Show us your beacons!

[odranoel]

with another awsome addition to BTW (lets face it, who here made a beacon before FC fixed them?) and the fact that they make such beautiful additions to any base, i thought i would dedicate a thread just for them :)

so post pics of your beacons, and if you want explain how it has helped you out so far or how it has modified your playing behaviour.

ill start us off with my new aquired lapis beacon! (my only beacon so far) stratigicly placed atop my two side by side mob grinders, i can now easily light up any caves below and also know exactly just how much i should light up. i really hadnt worked much on my mob grinder befor because the whole lighting up all the caves thing was pretty daunting. i had lighten up many many cave systems (i unfortunatly choose an area with insainly huge cave systems) yet my out put never really seemed to increas much, id get about one or two mobs every few minutes, not much of an out put at all. but now with my beacon its reinvigorated my desires to continue my mobs trap, and little by little iv been seeing its output increase. Hurray for beacons!

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[FlowerChild]

While I appreciate the intent of this thread, I feel it's still too soon man. This is bound to become a spoiler thread for many, and then we end up in the whole cheaty vs legit revelation mix.

I'd recommend waiting a bit until this stuff really starts becoming common knowledge before doing something like this.

[FlowerChild]

Ah...fuck it. Let's open this up a bit. Policing what is said where about the beacons is getting tiresome for me, and personally, I take a lot of satisfaction from seeing what people do with the features I create.

So let's see those beacons :)

[Shengji]

But what do you do??!!

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[Larmantine]

But what do you do??!!

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How the hell did you got that many beacons?

[baialein]

My beacons so far...
the fourth working one in the background is a SFS one on ground level....

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[FlowerChild]

Awesome stuff guys...keep em coming :)

But what do you do??!!

Hehe...the functioning of the obsidian beacon is different enough from the others that I'll give you guys a clue:

It modifies the behavior of another block resting on it.

Once you figure that part out, I think what it's doing will become pretty obvious, although the subtleties of its operation are another story ;)

[DNoved1]

My first beacon:

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It's only one level, but it's also right above where I'm digging out my slime farm, so it's very handy.

[The great randomo]

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My beacons as they are now. They're on top of my soon-to-be mobtrap and are grouped by type: metal, rock, mineral etc.

[Shengji]

How the hell did you got that many beacons?

While you guys have been spending the week trying to figure out what the beacons do, I've been channelling water and lava miles to perfect my cobblestone generator suffocation chamber ;)

[BinoAl]

While you guys have been spending the week trying to figure out what the beacons do, I've been channelling water and lava miles to perfect my cobblestone generator suffocation chamber ;)

...I can't believe I didn't think of that.

[Battosay]

While you guys have been spending the week trying to figure out what the beacons do, I've been channelling water and lava miles to perfect my cobblestone generator suffocation chamber ;)

...I can't believe I didn't think of that.

Seriously ?
You know you can put the Wither in a Minecart if you do it fast when you summon it, right ? ;)

[Shengji]

Seriously ?
You know you can put the Wither in a Minecart if you do it fast when you summon it, right ? ;)

And Battosay plays the trump card, as ever!

[Foxy Boxes]

Seriously ?
You know you can put the Wither in a Minecart if you do it fast when you summon it, right ? ;)

... Rails have just become a heck of a lot more volatile in Anarchy.

[wirer]

Who needs TNT minecarts when you can have Wither-in-a-cart?

I personally prefer smothering the wither in iron golems myself, though. the minecart trick seems interesting. may try in future. does it still explode with the force of a thousand suns when in a minecart?

[FlowerChild]

If it keeps up, temp bans will be handed out for off topic.

[BlackCat]

Because yes.

[dawnraider]

wtf did I just watch? Anyways, that's actually pretty cool.

[wirer]

It's funny, i'll give you that.

Beacons aesthetics are an interesting thing to work with. Time to go plan an anti-air laser.

As far as functional beacons go, i think i would rather place them underground, so that the beacon doesn't become an obstacle to working in that area

P.S. Nice Mushroom Island.