Minecraft Creations: The Brick Mansion Chapter 4, In the Lap of Luxury

Oh gawd, 3^rd level pretty much done, well it’s almost there, I’m beginning to think what will I do after this damn thing’s finished as the whole point of this endeavour and post topic was to finish all of the achievements which meant getting to the end with limited use of mods and no giving free resources to myself but that abruptly ended once I decided to make this massive mutha of a house. The other thing I regret is destroying the current resources I had when I decided to build the house, I should have just left them somewhere and come back to them once I’d finished the damn thing though I’d probably though I’d never go back to doing what I was doing before but I reckon I will. Annoyingly I’ll have to give myself some supplies and try to remember what I had in the past when I got to that stage but that’s just my fault, I should be able to do most of the achievements without cheating though some are quite hard and would take awhile (especially the End ones) so I may have to lax a bit on those.

Top level of the house pretty much finished.

I actually have done the whole process of getting the required resources (almost), travelling to the end and defeating the Dragon while trying not to cheat with resources. I did this pretty much in a single go I got to the point where I had all the Blaze Powder I needed but I cbf trying to find 12 Endermen to get their Ender Pearls so I gave myself those, I also didn’t play the end properly as I just wanted to see what it was like and what happened so I just loaded the fack up in highly enchanted diamond armour and weapons, turned flying on and fought that Dragon which still took awhile having to destroy all the towers first, I can’t image how long it would take doing it the right way though it seems it would take a while though it appears from this man’s series that it’s a lot easier and safer in numbers. The ending is kind of weird though, I won’t spoil it but ohh the dialogue.

T-bone's "Beating Minecraft" youtube series, quite entertaining.

In other news patches 1.5 “The Redstone Update” and subsequently patches 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 have arrived, I found this cool little short video explaining most of the new features and yes I am too lazy to do it myself. Not being a user of Redstone at all really the most prominent new feature for me was the introduction of Quartz which funnily enough I started using after Richard showed it to me when we started our Underground City and have used it thoroughly throughout my building process, and it works wonders for bathrooms, pools and toilets where the only real option you had was stone slabs or white wool. Embarrassingly until I viewed the info about the update myself I never actually knew where it came from , gawd I have so turned into a Creative mode “artiste”

Minecraft 1.5 Trailer by TheFarLands

A brief recap of what I had done in the last post. I’d finished and roofed off the lobby and completed the middle level complete with some balconies and the huge outdoor mine entrance and Minecart system, and it was now time to work on the top level which may or may not be the very top level as I may decide to include an attic or sun room I suppose the better word for it may be.

In the interim I had made a nice little balcony for the dining room/dancefloor and shortly after it started raining  so I realised that almost every area outside was going to need some sort of weather protection so I extended the balcony across the minecart tracks entry/exit and made sure the docking/packing stations were covered too. I also added a trim to the front of the house which made it look a lot better. This was possible due to wooden slabs being around now which make decoration and building so much easier, I just wish that they’d make wool slabs and stairs.

Ballroom balcony

Resource rails balcony and shelters

Front roof trim

So the first thing I had to do was create the floor/roof which wasn’t too hard really just too quite a while coving the entire bulk part of the house in a layer of spruce wood planks which is the official roof/floor of the house and remembering leave a gap underneath as I then had to build and design the roof for the second level. The second level roof wasn’t going to be anything fancy like the lobby as it was just going to be flat though I did take a bit of time deciding how high it was going to be.

Man that took a lot of time to cover

I built the roof over the dining/ballroom and atrium in spruce wood planks then designed light that was built into the roof using oak logs and lightstone, I also used some lightstone to make wooden chandeliers similar to the stone ones in the lobby.

Dining/Ballroom Roof

I did the roof over the pool, sauna and spa in birch wood with birch logs as a feature with lightstone, I also made some changes to this area which involved replacing the birch plank floor with the new chiselled quartz block. I actually used Quartz quite a bit once I discovered it had been put in as of 1.5, I not only used it for the floor of the general area I used blocks of quartz and quartz stairs as the stairs for the pool and I also used roman-esqe pillar quartz blocks for the edge of the spa as well as normal quartz blocks for the floor. I also had to change the chimney for the sauna and right angle it out the wall as it was originally protruding up through the space where I had designated for my bedroom. I made the resource room roof just out of the same oak wood and made log and torch chandeliers as it didn't really need anything fancy.

