FG Realms Discussion Thread

[Spacedeck 920]

Trial was to end tonight, so extended it on a monthly basis for now.

 

Next week I think I'll take a closer look at some of the mini games available.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

Thanks for that SC....I tend to dabble when the weathers bad, I’m bored with console games, etc. Depending on the response from @Greboth @crispymorgan and yourself I would be happy to send you £10 - 12 to go for 6 months after the next month ends

[Greboth 2,721]

I’m enjoying having an FG server again, I think the amount of time I’ve spent on it already shows that  I didn’t realise the trial ran out but glad you renewed it.  Like Plumber, I’m happy to send you money to cover some of the costs.

 

I’ll probably be on less for a while as I want to get some work done on my base on another server.  Currently that means replacing over 3,000 blocks with blocks of soul sand.  Then I can start thinking of building an actual base rather than a cobble box with a bed.  I will still be around thogh as I want to finish the super smelter and build the actual buildings for them.  Plus there’s other farms to build, a wither and dragon to kill, end cities to raid.

[Spacedeck 920]

I'm not going to force anyone who wants to use the realm, to pay towards the cost of the realm. If I do it solo, I'd just keep it running monthly. 

 

Depending on who / if any of you guys would still like to put towards a 6 month sub. I'll get how many people would like to put towards and I'll work out how much to ask. 

 

Realms cost £33.99 for six months. So depending on responses, I'll update on this situation again next month. 

[Greboth 2,721]

You don’t have to force us, it’s unfair to expect you to solely pay for the realm we all play on so I’m happy to, I’m offering to pay towards it.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

^ This ^ Add the one month cost to the six month cost and divide by the number of players..simples! 😊

[Spacedeck 920]

Thanks, like I said though, I want to do this as a way of giving back since  you've all been so welcoming to me.

 

So I'm happy to do this and pay a little more to keep things running if need be.

[Greboth 2,721]

I can appreciate that  Though in the future if you would like something towards to cost then let me know.

 

On a game related note, does anyone know if/where there is village? Preferably close to spawn as I’m thinking of building an iron farm.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

/locate<space> will bring up a list of destination options of which village is one. These give you references to teleport to., along with distance away There is a missing number which is the level, I normally go for 67 which should be near the surface. Get ready with a pick axe and torch as you normally end up in a wall!!

Interestingly, the co-ords are for the nearest village, mineshaft etc so it is possible to teleport all over the map by going to different places then finding the nearest “something else”. I write them down as I go along with all the co-ords of my own base so I can get back!

[Greboth 2,721]

That is handy to know thanks  I won’t tp there though as I’ll build a tunnel in the nether as I’ll need to transport some of the villagers back to spawn.

[crispymorgan 1,054]

Greboth and his zany ideas.....

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[Greboth 2,721]

Not that zany, nether travel is far quicker than the overworld and who doesn’t love free iron.

 

I was thinking a small one which still generates a few stacks an hour.  No  way am I going to try and build something as huge as the titan and really I don’t think we need that much iron.

 

Though for an iron farm you need quite a few villagers so will have to build a villager breeder too  On the positive side, if I come across any good enchantment trades I’ll filter them out for us to use.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

Not that zany, nether travel is far quicker than the overworld and who doesn’t love free iron.
 
I was thinking a small one which still generates a few stacks an hour.  No  way am I going to try and build something as huge as the titan and really I don’t think we need that much iron.
 
Though for an iron farm you need quite a few villagers so will have to build a villager breeder too [emoji38] On the positive side, if I come across any good enchantment trades I’ll filter them out for us to use.

"villager breeder"?? Porn on Minecraft???
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[Greboth 2,721]

21 minutes ago, Plumbers Crack said:

 

 

"villager breeder"?? Porn on Minecraft???


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I’m so going to have to put up a “bowchika-wow-wow” sign next it now  

[Greboth 2,721]

So today was a good day - first I did some mining and found a decent amount of iron for the smelter but most importantly I came across a skeleton spawner That means we can finally get some sort of XP grinder going.  It is a single spawner so it won't be massively quick but hey it is better than nothing.  And secondly, the nearest village is really near! So I built a simple nether tunnel to it and there are 3 villagers in minecarts in the tunnel.  I'm leaving them there until I have a proper home for them in spawn so please don't break their minecarts else they will escape.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

Be interesting to see what they trade once they’re in and...ahem..breeding!!

