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About Redstone: Do we want to build a telegraph system to let others know we're working at the site? I take it everyone has a ton of it. We can wire it so that if someone is at the site they can flip a switch to activate a torch.
Or whatever. I'm really interested in infrastructure and the rail system is already well developed. I would love to get experience with redstone.
Hmmm... you just gave me an idea. The idea of building an arena/coliseum has been mentioned several times (Tiaexz pointed out that this thread is itself posted in the Arena, thus making the construction of an arena rather meta). Since we're on a survival server, we could make it an actual combat arena. We could have multiple rooms leading to the arena floor. The rooms could be completely dark, so that mobs spawn inside. If we did some good redstone wiring, we could have multiple doors controlled by a central switching station, so that once a person was on the arena floor we could open the doors and release the monsters to fight. We could even install water systems in each one so that we could 'push' the mobs out into the central area for combat. We could line the entire combat floor and walls with obsidian to prevent destruction via creepers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
Thoughts?
That's an excellent idea. The only problem is in controlling the monster spawning. Can a pickaxe with silk touch safely transport spawners? If not, we could try to lure monsters into pens.
I imagine we could also develop a lighting system with pistons and glowstone, torches, or lava. Flip a switch and out pops a light source. The scale of this project should preclude the need for a microblocks mod.
As I understand it, you can transport a mob spawner with silk touch, but after you replace it it will only spawn pigs. However, we don't need to worry about that because mobs will spawn in total darkness. All we need to do is create a large enough room in total darkness, and have the room be sufficiently isolated from the viewing area (24 squares I think) for mobs to spawn there. If the rooms are large enough and we have enough of them (I'm thinking 3+), they should generate enough mob spawns for some decent fighting. We can add switch-controlled lighting inside the spawn rooms for maintenance purposes, and perhaps some kind of switch-controlled lava trap or something to purge the rooms prior to entering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
The area would need to be roofed over, though, or the zombies and skeletons would burn up during daylight fights.
The location seems ideal. I scouted around just now and it can be the perfect place to build with just a little landscaping. I did run into some small caverns below the surface though, so we can't dig too much there, or we'll be filling holes for a lot of time.
Also can the area near the spawn point be made...'un-restricited' now? I struck some diamond veins deep underground but it appears they are below the spawn point and so I can't mine them....
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The Arena idea sounds nice. How do you plan to stop creepers from spawning though?
Alternatively you can just place mob spawners there. I'm sure they can be placed as a block using server commands......since this is a special case (as monster spawning can't really be controlled through any in game mechanism) I don't see this as cheating....
Eh, it's a megaproject, filling holes is to be expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
I'll see if there's a way to do that, as the spawn area protection does seem a bit unnecessary with the whitelist.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
I didn't. The plan was to coat the combat area with obsidian, which they can't destroy.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
I suppose that is a possibility, though I would want there to be unanimous consent to doing that, as creating blocks is otherwise prohibited on the server.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
Spawners themselves are gamey goodness covered in cheese. I think we can allow them. All hail the server god!
BTW, I think I know what happened to Pest's chest in the nether outpost. I recall placing a bed in there when I constructed it, though I never used it. Apparently that's a bad thing, as beds explode when slept in in the Nether. The hole was certainly centered around where the bed used to be, so I guess some unlucky person got nuked by it and took out the rest of the stuff as well.
Ok, here's a very rough sketch of my thoughts on the operative level of the arena. This image is a cross section of the bottom level of the arena, with all roofing and seating and such removed.
The black lines are walls.
The gray area is the combat floor.
The light orange areas are the mob spawning rooms. Each room would be slanted, higher at the back and lower at the front. There would be water sources at the back that would move all spawned mobs towards the doors, which are the red dots.
The blue ring behind the mob spawning rooms is an access corridor for maintenance, and the green dots are manually controlled access doors to each mob room. Switches would be placed by each green dot door to control interior lighting and maybe some kind of lava or cactus system to purge any monsters already inside.
