I keep getting killed.

Aren't the mobs all supposed to die in sunlight? I ended up getting swarmed at high noon once.

The worst ones catch on fire. They take 30s or so to die after that. Spiders and explodie green men don't catch on fire, so you have to kill those yourself.

After a few tries, I just sealed myself into the starting house during nights, and during the day worked on building a huge dirt castle around the house. Dig, dig, dig. Build, build, build. Once it was complete, no baddies could get in. Then I went and grabbed some materials for torches and began mining during the nights. I also built an aqueduct to get water into the castle for my farm.

It has water physics? Cool

I have two different starting strategies. One is to just start mining on an island near the edge of the map (mobs don't seem to bother me out there), the other is to start mining from inside the starting house after sealing myself in. Spend the first day gathering wood and a little coal, then pile some dirt in the door and dig down for materials.

In the free version you can't make stuff more advanced than blocks.

I'm working on my stronghold now. I've got a pretty big cavern carved out from mining rock, and I'm almost ready to start laying the foundations of the actual stronghold.

My initial strategy after gathering some raw materials from the surface and sealing myself in my outpost was to dig straight down. So long as I kept the torches with me, all ground was lit and enemies don't spawn above ground. I essentially just kept digging down. I did that until I found some coal and then I made stairs, wrapping around the sides, back up to the surface.

Health isn't saved in the files, so when you load a game you have full health. A nice trick, but it kind of detracts from the experience. "Oh, I'm about to die. Save/load. "

Then again, I've found it nearly impossible to restore health normally, so the save/load bug is probably a good thing for now.

Once I got a small farm going I had no health problems. Just harvest and replant regularly, then craft the harvested wheat into bread. Heals 2.5 hearts.

I'm now working on the third floor of the keep of my stronghold. I'll have screenies tomorrow.

Next up is leveling the surrounding terrain. I've got a little TNT, but it's going to be a pain to bring down all that dirt. Then outer walls with towers. It's gonna be awesome.

But for now, bed.

I built a farm many, many days ago, but it takes forever to get it going. I can only add one or two more plants after each harvest. Plus the animals started spawning inside my castle while I was underground, and obviously they went and destroyed my crops.

The point is, yea you could eventually get a farm going, but it would take so long that you (or at least I) would likely die before it was finished.

I think death shouldn't mean game over, but rather it should respawn you without any of the stuff you were carrying. That way there's a penalty, but you it isn't totally game over. Plus, fix the save/load cheat

They can't swim down, so build your entrance underwater.

I just spent a few hours building a sand castle, planting trees, and building a huge ship. It's got cargo holds and everything. I can't decide if this the waste of a day or just plain badass. (I had to cut a tree down for every 16 blocks of wood or so!)

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I need to find a bunch of sheep so I can finish the sails. Otherwise, the ship is legit. My sand castle could use some more work, however. It's somewhat ugly, and I have visions of a very tall tower. Perhaps a castle lighthouse!

Unfortunately, I picked "paradise" mode I believe so it's always daylight. Not having to worry about monsters is lonely sometimes. However, I considered breaking up my boat a little and removing the torches so that it becomes a "haunted" ship.

Ditto

I really want to see that puppy go up in flames Mostly cause I'm a sick bastard like that.

Badass.

How did you get enough seeds to do it? I only get like 1 seed for 10 tilled earth.

Here is my awesome new diamond sword:

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Everything dies in one or two hits, and so far it hasn't broken yet. I found some more diamonds during a recent mining spree, so I should have diamond swords for quite awhile.