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The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by lordnacho »

bonzini wrote: post #8
lordnacho wrote: post #6

For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…

Minecarts really are useful only to transport creatures around, and to distribute stuff from and to furnaces.

Right but you can find these abandoned mines with nicely laid out track along the whole length. The game sort of suggests that you should do that too?

But basically if you don't find enough iron in a given length of cave, you can't have tracks all the way.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by bovermyer »

lordnacho wrote: post #6

For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…

Minecarts get to be more useful when you want to travel long distances without having to touch the controls.

TNT... personally, I've never found a use for it.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by bombcar »

Vanilla Minecraft has a decent smattering of ores (they just added copper) - but if you want the rabbit hole you head into something like GregTech: New Horizons and the massive ore dictionary it has.

However, it's not entirely realistic as the only way to get titanium is from the Moon ...

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by weeeeelp »

lordnacho wrote: post #6

For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…

>One thing I never understood about the game was how TNT and minecarts are supposed to work, economically

They're not, really. Both function as a "fun" kind of item, TNT gets more useful in player-vs-player as an item to destroy other's bases, if you're into that sorta thing.

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Post by bombcar »

lordnacho wrote: post #6

For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…

Minecarts are usable as part of red stone computers and other automation, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3RLNCpS6YY

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Post by conradev »

lordnacho wrote: post #6

For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…

I thought you could use Obsidian to construct an explosion-proof farm, but my information might be out of date

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by handrous »

lordnacho wrote: post #6

For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…

They rebalanced tracks at some point, and you get IIRC 3 or 4 each time you build some now, instead of (again, IIRC) just one like you used to. Back then, tracks were really expensive. Now, between the resource cost change and salvaging them from abandoned mines, they're a cheapish way to connect places that are too close to bother with gates (or put them in the Nether between very distant gates for super fast transportation).

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Post by gmemstr »

lordnacho wrote: post #6

For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…

At some point you start to learn how mobs (creepers, zombies etc) spawn and their various behaviors, which you can exploit to set up farms to automatically harvest their loot. Some farms are incredibly simple, and others very complex, but the end result is roughly the same. Some can be adapted to also let you farm experience for enchanting. Admittedly it can break progression a bit when you have enough of them but generally one or two well optimized setups can produce a fair amount of resources.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by Hayarotle »

I like how unfocused article feels. With the videos, comments and interesting facts, it manages to replicate the experience of reading an article at the same time you're randomly browsing the internet and talking about it with your friends in a group chat. I wonder if it's deliberate?

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by anon_cow1111 »

lordnacho wrote: post #6

For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son. "Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them." Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it. This made my evenings a bit less m…

I think the ideal way to use TNT is place it in the center of a 3x3x3 block room, suspended on dirt or something with low blast resist. It'll expand the room to roughly 5x5x5. You can do this again to expand to 7x7x7 So basically you're getting ~250 blocks removed per 2 TNT. A mob spawner/farm can produce 100 or more gunpowder in 10 minutes. Rails are more easily found in mine shafts than crafted. Dump water instead of pickaxing them.

This is from personal experience, I'm not sure what the ideal strategies are in newer versions of the game.

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