Oho

I screwed up, and almost died.

Let me tell you something, witches have far too much range. I was exploring a ravine intersecting with a few other ravines. Sensing a chance to get a load of ores, I decided to go in and risk it. Taking the left ravine, I was walking when all of a sudden the FOV turned weird and I was walking a lot slower than usual. A witch had popped out from a cave under the ravine wall and poisoned me. Not the biggest problem given I have some decent armor, but I still nearly died.

It all comes down to me brain farting. I quickly ran to the parallel wall and dug myself into it and blocked the passage. I knew the witch couldn't get me because she was stuck in the other cave, but what I forgot was that they throw far and the potions can penetrate through walls.

I thought I was safe and proceeded to eat some mutton to regenerate and counter the poison. Then she threw a potion harming at me.That brought me down to three or so hearts, and the poison kept it at half until I regenerated. I kept on digging through the wall and eventually made my way back to the house. 

Floating Trees and Rotten Realms

 I would like to apologize for the cheesy title. I was filling out my map in my hardcore world when I happened upon this:

What the...

Yeah. I also made a quarry in the desert which I plan on using as a central mining hub and strip-mining from there at level 11, 12, or bedrock. Here are the pictures of the quarry, and of the renovated farms I forgot to include last post.

The quarry's workshop

The quarry from the top

The quarry hasn't produced much in terms of ores and other valuables, the only being a few dozen iron ores and about a stack of gravel for arrows. 

The chicken and wheat farm

Cow and sheep farm.

I didn't do the carrot/potato farm and the backyard tree farm because I think that that's unnecessary; I won't be doing any carrot collecting in the middle of the night and I can always sleep off the night and gather wood in the morning. My full set of diamond tools will be named Zievouu.

Realms: Someone decided to blow up half of what everyone's built in the server. Great. Hank restored it quickly, but it still startled me when I first saw everything full of holes and craters. Then, later, I fell into an underground lava lake. Dang. I lost my enchanted tools, armor, and worst of all, my bow, which had Infinity, Flame, and Power IV on it. I decided on a new course of action: I'll work on a set of really nice, enchanted tool and armor, and everything else will be plain, unenchanted things. I'll use iron tools for now and save my diamond ones for the final set, which i'm going to be calling Blaskaes.




Most advanced world: I got some more XP and added a few more enchantments to the chestplate and armor. This world is going slow. It's just at that point were everything is so mundane you start making extra-mundane potions and drinking them. But I'll surge through and get to the point where I have a full set of enchanted, diamond things (I'm calling this set Fraegaes.) and all I have to do is fight a few things.

House Renovations

 This isn't really a house renovation. Because I'm renovating my farms and not really my immediate house. 

I decided to add some glass around my farms so I can harvest and breed throughout the night. The glass should present a partial problem to get, but I have a desert next to me, so that should be fine. I'm planning on encasing a whole area of flat land behind my house for a tree farm so I can gather raw lumber at all times. I try not to go mining because it's dangerous in hardcore, so a steady supply of wood for charcoal would be good to have. Having wood for building is good. 

In other news, I found a survival Realms world in which other people are on as well. It's a delight to meet others and look at what they've built over time. 

His storage area

The guy that invited me to join is "sniperhank84." The world is a cool place, and it's quite technologically advanced in my opinion. I've never been one for redstone. Theres also another guy, "Cruspriki" or something like that. But his internet is bad and it's a pain for him to get on.

Villager trading place

It's always fun to see what other people have built in their own worlds (or Realms). Maybe I should start one.

Alpaca My Inventory

 I made some changes to my hardcore world. I finally found some diamonds, and braved real caving for it, not strip mining. I came back from exploring my world with a map and met some truly strange things. There was a mountain village that intersected with a plain, and right next to the village was a ravine. That led to a deeper ravine. That led to a mineshaft. I forgot to take a screenshot, but I may return someday to gather resources. And fight off poisonous 8-legged bits of code. Every time I happen upon a pack of wolves, I make a cobblestone beacon but I've found so many that I forget how many packs there are just in one map! This is a short post, so I'll post more tomorrow and get on with building some new things. 

