VGHVI Minecraft, November 19, 2015

Dec 13 2015

In our November Minecraft session, I wanted to figure out what to do add next to the cave. I’d been tentatively thinking I’d add more rooms around the central area, maybe even some walkways, but I also wanted to see if there were nice room-shaped spaces below.

I ended up wandering around the whole time, though, not really coming to a conclusion. First, I looked at the main body of the cave:

The cave entrance

Looking down from the entrance

And then I wandered around a lot below the area I’d been working on in October. And, I will say: those are some good caves there. They don’t necessarily show up well in pictures, but they’re impressive when I’m wandering around, and also seeing the lava rivers so early made me realize just how deep the main cave went.

A lava river

Water and lava meet

A mineshaft in the distance

A second exit

That cross-shaped exit was already familiar to me: it’s on the other side of the river of the cave, about halfway between the cave and Pinetown. So yeah, the whole area is riddled with caves; I certainly didn’t end up exploring the whole thing.

None of that suggested an obvious place to build, so I went up to the main cave to see if there were other room possibilities that I missed. And I did notice some rooms high up on the back wall, maybe I can do something with those? I’m really not sure…

Two alcoves on the back wall

A view of the lower alcove where you can see it in comparison to the first room

The view from the lower alcove

The view from the higher alcove.

After that, I wandered over to see what Pat was doing: he was building on top of an overhang a few hills away. (There really is a lot of neat terrain in this area!)