As always, the first view of home after a long 'splore is always a welcome sight
Boy, isn't that the truth!
Great post, Pykaxe! I didn't think I'd ever noticed your posts before, but I looked back through you history and see we've conversed briefly in the past. You must take extended breaks like I do. I play Minecraft for about six months, then take a six-month break every year since I started playing sometime before the Horse Update.
When did you start this world?
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Spent all day today just building a large wall that will go around the front of my little house. It's taken me quite a few hours just to get the first half done, but at least Im starting to be able to see the end.
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Not sure if it's really worth posting, but here's a small update to my little cave adventure . . .
To my surprise, the rest of the caving was very refreshing; a lot of combat in a cavern system that had interesting generation features like large chambers, overhangs, natural bridges, intersections with ravines, lava layer excitement, etc. Sadly, no diamonds, but I wasn't seeking anything other than adventure, and that I received in spades. I filled up a skulker with junk and decided to head back to the surface. Like I say, I wasn't mining, so my usual "adventure until you find diamonds" approach didn't apply. I left lots of ore including all of the ore from the cave screenshots. I decided never to mine any ore in that large cave, as I often do in a place of "natural wonder."
Once I decided to return, I stopped placing torches or mining any ore and drank a night vision potion. After a lot of exploration, I climbed upwards until I reached a dead end. I was about to either mine it out a little bit or turn around, but I heard a pig oink. I knew I was just below the surface—in fact, only about one layer of stone and three of dirt.
I emerged right to the south of the Guardian Mountains that ring two of Castle Midgard's sides. I couldn't believe I came up from a caving expedition so close to the castle, let alone such a good one. And, there's still so much more to explore! Of course, I don't know how many branches I have yet to light, but I know I left a ton behind after I drank that night vision potion.
Took a few screenshots. Sildur's Vibrant Shaders v1.164 Extreme. Render distance 32. Captions below images.
(Above) Here is where I emerged, roughly, thanks to the help from Mr. Pig. If it weren't for the shader not having fog, the tower would barely be visible as a silhouette at the edge of the 32-chunk render distance.
(Above) Not much of a haul, but I wasn't down there to mine. I'm really surprised I had a stack of iron. Still, I would have liked a few diamonds at least. I'm sure there are some down there. Lots of exploration left!
(Above) The ravine just south of the castle. For reference, notice the road to the entrance, the same in above pictures.
(Above) The hole in the bottom of the ravine drops down to about gold level, mid 20's.
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I resurrected the Broken Laptop server, and made a new skin.
My attempts at getting a stable, well performing server for 1.13 on one of my tiny single board computers were disappointing. Not sure if it's just that Spigot has not been fully optimized yet (which is obviously true), or that the demands of 1.13 are just too much for the little computers.
The Raspberry Pi3B(+) worked fine serving Minecraft 1.12 worlds, but struggled with the SpigotMC 1.13 current daily release. The ASUS Tinker Board performed better, but is still plagued by connectivity problems and frequently kicked players with lost communication errors. I wondered if it was a RAM problem (swapping hell). But running the Broken laptop server on only 2GB seems to be working fine... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So my Raspberry Pi3 is once again hosting the Creeper Pie server with my 1.12.2 Mushroom Peninsula world. And the SpigotMC 1.13 "Extreme Caution" release server is running on an old Sony laptop, which is, in fact, broken.
It has no keyboard, but since I run it headless that's fine.
With only 2GB allocated to Java it is running very well, but I'll probably bump that up next time I do server maintenance (the system has 8GB installed). I installed the latest Bunsenlabs Linux "Helium" OS release with Oracle Java 8.
Bunsenlabs Linux is a lightweight implementation of Debian GNU/Linux using the Openbox window manager and Tint2 panel, but no desktop. It's a very different user experience from Windows or traditional Desktop Linux implementations, but I like it! If that sounds familiar at all, it's because Bunsenlabs Linux is a fork of the abandoned Crunchbang Linux.
And here's a closer look at the new skin idea I've been messing with.
I'm trying to decide between both Herobrine white eyes, or the pictured Herobrine/Zombie eyes...