Pool/Spa/Sauna room roof

The newly quartz'ed Spa

Chiseled quartz block floor

Adjusting the Sauna vent

 Once I had all that done, I then remembered I had to make a stairway (or two) up to the top level, I didn’t make them too complicated, just spruce wood planks and stairs and fences, I’m using fences quite a bit actually I kind of which they were in the same colour of the wood. The stairs took me a couple of tries to get right as when I first made them going on an almost right angle they both came up at the same place so I had to lengthen one with a flat part. I even had a crisis where the fire from the forge entrance down below caught onto the stairway and destroyed the stairs as well as a chunk of the upstairs library corner, managed to fix it without any trouble though, I also added some extra supports for one stairway. I found for some reason when I looked in the direction of the Alchemy room it was draining my FPS like a bitch so I took out all the item pictures of the alchemy potions and the brewing stands and it seemed to work better but still lags a bit though, dunno what it could be, maybe the mossy cobblestone? as it’s the only place I’ve used it.

East/West stairs

North/South stairs

Now that the lower floor had been done with a few minor thing being cleared up and I had the stairwells entrance/exits made I now had the difficult task of planning out the rooms, this is probably one of the hardest things to do as you have to work out, what the F is each room going to be for and what is going to be each room and how much room and how many rooms do I need? This took quite a while but eventually I got the place planned out and had a rough idea of what I was going to make.

North/South view of house plan

Birds eye view.

Viewing the house from the perspective of the Rei’s Minimap the southwestern room will be split into two I made one room the entertainment/games/lifestyle room complete with arcade machines including pinball, table soccer, airhockey and a train set as well as a stereo system, a tv and a gym corner. I originally had a secondary door to my room but then decided to take it out and haven’t thought of anything else to put there other than a bookcase but I’ll think of that at some other time. The other side of that room I decided would be a band room so I built a stage with speakers and creative use of daylight sensors and redstone torches. On the stage I made a piano, a drum set and some er microphones as I don’t really know how to make Minecraft guitars but anyway that was enough, but anyway, I made some surrounding couches and jazzed up the dancefloor with blocks of iron and gold which happen to look pretty shiny with the Faerielight Texture pack. I then decided to change the walls to a single bright wool colour and add some lighting, I should still add a balcony area if I can find the room to make doors outside as every good entertainment area needs a way to get outside heh.

Entertainment/Gym room

Band room

Before I started on the library area I needed to work out what colour carpet was going where so I laid the carpet out in the library and various rooms to make sure I wasn’t doubling up anywhere (though eventually this was inevitable) For the library I carved out a fairly large rectangle of the floorspace and covered the wall with spruce logs and created a fairly large clay and stone brick fireplace with a flue. After trying various abstract methods of stacking the bookshelves (triangles and single block towers like I usually do) I decided a more traditional way would be better so I changed the bookshelves to be inside the wall which looked much better. Due to the size and height of the fireplace the library ended up being tall enough for two levels so I made some stairs and balconies with more rows of bookshelves all the way around the edges of the room, on the bottom level of one side I created a row of enchanting tables which went from having a full stack of bookshelves to having none. After that I made some tables and chairs and some brown couches in the middle of the room, I also made a display of the egg spawners on the wall and portraits of some of the rarest items in the game (Blaze Rod, Eye of Ender and Nether star) as the centrepiece for the fireplace.

The Library

 With the two northern rooms I had the idea of making one the home cinema but had no idea what the other one would be and after thinking for a while I decided to make it into a sort of tabletop/games internet cafe with computers, card gaming tables and a bar, I made the home cinema next mostly out of red and black wool and made the screen out of white wool with sound block speakers all around. I made two levels of couches for seat, popcorn and fairy floss machines and a shelf for snacks.

Internet Cafe room

Home Cinema

 With the living quarters I had originally mapped the area into 8 rooms but decided i should make one them into a toilet, I used quartz column blocks for the walls and chiselled quartz blocks for the floor.  had to move the wall of the entertainment area over a bit to make room for the 4 cubicles and I also made a urinal, the toilets themselves where pretty ludicrous made of white wool, trapdoors and cauldrons full with water, and the hand dryers are just dispensers that I suppose are supposed to blast hot air onto your hands (and face) and yes this toilet is unisex and come to think of it I have to find a way to put doors in there. It’s all a bit silly but but this is Minecraft isn’t it? If I only included facilities for the items in Minecraft that you use I would have never been able to fill the whole house.

