Minecraft News and Discussion
- Thread starter WallRunner
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Been a while since I've posted here, but I've recently got back into a single-player Minecraft world.
I let the game choose a seed, and by chance it gave me a tiny island, making it something of an impromtu "survival island" situation.
On the plus side, there was a ravine deep below the island, enough space for passive mobs to spawn, a few trees, and a decent range of natural materials. And, being out in the middle of a deep ocean, a water temple nearby that I certainly won't be storming until I've got some decent gear.
On the negative side, it's quite a boat ride away to anything significant. It's also one of the loneliest maps I've ever explored - I've definitely got village spawning on, but I've not come across a single village, nor temple other than water temples (three so far) in all of this space:
My main house is on the right. The house in the middle is where I keep the map. The house without a roof is my enchanting room. I've got wheat, cows and sheep, and on the hill at the top I've built a church, which I added for a bit of variety. You can also see the nearest water temple from this angle.
Not a big island though. Inevitably, I had to boat to the mainland to find a few things - originally, I headed to the snowy biome at the bottom of the starter map. Before I made maps, I did also find an ice spikes biome.
Not sure what my plan is for this game. I'll probably drop a few more houses on the island, try and complete a nine-map circle around my spawn point, and find somewhere interesting to set up a larger project.
I let the game choose a seed, and by chance it gave me a tiny island, making it something of an impromtu "survival island" situation.
On the plus side, there was a ravine deep below the island, enough space for passive mobs to spawn, a few trees, and a decent range of natural materials. And, being out in the middle of a deep ocean, a water temple nearby that I certainly won't be storming until I've got some decent gear.
On the negative side, it's quite a boat ride away to anything significant. It's also one of the loneliest maps I've ever explored - I've definitely got village spawning on, but I've not come across a single village, nor temple other than water temples (three so far) in all of this space:
My island is where the bright green dot is, and these are quite large scale maps.
As for the island itself, I'm attempting to make it feel a little more lived-on.
As for the island itself, I'm attempting to make it feel a little more lived-on.
My main house is on the right. The house in the middle is where I keep the map. The house without a roof is my enchanting room. I've got wheat, cows and sheep, and on the hill at the top I've built a church, which I added for a bit of variety. You can also see the nearest water temple from this angle.
Not a big island though. Inevitably, I had to boat to the mainland to find a few things - originally, I headed to the snowy biome at the bottom of the starter map. Before I made maps, I did also find an ice spikes biome.
Not sure what my plan is for this game. I'll probably drop a few more houses on the island, try and complete a nine-map circle around my spawn point, and find somewhere interesting to set up a larger project.
- 27,160
- United Kingdom
I've now mapped the ice spikes on mine, the dotted light blue area to the far right of the top-right map:
So. Much. Snow. Really need to find a decent-sized desert or plains so I can find a village.
Took a few more screenshots of my work. The map now resides in a dedicated "travel room", full of all the odds and sods I need to go travelling - maps, food, boats, beds etc.
And here's a better view of the whole island, from the church. The grey cobbled area is the entrance to my mine.
Edit:
Been exploring some more. Guess what? More ocean...
Did find a flower forest biome though, just off the left side of the top-left map. And further west from that was... another ice spikes biome.
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- Houston, Texas, USA
- JMarine25
I haven't played any Minecraft in a long while. When I do play it again, I want to go back to building cities and stuff. I have yet to build a city in the icy part of my Creative world. I also have yet to find any desert land in my Creative world. That is, unless I take parts of my world and somehow turn certain biomes into other biomes (such as swamp land to desert land).
But again... I haven't played this game in a long while. So whatever I do in my next play, I'll be pretty rusty. I certainly will lack battle experience on the PC end of Minecraft because I've spent so much time with Creative mode on Peaceful.
But again... I haven't played this game in a long while. So whatever I do in my next play, I'll be pretty rusty. I certainly will lack battle experience on the PC end of Minecraft because I've spent so much time with Creative mode on Peaceful.
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- Massachusetts
- EvanJamesLee
Some Pictures of the city section of my escape map on PS4, although most of it was made on PS3
At the left: Car Factory, in the middle: Hotel, At the right: Bookstore
Convenience Store.................................Birds eye view of car factory parking lot
Fire Truck next to burned out building..............Undecided (Empty) Buildings
Here is a picture of the entire escape map so far, it is actually far bigger than it looks as many areas take place in interiors under the surface. It is not close to being finished though.
The brick city from the above pictures is shown at the far right.
It is a prison escape map, you start in the courtyard at the bottom. That tan area to the right of the courtyard is the tutorial area with rules for map and a hall of fame for people who played it. I would explain the whole map but I would rather make a video later when it's finished. (check back in about 5 or 6 years).
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And here is an unrelated brick house and muscle car.
