Posts Tagged ‘slabs’

Minecraft Builder’s Book – Castle Construction part 1 (Spiral Staircase Tower)

Minecraft Builder's Book - Castle Construction part 1 (Spiral Staircase Tower)Building has always been something Minecraft has been famed for. The ability to construct the most spectacular of houses and deadliest of traps, but what is it that one should build? The Minecraft Builder’s Book has some very nice things for you to try to construct, learn, and apply in your own creations! In this video, we look at the first step to building a simple castle: a Spiral Staircase Tower. This is simply a stone tower with a stairway leading to the top, but four of these joined by castle walls can make the base of your Castle, where you can then fit whatever you want inside (an NPC village, perhaps?) This castle design is based of a massive castle I had constructed on the shameless Minecraft rip-off Fortress Craft. I had bought it simply because it seemed like Minecraft on Xbox, and it was rather cheap. The Castle I made there seemed to impress some other people, so I’ve decided to recreate it on Minecraft.

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Filed under MasterOfTheEggs2029 : Comments (1) : Mar 24th, 2012

SuperFlat Slab Test World [DOWNLOAD] – Minecraft

SuperFlat Slab Test World [DOWNLOAD] - MinecraftThe new Minecraft snapshot added a “SuperFlat” world type, however it’ quickly gets covered with slimes and friendly mobs because it’s not covered with half-blocks / slabs. This obviously wont help much if you’re testing a mob-spawner design in a test world… So I’ve made a download file for this superflat map, but I’ve added a layer of half-blocks on the top. Enjoy! —————————————————————————————- DOWNLOAD the HALF-BLOCK FLAT TEST-WORLD here: bit.ly INSTRUCTIONS: Unzip the file, and place the ‘flat test world’ folder into your Minecraft ‘saves’ folder. —————————————————————————————- Enjoy!

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Filed under monkeyfarm : Comments (20) : Feb 14th, 2012