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It's not a puzzle. Just read the instruction from the bottom up, and that's almost alway the correct order.

I don't like this idea. It's much more engaging to figure this kind of thing out through in-game experimentation that a magical research table.

Try smelting your strange ore. Hitting it with a hammer. Crafting it. Etc.

In all honesty, some parts of the game are obscure (Plans and Knapping come to mind). Maybe in that case, I would like a 'recipe book' of some sort, but nowhere else.

That would be fine too, I was just coming at this from "Is there something better that could be done with the 'stone flakes' from knapping, that didn't make it feel like such a kludge?" and arrowheads were the first thing that sprang to mind, especially considering the number of arrows you tend to go through if you are doing any archery, and how expensive metal arrowheads can be in terms of materials.

What would you do with tiny flakes of stone?

Maybe, depending on the stone, you could get some flux from the chips, but there's not a lot else I can see you doing with a pebble.

Why not just knap rocks into arrowheads?

and bronze is the vanilla equivalent of diamond

Also, you should spoil that. Bioxx has said that he doesn't want exact numbers leaked out.

Yes please.

I want to be a sarky bastard and say, book shops -.-

But you might not find it in book shops .. Try Amazon

Or, you know, the library.

You can find some pretty awesome stuff there. For free (Aside from taxes and late bills)!

And you do this by carrying a chisel, at least 2 stacks of charcoal, Chests or wood planks, sticks, torches and bellows everywhere you go? Or do you walk back and get the materials?

I'm sure that works wonderfully in SSP. SMP, that's just an invitation for a new player to steal everything of value like the bloomery, bricks and bellows then claim jump you for ore.

It usually goes like this for me:

I need some more ore, so I grab a chisel, some clay balls, food, and a bronze anvil, and head out. I find a cave, or dig one out using a few stone pickaxes (rocks are everywhere). Then, on the surface, I use the stone from the cave plus the chisel to make bricks. I chop down some nearby trees and make charcoal. Bloomery+Forge already done. I place the bronze anvil nearby, because even iron, the strongest naturally occuring metal, can be made into an ingot on a bronze anvil (and bronze is cheap). I use some wood planks to make a chest, and drop all this stuff into the chest.

I go mining and hope to find some ore. If I do, I trek it up (by this time, my charcoal is usually done), make some clay molds, melt the metal down (If I need to, I can usually find a few cows close by to make bellows), work it into an ingot, and carry my riches back home. Done.

Edit: Dang ninjas

-snip-

And I thought I had memorised everything =(

Time to dissapear from society for a week while I Lovecraft binge. Again.

...but r'lyeh was one sunken island, not a dimension

But it's also a joke that people could understand and laugh at. As far as I know, the original Lovecraft novels didn't name the origin of any Old Ones.

...Must...Break...Lovecraft...Addiction...

This is like Lovecraft in Minecraft. I kind of want the name of the dimension to be r'lyeh.

Fantastic idea, anyways.

My thought that first travel to the nether would be expensive as hell, (no pun intended) but the nether would also contain a common material that could be used to move to and from the nether easily.

In my mind, I had an image of a ring of 8 blocks of Hell-steel (Some sort of expensive metal requiring red/blue steel, and with gems hammered into the ingots). Throwing an Exquisite gem into the center would make a portal appear over the structure, and destroy the gem. In the nether, another portal back to the overworld would appear.

In the actual nether, ashes or soul-sand could be collected, formed into a 8-block ring, and then a glowstone block could be sacrificed to open another portal.

I don't like the helll-steel/gem idea all that much, but the basic concept, I do like

Looked it up in the wiki, there's nothing there. You can't make it in a firepit. Do you make it an a forge?

Also, use the search function.

It's now impossible to obtain flux in Build 44 as you need to use a hammer on limestone/chalk/dolomite cobblestone. Cobblestone is no longer obtainable. So you see where this is going?

Borax, if you're desprate.

But this is going to be fixed, already reported.

I still can't figure out how this is done.

The pedestal is one full block, surrounded by worked stone. Each piece of worked stone was hit with the chisel 9 times on the outward-facing side, and once on top. The collumn was just a hit to each side of a piece of smooth stone. Here's the 'dissasembled' pedestal, maybe that'll make more sense:

You sir, are an innovator and a genius

Thanks

I hope chests get phased out in favor of open-air storage. Why?

1) Aesthetics. It's much cooler to build a warehouse to store your swag than putting it in a 2-meter box.

2) Consistency. The player and the chest are about the same size. In fact, the chest is bigger, but holds less material than steves pockets.

I think this is feasable for tough materials like stone, metal, and wood. I'm not sure how food would be handled, however. Icehouses?

It's just a bit of glaring inconsistency that a saw (which is shown to be even better than the axe for precision woodcutting) can't cut logs into support beams.

At least, last I checked you can't do that, and that was yesteday.

Should be fixed ?

Only the two handed weapons spoiler, and only the first paragraph.

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I spent 4 minutes staring at the pics, looking for the ore before I realised that you were showing us the excavated area.

Marble pillars (for that 1:1 scale replica of the parthenon you've been meaning to build):

Looks amazing, but only the first and last spoilers will open

NOOOOOO! /hard working builder making a 50+ high tower.

Masonry (slabs) should effect the durability of the chisel.

IGN: ChrisW98

Age: 14 (Though I'd like to think I'm mature)

Favorite part of TFCraft: The immersion. Every part of the game is completely believable. I feel like I'm hammering out steel to make the perfect weapon, like I'm the one exploring the rolling hills and forests.