Future Ideas (I)

After I hit 7 years in this world, which I believe is on day 2555 (Currently on 2233), there is the question of future projects as well as the ongoing stuff already. So I have a few ideas, but not much so far.

For one, ever since I made the swimming pool in Beta, there has been this ugly diving board:

Slab platforms attached to a snow pole? Basic doesn't even cover it. There is the potential to make a proper olympic/training platform in it's place but there are conditions. For one, I would have to move the back wall behind it further back and create a nook corner, not a problem however. The current platform just looks so - rubbish.

I have also considered removing the fake tennis court as well in favour of a more garden-y area with patrhways?..

The other project - or should I say problem, is the size of the entrance for the under-water minecart tunnel:

Originally this place was meant to be the aquarium but changed into the waiting room for when you take the minecart ride. It's just too big and I'm looking to cut it in half. The proposal is to cut into the wall where I'm looking in picture #2, a few blocks away from the glass wall. With stairs going up this would lead me into the water just outside the villager farm. I'd want to have a glass docking platform, very modern, as if floating on the water, complete with glass tunnel, to lead onto the stairs.

It would mean the only way in from then on would be to leave the home outside via the back, down the stairs to the platform but it's a comprimise.

Hopefully there will be some more ideas, hence this post title ending in (I), but I will keep you all updated as that's all I have for now.

So this is me now...

One post a year on this blog - apparently, or at least that's what happens everytime I go to say "The blog is coming back!!!111".

As I sit here on a rainy Monday morning here in the UK with a week off work for holiday, I am about to open up and play a little Minecraft for a while. It gets me thinking about this place, this blog and my worlds, particularly my main world which will be almost 7 years old soon! At this point I have played Minecraft for 7 years, the longest I've ever played any computer/console game - ever and it blows my mind that I'm still playing this main world 7 years on.

Autumn currently:

So much has changed in this world that it would be impossible to cover them all, this post would be huge otherwise. So I'll just cover a few main features, before I do that however; I'm currently working on a secret mini-project for the 7th anniversary. Something I've never ventured into before. Earlier in the year on a seperate creative world I made a 3D chibi of my Minecraft skin - but just the head. I decided to impliment this for my 7th anniversary of my main world, which says something as it's a functional world - you won't find minecart rollercosters or pixel art everywhere, it's not that kind of world and never has been.

The other month I re-designed it however in a creative copy of my world, to make it look less rubbish and more detailed, the result is a lot more accurate to the actual Transformer toy head. Currently I am re-creating it in survival at the top of a mountain, I under-estimated just exactly how much green wool it would take. So much so, that I have a 2nd temporary pen for sheep at the top of the mountain. (I'll re-dye them white after it's done and let them go free.)

Behold! The big giant head!

At the moment I have yellow wool for the eyes, but I want it to have glowstone behind yellow glass eventually. Part of me has thought about having redstone lamps so the eyes light up automatically at night, but then i'd have to have an open space in the top of the head because of the daylight sensors.

Another big project I was working on - mentioned in the one and only post for 2015 in December, was the Chunk Plaza project. It didn't have that name at the time and was only the basics of a dirt building on the corner, a boardwalk and some apartment windows dug into the chunk wall with a bit of red. The project was left (Through laziness) over the last year & half, but things have picked up pace this year.

DECEMBER 2015:

 

CURRENTLY:

As you can see, ALOT has changed.If you look in the far left of the last picture you can feintly see the outline structure of a third building coming.

The last time this blog saw Mount DOOOooom it was like this:

These days...

Various buildings have been knocked down and re-built, whilst existing towers have more detail and the stone ground inside turned back to nature. As well as this, some months ago the single block oak plaform that stretched across the ocean and carried the minecart rails, has finally been replaced with a proper bridge.

There's also a monument using restone lamps and glass panes to mark the last six years and the versions at the times of the anniversary:

In other areas, the science lab has had it's rooms swapped in recent months the lab being where the "Community room" was and vice versa so it could be extended and made much bigger. The main bridge has been fully re-junvinated after skipping detail after it's last rebuild. Once thing I embraced was the World of Color update, although I would use glazed terracotta only sparingly, I love the addition of concrete as it's fun and easy to make and really makes up for the muted terracotta and less than fire resistant wool - not that I really build in wool ordinarily.

More details can be found on my official "Updates of a 6 years & 11 month" thread on the official Minecraft forums, which includes a world download. Links also to the side.