Hmm, if they don't start attacking until you look away, could you shoot one to death without it doing anything?
Release date as far as I know is tomorrow. So say 8PM GMT+1 tomorrow (Britain is currently on GMT+1 'cus of British Summer Time)? Or would earlier than that be better? (It'd have to be before 6 for me.)
Get your kit ready!
All those attending the grand opening of Exoddus Settlement, please bring...
- 1 minecart* (for travelling the rail in the Nether),
- 3+ stacks of cobble,
- 1 stack dirt/gravel,
- 1 bed,
- 1 stack torches,
- 3+ saplings (preferably birch or pine) in case we get a desert or plain,
- 1/2+ stack wood, or 1+ stack planks, for building chests, signs, crafting tables, sticks, doors, etc.
- 1/2+ stack coal, for additional torches and fuel,
- Food to your own satisfaction (bearing in mind if your hunger reaches 0 you lose all but half a heart immediately, and we don't know how long that takes or how much hunger food restores),
- Anything else you feel you need: tools, weapons, iron, map ingredients**, etc.,
- Herobrine.
Be prepared to share items in your survival kit with others, and for them to be used for the building of communal facilities (such as portal shelter, dormitories, storage chests and signs).
Since biomes are getting such a big change, we may get an environment we really don't expect, so be prepared!
Unless the Portal comes out somewhere ludicrous (such as the middle of an ocean or, so help us, somewhere already generated) we will settle where we land, as if spawning for the first time.
The portal heads north-west through the Nether, so more new chunks will lie to the north west (assuming the sun sets east-to-west and maps are aligned to the east, Mr Gravel Shore). Exploration of new chunks should wait until after Exoddus Settlement is a secure and safe place for us all to live. Town planning and assignation of land for personal building at Exoddus Settlement will begin after construction of portal shelter and dormitories.
Finally, expect bugs. Don't flash about anything too rare, just in case something untoward occurs due to bugs.
*Five iron ingots in a 'U' shape.
**A compass*** surrounded by eight paper****. Remember, maps centre on the crafting table where they're made, so don't make one in advance.
*** 1 redstone surrounded by 4 iron ingots.
**** Three reeds in a row.