On Fri, February 11, 2011 9:03 am, John Shaver wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Matthew Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Pffft. What look for materials. 99% of what I need: Stone. Sand. Stone. Coal >> or >> Charcoal. Sand. And did I mention Stone? > > Things go a lot faster when you have diamond tools to use. It doesn't > take too much time to get those legitimately though and they last for > a really long time. The diamond shovel is especially nice for how > cheap it is, but it seems to get used up alot faster. > > It's also nice to have lot's of iron to build rail tracks and carts with.
I /do/ spawn diamond tools. And you wouldn't believe how many I've gone through. Dozens of picks. Probably over a hundred now. As for rail tracks, etc. None involved in the pyramid. :) I'll soon be doing some redstone circuitry to add decoration to things, although that may wait until the next release now, since I heard they're adding some new circuitry stuff. What really helped speed things up was the release of charcoal. Having to rely on coal was a major bottleneck, but now I can just go plant a stack of saplings, let them grow, and harvest 8+ stacks of wood (and 3-4 stacks of saplings) from them, then turn it all into charcoal. -- Matthew Walker HAM Call Sign: N7TOX Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