The light blue square at the bottom is where I imagine the control room and access area to be, likely two levels. At the bottom level would be a large corridor for the 'gladiators' to enter. Above it, probably on the seating level where the arena floor is visible, would be the control room. The red dot doors would all be individually controllable from this room, so that one person can control the release of the monsters. Perhaps some door control here as well to lock in the 'gladiators' and prevent them from leaving once they enter.
On top of all of this would be stadium-style seating going all the way around, and the whole thing would be covered by a roof, probably in a very basic dome style, or maybe just flat depending on how high the seating goes.
https://img856.imageshack.us/img856/417/arenadraft.jpg
If we want to get more elaborate, we could also add a 'loot' box that was suspended over the very middle of the combat floor (like a scoreboard), with a maintenance access route to the control room. This loot box would contain multiple dispensers, and each dispenser would contain a certain kind of item, like swords, arrows, food, potions, armor, etc. The dispensers themselves would also be controlled from the control room, so that one person could selectively drop various 'rewards' to the 'gladiators' in between rounds of fighting.
So I guess a gigantic cobblestone building is out then.... :moustache:
Oh ok haha I should probably build a wall around my area and light the whole place up so that doesn't happen again.Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
Well, this thing would be really, really large, so cobblestone would probably have to be the main building material due to sheer resource scarcity, as the only other option would be dirt. While that wouldn't look the best, we could probably spiff it up a bit with various lines and layers and such in stone, wood, brick, and nether brick.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
Hopefully. I saw enough furnaces at everyone's house that they can easily produce enough stone. Fuel, coal or wood, is easy enough to find. All those cobblestone structures look horrid.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
TC: Great start. Concerns:
Each room doesn't need to contain a spawner. That's a lot of work setting up lighting, water, and purging systems. Three systems per room and I don't think we can run lava and water at the same time. Four if you count door controls (4 x 11). Maybe we can have one primary and three secondary entrances to fill up space.
The central control room would need to contain a massive amount of switches and wiring with the current setup. If we're going to have so many spawners, keep the controls decentralized. Loot dispensers from the control room sounds excellent! :thumbsup:
For purging I recommend lava as it is easiest.
Do you want to construct the entire floor out of obsidian? Maybe sandstone or checkered sandstone/obsidian flooring is best. Slabs are fairly blast resistant. I would like to have a more authentic looking floor.
I recommend keeping the "roof" more authentic (i.e. Like in the movie Gladiator). We need lots of wool and red dye.
This should be fairly easy to do with the resources everyone's gathered. Some people are stockpiling cobblestone and dirt(???) and you people love your furnaces.
Again: I think stone is better. It's on a server so the furnaces should burn continuously.Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
BTW, I don't mean to be pushy, but I really want those diamonds...
Please do look into the spawn point thing whenever you have sometime to spare Tincow.
Aren't you from India? I thought you people had lots of diamonds. Or did the British take them all? ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
I tend to agree. I'm willing to put in the time to smelt it all back to stone if everyone else is. We've got easy access to blaze rods now, so furnace fuel shouldn't be a problem. We also only need to coat the visible areas, nonvisible could just be cobblestone. For the record though, furnaces do not burn constantly on the server. Chunks are not active unless people are near them, so if you put stuff in a furnace and log off, they will not continue burning if no one is around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
The reason I put so many in was due to respawn time. The more rooms there are, the more mobs that can be stored up and released. If we only have two or three rooms, then we'd have to wait a long time between fights for the mobs to respawn, and we also wouldn't be able to unleash massive hordes. It's an issue though, and one that should be discussed more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
Yeah, a lot of switches and wiring would be required. To handle it easily, we'd need to have some really thick walls and floors to allow us to run many lines of redstone without them getting in each others' way. However, we're talking about a structure that's sufficiently large that I think it could be done. The problem with decentralized controls is that you'd have to run all over the place to release the monsters, and you wouldn't be able to observe the action while it was going on. I really like the idea of a single person up in a control booth with total control over which mobs are released and when, as well as all loot reward drops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
We might be able to do without purging. In fact, if we're going to use mob spawners, the lighting itself is irrelevant since light doesn't stop spawners from creating mobs. Maintenance would be super dangerous, but I suppose it would simplify the design.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
The purpose of the obsidian would just be to prevent creepers from damaging the building itself. We could do a layer of obsidian right underneath the walls and floor, so that any destruction was only superficial. The walls could then be stone and the floor could be sand, and both could be easily repaired if we kept some supplies on hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
I can't do anything about it while I'm at work, which is where I have been for about 9 hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
I guess I assumed we'd be using spawners. I believe (please correct me if necessary) spawners will continue to function without a player nearby. If so, we don't need that many rooms. It depends on game mechanics.Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
Perhaps centralized controls, literally, as in having the door controls in the center. This makes it easier for one player to control the doors. Waterslides and door opening should be linked to the same lever to control the flow of baddies. This way it won't conflict with lava purging. The reward drops should be controlled from the control booth. Controls for purging and lighting (if not using spawners) should be decentralized as a player will be there anyway.Quote:
Yeah, a lot of switches and wiring would be required. To handle it easily, we'd need to have some really thick walls and floors to allow us to run many lines of redstone without them getting in each others' way. However, we're talking about a structure that's sufficiently large that I think it could be done. The problem with decentralized controls is that you'd have to run all over the place to release the monsters, and you wouldn't be able to observe the action while it was going on. I really like the idea of a single person up in a control booth with total control over which mobs are released and when, as well as all loot reward drops.
