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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.

So as l still need to book my train ticket, for those that have been before - do you book to Manchester or to Bury?

Gave this another 10 laps this afternoon. I managed to screw up most of them but in the middle managed a 1:32.5. I managed a lap where I was 7 tenths up but touched the grass and spun near the end of the lap So a 1:31 is possible even if tricky to keep the lap together.

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.

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.

Gave it some laps tonight using the M4 and managed a 1:33.052. Interestingly on that lap I set none of my fastest sectors as I messed up so many faster laps A 1:32 is definitely possible, maybe 1:31 even if I can string sectors together without touching the grass.

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.

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.

I haven’t found the time to have a go yet but thanks for letting me know what the best car is I’ll try to have a go this weekend and see what times I can set.

I’ve included all car classes so we will end up with some slow combo’s occasionally. Though I have an unwritten rule that if we end up with something stupid like n100 and Nordeschleife then I’ll re-roll the randomiser. I think a slower combo could be good though, see who maintain their speed through the corners.

I don't think I've driven Brands Hatch in this game, I remember it from some older games but then only really the indy circuit. I know it is quite a fast but precise track to really get the best out of some of the corners so it is going to be interesting to see how we all do.

@GazzaGarratt A little more practice and I'm sure you'll be giving us a run for our money too As I'm having an earlier night tonight, here is the next combo to run until 25 November. Round 3 Track: Brands Hatch GP Car: N400

Damn that is close to my time! Definitely made me sweat more this round than the last one. Maybe I should stop posting videos of my laps until the round is over I saw that the other but had forgotten, accepted

Yeah it is horrible to see what your perfect lap is. With my 15.2 laps my best lap was a 14.3 so losing 9/10th’s over my absolute best lap I know my biggest time losses are the double hairpins just after sector 2 and the weird chicane before the last hairpin. I don’t think I’ll have time today to give it another go so it looks like 15.2 is my best time.

I give up! I gave it a go to get a 2:14 but nope. I managed a 2:15.205 so ever so slightly quicker but couldn’t get any faster. I set a few faster sectors which would have been good enough to get me in to the 14’s but always messed a sector up somewhere.

How are all you Cov lot getting up to Mancs? I presume train or are you driving?

What problems are you having with manual gears? Is it just a practice thing or are you having specific problems? I’ve used manual gears pretty much since I started racing games 20+ years ago so a lot of it I do without thinking but I can try and offer any advice I have.

You’re going to make me give this another go aren’t you! If you’re only a corner away from a low 2:15 I don’t think my time is safe!

Right, the start of a super smelter is underway. I've put some signs on with instructions but basically put what you want smelted in the top chest minecart, fuel in the bottom chest minecart and flick the lever. I've put 8 stacks of dried kelp in it for fuel so 32 per furnace currently so that's good for quite a lot of items already! Currently it is only 16 furnaces as I don't have the resources for more but I'll expand it to 32, then 48 and finally 64 furnances as I get enough resources. Obviously if you have only a stack or even a few stacks of items to smelt you're probably best sticking to manual smelting (or a small furnace array or 2 or 4) but if for some reason you need a chest full of glass or smooth stone this is the smelter for you. For a comparison, a single furnace would smelt a double chests worth in around 9.5 hours. Even with only 16 furnaces that is down to around 40 minutes but with the full 64 furnaces you can smelt a whole double chest in 9 minutes

Nice, can’t complain at free content. I do like circuit de Catalunya to, quite fast and flowing for the most part. I’d love Crispy and Rich to get GT, more peoples asses to kick on the time trial

The one at the kelp farm is dedicated to kelp as you need to dry all the kelp before you can turn it into fuel. It is a shame that you have to do some crafting else you could feed the output of the kelp farm smelter directly into another super smelter. I’ll build another one, for general purpose smelting somewhere else. I should be on tonight so will take a look around for where it can fit in round spawn It will be a slightly different design but will work the same. I think it will be the same number of furnaces for now but will build it so it can be expanded in the future incase we need to smelt even more stuff.

So I managed to get the new furnace array to smelt all the kelp stored from before. It's filled its fuel store chests and then some! I think I've crafted about 7 or 8 stacks of dried kelp blocks which I've left in the bottom left chest of the collection chests. I've put up a sign as well just so you all know it is free fuel @Plumbers Crack I've had a quick count and I think I may be alright on iron - it depends on the exact design I build for the new smelter as to how many hoppers are needed. I can't see I'll need more than maybe 30 iron than I currently have but I'll probably do some more mining before it is finished so may have enough. I'll let you know if I need more as I'm building the new furance array. As you've requested it, is there anywhere specific you'd like it to be? I'm guessing somewhere near your house?

It’s a design copied from a tutorial as their version is a lot more compact than mine. Basically though, when a hoppeinecart with items in goes over a regular hopper it drops 1 item in to it. This item is them put in to the furnace to smelt. Where this design gets clever is that because a dried kelp block can smelt 20 items it puts 20 kelp in each furnace every time it activates. At the basic level this is just maths - A hopper minecart hold 5 stacks (5x64 = 320 items) so run that over 16 furnaces and you get 20 items per furnace. The clever bit (and the bit smaller than my design) is it holds the hopperminecart until is full from the farm. It will loop round and round, depositing 1 item in to each furnace every time until it is empty. When empty it goes a different route to the filling station. It sits there until the farm fills is back up and then it will automatically be released to fill the furnaces again. You could just collect the items straight away but I like the industrial piping look. So all the dried kelp goes in to a dropper which with a little redstone will output anything put in it. This will float up the water stream, across the water stream over the top of the kelp farm and be stored in the chests at the front of it. If you want to see it in action, if you go down the hole at the front of the farm there are chests full of kelp from when I initially built the farm. Take some of it and place it directly in to the hopper minecart, as soon as its full it will set off. Just don’t stand on the rails to do this like I did....errr I mean some other idiot did As for iron, I might have enough actually. I made enough hoppers for a fuel line too but didn’t build it. I’ll check later and let you know.

Right away Captain Piccard...I mean Plumber I might need to borrow some iron though as I used almost all of mine making this smelter. Either that or time for serious mining.

So furnace array built and it seems to be working alright. There’s no building around it yet so it looks a bit of a mess. The furnace array is at the back (away from spawn) of th kelp farm. I’ve designed it so the first 3 double chests of dried kelp get filtered off so I can keep the furnaces fueled but any excess will go to the chests at the front of the kelp farm. You’ll need go craft the dried kelp in to kelp blocks manually but then you’re good to go. If people want to smelt a lot of anything (sand to glass, cobble to smoth stone etc) I can build a second furnace array for this.