Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Yay Update!

Well, it's been a busy couple of days. Sammy and I tried out Rift so we took a mini break from Minecraft. I didn't like it as much as everyone else, so I have been doing a lot on Minecraft. I finished up my cafe, and it's looking pretty nice. As soon as I get it decorated I'll post pictures. I also went on a long journey in search of snow to build a log cabin in. I didn't find what I was looking for, but I did find about 30 pumpkins! That was the highlight of my day, finding pumpkins. Psh.

Here's my first set of pumpkins, which excited me to no end. This was my first time actually seeing pumpkins.


I'm still hoping to build that log cabin sometime soon. I'm planning on making it out of the natural wood instead of turning it into the processed wood? I guess that's what you'd call it. Anyway, I think it'll be pretty neat when it's done.

Right now I'm making sort of a window treatment at the cafe. It's pretty much a big cluster of colored wool, but I think it brightens it up a little bit considering it's just plain wood. Like I said before, pictures to come. Also better blog posts to come now that I'm back in the game. Until tomorrow!

Monday, January 24, 2011

Facebook Games?

I haven't been able to craft a lot of mines the past few days because I went to my parent's house for the weekend and spent some quality time with my family and some of my friends back home. My project that I'm working on right now is a cafe that is located behind our main farm house. My boyfriend has been kind enough to point out that every building I've crafted is based on a Facebook game. Farmville, Frontierville, and now Cafe World. I didn't do it on purpose, I swear!! It got me thinking, what inspires you on Minecraft? Apparently my subconscious is thinking about Facebook!

I'm really looking forward to the completion of the cafe though. I think it will be really cute, and I hope you guys like it too. I'll be posting pictures, of course.

Until next time!

And remember, the SSSSSSSS sound means RUN.

Mining Checklist

Note to self :

Bring the following before you go mining next time. They are essential.

  • 2 Buckets of Water
  • Several Cooked Porkchops
  • A Few Loaves of Bread
  • A 64 Stack of Unprocessed Wood
  • A 64 Stack of Cobblestone or Dirt or Both
  • Sword of Stone or Above Quality
  • 3 Pickaxes of Stone or Above Quality
  • At Least 2 Signs
  • Shovel of Stone or Above Quality
  • Clock
  • Compass
  • As Much Armor As Possible Equipped
That's all I can think of for right now, taking suggestions always.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Adventures of Aymi and Asterly!

Today was a pretty good day in Minecraft. I finished off my brick house and built a barn. But that's not the best part. The best part was my adventure today with my friend Aster.

It all started when Aster told me she made a gate to the Nether. I was curious so I came to check it out. It was beautiful! A pretty obsidian rectangle with swirly purple designs, with what looked to be purple snowflakes coming out of it. But that wasn't all that was coming out..it was also making some extremely creepy noises. To our dismay, the gate doesn't work yet on Multiplayer mode, but she left it as a pretty entrance to her house, so it wasn't a waste!

Then I explored her house for the first time, and man it's cool! It had a huge waterslide in it, but after my fail attempt to exit it (yes, I drowned) she took it down. My mistake. The best part of Aster's house is the top, which has red flowers in the shape of a heart that Jeff made for her (AWW!!!). She also has a really neat indoor garden that I'm happy to say I helped supply sugarcane for.

After exploring the house, we went on an adventure and found snow! The snowballs are such fun. It took us a little over a day to reach snow from our part of the world, but it was well worth it. We got to sail across the ocean, and that was fun. I accidentally punched my boat to death, but Aster fixed it. It seems that I'm clumsy even on Minecraft. Anyway, after stocking up on snow we made a plan to launch them at Anderson for setting the place on fire (no, I have NOT forgiven that yet!!) and headed for home. I was losing a bit of health by then so Aster gave me some cake. It was delicious! We also went to a secret location, but I told her I'd keep that between us, so everyone will just have to wonder about that one!

I'm beginning to see that the best part of Minecraft is playing with friends. Oh yes, and I also have the screenshots I've been promising of my finished work so far:


The brick house completed! Next to it is a guest house which will be in my next screenshot post! Also, say hello to Bessie the cow, main provider of milk at our farm!


The inside left side of the house.


The inside right view (my first redstone torch!!)


The basement with the food supply and building material chests.


The barn, made out of red wool..it took awhile to make this one!


Inside view of the barn, with the feeding stalls and "hay", which is really just yellow wool. It's just for appearance, obviously. Out back is a fenced in pasture. Aster caught a pig which roams in there!


That's it for today! Hope you guys enjoyed the pictures of our growing farm. Until next time!

Screenshot Saturday

Apparently, Worth1000.com held a minecraft structure contest. I decided to check out the winners and was thoroughly impressed by what I saw.

Here are the top 6.

6. Epic Lego Man


5. Project Parliament - The Hungarian Parliament


4. A Pair of Eastern Dragons

3. Kumamoto Castle

2. Nostalgia Gaming Corner

1. Le n'gociant, 'The Trader' (Sea Galleon)


Contest was posted here. More entries can be seen here. They're hosting another contest here.

Recruiting Animals!

I'm glad Sammy took the time to explain about that..event..that happened last night. I was kind of speechless for awhile. All I could say over vent was OMG, OMG, OMG. I was so scared we were going to lose the farm..that's what we get for trying to adopt a hobo! Can't trust 'em! Just kidding, Anderson. It was one of the most entertaining nights I've ever had on there!! With the fire finally abolished, it's time for me to move on to my next project: a barn.

Why a barn? Well, because ANDERSON SCARED ALL THE PIGS AWAY!! We're running out of porkchops because of the fire. I am going to seduce the pigs with my architecture and make them flourish again. It could be either epic or a big mess. Either way, it's going to be fun.

Now to decide if I want a red barn or a wooden barn...I think I'ma go all out and make it red. Pictures to come!

P.S. The brick house is finished and furnished. :) The guest house is a work in progress, but it'll have to wait until we have a better food supply. I'll post pictures of the brick house later, too.