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yo_john117 on 22 February 2013
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CChaos said:
yo_john117 said:
CChaos said:

Straightforward but time consuming and fairly tense at times. *chuckles* For most of the scaffolding and the dirt laying that turned into the canopy, I had to use the dreaded 'place a block from the block you're standing on' method, which involves creeping to the edge and then placing a block on the side of the block you're standing on without falling off of it. Lots of careful manuveuring required to not fall fifty blocks to your death. You never die in creative, but building things like this in Survival, even without much in your inventory and a nearby bed to spawn at, can still get the heart pumping a bit.

Now I just need to get a Nether portal into the mix and then connect it to my massive Nether rail network for quick travel.

Consider that a tip for anyone on 360 or PC. heh The Nether is dangerous, but extremely convenient for travel purposes between places on the Overworld!

Oh God that way of placing blocks really sucks lol. And you have a Nether rail system? o_0 That seems like it would be quite difficult to make.

It was pretty tricky to make, aye, especially considering the variable heights of different areas within the Nether, but incredibly useful once you do. See, most people don't really understand that the Nether does have some pretty great purposes besides just being the place where you get Glowstone. It's also one of the best transport methods in the game because every 1 step you take in the Nether, you travel 8 steps in the Overworld. Thus, distances in the Nether are 1/8th the distance of Overworld travel.

This is what one piece of my Nether Rail network looks like: http://imgur.com/io8fi

Note the very long rail line that goes to the left. That goes from near my central home to the Tower, a fortress built quite a ways away. To show specifically the distance, the x-coordinate for my main home is 449 while the Tower is at -6192, so the two are approximately 6641 squares apart. That's a hell of a distance to walk. Normal walking is 4.3 squares per second, approximately. Even a boat on flat water, with a running start, does 6.2 squares per second. Doing that calculation, that's 1071 seconds, or 17.8 minutes, assuming it was a straight line of all water with no obstacles. Sadly, 2/3s of the direct path is over land, so that increases things drastically. There's also a mountain range in the way. So, you can imagine that takes a while to deal with.

So, I connected it to the Nether Rail network. This took about 400 iron, a good amount of gold for launcher rails and a couple days worth of work, but I got it all worked out. Using the 1/8th distance between Nether and Overworld and using the rail line with launchers, I cut the time down from between 30 and 40 minutes of travel to 1 minute and 45 seconds. So, 6641 squares in 1 minute 45 seconds.

That's why the Nether is awesome. hehe

Wow I didn't know that about he nether world. I guess I don't really have to worry about it though since the maximum amount of blocks from one end of the map to the other on the 360 version is far less than 1,000 blocks lol. It also sounds like the railways go significantly faster in the PC version.