Some say that if people have lost interest in something they
enjoyed it doesn’t take much to get them interested again, you just basically
have to
show them. It’s like the way you see someone playing this old
game that you used to play and having heaps of fun, it makes you want to go
home and play it too, or it could just be the lure of a fresh start in a new
playing field from an old friend, in our case the old friend was Norc, the new
playing field was
Ozgamerparty and
the fresh start was (yet another) brand new map.
In the aftermath of the last
big
tirade on the server we all just basically left ourselves to our own
devices. I did stuff, some of it
Minecraft
stuff though I always did want to go back, and after hearing that our
previous Lord and Master
NoRC had
announced his new gaming community
Ozgamerparty
complete with fully loaded Minecraft server was all it took for us to jump at
the chance I was only a month into playing SWTOR before I stopped to start
building again, and build we did. Most people from the old tribalfield were
back on, factions were back, pretty much nothing had changed apart from the
changes to Minecraft itself,a nd there had been a lot which I went into detail
with in my
last
minecrafty post. I went in wanting to be part of a faction community and
help build stuff that it needed and that’s exactly what I did.
A video of the TNT raining chaos that ended the debacle plus a few strong words from NorC
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| Nuff' said |
After all that was taken care of soon we had created
a pretty neat looking storage room with a carpet/wood floor brick walls and
wooden roof, which included an enchanting table with sticky piston powered
bookshelves, furnace wall and an alchemy room. We constructed stone paths
around the town area and I decided to start making my
Jungle
TreeHouse which was made out of jungle logs and leaves, I soon found that
jungle trees were the fastest way of getting wood, as they are very tall, 4
blocks thick and are surrounded by vines which you can use to climb to the top.
You can actually still see a bald patch in the nearby jungle where I went crazy
with the shears. I had a lot of fun making the brown carpet for my room as I
had to raid about 7 or 8 dungeons before I had enough cocoa beans to make
enough brown dye. Of course this was before I was told that you could dye a
living sheeps wool and
then get them to
breed
so instead of going around raiding so many freakin dungeons I could have just
dyed two sheep brown then got them to breed and they would have made a brown
lamb and I could have just done that over and over again in our sheep pen,
remind me to do that too when I run out of
lapis lzuli.
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| Later image of Inquisition |
Pretty soon we had the arrival of the infamous Jason1211 who
we included in our faction being the friendly people we are, he then basically
did a whole bunch of crap including somehow getting items from creative mode
and moving them into Survival making a new claim within our claim and making
this gigantic pillar shaped base in the sky to store his mass amount of
goodies. Some time after this resulted in Norc warping us up to the complex and
giving us superpowers so we could burn the items and demolish the whole thing
making one hell of an interesting waterfall.
And thus ended the terror of Jason, he basically
said that everything he makes just gets destroyed and he’s leaving for good. In
some ways I think we miss him as annoying sometimes as he was he was most often
entertaining. I mean I don’t pvp myself but even Warpage, Kieran and Cyanide’s
little skirmishes together had a certain charm to it as long as there’s no base
defecation involved.
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| Me and Kakashi inside the tower |
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| oops, must have been water underneath there |
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Here's a video of us riding the waterfall all the way down after we've destroyed pretty much all the tower. Music is: Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster and Barrington Levi - Here I Come (yes it is a kind of odd selection)
Below are some photos and video of the event created by Joro, it was
basically just us armed with whatever we were given fighting off hordes of
spawned zombies and giants, not to mention all the monsters that had spawned
there already, pretty soon we had bows and arrows and we’re taking on a group
of
Ghasts which got quite
intense indeed. The finale was a battle with a spawned Nether Dragon who we
noticed actually destroyed things where it flew as it demolished half the
Jungle before we eventually killed it.
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| The dudes! |
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| Giants! |
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| Ghasts! |
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| Enderdragon! (photo by Kieran_Cahill) |
Here's a video of the encounter
Amongst the other things which got built were Warpage’s
“Creeper Head” house complete with a sticky piston powered collapsing mouth
entrance and also Lupidoo had built a house, which was full of traps as he was
trap crazy for awhile, I couldn’t walk anywhere without running into (or onto)
a working or not working supposed trap of his, I thought he was supposed to be
a Panda who lived in the Jungle? Anyway he also made us a faction flag which I
swear is already the flag for some country.
