If you’ve ever read my Minecraft Adventure posts before
you’d know about the Tribalfield community which was the original server the
group of us who make up the Tribalfield group on facebook were active on run by
our good friend NoRC, this of course was before it turned into Ozgamerparty and
eventually died out when we went on to other (greater or lesser) things. Awhile
ago one of the longer standing members: Angrathar along with his friend Orik decided to start a new Minecraft server and host it on a server
hosting account that Ang signed up for on Hypernia which was very generous of
him I might add, it was probably spurred on by another member crashbaby’s
comments on the destroyed but much-loved ‘
Tree
of Life’ from August 2011.
Boy I did not know the tree was loved that much,
when we started playing on the server the original idealist and designer
Lupidoo even suggested he wanted to make a new one which would be bigger and
better and named “Albert”. I mentioned that this was quite ambitious but if
he’s going to make it he may as well use his own server and limit the people
who work on it and if he ever does I myself should take part.
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| Our conversation on a new tree, I can't say I was too surprised I guess. |
I spose though I should quickly go over the latest (major)
patch for Minecraft. 1.6
The Horse Update
brought with it many things, one of the biggest changes I found was that
the dramatic change to the Minecraft launcher. The launcher now support
different versions of the game and you can create different profiles which are
attached to different version of the game. This new interface is a first step
towards the planned
Plugin
API or “Workbench” which will allow modders to easily add more content to
the game. In other words it means that in order to install mods we may never
need to touch the minecraft.jar file again and therefore save ourselves from
screwing up our games.
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| The new Minecraft Launcher |
Though this does come with a few problems, the new launcher
automatically updates the game for you, so in order to install mods currently
you need to create a new profile with a new version which is not synced with
the main server in order to install your mods on. Also at the time when the
patch came out, all texture packs were unusable as they needed to be converted
to
Resource packs
which now encompassed music, sounds, language files, end credits, splashes and
fonts as well as textures. This created a bit of a pain but was necessary and I
do look forward to the new plugin system where I can just push a button to update
my mods (if they are available) though there technically already is something
like this by the name of
Magic
Launcher though I was never able to get this working properly and ended up
doing things the manual way.
Speaking of mods I feel I might try and get some
Shader
mods going or even try out the
Twilight
Forest mod of course these do need the Minecraft Forge Mod in order to run
which is another thing I need to get working next time I start playing
Minecraft again though if I do I can finally use that
Painting
selection GUI that I’ve ben wanting to use and the randomized paintings in
Minecraft do get a bit annoying after a while.
A good example of Sonic Ether GLSL shaders in this video for
the
Biomes ‘O’ Plenty Mod
which is another I might think about trying out.
Another major change was of course the
Horses (inc. Donkeys and
Mules) which were inspired by DrZhark of the
Mo'
Creatures mod. Horses can be tamed, ridden, bred and came with a variety of
new items including horse armor, hay bales, leads and name tags.
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| Horses are most commonly found in Meadowbiomes |
Amongst the other changes were some additional status
effects for potions, console commands, riding and mob difficulty mechanics. New
blocks including
Hardened
Clay,
Stained Clay, Block
of Coal and Carpet which
is sure to make things different when decorating houses . Mobs were changed
slightly including Zombie mobbing and additional Villager sounds and Deserts
now do not contain lakes which was pretty silly in the first place and you can
now find Normal chests in the Nether.
A good overview of the 1.6.1 changes by
AntVenom
So now that we’ve got all the sorted let’s get into what
happened on the server, well not quite yet as I have to explain the new texture
pack which I suppose you’ve noticed. This one is the
KoP
Photo Realism ‘resource’ pack I should say now which I had to trade for my
much loved
Faerielight
which had not been updated as yet. Yes I know it’s another realism one but
that’s what I like isn’t it? Nice and realistic cubes lol. So when I finally
worked out how to get all of my mods working and actually started playing on
the server I was greeted with a snow covered spawn area, something I had not
seen before with any spawn area I’d ever been in, though Ang’s server had
basically no mods, it was as vanilla as they come, which kinda a good thing and
a bad thing but worked out fine.
I travelled through the taiga biome cutting
some logs and hunting animals for food until I found a meadow with a decent
sized quarry (i.e. interconnected shallow patches of stone among the grass)
which led to quite a large mine with an underground crevasse. I made a
rudimentary shelter cave in one of the corners of the quarry under the ground
and hunted for some coal and iron to cook my food and upgrade my tools and
armaments before conversing with my longtime tribalfield Minecraft buddy
Lupidoo and decided to join him.
