Minecraft Survival Island #2 mob grinder

In the last  Survival Island video I found a cave, built a house and put up torches around the island. In this video I explored the cave there is 5 iron, 16 coal and a ton of gravel (not that good of a cave) no caves, caverns, or mineshaft's. So plan on making a mob grinder  to get string and make a fishing rod and a bed. For some reason trees aren't growing for like three days in the real world I hope to find the the treasure of the Lost curator. 

Sorry there will not be a Starcraft 2 video the mouse was glitchy and the servers had massive lag so I will be doing a tekkit post instead. Please put in the comments any suggestions of Christmas videos I can do if team fortress 2 is your suggestion I can't there is so much lag I cant play. 

Minecraft Survival Island #1 Lets Get Started

I found a ppgamer article called the best 25 minecraft maps and the second one was called survival island It looked fun so I downloaded the map.

The island is a small, only 34 blocks in width and 48 blocks in length.

The objective are: build a 2 story house with 20+ windows in it, Build 10 bookshelves, create an automated cactus farm, create an underground tree farm, create an above ground mob/animal trap, build a water trap around the skeleton spawner, build a cart system, make something with redstone, gather 10 unused diamonds, Find the treasure of the Lost curator. And the rules are, Don’t leave the island. The difficulty should be normal, Have fun. I plan on playing survival island until I finish all of the objectives (I will update the my skin to be a little more fitting of a desert island in a bit). I hope my house looks better then this:

when I get more saplings I will make this out of nice wood and wooden planks. I also found a cave and can't wait to explore it. I hope to find the treasure of the Lost curator in it.

ladder game with zerg

    I had a strategy for Terran where you Banshee rush but you don't get the second Starport or the Tech Lab on the Barracks. You get two Banshees and cloaking out of the one Starport and then you attack the workers or harass. The strategy was weak against Terran but good against Zerg and Protoss. Then I found out that the Mothership Core had detection;  I had to think up a new strategy. I found Infestor-Roach rush/ambush to be an excellent replacement.

   

    The plan is to get Infestors as fast as you can while you build a Lair and about 25 Roaches. Once the Lair is built research Tunneling Claws, Burrow, and Metabolic Boost (the last one is optional). while those are being researched build an Infestation Pit and  three or four Infestors, as well as many Zerglings as you can get. Then burrow the Infestors and Roaches and move them to the main base while attacking the ramp with Zerglings.

Snow Making Machine

To make the snow machine you need: glass, block breakers, snow blocks, pumpkins, Redstone torches, automatic crafting tables, an energy condenser, pneumatic tubes, gold pipes, cobblestone pipes, iron pipes, wooden pipes, redstone engines, chests, and red alloy wire or red pneumatic tubes (the pneumatic tubes are glitchier). You start by making a strip of block breakers (I used 10 block breakers). Next you put glass around the block breakers two high. After that build snow golems inside the glass enclosure. Then dig under the glass and put down the pneumatic tubes and red alloy wire. Next put down the chests and the automatic crafting tables (make sure that the chest in next to the  automatic crafting tables) the chests were not included in the video. Finally put down the pipes and place the energy condenser. Hope you enjoy the video

Chest and Auto Crafting Table example.

how to mine minerals and get gas

Mining minerals and harvesting gas is the most important activity in starcraft; without minerals you can't do anything!  all buildings and units require minerals, for example the simple  SCV take 50 minerals, the medic takes 75 minerals and 50 gas, and the command center takes a whopping 400 minerals. First you box your SCVs (left click and drag over them) then you set them to work on mining. Next you build more SCVs and you check on your supply if you are close to the number next to it build a supply depot. Finally build a barracks and some marines. Once you feel like you have a big enough army move out (I only attack when I have 200/200 supply)

Mech With Protoss

To mech with Protoss you need the Robotics Bay. The majority of your army is composed of Immortals, Colossi, and a small force of Phoenixes, and Archons.

First build three Robotics Bays, two Stargates, and six Gateways/Warp gates. You want at least three bases preferably four. The only problems with this build are one, things like  Carriers, and Battlecruisers can do a lot of damage (that is what the phoenix and archons are for). And two, there isn't a lot of them when you max out your supply. You only have 30 units! If you had a gateway army you could max out at 120 units or more. If you are fighting Terran or Zerg then morph the high templar in to archons before you fight. If fighting Protoss use the templars feedback ability on them first and then morph them in to archons. Here is a replay of the game.

Starcraft 2 Tutorial (001)

Once you install Starcraft, go to options screen, turn on display build grid, show health bars, show hot keys and display timer. If you just got Starcraft you won't use these things, but it is useful in the future.

1. You make a box around your units (left click and drag). That makes a small green ring around each unit.The green ring means that you can tell them to do things.
2. You right click to tell them to move or attack.

My next post will be on mining minerals and getting gas.