At the left: Car Factory, in the middle: Hotel, At the right: Bookstore
Convenience Store.................................Birds eye view of car factory parking lot
Fire Truck next to burned out building..............Undecided (Empty) Buildings
Here is a picture of the entire escape map so far, it is actually far bigger than it looks as many areas take place in interiors under the surface. It is not close to being finished though.
The brick city from the above pictures is shown at the far right.
It is a prison escape map, you start in the courtyard at the bottom. That tan area to the right of the courtyard is the tutorial area with rules for map and a hall of fame for people who played it. I would explain the whole map but I would rather make a video later when it's finished. (check back in about 5 or 6 years).
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And here is an unrelated brick house and muscle car.
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- crunchMONKY78
- crunchMONKY78
Does certain conditions spawn specific mobs? Or prevent mobs from spawning? ( I understand lighting has an effect on hostile mobs )
Here's why I'm asking.. For almost five months I've been playing on a map that is 98 percent ocean water. I've kept the difficulty set at normal and on survival mode. The few patches of land are incredible small with almost no resources. There are a few small mushroom islands, no villages or temples. Well none that I've found yet anyway. But the biggest problem I've come into is, there are no animals spawning on the surface. I've found bats underground but that's all.
As for hostile mobs, creepers are everywhere. Floating in the water, underground, in my small farm..everywhere. Spiders are rare.. They tend to spawn off in the distance, and disappear before I can get to them. (I need string to make a bed.) Zombies only spawn underground and in my house. I've yet to see any in the water. Oh and one witch that appeared on a small 9x3 island.
Is there anyway to get animals to spawn? Do I need more trees? Grass? Wider areas of land?
Here's why I'm asking.. For almost five months I've been playing on a map that is 98 percent ocean water. I've kept the difficulty set at normal and on survival mode. The few patches of land are incredible small with almost no resources. There are a few small mushroom islands, no villages or temples. Well none that I've found yet anyway. But the biggest problem I've come into is, there are no animals spawning on the surface. I've found bats underground but that's all.
As for hostile mobs, creepers are everywhere. Floating in the water, underground, in my small farm..everywhere. Spiders are rare.. They tend to spawn off in the distance, and disappear before I can get to them. (I need string to make a bed.) Zombies only spawn underground and in my house. I've yet to see any in the water. Oh and one witch that appeared on a small 9x3 island.
Is there anyway to get animals to spawn? Do I need more trees? Grass? Wider areas of land?
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- United Kingdom
These two things, generally. First thing I did on my survival island map is dig some of the hills out and use the dirt to expand the surface area of the land.
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- California
- crunchMONKY78
- crunchMONKY78
I'll try to post some pics of the map this weekend, to give a better idea of how little I've been working with. I've secretly been hoping something would spawn on one of the mushroom islands.. But no luck on that.
- 27,160
- United Kingdom
I think only Mooshrooms are able to spawn on mushroom islands. If even they aren't spawning (you can of course breed cows from Mooshrooms, by using shears to turn the Mooshrooms into cows - though they won't turn back) then it's definitely a space issue and the islands are all too small.
Incidentally, are you playing on a console version? It shouldn't affect spawn rates, but for me the best solution to your problem would simply be to sail somewhere until you found a better area. If it's a console version then you're pretty much screwed as far as finding suitable space goes.
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- crunchMONKY78
- crunchMONKY78
Yeah this map is on the PS4. I took your advice and started taking dirt from the mushroom islands and have formed a ring of islands surrounding my home island. Now I just have to wait for grass to grow.
Actually the limited map area on the console version is why I went back to playing it on the PS4. I found while playing on the PC I was happier in a small area to farm and mine. So an infinite map was kind of a lost cause for me.
- 27,160
- United Kingdom
Remember that you'll need to connect any dirt to another grassy area for the grass to spread.
- 4,040
- UK
- ReTyger
I second homeforsummer, put together 3 or so boats and sail due whatever without changing course. You are bound to find a large tract of land in time. For the record only mooshrooms spawn on the surface of mushie islands but underground the usual suspects turn up (dissappointingly, as I was looking forward to some hassle-free mining!)
In other news anyone know when the next big update is likely to drop? Is it 1.9? It's been a while...
In other news anyone know when the next big update is likely to drop? Is it 1.9? It's been a while...
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- Tijuana, B.C.
- MRT_Cinnamon
He said they wanted to drop the first snapshot on Wednesday.
I really miss playing this game, but it cosumed a lot of my time, maybe I will start playing this game again, but not soon I admit.
I really miss playing this game, but it cosumed a lot of my time, maybe I will start playing this game again, but not soon I admit.
