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I've decided to make a thread to document my progress in this survival world, since it's the first one in years that I've kept for a period longer than a week or two. I've had Minecraft since 2011, played mostly online in Factions/PvP servers up until a year or two ago, when I stopped playing altogether. Now, I'm back.
What I've done so far: I started off in a fairly generic field, and ran a few hundred blocks until I found a nice lakeside area that also had a village just next door. I love building houses overlooking a lake and land so that I can build my house/base overlooking my creations. Anyway, enough talking, here's images of my world!
My house currently has:
- Kitchen
- Living room
- Storage/building room
- Cinema room
- 3 bedrooms
- Dining room
- Bathroom
- Bar area [unfinished]
- Rooftop garden/pool
- Rooftop balcony
- Veranda leading to WIP harbour
- Defence tower
Here are the images of it:
The front of my house: [can see a LOTR inspired beacon on the mountain in the distance on the right. I'll add more as I expand around the area]
The kitchen/living room:
My storage room/builders room, every chest is full of sorted materials:
My cinema room:
The rooftop garden/infinity pool. The tower continues on up to the balcony at the top of the image, and then to a defence tower higher up I have a birds eye view of everything from:
The back of my house from my yacht. My rear balcony goes down to the small port I'm in the process of building. To the left is the bridge I built that connects my house and buildings to the village I have become the dictator of lol:
Next up, a view looking from the roof of my house towards my small animal farm and area of land outside the front of my house I will be erecting new buildings on shortly:
Here you can see the front of my house where I keep my wolves, horses, chickens, cows, pigs and multicoloured sheep.
Looking out over the lake, my yacht and my lighthouse. The top of the lighthouse is made out of redstone lamps and redstone repeaters, so they go round turning on and off, to look like a rotating light in a real lighthouse. At the bottom you can see my semi-automatic melon farm, pulling a lever breaks the melons via sticky pistons.
A shot from the back of the yacht. I still need to furnish it, but you get a rough idea. I like the DJ booth, the speakers have the torches on them and the decks are mostly hidden by the black wool.
This image shows my helipad (still need to build the helicopter), underground railway/mine (polished granite and stone brick roof), potion laboratory (diorite bricks and fenced off roof for growing nether wart), my floating enchantment area to the right and my nether portal building in the distance (prismarine bricks and acacia wood roof).
Here is a shot showing the bridge/path to the village and my automatic cactus farm. I also have a mini beach area:
To-do list:
- Furnish the rest of the house
- Build a helicopter on the helipad
- Build a proper harbour mooring going out to the yacht
- Repopulate the village
- Build a secret room/basement/bunker with a hidden entrance in the house
- Possibly build a garage with a car in it
- Automate a zombie dungeon I found
If you've got this far, thanks!
I'll take on any suggestions/tips people have. Because I'm OCD about putting up signs naming what all my different builds are, and naming fancy structures like my lighthouse/bridge etc... I will name a building after you if I like the idea and complete on it! Be sure to comment and check back for more updates as I progress and get better at building too (lol).
I quite like the helicopter idea - an innovative integration! The lighthouse and yacht almost seem to depict a scene frozen in space and time, as though there is a story to be told behind them.
With the remote-island theme that I see here, I could see a potential sandcastle or treehouse working well in conjunction with these builds if you find it appropriate. You could also disguise the treehouse from the outside, such that it would be a secret room.
Ideas aside, this looks great so far! Hope you stick with it.
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LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now published is the Season 3 FINALE of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
I quite like the helicopter idea - an innovative integration! The lighthouse and yacht almost seem to depict a scene frozen in space and time, as though there is a story to be told behind them.
With the remote-island theme that I see here, I could see a potential sandcastle or treehouse working well in conjunction with these builds if you find it appropriate. You could also disguise the treehouse from the outside, such that it would be a secret room.
Ideas aside, this looks great so far! Hope you stick with it.
Thanks for the ideas! I've been thinking about a treehouse for a day or two now, but the way you've mentioned it sounds great. I hadn't thought about a sandcastle but I actually think that's a really cool idea too. I'm not really theming any of my separate builds together, they're all individual and as I go on lol, hence the variety I'm trying to get going.
I also just checked out your Quintropolis thread for the first time and am going to give it a read through now. I like the checkpoint and session ideas
Maybe you could make a secret basement which leads to a dome-house like structure which will be made out of glass outside in order to see what's happening around your house.I think it would be nice.
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Small update! I've been kinda busy recently, so only logged a few hours on my survival world since I created this thread. I've mostly done mining, stockpiling of resources and some minor landscaping in the area surrounding my base - mostly felling trees to give the area a more open feel.