Edit: My apologies. Now I see you wrote that the light and purge switches should be decentralized.
Simple is best and risk is fun.Quote:
We might be able to do without purging. In fact, if we're going to use mob spawners, the lighting itself is irrelevant since light doesn't stop spawners from creating mobs. Maintenance would be super dangerous, but I suppose it would simplify the design.
I'm glad that we agree on the stone/fill issue. I want this thing to look amazing with great attention to detail. If we want to get REALLY fancy we could have an actual, if not simple, scoreboard using redstone torches. Thumbs up, or thumbs down. :skull:
If anyone thinks I'm being overly critical I want to share this with you:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HD9A0IVP
This is my project, mostly finished, and I likely won't make any major changes to it. Among other things it has a smoking chimney, two secret exits, a glass underwater walkway, and secure armory.
Most everything there, except the animals, came from either the immediate area or below it. It is virus scanned and I think everyone will enjoy a walkaround.
I would also love any critical reviews as we head into this megaproject.
Spawn protection has been disabled, mine away.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
I've put down a ton of torches all over the construction area, so that it can be worked more safely at night. It certainly needs more, but its a start. I think the first stage is simply leveling the entire area. I think we should take the entire thing down to one above sea level.
Thank you!Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
:bow:
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I've also near enough finished my castle. I'd be really grateful if you could help me build that sticky piston drawbridge your were talking about.
From getting blown up a couple times last night it seems that even stone is blast resistant enough for the arena floor. Creepers were usually taking out a single block.
This page has a chart that shows the blast resistance values of all blocks. Normal creeper explosions will do 49 damage to squares immediately adjacent to them, which is enough to break everything except water, lava, obsidian, enchanting tables, and bedrock. The blast damage decreases as the explosion radius spreads out though, which is why stone tends to survive if it's more than a square or two away. We might be able to get away without using obsidian for the open floor, but I'm still inclined to use it in the combat floor wall because that wall is likely going to be hiding circuitry and other important stuff. Dealing with a few holes in the combat area isn't a big deal, but it would not be good if a creeper took out the circuitry that allowed us to close a door to a spawn room.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
Also, there's a problem with the idea of using mob spawner blocks in the spawn rooms. Those only spit out mobs when players are within 16 blocks of them. That's really not practical, as someone would have to constantly hang out near each room to get them to work.
Agreed on the walls, plus it would look cool. :wall: :cool:
Well, the mobs don't disappear once they spawn, do they? Short of server commands, it's going to be difficult to control spawn rates.
Yes, mobs despawn if players are sufficiently far away from them.
I installed Bukkit last night, as that seemed the simplest way to turn off spawn protection. A side effect of that is that I can now install bukkit mods very easily. This one looks kind of interesting:
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/mobarena/
If I understand it correctly, we could use that mod to generate the mobs and we would only have to create the arena itself.
