so, it appears that i'm here. again. trying another survival journal. the main reason for this is because i realize i could actually probably stick with one with the advent of 1.9-- otherwise known as the first update in which i've defeated the ender dragon after having played since full release.
needless to say, i've been looking around the forums and being pretty much in awe over these nice, casual journals that have a lot done in them, so in between survival burn-out breaks, i'll be updating this journal. so, let the fun begin.
world information:
name: survival journal(real original.)
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cheats: on(just in case!)
so here's the introduction of this journal, and we get a nice little vista to start us out. for some reason, the entire last entry was deleted by the forum. i think it's because i tried paragraph indents... the forum does not like good grammar.
hello friend! you have no idea how hard it was to get this screenshot; this little guy was everywhere.
anyway, i decided after chopping down a tree or two i'd go into the cave in the side of the hill i spawned on the side of. in this cave, i decided to make a temporary base until i could figure out some more aesthetically pleasing living arrangements.
unfortunately, some old college friends of mine found out i was taking residence there and decided to crash in my cave, but they just couldn't take a hint that i wanted them to leave, so i did what any reasonable person would do.
i burnt them. i'm not even old enough to go to college. who are these people.
after that i tidied up my cool cave abode and spent my first night digging down to make a strip mine. made some iron tools(had a little trouble with food, so i hunted down some piggles) gathered some resources, and started building...
okay, well, i have no idea where i was going with this building style. i like the orange and grey color scheme, although it needs something. in the end, i decided against this build after dying and decided to tear it down.
my inspiration came from the temple buildings and misc. ancient-looking theme of old gem architecture in steven universe. i was listening to steven universe as i played minecraft, so i thought it was fitting to take inspiration from it. i failed.
first diamonds! mined out five of em' so i would have enough for a diamond pick and an enchanting table.
in that second screenshot, by the way, i was digging out some andesite and managed to break out the other side of the hill my cave is in. there was a nice little clearing out here that i put a farm plot on, but i'll be building here later on.
i kept dying or nearly dying over and over in the process of building and tearing down and building and tearing down so i finally got enough string for a bed-- there appears to be no sheep in the vicinity. what a shame, what a shame...
fail build #zapdos. don't know what i was going for here, but it was a real pain to tear it down.
at this point, i decided that i would just go into my creative world and build something as a plan instead of winging it. sometimes you just have one of those days... or weeks. or years. the result was really good but i needed some wool for a still-unfinished part, so i went on a little bit of a venture.
i headed out west and ended up finding an odd floating tree and a plains. no sheep, though, although i did get a really good screenshot of a sunset i'm going to end this entry off with. now finally to the house...
out of my drive to get a nice build to show off to the forum i forgot i'm not playing survival to document it, i'm documenting me playing survival. so, i'll be getting to gathering all the endgame resources and etc., plus some more aesthetic-functional building.
until then though, i can be satisfied about this house-- it's really nice! as you can see in that last screenshot though, that top room is unfinished. i'm going to put a wool cover on it-- which, scientifically, should make the room cooler in the desert. it's going to be a sort of study.
anyway, that's all for now. i'll leave off on the aformentioned sunset screenshot and get to work on the next entry. maybe the forum won't eat up my journal this time?
You're off to a good start - thumbs up. Thank you for showing your false starts, it's encouraging that I'm not the only one who seems to tear down just as often as build... and your final house design is inspired!
Looking forward to more installments like this one!
You're off to a good start - thumbs up. Thank you for showing your false starts, it's encouraging that I'm not the only one who seems to tear down just as often as build... and your final house design is inspired!
Looking forward to more installments like this one!
thanks! i spend a lot of time comparing my builds to builds in other journals and think "wow, i'm not nearly that good of a builder." so it means a lot when people compliment me, haha.
Interesting house. I know what you mean by survival burnout. I don't get it that much, but I do gain more interest in other things from time to time, and even leave my survival world for a while even though I am still interested in it (well, that's not quite burnout but still...). Have you seen my survival journal? Just curious since you said you've been reading some.
Good luck with this. You might find yourself postponing the next update for weeks at one point, and then updating like crazy because of how fun it is to do these journals and play in your world at another. Don't let it discourage you if you don't get much comments either.
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I'm definitely going to be following this. Nice house you got there.
