Minecraft: The River episode 04

This one gets interesting at the end.

The next big cut was a rather large one, the first where I really cut into a mountain side. It was during this cut that I realized how drastic a change to the scenery this would be. This would not just require cutting work, but eventually sculpting landscapes as well. For now, the grunt work.

I surround the land areas I want to cut with torches because they are plentiful, renewable, and easily seen at night. I decided my route and I placed them down in what I thought would be a manageable cut.



Next I went to "water level" and I traced and cut out the shape so that I knew when to stop digging down while I was clearing the land to the bedrock.



I continued like this for several blocks of land. Each night I would return home with my tools, unload a ton of dirt and rock, and prepare for the next morning. The time in my treehouse was rather nail-biting. There was not a lot of room up there, and every morning I was greeted to this:



That was a light morning. I also learned the flaw to a treehouse... it shaded the undead from the sun, so every morning I had to jump out of my tree house, turn around and kill whatever it was keeping me awake at night.

So this particular morning I woke up and waited for the dead to turn to ash and I jumped out of my treehouse, only to see this in front of me:



If you remember, these things are full of gunpowder, they hiss, blow up and destroy things. I didn't want my tree house to be blown away, so I ran as well as I could. I must've stubbed my toe cause it blew up...



my oven! :(

This was a declaration.



This was war.

Episode 2 Minecraft: The Bay

Today started out well.

I made my way down the side of the bay and found a few pieces of coal beyond a waterfall near my beach shelter. On my way back I cleaned up the coastline a little bit in anticipation of needing to mine there later. I made a few torches and felt much better about my situation. With my new confidence I began giving myself some more room in my shelter. I needed a few more blocks so I began chopping at the rocks in the cave beside the shelter and soon broke through to an underground cave. Using torches to light my way I was surprised to find...



I was excited, this was my first big discovery in game. The water moves fast, but is not so deep. I did not want to waste my rare torches, so after this shot I gathered back up my flares and left. I took the blocks I had and I squared away my shelter. I created a crafting bench and set it on the beach, I then fashioned me a door to put on my shelter to make it easier getting in and out.

I began feeling adventurous, so I resolved the climb the mountain and get a look at the cave up top where I planned on making a Lookout platform as my previous post illustrates. I get near the top, with barely any place to find a footing, when suddenly I hear a loud hiss. I look around and see nothing and then suddenly BOOM!



Something blew up the side of the mountain, I was blown toward the edge, but luckily did not fall off to my death. Only a few rocks had hit me. I took a moment to collect myself, I had no idea what had caused such an explosion. I looked and found the cave about 10 feet above me, luckily its structure did not seem damaged by the explosion, though I did not explore it further. Night was setting in. I went back to the shelter.



I was not sure what had happened up there. I did decide I need to make some windows for my shelter so I could see the things that may come around at night. Unfortunately I left my crafting bench outside on the beach... and my fear was too much for me to run out and retrieve it. Windows would have to wait for sunrise.

Episode 3 continues my exploration, as well as small improvements to my shelter.

Reboot

My last post here was almost 1 year ago. I'll reboot this and see how far I get. I want to add in boardgames now as well, since I now have a fascination with them and a girlfriend that shares my love of such games :)

I think I'll keep the old antique graphic template, as for the artwork I will change it as soon as I get an idea.

A little update to my gaming:

Recently Finished: Metroid (NES)

Now Playing:
-Soul Nomad and the World Eaters
-Petville
-Minecraft

I am stuck with a tiny TV in my room right now. When I can I sneak into the living room to play my PS2 there, and right now I"m playing Soul Nomad and the World Eaters by NIS. Wonderfully awesome game. A bit more simplistic in the character combat than Phantom Brave, but the fighting graphics are amazing. The story is great so far, and funny as hell.

I'm playing Petville on Facebook to get my "sims" fix. I mainly choose a room, pick what I want the room to be and focus on that room until it is done.

Minecraft. There are a list of games that look terrible in screenshots, sound terrible in description, and yet are some of the best games ever made. Put Little Big Planet into that category. Now put Minecraft in there as well. Minecraft is sort of a MMO-esque crafting game, but set in a world that is much more like a lego wonderland. The world you live in is randomly generated, mapper programs have mapped it as 8x the size of the Earth, so you will never run out of new places to explore, but you mainly build your home stead and craft things. Sort of Harvest Moon too, but sort of lonely right now. Later they are adding a more comprehensive multiplayer mode where your friends will live in your world as well.

Anyway, more about Minecraft soon as I'm writing a whole freakin' Chronicle.