MAIN WORLD: Three Month Update! Part #1

  Main world, survival.
Begun in 2010 in Alpha, I found a mountain with a hollow front and lava pouring down the front, round the back a single block waterfall coming out of the wall.. I decided it was a nice place to make a home! In 2012 after 2 years and developing my building style I began a mass re-generation scheme of my world, inside and outside. This is the story of my main world...

Well where to begin? After three months I've been busy as usual on my main world. I guess I'll pick up exactly where I left off three months ago with the apartment block. Back then I was still adding log trim to the sides of the extention, and whilst I still have more shutters and window ledges to do (Must get back to that!) I did finish the trim and add a lot more of said window shutters/legdes.

Finally got those balconies over looking the Netherrack bridge!

Now that I have found a mesa biome after travelling, I can go ahead and add the feature walls in the apartments, a splash of colour using dyed hardened clay! So I still have that to do, which also mens replacing the glass panes in the front bay windows back to glass blocks as the feature wall will cover the exterior wall on the outside. The mesa biome is 5000+ minecraft miles away from my half-way house, speaking of which..

Back in the day in Alpha, I had an area far way from my mountain home with snow and lava and therefore infintley burning forest. I loved this little area and built a little cemetry there. Unfortunatley, early on during the first year; I lost the world and wasn't doing proper regular back-ups back then. Although I recovered the world, a new chunk grew in that area's place, it regenerated (Bit like Doctor Who!) but was never to be the same again. I had some nice chunk walls on the way over there after. so much so I built a half-way house coming out of the front of one. It was only ever a very basic wooden home with a wood facade potrouding out from the chunk wall however, completetly empty inside apart from a fireplace. Never did anything with it, swore I would one day..

Back in the day...

Well, during the three month blog break, I was going around taking pictures of everywhere except this time I left the resource pack off. When I got to this place however, I started getting ideas on how to improve it.. As you can see - hideous chunk walls either side of it back then, so I decided to make those chunk walls part of the home; extentions if you will on either side of the main front facade. So after changing the rest of the oak logs outside to spruce, (I wanted it to be from natural material in the area, hence all the wood. Winter log cabin home?); the work began.

 

I would have loads of space on either side now, although after clearing out I didn't realise exactly how much on either side! I also found on the right side (Facing out from the house), the very end back wall, right at the back; backed onto a sizeable cave.

 

 

The left extention, as indicated by the new birch floor and placement of the birch blocks, will be the new kitchen diner! The other side, was so big it had to be split into two as shown with the temporary dirt wall. (Still there currently). The back room of which is now a store room that I'm gradually creating. The arch way incidently, wasn't meant to be there, a creeper spawned and did it's damage. I liked the size of the hole so kept it and developed it into an archway. Due to that, the immediate front room as you walk in - is becoming just a hallway, the first empty part of the room up to the dirt wall will be the new living room. I have already moved the fireplace into there.

 

Just waiting to be done and furnished!

 

 

Most likely, I will add roof overhangs on the extentions too, from the top spruce beam.

I have also done some work on the outer area, landscaping some small, half chunk walls and levelling the area for a second oak and birch tree farm away from the main ones back at the mountain home. I also built a little troll bridge across the water to it and changed the very slight sand chunk wall, flattening it so I could have a farm area.

The plan is, to make this half-way house a more nearer, fully functional, holiday home. A home away from home if you will.

Coming up: Coloured glass, dyed hardened clay craze, enchantments, horse & donkey shenanigans, deadly trips to the Nether, the mob area and portal relocation, new tree farms at the main home, enchantment rooms, diamonds and silk touch picks, that underwater/underground minecart project, Mount DOOOooooom and more!

The Journey Continues...

That's right, welovetomine is coming back!

I tried to live without it, I really did; but after three months - I miss it! I miss writing about my adventures, my updates to my main world, my new plans, old plans... I have a fair bit to tell, especially with my main world, I have started a new 2014 (Latest snapshots) base and of course there's all those old projects to get back to World1 - underground home, AllBases home conversion, the stronghold home, the ravine home - haven't done much on that last one in ages!

As far as this blog goes, due to all the past SPAM, only members of this blog can now post, anyone signing up just to spam the free minecraft gift card comments will be immediatly removed.

