Just because I am stubborn...

Never posting another blog post at 1A.M ever again xD. Yeah, that last post i made could've been much better. Oh well, that's what I get for posting my blog post at 1A.M when I am tired.

So yeah, not gonna do that again.


- Mattias.

Digging Under The Surface

The title should explain what I have been doing today and than some more. Yes, I have been focusing my attention primarily underground in my survival world today rather than continuing my transportation system. Getting tired of expanding the same build now, so I have left my transportation system be for the time being. I will continue that project later on, but for now I am focusing my attention on my underground mines which I have been carving out underneath my primary base.

Next to my tree farm, my mines are probably the biggest build I have in my survival world, though they were originall unintentional. Back when I first started playing Minecraft, I had no idea what I was doing, so what I did was I started hollowing out the mountain immediately close to where I established my first base (Which would go on to become my primary base of operation, which is still being used to this day). During the first 2weeks I harvested enough cobblestone to fill up five large chests, which i would later use to construct many of my first builds, though 90% of the cobblestone was invested directly into my tree farm, which unfortunately still remains to be completed. But yeah, things like that can happen sometimes. But hollowing out five chests of cobblestone from the same mine does leave quite some substantial space underneath my base, which would go on to make up the foundation for what is today my secondary mine, and also my biggest one. It is very difficult to comprehend the size of my mine as it stretches out for quite a bit, but I have in recent times started to dig my way down to LVL 11 in altitude. Progress has been slow due to other projects, but now I am focusing my attention here once again. My goal with this build is to make a massive hole in the ground, which I may one day expose to the light of day and put a massive glass cube on top of, though this latter part is highly unlikely as I do not have the required resources.

So yeah. Made some progress on my mine today. Not much else to post about though, other than some progress on my tree farm which I am starting to get really tired off :P.

The hole I am working on digging out in my mine. It is not that big at the moment, but it will get bigger as I make more progress here. Currently working on resupplying my stock levels with cobblestone, andesite, diorite, and granite.

Progress I have made on my tree farm today. Most of the cobble I harvest from my mines, end up here as the flooring for my tree farm.

I will continue to progress on my projects, and will post more updates as I go along so please do keep tuned for more :).


Any feedback is very welcome.


- Mattias.

Tad late with the updates, and my current build progress

So yeah, the title says it, I have not been all too good at keeping my blog here up to date with my current build. I have been super busy with various stuff, and making progress in my world is one of those things that I spend my time on at the moment. I am off for the easter, so Minecraft is just about the only game I am able to invest time into. Which is not too much of a problem, as I am able to progress quite nicely with my world now that GTA does not distract my attention from my world like it would ordinarily do. Which is rather good as well, considering the current situation in GTA online, but ah that's just a story for another time.

So yeah, my survival world. I have been making some pretty good and extensive progress in the most recent days. Most noticable of which would be my transportation system, which is constantly expanding and reaching ever further than it has ever done before. I am starting to feel that I may be investing a bit too much time and resources into this project as it is starting to get ridicilously long and extensive now, but I have no plans to stop my progress on it just yet. And all I have been doing is, you know, mixing things up, making a new design for my transportation network, and just having fun building it as I have been going along. I was also able to figure out a means of properly farming glowstone without having to spend ages in the Nether, so glowstone have become a pretty significant part of my progress, especially with my most recent, major, station, which I decided to put down just next to my tree farm where the transportation network leaves the farm and enters the AMPLIFIED sectors that I generated way back in 2015. Because yes, my world was transformed from a default world into an AMPLIFIED world. I did transform it again into a costum world, but I have now decided to transform it back into an AMPLIFIED world, so AMPLIFIED for the win indeed.

My most recent design for a primary station alongside my transportation network. My tree farm is situated further up in the screenshot, but due to low performance I had to turn down my render distance, and thus my tree farm is not visible in this screenshot.

View over a newly constructed portion of my transportation system. This screenshot is kind of outdated, as this has since been completed and finalized.

View over my transportation network from my new primary station. My tree farm visible to the right side of the screenshot.

As far as progress elsewhere goes, I have also been investing quite a bit of time and resources to my secondary transportation network in the Nether which connects my survival world together through a more time efficient network. Like i said above, glowstone is no longer a resource which I have to spare for special occassions, and thus I kind of got carried away while making my network more hollow and open, and thus glowstone got used a LOT.

Glowstone added to my nether network

Other than this there have not really been too much progress in my survival world in the recent days. I am working on the same, boring, laborious tasks day in, day out. Kind of. Other than the progress that are visible on the surface in my world, I have been spending a lot of time underground, preparing for future builds. I got some great plans for my survival world, so I am stockpiling in preparations for them all. My primary goal though will be to stockpile enough glass so that when the day comes for me to enclose my tree farm, I will have enough glass to do so. At the moment, my tree farm is at a standstill as I have not been working on the darn thing for weeks, if not even months now, but I will resume work on the farm soon enough, and when the day comes for me to enclose it, it will only be a good thing if I am able to stockpile enough glass to finish the job in one swift motion.