Sink, urinal and hand/face dryers in the toilet

Top view of toilet

The rest of the rooms I decided that they needed a way to get outside so I made a long balcony across one side of the house, with the rooms having windows both to the inside and outside of the house, I tried to make the rooms a bit more private with 1 block high windows but really I could just pretend they had curtains, I made the inside and outside entrances to my room out of jungle logs and lightstone to look slightly different to the rest. I messed around with the balcony roof design a bit as at one point I had to remake the whole roof as it was too low and I wanted to put in glass to let some sunlight in but keep the rain off obviously.

Shots of the balcony

I sort of wish you could put glass panes in horizontally as I can’t really put the wood slabs and glass blocks together so it looks kind of chunky and I still think it’s a bit too low but anyway I think that’s only because the roof bit over my room is higher because of the higher jungle log design. I used some brick for the base of the ballroom balcony but didn't for this balcony as I thought it would make it look too bricky with the whole wall of the house being brick and the balcony being larger and not straight..

My private balcony

I decorated the rooms with a different colour wool floor with two of the rooms having spruce wood walls, 4 having oak wood walls and my bedroom I decorated with a jungle theme of jungle logs and a green wool floor, I was originally going to have a room made with birch but that became the toilet. I had a hard time deciding what to put in each room but basically they all have the following.

• A Double bed
• Storage chests
• A Fireplace
• Bookshelves
• A Jukebox
• Flower pots
• A crafting table
• At least one window
• Two doors one to inside one out to the balcony.

Girly room

Nature room

Cozy room

There was a myriad of other things I made just to jazz up the rooms a bit including closets, shelves, tables and chairs with designs from the Minecraft Furniture server and site but overall I think my guests would be fairly happy. With my  own room I made a levelled area for my bed with the usual amenities around. I put my chests and crafting tables around the edges. I had a bit of trouble decorating the rest of the room as I wasn’t quite sure what to put in there, I wanted a fireplace and a spa/pool though I think I made them a bit too big, I managed to fit a chair in nicely though my computer gaming station and the fully stacked Enchanting table took up a bit of room as well so I had to make do with a 4x4 meeting table instead of a 6x6 but I suppose I can change that in the future.

My room in all it's glory

The last bit I had to work on was the middle main hall and the hallway between the rooms, I carpeted it in yellow wool as with the Faerielight texture pack it comes out as looking a lot like real carpet compared to the other colours, I didn’t cover it to the edge and left one block of the edge to make it more rug-like and it worked really well, I decided that the house was lacking a central TV so I made one with speakers and a couch in a corner near the games cafe. I continued the carpet down the hallway of the living quarters and decorated the whole area with paintings, shelves, lightstone and pot plants though there’s a bit too many around, I think I did need more natural plantation as there’s not much on the third level so I designed one of the rooms to be a “Flora” style room and might make some more natural potplants around or even a tree.

The main hall between the rooms.

Living quarters hallway.

So that was pretty much it, there are still a few things I need to work on. Need to add some windows on the upper wall to pretty much every room and maybe a balcony for the entertainment/band room side, but that can wait till I’ve done the roof which looks like it’s going to have no less than 7 chimneys, 8 if you count the light beacon coming out though I might think about adding a fireplace to the lobby if I can find room, also might add some more vegetation around though there would be a hundred things I could think of by just zooming around looking at it.

Stay tuned for what could be the finale of this made scheme if I can possibly get all of the exterior designs done as well as the roof and surrounding wall.

JD


I've got the facility but don't have the ability

Minecraft Creations: The Brick Mansion Chapter 3, Less think more work

Just a little note, I've been thinking for awhile of going back to .jpeg format for my images, this may not be best format but it means I can have my screenshots at the normal resolution without being the very large .png files that Minecraft creates.Coupled with how I like to use 256x256 texture packs it makes for very big image files some of which I have are over 4meg! I've found this nice little program called Sagethumbs which lets you convert image files just by selecting them all and right clicking in a snap, similar to the image resizer addon I have which I won't be needing anymore hah! so I hope you enjoy downloading my new much smaller file size images.

“Well that’s two thirds of it done” I thought to myself as I started at the huge brick and wood laden structure that is by far the biggest house I’ve ever attempted to build , though I had done pretty well, I really need to take more shots of the stages I’ve got to but meh I usually just take them at the end anyway I have a few though as this is and I’ve really gotta push myself to get this thing done.

