You must use a bow to attack mobs unless they are in melee range-- otherwise, bow and bow alone.
I thought it'd be fun to do, because I need to improve my bow skills in MC and my arrow material-gathering skills. It's very useful in a lot of circumstances, haha. Anyway, try this challenge out. I might add more-- maybe make it a multi-weapon condition challenge.
-Personally I can't stand roleplaying. It's annoying to me. It's not annoying to me, but I've decided I don't like it.
-I hate most servers run by popular YouTubers, because they're normally filled to the brim with fanboys and have extremely corrupt staff. The only youtuber's server I like is TheCampingRusher's-- but still, its faction and it sells donator ranks, so I don't like it, really. I wonder how they get away with that in the new EULA...
-Most faction servers are crap now. Faction servers weren't always crap, but the quality of the servers have been declining since 1.6. I think that faction servers are too complicated and I tend to like smaller ones or simpler ones. The one I play on doesn't even have any form of /tp, and that both makes me happy and irks me.
I don't really have opinions on the rest of what irks you, but I agree with your opinions mostly, yeah.
Now for some opinions of my own.
Servers that violate the EULA.
Complicated, unfair faction servers. They ruin factions for me.
How people always grief the nearest area to spawn as soon as they possibly can, leaving a giant crater of horribleness.
The amount of emphasis placed on multiple members of a faction in a fac server.
How much I love factions and yet can't find good larger servers for it.
Roleplay servers. I like roleplay, but not most MC roleplay servers.
Bad language flooding my chat.
Lack of a kind or uninterested community.
Creative servers have never seemed really interesting to me.
You cannot play on a survival servers without witnessing a world of horrible disarray.
Unless as server is carefully whitelisted, chances are you will be angry at some troll on an hourly basis.
Watch episode 500 of TheCampingRusher's faction series. It is enlightening to the fact that there is a super hardcore aspect of PvP, and will give you a new lease on life regarding it. It's insane what people do raiding other people on factions servers and how hard those battles are. A few things i've noticed for when you have the best gear for PvP:
Always try to strafe, it'll get you more hits.
"Combos"(hitting someone so many times in a row) are essential.
Aim to break armor, which gives an opening to kill.
Keep eating your golden apples!
Bring backup gear in case your armor breaks!
Bring enderpearls for escape and maneuvering.
Strength and Speed potions are essential for maneuvering and attacking.
After dancing around the whole Mineshaft blues, I finally got to exploring it.
Well, let's get started on what my screenshots tell. I took these over the last 2 days, so forgive me if I forget what's happening.
I intend to move my base to this location later on because I found this dungeon-- not only did I find this dungeon, but inside of it I found two name tags, a gapple(golden apple), and golden horse armor. Oh, also a record. I was really happy with the results, and I can't wait to turn it into an exp grinder.
Here's the overall loot from my adventure. I believe at this point I had turned back because I encountered the location of a cave spider spawner and I wasn't quite ready to take it on. You can see I had milk, though, just in case.
Out of context witch is out of context.
At this point in the screenshots there's a fairly large gap in time. I built a basic exp grinder, but not around any spawners. I still had yet to light up the caves within 128 blocks and I was worried about my amount of diamonds. At this point, I had an enchanting setup up to level 30 but as we all know pvp is based completely around enchants-- without enchants, you have nothing. I was really worried about my amount of exp regarding that.
Anyway, I eventually got to level 30 and I still don't have a very good exp grinder but it gets me a few exp points here and there when it has 1-5 mobs in it. I've managed to enchant quite a few things, actually.
I enchanted an "Return to Sender" Smite III Unb III diamond sword, a "Spiderman's Doom" Bane IV Unb III Knockback II diamond sword, and a really semi-good PVP sword with knockback II, Sharpness IV, and Unb III. I hope to get a Sharpness book and anvil it to get sharpness V on it.
Now all I need is a good bow to counter when I knock my enemies back with my sword.
I also enchanted a pick with the regular Eff IV/Unb III but I got Fortune III on one and SILK TOUCH on another-- isn't that supposed to be really valuable? I got it on my second or third pick enchant.
My faction's name is Obsidian so when I got my first Eff IV pick and noticed how quickly it mined the Obsidian, I was so happy. I am going to-- wait, spoilers. Better just tell you first-- back to images.
