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schneefink) wrote2023-01-31 09:10 pm
schneefink) wrote2023-01-31 09:10 pm
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More Minecraft: future update, my own world, and finally a SMP!
New Minecraft snapshot: armor trims are coming in 1.20! Very cool. In so many patterns and colors! I've never tried creative mode yet but I think I will use it to try out different combinations before applying them since the patterns are rare finds – in practice it's going to be a matter of which ones I can find anyway. Duplicating the patterns is expensive, but I think it's fine because it's meant to be for late game and by this point you very likely have many diamonds anyway, and nothing to use them for because you can get any diamond tool or armor from villagers. I'll most likely try to upgrade my armor and tools to netherite before the 1.20 update, but I'm also thinking of postponing raiding the treasure bastion until I can get the new loot. (Unless I lose patience in the next few months, since I heard the most likely time for 1.20 to come out is sometime in June/July. But that's just for the treasure bastion, which I was keeping for later anyway; I'm definitely not waiting to explore an Ancient City if/once I finally find one.)
My own adventures:
Back to the Deep Dark! I only took an iron hoe and pickaxe, torches, carpets, and food, so I wouldn't lose much if I died. Which also meant that I almost died when a skeleton suddenly appeared. Turns out the area opens into a normal cave where mobs can spawn, which is mean. Eventually I managed to kill the skeleton with the pickaxe and then destroyed the sculk shrieker and sensors nearby. A bit of experimentation revealed that there's another shrieker but only in one direction forward, so now I'm strongly considering lighting up the non-Deep Dark parts of this cave. First I thought of simply blocking it off but then I saw diamonds down one tunnel so exploration it is.
(Sidenote, is "sculk" the most misspelled Minecraft term? I see "skulk" all the time.)
It paid off: I soon found a large abandoned mineshaft with not only two amethyst geodes, but also three (!) dungeons with zombie spawners. Among other things I found three discs (sadly only cat and 13, which I both already had) and four pieces of iron horse armor, i.e. definitely more than I need.
Then I dared to go back into the Deep Dark. This time I decided to bridge across a cave with wool while using a night vision potion. Feels much less scary that way! …still scary though. I destroyed another shrieker and found a spider spawner in a dungeon (with a sculk catalyst right next to it) where I found diamond horse armor. I put it on my horse for now but I might switch it again later, I think I liked the look of the gold armor better and my horse rarely takes any damage anyway.
I thought about going further, especially because I couldn't see any sculk shriekers in the area immediately ahead, but then the scary music started (the "Ancestry" theme – I didn't know what it was called before, oh the implications) and I decided that nope, I'm out of here. That is some good unsettling music *shivers*
I told LB about it the next day and then wanted to show him a clip of someone exploring the Deep Dark when Ancestry comes on, ideally with minimal commentary, but couldn't find one so I decided to record it myself. Have I mentioned that music is unsettling? I used a night vision potion so it wasn't even as bad as it could have been, and as soon as the warden drew close I ran. I showed it to him a few days later and he agreed that the music is great a, but unsurprisingly he found it less scary than I did because he has no idea what the warden is and also he cares less than I do about whether or not I die in-game ^^
Every time I need a break I go back to my base and do some more farming, fishing, trading etc. Also quite a bit of enchanting: sadly the table still hasn't offered me Respiration III, and I'd like some more Unbreaking III too. To get more levels I could just go down and mine all those sculk blocks but that would defeat the purpose of taking a break away from the Deep Dark. I really need to find some project I can do in the overworld that I can do while waiting for the shriek counter to go down.
I decided to try and do a map wall so I flew over to the village to get some more empty maps, and on the way back finally happened what I'd been half-anticipating for a while: the game lagged while I was flying and instead of landing in the water I crashed against my house and died :( With a score (experience collected since last death) of over 40k. Fortunately I got all my stuff back. I should finally get one of those performance-improving mods, I just keep being too lazy to actually do it.
I did get the very beginnings of a map wall started, at least. It's all maps that've been enlargened three times, so not that much detail but enough to help with orientation and also give a nice overview.
My next trip into the Deep Dark was simple: I only took very little with me and nothing I would be sad to lose, I cautiously made my way across carpets which sadly isn't foolproof especially on uneven terrain, and when I realized that destroying both shriekers I saw without summoning the warden would be really hard I decided to destroy one of them and then simply run away and leave while the warden emerged. Next time, same plan but second shrieker. It's slow progress but it's progress.
Next: more mapping. I figured out you can clone maps! Very convenient. I started my map mural on the side of the cliff and it's very pretty, and very distracting because I want to fill in all the maps and also add all the villages I've found which means having to add more maps etc. etc. And it's less scary than the Deep Dark! …I'm just procrastinating again aren't I.