My first build project since I created this thread has been the addition of 8 houses in the small plain between my base/house and the naturally spawned village off to the side. The village currently has a population of 0 after they got wiped out by zombies, so I'll have to either cure some zombie villagers and hope they repopulate the village and new houses, or spawn some in with villager eggs should that fail to work. So hopefully, I can repopulate the village in a legit way after reading up on doing so.
Two pictures of the new houses:
I also started a relatively small quarry to quickly bump up how much cobblestone and other building materials I have on hand, as well as some nice ores hopefully:
Hopefully in my next update I will have completed one of the suggestions posted by one of the users above
When you get about 8 blocks further down (to y=40), there's about a 50:50 chance you'll get some slimey friends :-)
Here's hoping! The only place I've found slimes so far is in a swamp biome quite a trek from my base. My quarry is 19x19 so far, so it could be across up to 4 chunks. I'll probably expand it outwards until I do find slimes tbh, though I need to look up how best to spawn them in and trap them etc
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Mini update to try and get the ball rolling on this diary, that way I'll post more and work more on my world.
I figured that the large empty space below my farm area (in front of my base) could be filled in with dirt and terraformed to fit in a bit better, rather than have a huge overhang of dirt being supported by nothing. I then wanted to do some pixel art on the dirt wall I was going to build. This changed when I realised I was going to do an Apple logo, since I'm and Apple fanboy and used to work at an Apple Store, so now I have the front of an Apple store built outside my house and ready to be furnished and completed on the inside!
I guess it saves me from the long walk to get a new iPhone charger when my current one turns into a turtleneck
Edit (and note to self): I need to fix the stem on the top of the Apple logo and bring it down and cross one, I forgot to remove the top andesite block.
Yeah, it's quite hard to do a logo with so few pixels. I had a little play around with it - just... IDK, I was curious. Anyway - I did this, which might help ya decide block-placement;
I like how your design smoothes the edges a bit more. Since I posted the above prototype, I moved the actual logo blocks one further inwards, giving the logo a bit more depth and looking like it was bit into the wall. I'll give this a go though for sure
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Also, I was just watching Etho's world tour of his survival world, and ONLY JUST LEARNT that you can smelt netherrack to get nether bricks, then use them to create nether brick blocks etc... After all these years it never occured to me lol
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Right, I have valid excuses for not posting recently. I haven't dropped off I promise!
I've had a bit to do with getting ready for university, working a fair bit to earn some money and just enjoy some of the other things there are in life. I hope to be posting again soon, maybe I'll get a few hours of play time in tonight and do an update this evening.
Don't worry too much about posting; after all, you're providing us with entertainment so any update any time is appreciated. Just enjoy yourself.
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LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now published is the Season 3 FINALE of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Hoping to pick up on this world after being away from Minecraft for literally 2 years+
Mini update to try and get the ball rolling on this diary, that way I'll post more and work more on my world.
I guess I didn't stay true to the above comment I made on 10th September 2017
Edit: Also, is there a designated place for World Diaries now? This section seems to be more for general discussions, unless people just don't do as many world progress threads anymore
Edit: Also, is there a designated place for World Diaries now? This section seems to be more for general discussions, unless people just don't do as many world progress threads anymore
Unfortunately, the forums haven't withstood the test of time very well, and that is being generous (this section averaged 800 posts per day in 2012 - nowadays it is around 1-2% of that).
That said, I just posted an update in my own journal (one of many, I only have one active world at a time) though I don't do it that often, only when I find something of interest, which is likely the case for other journals (I update most frequently while starting out in a new world; afterwards my playstyle is basically only caving so I only mention particularly interesting caves, biomes, or structures that I find, which doesn't happen that often since I only explore around 100 chunks per day).
A lot of people also make threads covering a single update (for example), rather than maintaining a single thread for everything that they've done (much like over on Reddit, whose format discourages any long-term threads, and so do many other forms of social media, which may be a contributing factor), or post in the general "what have you done recently" thread (I used to post here a lot, more recently only for non-Survival world related things).
Unfortunately, the forums haven't withstood the test of time very well, and that is being generous (this section averaged 800 posts per day in 2012 - nowadays it is around 1-2% of that).
That said, I just posted an update in my own journal (one of many, I only have one active world at a time) though I don't do it that often, only when I find something of interest, which is likely the case for other journals (I update most frequently while starting out in a new world; afterwards my playstyle is basically only caving so I only mention particularly interesting caves, biomes, or structures that I find, which doesn't happen that often since I only explore around 100 chunks per day).