I decided to explore the mineshaft more thanks to the fact I had Spiderman's Doom(not actually named, but i'm calling it that). The above image is a virtual sea of water draining after I closed off a huge opening from the ocean. It was annoying work, but I lit up the rest of the ravine the ocean was draining into. I nearly got killed thanks to the fact I brought Spiderman's Doom and ONLY Spiderman's Doom thanks to knockback and skeletons.
Yeah, I lit that up with some help from two milk buckets. I could have used these later on when I was poisoned by a witch, but noooo I had to let my guard down. I can one-shot spiders and I had to use two milk buckets(you can tell i'm proud of the one-shotting spiders thing)!
This is in fairly close proximity to the aforementioned dungeon, so I might be able to just make an exp grinder for both of these, put an obsidian box around them, and claim the chunks. My other faction member never comes online, so I don't think i'll ever have such little power i'll be able to be overclaimed. I want to make a chunk-wide super base around my dungeon-- like, just, a giant chunk of obsidian with 8 more claims around it.
Anyway, I started exploring some more and realized just how large this thing is. I always underestimate mineshafts... it rubber-banded into an area I never even noticed and into a gargantuan ravine with lava all along the bottom, which is what I was about to segway into earlier. I want to turn that into obsidian and mine it all out with a good Efficiency pick.
I know you want to poison me, yeah-- CRAP YOU POISONED ME WHAT THE HECKIE I USED ALL OF MY MILK BUCKETS WHY.
^ the above were my thoughts as I approaches the mobs below this witch in an attempt to light the ravine up.
Oh, also, I made a "Nether Bunker". Really lame one, actually. I pretty much just put a cobblestone box around my Nether Portal and covered it with netherrack to disguise it. I don't even have anything claimed yet. Mainly for stealth, though I don't think anyone is going to come looking for me any time soon.
Actually, I already have an alliance. I want to cement our alliance's trust by raiding someone, but i'm not prepared in the slightest. I'd really like to have full enchanted diamond armor, tnt cannon material, a sharp V/flame II sword, and some gapples(maybe even enchanted gapples or mega gapples). Backup gear would be nice too.
Also, there's no /tp of any kind-- not even /home or /f home. It's all vanilla aside from the factions plugin, protection plugin, and the starcache plugin. I really hope they add some kind of tpa in the future with a battle cooldown-- like, you can't do any teleporting unless you've been out of battle for so long. That's how it works on pvp.thearchon.net(TheCampingRusher's server) and it seems to work really well.
Anyway my point with the teleporting talk is that it's sort of hard to get backup if you get jumped-- basically, if you get jumped(and i'm pretty much alone unless one of you forumers I trust/admire try to join me), then you're dead. You have no backup you can /tp in when you get jumped, so your best bet is basically just letting them take your stuff in peace-- either that or trying to enderpearl away, and I have about 3 enderpearls.
I might be in trouble in the future if I raid with an ally and they suddenly /enemy me and betray me. I'm not saying they would, but... can't be too careful. I might need backup.
Well, I was going to put this where my Rilend's Rise journal was going, but I realized it didn't count as Singleplayer and thats sort of the place for all my hardcore singleplayer journals(of which I will be making more of eventually), so I decided to make a new thread for this. It's a tad different.
Basically, I watched TheCampingRusher's(am watching, more accurately) faction letsplay and decided I wanted to play some factions. I went back to a small serverI had played on before and got started. This server has the factions plugin of course, the "Starcache" plugin(random loot spawns within 5000 blocks of spawn and you have to defend it for 5 minutes), and some kind of locky-chest plugin which lets you make an unbreakable iron door if you lock it on an obsidian block.
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Anyway, I went to an ocean and I found the perfect opening into a ravine to make a base. I didn't take any screenshots in the process of building it, but I was adventuring around for some cows so I could get leather and make an(EXTREMELY NEEDED) enchanting setup. Seriously, I need one badly. Anyway, on the way there I encountered this:
A FULL enchanting setup(sort of) JUST inside of an abandoned faction's territory. The worst part is I have no TNT-- I don't see HOW all these people get super great faction bases and setups so quickly. I don't even have an enchanting table yet and I've played on this server more than anyone else for the past two days.
After a bit of exploring, I finally found two cows. I had crafted some leads before(Fortunately my base is in a slime chunk. Not so fortunately, slimes can trample my farm crops.) and so I leaded them up and set off for home in the ocean.