After a recent thread about the rare Savanna M biome, I thought I'd take a little trip down south to mine. My large-biome world, "Midgard," has one at the very south-west edge of a 5x5 area fully-zoomed-out maps, the area I consider my "kingdom." It's about 6.5 km from my main base as the elytra flies. Its highest peak is the highest point in Midgard: Y=163. I remember discovering it, Sept. 29, 2017. Quite a sight! It's also hard to take a good picture of it.
Of course, it's about 16 times larger than default, but it's not a very large biome, that's for sure. It might look really expansive to those who aren't accustomed to large-biome worlds, though. It's bordered by ocean to the south, a savanna on its west and extreme hills on its east.
For these screenshots, I used Sildurs Vibrant Shaders v1.17 Extreme and increased render distance to 48, farther than the 32 the slider allows without OptiFine.
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I'm working on an Aquarium based off Birch Aquarium in San Diego. Seems like a logical build for the Aquatic Update. So far it is coming along great! Been at work thinking about how I am going to finish it. Can't wait to go home and spend a few hours on it! I should have pics soon that I will be posting on my thread once completed.
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See my Minecraft world (100% Survival), Dirty Baker City here:
Hello people. It is not my Survival, after a few years, I have managed to apply in an SMP.
The first thing I have done is to enter a cave, after minutes we found a Dungeon.
After a while I got to make the first farm of the Server:
I also made the Nether portal, but do not enter there.
MC Day 12897: Temporarily putting my Ice Spikes base rebuild on hold, I’m about 900 blocks away at my Ocean Monument base, enjoying some of the new features of 1.13. My main thing was to build a simple Turtle Scute farm on the edges of the base, but the precise information on how the mechanics work seem a bit sketchy from the YT vids I watched. But by trial and error I now have a farm which seems to be working OK, the babies hatch, can’t escape till they are adults, when they do the scute they drop is collected in hoppers to a chest (access via the chute to the right of the farm in the pic). And the adults can reach the sand and lay new eggs. Think I may end up with too many adult turtles in the surrounds soon, so might need to go on a cull.
Whilst waiting for the farm to work (turtle eggs take 3 MC days/nights to hatch on average) I designed a small Phantom trap to the top of the farm where I could deal with the Phantoms much more leisurely. Nice that they fly straight up when they’ve hit you/been hit. Nearly 5 stacks of membrane now.
I also modified the zombie villager pods located nearby which feed the cured villagers to my underwater villager trading hall/iron farm. As its in water, I also had to add some bridges from the mainland to the pods (made of blue glass which I placed one block under the water) so the zombie villagers could reach the pods without sinking.
At this base is a nearby clearing in a swamp biome which has a tower in the middle which I use as a sally port to attack slimes to get slime balls. It also doubles as an observation post during storms for charged creepers. I have already had 3 which I’ve detonated with the specific mobs to get their heads, a 4th one has been walled up in glass pen for a year now, so I added a custom made building to house him and any others I might get in the future. Whilst on the subject of charged creepers, I saw one created during a recent storm right outside the base, which was a first, however it was a direct hit and as I watched, a few secs later, it keeled over and died :/
Also I forgot there was a zombie pigman here who was created when lightning struck a pig. He was walled up in a hole in the ground for more than a year now, so I’ve liberated him, to wander where he will.
So after 1.13 came out, I was like, "Aw man! I wish I could experience the new ocean stuff in my best world!" Then I realized, my best world is from before release 1.8, and that I was missing out on A LOT of stuff (like andesite and other stones, and fooling around with re-creations of the seed show that the village near my house is 2 times bigger in the new world generation), so I decided to start anew, but with the same seed. I don't know if that's cheating, since I already know where everything is, but I did it regardless.
I'm at day 83, and I got a lot of stuff done. I've made a pretty extensive strip mine, I've made a cool house, I got a automatic (but slow) chicken cooking farm, I went to the nether and got myself some blaze rods and nether wart, I have a storage basement, I have almost every farmable thing (like wheat and potatoes), and I already have decent potion brewing AND enchanting stations. I'm not completely ready to give myself 100% diamond stuff, but at this rate, I think I'll have a full set of (possibly) enchanted diamond armor at around day 120.
Here's my house:
It's kinda messy (I blame the chicken farm), but I like it a lot more compared to the first house I built. Much more roomy.
