trend-minecraft-news: January 2011

Test World V1.4

Installation Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-oqj2hwgz0

Tour Video/Example/Cow statue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUE9bHFfYlg

A few notes
Don't punch stuff with materials in hand, sometimes it "breaks" the material in your hand.
All weapons and armor is indestructible and armor makes you unable to die. (to reset your health, take off armor and eat something)
All item stacks are -about- 255 so you should never run out of materials.

Change log
V1.4 Major Introduction of "Type" worlds, total of 8 added. Minor fixes added as well.(Added brick and fixed a sign)
V1.3 is finished, replaced cobblestone with obsidian to protect chests, added "Ammo Room", fixed cake blocks, removed lava flooring, replaced stars with ladders, Added signs and organized chests more.
v1.2.1 I fixed a few stacks that didn't work right, added stair blocks, added smooth stone.
Work has finished on version 1.2! Adding all the new items (colored wool, dyes, sand stone, etc.) Prettied things up. Removed All grass, replaced it with dirt to prevent annoying farm animals. Organized things a bit better. Added Arrows, snowballs, and eggs and other misc items.
Work has begun on version 1.2 (skipping version 1.1 simply to match the beta)
Version 1.0 released!

Update : Farms and tricks.

Underground Farm

My underground farm, Dug out inside a mountain.

Water is underneath half-steps.

Reed farm.

My reed farm directly below my wheat farm. (I'm on a ladder)

View Two

View #2

View Three

View #3

Tip of the day.

Tip of the day;

Add levers to the bottoms of your furnace. Have them pointing up so you'll know it's empty and down so you know that something has been cooked in it.

Tutorial : How to make a Tree Farm.

Dirt blocks 2 metres apart.

First place some dirt/grass blocks two spaces away from each other.

Torches on the sides

To speed up the growing, or if you are growing indoors place torches on each sides of the dirt.

Saplings on top.

Place a sapling on top of each dirt block.

All done!

Wait a couple of Minecraft days.

(Don't worry if your trees all don't grow at once, it's random.)

Tutorial : How to make a incinerator.

First start off with a regular corner in your base.

Dig a hole in one corner

Put your lava in one corner.

Put three half steps if you wanted to

Throw stuff in it! Enjoy!!

Contest mistake

So yeah...Apparently I wasn't suppose to let people know who I was in the contest, plus the judges felt that me promising my prize to my fans was me trying to get favorable votes. So even IF I do win I won't get a "Trophy" or any prize(Though I will get posted as one of the winners) so yeah...Kind of a stupid mistake on my part, I didn't even think about that at the time.

Tutorial : How to make a Farm

2x2 hole

The first step in making a farm is to have an unlimited water supply. If you are near an ocean, this step can be skipped.

Dig a 2X2 hole to start off with.

Unlimited Water Source

Now you can put two buckets of water in the upper right hand corner and the bottom left hand corner.

That is your unlimited water source.

Irrigation Hole

Now you can dig a channel for your water to go into. This will be for your farm and it'll make your crops grow much faster than unhydrated land.

Irrigation

Crops tilled and planted

Added steps over water for harvesting.

Fill the canal up with water, make sure all the water connects.

Till the ground with a hoe and plant your seeds.

You can get seeds by using a hoe on the grass.

Fenced in the crops.

Put some steps over the water to allow you to harvest your crops.

This step is optional. If you want you can add fences around your crops so animals won't trample them, if you are making an indoor farm this won't be a problem.

Crops are grown!

All done farming !

After a couple of Minecraft days, your crops will grow and be ready for harvest. You can make bread out of the wheat you gather.

Good news!

Good news everyone(For once) I got my parts and installed them all correctly.

I'm hoping to have no more problems with recording and that should mean more movies for you guys AND better quality! sorry there hasn't been a video up today, there may not be one up tomorrow either since I still have to install everything again but we can hope!

Tutorial : How to survive your first night in Minecraft.

Just started off in a new world.

First thing you need to do is to find a tree. Then punch it until it gives you it's wood.

