Amendment

I accidentally left one world out of the list in last post, the 1.9.5 world in the side of the mountain that I started. 


This post will actually come late, as, I went on the world - just to take a few screen-shots, and ended up continuing to look for wool, exploring, and building the new location for the farms. (Or rather digging out the areas.) If you look out the exterior shot in this first picture, around by the bamboo/reeds, you can just see the glass panes towards the bottom of the mountain near the water:

This long rectangular room is the new home for my wheat farm instead of on top of the mountain. On the other side of the wheat farm, inside, is a small room for cultivating mushrooms. Still haven't worked out the perfect lighting/non-lighting setting for red mushrooms. And yes, I did add that balcony! Still early days for this place though.


Here are the rest of the less interesting shots:

One of the views from the balcony:

In my StrongHolm world, I finally went back to the nether and successfully got the last 9 blaze powder I need to make the eyes of Ender, I actually got 10 blaze dust. Now I just need the Ender pearls, and so far I already have 4 out of the 9 left I need! Just 5 to go! Then I can go to the End legit! (Once I make sure I have plenty of food, armour, health, arrows etc.) I will probablyi go Enderman hunting tonight after this post now I think about it!

So, until the end! *Insert funny Enderman noise*

All My Eggs In One Basket

It seems like forever I've been thinking about this post and been meaning to post it, but I just haven't been playing Minecraft as much lately. What the title means however is that, in previous posts I've mentioned other world projects in "Really should finish", so that's what I've decided to do. All the ones I want to work on I have put back, in my main saves folder. So I will be working on:

World#2

Even though it turns out I didn't actually need it, I went through the Nether to the other side of the world where the snow biome is and collected snow as I can no longer make Snow Golems. (Run out of pumpkins and it's an old Alpha world I've traveled lots on, so finding any would be extremely hard.) During my visit through the Nether I also used the F6 camera key, accidently left in pre-release 5, to get alot of Glowstone again! I came back with about 2 & 1/2 stacks. I've used this to light up the inside of the apartment blocks better, already I've got just under one stack left already...

I also finished the kitchens in the apartments, the ceilings are still taking there time due to getting wool - might have to kill some in my farm and breed more. Added to that I finally built a little brick wall to the left of the ground floor outside with a door as means of a private access to the gardens out the back. (To which I made a raised creeper face and covered it with wildgrass, may be changed to lime wool blocks?)

Other news includes a minecart system, going from the outside of my home, across the sea (Parrallel to the cobble bridge), then panning right by the church across the low mountains to Mount DOOOOooooom(!) and then across more water eventually to my Multiplayer house, shrine. This will take alot of Iron however, and as it's legit could take a while. So far I've got as far as the church. Ironically not long before pre-release 6 Single Player Commands came out for pre-release 5, so good to have waypoints back for a while. Point is, whilst re-doing the waypoints, I found about 12 pumpkins in a chest in my multiplayer house! Typical! Maybe I should create a show building somewhere just to house the snow golems - as a snow factory?

World#3

Seed: -8699413280684753954

As you can see, I chopped all the trees around the inside of the fence down as, at the time, the glass panes connected to leave blocks. (now fixed). This is the first recent picture I've taken of the place. The Storage area now resembles the same type design as in World#2, and all main windows with glass blocks have been converted into glass panes. The toilet now has a cauldron basin, but right now there is a natural stair case down by the shower that runs from outside, I am trying to get the grass to grow to the underneath of the storage area. It was a natural pool of water but will become the new mushroom farm, once the grass grows. over it completely.

Allbases World
(Seed: 1444376966):

Been doing alot to this one lately. I have almost completely changed the floor now to clay, just a little short on clay now, and built a stairway going up to the next level! Looks like it will be a two-story house after all! The bottom floor being an open kitchen & living room, upstairs, bedroom with on-suite bathroom? You'll also notice I've started putting a ceiling up already to protect from the elements:

I also added a layer of dirt underneath the clay where there was nothing - all the way to the sea floor, using SPC (just before pre-release 6 came out). So now if I was to take up any part of the floor, at least there's a layer of dirt underneath and I won't fall into the ocean. I also started a small farm.

Right now the objective is to complete the wheat farm and mainly, to hunt for wool during the day to finish the ceiling. Then I can carry on upstairs.