I also tear down most of what I build before I'm satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, keep up the good work. Already looking forward to the next chapter.
here's the next entry! this was over the past few days, so forgive me if this entry is a bit pieced together.
well i started to strip-mine at some point and took some random screenshot i'm not going to put on here, but it involved me going into a cave. so there, i guess, but...
so i decided to make a pen for some cows so i could start having some leather. originally, i didn't want to make a cooped up farm building, because i felt like i was depriving the poor, innocent cows of their free space, but...
well, i didn't like it, needless to say, so i tore it down in favor for the farmhouse idea. i decided to plan it out in my creative world again beforehand.
hello friend!
anyway, i got onto building that barn and i really liked the design as it fit in with my other building. i'll have to take some better screenshots next time i play, but here's a simple one for now:
the original design had an entire, really large second story that i was going to use but i couldn't justify making some so grand just for storing wheat, because it certainly wasn't going to store any animals-- they need ground to walk on! so, i decided to keep it with a simple one story and a nice little roof courtyard sort of thing.
by the way, this still isn't done, mainly because of my impeccable procrastination. hey, those sinnoh region gym badges don't get themselves!
all of these were separate diamond veins, yes. i have a very efficient strip-mining method. i go three blocks in a 2x1 tunnel and on that third block dig into the tunnel's sides as far as i can. if i see any ore, i mine it, then i go another three blocks. this way, there's a large amount of possible ores revealed. i'm not smart enough to figure this out on my own, but i don't remember where it was from.
wow... what an odd place for a large oak to spawn. i thought there was a kerfuffle over whether these even spawned or not recently? oh well.
score! found me some chickens! after that, i led them perilo-- okay, it wasn't perilous, but i calmly led them back to the farmhouse to live.
fruits of my labor in building a farm to house cows to brutally murd... der....... i'm sorry, cows. oh, by the way, here's the other side of my little work area in my house. used for storing things, rather smartly, i might add. i winged this, and i liked it.
after this i needed a fitting place to put my improvement bench... so i readied plans to build a stronghold in the hill i took my temporary residence in. i spent an entire afternoon building a bridge...
what do you think? i don't know why, but i winged this bridge and i was scared it would turn out horrible and i would have to tear it all down and that would've been so taxing... but it turned out okay, i guess. looks sort of out of place, but when i build more around here, it'll fit better.
oh, here's some lava adjacent to some diamonds... as you might be able to surmise from my fresh new iron tools, i died in this. ironically, i died in it while i was mining out around these diamonds. i wasn't weary enough-- which i usually am specifically weary mining out diamonds-- and so i paid the price for it.
more diamond veins... i also ran into a cave and decided to go caving. also, here ends the diamond vein screenshots, those are going to get tiring for you guys. after running out of torches caving, i decided to get to more work on my stronghold. fleshed out some ideas in the creative world, and then began my work.
boom! looks really nice, and after that, i began digging out the inside and building that up. a little more strip mining and quite a little bit of coal and digging later, i managed to make a nice place for my improvement bench.
fortune II! that's okay, i guess, i'll mine the diamonds out with that. i'll show you guys the rest of the stronghold later on when it's more finished. until then...
I love the builds! I am very sensitive to "physics" in minecraft, like I build strong foundations, and I set certain weights to certain blocks. That bridge looks very unstable and top-heavy to me, like it could fall down in an earthquake or strong wind. But everything looks very nice! I need to start building in my world once I can figure out how to get minecraft to work again after I updated to windows 10.
I love the builds! I am very sensitive to "physics" in minecraft, like I build strong foundations, and I set certain weights to certain blocks. That bridge looks very unstable and top-heavy to me, like it could fall down in an earthquake or strong wind. But everything looks very nice! I need to start building in my world once I can figure out how to get minecraft to work again after I updated to windows 10.
so THAT'S why it looks so strange to me! thanks for pointing that out! i'm going to fix that, because that is what is bothering me about that design, wow, okay. i also really like the idea of structural physics and making things realistically stable, but i sort of sacrifice that for convenience's sake a lot of the times.
