Kamis, 05 Mei 2016

How to Build a Branch Mine in Minecraft - Making the Mine

1. Find a good spot. Don't start your mine near a lava lake. try to avoid caves, unless you want to explore them on your way down.

2. Dig a 2x2 hole. Never dig straight down. You can fall in a cave full of monsters or a pocket of lava.

3. Dig until you're at layer 11. You'll find the most ores on layer 11, so it's logical to set up your base here.

4. Dig out a base. It doesn't have to be big, 5x5 and 2 high is big enough.

5. Dig out a long 2x1 space. It has to be around 20 blocks long.

6. Dig out long 2x1 spaces, perpendicular and staring from this long hallway. Leave 1-3 blocks between each tunnel.

7. When you see interesting ores, mine them.

8. Build your way up. When you want to go up again, go to your base and use the ladders to get out using the mineshaft.

How to Build a Branch Mine in Minecraft - Preparing

Branch mining is an efficient way to mine as much rare ores, like diamonds or lapis, with the least amount of effort and resources.

1. Gather wood and dirt. You'll need wood for crafting in your mine, so try to keep it in log form, but planks are equally well. You'll need dirt to nerdpole out of holes and explore caves, as it's easy to break and not affected by gravity.

2. Gather food. You don't need golden apples, but a stack or half a stack of meat, bread or baked potatoes are really necessary.

3. Gather things for the rest of your base. You'll need an oven or two, a crafting bench, two chests and a bed.

4. Craft ladders. You'll need ladders to go up and down the mineshaft.

How to Build a Base for Minecraft Factions - Becoming Self-Sufficient

1. Make an experience grinder. This is so you can upgrade your weapons and armor for better killing and better tools for easy material access. You are also going to need to get an enchanting table and bookcases.

2. Expand your farm. That small 8 wide farm won't support an entire clan of people, so making a wider and longer farm is neccessary. You are going to need to make the farm very long and wide, so more torches and glowstone is needed.

3. Be smart with your faction. Your one-person faction isn't going to last long in a large raid, and more people means more work being done. Start recruiting people to help you with your efforts, but be aware these people could just be scouts or looking to rob you. Don't purposely start wars with factions you know you can't beat, be smart with who you raid and how you talk to people.

How to Build a Base for Minecraft Factions - Reinforcing your Base

1. Gather a lot of obsidian. This is the most time consuming part of the whole process, as you are going to need enough obsidian to create a protective shell around your base. This will protect you completely from tnt cannoning, the most common method of destroying protected bases. It also makes tunnelling into your base inefficient, as it makes your attackers mine every single obsidian block to enter.

2. Cover your base in lava. If you are underground, this means people cannot just tunnel downward into your base, or they will die in the lava surrounding your base. This also acts as a protectant against x-rayers, as they will only see the lava and not the chests underneath them most of the time. This will not work in high in the sky bases, as the lava will flow down and reveal your base.

3. Replace the surrounding scenery. If you had to dig down to get to your base, smelt some stone and build it back up, cobblestone will just let people know somebody was there. If you built straight up to your base, remove the blocks that build up to your base. The point here is to make people to not suspect that anyone was here, and that they will move on without seeing your base.

4. Add traps. There are a multitude of traps you can make, as many as you can think of. Here is just a list of ideas to get you started.
- Minefields. Put wood or stone pressure pads on wood or stone blocks, and then put tnt below them. As people step on them they will explode.
- Cobwebs. You can simply put these up, or you can dig a hole with cobwebs then a block of lava, making your victim watch helplessly as they fall to their death.
- Cacti. Putting cacti in an "X" patter can suprise players, and make them slowly pass through all of the cacti before they can reach you.

How to Build a Base for Minecraft Factions - Building Your Base

1. Decide where you want your base located. There are only 2 really viable options for where your base can be, these being very high in the air and very deep in the ground. Each base has its notable pros and cons.
- High in the sky base. Hard to spot, very easy to get to. You can safely maneuver your base without shifting in here, as it is unlikely that people will be looking in the sky for people. However, if they spot you, all they have to do is build a large tower up, however if you spot them early you can knock them off with a well placed arrow or knockback sword.
- Deep underground base. Easy to see you in your base, as if people can you in your base they can see where your base is. Hard to get to, the person must dig straight down to your base, and if you have lava around your base they run the risk of digging down into the lava.

2. Claim your base. On most servers, the command for claiming land is /f claim, however you can do /help if that does not work.
- It may be more beneficial not to claim your base, as even though people cannot break the land if it is claimed, it does tell them where your base is, making tnt cannoning a good idea

3. Clear a flat area for your base. If you are going for the underground base, you should be clearing out a space at about the 20 Y coordinate. This is because people mostly mine at Y level 11, meaning they won't accidentally stumble upon your base, however it is still pretty far down. If you are going for a high base, go about 6 blocks below the build limit, giving you a natural impenetrable ceiling. This base will only be visible on the highest draw distance, which requires a pretty decent computer to run with a decent fps.

