FINALLY, A COW!

We have been playing for what? Two weeks?

Only now we were able to find some cows. We found four, but I accidentally dropped one in a pit.

I managed to drop them all in their... cell...

The Cactus Farm

Do you remember the Slime Farm? Well, never mind it. We didn't have any luck with it no more.

So, here's how it currently is. We're gonna use it for things that we can't put up there.

This is how it looks.

It's not very effective, but it doesn't really matter at the moment because we're only using it for some dyes to use on the wool to put on the entrance.

See these three pressure plates? Well, they light up the redstone torch at the door, so we don't need to go all the way inside to check for new blocks.

This is the torch:

Basically, cactus can't be placed when there are blocks directly by the side of them. Therefore, it is an auto-harvesting system.

It's pretty easy to be made, but if you guys want a tutorial, tell me. I'll be glad to make it.

Sorry...

Sorry about the slow posting, guys.

I've been through some heavy working lately, but I promise two posts for tomorrow, so check back tomorrow!

The Base 2.0! (Actually, 3.0)

This is the current view of the outside of the base. Front view.

It's actually 3.0 because we had it made out of dirt when we started, then we turned into cobble and finally improved to the way it is now. We might make even more changes, though.

This is the main entrance now. I'll fix this. First, I'll change the plates to the stone ones, so they can't be triggered by items falling on them.

A view looking into the base's interior.

View from inside, looking at the outside (duh). One issue that came through my mind was that monsters CAN trigger the pressure plates, therefore, they could go inside at anytime. But I took two hours of my... "spare"... time to work on a rather complex redstone system (don't even ask me how I did it, seriously, I have no idea).

It works like a key system: If this lever is pulled, the doors are permanently shut and will not be opened by ANY plates. If it is not pulled down (actually, right), the plates CAN open the door.

As I said, it took me two hours to figure this out. Shortly after that, I was closing the flooring with cobble and guess what happened? Yeah. A creeper. He blew up the ground near me. I lost a pressure plate and a few redstone wires. I had to work for more ten minutes to fix the wiring.

I rage-quit for ten minutes, then I fixed it.

Our Explored Area

Since we started we tried to keep ourselves in the same place (for our own good, because of creepers and other monsters).

We started playing when the in-game time was already, since we had some communication issues between us, because of the microphones, so we had to hurry and find shelter. We spent a night in the middle of a little cave, made by ourselves, while mining some coal and cobble.

We crafted this map shortly after we got all the resources needed.

We didn't explore much of our surroundings, but I'm sure that on more than 3 quadrillion blocks that each Minecraft world has, it would take a loooooooong time.

And I'm not even kidding. Minecraft indeed has more than 3 quadrillion blocks - that would be like EIGHT TIMES EARTH's SIZE! Do you have any idea how big it is?

You could walk in a straight line for MORE THAN FIVE YEARS!

Don't believe me?

Check it for yourself. Click HERE to see it.

Damn...

Hey guys,

Sorry but I couldn't post anything today. I had a few personal problems and I'm working on them.

But don't worry, I promise two posts tomorrow! Well, actually today. It's past midnight here, so... Better saying - I promise TWO POSTS ON FRIDAY. Yeah, that's better indeed.

Wait for them!

[Tutorial] The Egg Deployer

OK, so as I promised, I'm showing you how to make the egg farm.

It's simple, here's a list of things you need:

- Cobblestone

- Four water buckets (two, if you know how to use them properly)

- Four signs

- Around two stacks of eggs (thirty-two eggs)

- Six ladders

Keep in mind that the machine will only show some results after thirty-minutes, since that's the time it takes for the chicken to grow up and lay eggs, nine minutes and seven minutes, respectively.

Let's get started. Make a shape like this:

Those two blocks will be used to drive the eggs to the collecting point.

Add more five layers of cobble to it, that way it'll have six layers total. Make sure to close it all now, leave only the first level with those two blocks opened.

Use the ladders on the back of it (or on the sides) to climb up, you'll need it.

Now add the four signs to the cobble walls. Doesn't matter which side you do it, as long as they're all the same level.

Next, put on the water. I'd recommend putting it on one corner and then on the opposite corner, but do as you want.

See this? Well, this water is endless. Use your buckets again and grab the water back. Now you have two filled buckets again. I call that a profit already.

Now you can get out of there. Just dig the floor out, nothing should be lost. But, of course, replace the blocks so it will be flattened.

We need to close it. You can do it two ways:

First one, using four trapdoors...

...or the second one, using only one trapdoor and three cobble blocks.

Now comes in the tricky part: spawning the chicken.

Get the stack of eggs and keep hitting a torch with it. This may be tricky, so I would advise you to put a sort of "dirt wall" around you, so neither you nor the chicken would be able to escape.

Once every eggs are spawned, you can go down.

The chickens will always follow the light, that's the reason of the torches. One or two may escape and will get lost, but don't worry - it's a chance in one million (it varies on the amount of chickens spawned there!)

Just make the channel and everything is done! Put two more buckets of water directly into the corners of the tower, like this:

Yeah, I know. Messy. Put some more cobble there. Seriously.

Cover it up.

There you are! Simple, isn't it?