The house as it stands now: Entrance and Rooftop of lobby

Dining/Dancefloor area

Resource room

Relaxtion pool/spa/sauna area

There’s been a lot going on with the version releases though I’ve only been concentrating on things that are relevant to building my house. Beacons are on example which I have installed as a feature in the lobby, also I’ve made two lines of Anvils next to each other like some kind of multi-anvil and finally I’ve made good use of Item frames which make great wall features. Another great feature that has been added recently is that stairs now connect to other stairs to form corner stairs on edges which makes all uses of stairs (seating, decoration and actually stairs) look much nicer.

An Anvil

Using item frames as a wall feature

Some uses for corner stairs.

I’ve made a lot and I mean a lot of progress since the last adventures of JD post, basically I was waiting for a long period of time one of my favorite mods SingleplayerCommands to be updated so I could continue building. The main reason for this was I’d started the map in Survival mode and needed the mod basically for the commands (not just the one that changed the world mode) Though after this lengthy period I actually found that another of the mods that I use TooManyItemshad some pretty useful buttons on the top of the inventory screen that controlled, the day night cycle, the weather and most importantly whether the map was in creative or survival mode so needless to say after a lot of wasted time I quickly got to work.

TooManyItems mod adds lots of extra tools to the inventory screen, notice the very useful game mode, weather and monster options along the top left.

 After I’d left last time I’d cleared out the hill, carved out some rooms and made some roofs/floors, created the alchemy room and the indoor soccer pitch. I’d made a basic floor plan and decided to stick to it (roughly). The alchemy room I had finished first and added the potion item frames in recently as some sort of potion chart. It ended up looking pretty good with the stone brick and the mossy cobblestone, of course I’ve never actually done any potion making before so I’m not really sure what’s involved apart from needing water. The soccer pitch was reasonably ok though I had to remove the pool on the other side of the wall so the room with the soccer pitch could be properly square (or rectangle) as having that part of the field right next to the wall with the walkway on top really didn’t work or look good for that matter. Once I had made the new wall and added some more seating it looked much better. I also decided to colour the area around the pitch in blue as to get a more indoor feel.

Alchemy room with potions in item frames.

New and improved indoor soccer pitch.

 After a bit of haphazard TNT clearing work and cleaning up I started work on the club, cause every house needs its own club yo. The “Snub” Club turned out great, I love the way in the Faerielight texture pack the yellow wool really resembles carpet. I took a  lot of inspiration from the Minecraft Furniture site and server which is a delight to look around in I highly recommend checking it out if you’re looking for ideas to decorate your home.

Main room with dancefloor, bar and VIP area.

VIP area.

I liked using oak wood planks for the back of the bar and a feature wall for the VIP area as well as jungle wood planks for the pool room as there’s just too much brick around. The note and juke boxes work well as speakers and I even decorated the doorways in them, the different level for the VIP and the pool room worked well too.

Sitting area with stairs down to pool room.

Pool room.

One of the entrances to the club

 After I had finished the club I made another door in the section connecting the atrium and the soccer pitch and made a door from the pool hall part of the club into the soccer pitch as well. I had carved out the atrium but hadn’t done anything with it yet as I wanted to leave it until I finished the other areas before I planted the plants and grew the trees in the basement which technically wasn’t that much of a basement as some areas could of even had windows as they were.

The forge mining area was pretty tricky, cleared the area with TNT and decided to do the walls in stone brick instead of just stone as it looks nicer and the floor in cobble as I couldn’t really think of anything else to use. I had to build around the entrance to my diamond strip mine but it worked pretty well the new cobblestone walls look pretty cool though I wish you could make them with all kinds of stone. I created my usual lava/forge area with lots of furnaces next to it  and then made the cooling/water area with the multi-anvils next to it, though now I think about it, from what I’ve seen in Skyrim you actually have the fire and water in the same place i.e. the metal comes out of the fire, you bang it around on the anvil then cool it in the water so I may change it at some point. The rest of the area I just put chests and signs to store all the items, I managed to work around the stairway to the mine being in the middle of one part of the room as there was enough room around it to build boxes around it.

For the entrance to the forge and the wall of the atrium it occupies I built in stone brick with holes for barred windows and made some pyres outside the entrance for decoration all of which looked pretty cool when done.

