Relatively safe. There's a few exposed areas, but nothing too drastic.

It links up to the GDL Garrison by The City. I made a cobble tunnel to the balcony. From there, the path gets a little confusing at times, but as I said on the sign and everything else: just follow the torches. Most of the time, it's a straight, 1x2 tunnel all the way to Aulis Portal. It does hit a few caverns- the one REALLY tricky part is where you'll find a small lavaflow to your left as soon as you exit the tunnel. Head straight towards the lavaflow and to the right once you hit it- the tunnel continues on by there. I tried to lay the path out with cobble there, to differentiate it, but I may not have succeeded too well.

That said, it certainly does beat the Caravan.

Well, I've got some spare time Sky, so I'm gonna go off and 'civilize' the tunnel, IE make it more safe and reliable.

Okay folks, I'm back from my journey into the heart of the mountains. Otherwise known as West Virginia. A place where I didn't have a computer and my cellphone had no bars! A place where people broke into abandoned school buildings just for fun. Yeah, it was an interesting few days.

I love when Minecraft kicks me from the server. >_>

So it's been more than 24 hours now, and The Gate Keeper didn't post saying he received the map. Did he PM anybody about it? If not, I'm assuming it's my turn my default. I wont be home for a few hours anyway so I'll give The Gate Keeper another 6 hours (~7:30 PST/ ~10:30 EST) to post before I start my turn.

No - I PM'd him near the start of the 24 hours and didn't hear a reply. I think he's moved on - if he comes back to the thread I would suggest adding him to the end of the order, perhaps.

Okay then, well I still wont be able to download the map until around 7:30 pm PST, so lets make that the start of my turn. Which means I'll have the map uploaded Wednesday at the same time.

Today I have found my first slimes in one of my caves. And after punching them to death I ended up with about a doozen slime pets left, which I trapped right away. But now I cant find anything about when they will or if they will dissapear, I've seen my friends with a few that last forever. So do they ever dissapear?

As far as i know they won't go away. If you want to get rid of them, trap them, burn them with lava or drown them with water.

For future reference attacking a slime with a weapon like a gold or diamond sword will cause it to instantly die rather than split. Its kind of like overkill.

Gold? Gold does equal damage as a wooden sword. You need at least a stone blade to one-shot slimes of Normal size. In order to do an insta-kill of a Slime, you need to do a half heart more damage than it has. Huge slimes have a TON of health (16 hearts!), so can't be one-shot by anything. Large slimes, their split, have 8, which also can't be one-shot. Diamond blades only do 5 Hearts of damage a strike, Iron does 4, Wood/Gold does 2, Stone does 3. However. When a Large splits into Normal slimes, Normals only have 2 hearts. So a stone, iron, or diamond sword will one-shot a Slime at this stage. A gold/wood sword, on the other hand, will just cause it to split into Smalls which have exactly half a heart of health. A bare-handed slap will take them down easily, and since they can't actually hurt you are just there to look cute and hop around a little.

Or farm slimeballs, not that you actually need them for anything.

So in other words... Yes. You can one-shot slimes at lower tiers, but ya need a stone blade or better to do it.

EDIT: Small note, burning damage also means that they die without splitting. So using a clever little fire trap for them or soaking them in lava will assure that no little demon spawn come nibbling/sliming at your heels.

Thanks for the info, I don't want to kill the small ones though, I'm going to keep them as pets Just look at how cute they are. I just have to get them out of the cave now.

Slimes can climb ladders. So if you want to get them out of the caves, just lead them somewhere and build a few ladders to allow them to get out.

In theory it should work, but when there are a doozen of them, few make it So I'm going to have to bring them up one at a time.

Talking about ladders , guys I saw a post by notch that stated that placing a ladder and then a space between another ladder will not allow you to climb the ladder. You need a full ladder, it must be completely a single ladder system. In 1.5 this will be updates so.

Well, that post is entirely wrong, since I can still climb up the ladder perfectly. Even with the one-block gaps between ladders.Maybe he plans on including at at some point, but for now ladder-space-ladder works just fine.

You only need a ladder every other square. I alternate between ladders and torches.

that's being changed in the next update

http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/58802331071938560

I was a little vague

Good. I always thought it was lame that people could get away with skipping ladder segments.

Well, we've discovered a problem.

Apparently, when one moves a linked Nether portal, it doesn't like it.

So when Key decided he wanted his Nether portal moved, and LSO moved it, it created a problem. Resulting in a Nether portal being generated in Simpson's mines. I removed it, but when I placed a new nether portal, went through, and came back... guess where I was, and what was back? Yep, Nether Portal in Simpson's mines.

If any of the mods, admins, or anybody with Nether portal experience could fix this, please, do so. I have no clue how to manipulate this.

Sorry Sky, I meant to build a new portal, but MC froze on me. Also, from now on, DO NOT build private portals in your home and tell us we can use it, then renege, it's frustrating to do this, as this issue Sky mentioned is caused. From now on, we need to plan out all portals we place. We don't need temples like in city, but they should be easily reachable, in a PUBLIC place, and thats all I have. But yeah, we JUST earned the privalege to make portals recently, let's not lose that privelage, hmm?

Well, Keys won't like it, but I managed to get the portal linked back up to where he originally had it. Until we find a way to PROPERLY link the Portal, I say that's where it stays. No disrespect offended to Keys, but I don't want to fight against anything else, and you did originally say we could have it there. So until we can move it, I'm not fighting with that again.

Ugh, it turns out that slimes cant climb ladders that are anything higher than 5, so I had to build a huge staircase to the surface. Then a 1 block wde pathway surronded by two block high walls to their new home. Only 7 made it

Aw, poor little slimes. Marching off to their deaths like lemmings. I didn't know about that little height restriction though... Then again, I've never tried to lead a troop of slimes up a ladder before so eh. At least you have half a dozen new pets!

You can keep it there I guess if its this much of a hassle.

In the future all I ask is that you make sure its okay to use other peoples property, I wasn't asked, and even though I said yes, I changed my mind.

I agree that the best way to avoid this issue in the future is to be careful with our portals, and have them built in public places.

I hand the top of my mountain to Aulis (only for use of the portal).

I'm also gathering the obsidian used for the other portals and putting them into a chest. That way anyone who used their obsidian in this messy process can get it back.


To wrap this all up:

The top of my mountain is now the property of Aulis. I only ask that you only build portal related things on top of it though.

All obsidian will be put into a public chest for you to reclaim.

I apologize for this incident, and hope that any future dealings with portals will be much easier.