The reason I'm sharing this stuff is to give context on what happened earlier: An enderman teleported in my house!!
I've heard that endermen teleport underground during the day, so maybe that's why he was there? I don't exactly know why, but I do know that I hate endermen. Ever since I first saw one in Beta 1.8 when I was young, they creep me out, a lot. That scream and the creepy noise after they start attacking you just unnerves me. Not as much anymore, but eugh.
Anyway, he wasn't too hard to kill, and luckily didn't steal any chests since he was already holding a grass block. It's still scary to hear those unnerving sounds, and go down into your basement, JUST to see it's standing RIGHT THERE!
Also, if you want the seed for some reason: 4903003342279228619
You have to walk a bit west until you find plains over a river and bordering a forest to find where my house is.
(Edit: just realized that my disliking of endermen might confuse people because of my username. My username is actually based off of another thing in another game, Blockland, if you know what that is)
So I recently returned to an old world, started in snapshot pre-1.9.5 before release, and as it explains there I lost the world and back-up. I tried for a long time to find the same mountain in the world but the snapshot wasn't in the launcher and for over a year, longer I eventually gave up. Eventually I got an idea to manipulate a .json file to give me that snapshot and I got the proper generation of that mountain exactly as it was, all I had to do was re-build it from scratch for modernization eventually.
I finally returned to the world yesterday, and I actually had quite a productive day. There are two near surface level dungeons near me, a spider one in front of the home, and a skeleton one right on the coast, which yesterday I turned into a mob farm
For clarity on where this is, this picture if from my roof top showing where it is:
To the right of where I've circled you can see the log pillars of the official entrance. Having dug out the dungeon and made a water trap I got from something like xp level 10 to 24 from it. I want those good enchants on this world now. I also remembered that in my mine - inside my home, there is a zombie dungeon, so I converted that too! That one doesn't have hoppers yet though to collect items. I will do something with the spider one soon.
I also started another major change.
At the back of the mountain home, there is another reason that made me set up home here. There is another mountain out the back, across the frozen ocean with a very "Eye" shaped hole in it. This picture is from 2011:
In the old days, I bridged across there making a very straight temporary dirt bridge, I knew I wanted the nether portal there. Because of the biome that temporary bridge would always cover in snow. Fast forward and I've actually decided to do something about it and make it more eye like! I got an idea to make an "Iris" in front of the already made portal (From 2011) out of red glass - as it has to be evil! I started with a dirt template and gathered the materials then transformed it. Later I would move the portal more forward in line with it.
As you can see by the dirt in the last picture, I'm considering creating an actual eyeball around that - I had white stained glass in mind. Another thing I want to do is eventually get rid of this old farm tower (Created in 2013)as it's ugly:
I'm certainly having fun on this world and am enjoying playing it again, and look forward to developing it.
Like Minecraft forums or interested in my world? Try My message board, it's better moderated because I run it directly and have run Internet message boards for 21+ years! Better software and I have much more control to keep the content more up to date. Free to join, 13 years+.
Back from a months-long hiatus, and spent a vigorous play session today building and scouting out some new party pets for the base's newest addition: Starlight Treehouse! The build is nowhere close to complete, but it's certainly coming along much to my liking. The finished product will likely take another few months given my pace (that of a sloth), but hey; everyone needs a hobby. Mine is Quintropolis!
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LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now in Season 4 of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
After trial and error in trying to use Overviewer for hours, I decided to switch to another map viewing program called Mapcrafter, I got it to work nearly instantly with just as good result as Overviewer. I advise against using overviewer, it's just way too complicated. Anyways, here's my little home and a village i've "vassalized" and connected with a railroad.
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Finished primary excavation of the zombie spawner chamber below my main base, Castle Midgard. I decided to stop at lava level (Y=11) rather than bedrock (Y=5). The ceiling is Y=67. The room is roughly 27x50. I think that's a volume of 75,600 blocks, but it seems hard to believe I mined that many.
Like the castle's elytra shaft and map viewing area, I expect this room will be dominated by enormous columns (built with about three full double chests of cobble each) and bridges. Even now that I've had plenty of time to consider it, I'm still just not quite sure how I want everything to look and work here. I don't even know what type of floor it's going to have.
