Minecraft Mod: Tekkit!

Welcome, Fellow MineCrafters, to Tekkit!

I've spent a fair share of my last few weeks exploring this awesome mod for Minecraft. Needless to say It is very addicting. What you are looking at in the above picture, is a automated mining rig that automatically mines a decently sized hole in the ground, all the way from the surface to bedrock, and place the blocks in chests, using a mildly complex system of motors and piping. 

What you see here is a engine (bottom left) powering a Pump (block with green pixels) that supplies water to this:

 

The block that the cobblestone is coming from, is the Quarry. 

A single quarry can pump out possibly thousands of blocks, when set up at higher elevations. 

The resources you mine can be automatically sent to crafting tables, where a finished product can be output to a chest for you're use. (useful, aye?) 

If you're hooked,  check out the Tekkit Wiki,

and get a feel for how things work,

And then:

Tekkit Launcher  

The Tekkit Launcher is a Standalone mod that saves its files in a seperate folder 

(located near your .minecraft folder)

Have Fun. :D

I've been using Minecraft - Pocket Edition Demo and I think you might like it. Check it out from your Android phone: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.mojang.minecraftpe.demo

#Minecraft #Mineshafts

Home Sweet Home. 1.8

So the 1.8 update came out a few days ago. im still finding new things about it to report on. Directly below hy house about 20 blocks deep is an Abandoned mineshaft.



Abandoned mine shafts are a series of straight intersecting tunnels 3 blocks wide. They have uneven ceilings with a height of 2-3 blocks. Wooden planks and fences make up the supports of these tunnels. Incomplete sections of minecart tracks can be found at the floor of these shafts and torches are occasionally placed on walls. Cobwebs can be found at random. Cave Spider spawners surrounded with cobweb can be found. ^[1] Occasionally, stair-like tunnels can be found.
Cave Spiders are exclusive to these areas. There are chests spread throughout the mine that contain things such as Gold and Iron ingots, ores, food or seeds. They can even contain Diamonds or pickaxes and may sometimes spawn in air as a world generation glitch. It is possible but rare to have it spawn in an ocean so the shaft is flooded. Abandoned Mine Shafts are also rich with ores such as Iron, Gold, and rarely Lapis Lazuli and/or Diamonds. As the 'shafts' are made of Wooden Planks, Abandoned Mine Shafts actually in turn provide very good source of wood while prospecting underground." -- Minecraft Wiki

They're a fun addition to the game for a few reasons. I hate mining at random for ores. when i come across an abandoned mineshaft, im sure to come back with enough ores to justify the trip many times over.  No more scouring the globe just to find enough iron to make a pickaxe. Be warned though, mineshafts are very easy to get turned around in. i had to tower block hop my way back to the surface a few minutes ago. I have yet to come across a stronghold or a village, though i am trying.

This, is what happens when a worldedit glitch goes terribly terribly bad.
I couldn't undo the initial damage, so i added glow stone just to see what i had to work with.  Its only 5 blocks under the surface, near the ocean. i actually had to put the bottom of the map back on, because worldedit tore straight through the bedrock. >.< This map would be a cool survival team game. Anyone interested?

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#Minecraft Traps

Since the 1.7 update, and the addition of pistons, ive been finding ways to use them in traps.

This, is such a trap. My next revsion of this trap will have an obsidian frame, but for the sake of design prototyping, i just used cobblestone.When you step on the pressure plate, this happens: The TNT attached to a sticky piston extends, bumping a redstone torch on the opposite side of the wall. combined with a iron door and a one way pressure plate, this trap could do some damage. :)