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Dyeing sheep = endless funtimes
Feb. 11th, 2012 06:43 pmGuh. I would like to pretend that Minecraft hasn't completely eaten my life, but that would be a total lie, as evidenced by the fact that I haven't updated this thing in a week. Here are some Minecraft-y things I've been doing:
-built a railroad to connect my two main camps. One time I was riding along with a spare empty minecart, and a sheep walked into the road, and instead of getting run over, it got picked up by the empty minecart! So I took a train ride with a sheep sitting behind me.
-built several buildings including a lighthouse, a house based on Pueblo architecture, a big hollow sphere made of snow floating in midair, a pool illuminated with glowstone, a hut made entirely of pumpkins, a brick bakery to display all my cakes in, and a big castle/manor-house type thing. Although I don't actually live in any of them — the Minecraft world is so pretty that I don't see the point of living inside a building, so I usually camp under the stars.
-grew a ton of melons, pumpkins, wheat, and sugarcane, and made a bunch of bread and cake.
-dyed a herd of sheep in rainbow colors. And I've gotten a lot better at shearing the sheep without accidentally punching them.
-figured out how to navigate those abandoned mineshafts without getting completely fucking lost: Ariadne's gold ball of yarn! By which I mean redstone wire. I always have way more redstone than I know what to do with, so using it to mark where I've been has turned out to be a great idea.
-made a portal to the Nether. I'm not a huge fan of the Nether — it's scary, has poor lighting, and lacks variety in biomes and materials — but I wanted to make potions, so I went in on Peaceful mode, raided a fortress of all the resources it had to offer (let's just say that the inhabitants will be missing their staircases), then located a Blaze spawner and switched to Easy mode to relieve some Blazes of their rods. Heh, that sounds pervy. I also met some Zombie Pigmen at the fortress and they're actually kind of cute.
-speaking of monsters, I've been fighting more of them lately. I usually play on Peaceful mode whenever I'm building something (because I don't want to be interrupted) or cave-diving (because I like having the freedom to explore without being in a constant state of paranoia and anxiety), but I've been switching to Easy mode more often during the evenings so I can get more Exp, in hopes of at long last obtaining a Silk Touch pickaxe. Actually my biggest reason for staying in Peaceful mode is those damn Creepers. Their explosions really screw up the pretty landscape of the gameworld. There's this desert area that I've been consistently using to fight monsters in, and it looks like a freaking war zone. Often when a Creeper explodes, I'll dive into the crater and pick up all the sand blocks it left behind and fill the hole up as much as I can. I feel like I spend my nights fending off the Creepers and my days cleaning up their messes. However there's one upside to those craters: if you stick cactuses in the bottom then they serve as great traps to wear down the monsters so they're easier to kill.
-and just now I planted a bunch of giant mushrooms near my desert camp just for giggles, and then the sun set and a Creeper spawned right on top of one of the giant mushrooms! Actually it looked really cute up there, like it was a sentry keeping watch for me, with its perpetually serious expression indicating that it had no idea what a silly-looking watchtower it was standing on. Oh who am I kidding, I think the Creepers are adorable, in spite of their landscape-destroying ways. I would totally hug one if I could convince it to not explode.
-built a railroad to connect my two main camps. One time I was riding along with a spare empty minecart, and a sheep walked into the road, and instead of getting run over, it got picked up by the empty minecart! So I took a train ride with a sheep sitting behind me.
-built several buildings including a lighthouse, a house based on Pueblo architecture, a big hollow sphere made of snow floating in midair, a pool illuminated with glowstone, a hut made entirely of pumpkins, a brick bakery to display all my cakes in, and a big castle/manor-house type thing. Although I don't actually live in any of them — the Minecraft world is so pretty that I don't see the point of living inside a building, so I usually camp under the stars.
-grew a ton of melons, pumpkins, wheat, and sugarcane, and made a bunch of bread and cake.
-dyed a herd of sheep in rainbow colors. And I've gotten a lot better at shearing the sheep without accidentally punching them.
-figured out how to navigate those abandoned mineshafts without getting completely fucking lost: Ariadne's gold ball of yarn! By which I mean redstone wire. I always have way more redstone than I know what to do with, so using it to mark where I've been has turned out to be a great idea.
-made a portal to the Nether. I'm not a huge fan of the Nether — it's scary, has poor lighting, and lacks variety in biomes and materials — but I wanted to make potions, so I went in on Peaceful mode, raided a fortress of all the resources it had to offer (let's just say that the inhabitants will be missing their staircases), then located a Blaze spawner and switched to Easy mode to relieve some Blazes of their rods. Heh, that sounds pervy. I also met some Zombie Pigmen at the fortress and they're actually kind of cute.
-speaking of monsters, I've been fighting more of them lately. I usually play on Peaceful mode whenever I'm building something (because I don't want to be interrupted) or cave-diving (because I like having the freedom to explore without being in a constant state of paranoia and anxiety), but I've been switching to Easy mode more often during the evenings so I can get more Exp, in hopes of at long last obtaining a Silk Touch pickaxe. Actually my biggest reason for staying in Peaceful mode is those damn Creepers. Their explosions really screw up the pretty landscape of the gameworld. There's this desert area that I've been consistently using to fight monsters in, and it looks like a freaking war zone. Often when a Creeper explodes, I'll dive into the crater and pick up all the sand blocks it left behind and fill the hole up as much as I can. I feel like I spend my nights fending off the Creepers and my days cleaning up their messes. However there's one upside to those craters: if you stick cactuses in the bottom then they serve as great traps to wear down the monsters so they're easier to kill.
-and just now I planted a bunch of giant mushrooms near my desert camp just for giggles, and then the sun set and a Creeper spawned right on top of one of the giant mushrooms! Actually it looked really cute up there, like it was a sentry keeping watch for me, with its perpetually serious expression indicating that it had no idea what a silly-looking watchtower it was standing on. Oh who am I kidding, I think the Creepers are adorable, in spite of their landscape-destroying ways. I would totally hug one if I could convince it to not explode.
