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Elysium · 2011-04-13, 12:20

I figured we could use this as an all purpose fact finding thread as we build out.

I'm curious as to the owner of what looks to be an abandoned diamond/ore mining operation north of the Money Bin and due west of Tori's old place. I found two single block wide shafts that go down in roughly 10-20 ft lengths.

One ends in a blank wall and the other opens up into several branching paths. The second branching one was entirely unlit (except for two random torches) and had a workbench.

I walled off the more expansive mine at the surface, but there is the potential for slime formation down there as I didn't have the torches or time to explore it thoroughly.

turtle · 2011-04-13, 12:40

I found a few shafts like that too. Kinda odd really. My guess was someone using an x-ray theme was hunting something specific.

ThunderPoit · 2011-04-13, 12:47

We had a few "visitors" before we added the whitelist. The shaft Ely is describing was one of theirs.

RowdyScot · 2011-04-13, 12:48

Could have been the "guests" that signed on the one day forcing our whitelist.

Elysium · 2011-04-13, 12:59

Alright. I'll grab some torches and cacti at some point to booby trap it just in case. I'll clear out the remaining resources while I'm down there.

drewprops · 2011-04-13, 13:06

Is there a cactus farm??

Elysium · 2011-04-13, 13:39

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Originally Posted by drewprops

Is there a cactus farm??

Bonn had one somewhere I believed.

Bryson · 2011-04-13, 14:35

There's 3x64 cactus in a chest in my Theatre Portakabin you can have. I used to have a cactus farm but I demolished it when I landscaped around the library. The mobtrap also creates cactus (albeit slowly) - check in the storage room chests.

709 · 2011-04-13, 14:38

bobsky has a cactus farm as well. It's between spawn and the passive trap somewhere along that corridor.

turtle · 2011-04-13, 20:30

We have a cactus farm too. It's by our "T" ranch north of the Money Bin. You can see it East of the big "T" in map.

billybobsky · 2011-04-13, 21:22

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Originally Posted by drewprops

Is there a cactus farm??

If you are on later, I can show you my farm, it's automated, so you climb down a ladder and collect the cacti...

Robo · 2011-04-13, 21:55

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Originally Posted by billybobsky

If you are on later, I can show you my farm, it's automated, so you climb down a ladder and collect the cacti...

It's the best thing since sliced bread the mob trap.

Bonn89 · 2011-04-13, 22:39

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Originally Posted by Elysium

Bonn had one somewhere I believed.

It's in the basement of my Bridgeport house, anyone can feel free to grab some free cactus whenever they'd like.

arteggio · 2011-05-23, 17:26

I'm going to devour the island-ish thing that sits directly under 640, 0 (spreading to about -130 at its farthest east and 300 at its farthest northwest).

I've just learnt that grey and RowdyScott have plans to the southeast of this landmass, but my selection doesn't appear to intrude. It's not going to interfere with anyone else, is it?

RowdyScot · 2011-05-23, 23:10

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Originally Posted by arteggio

I'm going to devour the island-ish thing that sits directly under 640, 0 (spreading to about -130 at its farthest east and 300 at its farthest northwest).

I've just learnt that grey and RowdyScot have plans to the southeast of this landmass, but my selection doesn't appear to intrude. It's not going to interfere with anyone else, is it?

T; ftfy.

Gargoyle · 2011-05-24, 13:13

I haven't abandoned my humble little hole in the mountain, just incase you thought I had.... been busy

billybobsky · 2011-05-27, 00:54

Thunderpoit/InvaderJak,

I saw an opportunity for maximizing the space efficiency of the watering system for your farm in bridgeport and moved some dirt around/removed a sliver of a wall -- i hope you don't mind...

thinking about it, I do believe the best bet for further enhancement is to lower the level of the farm terraces themselves by two or three blocks which should put most, if not all, of the water system under the undisrupted sidewalk. NB also, the current arrangement can be further optimized by an additional bifurcation level that spits water out at the base of the walls without incurring any height disadvantage, you would just need to alternate the position of the fill channels.

I understand the need to be able to reset the watering system and i think that sinking the level of the terraces might give you additional space for doing that from the inside...

ThunderPoit · 2011-05-27, 01:22

Thank you for the input but please dont modify my stuctures for me.

Bryson · 2011-05-27, 09:17

I think Bobsky was trying to help me out: in it's current form the auto-harvester means I'll need to take out the window on that side of the theatre. Is it going to get smaller and prettier?

709 · 2011-05-27, 09:37

There must be a way to put it below the sidewalk. This is Minecraft! Challenges are what it's all about!

Maybe inside the farm with the reset at glass level? Better to rejigger the top far end of the farm than messing with the sidewalk and the theatre. IMO, of course.

billybobsky · 2011-05-27, 09:52

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Originally Posted by ThunderPoit

Thank you for the input but please dont modify my stuctures for me.

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Originally Posted by Bryson

I think Bobsky was trying to help me out: in it's current form the auto-harvester means I'll need to take out the window on that side of the theatre. Is it going to get smaller and prettier?

I was trying to help both of you out...

The only fair option, right now even with the current modifications, is to get rid of the hideous protrusion that is the water delivery apparatus since it directly interferes with pre-existing structures and the old method worked fine. My brief and obvious work on it last night was merely to see if it could be kept in its current arrangement without too much extra effort: it cannot and should not be.

drewprops · 2011-05-27, 10:17

Somebody is going to have to build a Senate and a Court...

...

Elysium · 2011-05-27, 10:22

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Originally Posted by drewprops

Somebody is going to have to build a Senate and a Court...
...

We have one, called the Arena.

Two men enter, one man leaves!