A lot of people also make threads covering a single update (for example), rather than maintaining a single thread for everything that they've done (much like over on Reddit, whose format discourages any long-term threads, and so do many other forms of social media, which may be a contributing factor), or post in the general "what have you done recently" thread (I used to post here a lot, more recently only for non-Survival world related things).
The first link that you posted made for an interesting read - thanks for including it. I guess it is just more evidence that players (and games?) are focusing more on multiplayer/online gameplay than in previous years. I remember when survival was the main game mode a lot of players enjoyed, whilst also spending some aspect of their gameplay in a handful of servers.
I think that journals/diaries may have been kept alive if they had a standalone forum section a few years back, as I also noticed that many people are now just posting an update per thread, as you mentioned.
Nonetheless, I will keep tabs on your journal as I look to get back into this great game
I've decided to make a thread to document my progress in this survival world, since it's the first one in years that I've kept for a period longer than a week or two. I've had Minecraft since 2011, played mostly online in Factions/PvP servers up until a year or two ago, when I stopped playing altogether. Now, I'm back.
What I've done so far: I started off in a fairly generic field, and ran a few hundred blocks until I found a nice lakeside area that also had a village just next door. I love building houses overlooking a lake and land so that I can build my house/base overlooking my creations. Anyway, enough talking, here's images of my world!
My house currently has:
- Kitchen
- Living room
- Storage/building room
- Cinema room
- 3 bedrooms
- Dining room
- Bathroom
- Bar area [unfinished]
- Rooftop garden/pool
- Rooftop balcony
- Veranda leading to WIP harbour
- Defence tower
Here are the images of it:
The front of my house: [can see a LOTR inspired beacon on the mountain in the distance on the right. I'll add more as I expand around the area]
The kitchen/living room:
My storage room/builders room, every chest is full of sorted materials:
My cinema room:
The rooftop garden/infinity pool. The tower continues on up to the balcony at the top of the image, and then to a defence tower higher up I have a birds eye view of everything from:
The back of my house from my yacht. My rear balcony goes down to the small port I'm in the process of building. To the left is the bridge I built that connects my house and buildings to the village I have become the dictator of lol:
Next up, a view looking from the roof of my house towards my small animal farm and area of land outside the front of my house I will be erecting new buildings on shortly:
Here you can see the front of my house where I keep my wolves, horses, chickens, cows, pigs and multicoloured sheep.
Looking out over the lake, my yacht and my lighthouse. The top of the lighthouse is made out of redstone lamps and redstone repeaters, so they go round turning on and off, to look like a rotating light in a real lighthouse. At the bottom you can see my semi-automatic melon farm, pulling a lever breaks the melons via sticky pistons.
A shot from the back of the yacht. I still need to furnish it, but you get a rough idea. I like the DJ booth, the speakers have the torches on them and the decks are mostly hidden by the black wool.
This image shows my helipad (still need to build the helicopter), underground railway/mine (polished granite and stone brick roof), potion laboratory (diorite bricks and fenced off roof for growing nether wart), my floating enchantment area to the right and my nether portal building in the distance (prismarine bricks and acacia wood roof).
Here is a shot showing the bridge/path to the village and my automatic cactus farm. I also have a mini beach area:
To-do list:
- Furnish the rest of the house
- Build a helicopter on the helipad
- Build a proper harbour mooring going out to the yacht
- Repopulate the village
- Build a secret room/basement/bunker with a hidden entrance in the house
- Possibly build a garage with a car in it
- Automate a zombie dungeon I found
If you've got this far, thanks!
I'll take on any suggestions/tips people have. Because I'm OCD about putting up signs naming what all my different builds are, and naming fancy structures like my lighthouse/bridge etc... I will name a building after you if I like the idea and complete on it! Be sure to comment and check back for more updates as I progress and get better at building too (lol).
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Curse PremiumI quite like the helicopter idea - an innovative integration! The lighthouse and yacht almost seem to depict a scene frozen in space and time, as though there is a story to be told behind them.
With the remote-island theme that I see here, I could see a potential sandcastle or treehouse working well in conjunction with these builds if you find it appropriate. You could also disguise the treehouse from the outside, such that it would be a secret room.
Ideas aside, this looks great so far! Hope you stick with it.
LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now published is the Season 3 FINALE of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
Thanks for the ideas! I've been thinking about a treehouse for a day or two now, but the way you've mentioned it sounds great. I hadn't thought about a sandcastle but I actually think that's a really cool idea too. I'm not really theming any of my separate builds together, they're all individual and as I go on lol, hence the variety I'm trying to get going.