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- crunchMONKY78
- crunchMONKY78
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- Brisbane, Australia
- Noobkin99
Well the Pc manages to create an infinite world (or so claimed) *, and the next gen consoles (xbox one and ps4) being the awesome machines that they are, would most likely have more grunt power than most people's pc's. So it would be a bit of a let down if mojang doesn't utilize the power of these machines by creating an infinitely generating world.
*Is this still a thing, are the worlds really infinite, because on pc if you try to teleport to a certain point (can't remember which number) in either direction x or y, it will tell you that the number entered is too large, is this suggesting that the minecraft world's are no longer infinite, or Minecraft preventing itself from crashing.
Also Snapshot is out (pc) and there are a heap of new arrows
not sure what to think. Looking decent, can't wait for shields, and the ability to use both hands!https://mojang.com/2015/07/minecraft-snapshot-15w31a/
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About 68 million x 68 million blocks, at the moment. Used to be smaller in Beta, around 24x24 million. I watch the Far Lands or Bust series on Youtube - he's walking to the edge of the map, and he's currently about 2.3 million blocks from spawn, which is about 9.7 million blocks from the edge of the world. He's been walking three game days, three times a week, since 2011...
In other words, the worlds aren't infinite, but they're as good as infinite for most players.
They are procedurally generated though, so until you load a new chunk there's an effectively infinite number of land permutations (within the game's set rules for biomes).
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- Noobkin99
Wow that's a pretty big task he's set himself, does he just walk or does he run as well? That guy has a lot of determination!
Yeah didn't think there were...
Interesting, I wonder whether in the near future computers will have the ability to process the whole world and determine what every chunk is to be in the whole 68 million x 68 million block world, in only several minutes when your starting a new game, because it would probably reduce lag throughout gameplay afterwards. Wow Re-reading this comment it seems quite impossible - 4624 million blocks in under five minutes.
- 27,160
- United Kingdom
No running - he's in beta 1.7.3, and running hadn't been introduced at that point.Wow that's a pretty big task he's set himself, does he just walk or does he run as well? That guy has a lot of determination!
He does it for charity though - it's basically a massive walkathon.
While I don't doubt that some computers would be able to do such a thing, it wouldn't have any benefit for players - while it requires memory to load chunks, the game un-loads chunks you're leaving. The only real thing that grows as you load more chunks is your savegame, since the unloaded chunks are still there to be accessed later. Again, for Far Lands or Bust, the savegame is pretty massive now, since he's been generating new terrain for about four years. Seem to recall it's about 10GB at the moment or something.
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- ReTyger
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- alexschmidt1995
Does anyone know if on the ps4 version, or console versions in general, can you make the small maps like when crafting on PC? I want the smaller maps to make a nice higher res map wall but the maps in ps4 version are so large...
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I don't think so, if the map starts at quite a large scale when you craft it. On the PC, you start off with a small scale map and have to craft larger scale ones from it, so it seems unlikely that you can reverse that process.
- 27,160
- United Kingdom
So, still exploring, and developing the map wall.
It turns out I really am in the middle of an enormous ocean, with really only other islands for company.
The only significant land masses are huge snowy biomes to the south east and the north west of my spawn island. Each is so big it contains supposedly rare ice spikes biomes - this one below is next to a flower forest:
Here's the latest iteration of my map wall - my home island is where the green place marker is.
There are some positives, though. First, I'll never be short of packed ice. Two, in the jungle biome at the bottom of my currently explored maps I found a jungle temple, so I got some decent loot there. Three, I've now found about six water temples, so when I've got suitable armour, enchants etc I'll never be short of prismarine, sea lanterns and other water temple goodies either.
And four, because there's so much water in this map, I believe I've actually found the end portal room out in the middle of my ocean - specifically, somewhere near that curved island towards the north east of all the maps. You can just see it in this image:
So again, once I'm ready for it, I won't have to struggle too long to find the end portal room.
I just wish I could find more common things like villages and deserts...
It turns out I really am in the middle of an enormous ocean, with really only other islands for company.
The only significant land masses are huge snowy biomes to the south east and the north west of my spawn island. Each is so big it contains supposedly rare ice spikes biomes - this one below is next to a flower forest:
Here's the latest iteration of my map wall - my home island is where the green place marker is.
There are some positives, though. First, I'll never be short of packed ice. Two, in the jungle biome at the bottom of my currently explored maps I found a jungle temple, so I got some decent loot there. Three, I've now found about six water temples, so when I've got suitable armour, enchants etc I'll never be short of prismarine, sea lanterns and other water temple goodies either.
And four, because there's so much water in this map, I believe I've actually found the end portal room out in the middle of my ocean - specifically, somewhere near that curved island towards the north east of all the maps. You can just see it in this image:
So again, once I'm ready for it, I won't have to struggle too long to find the end portal room.
I just wish I could find more common things like villages and deserts...
