So, Minecraft.

[DeeBye]

I had a pretty constructive day. I *think* I found an actual Slime chunk. I found two 3x3 Slimes in one of my mining tunnels (I'm glad I make them that big). I'll have to play around with that at a later date.

I've been exploring a HUGE abandoned mineshaft lately. I've never seen one so big. I've found at least 8 spawners (no Skeleton Archers sadly - all Cave Spider and Zombie spawners), and I found a bunch of chests. Amongst those chests I found a decent amount of melon and pumpkin seeds, so it was time to build a melon/pumpkin farm.

I worked out a design awhile ago for a piston-powered semi-automatic melon/pumpkin farm that was fairly simple and low on resources, so actually building it in my survival world didn't take too long - maybe an hour at most. It uses 30 sticky pistons, and it hurt to use 30 of my precious Slime Balls.


The length is 15 blocks - which is the maximum that a redstone signal carries - but I could extend it if I had to with some repeater trickery. I don't think I have to.

The melons/pumpkins grow on dirt blocks, which are connected to sticky pistons underneath that fire upwards. When I flip a lever, they all break and I just have to walk through them to harvest.


I've been wanting a sheep farm for awhile. I want to have separate pens for the 16 different colours of sheep, so my son and I built a fairly large room to accommodate it (I was using the OCD texture pack for this screenshot because it allows me to easily count blocks).


Here's the finished Sheep Room™. There are 8 pens on each side for a total of 16 pens. I added signs to label each Wool colour, and slapped some chests in each pen. I haven't lured any sheep in yet, but I'm a bit worried about them escaping due to SMP lag like my chickens have been doing. The next 1.3 update is supposed to be fixing this, but we shall see.


Here's an overview of my ever-expanding Minecraft home. It's getting really huge.
http://i.imgur.com/t3PNs.jpg