Mob Trap

I wanted to post about my large mob trap. It took quite a while to build this thing since I don't use a map editor or give myself materials through server admin.

Server Update

The 8 gigs of ram has come in, now I just need a power supply. Does anyone know what I should run the server on? It's just a little java app. I was thinking server 2008 x64 r2. I seriously hate Linux. I really do. I mean it's fancy and super great but it is just too goddamn complicated. I ran it for a few years and finally gave up when I decided getting shit done was more important to me than saving money or gaining a few bogomips. So if I can use Linux without having to spend the next 5 years of my life memorizing command line and sorting out dependencies then I might do it otherwise... forget it.

So yeah, please, any suggestions?

Minecraft Desktop Wallpaper

I took some screen captures to use as wallpaper and thought I'd share.

This is a little beach house. In the back is a huge cave and dungeon. I built a mob trap there that'll produce feathers all day. I have hardly even begun to search the cave. It's huge!

This is the triforce temple (spawn area) from the water. I added lava to make it easier to see. In multiplayer mod it seems half the time I spawn in the lava!

More triforce temple and Waterfall Cove (my first build).

This is the main entrance to Waterfall Cove.

This is my giant mob trap as seen from inside. You can watch the monsters and animals getting burned up and then collect whatever they drop on the beach. This is only one half of the trap. The other collector is accessible through the door.

This is the other collector.

This is the center of the giant mob trap. You can see both collectors from here.

This is the topside of the mob trap. The other side is built the same way. Monsters and animals get trapped in the water and swooshed into the lave. Anything they drop is swept into one of the collectors.

This is the mob trap from above. As you can see it's fairly large. I intend to make the river that feeds it much longer.

This is a view from on top of the mob trap looking up the river.

A tower I built. I'm probably going to build a few more.

This is inside Gravehome which is located below the large mob trap. For some strange reason the server removed all the pictures I had placed everywhere. They looked pretty good... really they did. The stairs beside the chest and ovens leads to the next picture via a dungeon.

The stairs above lead here. I have torches up so the box won't make monsters.

This is the very bottom level of Gravehome and beyond the first dungeon. There is another dungeon located up an underground waterfall further ahead.

And finally here is a pic of some neighbors taken from the top of Waterfall Cove. It looks like quite a party but I don't see any beer so I think I'll pass.

Minecraft 2011

So a lot has happened since my last post. I got a minecraft server up and going but the computer I used for the server is just too slow; so I've ordered 8gigs of ram and am going to build a Tyan 4 core server to run it. I hope it will be powerful enough to host multiple players so people who follow this blog can log in if they want.

I also explored and built a lot of new stuff including a ginormous mob trap (I'll show it in a video) and made my triforce temple more interesting.

Here are the latest maps: