VGHVI Minecraft: June 25, 2015

Jul 05 2015

For the June Minecraft session, my dilemma was that I liked the village that Pat and Miranda had built, and I was interested in exploring near there (and maybe working more on a nearby cave), but it was really far from home. I’d been thinking that maybe I could build train tracks, but I wasn’t looking forward to that; fortunately, Pat had a better suggestion, namely build train tracks in the nether! (I hadn’t realized that one nether block was equivalent to sixteen regular blocks; good design decision, that.)

A villager contemplates the river

Building a nether portal

The portal is active

I spent a long time staring at this – not sure why it took so long to load

A building housing the nether portal

We decided to both build train tracks, so away we went. For some reason I didn’t take any pictures of the construction process, and actually the photo hotkey I was using ejected me from the train, so I didn’t take pictures riding it, either! But here’s some pictures of the two ends.

Runaway trains, from when I tried to take pictures en route

Both our tracks, at the start

Pat’s tracks at the other end

My tracks at the other end

The portal at the other end already existed: in fact, Miranda had built a building near there, that had since gotten partially destroyed. And there were actually two portals in the real world leading to the one nether portal; one was less well placed, so I destroyed it and relit the other.