[edit]I've read further, and that does indeed seem to be the case. The mod has all kinds of different options and is heavily automated. All we need is the actual building, and we can design it however we want, as we can set it so that explosions do not impact any blocks (or even let explosions destroy things, but have the arena automatically rebuild itself after every fight). Fighters enter at a certain area and select a 'class' to fight as, at which point their inventory is replaced with customized items for that class (old inventory is restored after the fight is over). Players are then teleported to the combat floor and then fight customized 'waves' of enemies, which can even include boss monsters. Mobs are spawned wherever we want them to be spawned. Spectators (and dead players) are teleported to the spectator area, which is wherever we want it to be. Rewards are handed out automatically and can be customized however we want them to be.
So, we could essentially build the arena to look however we want it to look, and the mod will take care of the rest. Do we want to use this?
Sounds perfect for the arena.
But I'll suggest that if we're building this arena as an arena (I mean for practical instead of aesthetical purposes), then we should also eventually build something big purely for the sake of building something nice.
I agree. I'd like for this to be just the first of many community projects. That's one of the main reasons for having a MP server in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
Well it looks like we have to for the monsters. This would also answer a question I had about equipping players before fights. Aside from the actual construction I would like to keep this a simple as possible. I quite like the idea of an arena falling into disrepair and don't like automated rebuilding. I'd prefer player controlled spawning from inside the arena and like your idea about having access tunnels and the idea of manually repairing the structure. I also don't like the idea of teleporting.Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
I hoped to have a door opening/repeater delayed piston and water push mechanism to feed monsters into the center.
I thought that was the point of this. I'm imagining obsidian obelisks, an elaborately decorated control room, complex wiring, red (woolen) overhangs, etc. All produced naturally in game and created by the player. Check out my save for comparison.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
This isn't going to be some floating cobblestone box.
The teleporting of players and spectators to the proper location is an integral part of the mod and I do not believe it will operate without it. We could still have mobs spawn inside of rooms and get pushed out, though that seems redundant and inefficient with the built-in system. If all we want to do is create some complex redstone circuitry, it would be better to find some other aspect of the arena to use it on, or to build something entirely different instead. I'm not so in love with the arena idea that it absolutely must be constructed. It will take a fair amount of time to clear the construction site anyway, so we've got more time to discuss other options.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
And here I was planning to make you the guest of honour for my castle-warming party.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
Your loss really.....there was going to be cake :clown:
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Seriously though, what I meant was that while we can make the arena beautiful, but eventually there might be a tradeoff between making it more arena like and practical, instead of just making it look nice. For instance I tore down the outer wall of my castle since it was pretty useless and endermen kept taking off blocks from it.
The cake is a lie. I haven't even seen a cookie yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
TC: That's a shame. I hoped to find a use for all that redstone. Right now I don't see what else the arena can use it for.
I agree, I'd kind of like to have some impressive redstone wiring as well. That arena mod does look fun, but there's nothing to say that it has to be part of our first community project. It might even be better to just test it out in a smaller arena someplace, and I could build a test site at Funcowland later on to see how we like it. It would indeed be a shame to build a giant arena only to find out the mod doesn't work the way we want it to or that we just don't like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
If you've got ideas about what we could build to show off some redstone skills, I'd love to hear them.
Complex electronic circuits? Adders and multipliers?
Or maybe just a telegraph system along the railway line.
I was thinking more along the lines of something incorporated into whatever we're going to build as part of the community project. Some kind of complex mechanical system controlling moving walls or floors or something. The kind of thing where someone hits some kind of switch and then watches something really cool happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
Ditto. I'm also interested in a communication system but that's what the "T" key is for. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
I'm not too original but sure I can generate some ideas on how to incorporate it into the world. Maybe I'll play around with traps for that spawner I discovered.
Edit: Just did a search for retractable lighting: It takes about as much space as the room itself.
I still think this is an excellent mod. Microblocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfsPdhekTVA
Wow...I'm really far from everyone else, aint I?
Probably, because I have no idea where you are.Quote:
Originally Posted by thefluffyone93
Please be aware that the map is essentially infinite and that the more you explore the larger the map size and the longer it takes for me to generate it and upload it. Your most recent journey increased the map size by 1gb. Please only explore if you actually want to do something with the areas you find, or are looking for something specific. If you just want to take a walk and see some nice scenery, you can get the same entertainment value in single player without making the online map much larger.Quote:
Originally Posted by thefluffyone93
We're out of cobblestone. That's kinda funny.
