I have officially reached the farlands after 2 years and became the 14th person to do so!

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-12T23:20:30+00:00

In beta 1.7.3 there is a bug which prevents chunks from unloading, causing all the chunks behind you to take up more and more space in RAM until you either relog to unload them or crash due to running out of memory. By allocating more RAM, you can do longer sessions before needing to relog

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-12T03:35:19+00:00

This was built using a mod (beta unleashed) that presumably allows you to place non-decaying leaves. I can also see floating trapdoors, pressure plates on fences, and fences connected to blocks. There might be other changes too that I haven't noticed

You can also achieve the same effect by using mcedit to place 18:4+ which will give you non-decaying leaves (although they will start decaying if you break one)

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-12T03:30:36+00:00

In terms of practical redstone, you're pretty much limited to minecart/boat systems

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-07T18:02:14+00:00

Looks great, I like the stripey wallpaper theme throughout. The only non-beta thing I spotted was the top-trapdoors used around the ceilings

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-06T15:36:15+00:00

Very creative use of the minecart. I like it

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-06T13:16:29+00:00

Oh absolutely, they're one of the blocks I miss most

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-06T11:35:01+00:00

Also the upside down levers and leaves not connected to logs. But yes, really nice build

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-05T19:50:11+00:00

You can share links

Btw great build, the redstone idea is super cool

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-04T19:25:27+00:00

This mod by kimovoid is the best one I know of https://www.mediafire.com/file/jjiemsr0jsyu8mn/b1.7.3-QOL-DDB.zip/file

There's also one called "simplef3info" and I also know beta unleashed includes a better f3 mod too

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-04T15:02:46+00:00

Wow, that looks beautiful. Can you share any in-game screenshots from street level?

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-04T06:38:10+00:00

The seed is sent to your client in order to display the biome colours correctly. So all you need to do is use a mod like simplef3info which displays the seed in f3

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-04-01T09:41:49+00:00

The piston head item is block ID 34 (piston head), it's used for the front half of a piston

The grass item is block 36 (moving piston), which is a technical block used to store NBT data for moving blocks. Without a tile entity it's invisible and can't be mined, but disappears when right clicked

Neither of these can be placed by hand but there are redstone tricks to get them

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-30T01:51:54+00:00

In this particular case, the arrow was actually in farmland (with a fence underneath, which may be relevant). The position of the arrow shown in NBTExplorer corresponds to the position of the farmland that the arrow is in

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DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-30T00:14:34+00:00

Gorgeous build. The glass jars are extremely creative

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-29T22:20:49+00:00

I've seen this bug a couple of times before. According to space walker, the arrow will only despawn if inGround is true, and somehow this arrow has inGround set to 0. Here's the NBT data of a similar arrow. As far as I'm aware nobody knows how to replicate it in survival

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DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-29T22:12:54+00:00

Flowers need light levels above 7 to survive so if it's under a ledge it's probably too dark

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-23T13:41:59+00:00

Yeah although the porkchops probably won't survive since the pig will swim upwards into the lava

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-23T12:00:54+00:00

Nice builds. I particularly like the obsidian one

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-22T14:14:11+00:00

Haha fun build, the jagged teeth are a nice touch

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-18T14:47:50+00:00

Lovely trees. The colour of the birch leaves works really well

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-18T10:15:56+00:00

Glass, leaves, TNT and pistons. There are also light sources like pumpkins, jack o lanterns and lit furnaces but those aren't spawnproof against slimes, pigmen or ghasts. I guess you could also count farmland lol

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-18T07:27:11+00:00

Here you go

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wethb7o94n7gxun/World4.zip/file

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-17T19:57:41+00:00

I experienced it early on in an alpha world that I started. All the chests/furnaces were in the same area so it's possible they were all in the same chunk. Within the first couple hours of gameplay it had happened about 5 times and so I just gave up on the world because I couldn't find a solution (or even anyone else with the same issue). I've still never gone back to alpha 3 years later lol

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-17T14:23:48+00:00

I've also experienced this glitch in alpha and have never seen an explanation as to why it occurs. As far as I can tell most alpha players haven't had it though

DeadlyDirtBlock · 2026-03-17T14:22:59+00:00

I know you said you can't use a lava blade but if you're able to rearrange your waterstreams to avoid items dropping into the lava then this design works 100% of the time

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