VGHVI Minecraft: May 28, 2015
For our May Minecraft session, we pretty much hung out in the same place where we’d been in April, where Pat and (towards the end) Miranda had been building a sort of stockade village.
I flew around for a bit, and ended up returning to a large, strangely round cave nearby:
Flying around in a rainy sunset
The entrance to the round cave
Looking down into the cave
Coordinates, for my future reference
I wanted to do something with the cave, but I wasn’t sure what: the entrance in particular was so big around round that I wasn’t sure what I could do that would make it look better instead of worse. I eventually decided that I didn’t like the area right outside the entrance, so I wanted to put some color there.
The first version that I actually took a picture of. I liked the black and blue border, but the gold was a bit much.
Green, maybe?
Or red?
How about purple?
Emerald, to match the texture of the blue?
Diamond?
Those were all too gaudy; maybe some gold ore?
Diamond ore?
The ores didn’t work. White?
I’m tired of doing these one at a time, let’s look at three options at once.
Black, but a darker black (and a different texture) than the outer ring.
I liked the black best of the options so far; maybe add a white dot in the middle?
Or a white triangle?
A gold triangle, maybe?
Or a gold dot?
What if I stick a torch on it?
Or leave the torch but ditch the gold dot?
I kind of liked the look of the torch, but it seemed a bit weird sitting there on the ground in the middle, so I went back to black.
Lots of work for a carpet. And I still don’t know what to do with the cave itself! Though I later returned to another part of the area surrounding the cave entrance, this time a ledge high up on the right:
Adding a railing and leveling out a ledge
Putting in a chest and workbench
Anyways, enough of that area. I went back to the stockade village (not very far away at all):
A nice wood / river between them, you can barely see the roofs of the village
What’s that small hole on the right river bank?
And then I saw a small hole; I went in to explore, and there was a massive cave inside! I didn’t take too many pictures, but it was one of those great Minecraft moments, where you never know what will happen when you enter a hole or go around a corner.
Lava visible through a cave tunnel
Emerald ore
Some mine shafts
Back outside
Anyways: the village. First, Pat and Miranda finished it off a bit more:
Finishing a house
Beds inside one of the houses
That room’s ceiling
A house by the river
A view from the top
Then, once they’d gotten the houses habitable, they started spawning villagers.
Spawning a villager
More villagers
The villagers examine the structures
Inside a house
The village at dawn, with lanterns added
Inside the main building
Villagers outside at day
They spawned a golem, too
The golem is in the water
One last view of the whole village
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