Hi all,
Just started my first realm for the kids and their cousins, just wondered what tips you have if you have been running family realms.
So far we have one survival but planning a second for “battles” as my 7yo calls them and third for a “builds” world as creative.
The kids are all pretty chill except my 7yo - he is a master pvper already apparently - so not expecting drama but… what should I expect?
Someone mentioned a while back building a Creeper out of copper and I was looking for a project to do, so that was a great fit for me.
The amount of copper you need for this project is excessive 😂
I went with “pixel ratio” of 4 blocks to a single pixel,of the creepers design. This meant that if you have a single pixel in the design you would use a 2x2 blocks to represent each pixel. As a result the beast got big!
Used all copper block types in random patterns, keeping 2x2 together for some “uniformity” for the “pixels”, then, coal blocks and tinted glass for the eyes and mouth.
The last picture I have a mob X-ray on to see what was going wrong. As a result I replaced all the floor buttons with a new pattern of trapdoors which has stopped the glut of spiders clogging the system.
The rates of the 5 levels of mob spawn platforms in the head are pretty slow and I am still getting spiders and occasional zombie or skeletons. I will work it out over time, but this was never supposed to be an efficient solution, just give me enough gunpowder for rockets and tnt.
I am looking forward to seeing it turn to weathered copper over time, so will do a “time lapse” on that once it’s fully greened up.
No regrets at all though other than my nephew pointing out I could have saved myself some mining by using the stone cutter workstation to cut copper, which would have saved me about 50% of my mining effort from when I found that out 😑
I used to have a world with a great raid/iron farm with villager trading but the raid bottle situation killed that, so now I just let the pillagers spawn and die and collect the bottles.
Anyone do anything less effort than this?
Also, watch in the rain for a magic trick!
Was searching for simple home goods and the brand affiliate crap clogs up the feed and then I noted the price of this terrible costume… $805.99!!
What the eff Woolies!
Hi all!
I am big on finding casual approaches to resource farming that don’t take a lot of effort to build or maintain.
Sometimes you just need a little bit of something to get things done. Or you have kids, and they are constantly creating new worlds, ignoring the effort you put in to build a bigger farms in the last one you played in ;)
The idea is not “max output” farms, just an easy way to farm without building an extensive farm.
But optimising a simple pattern is also good, so suggestions are welcome!
Set this one up using the available village and tried to match the aesthetic.
Extra path blocks and leaf blocks are areas where I was getting golem spawns before they locked into the attic space. Mainly because I had left a cartographers block in one of the houses.
Beds and work blocks all needed to be centralised. Once I found the cartographers block was breaking my plan, I experimented with all central, then moving some of the blocks outwards gradually and it really just kills the farm.
Basically, even though this looks ok, I wouldn’t do it again.
The iron farm can just be a short way away and functional (maybe next to a mob farm so you are in the area often) rather than destroying the village to centralise the villagers. They still wander but it is nicer to see them all out and about than fighting to get around the central house.
If I rated it against my previous farms I would say 5/10.