Pretty nice. I put them inside of my obsidian vault for safety. You have no idea how nerve-wracking it is traveling oh-so-many blocks to get two cows, having one of them drown while leading them into the hole into your ravine in the ocean, and then having to go back and get the third one and hope you're smarter this time. I still don't have enough leather for one bookshelf, either.
While inside of my stripmine I encountered a cave. I ventured through it a bit and I discovered something incredibly dangerous and simultaneously incredibly useful.
I did not want to explore this thing. I do not want to die.
I'm sort of scared of dying again because I died my first time because I was mining obsidian and I decided STANDING on the block I mined was a good idea. I had a source of water nearby and it was flowing into where I was mining the obsidian and when I mined it I went STRAIGHT into the lava and the water turned the lava overhead into a block of obsidian.
None of my stuff survived, and that's how I lost my first diamond pick and 45 blocks of obsidian.
So hey, if you're interested in seeing me continue this factions journal, leave a +1 or maybe a comment. Chances are i'm going to find a cave spider spawner when I work up the nerve to explore the abandoned mineshaft I found, and when that happens i'm going to turn it into a mob trap. There are no AFK machines allowed, though, so I might have to have an on-off switch for it.
I'm also within a few hundred blocks of an ocean monument which sort of frightens me. I've never fought the Enderdragon nor the Wither much less any Guardians in vanilla and frankly i'm a bit scared of everything that's moving which is why I REALLY want to get this enchanting setup soon. It'll give me a lot more confidence in my tools of trade.
As for the argument on minigames, I actually think this update will improve them, if anything.
Think about it-- if you want to play a certain kind of minigame then you can just go back to 1.8 and play on a 1.8 minigame server which will be available. Then, you can have totally re-worked-- or original-- minigames for 1.9, thus making two separate genres of minigame.
1.8 and 1.9 minigames, two completely separate things with separate ideas. I like the sound of it.
Oh no, what have you done?! You've stated your opinion-- you've unleashed the hounds! Now the forumers will easily gobble you up!
In all seriousness I take your same mindset, though. Be happy with what updates you get and be quiet about your complaints. I mean, I can imagine complaining about some type of entirely game-breaking feature-- but when you complain about a game-improving feature, it gets... stupid.
I'm pretty sure that the Combat update is going to be game-improving overall instead of game-breaking, and i'm really happy about that. I am more excited for the 1.9 update than I have been for any other update since I started playing back in full release.
It's fine-- the challenge makes it more fun. I would feel like it was too easy otherwise. Also, I may use some mods but I tend to go totally vanilla for some reason. It just feels natural.
The Elven homes I made all floaty because Amplified terrain reminds me of the "Hallelujah Mountains" in Avatar. I thought it'd be pretty cool to have floating platform houses-- but I am going to make some more creative stiltlike/tree-based buildings, too.
I have never had a pet slime save for very briefly an alliance with the King of all Slimes, lord 256.
He was a large king, and when our alliance was over, I slayed him. Of course, when I did so, he just burst into 4 new monarchs which are now ruling over the Slime Kingdom as a triumvirate of chaos-- the fourth was exiled, leaving him to wander the desert wastelands around the swamp kingdom of slime alone as a nomad.
Decided to try the Elven challenge on an Amplified world. Below the spoiler is the results!
Spawned in a beautiful area-- as always, when Amplified is your world setting. Sort of. Sometimes the spawn can just be messy. I got stuck with a really nice spawn-- and I mean a spawn good for Elven, too, because I can grow giant trees.
Anyway I started on the challenge and had a little bit of trouble because Elves are vegetarians. Seeds do not seem to drop from ferns as much as they do from grass for me. Beautiful waterfall fantasy scenery though, am I right?
In the background of this picture you can see the platform to my house. This farm, though, was literally killing me. No food for days. It looked really good though with that little waterfall thing, so I went with it.
Here's another screenshot from basically the same vantage point. After many deaths at the hands of hunger I am the victor-- take that, NATURE! Wait, shouldn't I be working WITH nature? Ah, whatever.
I think i'll make these buildings sort of dutch-colony style... except floating on platforms in the air. I really like the bridges, though, those are nice. Also, in case you didn't know, I have to build all of my homes in the air for the elven challenge-- more specifically, not touching the ground-- and so i'm just going to make all my buildings float.
