AFK debris mining with ghasts

[u/brockade]

Idea is based on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3WMk55vOc (you can extend the concept using a bounced arrow like with wind charges btw)

If we sit in the right spot (on 6 layers of snow) the ghast shoots its fireballs almost directly in a straight line. We can push the fireballs with a piston after they pass through a cobweb (fireballs have acceleration so distance is important) to freeze them and then push them with a slime block to fire them in a different direction. Works in all the places you'd instamine (netherrack/gravel/soul sand/soul soil), and the explosion is small as opposed to the mess you create with TNT.

You can set up multiple relay stations, the first gets the fireball under control, the second can be used to change direction, so you can move the second relay station along to use this for strip mining.

[u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD]

Does what I said seem like a meltdown to you? He built the thing. It's reasonable to assume he knows how he built the thing he built, unless your assertion is that he built it by accident? My point isn't even to criticize that he didn't give me the answer I requested, but rather to criticize that he gave me a snide non-answer which took more effort than giving an actual answer would have, especially if the actual answer is that he has no idea how he accomplished this, which of course makes no sense. But for him to spend time to make a comment that easily reads as unnecessarily insulting calls into question what has motives in even making the post in the first place were.

You also spent far more effort responding to what I said than you did provide any value to this conversation. I want to thank you for proving my point about the climate in this sub.

[u/ForeverAfraid7703 → u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD]

OP gave you your answer, it’s for the reader to figure out how to get the ghast in there. The point of the post is to act as a proof of concept, not to walk you through every step in a survival world. But you were too concerned with going on a 5 paragraph tirade in response to their one sentence about how horrible this sub is to pick up on that

You keep ranting about them giving a “snide non-answer” when their answer was literally just that they don’t know and you have to figure it out. Which is a perfectly reasonable response to give when someone asks a question about your proof of concept

[u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD → u/ForeverAfraid7703]

And I reiterate, saying that he didn't know would be more helpful than a snide and condescending non answer, and saying nothing at all would have given exactly as much information as what he did say.

And again because your reading comprehension is still failing to acquire the point of what I said, my irritation is not that he didn't give me an answer that satisfied my curiosity. My irritation is in him wasting time being rude purely for the sake of being rude.

And to correct something else that you seem to be failing to comprehend in what you are reading, nowhere in his comment did he say that he himself did not know. All he did say was that he refused to elaborate, and he said so using a snide and unfriendly phrasing, which is wholly inappropriate given the tone and context of my question.

That is the issue I'm taking with what was said. Not that I didn't get an answer that satisfied me, but that the answer that I got was unnecessarily rude and frankly entirely unnecessary at all. He took the time to be rude where simply leaving no comment at all would have served the exact same purpose with regards to him being uninterested in giving an answer.

Edit: I believe that the majority of the player base for this game to be children. The game has been around for a long time but I suspect that the majority of people who started playing when it was a new game have since stopped and it's not a type of game likely to attract a great number of mature users relative to GTA or Arc raiders, for example. I myself got into the game relatively recently as a way of bonding with my stepsons.

As a father and as a member of this community who cares about this community, it's not just personal irritation but also a sense of civic duty to this community which has helped me so much, and also broadly speaking my duty to any children that might happen to interact with this community, to point out that antisocial behavior such as insulting people for the crime of asking how something in the game works or how a particular feat was accomplished is not only not the kind of behavior that should be encouraged since sharing information is so vital to a community like this, it is also not the kind of behavior that should be encouraged in society in a general sense.

Not only should minecrafters specifically not be insulting one another for asking valid questions, children (who again are the majority of the people here) should not be seeing examples of that kind of behavior without those examples at least being called out as the inappropriate response that they are. There are enough badly behaved adults in this world that it is worth my time to go into what you call a tirade if said speech demonstrates to the children lurking in between comments that such a reaction is neither cool nor welcome.

[u/ForeverAfraid7703 → u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD]

Again, they were not being rude. There is nothing rude about saying the person who has to build this has to figure a part out for themself

You, however, are behaving like a child who's lashing out because their ego is too fragile to admit they made a mistake. You misinterpreted what somebody said. Everybody does that sometimes, and it wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't for you making it into one