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i just finished building a automatic brewing station which is actually a lot easier then you would think.

Made a new world with the same seed as my old world that I lost. I decided I wanted to rebuild one of the projects I was working on but never got to finish. I'm playing on hard without health regen to make it more challenging.

Decided to build my base in the same place I did on my old world, currently it's just a small wooden hut with some windows and a pet chicken.
Since I didn't feel like looking for a cave I just dug straight down and ended up being right beside a ravine. Went caving for a while and found some gold and diamonds before I had any iron tools. After getting back to my base and making iron tools I went down to get the diamonds but heard a zombie while I was going down my ladder, so I mined for about 5 blocks behind my ladder and ended up finding a mineshaft.Spent around half an hour exploring the mineshaft and avioding spiders, ended up getting some coal and a little bit of iron but nothing useful. I might go back and explore the mineshaft more once a get milk but until then it's to risky to try exploring it more.

My current goals are to find a nameplate for my chicken, make an enchanting table so I can get an aqua affinity and respiration helmet, flatten a 200x200 area for the building I want to make and mine up a couple hundred stacks of clay to turn into hardened clay.

I've found that I like how noisy zombies are, after exploring a while in my mineshaft it seemed like I explored all of it but then I heard a zombie, so I mined towards it and ended up finding another part of the mineshaft to explore. After exploring for a while and getting a getting a bunch or iron and coal I decided I should do some branch mining. While branch mining heard zombies and mined towards them and found a zombie spawner and one of the chests had a nametag, so now I can name my pet chicken. Also my chicken went down my 20 block lader and into my brewing room so now I have to get him back up to the surface which might be a pain to do.

Next up I figured since I had three golden apples I decided to explore the nether, ended up using one of the golden apples almost instantly since a ghast shot at me as soon as I ended the nether. Took around 15 minutes to find a nether fortress but unfortunately it was small and didn't have any netherwart. Spent another 20 minutes to find another stronghold that had netherwart, used another golden apple along the way due to getting shot by another ghast. After exploring the fortress for a while I found a chest with horse armor in it. (Can't remember if it was iron or gold armor.) Killed some blazes and used my last golden apple to heal myself. Took another 10 minutes to get back to my portal and return home.

After making some healing potions I decided to explore the surface a bit. Spent around two or three hours exploring jungles and deserts, found a few desert temples, one surface dungeon, no jungle temples and no villages, also killed a bunch of cows. The only things that I found interesting is one of the temples had 6 diamonds in it, one of the temples had 3 diamonds and diamond horse armor and the surface dungeon had some good items in it. One of the chests had 4 buckets some redstone and wheat. (Had to leave the redstone and wheat behind though since I had a full inventory.) The other chest had these in it.
I also found a five block tall cactus which amused me for some reason.

Worked on a pathway branching off my West Road just past Slimeball Pass that will eventually connect to Autarch Neglect Village. Was forced to cease work when I ran low on cobble and a few other resources.

Spent several sessions branch mining at diamond level to replenish cobble reserves.

Repaired damage to Autarch Neglect Inn, hit by lightning during one of my branch mining sessions. (Upper floor walls are mostly wool, it having been constructed just prior to the introduction of hardened clay with MC162.)

Harvested wood of every sort from temporary tree farms established within Autarch Neglect Village.

Once again while mining I heard zombies and mined towards them, ended up finding another mineshaft. Saw a spawner and then saw it spawn a spider, so I instantly thought it was a cave spider spawner and blocked the way to it. Later On when I went back and looked at it again I realized it was a normal spider spawner. Had a name tag and some music disks in it and some other stuff, I now have 5 music disks total from the spawners I've found.
Went to the nether to collect quartz for experience to enchant my helmet, took 3 tries to get a respiration III helmet. Anyway between the mining trips to the nether I'd spend around 5-10 minutes putting things away and brewing more health potions. I noticed that there was always the same zombie pigman walking around my base. So I decided to make it a little pen and name it.
Also I think everything I want to name tries to troll me because they know I won't kill them. Once I started to build the pen for the zombie pigman I saw it walk past me, so I stopped to see where it was going. It stopped in front of the nether portal stopped for a second to look at me then started to walk foward to go into the nether portal. I managed to stop it from entering the portal but ended up taking around 10 minutes to get it into its pen. My pet chicken also likes to troll me, a lot of the times when I'm returning from my mine and going back up my ladder to my base I see my chicken standing on top of the trapdoor above it. Sometimes I have to wait a couple minutes for it to move off of it.

