Bag into the swing of things!

Hey all! I haven't written a new post in a while, I took a long break from blogging as you might have seen.

I'd like my first post to be about the new world I've been playing in the latest Minecraft update 1.0.0

I have been playing the new Hardcore mode. Hardcore mode for you who don't know are whenever you die that's it. No do overs or restarts. It deletes your world to make it no longer playable again. I have been playing on this world ever since 1.0 has been out and I am loving this mode. It makes everything much better, you have to be more cautious and you actually have to keep track of where you are in the world as opposed to just dying to respawn in your bed.

In addition to you only having one life, the game difficulty is stuck on Hard which means monsters are much more difficult to kill and will hurt you for a lot more damage - that makes caves and ravines much more difficult to take out.  

I will be posting updates to how my world is going and hopefully a lot more tutorials later.

Join us at defconminecraft.net - a PvP survival server!

House Update!

Hey guys, i've been busy...But here is an update of my current house! All of this was done legit!

 Unfinished Tower

 Main Hallway in my spawn base

 "Living" room. Will put bed in when Notch adds them.

 Kitchen

 Entry Way to the Branch Mine

 Finished farm

 Finished Reed Farm

 Two tier storage room

 Forge

My castle I am working on. Not near done.

Tutorial : How to Make a Water Base. Part 1

Click on the picture to maximize it. I will be coming out with a part two. 

Plans : Mob tower

This pretty much has all you need to make a Mob Grinder.

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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!!