These images were from a night of half-a-heart exploration. I think something's wrong with my mob spawning because I did not encounter one monster from my home to here except the one skeleton that killed me and the two spiders I beat to death with my fists afterwards.
Pretty, though, right? I can't wait to mess around with the terraforming in this area. I'm thinking of a giant elven castle built into the side of the mountain with waterfalls flowing through it.
No one ever said the Well had to be functional... or not leaky.
Anyway here's the results of today's play session. A really nice looking house, farm, and well. I also put a little desk inside of my house because that was one of my decorations in the original design. I'd really like to add some more color, too, so when I get iron I think there will be a lot more leaves to add some green and maybe some other wood types. I'm right next to a Forest Biome, so that'll be good for wood types. Maybe Birch?
Ultimate results: About an hour or two of playtime, and half of the first stage complete. Is that bad?
I welcome you kindly to another examination of Rilend's journal. I don't have much to say aside from mutant zombie-pigmen running rampant around your home does not, in any way, make for a relaxing evening of recovering artifacts and worldbuilding. No, it does not at all, and yet, it is my continuous curse all thanks to a man named Hiro who appears slightly unkempt. Anyway, on with the entry.
"Day 08
After having a nightly trek through the desert to find signs of life-- I realize the Desert is only a barrier, and that on the other side lay a Birch Forest. The air around the forest seemed fresh and full of life-- exciting, adventurous, dangerous. It seemed almost magical."
I headed back to the village, almost lost and at great risk to myself. Only when I found my previous base-home did I realize that I was no longer lost! The living dead, the giant arachnids, and the creeping green things of the earth will find me no more in safe abode!"
Day 09
As the sun arose, I felt that this old base needed to be abandoned aside from being a mining base. I decided to pack up all my previous work and leave-- including the bookshelves holding my findings and the enchanting tables. I don't recall telling you about those, but I did a little work on the side you'll never hear of. It involved lots of testing."
I returned to the village in dire need of more space-- soon i'll have to make a storehouse and some proper fields for the village before this place gets packed with travelers coming to my Inn. Two chests by the town well will have to do for now. It's time to start building!"
Before I began any sign of construction I took a second to converse with Jerry, the Librarian. He seemed to be interested in having a Library in town. He also informed me that the other villagers really wanted some more community buildings that they could use respectively-- I think they were a bit jealous that the Blacksmiths got their own building. There is three of them, though.
I ran into a bit of a problem building. As I chopped down my tiny forest for wood, I realized that I clearly did not have enough cobblestone to start building this Inn. The Inn was clearly going to need more cobblestone in its foundation as it would be a fairly large building, and I didn't have enough cobblestone to even mark the base points of the building! I would have to begin a Mining operation, so I picked a nearby hill outcropping in the savanna across the river. I began work on making a small bridge for getting across comfortably but night fell.
Day 12
The bridge is fixed, and I did a bit of digging... I got a lot of cobblestone and created a bit of a cavern while I was at it. I forgot to add supports, so i'll do that later."
I laid down the border mark for the Inn, and i'm starting further construction today. It'll be the biggest building so far, and it's going to have two stories. Let's hope I can make it look pretty!"
Day 17
I have about half of the Inn done, and it has a second story and rooms on that second story. The bottom story is still bare, and I really don't like that. I also think that the rooms are a bit cramped and a bit dull-- they don't have beds or chests in them yet, and in the case of the more "deluxe" rooms a furnace and a crafting table. Additionally, the outside walls look a bit bare, aswell. I'll really have to fix that-- I tried putting stone columns up from the bottom base but it looked... odd."
I'm working on a new invention involving the red dust stuff-- it seems to have quite the mechanical use, and I might be able to start taking pictures with it. I've held off on painting the sights of the land until then."
Rilend did finish the invention, and I gladly found the images he took during and after the entry. I'm digging around some old boxes-- which I assume were once chests-- and i've found quite a lot of images from the journal, too.
If anyone has had dealings with an unkempt man named Hiro, be sure to make the local inter-world dimensional police known, if you have encountered them or one of them has decided to inhabit your particular planet and/or dimension, whether or not you are made of smoke and can only speak if you're underwater.
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I love how you just say "It's quite dusty."
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A pineapple-with-human-face-and-emotions.
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Lovin' this. A journal is always hard upkeep, but you pull it off nicely. Really love the meme-twist you've put on this.