Great update! You won't need any more diamonds for awhile. My favorite build is your stronghold - the acacia wood was an excellent choice.
won't need any diamonds for a while? i'm just getting started, hehehhehehehheeh... thanks for the compliment, i have plans for this stronghold to be pretty cool-- i was a bit confused as to what actually gets PUT in a stronghold... so, i fleshed it out a bit, and now i'm a bit more focused on the designs and stuff.
here is the library(accessed from the hallway from the right gate):
the hallway where you can access the library or the staircase to the lower level(includes a prison cell for mobs):
the staircase to the lower level:
into the lower level hallway, from here the gate opposite the hill can be seen, staircase room to immediate left:
accessible from the aforementioned hallway is the nethergate room(unfinished, like most of the stronghold):
the fountain room, or hub. from here, two unfinished hallways, the previous hallway, and another staircase can be found:
the stairway:
the left gate, leads to the previous staircase:
that's it! i'll be working on this more later on, extending it deeper into the earth, as i've been a bit short on space in this hill and my rooms keep coming out of it.
okay, another update! i need to get better at screenshotting things, i'm sort of neglectful of that, heheh, but here's the next entry...
so first i did some enchanting in this update to prepare for a lot of exploration i was about to do.
after that, i decided to make a map and head out to explore what needed to be explored, which was a lot! for my own defense, of course, i got around to making a full iron set and a shield.
hold on a moment! i'm forgetting a few things! before i show you the fruits of my explorative labor...
hatched a little friend... sadly, no name tags, so he's sort of just wandering around outside as of now.
finished the barn! it's all finished finally, so it's out of the way. but now that i have the barn finished, i would need sheep, and this barn wasn't big enough, and i definitely couldn't just expand it, so i decided to make some sheep pens. but first, i'd need to find sheep. so, i needed to do a bit of exploring!
here's all the map i had to fill out. oh boy...
what's this? yep, i found a village. relatively close, too. this was when i was filling out the corners of the map, going south from my base. so, naturally, i went and took a look around and lo and behold...
well, i just think that might be a deal that works for me! y'know, you think with a skilled and able-bodied librarian who clearly has access to a lot of knowledgeable ancient tomes would help direct the construction of this town, but...
someone else must've handled that.... huh. anyway, after that quick detour i started down to the southern map corner and started heading east. night approached soon after.
isn't that just a pretty sight?
sheep! and a village! found this nice little town in the lower right corner of the map.
okay, maybe it wasn't so nice. did the same guy design all of these villages, or are-- no, couldn't be that villagers are just... really dumb? looking to my right, i discovered something else...
a dungeon! oh, wow, this is perfect, as i really needed to find one of those if i was going to get the exp needed for endgame enchants. score! this village just comes with all kinds of perks, doesn't it?
SERIOUSLY, WHO BUILT THIS???
i don't have a screenshot of the blacksmith's chest, but it was pretty much just boring stuff. some iron leggings and a little bit of iron. after this, i started out to finished up the edges of the map, but ran into an ocean. knew it was a good idea to bring those boats!
so i sailed along, eventually meeting up with the desert coast again. although this time there wasn't simply desert in front of me, but a desert temple! it was pretty exciting getting to explore my first desert temple in the world. especially considering the loot!
enchanted golden apple. wow, those aren't craftable anymore and they're really rare to get in loot chests, so you can imagine my amazement.
oh hey, what's that.... another desert temple? don't mind if i do.
wow, my inventory is just filled to the brim with good stuff at this point. and after that(while i was filling in the map innards)...
horses! tested them out and took one home with the saddle i just had obtained.
i(again) don't have a name tag, so this guy doesn't have a name yet. i don't know what i should name him. maybe i should make a poll. not a lot of people would vote, but might aswell, haha.
this is the only screenshot i got of my sheep pen this close up because i was dumb and didn't pay attention to the fact that i needed to be taking screenshots.
i built this sheep pen after i got finished exploring, and then built a little horse-access road to it.
added a new room to my stronghold. i don't know about the glass floor, honestly, but you can clearly see which direction is north. this is going to be the mapping room, which i don't really know what to do with aside from be decoration for my maps. maybe i'll use it to plan some builds and roads?
i decided to hop on my horse, head out and fill in a little bit of my map that wasn't filled in-- before making a new map and exploring that! yes, i got the exploration bug, and i still do. anyway, i finally had enough to get that silk touch book. score! after that i made a new map, and guess what?
