On March 3, I started a vanilla legit hardcore world. It was single biome: Frozen River. I wanted a biome that despised life, that made wood and food scarce as possible. No sheep to make wool for a bed. No chicken feathers to fletch my arrows.
I called the world FrozenCore.
For half a Minecraft day, I walked slowly across the flat, featureless ice plane until I found my first—and only—tree:
My first night was spent in this mud hut. Little did I know it would be the corner stone for the largest building I would ever construct.
Impaled with arrows, cut, bruised, and covered in spider blood, my first night was nonetheless successful; by my stone sword, I had won enough webs to make a fishing rod, which I knew would be essential to survive. Soon, I hoped, I would be able to eat something other than zombie meat.
"Why not plant those seeds and wait for them to become wheat to make bread?" Because I would starve long before that in the highly unlikely event that the droves of attacking monsters would allow me such a peaceful death. Also note just how thin that wood was spread. Wooden and stone tools don't last long. No shovel; I dug the dirt with my hands.
In the light of dawn's sun and the dirt fertilized by the bones of more than a half-dozen fallen skeleton archers, my first tree grew into a mighty oak. Like all life in this hardcore world, it was destined to die.
Now I can fish! Yay! Something other than zombie meat!
Having no bed to magically pass time, it seemed like it was always raining and snowing in FrozenCore. The world hated me. I hated it back.
More trees followed the next day. Note that I never did cut that tree down on the left, the second or third tree I ever grew:
Uh, let's take this outside, Creeper, away from my fragile mud hut and budding wheat crops.
Over the course a few Minecraft days, I dug beneath my hut and quickly found much-needed coal, iron, and cobble to build a stronger shelter. My trees and wheat grew above ground as I mined.
I also found my first ravine, but it was largely uneventful. The system of caverns deep below was as interesting as ever, though, and that's one of the reasons I love Minecraft so much.
When I got tired of the dark shadows underground,not to mention ran low on food, I came up to fish and farm. Fishing brought some interesting things:
Nice!
And here, with no cows, I didn't think I'd be able to get any leather! Yeah, it donned on me that I'd have to find the Stronghold in hopes it had a library before I could ever start enchanting books, if I were even to survive that long.
Selfie, below. I still had my first (stone) sword, armor, and boots (pictured) in a chest when I died.
Below, you can still see my "Diamonds!" achievement text from my first find and this is where I was, inventory-wise:
At that point, I was feeling pretty strong and secure. I knew death haunted every corner, but at that moment, I felt pretty safe.
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Several Minecraft days and two real-time days later, I ventured off my larger island just a little way to find a smaller one nearby with a cave. Little did I know, one day, I would die down there.
However, before spelunking, it was time to start building a real home. I laid the foundation . . .
. . . and built a modest but sturdy and defensible cobblestone house.
From that back porch, I was finally able to fish in relative safety.
So ended my second day of playing . . .
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On the third day of playing, I found a dungeon or two and mined quite a bit. Then, I returned to that smaller nearby island and nonchalantly opened a gateway to Hell.
Nothing to it. Now all I have to do is step through. Okay, that's the hard part. This is hardcore. What it it drops me into the lava? The Nether isn't a very nice place even if I materialize in one piece with solid ground beneath my feet and no ghast fireballs flying at my head. Maybe I should wait . . .
Nah, I jumped inside the shimmering portal.
And landed . . .
. . . right inside a Nether Fortress.
Now that's some luck!
I didn't take many pictures. You know, it's a Nether Fortress. They all look alike. This one was quite impressively large and had all the features including several treasure chests. I got my blaze rods and nether wart and returned home.
When I sum it all up like that, it fails to sound like the exciting, hair-raising and intense series of battles and bewildering twists and turns that it was. I nearly died once, wreathed in flames that took me from almost full hearts to one or two. It's not like I had any potions of fire resistance, or even much of a supply of arrows—20 or so at most.
Remember, there are no chickens in Frozen Core. No chickens mean no arrows.
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Did I say there were no chickens in FrozenCore? I forgot about the ones baby zombies ride. It was harrowing struggle, but I finally got him inside my house.
