabs, saved hotbars, etc.

[barren nacelle]

works for calls too

[cerulean storm]

You cannot change the ping by default option. You have to simply turn it off every time

[barren nacelle]

u can shift click to join a group call

[shut bridge]

Not using Jade?
Interesting.
https://www.modrinth.com/mod/jade
I've grown accustomed to having it from the olden days of WAILA.

[barren nacelle]

oh its a better discord feature then

i swear discord had it before

[summer scaffold]

those bundles were a neat idea imo

idk when they'll be implemented though

[cerulean storm]

Discord never had it as a feature unfortunately

[barren nacelle]

bundles could be overpowered depending on what goes inside

imagine totem of undyings

[dusty thunder]

Meh, I only really play vanilla (client side mods aside), so I don't really need it. I know what I'm looking at. :P

[flat geode]

I know every block in the game... The blocks need Jade, not me

[dusty thunder]

Although...it might be a good thing for PK

[summer scaffold]

i wanna try out Hexxit 2 but i dont really want to go through all the effort of doing the dumb launcher shananigans

[sleek bane]

What does Jade do?

[flat geode]

Tells ya what ya lookin' at

[summer scaffold]

oh that's what that's called

[flat geode]

It should only be able to carry one

[sleek bane]

That will be useful. Although I've been enjoying it, MCs artstyle is a bit of a double edged sword

[shut bridge]

It's the modern version of WAILA
What Am I Looking At

[summer scaffold]

ive always seen that used in those enormous mod packs lol

[barren nacelle]

can amythest geodes not be useless in mc ty

they remind me of marble caves from terraria but less cool

[shut bridge]

Also Jade just dropped a 1.21 beta version like less than 20 minutes ago
So looks like some modders are already working on 1.21 updates

[sleek bane]

When does 1.21 come out

[flat geode]

Are the Pre-Releases mostly the same? Should I update my Minigame map to run 1.21?

[shut bridge]

Next week according to Mojang

[summer scaffold]

oh shit

[flat geode]

13th

[barren nacelle]

optifine should prob sort out their site more cus i remember it was hard to tell what the official site was

[sleek bane]

Maybe I should wait to install mods

[barren nacelle]

the link to a fake site was right under and looked more real

lol

[summer scaffold]

same time on Bedrock right ?

[dusty thunder]

Honestly, might be for the best. I'll still send you that list though, so you know which ones to look for.

[barren nacelle]

yea definitely just experience what u wanna experience without mods

[flat geode]

If you're only playing on Ponycraft you should be fine. It will take like forever for Ponycraft to update

Theses are the 3 most conflicting sentances

[shut bridge]

Rom won't update the server until the server plugins are 1.21 compatible.

[sleek bane]

Well I haven't installed anything yet

Except the base game

[barren nacelle]

get the tornado mod its so funny

[flat geode]

Oklahoma!

[barren nacelle]

that was my childhood mod

[sleek bane]

Oh wait PonyCraft is the name of the server

[flat geode]

Yeah

[barren nacelle]

mine little pony is a client side mod to turn everyone into ponies

it sucks for pvp though

[flat geode]

How come?

[barren nacelle]

weird hit boxes

that dont reflect the models

[sleek bane]

Man, they picked a super inconvenient time to do a version update

[flat geode]

Well, it's a client-side mod so...

This is usually when they do it...

[barren nacelle]

dw mojang working on the game with meaningful additions is quite rare

[sleek bane]

I mean a MC update

Considering I just got thr game

[cerulean storm]

Please avoid cynicism here

[flat geode]

I know, they usually push out an update around this time

[summer scaffold]

what is this update

oh yeah new dungeon thingy

and the mace

[flat geode]

1.20 came out June 7th, and so did 1.19 and 1.12. 1.17 and 1.10 came out on the 8th

[summer scaffold]

oh lord finding the trial chambers on ponycraft is gonna be annoying lol

[shut bridge]

Gonna have to go generate new chunks

[summer scaffold]

ye

oh well

[sleek bane]

Good to know I suppose

[summer scaffold]

the dynamap should make that easier

[slate parrot]

how big is ponycraft?

[flat geode]

I thought Rom was doing a once-per-update chunk trim?

[barren nacelle]

im a cynic by nature

[slate parrot]

member wise

[barren nacelle]

dynmap is a must for friend smps imo

[flat geode]

Well don't bring it here

[barren nacelle]

love that map but setting it up can be annoying

[shut bridge]

Well don't bring it here.
You're on the edge of being Rule 1c'd

[barren nacelle]

for... what

i just said the game doesnt get updated often

[flat geode]

It had a decent player base, tho it's not the most active. But recently there are more people getting on

[shut bridge]

It comes and goes

[cerulean storm]

That's not what you said.

[barren nacelle]

? i said that Mojang doesnt often add meaningful content and it takes a while?

[cerulean storm]

You said "dw mojang working on the game with meaningful additions is quite rare"

[barren nacelle]

right

whats wrong with that?

[cerulean storm]

Far more negative than "the game doesn't get updated that often."

It's cynical and unappreciated is what's wrong with it

[barren nacelle]

its my sense of humour and style of talking, i didnt mean to be insulting towards anyone

sorry

😵‍💫

[sleek bane]

I'm not sure yet what my next plan is

[flat geode]

Why did Trixie newspaper get added as a reaction Emoji lol

[sleek bane]

I might try digging more under my house to see what I can find

[flat geode]

Like a mine?

[sleek bane]

Yeah I guess

I'm not sure what I want to build next

[cerulean storm]

I always set up a nice little mine under my house so I can dig at night instead of having to worry about zombies

[barren nacelle]

dont mine at night

[cerulean storm]

I put a crafting table, some chests, a furnace

[flat geode]

I need to set up a strip mine at my base

I'm dirt poor

[sleek bane]

I was digging at night anyway because I didn't really know about zombies and stuff

[barren nacelle]

just spam torches, outside shouldnt have any mobspawns

[flat geode]

Actually I'm dirt rich

[little rampart]

Same, my first house on a server is usually a hole in the side of a hill that i make a mineshaft diagonally down from

[barren nacelle]

yea thats fine i was just referencing a song lol

mobs only spawn when its dark so just put up a lot of torches to create "safe areas" on the surface and in caves. good for town building

[crisp adder]

Only mine at night!