Once the control room/VIP lounge/skybox is laid out we can get a better idea of how we want to craft the rest; get a good idea of the scope and scale.
You mean install a gauntlet within the Arena?Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
Could make a switch as a "timer" so if you don't complete it within a certain amount of time, you get trapped and die!
I have quite a number of stacks at my place. I will drop them off when I take a look around.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Vladimir
Also Fluffly, try to explore around the explored area at least! Then we get better bearings on where we are, instead of what is occurring in Australia!
I filled the furances with Cobblestone
Aye, I'll go back and fill out that ocean. Still looking for Shroom Land.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiaexz
I was checking out the map again, to see if I could find my first ever "House".. I didn't find that, but I have noticed some things. A random npc town (north west) has spawned near Csargo's place, and South-East of the castle, some one has been making a weird construction.
Edit: I just found it my first ever building! It is South of Csargo's place.
Now try to find my hut. :-)
The NPC village near Csargo's has been there since before you lot found the village at the far end due West, (where I got stuck).Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiaexz
I actually sheltered there when I made my way back. Made me come to the conclusion that a blockhead can sprint over 2000 blocks if one starts and dawn and keeps going till dusk :yes:
I am Master of the Shrooms!
......and I need a bed.....
I cannot get a single animal to follow me...I simply can't. Holding wheat, feeding them wheat..nothing helps. They follow for a bit then seem to lose interest and keep roaming around the spot.
Plus I used up all my eggs and still I haven't got a single chicken.
All I have is one pig and a bunch of snowmen. :sad2:
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Finally managed to get another pig and a piglet, at the cost of six of my snowmen escaping. Still need chickens and cows though, and can't find either of those anywhere close to the noob hotel.
If anyone has a surplus of eggs/surefire way to hatch chickens, please help me out.
All you do is have wheat in your hand and walk backwards and they simply follow. It was hilarious when I was doing my farm and Pest had like 15 animals following her at once that I had to basically build a farm around her.
You're welcome to take a stack of eggs from me, that should be good enough to get you some chickens to breed from.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
Thank you TC.
Map updated
Yeah.....I'm really far away....
BOW BEFORE FLUFFY, KING OF THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM.
Whose base is that South East to the castle?
Also who's the player lounging to my castle's rear? I can't see his nick.
There isn't a name on them, perhaps a glitch? But therother who has that base.
Let's hope it's a glitch. I don't want no unnamed player steppin on my pumpkins :clown:
My castle is finished, more or less. Just need to add the trimming now. Drawbridge and stuff. Like icing on the cake.
Speaking of which, I made a cake. Everyone is welcome to visit and have a piece.
Thanks for the Christmas present but the link only pulls up a Google image map of the earth.Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
The link in the OP works fine for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
Working fine for me too.
Putting it in my sig since I've got post on almost all the recent pages of this thread. Might save trying to go back to find the link.
It is working correctly for me as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
This is what I get:
https://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1215/vladc.jpg
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Just clicking on the link.
I'm guessing it's a problem with your java.
Try upgrading it if it's an older version.
That's unfortunate. Upgrade, restart, ans same no luck.
Still running Vista. That may be a problem.
Just so everyone knows: I'm arranging the torches on a 10x10 grid making it much more dangerous. There is sufficient shadow to allow for monster spawns.
It's excellent for hunting though!
The grid dimensions are as follows:
Crafting Station (North)
X=-172 X=-172 Z=97 Z=-10 X=-83 X=-83 Z=97 Z=-10
Water (South)
Hopefully an engineer can check my math and help design and lay an outline for this thing.
Oh, and if someone would be so kind and post a picture of that map, I would appreciate it. :grin:
As an FYI, I will be out of town from December 29th to January 2nd and will be unable to admin the server during that time should there be an issue.
Force the server to do a /save and back it up. Might be the best idea incase something goes wrong (unlikely)
Right so I made a nether gate, and it connects to the same one as theother's gate in the nether.