He stuck around for a long time. Several real-time days of playing. Never laid an egg. Not one. No, it wasn't because I was too far away or didn't check, he just never laid. Must have been a rooster.
Then, one day, he just disappeared. Thanks, Minecraft.
Spoiler alert, a real-time month later, I caught another one. Same thing exactly. No eggs. Eventually, poof.
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It's been about five days of playing. My house turned into a short tower.
I had enough Eyes of Ender to start looking for the Stronghold. So, I took off in search of it, walking across the frozen ice. Note that I said "walking." Food was still a real concern as I had not yet found any potatoes. I had a long trek ahead of me. Remember that I walked in one direction for more than five minutes straight looking for my first tree. I knew the Stronghold was far away. Having enough food to make it back meant I would probably be dining on zombie meat rations on the return voyage. Spoiler alert, I was right.
A look back. I hoped to see it again.
I found that long trips across infinite featureless planes can be disorientating. Eventually, I placed stone markers at every horizon to help guide my way to and fro.
Yep, I found it.
Not many interesting pictures, again. I wasn't really taking pics with the thought that one day months in the future I would make a post about my world. Also, it's just a Stronghold. They're all about the same.
However, this one was by far the largest and most complicated and well-formed I've ever visited. It had two libraries that I found (on a later return trip). It stretched all the way down to bedrock. Very large.
Like I say, I didn't find my library before I left . . .
. . . I found a much more valuable treasure . . .
. . . Potatoes!
This is a shot of the ground floor, right above the basement to the mud hut. I took my farming indoors.
Of course, with the highly-overpowered potatoes, all my food worries were suddenly over. From this moment onward, I never needed food ever again.
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I'll note about the post above that I left as soon as I noticed I had found a potato due to the irrational instinct learned from playing softcore survival mode: get that potato home before you die and lose it! Well, in hardcore, when you die, you lose everything. Permanently. A potato is of little concern.
I'll also note that I had my closest death in one of my few trips to the Stronghold. I'm not looking ahead at my pictures, but I know I got down to one heart. There were several skeletons in the darkness surrounding a fountain. One had a hellova magic bow. It had punch for sure, and it was high Powered, too. Oh, yeah, and Flaming. Yeah, I was down to one heart and shaking.
After planing the potatoes and harvesting and baking a couple stacks with all the saved up bones I had in preperation for this event, I went back and found the Stronghold's libraries. You know what happened next! I had 37 levels pent up and ready to pour out!
Not much lapis lazuli, strangely. Not at this point, anyway.
My first enchant:
I enchanted about four books, then gave it a rest. Nothing real good.
The enchantment library was on the second floor.
Back to killing monsters:
Dawn is on the horizon. Another day without sleep, lacking sheep to make wool to make a bed. If only there was a way to get wool . . .
"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
Gah! No, I didn't know that. Kinda glad I didn't. I sought a challenge, and much of that would have been averted if I could have slept the frigid nights away. Thanks for the info.
When I get time, I'll post about when I tried another way to get wool.
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I thought you might have just "Avoided" the knowledge for dramatic impact I like that you went with the challenge. Looking forward to the next update!
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"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
You actually can obtain egg laying chickens. Have to nametag one so it won't despawn and when you get another breed them together. The offspring will be normal.
This reminded me a lot of the late alpha gameplay. Back then you had a chance to spawn in a snow world all covered in snow and water frozen. Of course no beds back then also.
This reminded me a lot of the late alpha gameplay. Back then you had a chance to spawn in a snow world all covered in snow and water frozen. Of course no beds back then also.
At these times the entire world was made out of ice and snow?
I mean, you could find something else walking away, right? o.O
Yes. I'm pretty sure that biomes didn't exist until late Alpha to early Beta. I can't remember exactly. You either had a regular world or a snow world.
On March 3, I started a vanilla legit hardcore world. It was single biome: Frozen River. I wanted a biome that despised life, that made wood and food scarce as possible. No sheep to make wool for a bed. No chicken feathers to fletch my arrows.
I called the world FrozenCore.