[little rampart]

Until i have enough stuff to do a bit of scouting for a new location that speaks to me

[crisp adder]

Mobs spawning on the surface would mean less mobs spawn in caves/mines

[sleek bane]

I've only encountered a few zombies though, they were surprising but easy enough

[flat geode]

Watch out for Skeletons

[cerulean storm]

True. They are a hassle to deal with

[flat geode]

Make a shield

[barren nacelle]

on hard mode they break down wooden doors

[sleek bane]

I have a shield

[cerulean storm]

(you can also play on peaceful)

[barren nacelle]

shields sort of make the game really easy and qre easy to make

u can tank a creeper easily

[little rampart]

PonyCraft is set to Easy

[sleek bane]

The shield seems to get in the way of interaction though

[barren nacelle]

thats true

only a few mobs are designed to work with shields

like the axe wielding maniacs

berserkers

[sleek bane]

So I don't like to use it but I guess I just need to remember to unequip it

[barren nacelle]

i wish zombies could use axes to break shields

like berserkers

[cerulean storm]

The last time I played Minecraft shields didn't exist

[barren nacelle]

1.9 added them

i think

[flat geode]

When?

[barren nacelle]

axes put shields on cooldown

[little rampart]

Once i had diamond armor with mending i stopped using a shield at all

[cerulean storm]

I don't remember

[crisp adder]

Actually, I don't use shields at all. Strafing is still very effective against skeletons

[barren nacelle]

on hard id still use it but yea netherite enchanted is when u dont need it anymore

[barren nacelle]

beta skeletons be like:

[little rampart]

Again, ponycraft is set to easy

[barren nacelle]

cant hit anything

[little rampart]

I never did acquire netherite from anyone

[barren nacelle]

yea it takes a lil even with bed mining

its worth it tho

[little rampart]

Fuck that, I'll trade for it

[barren nacelle]

u can trade for it?

[crisp adder]

I could sell some netherite, or even one of my max enchanted netherite sets w/ different trims

[flat geode]

People sell netherite?

[little rampart]

Yes, i say "stargazing, what do you want for some netherite" and he answers with a price

[flat geode]

Please take my nonexistent diamonds

[little rampart]

My diamonds (lol SU ref) are very much existent

[flat geode]

Screw it, I'm not doin' anything rn, I'll go start a mine

[little rampart]

And if i don't like the price, i don't buy or go ask someone else

Anyway, the way i play i don't really need netherite

[crisp adder]

Hmm... do you have netherite upgrades smithing templates? I can lend you one to duplicate (which requires 7 diamonds per)

I'm willing to sell 1 netherite ingot for ~4 diamonds, since I have quite a bit.

[little rampart]

I don't have anything related to that, but i do have diamonds

[crisp adder]

Oh, what I meant is that you need a smithing template to upgrade gear to netherite now

[barren nacelle]

right

that was a rework

im not familiar with that yet

[barren nacelle]

i meant villager trading...

[little rampart]

I have no template

[crisp adder]

Duplicating templates takes 7 diamonds. I'm happy to lend you one to duplicate for however many netherite upgrades are needed.

[crisp adder]

I don't use netherite tools either. Diamond tools are so much easier to obtain en mass, while netherite's 1 extra breaking power doesn't make anything instamineable. Extra durability is nice but not worth the effort in mining.

[barren nacelle]

i save all my enchanting books

then get netherite

max enchant it immediately

[crisp adder]

I've made ~64 max enchanted diamond picks on Ponycraft, can recommend

[barren nacelle]

to sell right

[crisp adder]

No, to use

[barren nacelle]

uh why do u need 64!

:0

[cerulean storm]

One for each hand

[crisp adder]

~1.9mil stone mined for terraforming and counting. Each pick (with unbreaking 3) is ~6000 blocks, so I've used each pick around 5 times.

[barren nacelle]

i just use mending so

my tools never break

[crisp adder]

Yeah, I mend my picks too, just mending trips take time

[barren nacelle]

xp farm is what i just use

[crisp adder]

It's slower to run to the enderman farm (or gold farm or whatever alternative) 237 times with 1 netherite pick, faster to take 5 trips and mend all of them at once.

[barren nacelle]

oh that makes more sense

i thought u were breaking them

lol

[crisp adder]

No lmao

What a waste of emeralds

[barren nacelle]

netherite just looks cooler tho
i think its worth the upgrade

[little rampart]

I use my tools until they're almost dead then mend them through fishing

Except my fortune pick, i only use that for ores so the coal keeps it pretty topped up. I use stone pick for mass mining

The others take a very long time to deplete unless i run into a lot of sand or gravel

[shut bridge]

I don't like sand

Minecraft sandworms when?

🪱

[barren nacelle]

earthworms soon

added feature they destroy saplings

[shut bridge]

Sand worm
https://imgur.com/a/shai-hulud-9oOkB#0

[flat geode]

That looks like a wood worm

Don't know why

[dusty thunder]

Hmm...I should do the same. Maybe four more picks, four more shovels, and two more axes.

[vocal eagle]

I always hit enough XP-generating stuff that my pick stays mended in a long mining path (even in the nether -- I'll deliberately mine the quartz for XP), and if I have other stuff that needs mended I'll put it in my off hand. Mending will try to mend your 4 armor slots + on hand and off hand objects (I think randomly selected between them.) For ordinary small levels of wear, I'll just do things like grab whatever out of a furnace while holding the thing that needs a few points of XP.

[summer scaffold]

SHAI HULUD !!!!!!

[glossy shore]

I hate how sodium has this stupid ass menu that looks awful

It’s not minecraft-y enough

[sleek bane]

time to install mods

[barren nacelle]

ive never seen it

what does it look like?

[glossy shore]

uhh it’s offset to the left side of the screen, menu buttons are on top and it’s black and white

[flat geode]

This?

[barren nacelle]

kind of looks like BTAs menu

[glossy shore]

yeah

it’s hot shit

[flat geode]

I think it's fine

[glossy shore]

It’s not minecrafty enough

[crisp adder]

Minecraft's menu implementation is also hot shit, so it's natural that Sodium wants to build their own tbh

[glossy shore]

it looks out of place

they could at least make it look like Minecraft

[flat geode]

Bedrock UI changes

[crisp adder]

The fuck? Why do I have to make another username... did I just dupe my Minecraft account...
(This microsoft account is used to log into RainbowRoadtrip, which worked earlier today. Also, I'm using default launcher because alternate launchers just respond with an error whenever I try to log in)

[barren nacelle]

they made it confusing

my microsoft account has a new account

but my old mojang one perfectly workls

even tho i transferred

its a headache

[crisp adder]

I think I might've figured it out, I had to revert the change to my Microsoft account's primary email

(the change happened a few days ago but apparently I logged in fine until now?)