The next post will be in the next few days!

The Last welovetomine Post

It is with great regret that I announce that I've decided to end the blog.

It's been fun for the past three years charting the progress of my worlds, seeing how they've changed, however, I'm just not getting anything out of it anymore. With all the freeminecraft spam, despite moderating the posts, I'm just not getting the buzz out of it any more. Don't worry though, I'll just be playing Minecraft itself just as much! I shall be posting instead at the old official forum, but in bite-size managable chunks. So what does this mean for the posts? Well, there are boards for all the main worlds, threads for others, so if I need to update and mention a few things in a few different worlds, it will be spread across the forum in their relevant board/thread. This also means it'll help keep a regular active-ness to the site.

I want to say a big thank-you to all 28 members that sign up to read my scribbles, babbles, and what not, and yes those first ten will stay on my little notice board in my main world! Hell, I might just put all your names on their now! Alas it is time to close the doors, put things away in the chest and blow out the last torch on the walls of this here blog. Feel free to visit me from time to time at the forum if you so wish. Until then keep mining, exlporing, building and adventuring!

Happy minecrafting!

leangreen76 aka Peter.

Building Like a MOFO!

Last time I posted about this world, back in July, I talked about how the mysterious roof dissappearance on my apartment block led me to starting the renovations; making it prettier and making a lot of improvements.

Before the upgrade:



Last post:




Since the last time, I have made considerable progress, continuing to add the log trim around the sides and not just the corners, adding the window shutters (Hatches/trap-doors) and window sills (Upside down stairs). I had a good 80 - 90% done but, what I had also done was remove the old ladder up/water shoot down. In it's place I had build a double-back stairs, but come early last week I really started to not like it. I built it in the limited space, but where it double-backed on itself it just looked ugly and messy - it had to go. It was time to build the extension I had been considering for a while!

Right before the extension:

 

At first I just began to build out the back, this however became extremley problematic. No matter which way I tried to face the stairs, it took a significant chunk of the apartments size off, making them even more tiny. It also eliminated the space for the bathrooms. In the end I went to my creative copy of this world and tried to work something out. What I came up with, was to build it out at the side also, up to the gravel path. It meant I had to realign said path a bit, but is worth it.

Yeah... The path now curves round..

I did all the stairs first and temporary floors with dirt, just so I could get to all floors and, I know I know; it almost looks like I griefed it! The new outer wall to the side is at least 5+ blocks wide so the old exterior wall - now on the inside, had to be demolished. Just like the main body of the apartments, all sand levels would have to be converted to sandstone. Last week and continuing this week in the weekdays, I spent long afternoons going back and forth to snow biomes and to the desert. Thank God I have my horse to make the trips easier.

Each corridor is 2 blocks wide with a dividing wall between the corridor and the stairs down. I still have a lot of work to do, I litterally just finished converting all the sand levels for the main body of the apartments into sandstone this afternoon.

So here it is so far!:

New lobby (Just needs some more detailing):

Old lobby:

Once things are nearer completon, all torches will be removed in favour of glowstone.

One good thing is that by adding the extension, it also means the bathrooms can be a little bigger as well, so they're not ridiculously small. Still need to change all the corridor floors, thinking of changing the lobby floor, more window shutters to be added, decide on kitchen window alignment (Side, facing the nether-bridge), finish the roof, furnish the homes and make sure every single bathroom and kitchen is done! Then possibly add stained clay to inisde of the big bay windows to hide the exterior decor. (Allows for more personalisation, window panes in bay windows will have to be converted back to old skool window blocks as it will be double thickness (Interior, exterior windows - double glazing!)

So this is what has been keeping my busy as of late, as well as the Hexxit mod pack in the technic launcher, but I'll get to that another time!..

Triple Updates!

Sky-Bridges 2013

A little bit more to show you. Now admittedly I haven't done much to it lately over the last few weeks, but I have topped off the fort and begun the first sky-bridge!

Finally headed towards the next mountain! Long way to go yet but I can't wait to get to the other mounain and start building the first proper home! I shall endevour to do more on this in the weeks to come.

No current developments on AllBases world.

