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I was typing a response and decided it would be better described through the magical medium of video. I've used ladders for safe fall for a long time because while adventuring I'm far more likely to have wood and sand/gravel than an iron bucket and water. Especially on Vechs Super Hostile maps. See my pillaring method video.

Inspired by Etho I created a new 1.8 world with his seed. I'm hoping he decides to protect his original spawn point and here's a suggestion on how to go about it. It includes a bed, crafting bench and furnace as you may expect but it also has some bonus features. A simplified quick kit design, a compact hostile mob system and even a new 1.8 passive mob system! Sorry for the demo capture software, I'm broke and can't afford to buy anything except food. If you need tutorials on any of these features let me know. Enjoy!

I was getting bored waiting on naturally occurring blazes to spawn in the nether fortress and to pass the time I imported a mobivator then switched out the water for lava. No particular reason, can't see much use for it atm but you never know. Fun was had by all.

EDIT: Patched in 1.9.5 I mentioned I'd read this ages ago to Roboticaust during his livestream and he said he hadn't heard of that before so here's a quick video showing it in action. Zombie pigmen and blazes are the two nether mobs that will always attempt to swim up in lava. Only difference being blazes can fly out if they have the clearance above. In the case of a lava column both mobs will climb until they hit an obstruction and get stuck or exit the lava. After a few blocks in height they will make no effort to escape the column.

Response to AutomatorMC's request on spider suppression.

The new terrain in 1.9 is riddled with caves, ravines, abandoned mines etc and I've noticed I'm finding a lot more dungeons also. After watching many LPr's I cringe when seeing how some (naming no names) tackle mob spawners. So many people watch these guys they may be picking up bad habits so here's my first spelunking tip on how to suppress a mob spawner economically.

I was doing some testing on the ghast trap to work out a decent kill method and discovered a surprising fact about their hitboxes. red3yz video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7b1O3EwCFU

As an Englishman in NY I don't really celebrate thanksgiving in general but for those of you that do I figured I'd put a up a special episode to honour a national tradition. Save me some turkey and stuffing!

Inspired by DocM77 I wanted to do a stress test while recording to see if it was possible for my computer to handle 500 blazes and the explosion of XP / Blaze Rods. TEXTURE PACK: Misa's realistic Fps dropped severely but no crash! Strange thing happened though, pistons glitched out after blew up the 500 in the chamber a few times. I'm sure there's room for improvement and I'm open to ideas from you guys. I plan to put in a piston floor to access the chamber for the blaze rods next.

All the elements are now in place as far as ghasts go for this nether mob trap. I still need to address the rogue pigmen on the tracks and then start hacking away at the whole setup to reduce the amount of resources used and increase efficiency overall.

Safe-fall Tarzan style. (Before wings)

Automated nether portal, no reagents!

I was on my test world and was looking for a stronghold so I could port to the End and show how easy ender pearl farming will be when the End is properly implemented. I've never seen anything like this in minecraft before, too good to be true almost! VERSION: Beta1.9 Pre-Release 4 Seed: 2925819579792756736 Location: Roughly x -713 z -125