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Quintropolis recently celebrated the completion of its fourth parkour course! Titled "Chambers", the course is more of a puzzle and features two distinct sections. The first is a gridlock type of puzzle wherein the maze of doors changes each time you hop on a button inside the grid. Once you figure out how to escape that, you enter the range chamber, where you must use your bow skills in a variety of ways to shoot your way out. Can you escape the chambers?
Upon exiting the course, a single pressure plate resets everything for the next time you want to play.
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Now that I've finished primary excavation of the zombie spawner chamber, I'm moving to the other side of the castle and resuming work on the gold farm, which I've not touched in very nearly a year.
Actually, it looks like today is the year anniversary of me starting to work on the farm! What a coincidence.
So, I started excavation of the collection chamber. But, before doing so, I checked the portal area out to see if anything looked amiss. I hate creepers, but Endermen almost as bad . . .
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Now that I've finished primary excavation of the zombie spawner chamber, I'm moving to the other side of the castle and resuming work on the gold farm, which I've not touched in very nearly a year.
Actually, it looks like today is the year anniversary of me starting to work on the farm! What a coincidence.
So, I started excavation of the collection chamber. But, before doing so, I checked the portal area out to see if anything looked amiss. I hate creepers, but Endermen almost as bad . . .
Oooh! I've just skipped through the video, will watch it when I get back from work properly, but now I think I know what I'll have in my flattened chunk error border by Mount DOOOoooom in my world - once it's finished! I've never had a gold farm and have always been put off by doing it in the nether, so I might try this in the over world! (Make good use of my efficiency diamond pick too)
When I do get round to it, I'll dedicate it to you of course!
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Haha! Well, spoiler alert, I didn't actually use the one in the video tutorial, I used Mr_N_Derman's. He cut it out of his world for me to download on my metered Internet connection. So, my gold farm is dedicated to him, and he's much more deserving!
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Boy, isn't that the truth!
Great post, Pykaxe! I didn't think I'd ever noticed your posts before, but I looked back through you history and see we've conversed briefly in the past. You must take extended breaks like I do. I play Minecraft for about six months, then take a six-month break every year since I started playing sometime before the Horse Update.
When did you start this world?
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
Spent all day today just building a large wall that will go around the front of my little house. It's taken me quite a few hours just to get the first half done, but at least Im starting to be able to see the end.
Come check out my youtube channel, I try to make it a pretty chill place!
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I was working on making a barn and a farm, but since seeing yours I would rather keep it private.
Not sure if it's really worth posting, but here's a small update to my little cave adventure . . .
To my surprise, the rest of the caving was very refreshing; a lot of combat in a cavern system that had interesting generation features like large chambers, overhangs, natural bridges, intersections with ravines, lava layer excitement, etc. Sadly, no diamonds, but I wasn't seeking anything other than adventure, and that I received in spades. I filled up a skulker with junk and decided to head back to the surface. Like I say, I wasn't mining, so my usual "adventure until you find diamonds" approach didn't apply. I left lots of ore including all of the ore from the cave screenshots. I decided never to mine any ore in that large cave, as I often do in a place of "natural wonder."
Once I decided to return, I stopped placing torches or mining any ore and drank a night vision potion. After a lot of exploration, I climbed upwards until I reached a dead end. I was about to either mine it out a little bit or turn around, but I heard a pig oink. I knew I was just below the surface—in fact, only about one layer of stone and three of dirt.
I emerged right to the south of the Guardian Mountains that ring two of Castle Midgard's sides. I couldn't believe I came up from a caving expedition so close to the castle, let alone such a good one. And, there's still so much more to explore! Of course, I don't know how many branches I have yet to light, but I know I left a ton behind after I drank that night vision potion.
Took a few screenshots. Sildur's Vibrant Shaders v1.164 Extreme. Render distance 32. Captions below images.
(Above) Here is where I emerged, roughly, thanks to the help from Mr. Pig. If it weren't for the shader not having fog, the tower would barely be visible as a silhouette at the edge of the 32-chunk render distance.
(Above) Not much of a haul, but I wasn't down there to mine. I'm really surprised I had a stack of iron. Still, I would have liked a few diamonds at least. I'm sure there are some down there. Lots of exploration left!
