Enchantment is go.

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Have a look on minecraftwiki.net 

It has the depths where certain ores are most commonly found (along with pretty much everything else you need to know about mc).

Go to the page on gold and it'll help you out.

I think swirls on the 360.

The mansion is looking very cool, what's in store for phase 2?

I'm on 360 Swirl and I tend to find small deposits near lava. But only like 4-5 blocks in any one place. Diamond seems to follow similar rules but occurs even less frequently.

Bah, my melon harvester is fail, what a disappointment.  Lucky I'm at home sick and can justify this sort of time wasting endeavor.

Some_Guy wrote:

Oh sorry swirl.  Check out the minewiki, gold only occurs in the bottom 32 layers of the map, but you are more likely to find it if you hit an abandoned mine.

I am indeed on the 360 version, sorry about that. Been tempted to get the PC version, too (and the portable version because OH MY GOD THIS GAME).

Cheers for the tips, all. I'll have a search for some gold later. I think I've found some abandoned mines, I'll have a look at those.

I'll have a look at the wiki for tips on finding saddles, too, I've yet to find any of those. Or any diamond, for that matter; I had to build my nether portal using the bucket method.

n0face wrote:

If you're going for the achievement get the 500 pieces of rail down and use a powered mine cart to push you along.

I didn't even realise you could build such a thing. That might be easier than a "dumb" cart pushed along by powered rails. I shall investigate, cheers.

Yeah, get your PC on Swirl and come build with us.

Check out my new fence and gatehouse with very blue automatic doors:


And the view of my  estate from the tower currently under construction out the back:

your half finished house is spoiling the view in the second pic Grem.

I noticed a couple of you talking about the possibility of having the next server refresh taking the form of a Tekkit server.  I would be well up for this.  It adds so much more to the game.  I am not the most creative person but I have managed to make this thanks to all the 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 blocks that you get in the mod.  (still a work in progress)







The red power mod that is included is brilliant,  basically there are 16 different coloured insulated cables that don't interact with each other, further to that there are 15 different coloured bundled cables (that the coloured cables connect to) that again, don't interact with each other, so in theory you can have 240 individual redstone circuit occupying only 15 blocks, compared with about 480 using the vanilla redstone circuits .  Oh, and it the cables can be ran up walls, along walls and along ceilings etc.







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n0face wrote:

Is that single player goober or on a server? I've been trying to find a tekkit server to play on but the whole minecraft scene seems to be populated with 13 year old dicks. Please Please Please can we reboot the server into a tekkit world????

Its single player, because as you say the whole world is populated by 13 year old dicks >_<

n0face wrote:

your half finished house is spoiling the view in the second pic Grem.

Yep, serve me an ASBO or a compulsory purchase order motherfunster.  I'm the bad neighbour.

I'm still here! I'm waiting for my blown PSU to be replaced but it had to go to the Netherlands (The Nether?) and I'm still waiting. 

For the record, I'm keen.

The first thing you should know about Tekkit is that it installs completely separately from minecraft, so you can still play vanilla minecraft with no problem.

It combines about 40 individual mods I believe.  You have Redpower which you can see in the above screens, the mini map mod, waypoints, electrical power, volcanoes, oil, nuclear reactors, geothermal generators, automatic quarries, automated farming machines, much more advanced rail systems and a tonne more.

The complexity of the things that you can create would mean we would all have to work together to get the raw materials but once you get a quarry up and running things become easier.  The redpower wires would mean we could have a great rail system that doesn't have to take up half the world with red stone circuits.

In summary if you want to play Minecraft like you always have you can do that on Tekkit no drama, but you can also do a hell of a lot more, its BRILLIANT...

I wanna make a flying machine....

Don't think it's possible with vanilla MC