And finally, my StongHolm world (pre-release 4)

Seed: -2078626567

Not too much to report here so far. After losing all that blaze powder, I am on a quest to the nether again. I need about 9 blaze powder and 9 Ender pearls for the last Eyes of Ender and my great quest to The End. So far I have 4 blaze powder and just One Ender pearl. Especially now as we have 1.9 pre-release 6 and a proper end with slaying an Ender dragon and end credits. And like everything it'll be legit. I could just go into creative and do it, but it'll be more rewarding for me to do it legit. After I do this I will concentrate in turning the stronghold into a strong- home..

With all this to do, I hope this is me getting back on track with posting. Especially with worlds I want to finish.

And hey, if I get another person who follows this blog, making an even 10, I'l release my old world - World#2 as a download at last! (In whatever state it's in at the time.)

Something to keep in mind!

So Much For StrongHolm

Guys, (And gals), I'm not sure if I'm going to continue building a home in a stronghold - it's getting kinda boring trying to reach the end. Also, after accidentally travelling to the End that time on my old main world, it kinda took the point out of it. (Although there is ore-release 5 now) One nail in the coffin was losing by Blaze Rod powder. I was outside trying to fight Enderman, in the sand near by my home, and, I died. Not by the Enderman, I had a creeper on me too, and it was him that got me. I lost the blaze rod powder. I went straight back out, literally back up the stairs and out into the sand, and I just could not find my stuff! I wasn't that far from my house but I absolutely could not find it. This means going to the nether, which I did to get more blaze rod powder, but the stairs I had dug up to get higher up to get to the stronghold were covered in lava - flowing all down the stairs! I don't know what the hell happened there.


In the mean time I tried to start a new 1.9 pre-release 5 world, and I came across this area not far from spawn:

A mountain with that many holes in it was begging to be asked to converted to a home. I already have ideas. That big hole in the mountain - round the back, the one that looks very door shaped, I could have a dock at the bottom - but in the middle a long sky bridge connecting to that other mountain across the water round the back, the one with the oval hole in the middle. (Picture 3). As there's no lava or waterfalls, I want it to be very different this time, there will be no sandstone outside or cobble, no sandstone corridors inside. I was thinking maybe making it ultra-modern this time? Wool or snow for white outer walls? I think it's a good sign when I spent a couple of hours clearing areas and using the dirt too shape initial rooms, and didn't even notice how much time had passed:

Already you can see dirt stairs going up the right side of the mountain, these will be changed of course.

There's a door hole at the end of this newly patched up wall, leading to:

The upstairs room also has an "off-area" where I just dug some twisty-steps down into what led to a cave. After dying once, I got some Iron ore from a cave to make a bucket and have made a temporary farm at the very top of the mountain where it's mostly flat. Just for now, to keep some health, It may be moved elsewhere eventually. In the bigger lower room that looks out of the mountain, i will add a balcony I think. Already having this many ideas, doing this amount of work so far and not noticing the time is a very good sign.

Also! near the spawn point, which I never noticed initially is a ravine! I have also found two dungeons already! The other day I found a dungeon and actually got coca beans for the first ever time! The first dungeon is a skeleton dungeon and near the surface too! I'll keep the spawner for constant bones.

Literally, here is the hole:

If I turn 360, you can see the my mountain from the opposite direction:

And just inside the opening of the cave is the dungeon:

The other dungeon is inside the mountain itself where I dug down to the cave, that one is only a zombie dungeon, don't really think it's worth keeping the spawner as they only drop rotten flesh. need to explore the whole of that cave more anyway. Was really pleased about finding two dungeons already though.

Still need to finish the apartments on my former main world world2, but need more wool, more snow. No point getting snow because now I've run out of pumpkins for the Snow Golems. Unless I just get all snow from that other chunk (Via a portal in the Nether) - but that's a long process. For the arial shots of this new world I used the new F6 key assignment to float in the air. so whilst in world two I used it and found an old portal a long way from the others I'd forgotten about. It comes out in a new chunk! There's vines on trees so that's good. You can lower yourself in mid-air with F6, but you have to be very quick because you will for. Just wish there was a way to go up, as I need more Glowstone. Especially as I started removing the lamps in the front room because the fences connect to blocks now. They also looked weird when moved one block forward in the front room.

I don't know if I'll eve continue that dock-esq home called "Waterworld", but I really should finish that other big home on this world:

So that's all the news, let me know what you think, it'd be nice to hear some input. =)

Kidnapped - by Enderman!