[barren nacelle]

yea its so weird

[gilded geyser]

Bothers in arms, how do you feel about joining an IC2 server?

[barren nacelle]

unfortunately i am not a brother

ic2 is the factorio like mod right

with the pipes

that mod is cool

[gilded geyser]

Uh...

No I think you're thinking of buildcraft

IC2 is automated machines, miners, and electricity

[barren nacelle]

i swear there were pipes

is this not ic?

[rigid fog]

that's buildcraft

[barren nacelle]

i see

i think i prefer buildcraft then

[gilded geyser]

I don't think I ever tried buildcraft

[barren nacelle]

i just like the idea of pipes/belts moving things around

lets u make all these cool machines

thats why i love factorio lol

[gilded geyser]

Ah man I love factorio...

[barren nacelle]

factorio is such a funn game

[shut bridge]

the only thing i remember about IC and BC is the curse of different power systems and certain modpacks not being set up for proper power interchange

[barren nacelle]

so can u like make ur own machiens on IC?

like u can on BC

[gilded geyser]

Yeah

Electric furnace, induction furnace, macerator, rotary macerator, extruder, Extractor, Recycler,

Various methods of connecting machines of various voltages,

ULV, LV, MV, HV, UHV

[glossy shore]

Buildcraft is nostalgia in a .jar file

@barren nacelle the pipes even show the item/liquid being moved around inside

[gilded geyser]

Oh yeah and compressor, and centerfuge extractor, geothermal power, and nuclear power.

[barren nacelle]

ya i like that more

[crisp adder]

Which one of the following would you prioritize in Minecraft, and why?

• Render distance beyond 16 chunks
• FPS above 60
• Resolution above 1080p
• Shaders
• Something else, liks lower mspt for technical / computational redstone

[summer scaffold]

high render distance and high fps are mine

if i can only pick one high render distnce

[cloud spear]

Shaders, because Minecraft looks absolutely dreadfully lifeless without them.

Texture packs work a bit, but my god does the gray really zap the life out of it.

[little rampart]

High render distance first, then shaders and high fps equally, i don't care about higher resolution

[mint cypress]

Render distance
maybe shaders too in second

60 FPS for minecraft is enough for me personally, as is resolution

[barren nacelle]

render distance

affects gameplay the most

especially the end

bedrock end cities vs java

[flat geode]

Oh deary dee

[sleek bane]

I probably won't get to play tonight

[gilded geyser]

You know how Minecraft essentially generates infinitely on the X and Y axis? What if... we had it infinintely generate on the Z axis

[sleek bane]

Are there any tips for long term exploring?

I feel compelled to return to my house once it gets close to night

[gilded geyser]

Are you on peaceful mode?

[flat geode]

PonyCraft I assume

You can take a bed along with you, but that will reset your spawn each time

[sleek bane]

I don't remember what the server is set to

[shut bridge]

Dirt huts or digging a n00b hole are never a wrong answer

if you're spending a long time far from home
acquire shulker boxes
fill one with food, and another with supplies like torches and spare armor and tools
you can be a nomad without a fixed home if you do it right

PonyCraft is on Easy

[sleek bane]

The only games kinda similar to MC that I've played are Dwarf Fortress and Grounded, and both games will kill you immediately for not paying attention (moreso DF, but Grounded at night is dangerous)

[flat geode]

The server is set to easy #1032723658940096592 message

[sleek bane]

Gotcha

[shut bridge]

hiding in a n00b hole while waiting for night to be over is never a wrong answer
everyone has done it

[sleek bane]

Feels almost like cheating lol

[cerulean storm]

Minecraft is more of a sandbox than a game, so you get to pick the rules

[shut bridge]

better than pillaring up
Skeletons have arrows, and spiders can climb

[sleek bane]

I guess so

My brain is more in the "game" area than sandbox

[shut bridge]

also fuck you, baby zombies, you speedy little shits

[sleek bane]

I'm glad I was able to turn off the pony monster graphics

Having to kill a zombie pony last night made me feel bad

[vocal eagle]

my typical MC progression is that day 1 I gather a bunch of wood (I do make a stone axe to chop wood with) and look for easily-available surface-level food, and then I go mining and don't come out for a day or two.

[sleek bane]

There's still a lot I need to learn

[shut bridge]

checks 1.21 change notes
oh boy, poison swamp skeletons

[sleek bane]

I've got plenty of coal and copper

[shut bridge]

that's good

copper isn't useful for much other than decorative blocks right now...and a few things like the lightning rod, brush, and spyglass.

[grave ravine]

render distance, FPS, resolution

by default, Minecraft thrives on high resolutions more than most people think, since it lacks both antialiasing and anisotropic filtering

[grave ravine]

I did that when I was a kid, it works if your tower is high enough so spiders can't spot you (like, 30 blocks or more). The issue is, I've occasionally fallen to my death from those
Creating one above water can mitigate this somewhat

[flat geode]

Render distance, I'd like to see my entire build (and others) all at once

[vocal eagle]

render distance for me as well

[sleek bane]

Stuff like that I rarely think about so idk

[glossy shore]

You can also pillar up like 10 blocks and make a box on top of the tower

spiders can’t climb around blocks, and skeletons will have a hard time shooting you

[glossy shore]

zombies don’t deserve to be ponies

they will just kill you, and that’s not very friendship is magic

[cerulean storm]

But that's the same as digging a hole around you except more work

[glossy shore]

To be fair, pillaring 30 blocks up is more work than a noob hole

[gilded geyser]

idk man I just play in peaceful mode for the first few hours

[cerulean storm]

I just play in peaceful mode forever

[glossy shore]

my first few hours in the game (I was on the demo version) were fine, until I got mauled by a baby zombie

[gilded geyser]

Once I get my nanosuit and laser mining drill, I'm pretty much set

[glossy shore]

I like to play on hard mode

Hard is actually not as hard as you think if you play it safe

My strategy for new players is to get somewhere high. Always have the high ground over your enemies. Build a base up there.