For half a Minecraft day, I walked slowly across the flat, featureless ice plane until I found my first—and only—tree:
My first night was spent in this mud hut. Little did I know it would be the corner stone for the largest building I would ever construct.
Impaled with arrows, cut, bruised, and covered in spider blood, my first night was nonetheless successful; by my stone sword, I had won enough webs to make a fishing rod, which I knew would be essential to survive. Soon, I hoped, I would be able to eat something other than zombie meat.
"Why not plant those seeds and wait for them to become wheat to make bread?" Because I would starve long before that in the highly unlikely event that the droves of attacking monsters would allow me such a peaceful death. Also note just how thin that wood was spread. Wooden and stone tools don't last long. No shovel; I dug the dirt with my hands.
In the light of dawn's sun and the dirt fertilized by the bones of more than a half-dozen fallen skeleton archers, my first tree grew into a mighty oak. Like all life in this hardcore world, it was destined to die.
Now I can fish! Yay! Something other than zombie meat!
Having no bed to magically pass time, it seemed like it was always raining and snowing in FrozenCore. The world hated me. I hated it back.
More trees followed the next day. Note that I never did cut that tree down on the left, the second or third tree I ever grew:
Uh, let's take this outside, Creeper, away from my fragile mud hut and budding wheat crops.
Over the course a few Minecraft days, I dug beneath my hut and quickly found much-needed coal, iron, and cobble to build a stronger shelter. My trees and wheat grew above ground as I mined.
I also found my first ravine, but it was largely uneventful. The system of caverns deep below was as interesting as ever, though, and that's one of the reasons I love Minecraft so much.
When I got tired of the dark shadows underground,not to mention ran low on food, I came up to fish and farm. Fishing brought some interesting things:
Nice!
And here, with no cows, I didn't think I'd be able to get any leather! Yeah, it donned on me that I'd have to find the Stronghold in hopes it had a library before I could ever start enchanting books, if I were even to survive that long.
Selfie, below. I still had my first (stone) sword, armor, and boots (pictured) in a chest when I died.
Below, you can still see my "Diamonds!" achievement text from my first find and this is where I was, inventory-wise:
At that point, I was feeling pretty strong and secure. I knew death haunted every corner, but at that moment, I felt pretty safe.
More to come!
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
Several Minecraft days and two real-time days later, I ventured off my larger island just a little way to find a smaller one nearby with a cave. Little did I know, one day, I would die down there.
However, before spelunking, it was time to start building a real home. I laid the foundation . . .
. . . and built a modest but sturdy and defensible cobblestone house.
From that back porch, I was finally able to fish in relative safety.
So ended my second day of playing . . .
More to come!
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
On the third day of playing, I found a dungeon or two and mined quite a bit. Then, I returned to that smaller nearby island and nonchalantly opened a gateway to Hell.
Nothing to it. Now all I have to do is step through. Okay, that's the hard part. This is hardcore. What it it drops me into the lava? The Nether isn't a very nice place even if I materialize in one piece with solid ground beneath my feet and no ghast fireballs flying at my head. Maybe I should wait . . .
Nah, I jumped inside the shimmering portal.
And landed . . .
. . . right inside a Nether Fortress.
Now that's some luck!
I didn't take many pictures. You know, it's a Nether Fortress. They all look alike. This one was quite impressively large and had all the features including several treasure chests. I got my blaze rods and nether wart and returned home.
When I sum it all up like that, it fails to sound like the exciting, hair-raising and intense series of battles and bewildering twists and turns that it was. I nearly died once, wreathed in flames that took me from almost full hearts to one or two. It's not like I had any potions of fire resistance, or even much of a supply of arrows—20 or so at most.
Remember, there are no chickens in Frozen Core. No chickens mean no arrows.
More to come!
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
Did I say there were no chickens in FrozenCore? I forgot about the ones baby zombies ride. It was harrowing struggle, but I finally got him inside my house.
He stuck around for a long time. Several real-time days of playing. Never laid an egg. Not one. No, it wasn't because I was too far away or didn't check, he just never laid. Must have been a rooster.
Then, one day, he just disappeared. Thanks, Minecraft.
