- Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:14 pm
#104788
EDIT: after doing some tests, it seems that Iron Golems are unwilling to fight me.
First of all: I have no intention of blockading the nether or it's exits, I only want to address the issue before it occurs.
so, I was on the MineCraft forums and I found an interesting little device by Regular Hexahedron:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/729 ... intruders/
Basically, it uses boats or some other similar Entities (read: "groups of Iron Golems") to force players off of the back of a nether portal and into a deadly trap, be it a lava pit, a deadly fall, a pressure plate hooked up to a dispenser, etc, basically, it pushes you to a deathtrap when you appear from a portal.
so, when someone, or as of 12w22a, something appears from your portal, it kills them and either burns or drops their items.
it is totally automated, the only thing is that requires a boat.
so, this seems reasonable on earth, right, they shouldn't be going through your portal and into your base anyway, right?
But in the Nether, they would draw in every portal linking to them, potentially within up to 1024 blocks of range, if all Nether-side portals where deleted and re-built Nether-side, 25 or so portals could blockade all of Minerealm!
What's more, one does not have to even edit a portal to do this, someone could just place the machine around the portal, meaning even the spawn portal is susceptible to this.
Even if Iron Golems are used for the pushing, your armor won't save you, even if you crouch, you can easily be thrown off of a 25 block cliff on THE VERY FIRST ATTACK of the Iron Golem, which you spawn inside of, and cannot break blocks without hitting. As you are being violently forced off of a cliff, you would be shot out the instant it hit you, even harmlessly. getting shot out basically equals falling to your death, the only way to survive would be the use of an Ender pearl, straight down, that is, IF you have enough life left after being hit by the Golem.
One: Is this legal, Earth-side or Nether-side? If so, what are the restrictions.
Two: what are the rules about the spawn portal, I managed to forget them, so I pretty much air on the side of: "don't mess with anything remotely nearby".
First of all: I have no intention of blockading the nether or it's exits, I only want to address the issue before it occurs.
so, I was on the MineCraft forums and I found an interesting little device by Regular Hexahedron:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/729 ... intruders/
Basically, it uses boats or some other similar Entities (read: "groups of Iron Golems") to force players off of the back of a nether portal and into a deadly trap, be it a lava pit, a deadly fall, a pressure plate hooked up to a dispenser, etc, basically, it pushes you to a deathtrap when you appear from a portal.
so, when someone, or as of 12w22a, something appears from your portal, it kills them and either burns or drops their items.
it is totally automated, the only thing is that requires a boat.
so, this seems reasonable on earth, right, they shouldn't be going through your portal and into your base anyway, right?
But in the Nether, they would draw in every portal linking to them, potentially within up to 1024 blocks of range, if all Nether-side portals where deleted and re-built Nether-side, 25 or so portals could blockade all of Minerealm!
What's more, one does not have to even edit a portal to do this, someone could just place the machine around the portal, meaning even the spawn portal is susceptible to this.
Even if Iron Golems are used for the pushing, your armor won't save you, even if you crouch, you can easily be thrown off of a 25 block cliff on THE VERY FIRST ATTACK of the Iron Golem, which you spawn inside of, and cannot break blocks without hitting. As you are being violently forced off of a cliff, you would be shot out the instant it hit you, even harmlessly. getting shot out basically equals falling to your death, the only way to survive would be the use of an Ender pearl, straight down, that is, IF you have enough life left after being hit by the Golem.
One: Is this legal, Earth-side or Nether-side? If so, what are the restrictions.
Two: what are the rules about the spawn portal, I managed to forget them, so I pretty much air on the side of: "don't mess with anything remotely nearby".