Posts by jay4gamers1 - Kafuka Boards

Posted by Trelior
Played some more Minecraft on the SMP server ran by @Aesur, @Marzen64, and myself. Since my role on the server is to do the mining and all that happy shit, I have a cave base with a winding stairwell carved down to bedrock level that @Aesur started. Along the way down, there's almost a sub-basement with a small lava pool and a branching path that leads into a cave. Well, since he made a set of steps out of cobblestone in the unlit part of the cave, monsters were able to spawn and climb up into the lava room, and by extension, follow me down into my expansive mine.

At first, a zombie fell on my head, and I thought the way I had to redesign my stairwell reduced the light in the small landing I made to the point where shit could spawn. Having taken care of the zombie, I investigated, and found that my torch setup still provided adequate lighting, but being the paranoid sissy that I am when it comes to Minecraft, I resituated the torches to provide more-than-necessary light to keep mobs from spawning.

Having widened my narrow mine from 64 long by 2 wide by 6 high to being 6 wide, I decided to take a load of cobble, redstone, and various ores (yet, very disappointingly, no diamond) back to the surface, I noticed another zombie shambling down my stairs, that are lit nearly every third step with a torch, so I know it's properly lit... I killed that zombie with my iron pickaxe, since it was my best item to use, I decided to investigate the room with the lava pool.

Lo and behold, what do I see? Another zombie and a creeper! I kinda freaked out since my inventory was full of valuables and I lacked a weapon... I took care of the third zombie without catching the attention of the creeper, until I retardedly went after the experience orbs. I was able to punch the creeper in the face, which pissed it off into lighting its fuse. I knocked it back far enough that it only did a few hearts of damage to me, but blew a hole in the floor that revealed another lava pool. Being careful, I filled in the gap with gravel and cobblestone to make the floor traverse-able again... But I decided to be more ballsy than necessary, and investigated the path toward the cave that I knew was dark.

Not even half way back to the cave, and what do I see? A second creeper. I backtrack as fast as I can to get away from it, but it follows me back to the lava room, gets close enough to start hissing, then I decked it in the face to knock it away. It took a nice chunk of the floor, and my health, with it.

Not wanting to risk a third creeper, I ran back up the stairs to my main base, dropped my shit into my chests for storage, and kicked on God Mode. For preparedness, I spawned a diamond sword and went back into the cave area. Going spelunking, I found that nothing else had spawned, but I took precautions and gave the whole area a generous douching of light by plastering it with torches. I wasn't taking any chances. Having finished that up, I repaired the floor of the lava room, again, filled the lava pool back in with a lava bucket I spawned for that express purpose, then threw it and the diamond sword in to destroy them to preserve the fact that we didn't have diamond tools yet. As extra precaution, I blocked off the path to the cave system with a block of cobble, and plastered the lava room with torches.

Now you know why I always play on Peaceful.

WOOW o.o

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