(Above) The ravine just south of the castle. For reference, notice the road to the entrance, the same in above pictures.
(Above) The hole in the bottom of the ravine drops down to about gold level, mid 20's.
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 resurrected the Broken Laptop server, and made a new skin.
My attempts at getting a stable, well performing server for 1.13 on one of my tiny single board computers were disappointing. Not sure if it's just that Spigot has not been fully optimized yet (which is obviously true), or that the demands of 1.13 are just too much for the little computers.
The Raspberry Pi3B(+) worked fine serving Minecraft 1.12 worlds, but struggled with the SpigotMC 1.13 current daily release. The ASUS Tinker Board performed better, but is still plagued by connectivity problems and frequently kicked players with lost communication errors. I wondered if it was a RAM problem (swapping hell). But running the Broken laptop server on only 2GB seems to be working fine... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So my Raspberry Pi3 is once again hosting the Creeper Pie server with my 1.12.2 Mushroom Peninsula world. And the SpigotMC 1.13 "Extreme Caution" release server is running on an old Sony laptop, which is, in fact, broken.
It has no keyboard, but since I run it headless that's fine.
With only 2GB allocated to Java it is running very well, but I'll probably bump that up next time I do server maintenance (the system has 8GB installed). I installed the latest Bunsenlabs Linux "Helium" OS release with Oracle Java 8.
Bunsenlabs Linux is a lightweight implementation of Debian GNU/Linux using the Openbox window manager and Tint2 panel, but no desktop. It's a very different user experience from Windows or traditional Desktop Linux implementations, but I like it! If that sounds familiar at all, it's because Bunsenlabs Linux is a fork of the abandoned Crunchbang Linux.
And here's a closer look at the new skin idea I've been messing with.
I'm trying to decide between both Herobrine white eyes, or the pictured Herobrine/Zombie eyes...
After a recent thread about the rare Savanna M biome, I thought I'd take a little trip down south to mine. My large-biome world, "Midgard," has one at the very south-west edge of a 5x5 area fully-zoomed-out maps, the area I consider my "kingdom." It's about 6.5 km from my main base as the elytra flies. Its highest peak is the highest point in Midgard: Y=163. I remember discovering it, Sept. 29, 2017. Quite a sight! It's also hard to take a good picture of it.
Of course, it's about 16 times larger than default, but it's not a very large biome, that's for sure. It might look really expansive to those who aren't accustomed to large-biome worlds, though. It's bordered by ocean to the south, a savanna on its west and extreme hills on its east.
For these screenshots, I used Sildurs Vibrant Shaders v1.17 Extreme and increased render distance to 48, farther than the 32 the slider allows without OptiFine.
More pics:
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'm working on an Aquarium based off Birch Aquarium in San Diego. Seems like a logical build for the Aquatic Update. So far it is coming along great! Been at work thinking about how I am going to finish it. Can't wait to go home and spend a few hours on it! I should have pics soon that I will be posting on my thread once completed.
See my Minecraft world (100% Survival), Dirty Baker City here:
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Hello people. It is not my Survival, after a few years, I have managed to apply in an SMP.
The first thing I have done is to enter a cave, after minutes we found a Dungeon.
After a while I got to make the first farm of the Server:
I also made the Nether portal, but do not enter there.
I also got my first Rare Drop on the Server.
MC Day 12897: Temporarily putting my Ice Spikes base rebuild on hold, I’m about 900 blocks away at my Ocean Monument base, enjoying some of the new features of 1.13. My main thing was to build a simple Turtle Scute farm on the edges of the base, but the precise information on how the mechanics work seem a bit sketchy from the YT vids I watched. But by trial and error I now have a farm which seems to be working OK, the babies hatch, can’t escape till they are adults, when they do the scute they drop is collected in hoppers to a chest (access via the chute to the right of the farm in the pic). And the adults can reach the sand and lay new eggs. Think I may end up with too many adult turtles in the surrounds soon, so might need to go on a cull.
Whilst waiting for the farm to work (turtle eggs take 3 MC days/nights to hatch on average) I designed a small Phantom trap to the top of the farm where I could deal with the Phantoms much more leisurely. Nice that they fly straight up when they’ve hit you/been hit. Nearly 5 stacks of membrane now.