Some big changes on my original Alpha world since I last posted in July. As you may or may not remember, I was changing the corridor on level #3 from sandstone and sand walls/pillars to stained blow clay on the lower half of the walls, light blue wool for the upper walls and blue carpets all the way along. Although I haven't done anything very recently I had been working on it for a long time after I last posted and managed to get all the way to the end of the corridor.

Last time:

Currently:

There was some creeper damage, so I'm going to have to go out and find more clay again to make stained clay. Carpets are so much better than wool floors though, you get much more for your crafting. Speaking of carpets, I have also begin changing the patterned floor in the future dinning room on this same level.

As it was:

As you can see it was a mix of a sand border and red and (floor planks) squares with a stone slab inter-section. For now, I've kept the pattern but have changed the red wool to red carpet, floor planks to brown carpet, the sand to white carpet and the stone slabs to light grey carpets.

It's going well, I think the biggest change is the use of the white for the border. Of course the rest of the room needs modernizing, but that will happen in time. Literally just the other day, I have also been doing work on the area around my home at the very bottom of the mountain on level #7 around all the lava pools. I have added accent stone-brick trim to certain edges of the walls, begun adding the lava fall columns in the walls, (behind glass) and completely slabbed the rest of the entire floor. (Which I still want to do something a bit extra with, not sure what yet.)

As well as the lava columns, I have also found new ways to light it with Netherrack instead of the two block, lit columns. (Shown above.) After doing this for the corridor for my Nether-wart farm on my main world, I have implemented it here, having two lit Netherrack set back in the walls. it adds even more light as well as the lava columns and nullifies having torches all about the place. I have also introduced this in the lobby area to this level after you arrive down the stairs.

As well as making the window an extra height by one block at the top, I have also added cobble staircases around the ceiling and have slabbed all of the floor with stone slabs. Still needs something a little extra, but by slabbing the floor it's also allowed me a bit of head space around the lava pools below this floor as the head height was very low when walking around the lava pool walkways..

Have also begun the walls inside the home on this level:

I'll have to cover the back wall in the last picture as it'll show on the other side (Outside) if I change the wall itself.

(Yes we have a banner at last!)

Bit of news on this one, surprisingly. I've been doing some work on the back of the house, last time I posted about it was in May - but that was the front of the house and the living room. The last time I posted about the back of the house was in April, where the majority of it was still the dirt frame and an unfinished roof round the back:

Since then, the roof was finished, normal (Un-colored) stained clay was added to the largest section, the smallest section of dirt had changed and the middle section had become glass with (at the time) a black border:

Recently, the black wool border has changed to black stained clay (Although it looks brown because of the muted nature of colored stained clay blocks), and I have finally decided on what colour the stained clay for the main part of the back of the house should be. I was very unsure what it could be but decided on white, (Bonemeal) which because of the muted colors for stained clay, comes out as a fleshy kind of color.

Still a long way to go and lots more clay to get. The dirt roof on the small building is only temporary, so a roof of some sort needs to be added there too.

Inside:

I know, still need to change the grass floor, but it's coming along, started to add the ceiling as well now so work can eventually begin on the upstairs. I've also got rid of the trap-door and ladder to storage and have added some nice stairs in the hallway, next to the spiral staircase

I may have to make the floor in storage i floor deeper however, as shown to the right of the picture.


Finally, I might change the resource pack for the old Ravine Home project to HerrSommer Dye as I've been using this a lot lately and it's grown on me. Not only that but I started renovating a ravine in creative again, (Wasn't sure if it was going to be upper = apartments, lower = shopping mall like the last creative venture or a home) but it's turning out rather well. The ravine is better than my survival one too as it bends where as my survival one is quite a straight ravine. Either way using this resource pack might inspire me for my legit survival ravine home.

Creative ravine home:

Pre-build

After a few hours:

 

Whilst adding steps up to the surface there was this off-shoot cave, so I altered the steps to create a landing and walk-way towards it.  All I've done is wall over the cave mouth using Nether-Quartz, it's when you go inside it starts to get interesting.

Shower room, also plenty of space for a toilet and sinks.

But wait, what's upstairs? An upstairs in a bathroom?..

Why it's your own private area to have a bath!

Bathe, dry and change in privacy!

This texture pack makes me a lot more hopeful for my old survival ravine home. Hopefully it's enough to get me back into it.