I Love The New Hard Mode - donated $30 more to the server because of it.

I don't post very often here, but i'm pretty sure i'm one of the longest (still) playing guys on Shadecrest. Here's my brief story.

When I joined Shadecrest, I loved it because the PvP world had diamonds and other fun ore. I don't create many things, I just like to mine ore and be in danger either from players or mobs while doing it. That, for me, is fun.

I know everyone has their own preferences for what is 'fun', but Shadecrest was a Wild West world when it first started, and on the old message board I warned Imaxorz to leave it as vanilla as possible when he first started. No restrictions. Just let everyone kill, grief, rage or whatever.

Now we are back to 2.0. Seems familiar that we have to start over again because I got bored when everyone made those changes to Shadcrest 1.0. There was no danger anymore. No one was going to mine into my base and kill me. I was bored, I would log on - see if my place was wrecked or not and log off. Mining world was boring. Mobs never killed me - ever. I was in full diamond armor and had about 200 diamonds in stock along with 600 iron ore (I stopped mining for iron, I would have easily had 6,000 ore if I cared). The mining world had to have thousands of strip mines created my me (again, i'm kind of OCD about mining, lol).

So, here we are.

I hated the new patch in my first hour. HATED IT. My picks would break too fast! Where did that creeper come from??? What is a blaze doing down here in the lower levels of the mining world?!?!

There is definitely a learning curve. A few lessons I learned, fast:

1. Place torches (or redstone torches) at your feet when mining above. Rocks fall and you don't die because the torch minimizes the stone. I'm sure this is technically a bug, but it works and there's no reason to not do it.
2. I usually get to 1/2 a stack (32) of common deep ore (redstone, iron) or 2-6 diamonds before I warp home and store it (coal I let go to a full stack of 64 before warping). Far too many deaths when I was full of good ore by a creeper.
3. Play paranoid. I'm not sure how to teach this, but if a invisible mod watched me play I would look like a squirrel going after nuts. I get my ore, scan around. Mine more. Scan around. Mine more, scan around. I'm not looking for ore - but creepers!!! It's somewhat annoying but far too often i'm focused on that big coal vein and suddenly I hear "Pfffffttttttssssssssssssss......" and BOOM goes the dynamite.
4. Lock your chests. It takes 8 days of voting (800 rupees) to get the money to lock a chest. Do it now.
5. Always wear some kind of armor. Yes, a creeper explosion will ruin a set, but I have survived more with armor on and it's worth using 24 iron bars or so for a set of armor.
6. Once I get around the 20 mark for experience, I use it on enchantments because I hate dying when I have 25+ experience and it sets back to 0. Use it or lose it, folks.

That's about it. Happy hunting. Any questions, feel free to email me and I can help.

Mercury_NYC

 

Like I said there was a learning curve and a few rage quits. Only issue I have at the moment is the nether is a bit absurd with ghasts - you really may need a lot of nether resets because they are destroying the nether keeps real fast.

 

ghast =1 shot in full iron armor...

 

Haven't been on shadecrest in a while and come back to find out about the hard mode. I haven't played with it yet but it sounds like its just the thing to get me back into minecraft (excluding Tekkit) but we will se how that goes. Only gripe is that now I can't really build houses in my style without burning up an inordinate amount of iron but I'll live; nothing wrong with a modest log cabin .

 

Welcome back

 

Our family was bored to tears with survival.. and then I found you guys. I actually got the whole family to get back on and try again. Darn.. I was to greedy and a creeper got me .. but I'm out almost 500o blocks for a new base. If I can just find where I wrote the coords down for our old base. lol. Got lots of stuff stashed there. xD Love this server! (Wish I had more time. )

 

Ps. Should have read your post.. I'd have been more wary. xD

 

Welcome back cerb!
i just never find anything lol, so i build "modern" houses with wood and wool XD