this is just the mapping quadrant left of the previous one, and i realized i had traded all my paper so i didn't have enough and i was just filling in a little bit of the small version while i waited to get some sugarcane. so, this is relatively close to my base(that little river is the one between my stronghold hill and my desert house hill).
really? they were here all along??? so many sheep! ...so many... after that i finally got enough paper to size up my map enough.
another village! and with crops, this time! oh, and pumpkins.
oh wow, this is exciting. i really don't like jungles, but i have a respect for them after seeing what some people here on the forums have done with them. this was a really annoying jungle though because it's almost more like a marshland-hill jungle than anything.
i am on a roll, aren't i? i need to make some roads connecting all these villages and fix the villages up a little bit. also, sheep are just everywhere at this point. they're taunting me-- oh, donkeys too and WOW! i looking at this screenshot i only JUST noticed that there was a wolf right there. i wonder if i had any bones on me? lost my chance...
bit of a leap here but as you can see i filled out all of my map and here is a really annoying little hill that looks like you'll be able to go down the other side fine from the other side of it and then BOOM! fall straight off. happened to me and my horse more than once.
got my sheep.
decided to light the portal to secure the inside of the nether so i could start to make a passage-- specifically, a passage to that map corner with the dungeon. i need a dungeon if i ever expect to maximize my diamond yield with fortune III and get one of the most valuable enderdragon boss fight enchantments-- feather falling IV.
so after lighting my portal, here's the funny story. i was lagging a bit and i decided to back up out of the nether portal so i wouldn't instantly go back to the overworld or something, and i backed STRAIGHT off the edge of...
well, you can see what i backed off of. the edge of the other side of that portal, yeah. i landed on the netherrack below with HALF a heart, one block more and i would've been dead. i then mined through one of the pillars of the nether fortress to get back up to my portal, killing a blaze in the process.
by the way, portal spawned RIGHT next to a nether fortress! how convenient, am i right? sadly, this sort of makes my job of building around my portal a bit harder, as everything i'd be building would pretty much have to be floating or on really inconvenient stilts.
as you can see i headed down to the corner of the map so i could prepare that dungeon and then build another nether portal to find out where i would need to go in the nether to get here.
here's the double-chest loot! aren't dungeon double-chests rare? also, now i have to build a jukebox, don't i?
anyway, i don't have any more screenshots, but i built a nether portal and headed though it... and showed up at my base's portal in the nether. this disturbed me, to say the least, because i knew this was going to be a lot more complicated than i thought it would.
i went back through the portal to see where it would take me and it took me to a savanna field that conveniently was close to the back-entrance of my stronghold. in the end, i decided to light the other stronghold portal anyway, because might as well if chaos is breaking loose.
well, that's all, folks. now i have to go sort out this madness and build... a lot of things. i usually like building in the nether, but not if it's raised 23 blocks in the air...
Great big update! I always like the exploration part too. It's a shame you didn't notice that wolf until later, I'm sure he's long gone by now.
sometimes i just wonder why they decided it'd be a good idea to make wolves despawn if they've been loaded for more than 2 minutes.... i mean, all you need is a jungle and you have all the ocelots you could ever want, but wolves are a different story. you have to either leave immediately or carry bones with you always. ;n;
1.9 dungeo chests seem to be better. What's the name of your small texture pack?
it's a custom pack i put together. i'm one of jehovah's witnesses and i really did not like the whole "magic" aspect behind the enchantment table or the undead mobs or anything like that, so i made them something different-- ocul-archers and shroomans(essentially a mooshroom steve).
other than that i changed some textures to their older counterparts, brightened up the colormap to resemble alpha and make things less gloomy(which my friends really love), and you may notice some stone is different. i sort of bridged the gap between modern cobblestone and the older cobblestone by increasing its contrast, and i changed diorite to be less generally horrible. the word diorite reminds me of throwup.
lets see... zombie drops "mycelial rot" instead of rotten flesh, and wither skeletons are-- well, you'll see them. i'm trying to think of a good name for them.
sorry to ramble about it but i really like my little texture pack i've made for myself. of course, i can't make it into any official pack because it uses some of mojang's assets, but at least i can use it.
sorry to ramble about it but i really like my little texture pack i've made for myself. of course, i can't make it into any official pack because it uses some of mojang's assets, but at least i can use it.