[Greboth 2,721]

10 hours ago, Plumbers Crack said:

Be interesting to see what they trade once they’re in and...ahem..breeding!!

 

You’ve done some villager trading on the old server and it is basically the same.  You can trade with most villagers for emeralds, what you trade depends in the villager.  Farmers trade wheat, potatoes, carrots, melons etc. Cartographers trade for paper and othef stuff I can’t remember.  Tool smiths trade coal for emeralds.

 

Their trades are somewhat random though sometimes they sell reasonable armour which you buy for emeralds.  Librarians are the best though as they sell enchanted books-the holy grail to be get a mending villager for cheap so you can repair tools and armour with xp.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

On the old server I found a guard who traded iron for emeralds and the number of trades on offer must have been about 15 on a cycle, then show some love, reset, rinse and repeat!

[Greboth 2,721]

I think the mods we were playing added extra villagers but the concept is the same.  The villagers start with a few trades but unlock more as you trade with them.  Mostly you are trading to get emeralds but there are a couple you can spend emeralds with.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

Apart from making pretty green blocks, is there another use for emeralds

[Greboth 2,721]

12 hours ago, Plumbers Crack said:

Apart from making pretty green blocks, is there another use for emeralds

 

The only real use of emeralds is to buy enchanted books or enchanted armour from villagers....or make pretty green blocks Once the villager breeder is up and running, I'll filter out any villagers with good trades for us to use

 

I've also built the skeleten spawner - the room isn't pretty but it works which is the most important.  I've marked it with signs but to find it, drop in to my mine (the hole in the ground behind my house and by the kelp farm).  Walk down the 2 wide coridor and near the end you'll see a tunnel on the left surrounded in mossy cobblestone and I've put up a couple of signs too.   Go the end of that tunnel and you'll find the XP farm - there is chests underneath to collect the bones, arrows and other drops which you can take as you need.  To use for XP though, go up the little stairway and stand on the block of granite - the skeletons will drop in front of you on top of the half slab.  The farm is designed so they take a lot of fall damage (one more block fall they would die automatically) so they only take one punch to kill so you don't need to even use a sword.  Though if you have a sword with sweeping edge on you can wait until there's a few of them and kill them all in one swing.

 

It is far from the fastest XP farm you build in minecraft but it is the fastest way to get XP that we currently have. 

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

Works well but like London buses...you wait then 3 come along at once! I think we could use another spawner in there?

Also, I had something drop 2 or 3 times that looked like it was wearing gold boots but couldn't find anything golden in the chest?

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

yep, deffo gold armour clad dudes coming down..is there a little metal filter going to a separate chest somewhere? 😎 

[Greboth 2,721]

2 hours ago, Plumbers Crack said:

Works well but like London buses...you wait then 3 come along at once! I think we could use another spawner in there?

Also, I had something drop 2 or 3 times that looked like it was wearing gold boots but couldn't find anything golden in the chest?

 

2 hours ago, Plumbers Crack said:

yep, deffo gold armour clad dudes coming down..is there a little metal filter going to a separate chest somewhere? 😎 

 

Yeah, spawning is quite slow with a single spawner but it the best we have so far If you have a sweeping edge sword, wait until there are a good number of them and you can kill them in all one swing but still not the fastest.  The problem with spawners is that you have to be within a certain number of blocks for them to be active (I think 16 but don't quote me on that) so you can't have another spawner unless you luck in to finding 2 close together.  There are faster XP farms out there - Guardian farms, Pigmen gold farms, Ender Enders - which would be useful once we have mending tools as you can repair fully worn tools in a couple of minutes.  The problem is they are either huge farms or a pain to build but certainly something we can work towards.

 

As for the drops, I'll double check but I think the right most column of chests has no filter so anything that isn't bones or arrows will end up in there.  You will get mobs with armour on though - sometimes leather, sometimes iron and sometimes gold.  However they dont' always drop the armour they're wearing when they're killed sadly Though on a side, if you get any gold armour you can smelt it in to gold nuggest and craft them in to gold ingots

[Greboth 2,721]

So a basic villager breeder is up though I forgot the bowchickawowwow signs  It’s an ugly build and stands out as I had to build it in the air if it was to be near spawn.  I’ve built it near spawn so it’s active more often but once we have a decent selection of villagers I’ll move it further away so it isn’t an eye sore.