How do you find strongholds? From what i have heard there are only one per world it that true?
There's 3 per world now and the only way to find them mostly is on accident. I'm not sure, but I think strongholds all have entrances from the surface but it's not fancy at all to say the least so you may have found it but you wouldn't know.
What makes them look different from dungeons? The iron bars right?
Stongholds are made out of 5 (well 6) new blocks. There's the stone brick, broken stone brick, mossy stone brick, stone brick steps and stone brick half slabs (and the iron bars). The brick is obviously different from other block types. It's pretty much a legit dungeon. Long corridors, iron doors that open via a button and then there's a few special rooms. I don't know of them all, but I know that there's a sweet 2 floor'd library room and then some random other interesting rooms. Never the less, it's amazing - if you find one.
I've found one, then immediately died but didn't know where I was so I lost it
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Also, this:
Made this for the new server I'm on. It's obviously a volcano but it's also a jail deep on the inside. Think of Molten Core, and that's exactly what it is. The idea is that players who become jailed are teleported all the way to the furthest North West corner of the map deep into this volcano on a giant platform held up with massive chains above lava. I'll try to take a screenshot of it when I can - cause it's pretty badass.
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here, got some:
There's an observation deck there for non-jailed players to check out the area or make fun of who's jailed there. To get to the observation deck that low, there's a SUPER fancy spiral staircase that runs down from a supported Dock building in the water just off the coast of the volcano. We had a team of builders make this last night in a few hours.