So yeah. That is where I am currently standing at. Not much progress being aside from my transportation networks getting some much needed renovations and expansions. I am however planning for changes in the future to my survival world which will bring on some variations, so stay tuned for more updates as I go along :).


And remember: if you got anything to say, whether it be positive or negative feedback, comments are allways welcome :).



- Mattias.

Possible complications coming along with the new snapshots

So yeah. The title of this post pretty much explains it all what I am about to discuss here. So it seems that my world has not taken the most recent snapshots released to the game all too kindly to say the least. I've been facing a whole host of challenges and difficulties in my world which has arisen after I have updated to the most recent snapshots. And yes, I can already hear you saying that this is what happens when I update my world with experimental snapshots. Because as stated by Mojang, they can corrupt my world, and as we can remember from videos made by youtubers such as GoodTimesWithScar who have played the game since Minecraft was first released, worlds can and will experience difficulties when faced with new snapshots. But still, some of these difficulties are rather annoying and not really easy to understand. The main issue I have been having with the most recent snapshots in my world these days is the fact that for one blocks have disappeared from some of my builds. Granted this could just be a side affect of updating with snapshots, as the same thing has happened before, but with the snapshots now this problem has been much bigger and more rife than it has been with snapshots in the past. And it is not cosmetic blocks that are affected. Redstone seems to be affected by the snapshot as well. Because I have experienced redstone dust that keeps signalling a redstone signal, even minutes after the source of the signal has been cut. The most notable example is the redstone lamps that can be seen in the screenshot below. These redstone lamps keep lighting up, even though I have deactivated the switch that supplies them with the redstone power they need to operate. But for what the gods know, this could just be a mistake on my side, because to be honest, I have no longer any control over my electricity system anylonger because of how much time has passed since I started building it, so there could be loops in the system that keeps sending the signal in circles, which again is transferred to the redstone lamps. I'm not gonna bother trying to figure out what is causing this, but it is still annoying, as I HATE seeing my builds getting destroyed because of something as simple as an update.

A design for a roof over my walkway which has been destroyed because of my world being upgraded to the most recent snapshot.

But broken blocks I can handle. They can be replaced and broken builds can be repaired manually when I get the time and the will to do so. The main problem I have about the most recent snapshot is that it has apparently affected the breeding habats of villagers, to the point where the villagers in my iron farm is no longer breeding properly. I am not sure what could be causing this though, so I will have to do some more research into the matters before I can draw any conclusions as to what is causing this. I will update on my blog as soon as I find something about this. At the moment though, I spend most of my time ingame extending my transportation system ever further into my remaining AMPLIFIED sectors, so I have not really been able to check out what could be causing my villagers to stop breeding. The only real way to find out if it is just something temporary or something more serious, is to simply leave the PC running overnight with the villagers and their chunks loaded. Which I will probably end up doing.

I will post more updates when I have found out more about this subject.


- Mattias.

So apparently they released parrots into the game...

Yes. It seems like Mojang have finally gone ahead and added some color to Minecraft. About time as well if you ask me, because it was getting rather boring to travel on my transportation network without anything but ocelots and the occassional pig to look at. But yeah, parrots in Minecraft, how shiny that will be. I have not actually loaded the game yet with Parrots in it because my world have been pretty much dormant and inactive for the past couple of days as I have been having a break from all video games. But yeah, it seems like parrots can only spawn in jungle biomes, fair enough, so I will probably make a quick visit to my old jungle base in the upcoming hours or days to pay a visit. Will be fun to see the jungle with an added bit of color. That is, if there are any colors. It seems like they have only relased the gray-yellow parrot for the time being judging by the snapshot release notes, but it is better then nothing that is for sure. Now all we have to do wait and see is if they make it so that ocelots will begin to start hunting for parrots, though that may be a bit too much for Minecraft I am sure.

But yeah. Will be fun to explore and see whether or not parrots makes any difference in the jungle biome. I am really hoping they will change my mind on connecting my jungle biome to my new transportation network, because it does look rather dark for the jungle biomes at the moment as I am seriously considering to bypass my jungle base. But if I were to connect it I would have to come up with a solution to my current expansion plans, as turning the whole thing around, connect it the jungle base, and then turn it around again and go all the way back, won't be an option.


For now though, I got my hands full with my most recent builds, which I will post updates about on this blog as I go along. Currently working on building a new walkway, which in the future will connect several new and updated greenhouses and farms to my base. My old farmlands is rather outdated as they are the ones I built back in early 2015, so it is only about time I am getting around to update my world with more updated designs and stuff like that. It will be fun indeed.


- Mattias.