Back into the Deep Dark I went, I was planning to be careful but then a sensor & shrieker activated while I was standing still on a carpet so I figured fuck it and ran forward to break the shrieker, which worked. That was the last one in the early part of the cave so I destroyed a lot of the sculk, which paid off immediately because I found more diamonds. Gimme shiny.
I also learned that I can craft the maximum number of things I can afford in a crafting grid if I use shift + click. So useful! It's annoying that I didn't know that for the first several months of playing, but better late than never. (Maybe I should have expected something like that, shift + something usually leads to weird interactions I hadn't thought of.)
I got a little distracted from my own world because DD came back home and this weekend we finally started to play on a server together! We called it SMPOfOurOwn :D
DD set it up on Minehut because apparently that's the best server for when you don't have a lot of requirements and/or many people, and for now there's just the two of us. (No plans to add other people rn but not ruling it out for the future.)
It's a lot of fun. We spawned in a snowy plains biome right next to a village, with giant ice spikes nearby, and it's cool literally and figuratively. On the first day we were mostly resource gathering, we started farming wheat, beet roots, sheep, and chickens, did some mining so now we both have full iron armor, and did some trading with the villagers to get a fishing rod (turns out fishing in a cold biome is trickier than elsewhere.) Sadly the igloo nearby doesn't have a hidden trapdoor.
On the second day we already got the materials for an enchanting table and a nether portal! Much faster than I expected, weird how that happens when you have twice the amount of players who both have much more experience by now than when we each started playing.
We put the nether portal in the igloo because that looks cool and then took a quick peek: sadly our nether portal is in the middle of a basalt delta, so we'll have to be very careful while exploring to hopefully find a fortress and a warped forest.
Day three, thanks to the cow pit and also DD going out exploring and killing more cows we have a few bookshelves already. She also found two more villages, a swamp, and a second, even bigger ice spikes biome. I did some more trading, mining, and other resource-gathering – I found an abandoned mineshaft in a cave but forgot to mark the way and couldn't find it again when I went back, but I'll find it again eventually. We also already tamed several cats and a wolf.
So far we claimed a house in the village (we had to restore half of it after it was blown up by a creeper pretty much immediately), but we're also going to need a bigger base with space for more chests and a proper enchanting spot soon. Still need to pick something. Eventually it would be very cool to set up something among the ice spikes - maybe with glass bridges? But it'll be easier with enchanted tools, especially silk touch for the ice, and also when we have vines to make climbing easier, so maybe we'll find something else and/or something in-between.
My own adventures:
Back to the Deep Dark! I only took an iron hoe and pickaxe, torches, carpets, and food, so I wouldn't lose much if I died. Which also meant that I almost died when a skeleton suddenly appeared. Turns out the area opens into a normal cave where mobs can spawn, which is mean. Eventually I managed to kill the skeleton with the pickaxe and then destroyed the sculk shrieker and sensors nearby. A bit of experimentation revealed that there's another shrieker but only in one direction forward, so now I'm strongly considering lighting up the non-Deep Dark parts of this cave. First I thought of simply blocking it off but then I saw diamonds down one tunnel so exploration it is.
(Sidenote, is "sculk" the most misspelled Minecraft term? I see "skulk" all the time.)
It paid off: I soon found a large abandoned mineshaft with not only two amethyst geodes, but also three (!) dungeons with zombie spawners. Among other things I found three discs (sadly only cat and 13, which I both already had) and four pieces of iron horse armor, i.e. definitely more than I need.
Then I dared to go back into the Deep Dark. This time I decided to bridge across a cave with wool while using a night vision potion. Feels much less scary that way! …still scary though. I destroyed another shrieker and found a spider spawner in a dungeon (with a sculk catalyst right next to it) where I found diamond horse armor. I put it on my horse for now but I might switch it again later, I think I liked the look of the gold armor better and my horse rarely takes any damage anyway.
I thought about going further, especially because I couldn't see any sculk shriekers in the area immediately ahead, but then the scary music started (the "Ancestry" theme – I didn't know what it was called before, oh the implications) and I decided that nope, I'm out of here. That is some good unsettling music *shivers*
I told LB about it the next day and then wanted to show him a clip of someone exploring the Deep Dark when Ancestry comes on, ideally with minimal commentary, but couldn't find one so I decided to record it myself. Have I mentioned that music is unsettling? I used a night vision potion so it wasn't even as bad as it could have been, and as soon as the warden drew close I ran. I showed it to him a few days later and he agreed that the music is great a, but unsurprisingly he found it less scary than I did because he has no idea what the warden is and also he cares less than I do about whether or not I die in-game ^^
Every time I need a break I go back to my base and do some more farming, fishing, trading etc. Also quite a bit of enchanting: sadly the table still hasn't offered me Respiration III, and I'd like some more Unbreaking III too. To get more levels I could just go down and mine all those sculk blocks but that would defeat the purpose of taking a break away from the Deep Dark. I really need to find some project I can do in the overworld that I can do while waiting for the shriek counter to go down.