I also modified the zombie villager pods located nearby which feed the cured villagers to my underwater villager trading hall/iron farm. As its in water, I also had to add some bridges from the mainland to the pods (made of blue glass which I placed one block under the water) so the zombie villagers could reach the pods without sinking.
At this base is a nearby clearing in a swamp biome which has a tower in the middle which I use as a sally port to attack slimes to get slime balls. It also doubles as an observation post during storms for charged creepers. I have already had 3 which I’ve detonated with the specific mobs to get their heads, a 4th one has been walled up in glass pen for a year now, so I added a custom made building to house him and any others I might get in the future. Whilst on the subject of charged creepers, I saw one created during a recent storm right outside the base, which was a first, however it was a direct hit and as I watched, a few secs later, it keeled over and died :/
Also I forgot there was a zombie pigman here who was created when lightning struck a pig. He was walled up in a hole in the ground for more than a year now, so I’ve liberated him, to wander where he will.
The Turtle Farm
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Turtle Farm interior
Going somewhere Mr Phantom!?
Zombie villager pods.
The Charged Creeper House
Mr Evopig!
Mintutor now works in 1.13!
MrKite & Mc_Etlam ... I salute you!
So after 1.13 came out, I was like, "Aw man! I wish I could experience the new ocean stuff in my best world!" Then I realized, my best world is from before release 1.8, and that I was missing out on A LOT of stuff (like andesite and other stones, and fooling around with re-creations of the seed show that the village near my house is 2 times bigger in the new world generation), so I decided to start anew, but with the same seed. I don't know if that's cheating, since I already know where everything is, but I did it regardless.
I'm at day 83, and I got a lot of stuff done. I've made a pretty extensive strip mine, I've made a cool house, I got a automatic (but slow) chicken cooking farm, I went to the nether and got myself some blaze rods and nether wart, I have a storage basement, I have almost every farmable thing (like wheat and potatoes), and I already have decent potion brewing AND enchanting stations. I'm not completely ready to give myself 100% diamond stuff, but at this rate, I think I'll have a full set of (possibly) enchanted diamond armor at around day 120.
Here's my house:
It's kinda messy (I blame the chicken farm), but I like it a lot more compared to the first house I built. Much more roomy.
The reason I'm sharing this stuff is to give context on what happened earlier: An enderman teleported in my house!!
I've heard that endermen teleport underground during the day, so maybe that's why he was there? I don't exactly know why, but I do know that I hate endermen. Ever since I first saw one in Beta 1.8 when I was young, they creep me out, a lot. That scream and the creepy noise after they start attacking you just unnerves me. Not as much anymore, but eugh.
Anyway, he wasn't too hard to kill, and luckily didn't steal any chests since he was already holding a grass block. It's still scary to hear those unnerving sounds, and go down into your basement, JUST to see it's standing RIGHT THERE!
Also, if you want the seed for some reason: 4903003342279228619
You have to walk a bit west until you find plains over a river and bordering a forest to find where my house is.
(Edit: just realized that my disliking of endermen might confuse people because of my username. My username is actually based off of another thing in another game, Blockland, if you know what that is)
So I recently returned to an old world, started in snapshot pre-1.9.5 before release, and as it explains there I lost the world and back-up. I tried for a long time to find the same mountain in the world but the snapshot wasn't in the launcher and for over a year, longer I eventually gave up. Eventually I got an idea to manipulate a .json file to give me that snapshot and I got the proper generation of that mountain exactly as it was, all I had to do was re-build it from scratch for modernization eventually.
I finally returned to the world yesterday, and I actually had quite a productive day. There are two near surface level dungeons near me, a spider one in front of the home, and a skeleton one right on the coast, which yesterday I turned into a mob farm
For clarity on where this is, this picture if from my roof top showing where it is:
To the right of where I've circled you can see the log pillars of the official entrance. Having dug out the dungeon and made a water trap I got from something like xp level 10 to 24 from it. I want those good enchants on this world now. I also remembered that in my mine - inside my home, there is a zombie dungeon, so I converted that too! That one doesn't have hoppers yet though to collect items. I will do something with the spider one soon.
