VGHVI Minecraft: November 21, 2013

Pictures from the November Minecraft session:

This was a pretty major upgrade; right from the start, I could see the rendering engine changed, and while it was generally an improvement (I think I got longer view distances), sometimes it looked a bit odd:

Strange stripes on the water

And the new graphics engine did seem to be a little more prone to temporary glitches, here’s an example:

A glitch near the city

I also saw some filters when playing around with the options; maybe they’d been there for a while and I only just now noticed them, I’m not sure.

Filter one

Filter two

Filter three

Filter four

While wandering around, I saw a tower that I didn’t remember ever seeing before; surprising, given how close it was to town:

A tower with tracks

The bottom of the track

Riding down the tracks

Runaway cart!

That’s gotta hurt

It took ages to take the picture riding down: I normally use the left shift key when grabbing screenshots, but that caused me to exit from the cart. Half the time I forgot and used it anyways, half the time I tried and failed to contort my hand with the right shift key.

There were also new items in the update; Miranda added some of the new flowers to the house we’d been working on:

Planting flowers

More flowers

Flowers around the back

Taller flowers in the stable

Final design of the stable flowers

Dan was building some abstract geometric shapes:

Red and black

A closer view, showing a glass/lava cube underneath

There’s another cube in the sky

He built that far away, so it took me a while to get back home from there. Along the way, I ran into a forest with large, flat treetops:

Approaching the forest

Giant mushrooms next to the tree

A lava pool

Flowers under the canopy

Tree-dwelling sheep

Another rendering glitch a bit later

And then I ran into a village; it was pretty impressive.

Approaching the village

Meeting the villagers

Inside a building

Looking out to sea

Bidding farewell

I can’t remember the context of this photo, but I have no memory of ever seeing this object before:

A strange midair object

And one last photo; somebody must have been here before and left a candle.

Desert glow