Just thought I'd make a little post about what I've been doing recently...
Well, not a lot actually. I had an accident a short while back and haven't been particularly mobile. Getting thrown around by 1.5 Metric tonnes of steel will do that to you! I was crossing the road and got mashed by a car!! Totally my fault, crossing the street while talking on your phone is just as careless as driving while talking on one, so be careful out there!
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| Yep, green and orange sheep! |
As a result of that, I've not really been up to much. Mostly things that involve a joypad! :)
My Minecraft world is coming along nicely, I recently discovered you can dye sheep funny colours, so that was fun for 5 minutes! It also came to my attention that my 6 year old Son was a bit better at Minecraft than I was, so that had to be rectified! I've been crafting my backside off for the last few weeks, learning new recipes and stuff!
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| Ooooh. Aaah! |
Fireworks, Sticky Pistons, Leads, Redstone Circuits, you name it, I can craft it! I now have a little farm with an endless supply of Milk, Eggs and Wool which is patrolled by an Iron Golem. Yeah, he's decorative, but what a decoration! I also have a nice little house that has automatic lighting in the ceiling! When the sun goes down, the lights come on! IRL the unit controlling that circuit would be called an LDR, (Light Dependant Resistor), but Minecraft simplifies it somewhat and calls it a Daylight Sensor.
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| Don't mess with this bloke! |
I enjoy Minecraft, much like trillions of other people. I'm the kind of guy who plays Survival mode on the peaceful difficulty setting, only turning enemy Mobs on when I need an item that one of them drops. I can't convey the pain of spending hours collecting the resources to build a lovely house, only to see it destroyed in seconds by a rogue Creeper. My Son and Daughter both enjoy the game too, but they play in very different ways to me and each other.
The Boy, 6, is a battler. He'll get on his Xbox One and fight with people in real-time. He like a bit of deathmatch action, but his real love is Build Battle. For the uninitiated, a build battle is when a few Minecrafters get together in one arena online and a subject matter appears, E.G. Star Wars. Everyone then has to build something out of the resources they've been given that revolves around that subject. He's pretty good at it too, I've watched him. He got given the subject of Monsters, and built a brilliant Skeleton out of Wool and Coal! Won the round too! The winner then gets to choose the next subject in some servers.
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| House interior. Note the Redstone Lamps. |
My Daughter, 4, is a creator. She likes to open Creative mode and just try things out. She's the reason I know that you can dye sheep and that once you've tamed a wolf, you can teach it to sit and also dye its collar. She also taught me how to build Snow Golems too. Her thing at the moment is farms. She's got sheep, cows, chickens and even Llamas. She learned the lesson, "don't tether your wolf too near to your sheep" the hard way when a wolf she'd tethered too close to her sheep, ate all her sheep! Oops. She's also aware that feeding a couple of cows wheat will make a baby cow, so I'm expecting one of life's more difficult to answer questions from her soon! :)
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| House exterior. Complete with map and banner. |
