A topic of concern

[DarkLadyPhoenix 62]

Lately, and by that I mean our past maps- one V29 world and two V36 worlds, I have had a terrible time working above ground.

Any time I try to build a house or tree farm, I end up spending more time filling in holes from a cave in by walking on dirt than I do building said house.

If I don't fill the holes in, then zombies, spiders and other nasties spawn and spend their time endlessly clipping through the floor of my house, scaring me and making incessant noise.

It's really getting irritating. Is there a problem with world gen that it makes a layer of dirt above a bunch of air?

I've built on plains 10 and hills 3. Is there a specific biome that is geologically stable and I don't have to feel like I'm trying to work on top of mud that keeps collapsing?

[xud9dab2 2]

I've rarely had this problem, so maybe it's just bad luck. You could try using support beams to support the fall-prone dirt and placing torches; that'll stop the dirt from collapsing and mobs from spawning

[DarkLadyPhoenix 62]

Yeah except when I find a place to live, I don't think I should be putting support beams under the very dirt I walk on just to make a house. Or spend and hour re-creating a tree farm that was on perfectly flat, usable land when I found it. You're probably right and that it's just been bad luck that on three maps I happen to pick the one place that has a cavern of air one block directly beneath it, but what are the odds of that?

[samaban 5]

yeah!It falls to my death a few times because of it...But is so fun sometimes! on SMP I saw a poor friend disappear in front of me, we found that it had fallen into a huge ravine leading to enormous caves with walls covered with ore, lost some precious items but we win chests full of ore.

[Ryuugumo 88]

Grats on finding sink holes. They are hard to find, fun to fill, and can contain secrets if you look in them.

[JDCollie 66]

Ground settling is a very realistic issue in construction. Once I have gotten settled in enough to not be in constant danger, I dig out the floors and add in a basement with mine supports.

[SierraKhaar 20]

Ground settling is a very realistic issue in construction. Once I have gotten settled in enough to not be in constant danger, I dig out the floors and add in a basement with mine supports.

Yeah that is realistic, what the author wrote is NOT.

Nor is it believeable that caves form up under you

When you shovel away some dirt.

I have some issues, on my first home (was stone under) so I had luck it wasn't too much.

But where I had my chicken farm on a new map (pre36) the dirt fell everywhere, all I did was take away some dirt so it was 2 blocks high and four pieces of fence.

Dirt fell, EVERYWHERE.

Every chicken, RAN AWAY.

Edit: that may help me and the author, is there a way to change the surroundings (obviously from my experience taking away dirt also cause this) without dirt falling everywhere?!

I wish Bioxx would cast some light on this issue, but I'm thinking of trying this out on several maps.

[CreepyCreeps100 5]

Yeah that is realistic, what the author wrote is NOT.

Nor is it believeable that caves form up under you

When you shovel away some dirt.

I have some issues, on my first home (was stone under) so I had luck it wasn't too much.

But where I had my chicken farm on a new map (pre36) the dirt fell everywhere, all I did was take away some dirt so it was 2 blocks high and four pieces of fence.

Dirt fell, EVERYWHERE.

Every chicken, RAN AWAY.

Edit: that may help me and the author, is there a way to change the surroundings (obviously from my experience taking away dirt also cause this) without dirt falling everywhere?!

I wish Bioxx would cast some light on this issue, but I'm thinking of trying this out on several maps.

Those are just the way minecraft generation works in vanilla.

When you go in a desert you can always find a patch of floating sand that when updated will trigger it to fall.

Since dirt can fall now, you have to be careful where you place your torches or the entire roof of dirt will collapse creating a mass ravine on the surface

[daveris 6]

i never have problems with this because for me the grass dosnt fall i dont know if that just me plus but maybe he could ajust the terrain generation to all for cave to generate only 4 blocks below the dirt

[SierraKhaar 20]

Well it is a beta after all so I will try to see where the chance is bigger or smaller.

Still I don't want to hear monsters under every block I've taken away.

[RogueHydra 32]

Gotta watch out for those sinkholes

[decomposey 3]

Yeah that is realistic, what the author wrote is NOT.

Nor is it believeable that caves form up under you

When you shovel away some dirt.

Well, stop settling in the minecraft version of guatemala.

[Walmart Germaphobe 15]

There used to be this glitch that when that happened, a layer of dirt would appear above the grass. This once buried the floor of my house. USED to be