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The challenge is simple:
You cannot use any swords besides a wooden sword.
You must use a bow to attack mobs unless they are in melee range-- otherwise, bow and bow alone.
I thought it'd be fun to do, because I need to improve my bow skills in MC and my arrow material-gathering skills. It's very useful in a lot of circumstances, haha. Anyway, try this challenge out. I might add more-- maybe make it a multi-weapon condition challenge.
Give me your thoughts and/or suggestions.
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I don't really have opinions on the rest of what irks you, but I agree with your opinions mostly, yeah.
Now for some opinions of my own.
That's my two cents.
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Watch episode 500 of TheCampingRusher's faction series. It is enlightening to the fact that there is a super hardcore aspect of PvP, and will give you a new lease on life regarding it. It's insane what people do raiding other people on factions servers and how hard those battles are. A few things i've noticed for when you have the best gear for PvP:
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After dancing around the whole Mineshaft blues, I finally got to exploring it.
Well, let's get started on what my screenshots tell. I took these over the last 2 days, so forgive me if I forget what's happening.
I intend to move my base to this location later on because I found this dungeon-- not only did I find this dungeon, but inside of it I found two name tags, a gapple(golden apple), and golden horse armor. Oh, also a record. I was really happy with the results, and I can't wait to turn it into an exp grinder.
Here's the overall loot from my adventure. I believe at this point I had turned back because I encountered the location of a cave spider spawner and I wasn't quite ready to take it on. You can see I had milk, though, just in case.
Out of context witch is out of context.
At this point in the screenshots there's a fairly large gap in time. I built a basic exp grinder, but not around any spawners. I still had yet to light up the caves within 128 blocks and I was worried about my amount of diamonds. At this point, I had an enchanting setup up to level 30 but as we all know pvp is based completely around enchants-- without enchants, you have nothing. I was really worried about my amount of exp regarding that.
Anyway, I eventually got to level 30 and I still don't have a very good exp grinder but it gets me a few exp points here and there when it has 1-5 mobs in it. I've managed to enchant quite a few things, actually.
I enchanted an "Return to Sender" Smite III Unb III diamond sword, a "Spiderman's Doom" Bane IV Unb III Knockback II diamond sword, and a really semi-good PVP sword with knockback II, Sharpness IV, and Unb III. I hope to get a Sharpness book and anvil it to get sharpness V on it.
Now all I need is a good bow to counter when I knock my enemies back with my sword.
I also enchanted a pick with the regular Eff IV/Unb III but I got Fortune III on one and SILK TOUCH on another-- isn't that supposed to be really valuable? I got it on my second or third pick enchant.
My faction's name is Obsidian so when I got my first Eff IV pick and noticed how quickly it mined the Obsidian, I was so happy. I am going to-- wait, spoilers. Better just tell you first-- back to images.
I decided to explore the mineshaft more thanks to the fact I had Spiderman's Doom(not actually named, but i'm calling it that). The above image is a virtual sea of water draining after I closed off a huge opening from the ocean. It was annoying work, but I lit up the rest of the ravine the ocean was draining into. I nearly got killed thanks to the fact I brought Spiderman's Doom and ONLY Spiderman's Doom thanks to knockback and skeletons.
Yeah, I lit that up with some help from two milk buckets. I could have used these later on when I was poisoned by a witch, but noooo I had to let my guard down. I can one-shot spiders and I had to use two milk buckets(you can tell i'm proud of the one-shotting spiders thing)!
This is in fairly close proximity to the aforementioned dungeon, so I might be able to just make an exp grinder for both of these, put an obsidian box around them, and claim the chunks. My other faction member never comes online, so I don't think i'll ever have such little power i'll be able to be overclaimed. I want to make a chunk-wide super base around my dungeon-- like, just, a giant chunk of obsidian with 8 more claims around it.
Anyway, I started exploring some more and realized just how large this thing is. I always underestimate mineshafts... it rubber-banded into an area I never even noticed and into a gargantuan ravine with lava all along the bottom, which is what I was about to segway into earlier. I want to turn that into obsidian and mine it all out with a good Efficiency pick.
I know you want to poison me, yeah-- CRAP YOU POISONED ME WHAT THE HECKIE I USED ALL OF MY MILK BUCKETS WHY.
^ the above were my thoughts as I approaches the mobs below this witch in an attempt to light the ravine up.