Build walls around your base as well if you really want to be safe

[cerulean storm]

The problem with hard is not that it's hard. If I want challenge there are plenty of games way more challenging than that

The problem is it's annoying

[glossy shore]

It isn’t hard at all

even hardcore isn’t hard

As long as you have a secure base, you’re fine

[cerulean storm]

That's what I said

[glossy shore]

If you want hard, be a nomadic player on hardcore, and roam the world without settling down for more than a night

[cerulean storm]

No that's not hard either

[glossy shore]

After a certain point yes

Now that I think about it, no scenario in vanilla Minecraft is that hard

if you want hard go play gregtech or RLCraft

[sleek bane]

I think I want to build a proper house

[glossy shore]

building tip, you can use stairs for the roof to make a nice sloped roof

and have space for an attic

[sleek bane]

I'll try to keep that in mind

[cerulean storm]

Gregtech is complex, not hard

[glossy shore]

gregtech is hard on the mind

[vocal eagle]

Minecraft isn't DooMII on nightmare. That's not the kind of game it's meant to be.

[sleek bane]

I might need a lot of wood

[shut bridge]

if you wanna build a wood house, yeah
you'll go through so much wood

[cerulean storm]

Yeah so I get one zzt event and lose it

[vocal eagle]

on the plus side, it's easy to scale up a tree farm

[glossy shore]

I had a 1.8.9 world a while back where I built a massive mansion on an island, and I must’ve cut down an entire forest’s worth of trees

I used like 600 oak logs

[sleek bane]

I want to build the golden oak library

This is probably a mistake

[shut bridge]

all the various planks and logs

[cerulean storm]

Better look up schematics for it because some episodes are inconsistent about the layout

[sleek bane]

Do you know of any?

[cerulean storm]

I vaguely recall one existing

[glossy shore]

You’ll be Golden Oaks III on PonyCraft

lmfao

[sleek bane]

Oh

[cerulean storm]

Probably multiple

[glossy shore]

By all means, build it!

I’m not here to tell you can’t cuz someone else has

[flat geode]

I'm working on a Frozen Oak for my town

[sleek bane]

Just feels weird to make the exact same thing as someone else

[glossy shore]

don’t worry about it

It’s Minecraft

nobody cares

[cerulean storm]

You can make it your own by not looking at people's builds and thinking about it yourself

[glossy shore]

there was this time I build an inaccurate but still hella cool version of Nightmare Moon’s castle, out of Blackstone and warped wood

shit was the best thing I ever built on a server, I’m so sad I lost that server’s world

[sleek bane]

Planks are ideal for this rigjt?

[glossy shore]

I even added torches I could toggle on and off by shooting fireballs at soul sand

[glossy shore]

Correct

You’ll get four blocks out of one

[sleek bane]

Ah ok that's good to know

[glossy shore]

If you want extra looks points, you can put logs on the four corners of your house

[sleek bane]

I was having concerns when I started to remember how many blocks a typical tree has

[glossy shore]

haha I get that

From a 4 tall tree you’ll get 16, a 5 tall is 20, and a 6 tall is 24

You’ll want maybe a stack of logs

[cerulean storm]

For aesthetic purposes, you want to mix and match full logs and planks and other types

Things look way better if you mix and match

(that's why creative mode is good)

[sleek bane]

What exactly is creative mode?

[cerulean storm]

You get access to every block and item type, enemies don't attack you, and you can fly

Basically "I just want to build, for god's sake"

[sleek bane]

Access in what way?

[cerulean storm]

There's a search bar you type in and click the item to add it to your inventory

[vocal eagle]

in creative, you have infinity of every block

[sleek bane]

Ahh ok

[vocal eagle]

like "I want to build with birch logs" ... you select birch logs from the block list and then you place as many as you want

[sleek bane]

I'm not even sure if I have Oak

[summer scaffold]

im going to strt a new Minecraft world

[mint cypress]

what are u gonna do in it

[cerulean storm]

Just grill

[summer scaffold]

idk probablt just a normal minecraft plathrough

"Master Chief mind telling me what you're doing in the side of a mountain"
"sir surviving the night"

[dusty thunder]

Regarding this, if you want to build a proper house/base, it might be better doing it much further away from the spawn area (which includes the town and barracks). Most of the caves there are explored and picked clean by other players, and it can get a little crowded.

I was looking on the server map (https://ponycraft.cloudycanvas.art/map/) and I did find a nice place that's close to both dart157 and me, but that isn't claimed, isn't mined out, and still has plenty of resources available. It's even got two small villages next to it. It also has a path to follow that'll lead you to both of our bases (south for me, north for Dart), so if you need something, you can easily follow it and visit. :)

It's located at these circled coordinates (in X, Y, Z format, all of which you can find in the top left corner of your screen by pressing F3 in-game; X stands for east and west, Z stands for north and south, and Y stands for height).

[sleek bane]

Oh thank you honey! I'll be sure to look there next time I play

[dusty thunder]

It might take a while to get there on foot, so I'll guide you down to my portal in the nether hub since it's closer, and then we can explore it together, just to see if it suits you. Who knows, you may even gain some inspiration for where to build your Golden Oaks. :)

[sleek bane]

[vocal eagle]

ooo that's a nice area to build

[dusty thunder]

Plus, it's a lot more scenic than the spawn town. Some small mountains, a coastline, better rivers, a swamp, and just to the west there's a lot of icebergs and snowy plains/taigas for a little variety.

[flat geode]

So happy my paths help a lot, I'll get around to finish lighting up the path soon.

[dusty thunder]

I have been meaning to ask, which way does the path go here, above the hill or through it? Because it's a little hard to tell on the map.

[shut bridge]

through it, looks like

snow village 👀

[dusty thunder]

Yup, snow villages are cool. Very Nordic-inspired.

Snow and taiga villages are my favorites in the game.

[shut bridge]

I might pack some stuff and head down south to go look at that snow village later ❄️ 🛖

[flat geode]

Through, it looks like that other stuff was just planning path I never removed

[cloud spear]

So I got MC for the playstation because I make life decisions, and uh… how did my Java broken luck transfer here?

How am I this blursed?

Literally Day 1

[glossy shore]

Make that a house

[cloud spear]

That’s the plan.

[glossy shore]

cave bases are awesome

[cloud spear]

I always make cave bases because my luck is always cave bases.

Btw this is like not even half a mile away from the spawn point.

[cloud spear]

🤨

[summer scaffold]

what are those books

[cloud spear]

Add-ons

[sleek bane]

Time to play

[cloud spear]

Got a portal add-on, more tnt, hikers, world utils, and the 15th anniversary.

[summer scaffold]

waow

[flat geode]

Oh right, those exist now

[cloud spear]

Sorry that I couldn’t cut it this time, for whatever reason the file kept glitching up.

Anyway, why are these noises more frequent?