a quick preamble;
so, it appears that i'm here. again. trying another survival journal. the main reason for this is because i realize i could actually probably stick with one with the advent of 1.9-- otherwise known as the first update in which i've defeated the ender dragon after having played since full release.
needless to say, i've been looking around the forums and being pretty much in awe over these nice, casual journals that have a lot done in them, so in between survival burn-out breaks, i'll be updating this journal. so, let the fun begin.
so here's the introduction of this journal, and we get a nice little vista to start us out. for some reason, the entire last entry was deleted by the forum. i think it's because i tried paragraph indents... the forum does not like good grammar.
hello friend! you have no idea how hard it was to get this screenshot; this little guy was everywhere.
anyway, i decided after chopping down a tree or two i'd go into the cave in the side of the hill i spawned on the side of. in this cave, i decided to make a temporary base until i could figure out some more aesthetically pleasing living arrangements.
unfortunately, some old college friends of mine found out i was taking residence there and decided to crash in my cave, but they just couldn't take a hint that i wanted them to leave, so i did what any reasonable person would do.
i burnt them. i'm not even old enough to go to college. who are these people.
after that i tidied up my cool cave abode and spent my first night digging down to make a strip mine. made some iron tools(had a little trouble with food, so i hunted down some piggles) gathered some resources, and started building...
okay, well, i have no idea where i was going with this building style. i like the orange and grey color scheme, although it needs something. in the end, i decided against this build after dying and decided to tear it down.
my inspiration came from the temple buildings and misc. ancient-looking theme of old gem architecture in steven universe. i was listening to steven universe as i played minecraft, so i thought it was fitting to take inspiration from it. i failed.
first diamonds! mined out five of em' so i would have enough for a diamond pick and an enchanting table.
in that second screenshot, by the way, i was digging out some andesite and managed to break out the other side of the hill my cave is in. there was a nice little clearing out here that i put a farm plot on, but i'll be building here later on.
i kept dying or nearly dying over and over in the process of building and tearing down and building and tearing down so i finally got enough string for a bed-- there appears to be no sheep in the vicinity. what a shame, what a shame...
fail build #zapdos. don't know what i was going for here, but it was a real pain to tear it down.
at this point, i decided that i would just go into my creative world and build something as a plan instead of winging it. sometimes you just have one of those days... or weeks. or years. the result was really good but i needed some wool for a still-unfinished part, so i went on a little bit of a venture.
i headed out west and ended up finding an odd floating tree and a plains. no sheep, though, although i did get a really good screenshot of a sunset i'm going to end this entry off with. now finally to the house...
out of my drive to get a nice build to show off to the forum i forgot i'm not playing survival to document it, i'm documenting me playing survival. so, i'll be getting to gathering all the endgame resources and etc., plus some more aesthetic-functional building.
until then though, i can be satisfied about this house-- it's really nice! as you can see in that last screenshot though, that top room is unfinished. i'm going to put a wool cover on it-- which, scientifically, should make the room cooler in the desert. it's going to be a sort of study.
anyway, that's all for now. i'll leave off on the aformentioned sunset screenshot and get to work on the next entry. maybe the forum won't eat up my journal this time?
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You're off to a good start - thumbs up. Thank you for showing your false starts, it's encouraging that I'm not the only one who seems to tear down just as often as build... and your final house design is inspired!
Looking forward to more installments like this one!
Your house is amazing! I really liked the trapdoor roof
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thanks! i spend a lot of time comparing my builds to builds in other journals and think "wow, i'm not nearly that good of a builder." so it means a lot when people compliment me, haha.
thanks! i really liked that, too-- i love using the new trapdoor mechanics, so finding things like that to use them on makes me incredibly happy.
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WOW! A DESERT HOUSE!
ahem.
This is a really good journal, written condensely but informatively. Good work! And good luck on your survival world!
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Interesting house. I know what you mean by survival burnout. I don't get it that much, but I do gain more interest in other things from time to time, and even leave my survival world for a while even though I am still interested in it (well, that's not quite burnout but still...). Have you seen my survival journal? Just curious since you said you've been reading some.
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I'm definitely going to be following this. Nice house you got there.
