4years of Zurvival 2-1

As the title says, it has officially been four years since I first generated my world Zurvival 2-1. I will write a much more fancy post later on, but I wanted to get this out there that my world is now one year older, and it is still thriving and growing for each passing day. But it's got a nasty birthday, in the form of the most recent snapshot for Minecraft, which has seriously affected my world negatively, and destroyed my iron farm.

My fourth anniversary as a Minecraft player can mark a turning point in my world's history. In the absolute worst case scenario, I can end up getting stuck with 1.13, because it becomes too risky to upgrade any further than that. I can also end up with having to revert to an earlier savefile, lose at least 2days worth of work, and having to revert back to the most recent 1.13 release.


Its not something Im happy about, thats one of the risks I take by loading my world with a snapshot to begin with. Its just a real shame that the world begins to regerenate itself like this. I have literally loaded dozens of snapshots, and never ever have I run into this issue.


I will update my blog here as soon as I know more about the status of my world.


- Mattias

Damage control - this can become ugly

Well this is rather... Unfortunate. I recently updated my world to the most recent of snapshot, and my experiences with this so far has been pretty much only negative. Many of my chunks are generating anew, and the consequence of this is that some of my older builds are getting destroyed. So far I have lost a smaller section of my old transportation network, and perhaps worst of all: my entire gold farm, which I am absolutely dependent on for iron, has been largely destroyed because of this. My old chunks, with all my progress, are gone, and in their place are fresh, new chunks, or a mixture of old and new, cause some of my chunks has gotten a new look right in the middle of them.

I am not sure if this is just a bug that I am alone about experiencing, but I will have to do some damage control tomorrow, and if my world is too damaged, I might be forced into reverting back to one of my backups. Luckily for me, I have been frequent with my backups, but it will a huge loss for me if I lose all my progress on expanding my transportation network. We are talking at least 2days worth of progress down the drain if I choose to revert, and thats not taking into account all my smelting and mining, which in its own is very expensive to recoup.


At the moment theres nothing I can do. I will perform a full damage control tomorrow, and than I will make a decision from what I see. But my iron farm is officially lost, which will seriously hamper my further progress with my world if I so choose to keep my current progress and just keep on pushing through the current snapshot.


I will update here as soon as I know more.



- Mattias

And old screenshot which shows just what is at stake now with my iron farm being destroyed: a constant and reliable source of iron will be lost forever if I choose to continue with my current state. 

A part of the section of my transportation network which has been affected by the integrity losses that has come as a result of the most recent snapshot

Looking down at where the entrance to my iron farm once used to be. Where it once used to be a waterway to transport away the iron golems, theres nothing but sand now. 

A screenshot showcasing the waterway that used to carry the iron golems to my grinder, stopping abruptly where new world generation meets the old one. 

Getting back to business

Yes, I have finally been able to return to Minecraft at full power and with full strength. Obviously, getting back into Minecraft after about 6months can be a challenge, and for me, that is the fact that a number of my farms have stopped functioning properly with the addition of 1.13. It is really annoying, because it has seriously affected my builds and designs. The most notable consequence of this is the fact that I am forced into only using stone and other pickaxe-related blocks, which I can mine with my pickaxe which at the moment is the only tool I have which is not down on the red in terms of durability. I have tried a couple of times already to repair my EXP farm, but so far it has all been only failures. I am planning on completely renovating my EXP farm as a result of this, but at the moment I am in no mood to do so, as I would much rather expand upon my world. But like I said, the consequence of this is that all my new builds are either built from stone, or any other material I can get my hands on that relies on the pickaxe. On builds which I am expanding, I am working on incorporating stone into the design to the best of my capabilities. Its annoying, but thats just how it is at the moment.

