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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-28 07:33:25
September 28 2011 07:14 GMT
#1
Seriously: I spent too much time playing Minecraft.

I swear I will be less active from now on that school starts tomorrow. But I do feel like showing off some of my creations since I got the game a couple of weeks ago.

This game has seriously cultivated my OCD. I am extremely tempted to build some of the even neater stuff seen on Youtube, but I am playing on a SMP server and If I play more my academics will certainly be doomed.

Note 1: I suck at using bukkit residence. Please don't flame me.
Note 2: While I do watch tutorials on Youtube, people often go way too fast for me to memorize the details. Usually I will just try to get the key point from videos then try to mix with my own ideas. As a result things often turn out horrible and I had to re-do some of them.

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Entrance

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Mini Cacti Farm

Yes, you can grab items across glass panels. I found out about this by accident. Due to the size of this thing, it works very slowly. Hence patience is virtue.

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Mob Grinder. If you look very hard there is a string on the ground near my cursor.

This grinder is feeding off a 5-level, 16 m^2 per level mob tower. Some tutorials tell me to put a cactus on the 2m channel to filter out the spiders; this did not work well for me at all (mostly because the base of the cactus would block the water flow). After that I decided to change the cactus to a block of lava, and all of a sudden things work out better. To be honest, the one-block lava is probably redundant anyways, but I am too lazy to take it off at the moment.

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Get the items here!

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What is this, I wonder...

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Must... resist... temptation... to do... something stupid...

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View from the back before flipping the lever.

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View from the back after flipping the lever.

No, you probably won't be killed. It was designed to scare people, but hopefully not to kill them. First of all, the spot where the lever is at is a safe spot; lava cannot flow there. There are sticky pistons which lowers the floor of this short hallway by one block except the spot where the lever is. Therefore, as long as you stand at where the lever is, lava can't harm you. Also, lava flow fairly slowly so there is plenty of time to react. Furthermore, when the lever is flipped a second time, the lava on the hallway floor instantly disappear due to the pistons.


My Automatic Farm: I designed this one myself. I am fairly sure I am not the first one to make something like this, but the ones I often see can only plant one row of wheat, which is a bit inefficient imo. Here's mine:

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If you throw an item on that wooden pressure plate (or, even simpler, is to simply step on it):

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Then I will jump in and grab everything. Replant and repeat.

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*****
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
Jenia6109
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Russian Federation1612 Posts
September 28 2011 08:30 GMT
#2
Wow! Is it based on Pixel Shader 4.0?
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MisterD
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Germany1338 Posts
September 28 2011 08:50 GMT
#3
mob grinders with lava suck, they burn the dropped items! building a "head-over F" pure drowner, that just eats everything (skelletons, creepers, zombies, spiders, slimes) is way better for your drop rates.

there seems to be no good description on how to build these though.. maybe write a little howto after my two upcoming exams ;P
Gold isn't everything in life... you need wood, too!
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
September 28 2011 09:07 GMT
#4
Cool farm o_O

wah now I want to play again...
:)
RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
September 28 2011 09:20 GMT
#5
Makes me want to play the Sims 1, I miss the sims 1
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
Firesilver
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom1190 Posts
September 28 2011 10:47 GMT
#6
Lol, Really liking the switch/farm, they're awesome man.
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rabidch
Profile Joined January 2010
United States20289 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-28 11:37:54
September 28 2011 11:37 GMT
#7
On September 28 2011 17:50 MisterD wrote:
mob grinders with lava suck, they burn the dropped items! building a "head-over F" pure drowner, that just eats everything (skelletons, creepers, zombies, spiders, slimes) is way better for your drop rates.

there seems to be no good description on how to build these though.. maybe write a little howto after my two upcoming exams ;P

the bottom (killing) mechanism isnt THAT hard to make

theres also the falling grinders but they take a lot more space
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]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
September 28 2011 12:33 GMT
#8
whoa wait, how does the auto-harvesting work?
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KuroN3ko
Profile Joined August 2010
Malaysia154 Posts
September 28 2011 12:41 GMT
#9
He floods the field with water, I assume its either pistons moving the gravel away... or something destroying the gravel
Some convictions are so strong the world must break to accomodate them
Roe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada6002 Posts
September 28 2011 13:14 GMT
#10
is this game like harvest moon or something?
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32096 Posts
September 28 2011 13:28 GMT
#11
On September 28 2011 22:14 Roe wrote:
is this game like harvest moon or something?


it's like that i guess bc there's farming elements, plus legos (you dig and build shit primarily) and a bit of zelda (all of the major recent updates are to add adventure and rpg elements while keeping it open ended)

your server allows mob grinders and cacti farms still?? Those things bog down servers soooo bad

I love leaving little random traps like that all over, and creating dungeons. I'm kind of sitting out on my server since 1.9 is quite close.
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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
September 28 2011 13:55 GMT
#12
On September 28 2011 21:33 ]343[ wrote:
whoa wait, how does the auto-harvesting work?


On each side (you can see from the pictures) there are 5 blocks of water source. Those are blocked by blocks of gravel. Below this layer, there are 3 pistons on each side. When I step on the pressure plate, the piston retracts, lower the pistons (thus the gravel too, due to gravity). This allows the water to flow into the field from the 1, 3, and 5 position on each side.
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Vronti
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States111 Posts
September 28 2011 14:15 GMT
#13
The farm is epic, I never really thought about that. I'll have to do it sometime in my own servers. Nice achievements there lol. I've been playing off and on for almost a year but haven't really made anything too epic (that didn't get deleted when my computer crashed anyhow).
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." — Confucius
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
September 28 2011 23:35 GMT
#14
On September 28 2011 23:15 Vronti wrote:
The farm is epic, I never really thought about that. I'll have to do it sometime in my own servers. Nice achievements there lol. I've been playing off and on for almost a year but haven't really made anything too epic (that didn't get deleted when my computer crashed anyhow).


Thanks, I never thought about my farm this way.

To be honest, I built it because I was extremely annoyed at the fact that farmland gets destroyed sometimes when I step on it. After breaking my second stone hoe this way I decided to find a better way to do this.

So yea, I was epic-lazy.
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