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| For TCF! |
Me and Lupi experimenting with some Redstone work, song is
'Internet Friends' by Knife Party
In regards to what was happening around us, Mystic Duck’s
town of DPRS was in fairly full form to the east of us in which we created a
large underground railway to connect the two towns in which Lupidoo and I dug
out the stairway and I made the station on the top but apart from that we were
fairly oblivious to others around us apart from random people who pop out of
our nether portal cause of some flaw with nether portals that pushes you out
the nearest one in the overworld. Other things that happened included Keiran
created a pretty huge office building which I decided I’ve be responsible for
decorating two floors of, and I reckon it turned out pretty well, one floor was
the reception, the other was a club I called “The Creeper Club” (yes I’ll admit
I didn’t put too much thought into the name) I got most of my design from the
Minecraft Furniture site and server
which is a great resource in which I found designs for things including,
couches, pool tables, a piano and of course the bar design.
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| The Democratic Republic of Sandwich |
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| The Lobby |
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| The 'Creeper Club' |
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| The bottom two levels of the building |
Round about this time Bioware had announced that there would
be a free week of SWTOR available for returning players, and since I had
cancelled my account for Minecraftin purposes this was the ideal time to
play. I came back a couple of times
to find that not much had happened apart from Kieran making one freakin
huge express railway which went all the way to our not so secret base in the
desert (well one of the deserts)
I had been away for a while but decided to come back at one point, and
the whole faction base seemed fine, then the next night I come back in and
everything Is royally f’ed up griefed looted and whatnot.
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| Inquisition after the reckoning, it's been pretty much cleaned out now though the larger buildings are still standing |
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| Kieran's Minecraft Interstate (photo by Kieran_Cahill) |
Now I’m beyond caring
about this kind of stuff bit it is a bit of a shame, I don’t really know what
I’d rather, for them too not touch anything at all except loot the chests or
for them to grief everything we’ve made and leave our stuff. Well life goes on
I suppose I’ve recently taken up with Lupidoo and his VIPA Theme park making faction which quite fun as they had a maze, an obstacle course and a rollercoaster going. But due to the arrival of the
third installment of Diablo we’ve
got other things on our minds now not to mention I just can't get away from SWTOR.
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| Lupidoo's VIPA Amusement Park |
It’s a lot of fun to play and build with people but it is
hard if for example you’re like me and don’t appreciate raiding and griefing,
I’m just wondering why I bother making anything significant in multiplayer at
all, sometimes I do think of going on Fusionblox again, as I’ve been back there
numerous times in order to fix connection issues and have found that my tree
mansion was pretty much intact and untouched for about a month before the
survival map got reset in order to makes use of the new updated features. I’ve
never really thought of us as a raiding/griefing server but I guess we are, it
just strikes me as odd how claimed land can still get affected but I’m not
going to get into all that.
I am thinking to myself of actually doing an experiment
where I create a new singleplayer map and
just play the game, and play
it without mods like
singleplayercommands
and
toomanyitems
especially since Minecraft now has
an ending (well sortof)
. I probably felt this way the most after watching the gameplay for the
XBOX360 Edition of
Minecraft which I noticed features such as in game tutorials inc helpful
windows that come up telling you about the particular item you have selected.
Minecraft Xbox Gameplay Review by BobLob
The PC version could really do with this too, as whenever I
play multiplayer now it seems that some people are just pro at it and are
either pooping out diamonds already or have built a giant redstone powered base
that can give you any item you can think of, I reckon it’s best when you
start off with nothing, but of course you always get to the point where you
have a good base and a stable food and resource income, so what next?
I will get round to doing that sooner or later, singleplayer
in itself is a sanctuary for friendly builders and creators like me who just
happen to like doing it in survival mode and I always like going back to
basics. I’ll be on the Ozgamerparty server for the time being, though I’d hate
to say it but Minecraft after all this time seems to have run it’s end for me,
it’s this harrowing experience when you could do anything but end up just
jumping around and exploring which is fun I guess but needs more meaning, and
that’s always been the problem of Minecraft, the tutorials and information from
the xbox version would help but I guess you just have to create your own fun in
the end. But the Minecraft adventures don’t end there of course.
JD
I'd rather be lonely than live in fear
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