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Empire Tips and Tricks: How to Run a Successful Shop

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The player-led economy is a key part of EMC and one of the aspects that drew me to the server in the first place. Starting a shop (and keeping it running) can be a daunting idea; it can be difficult to determine what to start selling and for how much, but after running a mall for the past few years I’ve narrowed down five tips that can make starting and maintaining a shop easier.

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The Three Little Pigmen

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**This adaptation of the classic story The Three Little Pigs by James Halliwell-Phillipps is brought to you by Empire Minecraft player khixan.

Once upon a time, there were 3 little pigmen brothers. They’d gone walk-about through The Nether seeking their fortune. [Read more…]

Gold Farm Building Guide – Pigmentus

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We built a public gold farm recently that we call Pigmentus, and I’ve been getting asked how to make it. You asked; I answer.

I recommend going 96 blocks up in the air. Why? Simple. You won’t have to deal with slabbing, lighting or flooding the surrounding area for 96 blocks in every direction from the farm’s edges to control the entity count. You should also build this farm 1024 overworld blocks away from any other portal. Unless you understand the mechanics of making a perfect portal match/link. That is beyond the scope of this tutorial. Google it. Point being, don’t build this farm next to your base’s main nether portal. The next time you come through it from the nether, you might wind up inside your gold farm with an army of angry piggies.

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Survival with more Style

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Here we go out to the wild to Minecraft! Woot woot! And what does everyone’s house look like at first?

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Heck, we’re grateful it’s not dirt and has windows right? But it’s still the box of mass wood box-iness. Every time I make something that turns into a box or plain rectangle, I kinda die a little inside. This is easily fixed though! We have options 😀

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