Oh, also, I made a "Nether Bunker". Really lame one, actually. I pretty much just put a cobblestone box around my Nether Portal and covered it with netherrack to disguise it. I don't even have anything claimed yet. Mainly for stealth, though I don't think anyone is going to come looking for me any time soon.
Actually, I already have an alliance. I want to cement our alliance's trust by raiding someone, but i'm not prepared in the slightest. I'd really like to have full enchanted diamond armor, tnt cannon material, a sharp V/flame II sword, and some gapples(maybe even enchanted gapples or mega gapples). Backup gear would be nice too.
Also, there's no /tp of any kind-- not even /home or /f home. It's all vanilla aside from the factions plugin, protection plugin, and the starcache plugin. I really hope they add some kind of tpa in the future with a battle cooldown-- like, you can't do any teleporting unless you've been out of battle for so long. That's how it works on pvp.thearchon.net(TheCampingRusher's server) and it seems to work really well.
Anyway my point with the teleporting talk is that it's sort of hard to get backup if you get jumped-- basically, if you get jumped(and i'm pretty much alone unless one of you forumers I trust/admire try to join me), then you're dead. You have no backup you can /tp in when you get jumped, so your best bet is basically just letting them take your stuff in peace-- either that or trying to enderpearl away, and I have about 3 enderpearls.
I might be in trouble in the future if I raid with an ally and they suddenly /enemy me and betray me. I'm not saying they would, but... can't be too careful. I might need backup.
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Well, I was going to put this where my Rilend's Rise journal was going, but I realized it didn't count as Singleplayer and thats sort of the place for all my hardcore singleplayer journals(of which I will be making more of eventually), so I decided to make a new thread for this. It's a tad different.
Basically, I watched TheCampingRusher's(am watching, more accurately) faction letsplay and decided I wanted to play some factions. I went back to a small serverI had played on before and got started. This server has the factions plugin of course, the "Starcache" plugin(random loot spawns within 5000 blocks of spawn and you have to defend it for 5 minutes), and some kind of locky-chest plugin which lets you make an unbreakable iron door if you lock it on an obsidian block.
Entry #1
Anyway, I went to an ocean and I found the perfect opening into a ravine to make a base. I didn't take any screenshots in the process of building it, but I was adventuring around for some cows so I could get leather and make an(EXTREMELY NEEDED) enchanting setup. Seriously, I need one badly. Anyway, on the way there I encountered this:
A FULL enchanting setup(sort of) JUST inside of an abandoned faction's territory. The worst part is I have no TNT-- I don't see HOW all these people get super great faction bases and setups so quickly. I don't even have an enchanting table yet and I've played on this server more than anyone else for the past two days.
After a bit of exploring, I finally found two cows. I had crafted some leads before(Fortunately my base is in a slime chunk. Not so fortunately, slimes can trample my farm crops.) and so I leaded them up and set off for home in the ocean.
Pretty nice. I put them inside of my obsidian vault for safety. You have no idea how nerve-wracking it is traveling oh-so-many blocks to get two cows, having one of them drown while leading them into the hole into your ravine in the ocean, and then having to go back and get the third one and hope you're smarter this time. I still don't have enough leather for one bookshelf, either.
While inside of my stripmine I encountered a cave. I ventured through it a bit and I discovered something incredibly dangerous and simultaneously incredibly useful.
I did not want to explore this thing. I do not want to die.
I'm sort of scared of dying again because I died my first time because I was mining obsidian and I decided STANDING on the block I mined was a good idea. I had a source of water nearby and it was flowing into where I was mining the obsidian and when I mined it I went STRAIGHT into the lava and the water turned the lava overhead into a block of obsidian.
None of my stuff survived, and that's how I lost my first diamond pick and 45 blocks of obsidian.
So hey, if you're interested in seeing me continue this factions journal, leave a +1 or maybe a comment. Chances are i'm going to find a cave spider spawner when I work up the nerve to explore the abandoned mineshaft I found, and when that happens i'm going to turn it into a mob trap. There are no AFK machines allowed, though, so I might have to have an on-off switch for it.
I'm also within a few hundred blocks of an ocean monument which sort of frightens me. I've never fought the Enderdragon nor the Wither much less any Guardians in vanilla and frankly i'm a bit scared of everything that's moving which is why I REALLY want to get this enchanting setup soon. It'll give me a lot more confidence in my tools of trade.
