Mountain Estate (Survival #4)

Well here you go, an update on some progress I've made in my survival world. I went mining, got lava'd a couple of times, slayed some beasts, went exploring, fixed my house up a bit, and organized my materials. Since I am a fan of photography, I have a habit of cataloguing my minecraft adventures with screenshots which I then file if they are worth keeping.

These are two pictures I thought were noteworthy:

This first one here is my water-matic wheat farm. It works wonderfully!

And here is famed pink sheep I discovered while out exploring! This is the second one I've ever seen.

My next project is gathering tons of wood and cobblestone. I am planning on building an extremely large tower lodge. It's inspired by Swiss ski lodges so I think it'll be interesting. My project is on a pretty large scale, but I think I can handle it. Leave any comments for things I should add to my world! Thank guys!

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Minecraft Snapshot (12w07a)

A new snapshot is out for minecraft! Minecraft snapshot 12w07a is up for testing and it adds some great new content. (Just make sure you back up your save files for this one...it changes a lot of the structure underneath the game)

• Village chests now contain better loot
• Animals now have new AI system 

• Rare mob drops are decreased :(
• Villagers now mate and reproduce if their population is down

• On the processing side, chunks are now generated as cubes (This will greatly increase map generation)
• Map hight now at 256!

• New world file format called "Anvil" (changes a lot of generation and processing structuring)
• New block: Redstone Lanterns-Require redstone energy source to light (Brighter than torches)

This appears to be all for this snapshot! I, personally, am excited for Minecraft 1.2 to come out. I nearly left the game after "The End" was added because there just wasn't enough content to keep me going. But the development team at Mojang seems to picking themselves back up! Lets review, so far they've added jungles, ocelots, a new potion, fireball, new AI, higher terrain, new blocks, rare drops from mobs, chests in villages, jungle wells, and other new tidbits. Minecraft 1.2 is looking to be an exciting update so far. It sure has kept my interest up in the game, let's see what they come up with next.

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A Mountain Hut (Survival #2)

So I've found a nice place to set up camp in my new world and it's looking pretty legit. I have a bunch a freaking awesome ideas I'm going to implement later. Here's a couple pics to give you an idea... ;)

This thing is gonna be insane...maybe an Alpine lodge? Who knows...you'll see! Stay posted!

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From the Old to the New (Survival #1)

That's right, it's monday and there is nothing more annoying than nearly missing your bus in the morning and listening to random kids screaming about random stuff while you're half asleep. Luckily for me, school is over and I can come home and do what any normal kid wants to do to relax...Minecraft.

So I started a new world, it's survival mode and I'm excited to see whats going to happen.  I was exploring the mountains and I was reminded yet again why this game is so freaking awesome...

I decided to name it "Blogger World" because I will keep this blog updated on what's going on in it!

This is such a beautiful landscape especially since it is procedurally generated! Regardless, I kept going and I built a base somewhere. Super fundamental, I plan on playing this one for a while so let me know what kind of things you'd like to see me do in the future. I've played this game for so long so I need some new inspiration. I have played on an old survival world for quite some time and I'm not going to play it again so I'll put up some pics as a memorial to what great fun it was. Here they are!

My main castle

Different angle

 View of the grounds

 Servant's  quarters

 Trophy room

View of garden from balcony

My epic mineshaft to bedrock

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Well there are the highlights of my my main survival world, hopefully my new one will be bigger better and crazier. Leave comments on what you would want to see!

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Minecraft Snapshot (12w06a)

So I come home from school, check the minecraft forum and tadah! A new snapshot is released. Minecraft snapshot 12w06a was posted for testing. Here is a list of features I saw on the page, and some I noticed playing.

• The weird double door effect is finally fixed...
• Bug fixes of course
• Mobs drop rare items! (Metal ingots, weapons, tools, etc.)
• Villages now have chests with loot

• Cats make noises. meow
• Mobs move better in water

• Most significant change: Zombies can now break down wooden doors on hard mode
• And of course more villager AI
• Mine shafts appear to generate floors over caverns now

This snapshot appears to be pretty significant. Rare drops from mobs adds more gameplay, who knows exactly what drops there are! Zombies breaking down doors (maybe player-placed blocks later) is almost a game changer. Moats just got a lot more useful!

Snapshot link here: Minecraft Forum Post

If you know noticed any other features, comment, I want to know! Godbless