World Holes, Orgre Holes, & Library News!

 
An unusual thing happened when I loaded up my main world - two strange world holes. Or at least two very large holes. In retrospect - maybe it was the work of an ogre given there was a bottom to these holes. Thankfully they are away from the house on the beach, although they took come cacti away. Due to this unnatural event, which I thought was a world hole, I did change gamemode to fill the holes. I thought it was only right as it was something out of my hands and would take infinite amounts of sand to fill. Something else did happen with ogres though, and it wasn't good!

 

 

Before the carnage:

 

I was inside my house and I could hear the sounds of an ogre near by, but as I ran around - desperate to find and stop it it was absolutely nowhere to be found! Later at the rear of my mountain home (Home embedded in a mountain) I found the damage, a huge gaping hole where my back entrance to my home used to be (Just a door left); and the viewing area/room was completely destroyed too!

As I went to get some materials for a quick patch up job i found another huge hole on the landing that led down to storage.. Alot of the grey wool walls were smashed, the ceiling, some glass, and being next to the dining room - on the other side of the wall, he had been in there too.. As I looked up I found where he had spawned, apparently there was a big hole above the ceiling of said landing and that's where he was, not sure what happened with the back entrance. I went into the dining room and he had smashed a dividing wall from said room to the future kitchen.

After the patch up:

 

Back entrance after the patch up:

 

Some pictures I didn't take I was too dismayed and couldn't bring myself to take them. There is good new though! Remember I was going to change the art gallery to the library? Well I think I've finally committed to starting it! Last time I showed you it I had gutted the existing walls and put coloured wool where the glass would be:

 

 

The other day I gathered the wood I needed, 3 different types + dark logs for this job, and began work! At first putting all the glass in then slowly getting rid of the cobble at last and changing it to an old fashioned old library!:

 

I've made a good start! I should also mention that a good while back I did customize the paintings for this painterly texture pack. I kept a few of the Monet paintings but replaced most with ones of Turner - my favorite painter. Anywho, expect updates now on this project!

As of this post, the back entrance has been restored to it's former glory, the landing down to storage and the dining room have all been fixed. The viewing room (With the water window), is currently being restored slowly.

 

Return To Alpha #6 Coming Soon!

So I finally recorded some more of my Return To Alpha Series after a long gap, and I recorded a long two hour session so that should make for two further episodes. I was meant to record on Saturday but I forgot and then in the evening I was falling asleep as I watched the film Looper. It's not a statement about the film though, I did enjoy it - thought it was good. not amazing but a good film and I really really like the premise of the story. I didn't fall asleep for long though so I didn't miss too much.

So yeah, I recorded very early in the morning on Sunday and will be editing episode #6 tonight and hopefully will get it up for the next day - Monday, Tuesday latest. In the meantime, here's a recap with the last episode, Episode #5:

Return to Alpha is a series where I explore the old Alpha days again, building a home and how different things were way back when. This is not because I hate newer versions, as I always play in 1.4.7 and enjoy the updates; but more of a retrospective series. I use hindsight using influences on how my building style has changed, taking knowledge I have gained over the past 2 years playing Minecraft, doing things with more skill and understanding that I diddn't have back in Alpha 2 years ago.

The HUGE 2 Month Gap Post!

Apologies for not posting in the last two months, hopefully this one will thrust me back into the swing of things! Unfortunately I had a lot going on in real-life in December, and I only had 1 draft ready to post in January; too much real-life stuff going on. So although I've only been playing very off/on here's what I've been up to!



In December I was on my creative version of world#2, and I was thinking about moving my Nether portal. (Not the first time I've had this idea.) Since the Snow Golem farm fail down by my mob area, I had been thinking about using the room for a different area. So on this tester world, I built  a lead up to the Nether portal in the next room, which is a long walk-way of nether -brick surrounded by flaming netherrack. A long walkway up to some netherbrick stairs and the portal is just round the corner, it's a much better area. and I think I come out somewhere different  in the nether, not far from where it was but slightly different.

When I went through, I was not expecting this:

 

Since when did bats spawn in the Nether?! My original theory was they spawned in the cave and went through, but as it was rebuilt there wouldn't have been time for that many to go through.. (Unless it was in the time up to that?) They definitely were not there last time I went to the Nether!! POST UPDATE: Since I made the draft for this post i have decided to place it in another location, even further so I get a bit of a different spawn in the Nether.

Phase #1 of the underwater tunnel was almost completed before the new year. The initial glass tunnel is all done, all I have to do now is a bit of decorating and laying down the rest of the rails. Phase #2 has begun which sees the tunnel continue underground from the church all the way round to Mount DOOOOoooom(!) and beyond.

This is not THE big news though.

I have now decided I need to up my game and have installed Mo'creatures for constant use in all worlds.

One good thing is I can turn Enderman down to 0 frequency, they may be easy to kill but they have always p***ed me off with their block stealing. In it's place though, there will be things like the undead horse mobs, ogres, werewolves, wraiths and plenty more to make up for it. It does mean I also have to be a lot more careful in my worlds now! No matter what hard level I play on! I've already had to do a couple of repairs. The last thing I want is an ogre smashing up my place, I might legit cry if that happened. I'll probably have to wait for 1.5 before I can update again, but so be it. I'll look forward to that as I will be resetting my Nether - again, (4th time?) so I can get the new Nether with the Nether Quartz - which I love! Already on my creative copy of this world I have transformed my bathroom into a marble haven!

Speaking of the marble/Nether Quartz, I also experimented in the creative copy with the new blocks related to this new ore and the daylight sensors to create a light that comes on when it turns night time. I created two versions, the standard version:

The second version is little a "Little Man", I call it the Ayatollah:

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Surprisingly I have picked this world back up recently as well. Not a great deal has changed on the inside, but I do now have a minuscule carrot farm after obtaining one from a zombie. On the outside however, I have create a multi-storey animal farm with sheep, pigs, chickens and at the top, cows.

Today, now that I use Mo' creatures I did have the bunnies in place of where the sheep were, but after the initial few, I had nowhere to put them. This is why they ended up in with the sheep. Trouble was there were little window slots and they kept escaping so I had to border them up until I could replace them with glass! Then, every time I put one back, two more would escape! Every time I went to put one or two in, a few would come towards the gate, in the process I was so concerned for the rabbits; (All named after Watership Down characters) that all the sheep escaped! In the end I let them all run free because it was too much hassle getting them to stayin there. So that's why there are fewer sheep in there. Also a wolf spawned in there before all that and ate some before I killed him.

There's probably load more news, but I wanted to get something up; something posted today. Hopefully more news soon.