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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 Hesinde »

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…

Minecraft provides surprisingly many opportunities for automation. Most of them are pretty unintuitive though. A good source on how things can be automated are technical Minecraft Youtubers like ilmango.

TNT is used in farm designs, which generate blocks needing breaking, e.g. wood farms, cobble stone farms, dirt farms. There are two ways to get a lot of TNT for this: a) duping b) building a farm yielding gun powder (generic mob farm, creeper farm, witch farm) and duping or gathering sand

Hopper minecarts can collect items from below a magma block, which allows for easy killing zones in mob farms. Normal minecarts are sometimes used as gondolas for slime block bouncing lifts as the position of a player in a minecart is more accurate on servers. Minecarts can also be used to kill creatures via entity cramming. If there are more than 24 entitities within a block, creatures receive damage until the entity count drops. Once you have an iron farm, the minecarts and tracks become cheap.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by 8note »

tialaramex wrote: post #26
worldsayshi wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I never understood about the game was how TNT and minecarts are supposed to work I haven't played for a long time but yeah it doesn't really make sense given that you have such a large inventory. If they added some extra difficulty level where the inventory is miniscule it might make more sense. Maybe they need to make mining slower and more rewarding per ore block as well. Has to be a mod for this?

There are mods that make the game much harder, including by cutting your inventory and limits on weight, but in my experience people are drawn to increasing the horizon rather than restricting how far you can reach. So e.g. rather than forcing you to move more slowly (e.g. realistic walking pace, limited sprint, burden by weight) let's add moon rockets so you can go further. In fact, why stop at the moon (albeit that…

With skulk sensors doing sound based communications from a distance(next Minecraft release), you should be able to see that communication latency

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by 8note »

conradev wrote: post #16
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

Things that explode in water don't do environment damage iirc

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by treeman79 »

My daughters love to play Minecraft with me.

My youngest one collects Pets. To the point I had to ban them from the house as 7 wolfs and a dozen cats in the room is a bit much. She has many stables around the house for them.

I have hitting turned off to reduce drama. So same one will leash a bunch of wolves and walk in front of older sister. Causing an accidental hit and wolves then proceed to eat the sister.

The older one loves diamonds. She follows along my mining and rushes to grab them ahead everyone else. We are working on sharing.

She also loves to produce fancy houses, better then I can do.

It’s quite heart warming when I log And a new chest is there with a sign “for Dad” and it will have whatever oddball crafted items they want to leave for me; Last was a telescope.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by eric__cartman »

weeeeelp wrote: post #14
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.

or blast villages out of the map when playing in creative mode :)

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by dannytatom »

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…

you can make a creeper farm to automate gunpowder, that part is easy. the hard part is that sand isn't renewable. a lot of tech servers (scicraft being the biggest) just use tnt duping to do it until mojang makes sand renewable. i think that's the only "cheating" they do and it's kinda understandable cause otherwise it's impossible to get a lot of tnt.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by Sharlin »

eloeffler wrote: post #7

Strike the Earth!

Like almost everything else, Dwarf Fortress's geology is in a class of its own. There are about two dozen stone types that form layers, divided quasi-realistically into sedimentary, igneous intrusive, igneous extrusive, and metamorphic [1]. Then there are forty other types of stone that occur as veins and pockets [2]… and then there are about twenty types of metal ore and 130 different types of gem!

[1] http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Stone#Stones_f...

[2] http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Stone#Other_St...

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by nitwit005 »

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…

You can find a ton of minecart tracks in old mines if you look around for them.

TNT is probably intentionally a bit difficult to get as it's a performance problem. The work the game has to do to simulate the explosion grows exponentially as long as there is more TNT to consume.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by zimpenfish »

dannytatom wrote: post #36
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…

you can make a creeper farm to automate gunpowder, that part is easy. the hard part is that sand isn't renewable. a lot of tech servers (scicraft being the biggest) just use tnt duping to do it until mojang makes sand renewable. i think that's the only "cheating" they do and it's kinda understandable cause otherwise it's impossible to get a lot of tnt.

> the hard part is that sand isn't renewable

If you've opened The End, there's a way to use the End Portal to duplicate sand. In one of my worlds, I have that feeding into a 32 furnace super smelter with a tree farm nearby for fuel (although I could build a carpet duper for that, actually.)

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

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by trutannus »

bovermyer wrote: post #12
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.

You can make overly expensive unguided bombs by using TNT minecarts. They can be very effective for saturation bombing of areas. You can effectively eliminate the risk of Pillager outposts with a few of those configured around it. When they respawn you can trigger the system and have an on-demand air-raid. There's not much the mobs can do against an aerial bombardment.

You can also create land-mines with pressure plates.

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