Good Morning Friends. I apparently am just writing about Minecraft now, given that it represents most of what I played this weekend. I did some offline work on the “Bel Bungles” world but even there I am several episodes ahead that are queued up to release this week. Thing I have learned is I am apparently really bad at ignoring messages, or not so much willfully ignoring them but being oblivious to them existing. Somewhere buried in my DM inbox was a message from my friend Zelibeli complementing my Minecraft series and inviting me to go play on her server. This weekend I took her up on that invite and spent a good chunk of Sunday making a bit of a home.

She had an exceptionally pretty and functional main area to greet folks as they joined the server. I had not quite groked how to do screenshots at that point because all that seemed to happen was a Mojang loading screen image. After some googling I decided to instead rely on the built in screenshot functionality which is F2 and I hopped in really quickly this morning to take a few. I decided to head out from the spawn towards the nearest mountain…. and then claim it. I made my way up the sheer cliffside overlooking the swamp below and carved out my first hidey hole that ultimately has served as my base of operations in this world.

As picturesque as looking out over the balcony to the swamp below was… it wasn’t super functional. So my first order of operations was to dig a shaft down to ground level and then establish a “main” entrance off the forest floor below. This would also serve as an easier way to get any of the resources that I couldn’t find by hollowing out the mountain Dwarf style. Namely early on I would need a lot of wood and as such I proceeding to create a clearing that would serve a few purposes. Firstly of course wood but secondly it would allow me to see something coming and not be quite so surprised when a Skeleton or Zombie is waiting for me that didn’t quite get burned up from the sunlight.

I decided that I also wanted to have a way to grow some food. Zeli had provided me a super generous care package that included a Diamond Sword and Pick, along with a full suit of Chainmail and a stack of Pumpkin Pies. That said I don’t want to rely on the kindness of strangers forever so I needed a place to grow at least some modicum of food, along with providing a large amount of wheat for some later shenanigans. So from my hole in the wall I carved up to the summit of the mountain where I begin building a fort. It is very much in the “ugly but functional” stage of the build, but I will hopefully change that as time goes on. Unfortunately I am in a snow biome which means that I need to be careful with any free standing water. Currently I am using trapdoors to solve this problem but I am not sure happy with the torches placed on top of them.

From the Forest floor outpost I also decided to start digging another shaft downwards looping back upon itself heading towards bedrock so I could start the process of harvesting my own diamonds. Along the way however I encountered an abandoned Mineshaft which has ultimately distracted and dominated my play time. Firstly these are disturbingly dangerous to break, and I am starting to wonder if there is a cave spider spawner inside of this one. I hear them everywhere and that means I have to be super cautious given their EXTREMELY virulent poison. The other piece that I did not realize is just how rich in resources abandoned mines are. Sure there are the occasional carts with chests in them, but mine has an absolutely ridiculous amount of Iron in it. Not to mention the just casual resources like wooden structures and tracks. My goal is to eventually harvest everything I can get from this place before moving on.

The only negative about playing on a server, is in order to conserve resources it doesn’t load in chunks that you shouldn’t be interacting with… which means I can’t ACTUALLY see the main area from my home without someone hanging out over there and forcing those chunks to load in. You can however see the big communal farm, or at least part of it. I wanted to start somewhere at a distance from the main area but also close enough pending I wanted to go trade stuff to someone else. For now I am pretty happy with “Mount Belghast” that I am slowly working on. I noticed the swamp below spawns Slimes on occasion, which should make for easy sticky pistons when the time comes that I actually need some for a build. My heart still belongs to my private world that I am using for recording the Minecraft series. However I do want to make a nice little presence in this shared world. Huge thanks to Zeli for inviting me to her world, I might at some point record a tour video once I get things working as intended. The post Visiting Strange Worlds appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

Good Morning Friends. I apparently am just writing about Minecraft now, given that it represents most of what I played this weekend. I did some offline work on the “Bel Bungles” world but even there I am several episodes ahead that are queued up to release this week. Thing I have learned is I am apparently really bad at ignoring messages, or not so much willfully ignoring them but being oblivious to them existing. Somewhere buried in my DM inbox was a message from my friend Zelibeli complementing my Minecraft series and inviting me to go play on her server. This weekend I took her up on that invite and spent a good chunk of Sunday making a bit of a home.

She had an exceptionally pretty and functional main area to greet folks as they joined the server. I had not quite groked how to do screenshots at that point because all that seemed to happen was a Mojang loading screen image. After some googling I decided to instead rely on the built in screenshot functionality which is F2 and I hopped in really quickly this morning to take a few. I decided to head out from the spawn towards the nearest mountain…. and then claim it. I made my way up the sheer cliffside overlooking the swamp below and carved out my first hidey hole that ultimately has served as my base of operations in this world.

As picturesque as looking out over the balcony to the swamp below was… it wasn’t super functional. So my first order of operations was to dig a shaft down to ground level and then establish a “main” entrance off the forest floor below. This would also serve as an easier way to get any of the resources that I couldn’t find by hollowing out the mountain Dwarf style. Namely early on I would need a lot of wood and as such I proceeding to create a clearing that would serve a few purposes. Firstly of course wood but secondly it would allow me to see something coming and not be quite so surprised when a Skeleton or Zombie is waiting for me that didn’t quite get burned up from the sunlight.

I decided that I also wanted to have a way to grow some food. Zeli had provided me a super generous care package that included a Diamond Sword and Pick, along with a full suit of Chainmail and a stack of Pumpkin Pies. That said I don’t want to rely on the kindness of strangers forever so I needed a place to grow at least some modicum of food, along with providing a large amount of wheat for some later shenanigans. So from my hole in the wall I carved up to the summit of the mountain where I begin building a fort. It is very much in the “ugly but functional” stage of the build, but I will hopefully change that as time goes on. Unfortunately I am in a snow biome which means that I need to be careful with any free standing water. Currently I am using trapdoors to solve this problem but I am not sure happy with the torches placed on top of them.

From the Forest floor outpost I also decided to start digging another shaft downwards looping back upon itself heading towards bedrock so I could start the process of harvesting my own diamonds. Along the way however I encountered an abandoned Mineshaft which has ultimately distracted and dominated my play time. Firstly these are disturbingly dangerous to break, and I am starting to wonder if there is a cave spider spawner inside of this one. I hear them everywhere and that means I have to be super cautious given their EXTREMELY virulent poison. The other piece that I did not realize is just how rich in resources abandoned mines are. Sure there are the occasional carts with chests in them, but mine has an absolutely ridiculous amount of Iron in it. Not to mention the just casual resources like wooden structures and tracks. My goal is to eventually harvest everything I can get from this place before moving on.

The only negative about playing on a server, is in order to conserve resources it doesn’t load in chunks that you shouldn’t be interacting with… which means I can’t ACTUALLY see the main area from my home without someone hanging out over there and forcing those chunks to load in. You can however see the big communal farm, or at least part of it. I wanted to start somewhere at a distance from the main area but also close enough pending I wanted to go trade stuff to someone else. For now I am pretty happy with “Mount Belghast” that I am slowly working on. I noticed the swamp below spawns Slimes on occasion, which should make for easy sticky pistons when the time comes that I actually need some for a build. My heart still belongs to my private world that I am using for recording the Minecraft series. However I do want to make a nice little presence in this shared world. Huge thanks to Zeli for inviting me to her world, I might at some point record a tour video once I get things working as intended. The post Visiting Strange Worlds appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.