Then make that wood into wooden planks.

To make a crafting bench.

Now we need to find some coal/ stone. It is usually found in caves or by mountain sides.

To mine this, we need a pickaxe. First we need to make a wooden pick. Make sticks then use planks to manufacture it into a pick.

After you make the pickaxe, mine the coal and make it into torches shown below.

Oh no! Night has come. Watch out, the monsters come out at night such as zombies, skeletons and creepers.

If you want to make a wooden door, go ahead. it allows you to get in and out of your building safely.

I made a stone sword because I play on Hard and I need it to fend away creatures. I recommend one.

Here I make chests. You can store items in them.

My house from the inside.

My house facing the entrance. (Also, a zombie.)

My house from the front.

My house facing the side. The house is 7 long by 7 wide and three high, with a raised middle section for the roof. I hope you enjoyed this, and survived your night.

First Blog Evar!

Hey! I'm just getting into blogging! Let's start this off with a proper Minecraft blog, eh!

My mineshaft. It's at bedrock, and goes down a while. It has gotten me a ton of diamond.

That's all for now! I'll sure to be back soon with more! Minecraft, Amnesia : The Dark Descent! Anything, you name it.
~ Sprocket

Cow Statue is up!

I finally finished my cow statue, it took tons of time, efforts, and screw ups but I did it! Its a complete 1:1 ratio, one block per pixel. It didn't come out perfect but it came out really good if I do say so myself, what do you think?

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUE9bHFfYlg

Download Link
http://www.mediafire.com/?uhw7zwk6qpft9f3

I also entered it in a contest, linked here!
http://mlti.worth1000.com/entries/621545/gerudoku-cow

If I win I will give out the prizes(Which are minecraft gift codes) to all of my fans!

Errors, Errors, Errors...

Having some trouble from something, i have no clue what it is, its just slow, its not the map, not the engine, not the router, not the tower, even a local IP gives me only a slight boost above the lag, i am gonna try working on it when i get time

Minerepub.dyndns.org:25555
New Map

Rendering a Visual physical map today... HERE IT IS! :D
http://zoom.it/gb9h
**** The large black and white house that floats has moved

Audio Problems

Hmm I've been trying to record a few video's lately but it seems...I have to set my ingame volume down to like...9% just so it doesn't over power my voice while recording. I'm not sure why, I Tried updating my sound cards drivers but it seems to do little good. I -may- have to record a couple of my next video's without ingame sound if this keeps up.

If anyone can help it means continuation of minecraft sounds with my voice!(At a reasonable level at that!)

New computer parts are on their way!

I finally got enough donations to order the parts I needed and they -should- be here monday(tomorrow!) but I don't think i'm going to beable to get a windows 7 OS disk like I wanted... I was going to borrow the money to get it but it turns out its actually 200 dollars, not 100(which is the upgrade version) so i'm not sure if my old OS disk(the one that came with my current prebuilt computer) will work or not..

Sigh, it feels like I'm cursed with computer problems. If none of you see me online for a while it may be because of things not working out.

Update! Version 1.22

Hey guys!

Been working a bit more on the textures. I've worked out some of the bugs that were reported to me and I've also gone in and adjusted some textures. Made things look better.

This pack is now compatible with the wild grass mod!:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=100771

128x128:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/f8io795o4txgbr3/Bordercraft_1.22.zip

64x64:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/592h0jyujd87iwe/Bordercraft64_1.22.zip

These are HD textures so you'll need to use the texture fix found here:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=46173

Change log:

[1.22]:
-New lava texture
-Sign texture adjusted so text is legible
-Water and Ice color adjusted
-Removed some noise off of Glass
-Rails tile now
-Rest of the particles completed and properly placed (Note particle and fishing bobber added)
-Wild Grass Mod compatible
-Refined wood and door match more closely
-Grass texture adjusted

[1.2]:
-Added new Beta 1.2 items

[1]:
-First Release

Bordercraft Thread: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1021&t=144854

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