Problems aside though, I have finally been able to make significant progress on my projects. I have been able to lay out the foundation for a village I have been planning to build for over a year now, and are currently working on connecting it to my transportation network. The walkway was finished months ago, but I still got left to connect it via my minecart system. I have also built three experimental towers, in which I have tried out new types of towers for my world. Theres nothing fancy going on, because I want everything to be simplistic, but I am satisfied with my current progress, and thats really I for one care about. I am not really a fan of the degree of detail that alot of players demand from their builds, so I prefer to do it the simple way, with few details, yet with a design that I find to look good.

Screenshots though, speaks more than a thousand words, so I am attaching a few screenshots below here.


Hope to see you around sometime later for more updates!


- Mattias

An overview screenshot from my current progress with the towers. This screenshot is kind of outdated though, as it was taken before I began expanding my transportation network out into this region. 

Looking up on my transportation network from the ground. Those who have read my blog for a long time may notice that this build has been affected by my EXP farm shutting down, because usually I would birch wood for this thing right here, but without the appropriate tools, I have decided to switch to chiseled stone blocks. 

An experimental phase of my village. Nothing fancy really, but its something, and Im happy with it. 

A closer look of my experimental towers. These are meant more as design tryouts, rather than anything else. 

Finally getting around to getting back to Minecraft

The title pretty much says it all. I have finally been able to get back to Minecraft. I have spent the past hours trying to get my worlds set up so that I may finally get back to my projects. Most notably I need to prepare the foundations for a build to mark the new year. But I must admit, that if my current experience so far after my absence from the game is an indication of what this game has become, I doubt I will bother to play it for too long. I have been forced into deleting my world three times now and replacing it with a backup file. And as much as I am trying to launch it with a snapshot active, loading my world up only to see its entire generation getting messed up, with new landscape generating on top of my old builds, is not a fun thing to see. I am at the moment working on adding my world to my save folder for the fifth time, and this time around I will revert my Minecraft back to 1.13, just in case.

I will try to see if I can get my world up and running once more, and get back to my projects. I got alot of things to catch up on, so should be interesting.



I will update when I know more.


- Mattias

Yes, I am still alive...

I have just been very busy with my life these days. have not been having it easy to say the least, so I have had no time to spare for Minecraft nor my blog. I have no idea exactly when I will be able to resume my work on my world, but at the moment I just have no motivation at all. I am hoping that I will be able to relaunch both my blog and my world over the course of the upcoming month, but I just cannot guarantee anything. Only time will tell.

One project that I am still very determined to complete though which I just recently started, will be to update my "About" post that presents my world. I wrote a very rough and short description of my world 2years ago, but I feel like it does not do my world justice. SO, I am currently in the works of writing a brand new description of my world, that will represent it much better, which also includes some screenshots of important milestones, as well as a more detailed breakdown of my history as a Minecraft player.



I hope to see you all around sometime, and that I will be able to be much more active on my blog than I have been up until now.


- Mattias. 

Iron, villagers, and the jungle

So yeah, I have not really had anything to write about on my blog here in the past days or so. I have been very busy taking care of more important stuff than to play Minecraft, so my progress has been halted pretty much completely over the course of the past few days. I have however still left my game running, so I have been able to grind a lot of iron and gold, which is very good, considering the fact that I am planning some major expansions to my jungle biome over the next weeks. I have previously written about my plans to completely terraform and change a portion of my jungle biome, and I still very determined to carry out this project, so at the moment I am in the planning phases. My first priority would be to get a proper transportation network internally in the jungle biome, sorted out. I am primarily thinking about carving the minecart rails into the mountain, trying to leave as much of the biome as possible untouched. I have built a couple of projects like this in the past, and it is very fun to just try to make the railways fit into the naturally generated landscape. The clue is to avoid too many drastic changes in the landscape, and keep the railway clinging to the wall of the mountains, with bridges in between only where it is absolutely necessary. It will be fun, but for now, I am stuck just getting all my resources sorted out, because just the tracks alone will consume a huge amount of resources, especially cobblestone.


