MYCELIUM!!!

Sorry, I forgot to mention this before, and then forgot about it till now. Whilst out searching for our original stronghold, somehow we managed to end up with a single block of mycelium with us. Arrowave was looking in his inventory, and saw it there. We have no clue how we got it, but there it is. It's been sitting in storage ever since. Today I found it again, and I made a mycelium plantation where the old chicken pens were. Unfortunately, we still cannot get mooshrooms from it, but at least we have a patch of mycelium to grow mushrooms faster than normal. I have planted one of each type of mushroom there as well, to start the spreading process. I'm thinking we make another level of the nether farms and we can make our mushroom plantation there on a layer of mycelium.

Speaking of that, we also have a grass plantation in the nether now too, on the 4th level of the farms

o-o

That's about it... there is no explanation that we can think of as to how it got there, but I very clearly saw arrowave throw the block at me, and it go into my inventory

So you managed to stumble upon one of the ridiculously super rare mycelium biomes and you somehow missed it. I'm not sure if I should pat you on the back or slap you in the face o.o

I'm not sure either. How we BOTH did it though, and still gain the just a single block from it is beyond me. If only we had have known where it was, we could have unlimited mushroom stew

How big of an area were you going through when you found it? Was it caves or above ground? I'm not sure if mushroom biomes have caves but if they do perhaps some mycelium can find its way underground and thus you might not notice it because it's a regular cave with just a couple of mycelium blocks. Also, aren't mushroom biomes always islands? Because then it would be near impossible to miss it if you're on the surface, especially if you come close enough to get a block.

No, they're not always islands, just more commonly islands. We were running across the open ground, so it is possible that it was at night time, a creeper exploded, and dropped the mycelium, which arrowave picked up. Obviously along the edge of the biome, and due to the threat of arrows, explosions, spiders, and losing our brains, we missed it completely

That's too bad, might be hard to track it down aswell

If you try running towards 0,0 you might find your way to it... if you get lucky

Sounds like an adventure for a boring day

definitely... so, if you're without something to do, then go for a run, and find us some mooshrooms, and bring them back safely

It is odd how the block popped into my inventory. Even if a creeper exploded the block would have turned back to dirt. Neither of us had a silk touch pick either.

Well, with one block we can make more, but it does sound suspicious. Are we sure no one mucked with the /give command? We had an incident on my other server with someone mysteriously acquiring 27 blocks of mycelium when there wasnt' a single mushroom biome anywhere on the map (and we used mapping software to check). As an admin I confiscated it until such time as we eventually found a mushroom biome and I visited it myself to simulate a trip out with my silk touch pick (actually I was collecting mooshrooms for my underground tunnel ranch), at which point I placed the mycelium into a publicly-available chest for use by all.

I think we should send someone to map the aboveground world!

We do need an in game map...

The only ones who have access to any commands are me and Sret, and I can gurantee you that neither of us would ever even consider cheating to get it. And considering it appeared in arrowaves inventory...

Finding a mushroom biome an making a trip there might be worth it to seem more legit, but I believe that if there's no other explanation, it was probably a glitch in the SMP minecraft, and the datavalues of a block got changed. We've lost valuable stuff to glitches before

We're bound to walk by a mushroom biome eventually and then it doesn't even matter anymore

I've made the first map of the world, which starts at the store room. Only a small section is mapped out, buy I will do it all later

We could all do different parts of the world and organize them inside a chest. That way we could pick out places for projects without having to actually explore.

The maps glitch at 0,0 on smp. Just like ender eyes.

Glitch in what way?

You can't see the arrow showing where you are.

Oh, cool never knew that

That is why I like rei's minimap, it's actually not bugged like the vanilla one. And allows me to find locations iv visited before.

Meh, we can live with bugs though... it's minecraft, that's half the fun of it