One other room I had to do was the Nether room, or basically where the nether portal would go, this is one of my favorite rooms to create as with the addition of nether bricks and stairs you can construct a pretty cool looking altar. I didn’t really have anywhere appropriate to put the entrance so I just made a doorway of netherbrick with iron doors, it isn’t exactly epic but it’s the inside that’s epic and besides it’s supposed to be a house, this is just the portal to the nether for resource and possibly adventuring purposes. I just managed to fit the stairwell within the confines of the house as I don’t know whether I’m going to continue the outer wall around that side. I named the stairway down to the nether portal “The Crimson Hall” as with the Faerielight texture pack it certainly is crimson, or maybe dark red. Anyway the walls I did with netherack and made holes in the wall for fire, I put the portal on an altar and decorated it with lava and fire.

Entrance to the "Crimson Hall"

Stairway to the portal

The ominous Nether Portal room, every house should have one.

So the club, the forge/storage, the nether room and the atrium had all been done which finished off the lower level. It went pretty well, without much hassle had to change things round a bit but that was ok. I left out a few things that weren’t really needed such as changerooms for the soccer pitch though I was thinking of putting toilets in the club, but you don’t go to the toilet in Minecraft but then again you can’t play soccer either so I don’t know, I’d just rather keep it practical making sure I include all the things you can actually do in Minecraft inc rooms for crafting, forging , alchemy, enchanting and a natural water area for fishing I’d suppose.

With the lower level pretty much finished I started mapping out the lobby. I chose a certain height for the wall, then bricked it all up with tall windows and in wooden frames to counteract all the brick.

Front of house with lobby walls and windows put up.

I also fixed up the entryway which I had created earlier (6 doors was enough) and also added some more brick to the stairs. I also have a secret entrance underneath the main one in the water, this leads to what I call the “undersurface” where you can see the untouched natural ground underneath the floor.

Main entrance.

With the lobby I wanted to do sort of a entryway sitting room with a beacon feature in the middle.

An early shot of the middle level and lobby where you can see the first build of the beacon feature and sauna.

I only recently worked out how beacons worked but all I really needed to know was how to make them project light into the air and all I need for that was a certain number of iron, gold, emerald or diamond blocks and in creative that was not a problem. Getting a beacon that works is a pretty big effort in survival mode as it involved travelling to Nether fortresses for Wither Skeleton skulls  and summoning and killing a Wither not to mention getting enough blocks of the appropriate resource to get the maximum effect of the beacon pyramid my house has. After completing the beacon feature for the middle I created some seating and nature features with trees, plants and mushrooms as well as waterfall features for the stairs.

Lobby left side

Lobby right side

Lobby right side

Mushroom feature of lobby

To complete the lower atrium I planted jungle trees and ferns as well as bushes and other plants in the lower atrium and it worked out pretty well when I added a gravel path, I also planted vines wherever I could to get that more jungley feel as now they’ve grown long enough to go over the entrances to the other rooms. I then built two sets of stairs leading down to the lower level, one main set of stairs and another small set going over the entrance to the soccer pitch. Which does remind me know actually that I have pretty much finished the middle level I sort of forgot to leave room for stairs up to the top level, oh well I’m sure there will be room somewhere.

The Atrium

The first thing I made on the top level was the dining area which consisted of a long table, wooden chairs and two more complex chairs at the end. I really wish Mojang would introduce wool stairs and slabs or the ability to cover slabs and stairs with wool as it makes it hard to make a wool chair because you have to make a slab floor beforehand which sits lower than normal floors.

Dining table

Anyway so I created the table and chairs but decided I should make this little square bit that was jutting out of the main house into a kitchen, and I did, got some quick inspiration from the Minecraft Furniture server but it was pretty easy anyway. Used a variety of materials to make the kitchen including blocks of iron, furnaces, trapdoors pinewood, buttons, cauldrons and stone brick, and it’s looks pretty bitchin’ so much so that’s what I decided to call it. I added a bar next to the kitchen too.

Bitchin.

 Behind the dining table I made a  dancefloor with DJ table and speakers and a potplant feature on the wall, the reason I didn’t use the actual Flower Pots that are in the game is that you couldn’t actually stick them to the wall and they were a bit small anyway.

Dancefloor with DJ table.