I decided to try and do a map wall so I flew over to the village to get some more empty maps, and on the way back finally happened what I'd been half-anticipating for a while: the game lagged while I was flying and instead of landing in the water I crashed against my house and died :( With a score (experience collected since last death) of over 40k. Fortunately I got all my stuff back. I should finally get one of those performance-improving mods, I just keep being too lazy to actually do it.
I did get the very beginnings of a map wall started, at least. It's all maps that've been enlargened three times, so not that much detail but enough to help with orientation and also give a nice overview.
My next trip into the Deep Dark was simple: I only took very little with me and nothing I would be sad to lose, I cautiously made my way across carpets which sadly isn't foolproof especially on uneven terrain, and when I realized that destroying both shriekers I saw without summoning the warden would be really hard I decided to destroy one of them and then simply run away and leave while the warden emerged. Next time, same plan but second shrieker. It's slow progress but it's progress.
Next: more mapping. I figured out you can clone maps! Very convenient. I started my map mural on the side of the cliff and it's very pretty, and very distracting because I want to fill in all the maps and also add all the villages I've found which means having to add more maps etc. etc. And it's less scary than the Deep Dark! …I'm just procrastinating again aren't I.
Back into the Deep Dark I went, I was planning to be careful but then a sensor & shrieker activated while I was standing still on a carpet so I figured fuck it and ran forward to break the shrieker, which worked. That was the last one in the early part of the cave so I destroyed a lot of the sculk, which paid off immediately because I found more diamonds. Gimme shiny.
I also learned that I can craft the maximum number of things I can afford in a crafting grid if I use shift + click. So useful! It's annoying that I didn't know that for the first several months of playing, but better late than never. (Maybe I should have expected something like that, shift + something usually leads to weird interactions I hadn't thought of.)
I got a little distracted from my own world because DD came back home and this weekend we finally started to play on a server together! We called it SMPOfOurOwn :D
DD set it up on Minehut because apparently that's the best server for when you don't have a lot of requirements and/or many people, and for now there's just the two of us. (No plans to add other people rn but not ruling it out for the future.)
It's a lot of fun. We spawned in a snowy plains biome right next to a village, with giant ice spikes nearby, and it's cool literally and figuratively. On the first day we were mostly resource gathering, we started farming wheat, beet roots, sheep, and chickens, did some mining so now we both have full iron armor, and did some trading with the villagers to get a fishing rod (turns out fishing in a cold biome is trickier than elsewhere.) Sadly the igloo nearby doesn't have a hidden trapdoor.
On the second day we already got the materials for an enchanting table and a nether portal! Much faster than I expected, weird how that happens when you have twice the amount of players who both have much more experience by now than when we each started playing.
We put the nether portal in the igloo because that looks cool and then took a quick peek: sadly our nether portal is in the middle of a basalt delta, so we'll have to be very careful while exploring to hopefully find a fortress and a warped forest.
Day three, thanks to the cow pit and also DD going out exploring and killing more cows we have a few bookshelves already. She also found two more villages, a swamp, and a second, even bigger ice spikes biome. I did some more trading, mining, and other resource-gathering – I found an abandoned mineshaft in a cave but forgot to mark the way and couldn't find it again when I went back, but I'll find it again eventually. We also already tamed several cats and a wolf.
So far we claimed a house in the village (we had to restore half of it after it was blown up by a creeper pretty much immediately), but we're also going to need a bigger base with space for more chests and a proper enchanting spot soon. Still need to pick something. Eventually it would be very cool to set up something among the ice spikes - maybe with glass bridges? But it'll be easier with enchanted tools, especially silk touch for the ice, and also when we have vines to make climbing easier, so maybe we'll find something else and/or something in-between.
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I would have to really resist the temptation to call it DreamWidthSMP though. :D
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Minehut seems very convenient to me, but tbh DD did all the research and set it up so I don't want to promise too much.
(There's a parkour route in the lobby and I found out I'm very bad at parkour. It looks so easy when other people do it!)
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It is fun. We haven't played on the SMP in a few days because somehow we didn't find the time to play together but I hope we will soon :)