Minecart Rolls

If nothing else, I’ll post where else to find me there if anyone wants to keep in touch once I figure that out.

Anyway, I may be going on hiatus for a bit. I might crosspost some things over to here that are tangentially related to minecraft, I kinda want to make both a voxel model and one in Blender of my own minecraft skin for example.

Update: Okay, the actual update is pretty much just this. I’ve removed the platform and I’m building the tree up. I would’ve had more to update on, except when I got done with what I’m about to add in below this, the laptop decided to give me trouble every time I tried actually getting on minecraft.

But now on to the fun stuff. Halloween!

I’m working on some slight decorations for halloween. Probably won’t be more than jack o’lanterns and these scarecrows with some leather armor and carved pumpkins, but we’ll see.

I’ve also updated my skin with a halloween version.Black dress, gray/black case with orange buttons, orange bow, cracked screen, bent and broken antennae (not visible), and some orange and black striped stockings.

Update: Kind of a small update despite the amount of work I’ve actually done.

This is (part of) something I want to work on in my survival world, ultimately, though I may opt for more white concrete or other materials rather than building the whole thing out of quartz. This is why I’m going to need a nether portal.

BUT, this is a project that’s probably going to go for a while even once I’ve gotten started on it, I’m not about to jump right into it now and try to finish it immediately by any means, and this building I’ve started here is only part of what I have planned as part of this project, albeit a large part.

Update: I had a bit of an epiphany as I was trying to work out where to put the stairwell up to the second floor. I’ve decided I’m going to build a spiral staircase up through the center to another living area up at the top. I’m going to encase the stairwell in logs, probably remove that second platform there, and build it up into a large tree with sheared leaves all over around the top section. So, a tree house with a different house around its base.

While I’m here, I wanna mention a small detail I keep leaving out, which is world type. I’ll put it under a read more though so this doesn’t get super long for no good reason.

Update: Minecraft base progress. I put up the acacia and I liked it so much just from what little I had put up that I decided to keep going with it. It goes well with the gray blocks I’d already been using, which I suspect is cause the bark on it is gray as well, so I don’t know if anyone else would agree but I like it and I think I’m gonna keep it.

There are some odd dirt blocks stuck on the walls because I’m waiting for the grass to spread so I can do flower boxes, though I think I’m going to remove the ones on either side of the front door because looking at this now, I don’t think that’s going to look so good with the railing right there.and I already have those raised sections I’m going to turn into gardens anyway.

You can’t really tell from this but I need to go do another session collecting spruce so I can actually finish the literal second floor, though I’m still not 100% on how I’m going to arrange and decorate the first floor, I may just leave it as sort of an open room instead of sectioning it off though, but once I’ve decided on that I’ll make a stairway up to the next floor and build up the upper walls etc.

And, last but not least:

Update: Not too many screenshots today. I tamed a horse, I don’t know much about horses in this game but this one seems pretty well rounded as far as speed and jump goes. Haven’t thought of a name for this one yet, though I don’t have a nametag so it would be more hypothetical anyway.

Since I now have a horse I decided to go explore again, came across a desert which made me go looking for a temple. Instead I found 3 more villages, 2 desert and 1 savanna (and a bunch of desert wells,) a couple of the villages had blacksmiths so I got a few more bits of armor and iron. I grabbed the coordinates for those, but any time I got off my horse it started steadily wandering off in the same direction (I think back towards base?) so I didn’t grab more uploadable screenshots in favor of keeping track of the horse and keeping moving to try and find other things.

While I was in the savanna I grabbed some acacia logs and some saplings, and I’m toying with the idea of making the walls of my base out of acacia. Tomorrow I’ll toss some of those up on the walls and see how it looks with everything else.

Update: I’ve started more serious work on my base. I have the main floors in place, as well as the front and back entrances. Right now the bed and everything in the main room is just there to use, I’ll move them once I build up the rest of the base.

Off the side is what will be a railway station,  which lines up with a bridge across the river, with a branch that will go off to a second bridge in the direction of the village and dungeon.. I’m not going to make either of these level with the one at my base on the y axis, I’m just going to go over land and bridge or tunnel where I really need to.

For my vertical farm, on top of going upward I’m going to build one or two more towers for other crops. My cow farm is working fine, and now I’m farming melons and pumpkins.

Now I chose this location as I mentioned because it’s a less than stellar looking little spot surrounded by some pretty great scenery, but I just learned something great about this spot. While I was trying to figure out where the very close sounding zombies and endermen I was hearing were at precisely I found a cave entrance just 2 layers below the surface.

Once I cleared out the immediate entrance I covered it up and marked it with some rose bushes.

My enderfriend has disappeared since I found this, but if I go deeper into the cave it’s actually connected to a larger cave system, I think the same one I started exploring from a different entrance.

And on top of this it turns out I actually built my base just over...

A ravine! I haven’t gone and explored this all yet, but having this all accessible literally like a few blocks from my front door makes things a lot easier.

Update: More on my new survival world. First, just some more scenery. The last set I think is near my base, the first is a little way away but I thought it was more interesting and looked nicer so it goes on top.

I found that on my way out to explore a bit, and my exploration has gone pretty well.

We have pumpkin.

Horses (plenty of them, I found quite a few more but these are closest to the base.)

And a village!

Along the way I mined up a little over a stack of iron and this village had a blacksmith where I got a helmet and a saddle, which is great obviously since I’m near some horses.

But most importantly honestly in the long run, I found a dungeon near this village.

This is actually the first dungeon I’ve found in survival in a LONG time. I hadn’t found any in my previous world, I actually think the last time I found a dungeon was even before the full release maybe? I don’t remember exactly, I was playing with friends I haven’t spoken to in ages.

I do intend to turn this one into a farm in the future, the only downside is that it’s so far away from my base, but especially since there’s a village nearby I’m going to build a rail to here in the future anyway.

From those chests I got some horse armor, coal, redstone, melon seeds, gold bars, two of the same record, and some gunpowder (on top of what I’ve gotten from creepers.)

Update: Until I get my original survival world sorted out, I’ve decided to start a new one. Here are some screenshots from it, in no particular order of just some of the bits of landscape around where my base is that I found interesting, as well as the farms I’m working on.

I have a tower farm I’m building up, I’ll decorate that more once I actually get things planted in it, right now the first level is less than half covered with wheat. There’s a sugar cane farm that I’ve already prepared for automation once I get more resources so that I can actually do the pistons and everything. And there’s a cow farm that I’ve built up from just two cows which has been slow going since my wheat farm isn’t exactly producing a ton of wheat yet, but I took what I learned in the previous world and did it better.

I’ve done just a little bit of terraforming mostly around the farms in this area, which I chose because it was mostly flat and didn’t look especially good compared to what’s around it so I didn’t mind removing bits of it, What I’m not showing right now is my actual house, which I’m not showing because it’s currently just a glorified piece of wood with a bed on it.

That’s not a big deal, it’s frustrating but it happens all the time. However this time, when I went to get back on to my survival world, it crashed again. I kept trying and looked up the info it gave me when it crashed and from what I can gather I’m now stuck in or near a corrupted chunk. So, I’m not going to be on that survival world until I can fix that.