On 11 Feb 2011, at 09:15, Matthew Walker wrote: > 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. >
It is truly amazing to me how addicting this game is and how much time I can churn through. My sleep patterns this week have been completely derailed. Have you guys already seen these? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn2-d5a3r94 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epYmWk9Q3g4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtLnRR-j5cE /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
