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09-23-2011 , 10:30 PM
Any idea if you can irrigate under a farm (so that you have more surface area for crops on top.

i.e.

crops
dirt
water
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09-23-2011 , 10:35 PM
The water source must be either one block below the dirt block the crop sits on or at the level of the crop. So no (yours would be 2 blocks down - so it isn't possible to water a crop from underneath). I wouldn't worry about surface area. This is the most efficient way to water your crops, with regards to surface area (water irrigates up to 4 blocks away):

XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX
XXXXOXXXX
XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX

X = crop block, O = water block
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09-23-2011 , 10:42 PM
I guess that's not so bad because you can collect seeds/wheat from those holes as you replant regardless. Did you realize that my diagram was

air
crops and air
solid dirt
solid water
something solid (like dirt)

Or did you think it was like

crops and air
dirt
dirt
water
dirt
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09-23-2011 , 10:46 PM
Mine is a top-down view, not a cross-section.

As I said, layering water under the dirt block that a crop sits on will NOT hydrate it.
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09-24-2011 , 04:57 AM
The Nether Express™ is up and running from the town portal to my portal (thanks to Peacashew for donating some glass!). Josh, I dug a tunnel to your portal and started the track on it - you just gotta throw down enough booster tracks to get it up that hill and you'll be fine. The track stops at my portal on the way from town, and you can just press the button you stop at to get going towards your portal.

Who else has portals they want hooked up? jd, did you ever build one? gypsie, where's yours at? akspartan?
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09-24-2011 , 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
The Nether Express™ is up and running from the town portal to my portal (thanks to Peacashew for donating some glass!). Josh, I dug a tunnel to your portal and started the track on it - you just gotta throw down enough booster tracks to get it up that hill and you'll be fine. The track stops at my portal on the way from town, and you can just press the button you stop at to get going towards your portal.

Who else has portals they want hooked up? jd, did you ever build one? gypsie, where's yours at? akspartan?
my protal is at -13,-48 in the wonderful world of the nether. thank you!
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09-24-2011 , 12:01 PM
I blew up my previous home. Dunno when ill relocate.
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09-24-2011 , 01:09 PM
I've taken a look around: spawn point, the big castle wall area (that encloses the egg picture / wood building)...

I'm interested in continuing to take a look around your creations.

Someone mentioned a desert house that they're building... Any idea the coords on that? Are there any more places I should check out (and coords please)?

I don't really have any stuff, as I haven't been building much, but I just want to walk around lol.
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09-24-2011 , 01:33 PM
So I just bought this game after reading people rave about it for a year. Should I start in single player or would MP be more fun?
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09-24-2011 , 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim14Qc
So I just bought this game after reading people rave about it for a year. Should I start in single player or would MP be more fun?
MP ainec
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09-24-2011 , 02:09 PM
Yeah def
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09-24-2011 , 02:40 PM
Is there still a 2p2 server? I read about it going through some random pages but it seemed to be on and off.

EDIT: Pm'd josh.

Last edited by Jim14Qc; 09-24-2011 at 02:55 PM.
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09-24-2011 , 03:23 PM
To guy with the desert house - where's your sand quarry? I'll dig there for my sand too (want to build lighthouse / bridge out of sand stone)
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09-24-2011 , 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by DavidC
To guy with the desert house - where's your sand quarry? I'll dig there for my sand too (want to build lighthouse / bridge out of sand stone)
I made a sand quarry, but I forgot the coords. I want to say its around 400,400 but I'm probably wrong.
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09-24-2011 , 06:24 PM
so glad i discovered this thread and watched the utube vids linked in the OP, will be buying this game end of next week and sooooo looking forward to it.
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09-24-2011 , 06:34 PM
There's a ton of sand fairly near spawn - two of the four directions you'll walk straight into a desert biome.
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09-24-2011 , 08:05 PM
I'd like a whitelist add when you get a chance, Josh

Screen name:

beerncats
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09-24-2011 , 08:07 PM
200, 500 is where I built (if you're talking about my desert house) - there's 2 quarries I've seen: if I had to guess the closer one is like 200, 750.

ps: was your quarry the one where u left the busted-ass diamond tools animal? if so thanks for the warning signs
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09-24-2011 , 08:10 PM
How to build a house out of/mine unlimited amounts of obsidian only using 1 bucket of lava:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQkLurG6ac

If you do use this method try not to carry too much stuff: if you let the lava spread to create more than one obsidian block at a time, there's a good chance it'll also spread onto your feet...
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09-24-2011 , 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by BrookTrout
ps: was your quarry the one where u left the busted-ass diamond tools animal? if so thanks for the warning signs
Yeah that's it! I put up the signs so nobody would fall in and get hurt.
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09-24-2011 , 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by toddw8
I'd like a whitelist add when you get a chance, Josh

Screen name:

beerncats
done
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09-25-2011 , 01:51 AM
Can i get a whitelist add when you get a chance?
Also what is the ip of the server?
sn-anthonypardo
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09-25-2011 , 02:20 AM
2p2.provisionhost.com
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09-25-2011 , 03:53 AM
Gypsie's station is up and running! It features a detector rail on the way in from town - it will push you off to the next station if you don't take out your cart within a few seconds of arrival.
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09-25-2011 , 10:10 AM
Found a stronghold yesterday, so for those who want to take a look, I dug out an entrance to it (it's all underground) at 547,66,645.
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