I also tear down most of what I build before I'm satisfied with how it looks. Anyway, keep up the good work. Already looking forward to the next chapter.
here's the next entry! this was over the past few days, so forgive me if this entry is a bit pieced together.
well i started to strip-mine at some point and took some random screenshot i'm not going to put on here, but it involved me going into a cave. so there, i guess, but...
so i decided to make a pen for some cows so i could start having some leather. originally, i didn't want to make a cooped up farm building, because i felt like i was depriving the poor, innocent cows of their free space, but...
well, i didn't like it, needless to say, so i tore it down in favor for the farmhouse idea. i decided to plan it out in my creative world again beforehand.
hello friend!
anyway, i got onto building that barn and i really liked the design as it fit in with my other building. i'll have to take some better screenshots next time i play, but here's a simple one for now:
the original design had an entire, really large second story that i was going to use but i couldn't justify making some so grand just for storing wheat, because it certainly wasn't going to store any animals-- they need ground to walk on! so, i decided to keep it with a simple one story and a nice little roof courtyard sort of thing.
by the way, this still isn't done, mainly because of my impeccable procrastination. hey, those sinnoh region gym badges don't get themselves!
all of these were separate diamond veins, yes. i have a very efficient strip-mining method. i go three blocks in a 2x1 tunnel and on that third block dig into the tunnel's sides as far as i can. if i see any ore, i mine it, then i go another three blocks. this way, there's a large amount of possible ores revealed. i'm not smart enough to figure this out on my own, but i don't remember where it was from.
wow... what an odd place for a large oak to spawn. i thought there was a kerfuffle over whether these even spawned or not recently? oh well.
score! found me some chickens! after that, i led them perilo-- okay, it wasn't perilous, but i calmly led them back to the farmhouse to live.
fruits of my labor in building a farm to house cows to brutally murd... der....... i'm sorry, cows. oh, by the way, here's the other side of my little work area in my house. used for storing things, rather smartly, i might add. i winged this, and i liked it.
after this i needed a fitting place to put my improvement bench... so i readied plans to build a stronghold in the hill i took my temporary residence in. i spent an entire afternoon building a bridge...
what do you think? i don't know why, but i winged this bridge and i was scared it would turn out horrible and i would have to tear it all down and that would've been so taxing... but it turned out okay, i guess. looks sort of out of place, but when i build more around here, it'll fit better.
oh, here's some lava adjacent to some diamonds... as you might be able to surmise from my fresh new iron tools, i died in this. ironically, i died in it while i was mining out around these diamonds. i wasn't weary enough-- which i usually am specifically weary mining out diamonds-- and so i paid the price for it.
more diamond veins... i also ran into a cave and decided to go caving. also, here ends the diamond vein screenshots, those are going to get tiring for you guys. after running out of torches caving, i decided to get to more work on my stronghold. fleshed out some ideas in the creative world, and then began my work.
boom! looks really nice, and after that, i began digging out the inside and building that up. a little more strip mining and quite a little bit of coal and digging later, i managed to make a nice place for my improvement bench.
fortune II! that's okay, i guess, i'll mine the diamonds out with that. i'll show you guys the rest of the stronghold later on when it's more finished. until then...
that's what i like to see. bye for now!
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Great idea of using the names of Hebrew letters!
Anyway, why did you put the diamonds spread into your inventory? (48 diamonds!) Good luck! (How lucky are you!)
Era 2 of my MCF time: "The Return"
the more diamond sprites to look at the merrier, i always say.
also, i was wondering if anyone would notice the hebrew letter thing. i've been watching too much vsauce...
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I love the builds! I am very sensitive to "physics" in minecraft, like I build strong foundations, and I set certain weights to certain blocks. That bridge looks very unstable and top-heavy to me, like it could fall down in an earthquake or strong wind. But everything looks very nice! I need to start building in my world once I can figure out how to get minecraft to work again after I updated to windows 10.
What am I supposed to put here again?
Great update! You won't need any more diamonds for awhile. My favorite build is your stronghold - the acacia wood was an excellent choice.
so THAT'S why it looks so strange to me! thanks for pointing that out! i'm going to fix that, because that is what is bothering me about that design, wow, okay. i also really like the idea of structural physics and making things realistically stable, but i sort of sacrifice that for convenience's sake a lot of the times.
won't need any diamonds for a while? i'm just getting started, hehehhehehehheeh... thanks for the compliment, i have plans for this stronghold to be pretty cool-- i was a bit confused as to what actually gets PUT in a stronghold... so, i fleshed it out a bit, and now i'm a bit more focused on the designs and stuff.
