I do!

I want an aqueduct system please.

Faster than walking, no fuel required, and no iron needed.

Oh, and no confusing east/west rules to worry about.

east west rules?

Whatever the thing is which dictates directions at crossroads.

You always turn, and always in the same compass directions.
So not East/West, but East/South or West/South or whatever.

Should have a big lever instead, that controls a set of points.

minecarts always turn west or south when they get to a track junction (unless you put in a slope to force them the other way)

oh, i've never made a crossroads.

 

You can do 3 way points.

{{{{squared paper}}}}}

I've never even built a track. :(

I think I've got one world where I did a fair bit of deep mining and got a decent amount of iron (even after building armour and buckets and stuff) - when I found out that depth actually made a difference, so I actually dug down deep - but I wasn't fond of the location of that one, so I gave up on it.

Other than that I've been mainly building/sculpting basic things, and not yet got around to doing more mines below sea-level to actually get the rarer ores.

Come build on the server.

msg:38140.160 :(

Lunchtime at work tomorrow then. Sorted.

Hah. Work network is frequently slower and laggier than 3G. :/

Not to mention there isn't a private place I could go to do it, and doing it in public I'd get shouted at for clogging the network at any time, since lunchtime can be any hour between midday and 3pm for different people.

There have been times where it's been very tempting though... and if I had my back to a wall I might well have succumbed. :$

:D

Still looks like a bloody ark.

IT LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING GALLEON BECAUSE IT IS A FUCKING GALLEON.

YOUR FACE LOOKS LIKE AN ARK.

I tried to jump in the hole in the middle of your canal but it all crashed and I couldn't get back :(

Sounds like you jumped into an unloaded chunk. My canal is flat and level. Any perfectly edged holes straight down to bedrock are a server bug. Logging out then back in normally persuades the server to load that chunk.

Quick question: how good is sand at holding back water from the side?

really? twice now I've seen a perfectly square hole with water at the bottom (at least that's what it looked like) about half-way along the canal

had another elsewhere too - been wondering how the sides got so smooth

I think sand is as solid as any other block, easier to dig and falls if there's nothing below it, but stops water fine