I have not been able to take any screenshots yet because at the moment, this project is only in the very earliest of planning phases. I am hoping to get a prototype of the railways done over the next days, so that I will have something to showcase here. Until than though, this is my current situation. Its not how I hoped my world would turn out, because I was hoping I would be able to maintain my trend of posting every single day, but avast, that's just how it goes when life gives you a slap in the face. I am not gonna go too much into detail as to what has happened that has prevented me from playing, so do not bother to ask. But I am back now, and hopefully I will be able to keep up to my schedule over the next couple of days.


- Mattias.

EXP farming again

Yeah the title says it all. I have been busy today doing other things than Minecraft, and thus no real progress has been made today. I was still able to farm for some EXP I need to repair my tools later on though, so the day was not entirely wasted in Minecraft. Plus, I got to farm some much needed iron as well, so I am still very happy with how the day turned out for me.


My first priority in terms of repairs, will be my diamond shovel. The shovel I have been using for the past days proved to be worn out entirely beyond repair, so I ended up reclaiming one of my older shovels from way back in the day of Minecraft 1.11. It works perfectly fine, but I still need to make those repairs on my gear. So there will probably be more EXP farming for me tomorrow, if I get the time to spare to play Minecraft.



- Mattias.

ARCHIVED POST: Expanding my tree farm and my current progress

NOTE: THIS POST IS ARCHIVED, AND THE INFORMATION SHOWN HERE IS THUS OUTDATED. THIS POST IS MEANT ONLY FOR INFORMATIVE AND REFERENTIAL PURPOSES, AND SHOULD THUS NOT BE TAKEN AS RELIABLE. 

Okay, so I know that in my previous post I said I was gonna continue my progress on my new city/village. It appears that I may have chewed over more than I can swallow. I made a quick calculation on just how much wood I will need just to finish my new observatory deck. I am not sure exactly what the final amount will be, but with my current plans, and with my current estimates, the figures indicates a full inventory of birch wood just to get the facade finished. And this estimation does not even include the wood I will need to build the actual observatory on the top of my tower, which will be around 50blocks tall; the tallest observatory deck in my entire survival world. Never have I ever constructed such a large scale observatory. I am planning on making it be pretty big, on top of my current tower. At the moment, all I have is a stone skeleton, which shows where my observatory will be built. But thanks to the insane demand for wood I know I will experience for the observation deck, and probably also for future projects related to my city, I quickly realized that if I am to have any hopes of completing the darn thing, I have to make some drastic changes to my primary base. Now, anyone who have followed me on G+ should know that my tree farm has remained virtually unchanged for over a year now. Originally, when I launched my world for the first time, I constructed a small 40*40blocks tree farm, meant as a temporary solution until I found a suitable area to build a major one. As much as I have a giant tree farm both within walking distance from my primary base, and 10minutes away by minecart, it will be too ineffective to shunt the wood from point A to point B. Especially if I am to use my biggest tree farm. My oldest tree farm, the one I use the most, is already being used to the absolute maximum of capacity it can spare. I have even chosen to cultivate half the farm in a dense grid of trees, only 1block apart from one another. So the obvious solution, is to expand my tree farm outwards.

The current expansion I am working on is being built on the opposite side of my existing tree farm, reach out towards my old spawn tower. 

ARCHIVED POST: Experimenting with house designs

NOTE: THIS POST IS ARCHIVED, AND THE INFORMATION SHOWN HERE IS THUS OUTDATED. THIS POST IS MEANT ONLY FOR INFORMATIVE AND REFERENTIAL PURPOSES, AND SHOULD THUS NOT BE TAKEN AS RELIABLE. 

So after all that work on my walkways yesterday, I decided I would need a break from the monotonous work, step back a few steps, and just take the time to do what I love the most in Minecraft. That being, just building something simple, and than just take it as it comes as far as designs goes. I am very simple in my building style though, so it won`t get too complicated. But that`s how I like it. Simple, yet different.

Although my current progress here may not seem like too much at the moment, this is just my first design, where I have been practicing myself on a new building technique for designing houses in a new pattern. Basically what I am doing, is I am building the house in cubes. That being, the house is made up of 3*3cubes, which I will than expand upon. Turned out pretty good for a first time in a very long while if I may say so myself. My ultimate plan though, is to build a village, and maybe build a wall around it. 

