Geek dad Minecraft survivalist player, playing and building worlds with my kids. Streaming HC Minecraft and building the D&D module Keep on the Borderlands.
So it's been a rough month and thought I'd share an update. Hopefully getting back into a normal swing soon. Started off just super busy and then as that wound down had some health issues with my son. It was tough but got it figured out and was able to get him in for a minor
It's funny how finding the original stone diamonds is more exciting than it used to be since they are so rare. The deepslate ones look cooler but I still love finding these.
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Thank you to everyone for the likes and RTs on the Deepslate Mansion, I've put a post up on the blog with more images of it here -
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Needed to clean up the mess of chests down in the cave so we built a deepslate stalagmite storage building. Blends into the cave pretty well and adds plenty of storage for when we are down here and don't want to run back to the base.
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Haha, they are preparing us 1 change at a time. It'll be the portal to the micro-transaction dimension. "Need coal? Only 99 cents for the ultra special stack of coal!"
Busy weekend but we did make more progress on the kids survival worlds. Third level and roof finished. Few details left with the windows and lighting but he's itching to go to the nether so going to get a portal up next.
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Found our first cherry biome and my daughter is completely amazed. We spent probably 20 minutes just running around and staring at it. This is on a new world, and looks like our starter house is going to be cherry wood lol. So far loving Minecraft 1.20 😄
and done! I got the main idea and layout from
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videos. The blackstone walls are at each end so that the section visible from the hub is nice.
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For anyone on bedrock looking to trim chunks before upgrading to 1.17 the
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works well. I tested it on our 1.16 survival world and it worked without any issues that I could find. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
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Built out the gatehouse for the Keep build, inner bailey walls are almost complete. Check out the link to the blog for more details.
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We brought the road down into the village from the keep and have been planting trees around to fill in some more of the forest. Night view of the keep looks pretty nice with the lighting.
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So this is what happens when I think I am done with a project and my daughter says "I bet a tower would look cool on the mansion".... well, she wasn't wrong :)
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I wish I had a recording to see what happened here. We built
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wool farm for blue carpet in the mansion and it's been working great. Only thing I can think of is it was struck by lightning which killed the sheep and cooked the meat.
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First stream as a Twitch Affiliate today at 2pm central time! Going to be working on the Witch Temple on the
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and have a special redemption setup just for this stream to get a spot on the Temple wall when it is completed. Hope to see you there!
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Another view of the keep and lighting. Between slabs and hidden lights I think about 80% of the cliffs are spawnproofed now.
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Updated the tunnel design and fired a few blocks in the furnace to get the cracked versions. I originally didn't think I would do more than a few accents with the copper blocks but I'm really liking them.
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Been busy this week but did manage to finish up the new storage silos in the woodland mansion. Took just a few chests and hoppers. Still some more work to do on the rest of the room but it's definitely expanded our storage.
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Been awhile since I saw an exposed spawner, this one is right by my new base location on
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. Spider spawner, but hey beggars can't be choosers lol.
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We started the work on the interior of the Keep build, setting up the main hall, stairs to the walls, and entry area. It was a nice change from the walls and towers for a little bit.
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First Melon/Pumpkin farm my daughter has built completely on her own. I just went and grabbed the seeds for her to plant. Design is all her, turned out pretty great, walled out the slimes and even used slabs on the water sources :)
After a long break for work, vacation, then getting kids back to school I finally had time to get back to the minecraft Mansion update. Upper level and most of one side done, hopefully finish it out in a day or two and will have some more pics up.
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I did some testing on an old world and at least on mine every one of the random loaded chunks contained a structure, either above ground or a dungeon down below. Seems any structure within render distance loads the chunk.
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Our first experience with that was when my son had only been playing minecraft for about a month and dumped a bucket of lava inside his sisters house, a lot of tears shed that day
Made it to day 999 in hardcore! Realized when my daughter pointed it out that I have been leaving my totem and fire resistance stuff at base this whole time... while digging and building in the Nether. Not my brightest move but still alive.
Been working on a semi-secret project on our mansion server for a little bit, going to start sharing more of it next week. Custom painting gives a hint of what it will be, a throwback to my childhood :)
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Cleared some more out, this is turning into a bit of a larger project because halfway through I got another idea and decided to put a walkway around it halfway down. and of course I still need to mob proof the area.
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Went a little over the top with the slime farm, no idea what I will do with all the slime from it but once I got on a roll just kept going. Skeleton area cleaned up and ready for the details as well.
Finished clearing everything up to the surface around our geode, have to reroute a part of the river but going well so far.
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The latest beta update still isn't showing available for my pc yet, so I updated the Axolotl tank in the mansion. The stained glass made it a bit dark but I like the look.
Walls in and walkways set so now for the new river section, going to curve it a little earlier so it comes around and meets the geode area near the corner.
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New post up for hiding crafting stations in the castle storage room. Used a map table to hide them on the
@kingdoms_smp
world. I even survived a polar bear attack while making the maps 😀, mama bear didn't take kindly to me.
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Found our first deepslate emerald ore last night, considering how much of this stuff we mined for the mansion and tunnels it took forever. Kept finding an emerald ore right on the edge of the deepslate but not in it.
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Put together a write up on the ruined tower build for the zombie farm. We use this more for fun than actual farming but the xp and drops are decent as well. Going to try to get a video put up this weekend.
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Wrapping up the Geode, roof on and lighting done. I used glow lichen hidden inside the geode to keep it lit up without too many lights visible. So far nothing is spawning inside but will have to keep checking.
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Only have a short time to stream today so I'm going to explore to find some bamboo for scaffolding and get everything ready to do the skeleton farm on a longer stream tomorrow.
Thanks to the whole paperhat crew for welcoming me into their smp! It's been a blast getting started and meeting everyone. Even more of a blast than an exploding bed in the nether 😉. Planning my first stream from paperhats tomorrow at noon CST to get my house built at spawn.
We're so proud to announce that the legendary
@MinecraftShaden
is officially joining the Paperhats Crew!
Welcome to the team, Shaden! We hope you like shenanigans.
Been working on a villager and bee powered farm in the village and got it working pretty well. Have an issue with the bees sometimes pushing the villager out of place though so may have to bring the roof up a block.
Missed posting the latest progress pic of the temple. I've been playing with designs for the ceiling and am getting close to what I want there. Got a little side tracked setting up some commands and a game for chat, should have something interesting ready for the next stream :)
So my daughter banned me from mining the big geode right by our base and instead wants to keep it and build a display around it. Got most of the lower half cleared and harvested several crystals so we now have one of each size for our collection plus made us 3 spyglasses.
Made more progress with the Keep on the Borderlands build. Entry area and two towers are set up and also laid out a few of the town buildings.
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Made a few changes to the nether hub room for the creeper farm, pretty hard not to know where it goes now. Just some detailing to finish and going to dig the cave area out some more.
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Had a great stream, thanks to everyone who hung out. Cleared most of the ceiling for the hub area and even had a makeshift froglight farm going that turned into a new idea. Hoping to get an actual froglight farm setup on the next HC stream.
Fell behind on updates but progress has been made, walls are completely around the keep and slowly working on the raised terrain on the village side.
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Path upgrade day today, I couldn't stand this section anymore so added the waterfall and the path winds in behind the water.
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Added in the upper level in the library and a few more details, still more to do but it's progress. Working on the secret door to the basement next.
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