Photo Thread

[Pants]

Wow, looks pretty nice, actually.  I thought you said you built for function, not form?  The only thing I can suggest is some kind of arch near the entrance, or something, or maybe a sandstone path leading up the entrance?  Just to get some bright colour in there?  Oh, or maybe make a couple of "supports", since it looks like a top-heavy tower at the moment (I know, in Minecraft things don't topple, so it'd just be for show).

Right now I'm just trying to get the thing working like it should.  After that, I'll see about making it pretty.  I really need to encase the whole room in something ghasts can't shoot through, since I'm 99% sure that they are tracking me through the netherrack.  One ghast blast at my wiring will erase hours of work.

I'm not sure about Sandstone.  That is probably my most disliked block.  Sadly, there aren't a lot of brightly coloured blocks that are ghast-proof.

[Mr. Analog]

It looks awesome man!

[Thorin]

Hmm, well, you could always go with obsidian   I can tell you from experience that as soon as a ghast can't see you, they stop tracking and firing, though.  I hid from three ghasts by putting up a two-wide-three-high wall and running behind it.

[Pants]

Here are 4 screenshots I took whilst attempting to tame my Blaze spawner.

http://imgur.com/a/f64uI

[Thorin]

Here are 4 screenshots I took whilst attempting to tame my Blaze spawner.

http://imgur.com/a/f64uI

That last picture ... killing zombie pigmen with watermelon?  You're braver than I am.

[Mr. Analog]

How did it get through the portal? I didn't think that was in the game yet?

[Thorin]

Yeah it is, 1.3 included allowing mobs through portals.  This should mean you can take cows to the nether now, but I don't know if they'd actually follow you into the portal.  I'll have to try that sometime, when I finally get cows back near spawn.

[Tom]

I think that there is a low chance of zombie pigmen spawning near a portal in the overworld. Can't remember when that was added though.

[Pants]

Yeah it is, 1.3 included allowing mobs through portals.  This should mean you can take cows to the nether now

1.3 added zombie pigmen randomly spawning near nether portals.  1.4 is going be the one that allows you to move mobs through nether portals.

[Thorin]

I added a wizard's tower at the Taj Moo Hal: http://mc.tomasu.org/#/-1454/64/-284/max/0/0.  There's an enchanting table, but no bookcases yet.  I think I'm going to make a couple of little spinnarettes sticking out the side some time, too.  I might even make it taller.  It looks good for now, though, doesn't it?

[Mr. Analog]

Neat!

[Thorin]

Not huge, but a couple hours of work and now as we gain levels we can enchant right there.

Next up is building a castle nearby, I think.

[Mr. Analog]

So! I've been busy with Tekkit, today I played around with RedPower2; solar panels, red alloy wire and so much more (discussed in the Experimental Tekkit Server thread). But anyway, look how amazing Lamps look!

You can wire them up with levers and red alloy wire, hide the cables with wood panels, it's the bees knees.

First shot: House exterior with all the lights on, you can see that I've wired up some accent lighting and you can see my new factory lit up in the back.

Second shot: House interior, now on this server we don't have mobs enabled but if they were apparently Lamps are strong enough to burn zombles and skellingtons

Third Shot: A reading lamp for err, late night reading

Fourth Shot: Soon my new factory will be up and running, you can see my old factory under my house, it will be retired but I'll keep all the old machines.

Fifth Shot: Moody Reactor Core

Sixth Shot: Lit up Reactor Core

Seventh Shot: For comparison my old lighting system using luminators and torches (not very much light AND somewhat expensive to get rolling)

[Thorin]

Lamps sure add a nice touch.

That third shot, I laughed at the "unforgivable porn collection" sign, then I wondered what that creeper is doing to Steve (or the other way around?).

[Mr. Analog]

Lamps sure add a nice touch.

That third shot, I laughed at the "unforgivable porn collection" sign, then I wondered what that creeper is doing to Steve (or the other way around?).

Hahahaha, you're the first person to notice that (finally )