[summer scaffold]

just spooky cave noises nothing to worry about

[cloud spear]

Who did I piss off? The Minecraft gods?

Scared the crap out of me.

Why is the game being so evil today?

[barren nacelle]

Bedrock bug

i think

idk lightning is weird

[flat geode]

In case you've missed it, the 15 Years of Minecraft Series is fully out now

Here's part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIAP8peEppI&t=0s

[sleek bane]

Is it worth watching?

[little rampart]

How long is it altogether?

[flat geode]

It's 4 parts

[sleek bane]

I can't decide how I want to approach building the golden oak library

[flat geode]

It's about 55 Mins

[shut bridge]

Part 1 - 14:24
Part 2 - 10:36
Part 3 - 13:28
Part 4 - 13:45

[sleek bane]

Not sure if I should watch something first on how to actually make buildings or just go for it

[little rampart]

My personal philosophy is to just go for it. Get some rudimentary structure up and then iterate iterate iterate

It's not like you can place anything permanently

Over time you get a feel for the sizes or spacing of things, but the best learn is to just do, and then adjust, and don't be afraid of "getting it wrong" the first time

[sleek bane]

That's a fundamental part of my brain I have a hard time turning off

[little rampart]

You won't be the first to have to redo a section and you definitely won't be the last

And blocks of any kind are essentially free! One benefit of playing on an established server is you can ask for a chest of a type of block and someone generally has a bunch of it they don't need

[sleek bane]

Good to know

I do need to find good screen shots of the library though

[little rampart]

One tip: make it slightly bigger than you think it should be, it allows more versatility in decorating

[sleek bane]

Good to know

I'll probably start building it tonight after DnD and dinner

[little rampart]

[sleek bane]

I need to stop feeling intimidated by it

[little rampart]

Yeah that's a tough hurdle, especially when there's other builds around that you can't help but compare to. But every project, no matter how small, teaches you a new lil trick you can use from then on, whether it be the particular placement of a fence post for an accent, or the arrangement of stairs and slabs to make a nice roof slope, to using a different stone or wood type, it all adds to your toolbox

And don't feel shy about borrowing design features from other builds as well

[shut bridge]

I want to build a house out in a snowy biome somewhere, but I'm not looking forward to the block gathering for it

[little rampart]

Also it's TOTALLY OKAY to bite off more than you can chew and leave a project unfinished. Sometimes it just doesn't work out for one reason or another

[sleek bane]

This is also outside my normal scope. I only play very few building games, and none really like MC. I also struggle with things like Legos, K'nex, anything like that

So that's why my brain keeps going "????? !! ??"

I don't have issues navigating 3D areas in video games, but when it comes to logically placing things somewhere, a part of my brain either doesn't fire or just shuts off

[glossy shore]

wherever your crosshair is (the little plus sign in the middle of your screen), it’ll place a block there

You’ll get used to it eventually

[shut bridge]

i think a spruce house in a snowy plains or something like that would be nice, the villages that generate there are made of spruce
build a whole survival base out there
no animals but rabbits and polar bears naturally spawn in snowy plains

[sleek bane]

Yeah, but I mean like, the big picture

How things fit together

[glossy shore]

Oh yeah

play around in a creative mode super flat world, and just practice placing blocks around eachother

There’s no shame in doing it

and if you keep the world, you can look back on your progress and see how far you’ve come

you can do it!

[dusty thunder]

Sometimes what I do if I'm struggling with a building is I set up a few reference pictures on my browser, and periodically check them to make sure I'm following them correctly. From there, I start with a foundation.

And yeah, if you're having trouble designing it in survival, you can always create a singleplayer superflat creative world and design it there. You'll have access to unlimited amounts of every block, and you'll be able to reiterate and edit whenever you feel like it. That way, when you're ready to build it on the server, you already have your own guide to follow. :)

You've got this, hun! 💛

[sleek bane]

I'll try my best.

I'm not sure why I've got so many mental hurdles for this. It's just a video game at the end of the day

[vocal eagle]

sometimes video games help you uncover something that causes you stress in other areas

like "why am I so anxious? this is just a game" and then you realize you have anxiety about how to organize collections of things because when you were a kid your big brother always messed up your collections or smth

[sleek bane]

Goodness knows it reminds me of all the failed art projects and anything involving my hands

I think it's because MC leans super heavily toward art, which is something I have zero aptitude for aside from writing

[dusty thunder]

If it makes you feel better, you can tell stories through building in Minecraft as well. In fact, that's what many of the greatest Minecraft builders do. They tell a story with their builds, not through words but with images and details and worldbuilding.

Walking through their builds makes the player ask themselves questions: what is all this for? Why is it this way? Who made it, and how? Where did they come from? Is there a purpose to it?

Digging deeper into the build might answer some of those questions. Maybe there's a book that was written like a journal from someone you don't know, saying the name of the city they're from and their plans once they leave it. Maybe there's a statue of some ancient hero that has been neglected and overgrown. Maybe there's a building that looks pristine on the outside but inside is filled with alien life and growth. Whether they tell individual stories or are all parts of one larger story is up to the builder and the player to decide.

[sleek bane]

Hmmm... I see

[dusty thunder]

In a way, it's another form of writing, using shapes, sounds, and colors to convey words.

[sleek bane]

Makes sense. Another idea I had is making locations from Magisight

But that's a bit much on the scale

First is the Golden Oak Library

[barren nacelle]

u can look up build techniques online

imo look at references and start there in creative

dont go for something too big/ambitious

[flat geode]

I made the MC gods angry, my screen froze

[barren nacelle]

its joever

[crisp adder]

There's no requirement for you to do art/architecture when building in Minecraft either - that's just one playstyle.

[sleek bane]

I do want to build the golden oak library though. I'm not great at coming up with my own

[mint cypress]

my suggestion could be that you perhaps could build other small things before you do golden oaks, just to get experience and get an understand how the basics of building works

[sleek bane]

Maybe. I'm not sure what

[mint cypress]

a small one story house with a roof
some trees since youre planning on making a treehouse, could help learn to make the tree parts
or a small statues of a pony you like
these dont have to be perfect looking, just build for the sake of making them and learn on the way

[sleek bane]

When you say statues, what do you mean?

