Bedrock back in the good old days!

Oh yeah, those blow.

Damn, I shouldn't have told you, and then used a mixture of both, so you'd think you had to keep switching tools too. :P

Just to change tack slightly - can someone tell me about the Nether and how that works - how do you get to it, is there anything there worth mining, do mobs exist there on our server and how does the nether transport work?

 

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That gives me an idea...

...to construct portals on bits of railway just around corners

You go through a portal to get to the nether. Hopefully drew's new map will pinpoint the nether gates/portals. The nether is scary and full of lava, there's various new blocks there too. No mobs.

 

The nether transport works based on the fact the nether is smaller so if you travel across the nether it's like travelling further in the normal world (can't remember the factor, on my phone) so if you go into the nether and leave via a appropriate portal it'll send you much further across the normal map. Someone will no doubt explain this better.

You can't ride minecarts (or boats or pigs) through portals.

Which is a massive shame.

Not as much of a shame as lock gates not being possible. :(

Bedrock bed :'S

Map: Updated
PS: Is mean

there is netherwrack, and glowstone, and soulsand, and LOTS of lava, and some mushrooms

I built a huge path/road which now goes nowhere (since Xen & Kev changed /everything/)

you get there through the portals, which can be joined neatly to the real world if you know what to do - otherwise they all lead to Xen's basement

Should've built a fence 'round it :Y

don't care, cos Kev built me a track right to my house

oh, map updated? no sign of the great southwestern line

Oh man you've done /another/ one? Where is it? You're a fucking map vandal, you are.

Ant, Jon - that all makes some kind of sense.

 

I'm sure it'll all become more apparent in game.

:S:S:S I've just worked out I need a volume of approximately 160,000 blocks cleared. I've done about 19,000 of that. Luckily it's nowhere Xen so he can't shout at me for building too close to him.

It's not Xen you should be worrying about...


What exactly are you planning to do once you've got your ugly hole to 50x50? :-{)

This is why I don't play minecraft anymore (fail)

I told you, it's not an ugly hole!

 

I plan to build something big. 120 blocks high, double real life scale. I'm thinking now though that maybe I should do it 1:1 so there's hardly any digging. Or one of each maybe.

you need to get patch involved, he could dig all that over a weekend