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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 kunagi7 »

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I thought you could use Obsidian to construct an explosion-proof farm, but my information might be out of date

For most cases that's true. Still, Wither explosions and the Ender Dragon can destroy obsidian. That's why most people kill the Wither using the Bedrock located on the Nether roof.

Still, no material is free from destruction using glitches and some technical users remove entire chunks of obsidian/bedrock to make their farms more efficient.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by willis936 »

bombcar wrote: post #13

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 ...

GT:NH does hit a lot of good points, but overshoots by quite a bit. My best experience in minecraft was from making my own GT5U kitchen sink pack with GT-based modified recipes.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by nightpool »

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…

Along with the technical uses that Hesinde outlines below, minecarts see a lot of use on casual multiplayer servers because they provide a method of AFK-able transportation. Powered minecart rails in the Nether can travel about 325k (Overworld) blocks per hour, so if you want to visit some far-flung territory you can set your character in a minecart, go get a snack, and come back 10 or 20 minutes later. This is slower than many other transportation methods (for example, boats on ice can travel 144k blocks per hour, or 1.1M Overworld blocks if traveling in the Nether), but requires much less active user involvement.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by scollet »

bovermyer wrote: post #9
marpayne wrote: post #2

It's probably amazing to incorporate what we can do in Minecraft and convert it into a real-world object. Given that we will only use it for good purposes. It will drastically transform our world and imagine the countless possibility of the creative minds can do.

Since you've got a pretty new account, here's a tip: Hacker News is not Reddit. This community takes a very dim view of sarcastic dismissiveness. You're welcome to dislike anything you want, but generally speaking, let those of us that are more playful enjoy our whimsy. Or, to borrow a phrase that's long out of favor - don't harsh the mellow, man.

I am surprised you got any information out of gp. I have no idea what that comment is supposed to be saying.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by outworlder »

lordnacho wrote: post #11
bonzini wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can decomission the track when it is no longer useful and build it somewhere else. As you find more iron, the distance you can go increases.

There are some mods with excavators that can also lay tracks. Those were great fun.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by anthony_r »

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…

Step 1: install Baritone

Step 2: type "#mine iron_ore"

https://github.com/cabaletta/baritone

https://youtu.be/CZkLXWo4Fg4?t=80

I always wonder why so few people know about Baritone. It can do so much: move the player, clear areas, mine ores and other blocks, construct simple surfaces such as roads or even paste complicated Schematicas layer by layer. Perhaps it takes away too much of the fun.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by xmprt »

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…

If you want to take the game to the next level there are many different mods that you can add that would add another layer of complexity to the game with new challenges and problems to solve. It could be great if you feel like the vanilla game is getting a little stale or too straightforward.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by Akronymus »

willis936 wrote: post #52
bombcar wrote: post #13

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 ...

GT:NH does hit a lot of good points, but overshoots by quite a bit. My best experience in minecraft was from making my own GT5U kitchen sink pack with GT-based modified recipes.

I think gregblock could be to your liking. Altough it is greg lite. Same with omnifactory, sadly.

Still quite enjoyable packs.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by cout »

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.

When I used to play I found it more convenient to travel long distances using nether portals.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by zanderwohl »

worldsayshi wrote: post #10
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 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?

I've played on custom taller maps and they become more useful when exploring expansive cave systems. You walked all the way down for the resources but have too much to carry. So minecarts become useful for the very tall stairs you have to climb up and down a lot.

I think they'll become way more useful with the 64 more blocks' height underground.

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