Something I forgot to include in my previous post

In my hurry to post, I forgot to include this screenshot of my current progress of my newest observatory deck. Notice how I have partially covered its roof in glass, but have been forced to stop due to my lack of glass. I am currently working on solving my glass shortage, but until I can do so, this project is halted.

- Mattias

Change of plans. Maybe.

Hi everyone!

So a few hours ago, I happened to travel on my transportation system while aimlessly transporting resources to and from my different builds. I've been working on my walkways, adding the first electric lighting to the walkways leading up to where my village will one day come. As a result of my hunger for more wood, I ended up taking a trip to my jungle biome in order to gather some jungle wood for my walkways. On my way there, I happened to take a look around, and noticed that my jungle ain't exactly the kind of jungle I would expect to stumble upon in the wild in the real world. It is pretty basic. Sure, it looks good, but I do not think it looks quite as lush and green as a real jungle would look. If you have ever watched an episode of Survive This, you would have noticed that in real jungles, you can rarely ever see stone and rocks because of how overgrown the jungles are. Neither can you find larger patches of mountainsides; the jungle's growth simply consumes everything in their way. While I cannot twig the Minecraft coding into generating a much more dense jungle at the moment, I am however quite able to manipulate the land around me. So this is what I might just do before moving on with my progress over at my primary base. I have already added quite alot of vines to the jungle immediately surrounding my transportation line, and will wait until tomorrow to see just how it develops. Only than will I be able to make a decision on whether or not I want to actually commence on this optional project. My experimental vine growth though looks pretty good to say the least, and I will at the very least enhance the jungle around my two tunnels that marks the end of my transportation network at the moment.

So that's another project I am planning to undertake. I am not sure whether or not I really wanna do this, because it involves building a new observatory far away from my primary base, right out in the middle of nowhere, which means I will need more glass, a resource I am already dangerously low on. A solution must be made for this if I am to undertake this. A secondary plan is to just forget about the observatory, and simply go for enhancing the jungle surrounding my transportation network. A third plan is to just forget all about this, and simply stick to my current plan with expanding upon my walkways over at my future village, and also smelt some sand so that I can get the glass needed to complete my newest observatory.

I will update as I move along, but this is where I am standing at the moment.

Looking towards a mountaintop which will be suitable for an option observatory should I choose to enhance this section of land

View over the jungle that would be enhanced if I choose to stick with this plan. Notice the old transportation network at the left side of the screenshot, and my new one on the right side

Experimental vines I have planted today. I will let these grow, and from the result of this I will make a decision on whether or not I wanna commence enhancing my jungle biome 

A bunch of experimental vines I prepared earlier today for an early view of how an enhanced version of this jungle would look like. Notice all the vines, and how they enhance the feeling of being in a jungle where there's lots of life and growth

Looking towards the tunnels that marks the current end of my transportation network

So this is where I am at the moment. Will be fun to see how my vines grows during the night until tomorrow. If they turn out good, I might just commence on this.


- Mattias

Current standing after the christmas season

So yeah, I have been having a break in the recent days due to the Christmas holidays. I have been spending my time with my family, rather than playing Minecraft, so this is why I have not posted any updates recently.

Although I have not played Minecraft enough in the recent days to be able to make a proper progress post, I still wanted to post about my current standing in my survival world. It turns out I may have taken way more over my head than I can cope with, because at the current moment I am officially broke. I have been able to do something that for over a year have seemed impossible. I have run out of glass. Over the course of the past year, I have been continously stockpiling my glass reserves, but with all my new builds requiring a ton of glass, I have not been able to keep up the production, and with my newest greenhouse, I spent the last blocks of glass that I had available in my stockpile. I still have an emergency reserve over at my major tree farm, but these reserves are meant for my tree farm when the day comes to build the glass cube around, and as such I will not take any glass from here to restock at my primary base.

My shortage of glass means I will not be able to continue my builds until I can find more sand to melt. I have a huge supply of sand readily available, and out of sight, underneath my giant tree farm. The only problem is to transport it all from the quarry, to my smeltery. A oneway trip which takes around 8minutes to complete. So yeah, I have a lot of work to do.

I will continue making progress on my builds that does not require glass at the moment, and will also finish the frame work of my new observation tower for my town. So do not worry, there will be more updates coming up as I move along.



I will update with screenshots when I find myself ready to show off my progress.

I hope you have all had a fantastic Christmas season, and wish you all a happy new year.


