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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 Miner49er »

Darmody wrote: post #47
jandrese wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once you have a good Creeper farm you suddenly have the problem of there not being any kind of sand farm in the base game AFAIK. You can dig up a desert to get a big supply, but even that will get consumed by a constantly running TNT factory.

But there are enough deserts. With a couple efficiency 5 shovels you can fill a full inventory of shulkers in less than 10 min.

Or use TNT. Running around with TNT and a flint and steel, in a desert, is a very quick way of getting sound.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by tkahnoski »

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 joked with my wife that I was being a parent in Minecraft. Which is sort of true... I kept building shelters, providing food, and other supplies.

Now I try to strike a balance in being helpful as I'd expect a friend to be and letting him do some of the work. Regardless it still did wonders for getting our normally quiet kid to talk. Granted the signal to noise is about 15 minutes of Minecraft talk and 5 minutes of actual what happened in the day.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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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…

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Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by charcircuit »

anthony_r wrote: post #56
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.

Step 1: /give @p iron_ore 64

If you are going to cheat, you might as well be efficient

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by ilaksh »

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 ...

copper wow.. what can you do with it? make wires?

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by ilaksh »

treeman79 wrote: post #34

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 old…

To me hitting should maybe be on for kids because its a way for them to learn.

Although after being hit a few times by my nephew when he was younger, I understand turning it off. I have not had kids, but I get the impression that most kids are just prone to certain tendencies at a young age. Like, they are kids. Maybe there are a rare few that act less like kids, but I think there may be limitations on training especially for the young ones.

But anyway I was happy to find the last time that I was in with my nephew, I had no fear of being accidentally attacked with a sword.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by detaro »

ilaksh wrote: post #65
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 ...

copper wow.. what can you do with it? make wires?

a spyglas (=lets you zoom in) and lightning rods (catch lightning that would have struck in a radius around it otherwise). And the blocks look nice, and slowly oxidize and turn to green copper (which you can stop at any stage by waxing the block with bees wax)

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by ilaksh »

scollet wrote: post #54
bovermyer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I am not sure either but I have a feeling English is not their first language.

Regardless, most interesting comment in the thread in my opinion.

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by ilaksh »

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.

Not sure what you mean and honestly in English that doesn't come across as fully coherent. But it is a really fascinating idea.[

How would we manifest Minecraft things? You mean like a Microsoft Hololens demo or something?

Re: The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft

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Post by Nition »

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 might be looking for a kind of deliberate planned game design that just isn't really there in Minecraft.

The world is destructible so why not have a block to blow it up? TNT takes gunpowder to create because why wouldn't it? Gunpowder comes from creepers because they're around and they explode.

Minecarts are for riding in, but the first thing Notch demonstrated for them was a rollercoaster. Horses weren't added until some time later. You can still craft a Minecart With Furnace even though powered rails made them obsolete.

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