I also started another major change.
At the back of the mountain home, there is another reason that made me set up home here. There is another mountain out the back, across the frozen ocean with a very "Eye" shaped hole in it. This picture is from 2011:
In the old days, I bridged across there making a very straight temporary dirt bridge, I knew I wanted the nether portal there. Because of the biome that temporary bridge would always cover in snow. Fast forward and I've actually decided to do something about it and make it more eye like! I got an idea to make an "Iris" in front of the already made portal (From 2011) out of red glass - as it has to be evil! I started with a dirt template and gathered the materials then transformed it. Later I would move the portal more forward in line with it.
As you can see by the dirt in the last picture, I'm considering creating an actual eyeball around that - I had white stained glass in mind. Another thing I want to do is eventually get rid of this old farm tower (Created in 2013)as it's ugly:
I'm certainly having fun on this world and am enjoying playing it again, and look forward to developing it.
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Got this place done in 3 days work. +3 hours/day. Really like how it came out. Just have a few more decorating tasks to deal with and the gift shop.
See my Minecraft world (100% Survival), Dirty Baker City here:
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Finally finished clearing out an area that contained 5 slime chunks all bordering each other for what will soon be my mega slime farm, woot!
Come check out my youtube channel, I try to make it a pretty chill place!
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Back from a months-long hiatus, and spent a vigorous play session today building and scouting out some new party pets for the base's newest addition: Starlight Treehouse! The build is nowhere close to complete, but it's certainly coming along much to my liking. The finished product will likely take another few months given my pace (that of a sloth), but hey; everyone needs a hobby. Mine is Quintropolis!
LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now in Season 4 of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
After trial and error in trying to use Overviewer for hours, I decided to switch to another map viewing program called Mapcrafter, I got it to work nearly instantly with just as good result as Overviewer. I advise against using overviewer, it's just way too complicated. Anyways, here's my little home and a village i've "vassalized" and connected with a railroad.
Come check out my youtube channel, I try to make it a pretty chill place!
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Finished primary excavation of the zombie spawner chamber below my main base, Castle Midgard. I decided to stop at lava level (Y=11) rather than bedrock (Y=5). The ceiling is Y=67. The room is roughly 27x50. I think that's a volume of 75,600 blocks, but it seems hard to believe I mined that many.
Like the castle's elytra shaft and map viewing area, I expect this room will be dominated by enormous columns (built with about three full double chests of cobble each) and bridges. Even now that I've had plenty of time to consider it, I'm still just not quite sure how I want everything to look and work here. I don't even know what type of floor it's going to have.
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
Quintropolis recently celebrated the completion of its fourth parkour course! Titled "Chambers", the course is more of a puzzle and features two distinct sections. The first is a gridlock type of puzzle wherein the maze of doors changes each time you hop on a button inside the grid. Once you figure out how to escape that, you enter the range chamber, where you must use your bow skills in a variety of ways to shoot your way out. Can you escape the chambers?
Upon exiting the course, a single pressure plate resets everything for the next time you want to play.
LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now in Season 4 of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
Now that I've finished primary excavation of the zombie spawner chamber, I'm moving to the other side of the castle and resuming work on the gold farm, which I've not touched in very nearly a year.
Actually, it looks like today is the year anniversary of me starting to work on the farm! What a coincidence.
Here's my old thread on the gold farm: [Vanilla SSP Journal][1.7.10-1.12] To Make a Gold Farm
So, I started excavation of the collection chamber. But, before doing so, I checked the portal area out to see if anything looked amiss. I hate creepers, but Endermen almost as bad . . .
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
Oooh! I've just skipped through the video, will watch it when I get back from work properly, but now I think I know what I'll have in my flattened chunk error border by Mount DOOOoooom in my world - once it's finished! I've never had a gold farm and have always been put off by doing it in the nether, so I might try this in the over world! (Make good use of my efficiency diamond pick too)
When I do get round to it, I'll dedicate it to you of course!
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Haha! Well, spoiler alert, I didn't actually use the one in the video tutorial, I used Mr_N_Derman's. He cut it out of his world for me to download on my metered Internet connection. So, my gold farm is dedicated to him, and he's much more deserving!
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