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For those who do not read ban threads, I got wordy when replying to an "x-ray"er.  Figured the info was too good not to repeat here to more readers.

When I first started in MC, I obsessively used MCEdit to clear 1000 x 1000 areas of stone, dirt, gravel and sand to study diamond distribution in a number of single player worlds and different biomes. I wanted to find the most efficient diamond mining strategy.  Turns out biomes don't matter much.

Natural caves are not much better than the same linear distance of tunneling.  I would MCEdit air to glass, then remove dross, fly around to see how many diamonds were against glass thus visible in caves.

Finger mining at y==11 is the most efficient method (diamond/stone ratio) that I have found by a tiny fraction than the next best alternative.  Finger mining is tunnels 13 blocks apart then every 3 along the tunnel finger in 5 at chest level on both sides -- lots of turning.

I prefer driving 1x2 tunnels every 4 blocks which is way easier to do mindlessly -- tunnel straight -- 100 block long tunnels side-by-side are much better because I have tunneled 1000 straight and not found any diamonds but lots in a tunnel 4 blocks over.  Yes diamond pockets tend to line up for 50 to 500 blocks at a time just often enough that I prefer to line up my tunnels over the first diamond pocket I find.

There is another method of drilling shafts down from higher up that is supposed to be slightly more efficient but I have not seen experimental numbers for the method; someone was way more obsessive than me and compiled numbers and graphs on the 2 methods that I use.  When I grind, I want mindless -- straight tunnels are easiest.

Take out every type of ore you find (diamonds tend to be in ore clusters) and pockets of dirt/gravel; many times you will expose the diamonds above or below you.

Both methods find all the diamonds available in an area 4 high and some above/below as well, which at y==11 is 1/2 the diamonds in an area. The remaining half are not worth the double effort compared to just mining another virgin area at y==11 for another 1/2; double effort because you have to repeat all the mining 4 blocks above for 1/4 and 4 blocks below y==11 for 1/4.

Every 1000x1000 area will yield about the same number of diamonds as any other 1000x1000 area.  You will find about 45% of the diamonds at y==11, 25% at y==7, 25% at y==15 and 5% is below y==6 or above y=19.  Yes, you will find 100x100 with very few diamonds around y==11 and the next 100x100 will have almost all the diamonds around y==11.  But those are rare, over 1000x1000 this averages out.

Now if you are tempted to xray -- DON'T! -- HT's default ban setting for xray is level "hardcore" -- perma ban -- your one life on HT is over.

If you find diamond pockets without drilling the equivalent of 100 to 150 x 2 blocks of tunnels on average PER POCKET, your mining will get scrutiny by multiple experts time and time again via logs and watching you in real-time. That is the average tunneling I had to do per diamond pocket on the old HT PVP server to get a full chest of diamond blocks (9 chests of diamonds) without any help!

People want to use xray to avoid that tunneling (grinding), or equivalent cave exploring distances. Sorry, you cannot avoid being detected if you do not grind, and if you grind to cover your xray, why risk of being banned.

Alright, I've been thinking of selling /warp emporium, but I'm not quite sure if I actually want to get rid of it for good. As I was thinking about it, I came up with a pretty decent idea, partially inspired by Cilgdad.

I'm going to be renting out space in Emporium. How it'll work? You'll chose which chests you want to sell from, out of the ones I currently have in the shop. We'll discuss the weekly rent amount based on the number of chests and the items being sold (I'll probably make a separate thread for that). I'll add you to the pstones and allow you to place the chests and determine your own prices (I reserve the right to veto absurd prices, and evict you if necessary). Rent will be due weekly, and I can evict you at any point. When properly advertised, the shop attracts tons of business. You will likely make tons of money, without having to stock an entire shop. It's a win-win for both of us!

I'll provide more details if anyone's interested. If you have any questions or want to rent space, reply to this thread!

I hate when people accuse me of something as serious as X-raying, especially when the plugins they have don;t really tell if you been X-raying. Especially after I've been unbanned not to long ago, and starting to get to know the community as it was on my list on what to do after I got unbanned.

To start things off, lets have a picture, some actual evidence that I was not X-raying:

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This picture was taken yesterday, June 6th of 2016, not too long after my conversation with Rowebot about me stealing to get more materials to build with (which I was banned for). I said that I was salvaging materials from destroyed builds to benefit me (which was wrong and I haved fixed and promised to never do again), hens the reason I was mining.

