Minecraft Boredom

Last time I mentioned anything about Minecraft, I had started a new world for the sake of experiencing updates, and I never uploaded any pictures.

Here's the update:

Here's my tree farm. the efficiency of the torches to the seedlings aren't perfect, but it gets the job done. The amount of wood and charcoal I have now is insane. 

In one of the updates, they made it so that you could turn wood into charcoal at a forge. So there's really no point in running around trying to find coal anymore. Also, I personally found that wooden houses had a certain charm to them, so that gave me all the more reason to make a tree farm. In fact, in just about every world I start, I plan to make a tree farm. It's just that essential.

At Home

At 2nd base

I realized that my booster cart systems kept stopping an I couldn't figure out why. After some quick google searches, I found out that when you step outside of a certain chunk range, the chunk that the minecarts were in get reset and stop moving. So I did some more google searching and came across someone's minecart booster system that worked best with a lever. I tried implementing it the same system with a button, but since the button stops giving power after a split second, I never achieved satisfactory results. And so, back to google again I discovered the Door Booster after some time and it was perfect. It was a little time consuming, but i really like how it works and I plan to use door boosters for all of my minecart systems in future worlds. I found the tutorial here:

Fail river

 Okay so, I discovered in this world some pretty sweet cliffs. I had envisioned a world full of tall cliffs with waterfalls and a river beneath. And then I wanted the cliffs to have wooden houses, and then canals/caves inside the cliffs to connect the house. Like a city inside the cliffs. Then with the world covered in water, I wanted to set up some nice wooden walkways threading around the base of the cliffs hovering just above the water. Unfortunately this project failed miserably. In the above picture you can see that I tried flooding the ground with water, but it was extremely time consuming and the uneven ground made the water look rough and aggressive. Not quite the calm soothing river I expected.. You can also see part of the bridge I started to build, but it was a lost cause. In the below picture you can see I tried blindly building a house on the nearest cliff, but that didn't quite work out the way I expected it to. To make the houses decently big enough to fit furniture and decorations it would have to be like twice the size of the little wooden box I've got going on the cliff up there. Plus I had no idea how tall I wanted the house to be as opposed to the size of its base. Obviously it would've been much better if I had planned everything out on a piece of graph paper first. Architects always gotta make them blue prints! It's amazing what kinds of real life skills one can put into Minecraft. Architecture, engineering, and a few other things I can't think of right now.  

Fail house

But anywho.. I a few weeks after abandoning my initial project, I discovered a video on youtube, where this guy built a portal to the Nether, then built a portal within his Nether to emerge somewhere totally random on his main world again. Where he emerged he discovered a half built house and a few other random projects along with torches he didn't place, and a bunch of boxes and items. It looked like a world somebody started and then never finished, except within some other dude's world! I thought the video was absolutely fascinating and wanted to experience something like that for myself. An sooo-

I built a portal..

..which came to this side.

Here's what the Nether looks like

I kept coming close to dying in the Nether so I had to set the difficulty to peaceful mode in order to safely explore the Nether. I kinda felt like I was cheating the game on the inside, but oh well at least I got to explore the Nether. I made the above picture larger so you can see. On the left half of the picture you can sort of see a long bridge I built. You might no be able to tell, but it forks out so that one side goes left and the other goes right. The bridge was originally designed to have a railroad placed there, but I didn't have enough iron to cover both bridges completely. It just wasn't worth it. Okay quick fact: a step in the Nether is the equivalent to 8 steps in the normal world. So I went really far off into the Nether, made a portal somewhere to the left and another somewhere to the right. They both took me to boring places in the middle of nowhere. It's not even worth putting pictures of them up.

After I finished exploring the Nether and not finding anything exciting I thought, now what? The week after, my crave for Minecraft dwindled to almost nothing. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, because Minecraft is so addicting, it consumes all my time, but it's terribly fun.

Unfortunately, it is now yet another week later and I have a couple new project ideas in mind, in a brand new world. I'll save all that for another blog post.