24 slot now
If its 300 for a diamond, and 3 diamonds for a pick then thats 900 cobble per pick. Each diamond pick has 1025 uses, if you take away the cost for the next pick you end up with 125 cobble profit.
A stone pick only has 65 uses, so you need 16 stone picks to do the same work as 1 diamond. 16 x 3 cobble per pick = 48 cobble. 16 stone picks = 1040 cobble - 48 cobble for picks = 992 cobble profit.
So over the same ammount of blocks using stone picks will net you nearly 8 times as many cobble overall. Diamond picks will still be more efficient for clearing large ammounts of stuff out of the way as it still has a net profit so you will be able to constantly get a new pick each time the old one runs out, but if the goal is to end up with as much cobble as possible then even though stone picks are slower the expense of them is negligble.
# Weapons/Tools. Can not be changed back into components, nor sold.
# Allowed
diamond-sword=180
diamond-spade=150
diamond-pickaxe=180
diamond-axe=150
diamond-hoe=140
it was mainly there to mine cobble FOR spawn, and for me to mine a few nice bits for myself but never mind.
my rant was not for people who had no involvement to feel bad and fix it, i just wanted to get it off my chest, i wouldn't have been mad at all if the person who'd caused the damage had made best efforts to fix it and put a sign up apologising, accidents happen, but instead they **** off like little cowards, i don't think i'll be on for a few days anyway, i'm not keen to play where someone chooses to behave in a pretty rotten way.
To be fair one of the creepers blew up just as I was coming down the steps from the spawn and killed me. There was some collateral damage to your house. (It was already damaged tho).
I did start to repair the land, but my client froze and the server was full when I tried to re-join so I gave up after a bit. As you will see above I have been having lots of issues with the client since beta and have not been able to stay connected for more than about 10 mins at a time. Sorry I will rejoin and fix as soon as the mac client gets more stable. Hopefully 10 more slots on the server will help too.
Garsands, how great are your powers? Are you able to delete my tower and give me some cobble stone in exchange? I think I've built too close to spawn :/
Is there a resource shop yet?
I'm hating these randomly appearing creepers, they should not be able to get into my base now as it's double walled and about 6 blocks high!!!! It's going to have a large tower but it's a bugger to mine resources quick enough tho, on the bright side, I have about 120 coal now and loads of wood.
Any chance of another Cartograph of the map Gar?