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| The snow covered spawn area |
It turns out Lupidoo was only roughly 300m away from where I
was so it took no time at all to get to him, he had also made a rudimentary
hole-in-the-wall style home with a small farm next to it, and the inside was
his signature style of a room which is smaller than a jail cell. I didn’t waste
any time and started widening up his place until it looked acceptable, I even
managed to change the entrance of the mine to go from the corner of the room
instead of the middle, pretty soon I had something respectable, including a
room for myself. I named the place the cave of cake, and made a sign above the
iron door for at the time that’s what I felt like putting in there.
We then set
about gathering resources and mining of which I found lots of coal and iron and
even some diamond. I made myself some sweet iron armor and we started buildings
farms inc bamboo for books and wheat and carrots for food, I also did a bit of
lumberjacking and hunting on the side cause we all need meat and wood yo. We
didn’t quite get round to the taming and riding of horses but good ol’ Admin
Angrathar came flying down with him and his horse decorated with golden armor
and sword, twas a sight to behold.
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| Lupi and I's farms |
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| I like this shot of us staring into the blackness |
There was a few of us in the same meadow with an
interconnecting mine. Cashman had originally set up a small house with a farm
on a hill not too far away from me and Lupi, Orik and Angrathar had set up close
by, also Frewer had his mountain more to the north of there. After we had
gathered sufficient resources I started properly scoping out the interior of
the cave and organising the resources, I made an inner wall and put the
resources chests along the hall on the right and put the furnaces and our
bedroom on the left hand wall and properly signed everything up, we also found
some cows and started a cow farm for leather.
Following that disaster I decided to continue working on the
interior of the cave, I properly cleared and walled up with cobblestone the two
tunnels leading into our main base and walled them up on the opposite side with
iron doors which made an interesting upper and lower feel to it, I also widened
up the back room on the side of the resource hall.
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| Oh yeh two back entrances that'll keep em thinking |
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| More room! |
Of course the interior of the cave was still all
stone and cobble so of course I did what I love to do was make the cave look
more homely and that required a multitude of things inc wood for the roof,
brick for the walls, and wool and dye for carpet, yes carpet I was going to try
out carpet where I could get more carpet for my buck. It was actually quite an
adventure first Lupi and I ran through the forest grabbing flowers and roses
and chopping down trees then I ran to the swamp and dived in for clay then we
decided to pay Orik’s farm a visit (his farm not him, he was away at the time) to
shear away at the sheer amount of sheep and chickens he and Ang had amassed.
Orik's Sheep and Chicken farm, efficient but man how cruel
Soon as we finished we came back and Lupi decided that our
cave entrance needed a bit of protection so I went inside to organize the
interior while he worked on the entry. I lined the roof with oak wood planks
and the walls with all the brick I could make which still obviously wasn’t
enough but it looked better. I noticed though that my roof near the door was on
fire due to Lupi “defences” so I had to remove some near the door. I went out
to have a lok at what he’d done and it was pretty hot to say the least though
it worked, it worked it was kind of scary and hazardous to get in and out but
we flamed and melted almost 30 monsters that night, it was like a bug zapper.
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| Wow now that's frightening, note that I'm back to my old fairielight texture pack |
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| cOlLabOrAtIoN! |
I then tried out the carpet with some interesting results. I made orange carpet for the resource room and red for the area to the left where Ang had put the enchanting table, I kinda ran out though and couldn't do our sad looking bedroom. The
carpet work well in the way that it only goes on top of the floor so you don’t
have to remember to put an extra floor layer to hide it and you get 3 carpet
blocks from two wool blocks. However there were some problems, for example you
can’t stack objects like chests on top of carpet so I had to use wool blocks as
normal this makes an uneven effect on the floor both around the chests and wherever
the carpet ends and it doesn’t look very good so I don’t think I’ll be using
carpet in the future.
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| The newly furnished cave |
So that was that really, we spent a bit more time on the
server but after a while we got a bit bored as is what usually happens. I think
unless you're playing a mod like Twilight forest, Feed the Beast, Tekkit etc
there's not much more to do in Vanilla Minecraft apart from building projects
and getting to the end. Still, it’s not going to make me stop continuously delving
back in to the fray for more.
Mine on,
JD
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| Last light after a hard days mining |
Together again, though shortly
Changed Ventelation to Orik as one of the server creators
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