As I told Frost, and I quote, "I mine near lava pools, because diamonds are more common (as well as other materials) are found often (since some people are afraid of mining toward lava)." How I found lava pools? Simply with the new "subtitle" option Mojang added in the 1.9 update (found in the Left Corner).

Something I didn't tell Frost (mainly because I was banned almost instantaneously while me and frost were talking about me X-raying) was that I also use the Y coordinate to make sure I'm at the diamond height (Something everybody knows).

And just to be sure that I'm not using another server as my excuse, Bambigassmofo said something during chat when I accidentally pressed when trying to get rid of debug menu with all the information (I pressed F2 instead of F3), as I only use this menu to see where I'm at with my Y-Axis. (Subtitles are not part of the menu, it has its own setting with all the sounds which always stays on, which makes lava pool finding easy).

One last thing, is that nothing appears to be missing in order to tell that there are ores around me. All the texture are normal, I don't use any other resource packs except the default minecraft look.

Also, if you have been checking my log of what I broken (you've probably seen it), but all the ore I was breaking not too long earlier was the silk touched ore I've picked up when mining (I use Silk Touch Pickaxes when mining for compact storage, then place them and break them with a Fortune Pickaxe, take spare ore and sell it to the shop).

I will be looking for your response on one of the staff members banning me with no physical evidence that I was X-raying.

-Knight4673

Hello my name is john my mc username is JohnM2001 i was banned on the server for tresspasing and theft i have no idea what i did wrong if i can get unbanned and talk in mc chat with a admin / the owner that would be great

So i have a new screen recording software which came with the newest AMD software update, and i decided to try uploading videos. I already have quite a few videos on plays.tv if you want to see them, but i am considering youtube. Thoughts? If you want to see some videos and hear my horrific voice, i will link the already existing channel below.

http://plays.tv/u/Penguin825

So with Marti, Chicken, and patty we found you can fly on top of water! We had some fun with elytra and also made an elytra race course! I have uploaded videos of the glitch and the elytra racing, links below.

http://plays.tv/video/5756d23ace4795256e...elytra-fun

http://plays.tv/video/5756f3135b41b3c58c...-and-patty

Of the 12 music discs in Minecraft, which is your favorite? Do you have more than one you really like? 
Do you ever listen to any of the tracks outside of the game? Why is your favorite your favorite? What does it make you feel? 

If you're a little rusty on which song is which, here's a list of them with links:

• 13 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExhKqGIaAyI
  
• Cat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09gF3JfROwY
  
• Blocks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Qnw1IJNeo
  
• Chirp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bcog4fSRSQ
  
• Far - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLF9KA4DeD0
  
• Mellohi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eVs7xxquz4
  
• Stal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_K8kgAQhnQ
  
• Strad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGBK0L9k8jI
  
• Ward - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51F6WAhlek
  
• 11 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6c5aMGF9v0 Warning! This might be unsettling to some, as it's mostly sound effects of someone running from something with haunting music.
  
• Wait - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUlLcV9F1DU
  

Hello!
I've already been playing on the server for a couple of days, but I thought I'd introduce myself here on the forums. 


I'm Moonid! Some call me Bun or my actual name: Darling, but I'll answer to anything so long as I know I'm being addressed. I'm a resident of USA, Central Time Zone, an artist, and a tiny bit of a recluse.


I'm usually pretty quiet and I have a sleepy demeanor, especially with how active the chat is much of the time, but I'm friendly, and if I'm able to help or answer questions, I will.

I like to build, especially with the challenge and limitations presented with Survival!
I'm a bit of a hoarder and I'm happier chilling or farming or making potions than I am actively mining. 

I rarely leave my little corner of the world, so you might not see me running around unless I'm in the market. 


If you have any questions about me, hit me up! I'm happy to be here and I adore the server so far. 

Okay so I noticed that many people on the server have a need for beacons. So I'm going to auction off a beacon set I made myself. This beacon set includes:
-2 stacks of iron blocks
-1 beacon,
-1 Diamond Pickaxe with Mending, Unbreaking 3, fortune 3, and Efficiency 5. 

The bid will start at $80 in game money. And bidding must be in at least in increments of $10. Have fun bidding

I also forgot to mention the bidding will end on Thursday 5/9 @12:00pm