Update on my advanced world: Endermen seem to be exceedingly rare, I only have 2 ender pearls after several nights of hunting. I also need to gather XP from my mob farm and enchant all my stuff. Then I'll be ready to go! I plan on taking on the wither first. Because I think it's a lot easier than traveling to a whole new dimension and battling something there.

Rest In Peace

 I took Kepler caving. Two creeper explosions, a skeleton and a zombie were not enough to stop my faithful companion. My iron sword however, was. Because of the new 1.9 combat mechanisms, swords can now do area damage. Guess what? Kepler was attacking a zombie and a skeleton while I was fending off two zombies in close quarters when I swung at the skeleton, and did area damage to the zombie, and Kepler. Ouch. I made a gravestone for him, but I plan on adding netherrack and light it on fire in the gravestone. Rest in piece, Kepler. I now have six wolves, Osiris, Teplowf, Audun, Ammon, Carson, and Hadohan. I've decided to strip mine for now and leave my wolves be, as I don't need another fallen friend. Once I have enough iron, I'll return to the surface and farm until I have sufficient food and resources to start exploring. But for now, I want charcoal. Lots of it. I'll chop down wood until I have about two stacks. Then I'll go exploring. 

Leader of the Pack

 I've gone ahead and made another hardcore world, and it's going well so far. I went into a desert nearby me, and I managed to find a village with an iron helmet, boots and chestplate, allowing me to finish my set of iron armor.  I finished a full set of iron armor, a shield, and some iron tools before even going caving, which is a nice touch. On the other hand, I got turned around during the night phase, and it took quite a bit to find my way back, but on the bright side, I did tame several wolves along the way. Just for vanity, I went into creative and gave them all name tags; it's not going to affect gameplay much, and it's not like I'm giving myself valuable things, because that just makes the game pointless. I gave my wolves the names of Kepler, Carson, Hadohan, Teplowf, Audun, Ammon, and Osiris. Carson is a character from a very obscure book, Hadohan and Teplowf are names I just made up, Osiris and Ammon are from Egyptian mythology, Audun is a Norse name meaning "affluent friend" and Kepler is a planet.  

Hadohan, one of my many wolves.

Also, I added a wheat farm, a cow farm, and even a sheep and chicken farm. After my brief excursion, into the village, I returned with half a stack of potatoes and some carrots which I made a special far for. I don't know what I'm going to do with all this, I guess the only farms I'm going to be using are the chicken farm, the cow farm, and the wheat farm. I guess my next step is to go mining, but I'm debating on whether or not to take wolves with me. I made lots of improvements to my house, switching all the cobblestone to wooden planks. This world is really nice, and I figure it's a great way to kickstart my hardcore mode adventure. For now, my goal in this world is to complete the game's linear objective of slaying the Ender Dragon and the Wither.

One-Day Misadventure

 I made a new hardcore world, and I had the luck (or maybe not) of spawning inside a forest. Further exploration revealed a large extreme hills area and about a chunk of swampland. It wasn't the best world, and the swamp was hilly, so I deleted it. On my second try, I spawned in a savanna. 

Things where looking up, as savannas are great for building and farming. I looked left, then this happened:

Seed: 3690999670376396222

A desert temple! This meant good stuff. If I could get to that temple, it means a temporary shelter, loot, and overall a good start! But I didn't keep track of the time, so in panic, I dug the three-block-underground emergency shelter. Making a furnace and smelting charcoal kept the light level okay until I made some torches to accompany me. The majority of the time was spent smelting and cooking stuff. All went well until I died. I made my house, a tower design with three floors and was getting ready to collect wood. I cut away the bottom block from me, and no fall damage ensued as I was only 2 block away. Unfortunately, there was a skeleton there. After slaying it, I was recovering and went out again. Once again, I found a skeleton in full gold armor that promptly slayed me. Here's the seed of the world, I'm off to start a new hardcore world, because I won't give up. 

Also, because of the new option to spectate after you die, you can use the open to LAN trick and go back to survival, essentially respawning. But of course, in accordance with hardcore mode, I won't and I'll delete the world. The loot of the temple is actually very valuable. It contains a golden apple, Silk touch and Flame I, with some iron horse armor and a saddle. Nice!