ARCHIVED POST: An update as to the inactivity on my blog

NOTE: THIS POST IS AN ARCHIVED POST. THE INFORMATION SHOWN HERE IS THUS OUTDATED AND SHOULD BE TAKEN AS RELIABLE. THE POST WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN LATE 2016, BUT NEVER PUBLISHED.


Hi everyone! And sorry for the recent inactivity on my blog! Been busy with things in my daily life so my blog was unfortunately left behind in the dark for some time while I had to take care of my personal life. I will try to maintain a decent activity level now, but I cannot guarantee anything as there are a lot of things I need to fix and do in the near future

Storage facility nearing completion

So I was finally able to sit down and make a lot of progress in my survival world today. Pumped about 2hours into the game today, and the results are looking quite good actually. I was able to fully finish the walls of the facility, with the exception of one side where I need to add lights, and I also got the roof finished. So yeah, quite a lot of progress done today, and I am quite satisfied with it. The next stage though will be to fill up the facility with chests, as well as adding glass to the underside of my roof. I am planning for an attic in the facility, which includes a glass flooring covering the underside of the roof's overhang. I think it will look pretty nice when I am done with it, but for now, I will have a break until tomorrow before I continue working on my facility. Upon its completion, I will begin filling it up with materials, in particular, lots and lots of sugar canes and wheat.

The roof finished

Looking down inside my storage facility towards the ground level, while adding more floors 

All floors finished, and looking down towards ground level from the top floor

Looking down at my new storage facility from my secondary observation deck. Notice the shape of the roof I ended up adding to my facility.

Looking down at my storage facility, with my new observation deck visible.

I will post more updates as I make more progress tomorrow.


- Mattias.

Road progress

Hi everyone!

So for today, I chose to focus my time on expanding my road network, connecting my new storage facility to my road network. I have been busy today, having attended a concert, and thus I was not able to make much more progress than that on my survival world. But it turned out pretty good nevertheless if I may add so, so I am very satisfied with the progress I have made today.



Not the longest post I have ever written, but this is where I am at the moment.

Looking over at my most recently added section of road that I have been working on today

- Mattias.

There be lights!

Hi everyone

So for today, I chose to keep up my careful warming up by keeping my pace slower than what I have done in the past. As such, there have not been as much progress I would have preferred there to be. But avast, some progress is better than nothing. My primary focus today, have been farming more birch wood which I will need for future expansion, and adding lights to my new storage facility over at my village. It's starting to look pretty good already, but I still got a lot to do before it will be done, and at my current pace this can take some time. But I am getting there, eventually. Just need to take it slowly, so as not to burn myself completely out like I have done in the past.

Looking at the lights I have been adding to my storage facility that I am building at the moment. The building will have lights like this all the way around. It's nothing complicated, but it will do. I might add banners to the glowstones, but this will be determined on a later date

So yeah, not much to write home about. I will update when I have made more progress, which will hopefully be more extensive than today. For tomorrow though I am planning to attend a concert in downtown, so I will probably not make much more progress tomorrow either.


- Mattias.

The lost screenshot, first death after gods knows how long, and exceptionally boring grinding

Hi everyone

Now those of you who read yesterday's post, may remember that for some extraordinary reason, I managed to forget to include a screenshot of my most recent build. Yeah, that happens, I forget to do things from time to time. But I went back to the build, and took a couple of screenshots, and will include one in this post to show the progress I have made on the build so far. As far as the progress of today, there are not really much to report on. Just a few cosmetic changes, mainly adding a few trees here and there to make my new build feel more greenish, and fixing some issues I have faced with my old builds due to blocks just disappearing, primarily due to complications with the most recent releases of Minecraft. I have also added a few more vines to my new observation deck, and will see how they develop over night now, if they have any decorative value. Speaking of which, I will spend the upcoming hour and probably much of tomorrow just sitting around, waiting for the vines to grow. I want them to reach ground level from my observation deck, which can take some time. But it will happen eventually, and in the meantime, I will just have to wait, and continue construction around my observatory.