 The next room was to be the resource room, I found thought to myself though the initial concept to this room as fairly bland as all I was thinking of it was just a room with lots of organized and named chests and readily available crafting tables, I then had an ingenious idea to make it a bit more like an industrial processing and storage centre, and right way I knew this room was going to take a lot longer due to that idea. It’s hard to explain in words but basically what I wanted to do was create a minecart tracks for minecarts with chests to run along from one area to another sort of like a supply line, there would be minecart tracks going to 3 different places, a mine, the surface outside the house and the forge inside the house. But of course to do this I needed a mine and one that was close by so I scouted out an area with my x-ray mod. Finding one I decided that the best thing to do would be to blast a huge hole and bore into the ground with TNT until I found a cave system (yes that’s right) which I did without too much trouble and even found an underground crevasse pretty close by.

The minecart ramp to the mine and the surface.

The 4 tracks down to the mineshaft

The mine processing area

Entrance to the main mine and underground crevasse.

I then built a huge ramp wide enough for four minecart tracks, a walkway and fences on the side which led from inside the house all the way down to where I’d stopped and turned the bottom into a sort of underground processing and storage area to go back up to house. I made a similar thing on the ground outside the house then finally dug out a tunnel for another two tracks to go to the Forge and back, I then made racks to put the double chests on and signs to mark what was in each of them and crafting tables around the general area. I decided to use the item frames as decoration again and made a large feature on two walls, funny thing was I used the toomanyitems mod to pick the order to display so I ended up having moving water and lava on a frame, hah oh well something surprising anyway.

The finished resource/storage room

Chest racks with signs and crafting tables (I can make them higher if needed)

Minecart tunnel to the forge area

The last part of the middle level was the relaxation/pool area, this was the biggest area as I’d cut the resource room off short so I could fit a large spa, a pool and a sauna, which I did. The spa worked pretty well, made in a desert theme with cacti, dead bushes and sand brick.

Desert-themed Spa

 The sauna I made with birch wood and cracked stone brick which looked pretty good with the colour of the birch wood in this texture pack.

 I love the way the pool turned out, basically I was filling it up but in order to fill a large space of water to more than one level you need to make it smaller first, so I ended up making these rows around the edges to get the water the right level. When I’d finished though I actually though the end result looked really cool as it looked like there were lap swimming lanes around the edge and a main pool in the middle, so I did that and made the middle just a bit deeper. I then added some lights to the bottom and worked on a  few nature features included a desert taiga and mushroom biome feature and a window. I’m still deciding what I’m going to do with that large wall space, whether I extend the pool via waterfall to the outside though I would have to close up the entire room but I’ll see how I go.

A very oddly-built pool.

Underwater building, only slightly slower

 The last thing to do until I had another break from this huge time investment I had to make the lobby roof, yes a roof for the lobby was needed as it is lower than the rest of the house. Basically I just wanted to make a basic dome shape with some sort of feature on the top for the beacon to shoot through so I made a small pyramid at the peak with a hole in the middle out of stone brick, I think stone brick is becoming my favorite block to use for structure other than red brick of course. I extended the stone brick pyramid out to the sides of the roof for support and put some lightstone in there as well. I was going to do a bit of overhang with the roof but then decided against it as it looked sort of messy, will definitely do it for the roof of the upper level though as that will have some balconies, I’m actually thinking of having some balconies for the middle level too. I didn’t really have any idea how I was going to do the roof so I just sort of stacked on the wood in levels which looked kind of messy in parts but mostly worked. I’m thinking it does need a bit more natural light coming in so I’ll make some holes in the stone for skylights.

Roof from afar

Rooftop (the pyramid at the top is actually bigger now)

View from inside

So that’s basically it, there’s a bit to clean up and work on but I needed a break after that effort, I’m even thinking of going back to play survival which tried out a bit of on the Mikeland survival, but on looking at their revamped website it appears they have a PvE server now!, hell why didn’t I see that before. Anyway I’ll be back here again to finish off my house, then get started on the outside I suppose, will it ever end? probably not, well I guess it isn’t supposed to, I mean what am I going to do afterwards, build a whole self-sustaining farm? complete all the achievements? kill the Wither and/or the Ender Dragon? After all there is a way to “finish” the game as the Survival page says, but whether I’ll still want to play by myself when this is all finished is yet to be seen.

JD
 
With my own two hands... and a limitless supply of resources, and flight