Hello again!

It's been quite some time, hasn't it? A lot has been happening. Our server was down for a little while since our server admin and good friend Jeff was on a cruise (lucky) for Spring Break! But all is well and it's back up. I've been really busy on the server, along with the rest of our crew, making things since we haven't been able to get our fix for awhile. Things are coming along really nicely in Cooperton. Yes, my town now has a name. My boyfriend John came up with it. It's a name he calls me sometimes. Don't ask. Also, John and Jeff have been working on expanding my town with their own creations, which I'll have pictures of as soon as they finish. Some things I've been working on are:

1. A treehouse! I found a gigantic tree that I suppose has been growing since our server went down (not really..I know it doesn't work that way!) and I built a cute little getaway in it. I think it looks pretty cool, and I'll post pictures of it in the next update.
2. A church complete with pews, a pulpit, and a baptism pool. 
3. A warehouse for the town with a lot of storage chests filled with building materials (mostly dirt and cobblestone!)

Those are the main things that have been finished. Also, with the installment of the new beds, I found out something interesting. Apparently if your walls are only one block thick, they're not safe from the creepy things that come out at night, and they will knock you out of bed! But who wants a bed in the middle of the room? Not me, so what I did was take a wooden plank, place it against the wall, then put the bed against the plank. And there you have a headboard! Pretty cool, huh? Gives the room a little something extra.

Also, today I went on a grand adventure with Jeff in search of clay. Yes, more clay. You guys should know by now that I'm absolutely addicted to the stuff! It seems that he's my good luck charm in that department, because we found tons! I filled up my inventory and there is still a big deposit that has several more blocks to be gathered. We also found a..um..very..neat looking natural land sculpture. I want to post the picture of it on here so badly but it is just..terrible. So I won't. But I will leave this for you, readers, to imagine. Four blocks of dirt, straight up, with one block of sand on each side. I kid you not, I could not make this up. Nor would I ever create this myself! I'll have to say, the server found it hilarious.

That's about it for now, I have lots of things to do and lots of pictures to take. But until then, check out a few funny pictures of some creepers that stopped by!

This lovely creeper found its way onto a light post. Hitting it with a sword was a dumb thing to do, because when I did, he fell off and promptly blew up the front of one of my townhouses, along with the front porch of the church. 

This creeper is being viewed from inside my treehouse! My boyfriend is outside having a staring competition with him. Shortly after, he shot him with arrows until he died. Thankfully, he didn't blow up my treehouse, because I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have the leaves around anymore!! A treehouse minus the tree, I guess!

I know I've said this before, but I promise I won't let you guys down this time! I WILL be posting more! Maybe not every day, but I will try to update several times a week now. Hope you all have been crafting some awesome stuff. Until next time!

Video Time!

Sorry I haven't updated in a few days, but like always, weekends are busy for me. No official work has been done in my side of Minecraftia this weekend, but my boyfriend has made an awesome video highlighting some of the fun stuff we do on our server. You'll get to see a basketball game between Trish and Jake which is really cool, a glass maze that I DEFINITELY struggle through, some zombie torturing, and Jake's sweet dance moves. Hope you guys enjoy this as much as we did!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AIt9iNVDhA

Hungry?

My restaurant is now complete! I am very excited to post these pictures, because I've been working on gathering red wool for quite some time now to finish up my restaurant vision. I think it turned out pretty good, and I hope you guys like it too! My next project is a church/graveyard area, which I'm working on as soon as I post these pictures. Have a nice day!

The kitchen! 6 stoves and 2 crafting tables on the left, and 3 large chests on the right to store food in.

My "VIP" booth, for a large crowd.

Smaller table for a smaller group.

A view of the left side of the restaurant. The "flower" pot was made by surrounding a dirt block with two wooden stairs. I thought it made a nice touch.

The entrance of the restaurant. The waiting area is on the right. Also, the lighting in the place was made the same way that I made the lanterns, just used light gray wool and surrounded all sides. I also just made one wooden fence post coming from the ceiling to hold them.

The outside view. I made the little breezeway area the same way I made the lanterns too, using the dirt method to stack the fence posts.

Oh yes, and here is the menu and the entrance to the kitchen.

Town Update!

With the implementation of beds to the game, I've updated several places in my town. All three little townhouses are now complete. Here's a picture of each one. 

The outside of the townhouses. I put three torches on top of each one, one at the front, middle, and back. Monsters WILL spawn on top of a house if it's not lit properly! I found this out the hard way when I came outside to zombies dancing on the roof!!

Flower beds in the back of each house!

As you can see, each house looks identical, only different colors and different paintings. They're pretty simple, but that's because they're just serving as extra bed spots for visitors at the moment. I really like the blue beds that the new Gerudoku pack has. I just hope eventually beds will be available in different colors! Well, it's time to get back to work. I just wanted to give you guys a few picture updates of the work that's coming along in my town!

Oh, and as promised, here is a picture of a couple of lanterns I have put up, so you can see the finished product.

Keeps your area creeper free!

That's all for now, but will definitely have more to add tomorrow!

Beds Beds Beds

Well, Notch added beds to minecraft. Beds allow you to sleep and skip the night. If you're on a Survival Multiplayer Server you will need all players online to enter a bed in order to bypass the night. Beds cannot be used during the day as they serve no purpose. Sometimes beds will glitch and tell you that they are already occupied, or that you can only sleep in the night despite it obviously being at night. If this happens, simply break the bed and replace it in a new spot.

Simply place the bed down on some ground.

And then right click the bed to enter into it. This will bring up your chat window so that you can yell

at your fellow players to jump into a bed and/or tell them Notch is trolling them. You will also

be presented with the option to leave the bed. Pressing ESC will make you leave the bed.

Sometimes your game will pull a Morrowind (Contains NSFW language.) and you will find yourself being attacked by a mob. This will happen even if you are in a well-lit room. It appears to happen more often on ground level, making building your bed on a second story or higher the optimal choice. Be sure you are healed before going to bed. The bed does not heal you.

Beds are made by placing 3 wool on top of 3 wooden planks in a crafting table. You should probably keep wool on you at all times so you don't prevent your fellow players from being able to skip the night.

I created a new single player server. I spawned next to all these walking beds.

I'll just leave this here.....

Sssssexy Creeper by ~SammyGoddess on deviantART

Minecraft Beta 1.3

* Implemented a new lighting engine with the help of MrMessiahs (can be turned off)
* Changed the options around, added a new “Graphics options” button
* Added beds. If all players in a map sleeps in a bed during night, the game immediately skips until morning
* Added three new half-size blocks
* Added Delay/Repeater redstone dust blocks
* Added whitelisting to the server. To use, enter “whitelist ” where cmd is “on”, “off”, “add ”, “remove ”, “list” or “reload”
* New save file format, old maps need to be converted (that might take a while..)
* It’s now possible to have more than five save slots, and to rename saves
* Scrollbars in both the texture pack list, and in the map selection screen
* Replaced the Mojang splash image to reflect the new logo colors
* .. and a bunch of bug fixes and tweaks!

Yaaatta!