I also just checked out your Quintropolis thread for the first time and am going to give it a read through now. I like the checkpoint and session ideas
A basement entrance that goes underground and leads up to a glass dome house like one of these? Google Search - Glass Dome Houses
Or a dome structure that is outside and allows me to look at my base and other builds from within a safe, glass structure?
Small update! I've been kinda busy recently, so only logged a few hours on my survival world since I created this thread. I've mostly done mining, stockpiling of resources and some minor landscaping in the area surrounding my base - mostly felling trees to give the area a more open feel.
My first build project since I created this thread has been the addition of 8 houses in the small plain between my base/house and the naturally spawned village off to the side. The village currently has a population of 0 after they got wiped out by zombies, so I'll have to either cure some zombie villagers and hope they repopulate the village and new houses, or spawn some in with villager eggs should that fail to work. So hopefully, I can repopulate the village in a legit way after reading up on doing so.
Two pictures of the new houses:
I also started a relatively small quarry to quickly bump up how much cobblestone and other building materials I have on hand, as well as some nice ores hopefully:
Hopefully in my next update I will have completed one of the suggestions posted by one of the users above
Here's hoping! The only place I've found slimes so far is in a swamp biome quite a trek from my base. My quarry is 19x19 so far, so it could be across up to 4 chunks. I'll probably expand it outwards until I do find slimes tbh, though I need to look up how best to spawn them in and trap them etc
Mini update to try and get the ball rolling on this diary, that way I'll post more and work more on my world.
I figured that the large empty space below my farm area (in front of my base) could be filled in with dirt and terraformed to fit in a bit better, rather than have a huge overhang of dirt being supported by nothing. I then wanted to do some pixel art on the dirt wall I was going to build. This changed when I realised I was going to do an Apple logo, since I'm and Apple fanboy and used to work at an Apple Store, so now I have the front of an Apple store built outside my house and ready to be furnished and completed on the inside!
I guess it saves me from the long walk to get a new iPhone charger when my current one turns into a turtleneck
Edit (and note to self): I need to fix the stem on the top of the Apple logo and bring it down and cross one, I forgot to remove the top andesite block.
I like how your design smoothes the edges a bit more. Since I posted the above prototype, I moved the actual logo blocks one further inwards, giving the logo a bit more depth and looking like it was bit into the wall. I'll give this a go though for sure
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Also, I was just watching Etho's world tour of his survival world, and ONLY JUST LEARNT that you can smelt netherrack to get nether bricks, then use them to create nether brick blocks etc... After all these years it never occured to me lol
Right, I have valid excuses for not posting recently. I haven't dropped off I promise!
I've had a bit to do with getting ready for university, working a fair bit to earn some money and just enjoy some of the other things there are in life. I hope to be posting again soon, maybe I'll get a few hours of play time in tonight and do an update this evening.
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Curse PremiumDon't worry too much about posting; after all, you're providing us with entertainment so any update any time is appreciated. Just enjoy yourself.
LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now published is the Season 3 FINALE of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
Hoping to pick up on this world after being away from Minecraft for literally 2 years+
I guess I didn't stay true to the above comment I made on 10th September 2017
Edit: Also, is there a designated place for World Diaries now? This section seems to be more for general discussions, unless people just don't do as many world progress threads anymore
Nice, Reminds me of the old times playing on my SP world.
Unfortunately, the forums haven't withstood the test of time very well, and that is being generous (this section averaged 800 posts per day in 2012 - nowadays it is around 1-2% of that).
That said, I just posted an update in my own journal (one of many, I only have one active world at a time) though I don't do it that often, only when I find something of interest, which is likely the case for other journals (I update most frequently while starting out in a new world; afterwards my playstyle is basically only caving so I only mention particularly interesting caves, biomes, or structures that I find, which doesn't happen that often since I only explore around 100 chunks per day).
A lot of people also make threads covering a single update (for example), rather than maintaining a single thread for everything that they've done (much like over on Reddit, whose format discourages any long-term threads, and so do many other forms of social media, which may be a contributing factor), or post in the general "what have you done recently" thread (I used to post here a lot, more recently only for non-Survival world related things).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
The first link that you posted made for an interesting read - thanks for including it. I guess it is just more evidence that players (and games?) are focusing more on multiplayer/online gameplay than in previous years. I remember when survival was the main game mode a lot of players enjoyed, whilst also spending some aspect of their gameplay in a handful of servers.
I think that journals/diaries may have been kept alive if they had a standalone forum section a few years back, as I also noticed that many people are now just posting an update per thread, as you mentioned.
Nonetheless, I will keep tabs on your journal as I look to get back into this great game