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small update on the stronghold
here is the library(accessed from the hallway from the right gate):
the hallway where you can access the library or the staircase to the lower level(includes a prison cell for mobs):
the staircase to the lower level:
into the lower level hallway, from here the gate opposite the hill can be seen, staircase room to immediate left:
accessible from the aforementioned hallway is the nethergate room(unfinished, like most of the stronghold):
the fountain room, or hub. from here, two unfinished hallways, the previous hallway, and another staircase can be found:
the stairway:
the left gate, leads to the previous staircase:
that's it! i'll be working on this more later on, extending it deeper into the earth, as i've been a bit short on space in this hill and my rooms keep coming out of it.
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okay, another update! i need to get better at screenshotting things, i'm sort of neglectful of that, heheh, but here's the next entry...
so first i did some enchanting in this update to prepare for a lot of exploration i was about to do.
after that, i decided to make a map and head out to explore what needed to be explored, which was a lot! for my own defense, of course, i got around to making a full iron set and a shield.
hold on a moment! i'm forgetting a few things! before i show you the fruits of my explorative labor...
hatched a little friend... sadly, no name tags, so he's sort of just wandering around outside as of now.
finished the barn! it's all finished finally, so it's out of the way. but now that i have the barn finished, i would need sheep, and this barn wasn't big enough, and i definitely couldn't just expand it, so i decided to make some sheep pens. but first, i'd need to find sheep. so, i needed to do a bit of exploring!
here's all the map i had to fill out. oh boy...
what's this? yep, i found a village. relatively close, too. this was when i was filling out the corners of the map, going south from my base. so, naturally, i went and took a look around and lo and behold...
well, i just think that might be a deal that works for me! y'know, you think with a skilled and able-bodied librarian who clearly has access to a lot of knowledgeable ancient tomes would help direct the construction of this town, but...
someone else must've handled that.... huh. anyway, after that quick detour i started down to the southern map corner and started heading east. night approached soon after.
isn't that just a pretty sight?
sheep! and a village! found this nice little town in the lower right corner of the map.
okay, maybe it wasn't so nice. did the same guy design all of these villages, or are-- no, couldn't be that villagers are just... really dumb? looking to my right, i discovered something else...
a dungeon! oh, wow, this is perfect, as i really needed to find one of those if i was going to get the exp needed for endgame enchants. score! this village just comes with all kinds of perks, doesn't it?
SERIOUSLY, WHO BUILT THIS???
i don't have a screenshot of the blacksmith's chest, but it was pretty much just boring stuff. some iron leggings and a little bit of iron. after this, i started out to finished up the edges of the map, but ran into an ocean. knew it was a good idea to bring those boats!
so i sailed along, eventually meeting up with the desert coast again. although this time there wasn't simply desert in front of me, but a desert temple! it was pretty exciting getting to explore my first desert temple in the world. especially considering the loot!
enchanted golden apple. wow, those aren't craftable anymore and they're really rare to get in loot chests, so you can imagine my amazement.
oh hey, what's that.... another desert temple? don't mind if i do.
wow, my inventory is just filled to the brim with good stuff at this point. and after that(while i was filling in the map innards)...
horses! tested them out and took one home with the saddle i just had obtained.
i(again) don't have a name tag, so this guy doesn't have a name yet. i don't know what i should name him. maybe i should make a poll. not a lot of people would vote, but might aswell, haha.
this is the only screenshot i got of my sheep pen this close up because i was dumb and didn't pay attention to the fact that i needed to be taking screenshots.
i built this sheep pen after i got finished exploring, and then built a little horse-access road to it.
added a new room to my stronghold. i don't know about the glass floor, honestly, but you can clearly see which direction is north. this is going to be the mapping room, which i don't really know what to do with aside from be decoration for my maps. maybe i'll use it to plan some builds and roads?
i decided to hop on my horse, head out and fill in a little bit of my map that wasn't filled in-- before making a new map and exploring that! yes, i got the exploration bug, and i still do. anyway, i finally had enough to get that silk touch book. score! after that i made a new map, and guess what?