And like the title says, I died in Minecraft for the first time in gods knows how long. Which is a real shame, because I had saved up 35LVLs of EXP, and was about to repair my tools. Oh well, will just have to start over with my EXP at 0.


I will update when I make more progress.


- Mattias.

As promised, here is the screenshot of my new build. This thing will primarily consist of a new, minor storage facility, as well as a crafting room, and a living quarters

Back in the game

So yeah, I have finally launched the game for the first time in nearly two months. There are a lot of work I have missed out on over the course of the past two months, so I got much to do to reclaim my lost progress. But because this is my first day in the game for a very long time, I decided to just chill and relax. I have not made much progress today as a result of this, but it's something, so I am happy with my progress. After much consideration, I chose to ignore the fact that my observation deck is not finished yet, and just commence construction of the first building in my new village. The first building would, like I always start my bigger projects, be a storage and crafting facility. It's not the biggest thing to write home about, but it will do for now until I bother myself to build a proper facility. In addition to this, I expanded upon and finished the electricity network and lighting on the right side of my new walkway which leads up to the new observation deck. It turned out pretty well, but now I need to finish the left side, as well as equipping lights to a sideroad, but that's work for some other time.

For some strange reason I forgot to take a close up shot of the new storage facility, but I have an overview shot in which the storage facility is visible in the distance.

Looking over the electricity and lighting network I have added to my walkway

Looking down towards my observatory and the new storage facility. The new storage facility is visible in the middle of the screenshot, but can be difficult to see because of all the other buildings surrounding it. More detailed screenshots will follow on a later date

I will update when I have made more progress


- Mattias. 

Back from the dead

So yeah, I have most definitively not been all that active with my blog in the recent two months. I have been mainly focusing my attention on my school work, and also I have been taking a break from the game in favor of playing a load of GTA Online. 4weeks of constant GTA grinding can become too much for even the most sane person though, so as of today I am officially moving back to playing Minecraft again. I have a whole load of work to reclaim which have been lost over the 2months of inactivity I have been experiencing now. I am not sure which exact project I will resume, but I will probably spend tomorrow trawling my way through my world and planning a plan of approach. I still got left to finishing my new observation deck before I can commence work on my new village, so there are much to be done to say the least.

Oh and yeah, the snapshots for 1.13 are out, so it shall be fun to play around in the oceans. I just hope the update covers existing oceans, and not just new ones, because it would be a real disappointment if my already existing oceans are to be permanently barren from all life.


I will update when I have decided what I wanna focus my attention at for the upcoming few days.


- Mattias

Smelting and clearing

Hi everyone!

Not much really to post about today. I have been very busy today, so I was only able to cramp in about an hour worth of work into Minecraft. Today was thus spent harvesting more sand to be smelted into glass, and clearing an area for future expansion. I need a lot more sugar canes for my EXP farming, and I need greenhouses for the rest of my growing resources, so I have cleared out a small area where I can build a couple of greenhouses. I am also planning on terraforming the lands around the greenhouses, but time will tell how I end up doing it all.

So yeah, really short post today, but this is where I stand at the moment.

Looking over my sand mines. From here I have harvested thousands of blocks of sand, which have all been melted down to glass

A small section of land cleared out and ready for future expansion with greenhouses. Due to the rugged terrain, I ended up making kind of a platform on which the greenhouses can be built. 

A full inventory of sand ready to be smelted

I will post more as I make more progress

- Mattias

Greenhouses and railways

Hi everyone!

So today, I decided to continue my progress on my transportation network over at my primary base. I was finally able to connect a new station to the network, which means that I may now travel from my base, to my jungle cube, which is basically a large glass cube surrounding a small tree farm composed of only jungle trees.

