Hello, and welcome to A Skunk's Journal. I've been searching for something new to do in Minecraft lately, and I thought it'd be fun to start a new SSP world and write a journal for it. I've got a ton of ideas for this world, some of which I've done before and some of which I have yet to do. I'm going to enclose each entry inside those green spoiler buttons. Thanks for reading!
Entry 1: Living under — no, inside! — a rock
Spawn was pretty boring, to be honest, so I didn't take any pictures. Besides, I can only carry around so much with me, right? (Actually, now that I think about it, I can carry around quite a remarkable amount of stuff.) Anyway, point is, spawn was a boring spawn biome, and I imagine whoever has found this journal and is reading it right now (that's you!) doesn't want to see that stuff anyway.
So, let's get right into it!
I wandered around for a long, long time. I mined a lot, I hunted a lot, I waited a lot (for daytime — it took me a terribly long time to find some sheep to make a cozy bed). When I did finally settle down somewhere, it wasn't very pretty, but it was a nice little area to keep my stuff, and the fences guarded me from monsters.
See that zombie back there? He's clearly smiling for the camera, and not trying to eat me alive!
Eventually, I left this... wooden platform, I guess is what you'd call it... in search of a nice area to really call home. I have always liked the idea of building underground, and so for a while I thought that was where I'd be headed. Until I found...
Everyone loves overhangs, right? I thought it looked really cool anyway, and I can already imagine building something really neat on the top of it.
But remember the part where I said I loved underground houses? That's still true! Except instead of living underground, I thought it'd be best to carve out a little hole in the rock and live in there.
Well, a bit nicer than just a typical hole...
As of now, there's four rooms and a hallway, and it's all very compact. I have always admired minimalist bases that contain just the essentials. Don't worry though, I have a lot of ideas for this world, and this is just the very beginning.
Beautiful surroundings, by the way. This forest is just to the left of our budding base. And to the right...
Open extreme hills. Great for many things... a mine, a portal, some farms. May or may not build those here, but it's an idea for now!
Let's get to decorating the inside though. I don't want to live in a literal hole in the wall!
There's four furnaces cooking up stacks of cobble like that. And I had to cook some more even after all those were done!
The plan is to use stone slabs for the floor and stone bricks for the walls. Not sure about the ceiling yet. I know it might make it look a little too much like a stronghold, but... I really like this look for an underground or an in-the-mountain base. And, well, I guess that means I like the stronghold look too!
Plans for the rooms include a crafting room with a crafting table and furnaces, a bedroom with, well, a bed and lots of skunky decorations, and a storage room replete with chests. There's also a foyer or an entryway, but I'm not entirely sure how I want to style that yet.
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“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.” — Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976
Hello, and welcome to A Skunk's Journal. I've been searching for something new to do in Minecraft lately, and I thought it'd be fun to start a new SSP world and write a journal for it. I've got a ton of ideas for this world, some of which I've done before and some of which I have yet to do. I'm going to enclose each entry inside those green spoiler buttons. Thanks for reading!
Entry 1: Living
under— no, inside! — a rockSpawn was pretty boring, to be honest, so I didn't take any pictures. Besides, I can only carry around so much with me, right? (Actually, now that I think about it, I can carry around quite a remarkable amount of stuff.) Anyway, point is, spawn was a boring spawn biome, and I imagine whoever has found this journal and is reading it right now (that's you!) doesn't want to see that stuff anyway.
So, let's get right into it!
I wandered around for a long, long time. I mined a lot, I hunted a lot, I waited a lot (for daytime — it took me a terribly long time to find some sheep to make a cozy bed). When I did finally settle down somewhere, it wasn't very pretty, but it was a nice little area to keep my stuff, and the fences guarded me from monsters.
See that zombie back there? He's clearly smiling for the camera, and not trying to eat me alive!
Eventually, I left this... wooden platform, I guess is what you'd call it... in search of a nice area to really call home. I have always liked the idea of building underground, and so for a while I thought that was where I'd be headed. Until I found...
Everyone loves overhangs, right? I thought it looked really cool anyway, and I can already imagine building something really neat on the top of it.
But remember the part where I said I loved underground houses? That's still true! Except instead of living underground, I thought it'd be best to carve out a little hole in the rock and live in there.
Well, a bit nicer than just a typical hole...
As of now, there's four rooms and a hallway, and it's all very compact. I have always admired minimalist bases that contain just the essentials. Don't worry though, I have a lot of ideas for this world, and this is just the very beginning.
Beautiful surroundings, by the way. This forest is just to the left of our budding base. And to the right...
Open extreme hills. Great for many things... a mine, a portal, some farms. May or may not build those here, but it's an idea for now!
Let's get to decorating the inside though. I don't want to live in a literal hole in the wall!
There's four furnaces cooking up stacks of cobble like that. And I had to cook some more even after all those were done!
The plan is to use stone slabs for the floor and stone bricks for the walls. Not sure about the ceiling yet.
I know it might make it look a little too much like a stronghold, but... I really like this look for an underground or an in-the-mountain base. And, well, I guess that means I like the stronghold look too!
Plans for the rooms include a crafting room with a crafting table and furnaces, a bedroom with, well, a bed and lots of skunky decorations, and a storage room replete with chests. There's also a foyer or an entryway, but I'm not entirely sure how I want to style that yet.
“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.” — Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976
nice topic! can't wait to see more!
I really have enjoyed your journalism, and I appreciate you're taste in decorating and building . Definitely sticking around.
Looks great so far!
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