- Mattias.

Progress on my new observation deck, and three years anniversary of Zurvival2-1

Hi everyone

Today, I have finally been able to make quite decent progress in my survival world. My primary focus today, have been getting my observation deck up and running. I have no added the birch wood design to the column, and are working on getting the frame for the deck finished. I have not decided on a design as of yet, but seeing how this build will mark the three year anniversary of my survival world, I am planning on making it big; very big. And also try to incorporate a much more detailed design than what I would normally do. I am not sure yet what I will do though with the design, but I am hoping to have the observation deck finished over the course of tomorrow, or as soon as possible afterwards if I fail to get it done. It is quite weird to think about though, that tomorrow, my world have been actively expanding for three whole years. And I still have lots of plans for my world. After my observation deck comes the first roads, followed by the first suburban area. It will be fun. But for now, I will stick to getting my observation deck finished.

View from my secondary observatory deck over the progress of my new observation deck

Night time view over my most recent progress on my new observation deck, as seen from my primary observatory

Day time view over my progress from my primary observatory deck. The frame is starting to take shape, and over the course of tomorrow, I will decide upon a design for the finished deck

And that is where I am now. I have used up all my dark oak wood, so I will have to make a resupply run before I can do anything with my observatory deck.

I will post updates as I move along.


- Mattias.

Going away for a few days

Hi everyone!


So yes, like the title of this post says, I am going away for a few days now. I left for my grandmas place yesterday, and thus I wont have access to my survival world for the upcoming two days. I will be back around Sunday, and will probably be able to make more progress on my new tree farm at that point.


I am however happy to say that before I left yesterday I was able to make quite some progress with my resources. I was able to harvest three full chests worth of birch wood from my newest addition to my tree farm, and thus I now have the materials necessary to finally be able to finish my observation deck in my new village. From that point onwards, it will only be a matter of constructing the first infrastructure, from which I can finally start building the first couple of houses. I can already now reveal that this will not be anything fancy or overly decorated stuff. I find builds like that to be exaggarated and highly unrealistic. Especially those who build medieval houses, and go all over the moon with the decorations. Now if you'd ever travelled to cities in Norway where we have preserved most of the medieval houses, you would notice one very important detail that separates the houses here from what alot of people like to build in Minecraft: the real medieval houses tends to be very simplistic, and built from the cheapest materials available. Very few, to no-one, were able to afford anything overly fancy. So that's where I am will take my inspiration from. My village will be made pretty simplistic, and with few details compared to many other builds we may see out there on the interne. Its just realistic to make a medieval house, or even a modern house for that matter, overly fancy and decorative. Sure, some of the more wealthy citizens both in modern and medieval cities are able to build houses with impressive and mind-blowing details, but those details tends to be too small for me to be able to recreate in Minecraft.

So thats my current plan. Simple and cheap. The only thing that will really stand out in terms of details, will be my observation deck, and even that will be relatively simple compared to others. It will be fun though. I am hoping I will be able to top off my observation deck within the next two weeks, and than start constructing my first houses around Christmas and new years eve.

Oh and yeah, third anniversary coming up on  December 17th. I am trying to find something to build to celebrate the third anniversary. For the past two anniversaries, I have not really made any efforts to mark the day, so its about high time I do so on the third anniversary.


See you guys around in three days than


- Mattias.

Progress on sugar cane farm and new tree farm

 Hi everyone!

Yes it's been a while since I last posted an update here. I have been very busy recently, and thus I have not had the time to even play Minecraft, and as such I have not had anything to post about. But I was able to finally go back into the game during the weekend, and make some pretty good progress in my world. My current focus have been to complete my sugar cane farm, which is now completed and ready to be used for the production of sugar cane. At the moment, I have also been able to finish my tree farm up to the point where I have the frame ready, and all the slots where I will one day cultivate the trees have been fully set up. So all I need to do now to complete my tree farm, will be to cover it in glass, which hopefully will not take too much time. At the moment though, I am also considering to just cultivate a few trees and get enough wood to finish my new observation tower, but time will tell what I decide to do in the end.

My sugar cane farm finished and ready for use. I have already cultivated the sugar cane here

My mushroom farm had to go in order to give room for my expanded tree farm

Halfway through the construction of the base of my tree farm

The base of my tree farm finished and ready for use

The frame for my tree farm finished and viewed from a distance. All that remains to be done now, is to cover the thing in glass

I will post more when I have made more progress in my survival world


- Mattias