So StrongHolm is coming along nicely, so far I've got 3 out of the 12 Ender pearls I need to make 12 eyes of ender and travel to the End. I have however, been doing a few other things. I actually picked up my 3rd world with the house I planned in photoshop. I started making changes in 1.8, but the other day I picked it up again and started making more update changes like replacing the piston gates with proper gates and slowly I'm replacing the glass block windows with panes. I might continue to work on it and see how I can improve it, no promises though!


The last couple of night I started working solidly again on my apartment complex on world2, my former main world. I started adding kitchens to each apartment and doing the ceilings and last night I was on a mission to get ALL the glass done so the holes on the walls could be sealed up without the temporary dirt. I've also re-floored the ground floor hallway, added a postal lockers and outside, removed the initial border for what was going to be the pool and filled it in. So without further a do, here is how it currently looks:

The old former reception that looked like this:

Is now a ground floor apartment:

Other floors:

A strange thing happened to me last night however. I was about to go into a chest and I must've right-clicked with my enchanted  sword, and  um... Somehow I teleported to the End! It must be a glitch. I started to come over with fear, not because of being there, but because I had all my stuff on me. I knew the only way out was to die, and I had an enchanted diamond sword and a chest plate and leg armour that were both enchanted. I didn't want to loose all this stuff.. :-/

I took this pick right after I gave myself stuff to make a portal, because, I couldn't think of any other way out than killing myself. As it stands portals do not work in the End. So that was me screwed. I took this picture so that I could give myself back exactly what I had on me, which I wasn't happy about doing, but I don't think it's fair to lose it after being teleported by a glitch. When I got back I initially gave myself to a diamond sword thinking "Maybe it's because it was the sword was enchanted? A normal diamond sword surely wouldn't do it... would it? So I swung my sword (right click) and....

It still did it. So now I can't use a diamond sword. *Frown face* I could give myself the stuff back, which I did, but I would still lose the enchanted sword. and enchanted armor. I've not made a diamond sword since, and it is just a diamond sword because, an iron sword doesn't do it. I was a little mad at being teleported there, I wouldn't have minded if I didn't have much on me, but I was in the middle of doing work on my apartments, so naturally I had a fair bit of stuff on me.

i think I want to keep plugging away on the apartments right now and finish the ceilings (or run out of wool) and keep adding the kitchens and bathrooms to each floor. Still need to skylight the roof over the top floor apartment. (It has it's own ceiling but then their's the apartment block's log roof.) I also need to think about the surrounding back area of the apartments. I've slowly been digging up the stone and replacing it with dirt so it'll all be grassed over and look nice. Time to save this and get ready for work however..

The Quest - To The End!

Until today i was looking around for the portal to the end that I found in the first attempt at making this stronghold a home, but I couldn't find it. Today however I went into one of the many caves that lead of the stronghold, and saw lava drips from a ceiling, which meant it must of been it!  I had to dig my way in but it's there! I can't find an alternative route from the stairs down to it, but coming up through the floor isn't a problem as it's not far away from said stairs anyway. (I was hoping to find a corridor way round). Signs have been placed too.


i have officially named the world Strongholm. It may be a homage to Stonehold from the Yogscast that was inadvertently stuck in the back of my head, but it is a stronghold, so instead of Stoneholm - it's Strongholm!


Already, I have found somewhere near my staircase to dig out and make a living area. Once going down the flight of steps from the surface, into the stronghold, there is then another set of steps to go down , and this is where I will set up my home. So here, at last(!) are some screenshots:

On the surface entrance.

This is where the stairs go, from both directions:

Then down another flight of steps to this wide open space. (Dug out):

This area, will be my home. The gap between the two chests, (The 2nd picture of the stronghold) leads to a long corridor:

To this area:

L - R: Goes to a ravine, the farms, and on the right the unsigned door back to the main entrance to the stronghold.

The cobbled wall leading towards the drippy lava ceiling and, the End portal..

Farms:

A former jail now serves as a mushroom farm

Through the cobbled wall to the End portal..

So, the plan is: Make a diamond pick with the only 3 diamonds I have (done), mine obsidian, make a portal, to find a nether stronghold (Or whatever they are), to get blaze powder from blaze rods, to make an Ender eye, make 12 Ender eye(!) to fix the portal and travel to the End!

More progress to come!