Episode 4 Minecraft: The Bay

When I last left you, I had explored the mountains in view of my home. While it was exciting for me, it was not really advancing my current goal of making the bay a habitable and logical "Home Base". I identified that I needed to explore, but it was behind my "home" mountain that I had not seen. So I proceeded to check it out.

Immediately rounding the corner, I see the large mountain that is sort of a "sister" mountain to my home mountain. It has a giant hole in it that almost looks like an eye. I decided to call this Cyclops mountain after the mythical giants with one eye. Directly in front of this was an arch that I had to go through to reach the back of my home mountain. It looked disturbingly like someone shot a cannon through 2 mountains now that I look at it in the pictures...



Anyway, it was on the other side I was facing that I saw this huge monolithic shape appear on my horizon. I got closer and saw an amazing looking mountain that after some thought I've named Anvil Mountain.



While I was looking at Anvil mountain I realized that my mountain had several caves in the back. One obviously lead strait through where I was planning on building a lookout fort. The other lead to an unexpected location. I illuminate them in these pictures but you can see that it lead to the underground river near my home!



Then things got CRAZY. While looking at my home I heard a sound, a "uhhhhhhhhhh" kind of sound. I went to my home and I closed my door and grabbed my sword. When I rounded the corner, I was met by this!



HOLY CRAP, zombies are real and they just happen to be invading my home area. I fought off this one eventually, but it scratched me up something awful. As the sun came up, I was able to see it was a whole gaggle(herd? crowd? flock?) of zombies. I recalled that in the movies the zombies couldn't survive during the day, and sure enough as the sun rose higher they caught fire. I thought I was in the clear.



Except apparently they take a while to die from fire!



I had to kill a zombie... that was on fire! How could it get worse than a zombie on fire? Fire is scary enough. Zombies are freaking mind blowing. Flaming Zombies are pure nightmare fuel. I survived the night and survived the morning and decided I needed to kick things in to high gear and get some stuff done.

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.