[mint cypress]

like build a pony in minecraft, 3d and all, not something too big or complicated
(basically like if a pony was in minecraft. but they were larger bc detailing is harder with small builds)

[sleek bane]

Oh. That sounds just as complicated

[sleek bane]

Is there a way to like, bulk craft something? I'm trying to turn logs into planks and that repetitive motion is a bit hard on my wrist with my setup

[rigid fog]

in the crafting table menu, click on the green book, search for the thing you want to craft, and then shift click on it

[sleek bane]

Is that right? It says I'll only get 4

[rigid fog]

and then shift click on the wooden planks, it'll craft all of the logs

[sleek bane]

Ahh cool thanks

I think a creeper exploded around me but i'm not sure

[shut bridge]

4 planks per 1 log

[barren nacelle]

ya

lol

[sleek bane]

the 64 -> 4 was throwing me off

[barren nacelle]

anything in crafting only shows the results of 1 craft.

[sleek bane]

is there a way to fix the dead grass from removed blocked

[barren nacelle]

it regrows

[shut bridge]

give it time, grass will grow there

[barren nacelle]

or use silk touch

[shut bridge]

grass spreads over time

[sleek bane]

good to know

[shut bridge]

you could have an entire field of dirt, and all it takes is a single grass block to turn it all into grass

[shut bridge]

yeah the crafting grids only show the output of a single crafting action, not the entire input

[sleek bane]

Are windows a thing?

[shut bridge]

you can make glass
glass blocks or glass panes
smelt sand

[barren nacelle]

glass blocks are more old school

glass panes are more newer

[shut bridge]

i can't type glass without hearing GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS in my head
no mans sky brainworms

[sleek bane]

oh coal burns out overtime?

good thing i mined out a lot

[barren nacelle]

u can make charcoal by burning wood

fine early game

[shut bridge]

1 piece of coal lasts for 80 seconds, which will smelt up to 8 items

coal lasts over 5 times longer than wood burned as fuel

[sleek bane]

purple weindows

is there a point to stripping logs? i keep doing it by accident

[shut bridge]

other than removing the bark for a different visual effect, no

[shut bridge]

glass + dye makes stained glass
red dye + blue dye to make purple dye

[sleek bane]

I think I'm missing something with glass panes

well it is a good a start as any, but i think it's time to wind down

[sleek bane]

I need to make it a bit wider + glass panels are confusing but now is zzzzz

[sleek bane]

How come the texture on the block above the door is rotated 90 degrees?

[summer scaffold]

so with logs it depends how you place them

so if you look down with the log it'll be standing and if you place it sideways like that it'll be rotated

iirc logs and columns are the only blocks that do this

[sleek bane]

hmmmm

Ah I see now, thanks

[flat geode]

Deepslate also does it as well I think

[sleek bane]

glass blocks make way more sense than panes

[cerulean storm]

They make sense in different situations

[sleek bane]

Yeah, I feel like that's the case

But right now the glass blocks accomplish what I want, and they don't look too bad

Say, does mining a block guarantee it to drop an item?

[cerulean storm]

Only if you have the correct tool

[sleek bane]

I just broke a cobblestone block I placed earlier by accident and it didn'- ah that's why

I was lazy and using my hands

[cerulean storm]

Mining with the wrong tool will be slow

It's slow to discourage you, and you won't get a reward

[sleek bane]

I need to remember that then, I've wasted a lot of wood =/

[cerulean storm]

I think wood doesn't require a tool

[summer scaffold]

it doesn't

but an axe mines it fater

faster

[cerulean storm]

I recommend having a lot of half slabs, staircases trapdoors, (do quarter slabs exist in unmodded Minecraft?) for the purpose of varying up your shapes

It works great!

[summer scaffold]

quarter slabs don't no

[sleek bane]

How do those work?

[summer scaffold]

half slabs are just half a block

you can put them upside down and stuff

same with stairs

[cerulean storm]

Like with logs you need to point right to place them in various orientations

[summer scaffold]

yeag

[cerulean storm]

So you can make a little awning with upside down staircases

[sleek bane]

I'm still getting used to that, I found it by accident

[cerulean storm]

Or have a flowerbed

[sleek bane]

hmmm...

do you need a crafting table to make them?

[cerulean storm]

I think so

[summer scaffold]

ye

slab is crafter by putting 3 of the same block in a row i think

[cerulean storm]

Instead of a glass window you can place four staircases in a hole to make a circle window

[summer scaffold]

stairs is made by putting the same block in a little staircase

on the grid i mean

or was 3 across trapdoor

i cant member

[uneven harness]

no you were right

[summer scaffold]

hooray

[uneven harness]

I don't remember how to craft a trapdoor though

[sleek bane]

what do I use to make them? logs, planks, or blocks? i keep mixing those kinds up

[uneven harness]

planks for slabs

[summer scaffold]

same with stairs

[sleek bane]

Thanks <3

[uneven harness]

form most things involving wood planks or sticks are what's needed, logs can usually be ignored

[sleek bane]

this wacky ass physics defying canyon i found in my backyard

[cerulean storm]

Might be someone deleted some of the blocks because they rarely float

[sleek bane]

no i don't think this area has been explored yet

still funni

[grave ravine]

according to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a grass block should be able to fly

[crisp adder]

but magic

[shut bridge]

what's hilarious is when you find a bunch of gravel or sand that generated floating like that
because it world genned like that, it doesn't know that gravity is a thing
as soon as you block update it, aka what's known as a BUD, it will realize "oh yeah, gravity exists" and all of the sand/gravel will start falling

[summer scaffold]

"oh yeah gravity exists" killed me

[crisp adder]

And then there's the magic of update suppression (which doesn't work on paper )

[dusty thunder]

Nah, terrain gen still makes floating blocks all the time. The reasoning for this is that the world is generated first before the caves are, and this is one of those thin "sloping caves" that leads down (I checked it out and it's not a ravine, ravines are wider and shaped differently).

And when caves are generated, it deletes some of the world to make them happen.

[cerulean storm]

Shouldn't it do a consistency pass after?

[dusty thunder]

The same happens with water and lava pools. It clears out an area above them with air "blocks".

[dusty thunder]

I think it might, but sometimes floating blocks happen anyway. I had a few near my mountain base on the PonyCraft server before I cleared them out.

Despite all the tweaks and improvements Mojang has made, world generation is never gonna be 100% perfect.

There's always gonna be little bits of weirdness.

[shut bridge]

like the nether portal i found in a river

[dusty thunder]

I still find shipwrecks twenty blocks above sea level atop icebergs. The captain must've been drunk af that day.