I also laid down the foundation for an upcoming station, which will connect my sheep farm to my transportation network. Although my sheep farm is literally right next to my base, and the fact that I have already connected it long ago through a basic minecart railway, I'd much rather have it be so that I may travel there in style. I have a sky road, walkway, built up which makes it possible for me to run over to my sheep farm, but minecarts is still my preferred method of transportation. So, a station shall be added sometime in the future. I have already put down the beginning of the tube leading up there. All I need to do now will be to add the glass, the tracks, plus the station itself. It will be interesting to say the least.

Meanwhile, over at my secondary base and primary observation deck, I came to the conclusion that I am tired of having a large, messy area, which serves no purpose. This was an old stretch of land, which I used to build my first walkway long ago, that lead from my primary base, to my secondary base, which at the time was only a small wooden structure, and the foundation for my now decommissioned mob grinder. Although the mob grinder was decommissioned long ago, the original walkway I built have remained until today. What I ended up doing, was to clean up the area just outside my secondary base (which also contains my primary mines), and instead build a small greenhouse there. It's not exactly the biggest thing in the world, which is quite natural, considering the limited space I had in such a highly developed and crowded sector, but it serves a purpose I have a good use of. The greenhouse has been designated to cultivate sugar canes for the time being, which is good for grinding the EXP I need to support my constant repairs on my tools and other things I need to continue my work on my world.

So that is where I am at the moment. A new greenhouse and a brand new station have now seen the light of day. In the upcoming days I will primarily focus on getting my next station set up, and also to complete my "chandelier" over at my new observatory. All I lack is the glowstone required to build the massive glowstone ball I want there, so it won't take too much time if I can just get the stones required. At the moment I have two rows completed, but there still remains much to be done, so I will need a lot more glowstone before I can call it finished. I must say though that there remains plenty of other plans I have for my world, so I might end up changing my plans and do something very different as I move along.

I will update as I make more progress.

The "skeleton" of my brand new station as it looked like before I added the exterior. This thing here makes it possible to travel from ground level to my network (at height level 100) with minecarts without having to worry about walking or anything like that

Midway progress on my new station. Adding dirt as scaffold so that I can put down birch wood with the right direction down

Looking down at my progress during a break I had. My station is nearing completion at this point

Clearing the area just outside my secondary base, in preparations for adding the new greenhouse

Midway progress on my greenhouse. My greenhouse was completed today, but I forgot to screenshot its completed look, so this is what will have to do for the time being 

Having a quick break during my work in order to add some scaffolds to my treefarm, in the jungle tree section. These scaffolds will make it possible for me to harvest the top of the trees without worry

My current progress on my transportation network. The station has now been completed, and I focus my attention on bringing the network to the point where I can connect my sheep farm to it

I unfortunately forgot to screenshot my greenhouse upon its completion, so I will have to add a screenshot of it in my next post.

See you guys around later


- Mattias

Progressive infrastructure 2.0

Hi everyone!

Today, I made the decision to continue my work on expanding my infrastructure at my primary base. My current goal is to connect my jungle cube, to the network, so that I can ride by minecart from my secondary observatory all the way over to my jungle cube, from which I can walk to a tree farm that I once chose to construct, but never got around to completing.

I ran out of birch wood, so I had to spend a great deal of time today just on gathering more. Two full tree farms from my main farm was gathered, so I should have enough wood for alot of progress now. I hope.

So yeah, not really much to report on this. I have halted my observation deck over at my upcoming village for the time being. Feels great getting around to doing something different for a change, so I may end up expanding my infrastructure even further tomorrow.

Yesterday's progress, for comparison reasons

Looking over my tree farm after having farmed all the trees that used to be here

Adding lights on top of my most recent addition to the railway network

All lights added to my currently existing network

Marking out the area on the ground where an upcoming stopping tower will be built. This tower will make it possible to climb from the ground level up to my railway network via minecart

Looking up towards my railway network from the ground

Looking over towards my observatory during a break

An overview of today's progress

I will update when I make more progress

- Mattias

Progressive infrastructure

Hi everyone!

