I see sheep in my sleep...

I see sheep in my sleep, say that fast 10 times.  wow. Now that I have the basic Ethos storage building done I have just been messing around and doing different things... Like filling all my dispensers! lol.  So I have been chasing cows, pigs, and sheep to try and get my armor dispensers full, my cooked and raw dispensers full and at least a good stack of every color of wool.

The mob spawner has done the trick of filling up my dispensers for gunpowder, arrows, bones and feathers, but I want all my dispensers full like that.  It's an OCD thing!  So all day I run around chasing the animals, and then run back at night, put it all away, sleep and do it again.

This proves why Minecraft is a great game.  I am not doing anything special, but still having a lot of fun with all these little challenges.  I have started spending some serious effort on red wool.  Both of my next projects will require a few stacks, and I need to do some coast searching for clay, because I will be needing a ton of bricks for it.

The cactus farm works so well, my dispenser is full, and I have a chest close to full.  I never pay any special attention to it, other than when I run in and out I use the door by the water drop off and put the cactus in the chest.  It gives me about 15-21 per time.  Plus with all my coal I have got spelunking I have been putting it in the furnace for more dye.  Ahhh, the good life...  Many different dispensers filling up. hehe

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 12

DONE, I say DONE.  I finally was able to get all the silk I needed to complete the storage building!  Ever single storage slot now has a dispenser! Yeah!  I have a lot of cleanup stuff I want to do, but for now I think the basic Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings is done.  I have chose NOT to do the peaceful mob spawn system for multiple reasons.  The first reason is it is really big, ugly and the water flow system is complicated and annoying to try and map out and follow.  I also really hate the big giant spawning pad, the barn, etc cluttering up the area as much as they do.  I still stuggle with surprising spawns under the cactus and tree farm structures because it is so dark, and I don't think I want to do that to all sides of the main storage building.

Some things I am looking at doing is moving the tree farm back to my normal underground controlled environment, and then changing the tree farm structure to be a seed farm or maybe even an automatic seed farm and small automatic cactus farm.  I have seen a couple of videos on putting timers on pistons to only have the pistons move every 5 minutes or so, and that looks really interesting.

I also have a lot of earth moving I want to do.  I want to level a bigger area around the Ethos storage building and prep the area to add more buildings that I really like.  I enjoy building the structures. I am Bob the Builder, not Arnold the Architect so I have been looking over schematics people have done and will probably start building some of those.  My eyes are on a modern house and a steamboat right now.

So thanks for reading and I will continue to add posts as I update the buildings and maybe someday I will even add a peaceful mob system, maybe :)

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 11

Since I am no longer chasing sheep, it is time to focus on the dispensers.  I did some checking on the mob system and I think I messed something up when I removed an extra block at the bottom of the water elevator shaft because I went down the shaft to the mob spawner room and I found a lot of silk in the hole.  So I filled that hole up and have been getting a little better rates on silk but still not like the other mobs.

I now find myself running outside the second the sun rises to chase down spiders to get more silk.  This, of course, has been causing a few issues with getting creeper bombed, but hey, just fill the whole and move on.

I spent some time getting ready to create my basement.  I wanted to open up under  storage building an area under ground.  I am sure I will not be doing an EATS water road system, but I still wanted the area open.  So I did some sand and sandstone farming and got enough to cover the walls of my basement.  I really like the look of it.  It took some time to dig all that out and to add the sandstone walls, but it was fun.

I also went ahead and wired all my doors up to double pressure plates doing it exactly how Ethos did.  It works very well, and I have had no issues with it.  It took some time, but it wasn't a big deal.  I really need to change out all the different blocks I used and choose one block for redstone.  I certain color of wool block would be best but that would mean I would have to have a constant supply of wool again... hmmm.. Not sure if I want to have another reason to HAVE to have wool.

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 10

SHEEP!  SHEEP! Come here little sheep.  I have chased sheep all over my world smacking them with green dye, then sheering them and it is finally complete.... I have a very cool park on top of my Cactus farm and Tree farm!  Finally!  Yeah!!

I really like the look of the park.  Getting there is a little annoying.  It seems that Ethos likes to create a lot of cool structures and sometimes he even creates ways to get there.  Getting to the park is via the tree farm, at least in my world.

Next on my hit list is spiders.  I still need a ton of dispensers to finish the inside of the storage building, every day I am getting a little closer, but I still need 20 some dispensers, which is 60 silk.

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 9

I spent time lighting up caves and cleaning things up, so no new major progress.  I am happy to report my diamond supply is back and felt it was time to create my diamond block.  Let me tell you that hurt to take those nine diamonds and turn them into a block.  I know I can undo that, but still, just the thought of taking all those useful diamonds and turning them into decoration.

The spelunking was fun.  I found a humongous cave system and just mined and explored forever.  I kept running out of food, so it was kill a few mobs, turn on peaceful to heal, then go back at it.  I just didn't want to leave till I had my inventory completely full.  I found two mob spawners, but alas, no records.  But on the materials front I feel stocked right now.  I ended up with about 30 diamonds, over 500 iron, tons of coal.  I have my dispenser full of coal, a few in the chest, and every furnace either at 64 or close too it.  It was a good time.

I also spent a little time and did some redstone testing on making the double doors work together.  It's not bad, I will at some point do all of them.  I have only done one set right now.