ThunderPoit · 2011-05-27, 10:22

I understand that and i have no intention of leaving the flooder as is. It will be below the sidewalk when finished, i was just not able to get on last night to complete it.

709 · 2011-05-27, 10:23

Nah, we could just use the old blackball system. Snowball for yes, slimeball for no.

ThunderPoit · 2011-05-27, 11:20

Too bad snowballs and slimeballs dont slime you or cover you with snow, that'd be fun

RowdyScot · 2011-05-27, 13:45

They're Frog Coins, not Slimeballs.

arteggio · 2011-05-28, 16:01

On my new southern territory, there is a structure at XYZ 493, 66, 136. I assume it's just a usual adventure-night hideout, but it's pretty built up for such a place and I just wanted to check to make sure no one has any attachment to it.

Bryson · 2011-05-28, 17:28

At the top of a hill overlooking a lava fall? And beach?

arteggio · 2011-05-28, 17:56

No, not on a hill, but yes on a beach. It's just beside the water, sort of built up like an incomplete mini-fort, made of cobble and dirt.

Also: I only just learned about coordinate teleporting and didn't consider that when I posted, so teleport to those coordinates at your own risk.

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turtle Lord of the Rant. Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Upstate South Carolina	2011-04-13, 12:40 I found a few shafts like that too. Kinda odd really. My guess was someone using an x-ray theme was hunting something specific.
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ThunderPoit Making sawdust Join Date: May 2004 Location: Minnesota	2011-04-13, 12:47 We had a few "visitors" before we added the whitelist. The shaft Ely is describing was one of theirs.
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RowdyScot Ice Arrow Sniper Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Great Bay Temple	2011-04-13, 12:48 Could have been the "guests" that signed on the one day forcing our whitelist.
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Elysium Environmental Bloodhound Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Land of ice and snow	2011-04-13, 12:59 Alright. I'll grab some torches and cacti at some point to booby trap it just in case. I'll clear out the remaining resources while I'm down there.
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drewprops Space Pirate Join Date: May 2004 Location: Atlanta	2011-04-13, 13:06 Is there a cactus farm??
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Bryson Rocket Surgeon Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Canadark	2011-04-13, 14:35 There's 3x64 cactus in a chest in my Theatre Portakabin you can have. I used to have a cactus farm but I demolished it when I landscaped around the library. The mobtrap also creates cactus (albeit slowly) - check in the storage room chests. "...A smell of Petroleum prevails throughout..."
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709 ¡Damned! Join Date: May 2004 Location: Purgatory	2011-04-13, 14:38 bobsky has a cactus farm as well. It's between spawn and the passive trap somewhere along that corridor.
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turtle Lord of the Rant. Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Upstate South Carolina	2011-04-13, 20:30 We have a cactus farm too. It's by our "T" ranch north of the Money Bin. You can see it East of the big "T" in map.
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arteggio Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Within	2011-05-23, 17:26 I'm going to devour the island-ish thing that sits directly under 640, 0 (spreading to about -130 at its farthest east and 300 at its farthest northwest). I've just learnt that grey and RowdyScott have plans to the southeast of this landmass, but my selection doesn't appear to intrude. It's not going to interfere with anyone else, is it?
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Gargoyle http://ga.rgoyle.com Join Date: May 2004 Location: In your dock hiding behind your finder icon!	2011-05-24, 13:13 I haven't abandoned my humble little hole in the mountain, just incase you thought I had.... been busy
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ThunderPoit Making sawdust Join Date: May 2004 Location: Minnesota	2011-05-27, 01:22 Thank you for the input but please dont modify my stuctures for me.
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Bryson Rocket Surgeon Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Canadark	2011-05-27, 09:17 I think Bobsky was trying to help me out: in it's current form the auto-harvester means I'll need to take out the window on that side of the theatre. Is it going to get smaller and prettier?
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709 ¡Damned! Join Date: May 2004 Location: Purgatory	2011-05-27, 09:37 There must be a way to put it below the sidewalk. This is Minecraft! Challenges are what it's all about! Maybe inside the farm with the reset at glass level? Better to rejigger the top far end of the farm than messing with the sidewalk and the theatre. IMO, of course. So it goes.
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drewprops Space Pirate Join Date: May 2004 Location: Atlanta	2011-05-27, 10:17 Somebody is going to have to build a Senate and a Court... ...
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ThunderPoit Making sawdust Join Date: May 2004 Location: Minnesota	2011-05-27, 10:22 I understand that and i have no intention of leaving the flooder as is. It will be below the sidewalk when finished, i was just not able to get on last night to complete it.
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709 ¡Damned! Join Date: May 2004 Location: Purgatory	2011-05-27, 10:23 Nah, we could just use the old blackball system. Snowball for yes, slimeball for no.
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ThunderPoit Making sawdust Join Date: May 2004 Location: Minnesota	2011-05-27, 11:20 Too bad snowballs and slimeballs dont slime you or cover you with snow, that'd be fun
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RowdyScot Ice Arrow Sniper Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Great Bay Temple	2011-05-27, 13:45 They're Frog Coins, not Slimeballs.
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arteggio Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Within	2011-05-28, 16:01 On my new southern territory, there is a structure at XYZ 493, 66, 136. I assume it's just a usual adventure-night hideout, but it's pretty built up for such a place and I just wanted to check to make sure no one has any attachment to it.
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Bryson Rocket Surgeon Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Canadark	2011-05-28, 17:28 At the top of a hill overlooking a lava fall? And beach?
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arteggio Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Within	2011-05-28, 17:56 No, not on a hill, but yes on a beach. It's just beside the water, sort of built up like an incomplete mini-fort, made of cobble and dirt. Also: I only just learned about coordinate teleporting and didn't consider that when I posted, so teleport to those coordinates at your own risk.
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