this is just the mapping quadrant left of the previous one, and i realized i had traded all my paper so i didn't have enough and i was just filling in a little bit of the small version while i waited to get some sugarcane. so, this is relatively close to my base(that little river is the one between my stronghold hill and my desert house hill).
really? they were here all along??? so many sheep! ...so many... after that i finally got enough paper to size up my map enough.
another village! and with crops, this time! oh, and pumpkins.
oh wow, this is exciting. i really don't like jungles, but i have a respect for them after seeing what some people here on the forums have done with them. this was a really annoying jungle though because it's almost more like a marshland-hill jungle than anything.
i am on a roll, aren't i? i need to make some roads connecting all these villages and fix the villages up a little bit. also, sheep are just everywhere at this point. they're taunting me-- oh, donkeys too and WOW! i looking at this screenshot i only JUST noticed that there was a wolf right there. i wonder if i had any bones on me? lost my chance...
bit of a leap here but as you can see i filled out all of my map and here is a really annoying little hill that looks like you'll be able to go down the other side fine from the other side of it and then BOOM! fall straight off. happened to me and my horse more than once.
got my sheep.
decided to light the portal to secure the inside of the nether so i could start to make a passage-- specifically, a passage to that map corner with the dungeon. i need a dungeon if i ever expect to maximize my diamond yield with fortune III and get one of the most valuable enderdragon boss fight enchantments-- feather falling IV.
so after lighting my portal, here's the funny story. i was lagging a bit and i decided to back up out of the nether portal so i wouldn't instantly go back to the overworld or something, and i backed STRAIGHT off the edge of...
well, you can see what i backed off of. the edge of the other side of that portal, yeah. i landed on the netherrack below with HALF a heart, one block more and i would've been dead. i then mined through one of the pillars of the nether fortress to get back up to my portal, killing a blaze in the process.
by the way, portal spawned RIGHT next to a nether fortress! how convenient, am i right? sadly, this sort of makes my job of building around my portal a bit harder, as everything i'd be building would pretty much have to be floating or on really inconvenient stilts.
as you can see i headed down to the corner of the map so i could prepare that dungeon and then build another nether portal to find out where i would need to go in the nether to get here.
here's the double-chest loot! aren't dungeon double-chests rare? also, now i have to build a jukebox, don't i?
anyway, i don't have any more screenshots, but i built a nether portal and headed though it... and showed up at my base's portal in the nether. this disturbed me, to say the least, because i knew this was going to be a lot more complicated than i thought it would.
i went back through the portal to see where it would take me and it took me to a savanna field that conveniently was close to the back-entrance of my stronghold. in the end, i decided to light the other stronghold portal anyway, because might as well if chaos is breaking loose.
well, that's all, folks. now i have to go sort out this madness and build... a lot of things. i usually like building in the nether, but not if it's raised 23 blocks in the air...
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Great big update! I always like the exploration part too. It's a shame you didn't notice that wolf until later, I'm sure he's long gone by now.
sometimes i just wonder why they decided it'd be a good idea to make wolves despawn if they've been loaded for more than 2 minutes.... i mean, all you need is a jungle and you have all the ocelots you could ever want, but wolves are a different story. you have to either leave immediately or carry bones with you always. ;n;
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1.9 dungeo chests seem to be better. What's the name of your small texture pack?
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it's a custom pack i put together. i'm one of jehovah's witnesses and i really did not like the whole "magic" aspect behind the enchantment table or the undead mobs or anything like that, so i made them something different-- ocul-archers and shroomans(essentially a mooshroom steve).
other than that i changed some textures to their older counterparts, brightened up the colormap to resemble alpha and make things less gloomy(which my friends really love), and you may notice some stone is different. i sort of bridged the gap between modern cobblestone and the older cobblestone by increasing its contrast, and i changed diorite to be less generally horrible. the word diorite reminds me of throwup.
lets see... zombie drops "mycelial rot" instead of rotten flesh, and wither skeletons are-- well, you'll see them. i'm trying to think of a good name for them.
sorry to ramble about it but i really like my little texture pack i've made for myself. of course, i can't make it into any official pack because it uses some of mojang's assets, but at least i can use it.
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Can't you send them to us via PM, though?
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