[shut bridge]

@little rampart https://www.modrinth.com/mod/presence-footsteps

[shut bridge]

floating gravel

[barren nacelle]

this is actually part of MCPE redstone

back in the day

we'd exploit that with sand/gravel

ud place a block and it triggered it to fall

[shut bridge]

ah heck
a pillager patrol attacked me
had to murder them
hello 100 minutes of Bad Omen

[dusty thunder]

Milk bucket.

[minor moss]

I always keep a lava bucket on me

[rigid fog]

oh my god the flashbacks

i completely forgot about that

[shut bridge]

I found striders while tunneling through the nether
They're dragons!

[glossy shore]

awwww

[shut bridge]

well that was nerve wracking
i just made a very sketchy tunnel/bridge through the nether from a portal over in the snow region back to the central nether tunnels

where i broke into the tunnel is almost 200 blocks beyond GT's tunnel

[summer scaffold]

go to my house

[shut bridge]

i don't know where your house is

if i go there, i'm going to leave bees there

[little rampart]

[summer scaffold]

i dont even know where my house is idk the last time i played

it's in a mountain somewhere

but not one of the fancy mountains

[shut bridge]

ah made it back to my room to fix things up and resupply
almost out of rockets
need more for further exploration and mapping
but that's for later
enough cubes for tonight

[flat geode]

I had it say no views on the homepage, but I clicked it before I caught a screenshot

[sleek bane]

I might explore this cave after lunch

There's lava inside. How can I be safe around it

[little rampart]

Crouch-walk when near or above, keep a stack of dirt and a bucket of water on your hotbar, and if you fall in, don't panic you can do a lot before you die, just focus on getting out

[fleet marlin]

Less than 10 trillion views in 1 minute, Minecraft really fell off smh my head

[summer scaffold]

smh

[mint cypress]

water bucket, to remove lava and put the fire out if you catch on fire
all the while keep eating food to keep your healing going, if your hunger bar is too low, you wont be able to regenerate HP
to add on crouch-walking, the game doesnt let you fall off ledges while youre sneaking, so its a good thing to do when traversing thru stuff like that

[sleek bane]

aaaaaaaa I fell and ropped all my stuff

And I lost everything

[summer scaffold]

nooooo

[sleek bane]

All of my tools, armor, a ton of wood, and I can't even remember all of it

[dusty thunder]

I managed to save some of it, and replaced whatever was lost.

[sleek bane]

Hmm... Not sure what I want to do

[dusty thunder]

Well, there's mining, or you can explore the area around your house to see if you can find anything interesting, or you can start shaping the walls of the Golden Oaks as best as you can.

[sleek bane]

weird thing across from my base

[flat geode]

It's a ruined portal

The chest might have some loot

[sleek bane]

Oohh is it just like a world thing?

[flat geode]

Yeah, a pre-generated structure

[sleek bane]

I'm trying to save a stuck sheep

[sleek bane]

i gave up with the sheep because water was in the way

[cerulean storm]

Make a boat

[dusty thunder]

Likely not, the slab isn't supposed to float since it's part of the structure, and all the obsidian from the portal is gone. I think it's been looted already. :/

[sleek bane]

there were a few gold nuggets,a g old shovel, and a gold sword

and some flint

so it had a few things in it

[cerulean storm]

Nice. Looks like someone looted it but didn't care to take everything

[sleek bane]

Thanks to gyros help I've made 1/4 of the wall for the first floor of the library

[barren nacelle]

we are starting up a Better than Adventure Minecraft server (i think)
once we set it up ill share more detailss
just a casual chill build smp idk

[flat geode]

Oh cool!

[barren nacelle]

if interested let me know!

[barren nacelle]

bta generation using beta 1.7.3 gen

pretty cool

they have an option for alpha terrain

pretty cool

[sleek bane]

Is there a way to have MC play sounds even when tabbed out? I ended up dying last night because I got distracted (got all my things back though it was at my house) and was tabbed out

[glossy shore]

Just make your game not full screen

and then minimize out of it

[sleek bane]

Is there a borderless windowed mode

[shut bridge]

Nope

It annoys me too

[glossy shore]

there’s plenty of mods but don’t download them

because one of them got hacked and I forgot which one

[dusty thunder]

The one I use didn't get hacked and still works.

[little rampart]

I just play with a maximized window for that reason

I don't notice it's a window most of the time

[dusty thunder]

I'd do that too if it didn't slow my game to a crawl for some reason.

[sleek bane]

I'm probably going to work on the library once I get home

Are there book items that can be used for decoration?

[dusty thunder]

Absolutely! There's lecterns, bookshelves, chisled bookshelves, and, for the extra magical goodness, enchanting tables.

[little rampart]

And don't forget books and quills with item frames

And the crazy horseshit you can do with the armor statues pack

[dusty thunder]

Is the enchanting table gif dead for anyone else?

[little rampart]

Yes

[sleek bane]

Ooooh these are perfect

Thank you!

[little rampart]

Need lots of leather and paper

[dusty thunder]

Damn, Discord does not like enchanting tables

[little rampart]

Paper is easy to get, leather requires killing a lot of animals

[dusty thunder]

Enchanting table. Normally the book spins and opens on its own when you're next to it:

[sleek bane]

[dusty thunder]

But yeah, to make all these things, you need lots and lots of books, which means lots and lots of paper and leather. Luckily, I have plenty of both.

[sleek bane]

[little rampart]

Have you shown him flowerpots yet

[dusty thunder]

Not yet, but I will. :)

I figured that the main structure should be built first before we get into interior and exterior decorating.

[little rampart]

He'll go nuts for lanterns too

[dusty thunder]

Yup, and candles. :P

[little rampart]

Better get iron and bees and spiders

[dusty thunder]

Again, I've got lots.

[shut bridge]

i've been leaving bees in random places

[dusty thunder]

Also, the cool thing about chiseled bookshelves is that they can actually hold real book items that you can insert into six slots. And you can choose which slot to put them inside.

[shut bridge]

the vanilla tweaks resource pack can make them 3d too

[dusty thunder]

I actually don't really like the 3D stuff so much. It feels...off.

[little rampart]

My bees stopped flying away once i added more flowers nearby

[dusty thunder]

You could also make a "greenhouse" for them to live in.

[barren nacelle]

don't starve logic

[little rampart]

I forgot about a greenhouse

[shut bridge]

i've got the full 3d section from vanilla tweaks enabled
it's subtle and a nice effect

[little rampart]

I just have 3 hives suspended from poles over fires

Hm, i might try those out

[dusty thunder]

Okay, let me amend, there's one 3D effect that I like, and it's the 3D fungi.

