Minecraft - f13 Server is: chugging along... again (Read OP)

[Bunk]

Since people were talking about the addictive fun of digging out quarries, I asked my co-worker to send me a shot of his current quarry on our server.



This pit is currently about 45 x 45 x 60 blocks (121,500). He has another area he dug out to only about five high, but far enough in each direction that you can't see the walls - with lighting placed just as methodically. He's just a touch OCD.

[Xanthippe]

My quarry looks little compared to that.  (Mine is 20x20, and I've just started to hit some gold and lapis lazuli).

That glowstone looks neat.  I should get some of that. 

Speaking of massive structures - have you seen Bzalthek's castle?  Wowzers.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I made a 50x50 quarry all the way down to bedrock. It was both an achievement and a colossal waste of time.

[Jobu]

I got back into this after my maps got corrupted/lost recently.

So I just dug basically an elevator shaft straight down this time, instead of traipsing through the dungeons with entrances on the surface. And for the first time ever playing, I found some diamonds (5 of them). Should I use them now and build a diamond pick and shovel, or is the famed durability of them not that big of a deal?

[Ingmar]

Diamond pick is worth making, if only to leave sitting in a chest somewhere to use for mining obsidian later. A diamond shovel would be a tremendous waste, on the other hand.

[Fordel]

Diamond pick and Diamond sword if you are dealing with monsters.

[Malakili]

I got back into this after my maps got corrupted/lost recently.

So I just dug basically an elevator shaft straight down this time, instead of traipsing through the dungeons with entrances on the surface. And for the first time ever playing, I found some diamonds (5 of them). Should I use them now and build a diamond pick and shovel, or is the famed durability of them not that big of a deal?

Just use em.  You'll find plenty if you spend time deep down, the durability is nice, and you also mine/dig faster.

[proudft]

I am the weird one who prefers to use a diamond shovel.  It lasts a really really really long time and only uses one diamond.  Totally worth it, for me.

If you die a lot, that calculation might change.

[Ingmar]

I just make a huge pile of stone shovels!

[proudft]

What, like wood for the handles just grows on trees?

[Fordel]

I am the weird one who prefers to use a diamond shovel.  It lasts a really really really long time and only uses one diamond.  Totally worth it, for me.

If you die a lot, that calculation might change.

No they don't. 

DIGGY DIGGY HOLE!

[lamaros]

Umm, isn't the gold shovel the long lasting one?

[Ingmar]

We have no idea, since every single scrap of gold on our server goes towards making powered rails. 

[Tarami]

No, gold is the fastest but shortest lasting tool with 33 uses. Stone is mined at 0.2 secs with the gold pick-ax and 0.3 with the diamond, I think.

[Fordel]

We have no idea, since every single scrap of gold on our server goes towards making powered rails. 

Gold for the Rail-Throne!

[Mrbloodworth]

[Rendakor]

Are those glass half (or quarter) blocks? Or a glass counter item?

[Mrbloodworth]

Reads like glass blocks got chanted in 1.8, they are now set in the center of blocks and are much more thin. I like it.

[lamaros]

No, gold is the fastest but shortest lasting tool with 33 uses. Stone is mined at 0.2 secs with the gold pick-ax and 0.3 with the diamond, I think.

Gold spades are different.

Or a least they used to be, when I was building.

[Ingmar]

Ugh, that glass change is going to completely fuck up my lighthouse.

[Tarami]

According to the wiki they'll be a separate recipe. Glass blocks will remain glass blocks.

Gold spades are different.

Or a least they used to be, when I was building.

Gold tools were rebalanced in 1.3 or something to be the fastest but have the least uses. AFAIK they used to be identical wood tools.

[Ingmar]

Ah, well, good for the glass panes then.

Here's what you peaceful server people are apparently going to be missing out on:

[Fordel]

Why are they holding block! 

[Ingmar]

For building ramps to get over your walls!

[Fordel]

Time to install the arrow turrets!

[lamaros]

According to the wiki they'll be a separate recipe. Glass blocks will remain glass blocks.

Gold spades are different.

Or a least they used to be, when I was building.

Gold tools were rebalanced in 1.3 or something to be the fastest but have the least uses. AFAIK they used to be identical wood tools.

The spade used to be the diamond equivalent, some DBZ reference or something. Guess no longer!

[Samwise]

Here's what you peaceful server people are apparently going to be missing out on:

Slender Men!   

[bhodi]

So, uh. You need to watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhksNvUwaRc&t=27m

I can barely comprehend the number of hours put into something like that. It's beyond impressive. It's demoralizing.

[lamaros]

So, uh. You need to watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhksNvUwaRc&t=27m

I can barely comprehend the number of hours put into something like that. It's beyond impressive. It's demoralizing.

Link didn't work, is that the LotR thing? I found it more sad and depressing than anything else. I really don't know why people would devote so much time to such a homage.

[Rendakor]

Yea its the LotR thing, linked a page ago.

[bhodi]

Doh! It only had 100k views, I missed it. Sorry!

It's awesome, not sad!

[taleril]

Here's what you peaceful server people are apparently going to be missing out on:

Slender Men!   

Holy fucking shit.  Read this if you want to know what that creepy-looking, block-holding monster is.

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8208212863/the-psychology-of-the-reticle-and-the-feeling-of

[Malakili]

Here's what you peaceful server people are apparently going to be missing out on:

Slender Men!   

Holy fucking shit.  Read this if you want to know what that creepy-looking, block-holding monster is.

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8208212863/the-psychology-of-the-reticle-and-the-feeling-of

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Weeping_Angel

[Mrbloodworth]

[stu]

The LotR project is badass when they are in Moria. Those halls and caverns are huge!