Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Manyofthesecreationsaretoomuchforoneperson,sotheyhavesprunguponmultiplayer
servers. Others, though, represent thousands of hours of effort by dedicated individuals
who will often then share the map as a free download.
So, having set the scene, what's the easiest way for you to get started without necessarily
budgeting the next six months to a building project?
You can take several approaches:
Extend your current shelter
—Keep all the basics in place while building out and
up a little at a time.
Start from scratch above ground
—Pick a location close to your current spawn
point, or strike out to a better location with your bed in hand to reset your spawn.
Figure 8.2
shows an example.
FIGURE 8.2
Home, sweet home, perched far above the madding crowd.
Head to the nearest village
—A village is a handy location to set up home if you
don't mind the villagers' constant creaky grumbling that makes them sound like
they need a quick squirt of WD-40. Once established you can harvest their farms
without them getting upset, and there's often at least one villager happy to swap
wheat for emeralds, which you can then use to trade for other items. Just don't for-
get to replant their fields for the next time because the villagers, a lazy bunch,
don't do that themselves.
Dive
—Not all shelters need to be aboveground or deep in a cave. I've included a
tutorial on building underwater later in this chapter.