[flat geode]

They reverted the enchant changes!

[glossy shore]

3D sun and moon looks uncanny

I’m thinking about retexturing the moon to have the Mare in the Moon in it

[sweet trench]

I made one myself at some point. I'm pretty happy with how it looks but it looks upside down for the second half of the night because of how the texture's used

[shut bridge]

I need a mod that replaces Phantoms with NMM
Get besmoten by Her Highness for not sleeping

[sweet trench]

Here's a screenshot where you can see it a bit better. The texture randomly gets flipped because minecraft

[grave ravine]

Minecraft used to have round sun/moon textures in Beta 1.9, you could also use those directly

in fact, Vanilla Tweaks might have a pack for it already

this only lasted 1 month or so, so I think most players never stumbled upon it... I personally liked it, but the square sun/moon are just too iconic

[flat geode]

Not 1.0?

[glossy shore]

They do

[sleek bane]

getting there

[little rampart]

Donkeys!

Looks like a great start!

[sleek bane]

Gyro helped a lot

I followed a guide to make the outer wall because otherwise it would have just been a square/completely ugly

[sleek bane]

But thanks for the kind words

[sweet trench]

I do like the square textures normally, but I think the mare in the moon looks better with a round moon

[sleek bane]

I'm not sure what I want to do next

[barren nacelle]

build, mine and craft

[sleek bane]

Part of me wants to explore some because of the progress I made yesterday on the library

But I'm not confident in exploring yet

[flat geode]

Maybe just explore a bit near Golden Oak, not a full-on exploration?

[sleek bane]

Maybe. The cave I found earlier killed me

And I dunno if I wanna go back

[flat geode]

You don't have to, I meant more of above ground exploring

[sleek bane]

Maybe. I don't like to venture too far from my base just yet

[vocal eagle]

learning how to explore overland and coming up with a "marker system" to help you get home can be a good activity

[sleek bane]

Having a mini map mod helps

Kinda surprised it doesn't normally have one

[barren nacelle]

no real need on its own

[vocal eagle]

I always carry some throwaway block (like cobblestone or cobbled deepslate) and torches, and if I get far enough away that it might be difficult to find my way home, I put up a few blocks somewhere that's really visible (like a hilltop) with a torch on top and another torch pointing the way back (like, a torch on the east means home is east; both north and east means home is northeast)

[barren nacelle]

theres ingame maps and coords

[flat geode]

I feel like client-side mods are kinda like glamping in a sense. tho I'm still going to use them

[dusty thunder]

Remember, you also have the world map mod, so you can press the M key to open it (and close it). You can make markers on the map by right clicking on any spot.

[barren nacelle]

i usually used minimap mods for stuff like...

pixelmon

or cobblemon now

[sleek bane]

Glamping?

[flat geode]

What Rarity does

[vocal eagle]

"glamping" is like camping but high-end, like Rarity or Pipp would do. Not a normal tent, but a fancy tent with a coffee maker.

[sleek bane]

???

[vocal eagle]

in the analogy, some mods make the outdoorsy-explory-navigation-challenge part of Minecraft a lot easier, like you're luxury camping and have a fancy GPS to get home

[sleek bane]

I see

I just prefer sensible gameplay

[barren nacelle]

u can kind of skip nights using beds so its not a big deal

nightmares havent been a thing for a decade

[dusty thunder]

As for the cave, I secured it, there's no more lava at the entrance and there's a pool of water that you can safely jump into to get down to the bottom.

Caving is part of the game. Sometimes you're gonna die, but other times you're gonna get a lot of valuable materials that you will need. It can be a bit scary, but if you'd like, I can go with you on a caving adventure to show you how it can go. :)

[barren nacelle]

ive travelled like 20k blocks in a straight line on foot

im a masochist

i usually do mix strip mining and caving.
i strip mine at a level where caves still generate and explore those if i encounter them

got me a lot of diamonds, works

[dusty thunder]

Ooooh, I get it now. Glamping = "glamorous camping", what Rarity does with the fancy tents and all the luggage and dresses.

[flat geode]

Hmmm... my paths are so simple. I bet I could build them on the BTA server

[barren nacelle]

what paths

lemme see

ive been thinking of a design

[vocal eagle]

yes, glam-camping.

[sleek bane]

That might be fun sometime

[flat geode]

I'll look for a closer shot

[barren nacelle]

that is not a path

[sleek bane]

Especially since I don't know how to safely or properly explore really

[sleek bane]

What's thir?

[vocal eagle]

my world maps almost always end up pretty square by the end, because I make in-game maps and a map table (usually map on horseback)

[barren nacelle]

it was just winter so

i have some snow

[dusty thunder]

I'll teach you, don't worry. <3

Just remember, always have a water bucket.

[flat geode]

Look closer, it's just very small. cause of the scale

[barren nacelle]

first snow and winter!!!!

on the server

[vocal eagle]

it's easy for me to forget how much knowledge there is in terms of safe minecraft exploration, until I'm playing with someone inexperienced

[flat geode]

I don't think I have a screenshot of just the path

Let me load onto the server to grab one

[barren nacelle]

okk!

[sleek bane]

I died twice in the same cave and ended up losing a ton of my stuff

[barren nacelle]

my house was burried in snow

🙄

[flat geode]

What's snow?

[dusty thunder]

That is a mod that allows you to see unloaded chunks even from far away (chunks are the rendered parts of the world, and once they're out of render distance they're unloaded). The mod allows you to still see what's over there even if it's not physically rendered anymore.

[barren nacelle]

it was winter

first winter of the server

[sleek bane]

Gyro gave me a bunch of replacement items though

[barren nacelle]

think its like summer now idk

[sleek bane]

Aha

[dusty thunder]

(Gyro = me, just for context.)

[barren nacelle]

in winter it snows, its darker and more mob spawns

crops dont grow in winter

and fresh water freezes

[flat geode]

Nvidium

[dusty thunder]

Ah, that one. Haven't tried it.

I tried Distant Horizons once but it kept crashing

[barren nacelle]

BTA locking coordinates until u get a compass

havent found any redstone

[crisp adder]

Nvidium has a lot of performance benefits beyond just keeping chunks loaded, but only if you have an Nvidia gpu with mesh shader support.

Sadly Nvidium is not shader compatible (it disables itself when u use shaders).
Distant Horizons is shader compatible now though

[dusty thunder]

Ah, that's why I haven't tried it.

I remember now.