Tales of Minecraft

Day Two Hundred Twenty-Four. The only conversations I have anymore are with my Pickaxe. I've developed a relationship with it. Some cycles I sleep with it, and others I make it stay outside of my cave. My waning ability to discern logic from insanity is becoming cumbersome. I've been trying to dig my way out, in between arguing with the pickaxe...you went off for a few hours during my last sleep cycle, I heard you sneak out! As I work, I spend the majority of days having conversations with people that are not there. Two days ago I explained to my mother how the diamond pick I've been collecting materials for will greatly aid both my ore collecting and my attempts to return to the surface. My mother has been dead for 16 years; she was never actually interested in mining to begin with. I'm unsure if I'm quite to the point of no return, but my stubbornness, which I got from her in the first place, will keep me here putting up with her until I find exactly where The Vault is...or until I drive myself so far off the edge I do not remember why I was doing this in the first place.

 

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Okay, that is extensive

 

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Minecraft grow op?

 

What, Fenix?

EDIT: Also, ijffdrie, wait until you see Infinity Cave.

 

Hey says it's an underground weed farm, like the one we have under Nijmegen university

 

In my arboretum studies, I have found that saplings a) must be planted in dirt, b) require a nearby light source, and c) are generally unaffected by proximity to water. It has been several days, and only one sapling has grown in to a tree. I am not sure if this is due to limited space, or because my light is not strong enough. I am considering flooding the ground with water and placing torches more frequently along the walls.

 

They require quite strong light, So I'd say: cover the entire floor in torches. Also, they will only sprout when they have enough space(which means some will never sprout underground, because their randomly generated size is big)

 

I could enlarge the cave. It isn't very tall. I'll take out the water and place more torches along the ground. I've also kinda wondered if I can plant trees on top of trees.

 

Forget torches. Make a skylight.

 

But than the police could find his stash

 

Today I learned that lava is bad. never access your treasure chest while you have a bucket of lava in your hand. Especially not when your house is made of wood. My house pretty much burned down, but luckily treasure chests are immune to fire, so I have 900 stone to build a new house. I'm thinking of making an obsidian statue of me.

 

Did any of you guys customize your skin btw? All I did was color my pants red.

 

I downloaded a whole texpak. It's not really noticeable except the armor looks WAY better now. Seriously, Gold Armor is one of the coolest looking things ingame now.

 

I haven't changed any of my textures.

Fenix, with a skylight it would no longer be underground, which was the whole point of digging an underground arboretum Furthermore, the arboretum is at the bottom of the map.

ijffdrie, lol that's how I accidentally burned down the wooden mine hut. Except I was trying to open a door.