Now that I got a respiration helmet and I can collect clay I started working on clearing an area to build on, the nearby jungle seemed the the flattest area around so I started working on clearing it out.
Between using fire and tnt some vines became a little glitchy.
I used a total of seven flint and steels along with the thirty-six tnt I got from desert temples, Managed to clear out a lot of the smaller trees and bushes but I still need to cut down the large ones.
After I clear out all of the trees I'll need to start getting rid of the hills, might take me a couple of days to finish doing that. Next up would be to fill in all of the nearby lakes with the dirt I get,I should get enough dirt from clearing the hills but if not I'll also use cobblestone to fill the lakes. Then after doing that I'll need a lot of clay and then I can start construction on my project. Currently I have around twenty stacks of hardened clay, I estimate that I'll need around two or three hundred stacks to build it though. I get around fifteen to twenty stacks of clay blocks in an hour of mining it so that could add another twenty hours of work collecting the items I need for the building.

Fortunately I have quite a few diamonds from dungeons and desert temples, so I shouldn't have to worry about running out since I'm using mostly shovels and not to many picks. Food shouldn't be much of a problem either since I have about two stacks of cooked beef stored in a chest. Since I don't have to worry about running out of those it should let me focus more on clearing the nearby land and not on having to farm for food and diamonds.

Took a little while but I managed to clear out most of the jungle.
The first screenshot is what it looked like after I tried to burn down most of it, second one is after 50minutes of clearing trees, third is 90 minutes and forth is after 130minutes.I also spent around 30 minutes clearing another part of the jungle but I didn't take any screenshots of that.

After finishing with the jungle I started to work on making the land flatter.
The first picture is from right after I cleared the jungle the other two were taken after 20 minutes and 40 minutes of getting rid of the hill. After that I worked on filling in the lake some and the hill near it.
The first image is what the hill looked like at first , second is after 20 minutes, third is after 70 minutes and the last on is after 100minutes.

So far I've broken 13 flint and steel, 6 diamond shovels, a diamond axe and my diamond pick is almost out of durability. Once I finish of the hill and fill in the other lake I should be about a forth of the way done with flattening out the jungle then I'll just need to collect the clay and smelt it. At the rate it's going as long as I don't have to use more than three or four more picks I shouldn't run out of diamonds before I'm done with this. And heres some screenshots of what my stats currently are.

I murdered the enderdragon. With my diamond sword.

Finally finished getting rid of the hill I was working on, in the earlier pictures it looks a lot smaller then it actually was. Took a couple of hours and quite a few tools to mine it up. Got a total of 4700 more dirt and over 5000 cobblestone from it. Fortunately there will only be one more area as bad as that one was, the rest of it should be easier and I shouldn't need as many picks for them.
Also I made a thread about my project if anyone wants to offer suggestions for what to make it out of.
Here's the thread

Edit: Did a bit more work clearing the land.
In the past 12 hours I've between mining and placing blocks I've moved a total of over 21 thousand blocks. Due to this I'm almost out of diamonds and will need to go mining for more soon. Currently I've broken 13 diamond shovels and 6 diamond picks during this entire project.

I have tried playing Beta 1.7 again. Built a mountain home on the glacier seed. While there are a lot less features, the terrain and the difficulty of the game is better ( No regen, No random annoying zombie hordes, surviving at night is a fun challenge). Won't be switching permanently, but will continue playing in old versions sometimes for a challenge.

I don't have any pictures of my mountain home though.

Cleared out around 100000 blocks for my underground storage and farms. In hindsight, my wheat, carrot, potato and sugarcane farms are WAY too big, but I am loving my tree farm

I built a barn to house all 11 of my recently found horses. So far I've transported 1 of them to the barn and I still need to tame and transport the rest of them.

I started a hardcore world and found 2 villages and I started trading with them like crazy. I've had this world for about a week now and I still havent gone mining and I already have a diamond helmet, chestplate and iron boots and leggings.

Had fun with the Gravity Gun mod.

I have been working on my town in my survival world. I currently have 6 houses, an apartment, a smithy, watchtower, stables, a bakery, a storeroom and a big library, along with my house. The current villager population is 9.

I've been living on cookies.

I did something I didn't think I would do: started a new survival world. I know, it's no big deal, but I've pretty much played solo MC in my original world since pre-release 1.7.

I found a seed with a Jungle Temple on an island: http://www.minecraftseeds.info/2013/06/64951768.html

It's been fun starting over with new challenges, but I'm still playing my old world too.

Last thing I did was make a Tunnel in the nether from my main base to strong hold

Last thing I did was quit a server, because everyone was misunderstanding me, and spread false rumors.
And also because I felt disappointed that one of the admins rejected a map idea I had when he was planning an alternate server. He claimed it looked "blandish", even though I worked tediously to avoid it from looking "blandish"