Hey, if you have a link to cool houses, castles, etc.  Please post them in the comments.  I am always looking for nice buildings to make, but not necessarily large ones.  I like it the best when they have a world download, but schematics are fine also, just a little more challenging. I consider the Ethos project a large project.  Projects like Castle Estel are not in my radar to build.

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 8

The cactus farm and tree farm are mostly done.  I swear I wish I could count.  I was only off on the tree pedestals by 1 block, but for some reason the whole thing doesn't line up correctly.  Luckily, it was just moving the pedestals, and not having to redo anything else.

The cactus farm just cranks out the cactus.  I have always built very small 4 cactus farms, so this one having 36 is like a factory!  Every time I check I have around 12 or so cactus waiting on me.  Plus a couple of times I have had weird squid spawns, so there was some free black ink after a couple of smacks.  I really like the window system, the way you exit each farm and the path between them.  I thought the waterway up to each farm was a little too much, so I just put in a ladder to do it.  I am getting tired of water.. lol.

The tree farm is just ok.  I am used to a totally different system, and I may go ahead and create one of those like normal, and turn the tree farm into a sugar cane or wheat farm.  I am not sure.  I have also thought about planting sugar cane on the outside edge of the water, I might do that.  My next project will require a lot of paper, so I should start collecting. My normal tree farm is a 50x50 underground room.  The underground room allows me to plant a ton of trees, and I don't have to worry about using bone meal, but I guess what else am I going to do with all the bone I am collecting.  Collecting the wood doesn't seem as fast as what it is with my big room, this is a lot of planting, bone meal, harvest, repeat, whereas in my 50x50 room, I harvest till I am completely bored, then just replant once and move on.

The roof is completely covered on the tree farm side, and mostly covered on the cactus farm side.  I have spent a lot of time chasing down sheep dyeing and shearing them, but for some reason, I tend to always have plenty of green dye!  I really liked the green wool roof and think the park area above those farms is really need.  I am excited about starting that part.

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 7

I spent a ton of time redoing the sizzler.  I found it very challenging to get all the water flows correct and the design correct to separate the spiders and other mobs. I finally have it done, but I am not seeing very much spider action.  I do get some silk, but not very much.  This makes me nervous that I have something going on in the mob spawner, so I am going to have to figure out a way to check the spawner system and make sure spiders are able to get up the water elevator.  The good news is that I am getting plenty of gunpowder, so I am able to use TNT to blow up the sand dunes to get all the glass I need.  TNT is sooo much fun.

After the mob spawner is done I am going to work on the Cactus and Tree farm.  I am excited about building those.  The first additions to the building!

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 6

I have loot! I finally finished the mod spawning platforms, and created the collector pipe all the way to the storage building. Creating all the still water by placing 4 buckets of water at each level, was annoying, but it works. I started working on the "sizzler" and it was not bad at all. I needed to finish bringing my collector pipe up from my base to above the storage building a bit, I just needed some more glass and water. After that was finished I was basically able to build right along with the video. At one point in the video it was kind of funny because he made a mistake, so I made the same mistake and got to fix it also!

When the basic system was working and mobs were getting burned or should I say "sizzled" I went and started working on bringing the loot back down to the storage building. I few blocks here and there, and it was done! I actually had look coming right to me. No more going down 60 levels, then running for 50+ blocks because I screwed up where the collector was going to be. This actually worked. Loot coming right too me! wait.. oops.. no spider silk... argh. Sure enough, looked at the newer videos and there was a video that Ethos did that explains how to do the sizzler with a special spider catch so that they drown. Ok, I guess my next step is to tear down the sizzler and make sizzler 2.5! I need to get my dispensers! I need more silk!

During downtime I have been clearing around the storage building. I am sure my next project will be the tree farm and cactus farm. I really like how he built that up higher to a higher level and I think it looks cool. Plus I am really tired of chopping down crazy growth trees that have spurred 10 different branches, those are annoying.

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 5

Worked on the hostile mob system today. I have to get it running, or I will never have enough string for all those dispensers! The system that Ethos uses felt a lot more complicated than my normal one. Getting all the stairs in the correct spot, and all the signs was a challenge. Getting the water flows working was also not very fun. I have never used signs like that to control water. It is a very clever idea, and I am hoping I am learning from this and not just placing them! I worked and worked to get all that correct, but the slabs are all done and I am going to work on the sizzler next to actually get items! woot!

I will say that for me, all those empty chests are just killing me. I have spent extra time chopping wood, just so I could get a chest full of wooden planks, and one with sticks. Also, all this digging and chopping, but not at depths has really hurt my diamond supply, to the point that I am back at the beginning. I only have 2 diamonds right now. No diamond pick , no diamond axe, and 1/2 a diamond shovel.. for some reason I have 2! diamond hoes, but I don't remember when in the world I made those. :) I am having a hard time going back to quadrant mining, when I have a ton of dirt still to move around the storage building, plus this is only one small part of the whole project. So once again, I am back to being a stone tool kind of guy. I can't bring myself to use iron for tools, I only use those when I have too. Iron is save for rails, etc. it's wrong to just burn through it digging stone blocks. But at least making stone tools is cheap, so I am keeping the chest designated for the tools full! hehe

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