What I want to know is that when I come back to overworld, how do I come through my own gate instead of his. I mean the gate in the nether is connected to both his and my gate, but on the way to the overworld I've been spawning at his gate and not mine.
You need to create a second gate in the nether that is 'closer' to your overworld gate than therother's. To do this, get the coords of your overworld gate, then divide them by 8. Place the nether gate at those new coords. You can ignore the y coord when finding the proper Nether placement unless the overworld gates are in the same horizontal location with only a vertical distance between them.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
OK thanks!
Since it seems that so few people are on the server any more I'm going to try these out:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...rvival-server/
I got a working Nether portal connected to my base.
Anyone managed to kill Ghasts yet? Or do I just run away?
Ghasts aren't too hard to kill if you use a bow and arrow. Two shots will take them down.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
All right.Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
Also can you please tell me where do you harvest slimeballs?
Slimes only spawn in 10% of the chunks in the game, determined randomly. So, the first thing you have to do is find one of those chunks. If you've seen some nearby, you'll know the general location. However, it's easier to use this tool. All you have to do is enter the world seed (it is shown in the F3 display) and tell it the general area you want it to search. It will then show you which chunks (and coordinates) the slimes will spawn in. Once you've got that information, you need to do what you can to maximize their spawning chances. First, slimes only spawn below level 40, so you need to create an underground area for them to spawn in that you can access. Second, slimes come in three sizes. The largest slime takes up an area of 3x3, so you'll need to make the area you clear at least 3 blocks high so they can spawn. In addition, slimes spawn much more rarely than all other mobs (at 1/10th the rate of the others), but they do spawn in light. If you light as much of the world as you can near the slime spawning area, it will reduce the odds that something other than a slime will spawn. If other mobs cannot spawn, then slime spawns increase. Finally, you need to hang out nearby. Slimes, like other mobs, only spawn near active players, and they despawn if people move far enough away. So, it's best to place the slime farm near someplace that you can do other things, so that you don't have to just sit there twiddling your thumbs while you wait for them to spawn.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
My slime farm is in my mine below my house. There are actually two chunks diagonal to one another that spawn slimes near me, so my farm encompasses both of them. Each chunk has 3 floors for the slimes to spawn on, with each level being 3 blocks high to allow for the largest slimes, for a total of 6 spawning floors. Each floor covers the entire area of the chunk. I've been working the mines down there for a long time, so a large amount of the world in that area is lit and thus unavailable for non-slime mob spawning. Since it's pretty close to my house, slimes will spawn while I work in there. I just run down to the farm once at the end of any prolonged period of work in my house to see if there's anything in it. I can usually find two or three slimes down there each game day this way. Since I don't use slimeballs at a huge rate, that's enough to keep me stocked. Feel free to look at (and use) my slime farm if you'd like. There are signs and a wide path to it from my main mine workroom.
OK I found the spot in your mine, and whiled around close by for quite some time (~ 2 days) but nothing spawned.
Then I went to my old mine where I'd found this big slimeball once, but again nothing has spawned there since I laid down the torches. :sad:
I'll just use two pistons to push the blocks back and forth I guess
Be aware that hanging out too close will also prevent them from spawning. Nothing will ever spawn within 24 blocks of you, so if you're standing right in or near the farm, nothing will ever show up. I tend to work on my farm and in my main workroom while I am waiting, as both are far enough away to allow spawns to occur. You may have also just gotten unlucky. Slime spawns are rare, and even with the farm they remain rare, just not quite as rare as before and far easier to locate.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
Good info TC. That explains why slimes tended to spawn in the same area of my single player game.
Since you know the general area where they spawn you could lay down pressure plates and link them to a signal (redstone torch, piston alarm, etc) so you know when they're jumping around.
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Originally Posted by TinCow
Success!! :grin:
I waited at some distance and then started mining to kill time. Third time I checked I heard the clicking of the slime. It was just one, but I got three slimeballs. More than enough for now. I now see why these things are worth their weight in, err...diamonds. Speaking of which I also hit a two block diamond vein while mining. I left the gems in your coal chest.
Disreagard. I'm an idiot. The machine is still huge though but now I think I can reduce it a little.