Spoiler alert, a real-time month later, I caught another one. Same thing exactly. No eggs. Eventually, poof.
More to come!
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
Get off my lawn!
It's been about five days of playing. My house turned into a short tower.
I had enough Eyes of Ender to start looking for the Stronghold. So, I took off in search of it, walking across the frozen ice. Note that I said "walking." Food was still a real concern as I had not yet found any potatoes. I had a long trek ahead of me. Remember that I walked in one direction for more than five minutes straight looking for my first tree. I knew the Stronghold was far away. Having enough food to make it back meant I would probably be dining on zombie meat rations on the return voyage. Spoiler alert, I was right.
A look back. I hoped to see it again.
I found that long trips across infinite featureless planes can be disorientating. Eventually, I placed stone markers at every horizon to help guide my way to and fro.
Yep, I found it.
Not many interesting pictures, again. I wasn't really taking pics with the thought that one day months in the future I would make a post about my world. Also, it's just a Stronghold. They're all about the same.
However, this one was by far the largest and most complicated and well-formed I've ever visited. It had two libraries that I found (on a later return trip). It stretched all the way down to bedrock. Very large.
Like I say, I didn't find my library before I left . . .
. . . I found a much more valuable treasure . . .
. . . Potatoes!
This is a shot of the ground floor, right above the basement to the mud hut. I took my farming indoors.
Of course, with the highly-overpowered potatoes, all my food worries were suddenly over. From this moment onward, I never needed food ever again.
More to come!
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
I'll note about the post above that I left as soon as I noticed I had found a potato due to the irrational instinct learned from playing softcore survival mode: get that potato home before you die and lose it! Well, in hardcore, when you die, you lose everything. Permanently. A potato is of little concern.
I'll also note that I had my closest death in one of my few trips to the Stronghold. I'm not looking ahead at my pictures, but I know I got down to one heart. There were several skeletons in the darkness surrounding a fountain. One had a hellova magic bow. It had punch for sure, and it was high Powered, too. Oh, yeah, and Flaming. Yeah, I was down to one heart and shaking.
After planing the potatoes and harvesting and baking a couple stacks with all the saved up bones I had in preperation for this event, I went back and found the Stronghold's libraries. You know what happened next! I had 37 levels pent up and ready to pour out!
Not much lapis lazuli, strangely. Not at this point, anyway.
My first enchant:
I enchanted about four books, then gave it a rest. Nothing real good.
The enchantment library was on the second floor.
Back to killing monsters:
Dawn is on the horizon. Another day without sleep, lacking sheep to make wool to make a bed. If only there was a way to get wool . . .
More to come!
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
Looking good!
You do know that 4x string = wool right?
"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
Gah! No, I didn't know that. Kinda glad I didn't. I sought a challenge, and much of that would have been averted if I could have slept the frigid nights away. Thanks for the info.
When I get time, I'll post about when I tried another way to get wool.
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
I thought you might have just "Avoided" the knowledge for dramatic impact I like that you went with the challenge. Looking forward to the next update!
"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
Really interesting journal! I'll be watching this.
Nice journal!I do not want to try hardcore.
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You actually can obtain egg laying chickens. Have to nametag one so it won't despawn and when you get another breed them together. The offspring will be normal.
I really like this so far. Things seem to be going pretty well for you so far. It's been an entertaining adventure. Keep up the good work!
Nice journal, man!
Btw, chicken from chicken jockey does not lay eggs, and will despawn in the same manner as hostile mobs.
Great journal! Can't wait for further installments.
This reminded me a lot of the late alpha gameplay. Back then you had a chance to spawn in a snow world all covered in snow and water frozen. Of course no beds back then also.
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..
At these times the entire world was made out of ice and snow?
I mean, you could find something else walking away, right? o.O
Yes. I'm pretty sure that biomes didn't exist until late Alpha to early Beta. I can't remember exactly. You either had a regular world or a snow world.
Thank you!
I've been procrastinating horribly! I really need to dig out my pictures of this and finish it.
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
Wow I love the way you write haha. This is a very interesting journal! Keep it up