So today, I decided to take a break from my observatory deck and focus on something else for a change. What I ended up expanding upon, is my long-delayed secondary railway network, which I have constructed in the airspace above my base. This project has been halted for quite a long while, so it feels good getting back into it, connecting the different parts of my base. The biggest hassle I face on a day to day basis in my world, is just getting from point A to point B within my primary base. I have my walkways, which works perfectly fine for the shorter walks, but if I am to get from one end of my base to the other, such as if I am to go from my EXP farm over to my new observatory, that's a good five minutes of just walking and running back and forth. And I am not taking into consideration if I have any runs I need to make for my resources, or if I get stuck repairing something along the way, because I am quite the perfectionist when it comes to certain details, so more often than not I get stuck on some different project along the way and never get to my destination. What I need is a quick and efficient way of getting from point to point, without getting distracted, and without having to walk, which is both slow, and very inefficient. Thus I commenced constructing an intricate system of railways that connects the different parts of my base together. The main line was completed over a year ago, but the project stalled after that, because I did not bother to continue it any further. All I cared about at the time was to connect my primary base, to my roller coaster and my old EXP farm. My world have changed quite a bit since than, so it's about time I get around to expanding the network. I have not constructed any new connective points yet which will allow me to access the railway from the ground level, but I have gotten a new section of the network ready. All I really need to do now, is to construct an elevator tower, and cover the walls of the "tube" in white stained glass.

It turns out pretty good if I may say so myself. And when completed it will hopefully make my everyday life in my base a lot easier and better. There are still a lot to be done though, so this is just a drop in the water when it comes to my vision.

Looking down at my progress from my secondary observatory. The newly constructed portion of my transportation network can be seen in the middle of the screenshot, next to my glass cube, and above my sheep farm.

I will keep updating as I make more progress on my network.

- Mattias.

Mining for diamonds

The title would say it all in its own. Ran out of diamonds today after making some repairs on my equipment, and I thus had to halt all progress on all projects until I was able to find more. Spent an hour mining for the diamonds I needed, and I ended up with 11of them before calling it sufficient for the time being. It will not last for long, but it will keep me supplied for the current plans I have for finishing my observatory, and also expanding my reserves of glass and sand.

Inventory after completing my mining run. 

My current progress on my primary mines.

So that's my current resource standing. I have plenty of everything else I need beside glass, so hopefully I should not run into any major difficulties for the time being.


- Mattias

Finally progress

Hi everyone!

Yes I know its been quite a while since I last updated my blog here. I have been very busy recently with school and stuff, but today I was finally able to spare some time to make more progress in my survival world.

Due to time restrictions, I made the decision that starting the planned project with terraforming my jungle biome will be too time consuming and too expensive, and thus this project has been put on ice until further notice. What I have been able to make more progress on though, is my new observation deck. I have now covered the thing in glass, and have gotten all the lights put down. The only thing I lack now before I can top this all of as a success, is to construct a large ball of glowstone in the top portion of the observatory, underneath its glass roof. At the moment I have run out of glowstone, so I will have to find more before I can continue my project. I am pretty sure I have some stored somewhere in my world, I just need to find it.

So that's my current standing. I am hoping I will be able to finish my observatory soon, so that I can begin working on my village at full throttle.

Looking at my observatory from a distance prior to launching today's work

The glass roof has now been completed. Here's the view from the top of my tower, prior to putting down lights. 

Second view from atop my tower

Third view from atop my tower

Looking down at my base from my new observatory

The roof of my observatory with glass walls

Interior. Night time view. Note the lack of glass walls here, which is what I would add next

Looking up at the finished roof

All the glasswork completed. Daytime view from inside my observatory

Looking at my almost completed observatory from a distance. All the lights have been added now, and all that is missing now is the ball of glowstone, the foundation of which can be seen inside the roof of the observatory

I will try to be more active, but I cannot promise anything as I am very busy with school these days. I will update as soon as I have made more progress

- Mattias.