Seafaring in Minecraft.
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I have no idea. I died before I could make the journey back. However, seeing as I've made 6 giant towers of dirt as landmarks around my home and I never saw it on the horizon...Liquid Paradox said:
I'd say I was in the middle of f*cking nowhere when I crashed my first boat.
Pig Iron is a purified iron ingot that has just been smelted and has a high carbon percentage. This means it is refined but not useful until it is further procesed. So An iron Ingot in my case.Moonpooman said:
I think I may have gotten a little to technical. O well
Take it as an opportunity to build an outpost. 
Start from scratch again like someone else suggested. Once you find 4 iron and a redstone, build a compass and go back home leaving torches along your way so to find the outpost again in the future.
Start from scratch again like someone else suggested. Once you find 4 iron and a redstone, build a compass and go back home leaving torches along your way so to find the outpost again in the future.
After getting lost too many times my strategies are:
1) trying to find a good location near the spawn point.
2) Building a lighthouse and signal fires on high areas around the place- basically pillars with torches on every side, 2 torches on the side facing my home.
1) trying to find a good location near the spawn point.
2) Building a lighthouse and signal fires on high areas around the place- basically pillars with torches on every side, 2 torches on the side facing my home.
I had the exact same thing happen to me on a beaches and islands world I had. Didn't know about compasses, and it ended up taking me like 2 and a half days to find my island home.
Well, the compass doesn't point north.Optimus Hagrid said:
It points towards your spawn and that is most likely relatively close to his fortress, which is where he wants to go...
EDIT: Oh well, I guess you knew that...
Still, don't expect people to be able to depend on the clouds, my texture pack doesn't have any clouds.
i tend to build a giant tower of sand and put dirt on the top and cover the top with torches then jump of and comit suicide. then remove the dirt. that way you can explore a large area and always find your way back by looking for the giant fire in the sky.
Davey Woo" post="9.270498.10397427 said:
That's why I back up my saves all the time. I'm paranoid that something like that will happen.Sacman said:
And OP, that sucks that you died in the end, but at least you've learnt from the experience. After my 2nd death from lava, I never dig the block right under me; Minecraft is really a live and learn type thing.
I made the Eye of Sauron, which guides me back home no matter where I'm at...since it's a tower of fire that reaches the heavens.
In my mine, see a HUGE obsidian deposit. Get 10 pieces of it. Creeper spawns, blows me into the lava below. I return to find everything BUT the obsidian was lost, including my three diamond picks.
Basically dig until you can make a compass and try not to leave home without it. And set up your main base really close to your spawn.
If you can't be bothered to place signs in caves, but still don't want to get lost - use cobblestone to wall off the tunnels that you've fully explored. That way you'll usually only have one way to go.
And read up on the recipes on the minecraft wiki. You'll learn loads of interesting stuff.
And for those of you who've lost entire worlds due to conversion or HD failure I have just one word: Backup. It's especially easy with the new format since copying a 30MB world takes just a few seconds rather than 10 minutes like it used to.
And set up your main base really close to your spawn.If you can't be bothered to place signs in caves, but still don't want to get lost - use cobblestone to wall off the tunnels that you've fully explored. That way you'll usually only have one way to go.
And read up on the recipes on the minecraft wiki. You'll learn loads of interesting stuff.
And for those of you who've lost entire worlds due to conversion or HD failure I have just one word: Backup. It's especially easy with the new format since copying a 30MB world takes just a few seconds rather than 10 minutes like it used to.