Also, challenge me-- IF YOU DARE.
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As for the argument on minigames, I actually think this update will improve them, if anything.
Think about it-- if you want to play a certain kind of minigame then you can just go back to 1.8 and play on a 1.8 minigame server which will be available. Then, you can have totally re-worked-- or original-- minigames for 1.9, thus making two separate genres of minigame.
1.8 and 1.9 minigames, two completely separate things with separate ideas. I like the sound of it.
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Oh no, what have you done?! You've stated your opinion-- you've unleashed the hounds! Now the forumers will easily gobble you up!
In all seriousness I take your same mindset, though. Be happy with what updates you get and be quiet about your complaints. I mean, I can imagine complaining about some type of entirely game-breaking feature-- but when you complain about a game-improving feature, it gets... stupid.
I'm pretty sure that the Combat update is going to be game-improving overall instead of game-breaking, and i'm really happy about that. I am more excited for the 1.9 update than I have been for any other update since I started playing back in full release.
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It's fine-- the challenge makes it more fun. I would feel like it was too easy otherwise. Also, I may use some mods but I tend to go totally vanilla for some reason. It just feels natural.
The Elven homes I made all floaty because Amplified terrain reminds me of the "Hallelujah Mountains" in Avatar. I thought it'd be pretty cool to have floating platform houses-- but I am going to make some more creative stiltlike/tree-based buildings, too.
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I have never had a pet slime save for very briefly an alliance with the King of all Slimes, lord 256.
He was a large king, and when our alliance was over, I slayed him. Of course, when I did so, he just burst into 4 new monarchs which are now ruling over the Slime Kingdom as a triumvirate of chaos-- the fourth was exiled, leaving him to wander the desert wastelands around the swamp kingdom of slime alone as a nomad.
I don't have good relations with the slimes.
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Decided to try the Elven challenge on an Amplified world. Below the spoiler is the results!
Spawned in a beautiful area-- as always, when Amplified is your world setting. Sort of. Sometimes the spawn can just be messy. I got stuck with a really nice spawn-- and I mean a spawn good for Elven, too, because I can grow giant trees.
Anyway I started on the challenge and had a little bit of trouble because Elves are vegetarians. Seeds do not seem to drop from ferns as much as they do from grass for me. Beautiful waterfall fantasy scenery though, am I right?
In the background of this picture you can see the platform to my house. This farm, though, was literally killing me. No food for days. It looked really good though with that little waterfall thing, so I went with it.
Here's another screenshot from basically the same vantage point. After many deaths at the hands of hunger I am the victor-- take that, NATURE! Wait, shouldn't I be working WITH nature? Ah, whatever.
I think i'll make these buildings sort of dutch-colony style... except floating on platforms in the air. I really like the bridges, though, those are nice. Also, in case you didn't know, I have to build all of my homes in the air for the elven challenge-- more specifically, not touching the ground-- and so i'm just going to make all my buildings float.
These images were from a night of half-a-heart exploration. I think something's wrong with my mob spawning because I did not encounter one monster from my home to here except the one skeleton that killed me and the two spiders I beat to death with my fists afterwards.
Pretty, though, right? I can't wait to mess around with the terraforming in this area. I'm thinking of a giant elven castle built into the side of the mountain with waterfalls flowing through it.
No one ever said the Well had to be functional... or not leaky.
Anyway here's the results of today's play session. A really nice looking house, farm, and well. I also put a little desk inside of my house because that was one of my decorations in the original design. I'd really like to add some more color, too, so when I get iron I think there will be a lot more leaves to add some green and maybe some other wood types. I'm right next to a Forest Biome, so that'll be good for wood types. Maybe Birch?
Ultimate results: About an hour or two of playtime, and half of the first stage complete. Is that bad?
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It seems that the images-- and a few more blurred details that weren't previously noticed-- are now included in the previous journal entry!
Thanks for... errr, watching? Looking? I don't quite know which word to use.
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Rilend's Rise Episode 5.
I welcome you kindly to another examination of Rilend's journal. I don't have much to say aside from mutant zombie-pigmen running rampant around your home does not, in any way, make for a relaxing evening of recovering artifacts and worldbuilding. No, it does not at all, and yet, it is my continuous curse all thanks to a man named Hiro who appears slightly unkempt. Anyway, on with the entry.