4. Build your farm. You are going to burn through food fast, so you are going to want to start getting some as soon as you can. Have a canal of water, then 8 blocks wide of crops, then another canal of water. Water can give it's fertilizing effect up to 4 blocks horizontally, meaning one on either side gives a 8 block effect. You are going to need a fairly lit place, so lots of torches, or better, glowstone, is needed.

5. Build your storage area. You are going to want chests several blocks high for easy access to all of them. Have a stack of obsidian next to the chests labeling what each chest is, and to protect them from explosions. If you can, covering the chests with obsidian is the best idea, as this protects them from being exploded or stolen from when you are offline.

How to Build a Base for Minecraft Factions - Gathering Materials

Factions is one of the most popular plugins for a minecraft multiplayer servers. This allows players to experience the fun of survival mode while facing other players to get their materials and essentially progress. The most important aspect of factions is having a base to keep your hard-earned loot safe. If your base can be seen and infiltrated, then all your work has gone to someone else's hands. Here is a guide for a base for minecraft factions.

1. Gather your building blocks. Your base is going to need a backbone, and that backbone has to be the heart of your operation. You are going to want a common material, such as wood block or cobblestone. You are going to reinforce this later, so what you choose is what you are going to see, not what is going to be exposed, so whatever material you want to see is what you should choose.

2. Gather your food. You aren't going to be able to go back up to kill a few pigs every time you get hungry, so you are going to need a farmable source of food. The most preferable source of food would be potatoes, as every baked potato can heal 2 and a half hearts, and you can get several per plant. However, things like wheat, melons, and even carrots can be used as food.
- If the server you are playing on has the option to get spawners, those can be placed in a 10x10 room with grass for an infinite amount of food and experience. The best would be cows, as they can drop leather and raw beef, the leather can be used to make books and armor in a pinch, and the beef could be used for food

3. Gather your odds and ends. Your purpose here is to minimize the amount of time needed to spend in the overworld, as people can simply follow you back to your base afterward. A list of such items follows, but any item that you might find necessary should also be included
- 2 buckets of water. This is to create an infinite source of water by putting 2 blocks of water diagonally from each other in a 2x2 square to get infinite water.
- Saplings. This is so you can get more wood underground in case you run out in your adventures.
- Wool. This is to make a bed so that you can respawn in your base in the off chance that you die.
- Dirt. This is so you can plant your saplings and seeds and get your farm going.

How to Build a Basic Farm in Minecraft

Do you play and enjoy Minecraft? Have you gotten tired of hunting and scavenging for your food? This article will tell you how to create a basic farm in Minecraft.



1. Choose a Farm Size. Your farm can be as large or small as you want it to be. 26 by 24 is highly recommended for all players.
- Remember, the larger the farm, the more supplies it will take.



2. Choose your Farm Land. This is where we will build the farm.
- It is recommended that your land is flat, though this isn't mandatory.
- There are infinite places to build your farm, but here are a few ideas.
 - Underground. Building your farm underground is the most versatile place to build your farm, though it is the most time consuming.
 - In a Field. This requires no special items, and is the easiest to build, though it isn't very safe from Mobs.
 - Inside. Usually this is a special building dedicated to a farm. It Should have a glass ceiling to let sunlight in. It requires that you build a building for the farm, but is safe from Mobs.
- If you don't have the means to perform step 6, put your farm adjacent to a pond so you can dig the canals from there and let the pond fill them up. Keep in mind that if you do this, the number of blocks you can use in your canals will be limited, but this can work as a stop-gap solution until you can get the iron to make a bucket.



3. Build a perimeter around your farm. This helps to keep monsters out.
- Note: Make the perimeter two blocks high at least, or use fences, otherwise Mobs will jump over the built wall.



4. Light up your land with Torches. This way, it prevents the Mobs from spawning in your farm.
- You can use glowstone under the water canals and under the fence



5. Dig Water Canals. These will water the crops.
- Keep in mind that the water will irrigate 4 blocks in each direction, so have 8 blocks between the canals



6. Fill the canals with water. Use the bucket to scoop up the water.



7. Till the dirt with the hoe. Crops will only grow on tilled land.



8. Plant the crops. Right click on the tilled land with seeds in your hand.



9. Wait for the Crops to grow. Use Bone Meal to speed up the process.



10. Harvest the crops.



11. Replant the crops.
- Harvesting crops yields seeds.



12. Now you have a working farm, enjoy!