Minecraft Monday: Linoleum Tile Guide

Hey there guys and gals, sorry this is so late.  Planned on typing this up in the morning as usual, but had a case of the Real Life and got majorly sidetracked.  I got about 18 minutes to post, edit, upload and describe pictures.  Let’s make it happen!

Tiles and Ewe

That bad sheep pun makes me giggle. Hee hee hee ^_^  But no time for teh funniez! (Serious face v-v)  You’ll need a good deal of wool and wood for this project.  I didn’t even finish the room I was doing this in as it was just a proof of concept, but it could easily take quite a lot of mats to finish this depending on how much room you need to fill.  Behold!

Ain’t it a beaut’?  Know what they are?  Thems all beds!  Arranged certain ways, but beds all the same.

Getting Wool

Wool is harder to get than wood, in my opinion, so I’d start hunting that if you wanna do something like this.  It takes three wool and wood per bed, so start punching those sheep!  (They had it coming.  They’ll just get cloned anyway, right Dolly?) 

Hints that might help:  Animals spawn so much during the day because of the grass and it’s so bright.  Toss torches down around your base to keep spawns high at night, kill animals once they drop their wool or if they aren’t sheep in the first place, or kill spiders and turn their silk into wool. 

Getting Wood

Stop blushing you gutter-minded weirdos.  Beat some trees, replant their saplings.  Use bone meal from skeletons to speed up the process.

Preparing the Ground

Beds are fancy halfstones that are so tall that you have to jump onto them if you want to get over the blocks they make up.  You cannot place torches on them as you’ll try to sleep in the bed by right clicking, and having blocks lit up above them for this floor will look kinda tacky, so I prefer the opposite method: Lighting the beds from below!

You can do this with torches, pictured above, or lava (pictured below).  Because of this extra finagling you’ll need to plan accordingly.  You’ll need a dirt floor to place the beds on, then you’ll need to destroy the dirt floor in a way to place torches around blocks to light them up decently.  If you plan on having a floor of a building below this tiled floor you will need to seal that off, effectively taking up three rows of blocks.  (Bed, floating torches on blocks, ceiling of bottom floor)  Luckily the Lava method works the same way, but you’ll have to make sure that bottom floor’s ceiling is not flammable.  Don’t worry about the beds, currently they cannot go up in flames.  Maybe in an upcoming patch, so be wary, lava lovers.

After you got the dirt floor in place, begin your pattern however you wish.  Here’s how I got the pattern in the first shot.

Place a bed down and then smash one against it at a 90 degree angle so the pillow portions touch.  Then repeat going the same direction.  Do this until you fill or run out of room.  After you are done with that step, go back and add on one bed facing the opposite direction of the first to extend the pattern, like so.

As you can see, by extending it out you can easily put the perpendicular pillow piece in the open slot this creates, keeping the pattern alive.  You can tweak this further by editing the texture files and changing the look of the bed, and again by changing paintings to match the new bed spread of your choosing.

Note:  Unless you like holes in your floor, keep tiling until you cover an area 2 – 4 tiles wider than the room you wish to have tiled.  Just seal off the extra beds with the walls and it’ll look seamless, provides a nifty black border too.  I went back to the big tiled area and made a quick 5×5 ‘room’ to show you what I mean.

Whuddya think?

Minecraft Monday: The Misses Day Out

Another week, another Minecraft Monday!  I thought I’d change it up a little bit and let the Misses have a crack at posting something for once (plus I didn’t have a chance to do anything Minecrafty this week, shh, don’t tell!) so I took the screenshots she requested and pasted what she wanted to say about em as well!  As I said a long while ago, she tends to build a lot-lot-lot more than I do (the only real thing I’ve done is a giant and overly expensive sword) so here are a few shots of her archery range, dojo, and an overall shot of the New Rapture idea she had that I was helping her out with.

“Here is my Dojo!  Wanted to make it as authentic as I could (google searched a lot of pictures!).  Hope everyone thinks it looks like a dojo.  Please excuse the banana punching bags, I ran out of red dye and I was not going to take it away from the yin-yang.  Orange is my favorite color, red is ‘the Mister’s’.  The paintings took forever to pop up correctly.  I wanted to make it mostly wooden floor, sorry about the half stone lol”

“Yeah.  No shoes allowed in normal dojos, so you can’t do it here either!  Have a good day.” (No shoes for you!)

“Here is my long range/co-op archery lanes.  The two on the ends are the long range, the big spider one in the middle is the co-op.  Make sure you stay behind the yellow line before shooting, mostly for safety reasons.”

“This is the short range, more lanes because there are more noobs!  In this picture you can see the poles from the fences.  This is supposed to be where you hang you bow when you go to a real shooting range.  The chests in the back are where you keep your arrows stashed.  In this ‘the Mister’ headshot everybody.  My poor, poor pictures.  Also, I put glass on the front because if you shoot a picture with an arrow it pops it off the wall, for all you future archery range makers out there!”

“This is the lower part of my whole building.  We’re going to try to make it into a Bioshock-like city, but first we need to dig down to the bedrock.  (If I don’t get frustrated enough to just want to get it built NOW lol)  As you can see from the top to the bottom each floor has a theme.  The first floor you see with the chests is my storage/farm.  Second floor is my archery range is (you can see the green carpeting).  The floor below that is my dojo (you can’t see the walls but you can see the water from the ladies bathroom).  The floor below that is my library (no pictures >.<  The Mister says ”next week,” pfft.)  The floor below that is hopefully going to be my party floor.  That’s currently the plan.  Outside of the sword, Mister has been helping me a lot with digging and mining up this area, sorry his sword is not finished yet.  You can blame me “

“Hope I didn’t bore you with my talking.  Us women like to do that “  (She has no idea…) ” Thanks for checking out my place/crib!”

Of course you can see bigger versions of these screenshots as well as my own take and description of the shots above at our flickr stream here.