SheepQuest

[curiousepic 0]

Two real-time evenings spent on trekking for sheep so I can sleep through the damn night.  Favored mountainous, hilly terrain, mostly north of spawn (yes I'm aware sheep aren't MC-biome-specific).  Kept my ears listening for anything potentially like a bleat. Camped out every night in a hay bale fort.  Covered a roughly triangular area 2k a side.

 

A bill of items from my quest:

• ~8 male pigs,  one sow

• Various couples of deer

• A herd of cows, ~5 males, one female, one humongous steer I might have to come back for

• An huge ravine with caves extending off of it, in which I caused an epic dirt collapse (about 2 chunk's worth wide)

• A random raw hide at the peak of a mountain

• No. Sheep. Anywhere. Ever.

• "Ok, now THOSE look like proper mountains.  I will check them out, and if no sheep, I will return home, go into creative mode and hack some damn sheep into my pen. I feel ok about this considering the time commitment."

• Nope.

• Finally back home. Hm, while I'm in creative, I should clean up those floating sequoia leaves.

• gamemode c.... No permissions!?.... ARGH. 

• Create a new world just to check...

• Drowning in sheep, right at spawn!

Two questions: 

• Can I actually activate creative mode in my survival game? (I'm unfamiliar with vanilla creative mode)
• Should I continue my quest?

Disclaimer: I'm only venting and sharing my plight, not complaining about game features or the lack thereof

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

You said north of spawn, but how far south was spawn? Sheep (in their wooly coats) prefer to hang around cooler climates, so equatorial regions aren't sheep-rich. Sheep aren't terribly rare, but if it's too hot, you won't find any.

[thfc 0]

If you press escape and Click "OPEN TO LAN", you can allow cheats in your vanilla (or TFC) survival world. The ability to use commands will disappear once you leave the world and come back, but any commands you activate will remain in effect (ie. if you enter creative mode and leave, when you return, you will be in creative mode, but you will have to open the world back up to LAN to re-enter survival mode). 

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

If you press escape and Click "OPEN TO LAN", you can allow cheats in your vanilla (or TFC) survival world. The ability to use commands will disappear once you leave the world and come back, but any commands you activate will remain in effect (ie. if you enter creative mode and leave, when you return, you will be in creative mode, but you will have to open the world back up to LAN to re-enter survival mode). 

 

welcome to the forums

[curiousepic 0]

Dunk: Ah... I started around -5000 and figured it was just a part of the changes to world gen. I also didn't realize temp was actually paired to celsius... yeah I imagine sheep wouldn't enjoy 95F. 

 

thfc: Thanks for the info, and... er, registering to let me know?

 

Welp, I'm not going to make a 5-10k trip for only some wool, or god help me lead a breeding pair back to my homestead, so hacking away it is.  I'll be more wary in my next world.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Dunk: Ah... I started around -5000 and figured it was just a part of the changes to world gen. I also didn't realize temp was actually paired to celsius... yeah I imagine sheep wouldn't enjoy 95F. 

 

thfc: Thanks for the info.

 

Welp, I'm not going to make a 5-10k trip for only some wool, or god help me lead a breeding pair back to my homestead, so hacking away it is.  I'll be more wary in my next world.

 

yeah, latitude works on a 30 k scale, where z = 0 is the equator and z = -30 000 is the north pole (realistically, the world continues "infinitely" from here and doesn't get any colder, but at those temperatures, it's just snow and ice)

[Terex 108]

Welp, I'm not going to make a 5-10k trip for only some wool, or god help me lead a breeding pair back to my homestead, so hacking away it is.  I'll be more wary in my next world.

 

Make a trip regardless. Consider it as an expedition. You will find a lot more goodies along the way than just wool from sheep.