Gorfob posted:

He removed the block moving thing.

billy cuts posted:

It's because of the double doors - "When trying to sleep in a bed at night, a monster may enter through the outside right hinged door and disturb the player. To prevent this, keep the right hinge door open, and you will be able to sleep."

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Doors#Double_Door

Willie Trombone posted:

Death Himself posted:

Make it a hidden pirate town and widen the entrance to the ocean a bit over on the right.

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Accent trim (use different types of material for the edges) and non-symmetrical design are key. I'm not a pro house builder or anything, but I have made non-boxes that I was both happy and proud of.

Here's a quick and possibly minor design trick. When placing windows, don't just put down a glass block and be done with it; place however many glass panes between an upward facing stair block (which is on the bottom) and a downward facing stair block (from the top). Since learning that little trick, I rarely have normal looking windows. In fact, unless I'm putting glass on floor or the ceiling, I'm using panes.

Here's a view from the side, to better explain it. "r" is an upside down stair block, and "L" is a normally placed stair block. "I" is your glass pane. The dashes are the floor and ceiling, though obviously those could be wherever you wanted.

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Nuevo posted:

Eh, it's fine. Bring the center, higher roof's left edge down to the bottom of the left lower roof's edge and make a roof-valley between em, and grey in that new triangle area that gets made underneath.

SugarAddict posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo_qfeYxjq4&t=18s

This guy makes videos and guides for making fancy vanilla housing, you might want to watch.

mehall posted:

The way to fix issues around different height roofs is to think about how they'd occur in real life.

In real life, that house would originally have been built with the highest part, and all to its left, or all to its right.

Whichever side hadn't been built with it originally would be an extension, and likely made out of different material.
(If it was the same material, it would have different weathering but can't do much about that in MC)

What I'm saying is, change material to something a touch lighter on one side, to make it look newer, like an extension.

Potsticker posted:

This is absolutely the way to go. Do not be afraid to GIS pictures of real life houses and architectural styles and then try and create those same shapes and lines in Minecraft. Don't worry about getting every detail exactly correct, you want to just recreate the feeling. Not only is looking at what other people build in minecraft important, but also to draw from real life and getting practice in converting one to the other in order to strengthen your building techniques and style.

Vib Rib posted:

What are those lighter colored blocks?

Cicadas! posted:

Cantilever that poo poo.

Potsticker posted:

PiroPito's newest video is extremely good.

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Can't wait to see the many ways they regret the "watch videos together" feature

Dumb Lowtax posted:

It'd be a dead easy shader to write for MC

Dumb Lowtax posted:

You're not alone Unlike the devs I am also more about the mine than I am about the craft. My favorite part of the game was always running around in caves and trying to happen upon things, a possibility that the devs sadly they never expanded. I never did get into building anything that wasn't intended to be a mostly functional giant spawner tower with mob collection mechanisms, just because they served a point and could let me maximize something. I tried experimenting with all sorts of game mechanics to see if they were exploitable for that, like growing giant mushrooms as a fast strategy for generating multi-floor towers, combined with the old lava-to-cobble structures for walls. I did borrow one complex double-door piston build from YouTube just because it was a cool way to drop and kill the collected mobs. Eventually I ran out of ideas, lost the computer that stored the map my wife and I played on, and stopped playing.

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Has anyone seen any Minecraft clones attempt to use octrees instead of basic arrays for storing where stuff is? Basically minecraft but with arbitrarily huge/tiny blocks?

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Minecraft stores your block data on disk within flat arrays of a few bytes per block. They're all organized on three axes into partitions -- chunks.

Arrays aren't that bad of an idea; they have O(1) lookup and instant neighborhood queries. You could even store your octrees as arrays too, just a bunch of sparse ones, one per scale, and have that same benefit. IMO the crux of the matter is to try drawing things at more than one possible scale, which Minecraft did not attempt.

Buttcoin purse posted:

And it compresses them on disk, and also when sent over the network if I recall correctly, so the storage requirements aren't as bad as they could be.

Blind Duke posted:

My eternal complaint since bricks were added, why are you not dumping a metric load of these things in. Marbles and fancy candles and proper tables and seats you can sit on you can see the things people are trying to build with pistons and stairs just give us something anything it doesn't need to be complex just some textures gently caress

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Who could have even predicted that when Microsoft bought this IP that development would nearly stop on it ever since. Not even lose its intended spirit or sell out, but just stop. With all of their spare resources to devote, all that they paid, all the low level programmers who'd be happy to work on such a famous project. It says something about corporations in 2019 that even with all that going for the situation they still chose "sitting on valuable investment and charging rent" over "producing anything of value".

uncertainty posted:

There are a lot of different options, what kind of thing are you looking for, specific items, xp, just the challenge? The simplest would be finding an abandoned mineshaft and building something around a mob spawner. For all other options, the mobs that can spawn in your farm will be limited by the mob cap and too many mobs outside of your farm will prevent them from spawning in your farm. That means either lighting up, building really high, or building in/above an ocean.