The Resurgence is Real

 I've mostly abandoned the blog for quite a bit, so I decided to return to it. An update on Minecraft: after having ground blaze rods in the nether, I scored myself some pretty sweet loot and 41 rods on my older world.

I love the new block, the Magma Block. I gathered a stack of them, hoping to surround my desert temple with them. It'll damage any mobs on it, plus it produces light. It's (in my opinion) more efficient than cacti, because the cacti can't be placed right next to each other and have to grow with water. I wound up getting lost in the nether and had to build a new portal back. On the way back, I did see two villages with no loot and one desert temple with some saddles, a golden apple, five emeralds, and some ingots. The seed is really quite a nice seed, with a desert temple, a village, an ocean monument, and a mushroom biome all relatively close to spawn. Although the mushroom biome is out at sea, it's quite close. 

My map, which I filled out a bit, I brought with me into the nether, but when I came back, the map glitched out and now doesn't work. I nevertheless, I shall forge on and craft a new map and continue on exploring. 

Search and Rescue

 Since the Mineshaft/Minecraft launcher and game has been acting up lately, I went through the old computer where my saves folder is and saved it to a USB. So now I can have my world anywhere, anytime.

Thaddeus is Gone

 Bad news: 

I quit the game whilst exploring with Thaddeus, but when I rejoined, he was gone. I shall erect a tombstone for Thaddeus and also get my saddle and horse armor back. Then I'll tame another horse.

The Mines

I went on a mining expedition with my horse Thaddeus and I collected quite a bit of iron and 4 gold ingots, all in the vicinity of a large abandoned mineshaft. When I saw the vein of gold next to a larger vein of coal, upon mining it, I went back up, so if I died, my lovely iron and gold would still be alive and in my chest.

I plan to go back there very soon to continue exploring the other caves branching off, and hopefully, find some diamonds.

The Search for Iron and More

I'm back at it again collecting iron and hopefully some diamonds on my newer world. Right now, luck with caves is minimal. The ravine I went into in the savanna only had 5 iron in total. I then went to a mesa, in which I recovered only 16 iron. I have enough for a full set of armor already, though I got kind of lost during the collecting.

The Savanna-jungle border.

I crafted some new tools and hunted cows till I had enough food for a while. I don't need to worry about preserving any animals now, except maybe the chicken for it's feathers. Though if I conserve enough arrows until I can get an Infinity enchantment, the chickens I won't need. I'll only need 31 diamonds for now so I can get a diamond pick and a diamond axe, as well as an enchantment table and a full set of armor. Next thing I'll craft is shield. When I set off, I really should've mined near the village until I could get a map.

I need one of those.

I soon ended up pretty successful, with 2 and a half stacks of coal and pretty much 1 hole stack of iron. I would've mined more, but after that, I decided my house of choice would be house on stilts with a nice large balcony.

I'm starting work on a small artificial pond to farm sugar cane and for decoration. As well as this and collecting diamonds, gold, lapis lazuli and redstone, I need to build my house and another barn to house the farm animals.

My very own Walden's Pond, sponsored by Minecraft.

Anyways, I will see you next blog post.

And we're back from the Nether

I've decided to write about my adventures (if you could call them that) in Minecraft on this blog. It will hopefully be a good exercise in writing stuff, and I find it fun anyways.

So today what I did was I imported saves from my older computer to this new one, and I started playing my most advanced survival world so far, and the only thing that greatly annoys me is that I played maybe around 90% of this world on 1.8.8. Great. So I already have full diamond and everything, but instead of a diamond axe, which I want as my main weapon since 1.9 came out, I have a Sharpness V (I'm planning to add more enchants) diamond sword. Awesome sword, but I want an axe. So here's some pics of my world:

The Nether. Bum bum bum!

Brewing Area and nether wart farm.

Enchantment area and mob farm.

The Farming Plains

Living quarters of the Desert temple house

So, off I'm going to go to mine some diamonds for me lurvely axe.