#Minecraft 9 block challenge

[bluuedraws]

My sister and I collaborated on a YouTube video if anyone wants to see it! We had a blast making it X3

[frogcraftingg]

A new update means a new 100 days of Minecraft challenge and in the latest one I took on a Trial Chamber, built a really cute base with the new blocks, and made some best friends for life (at least 9 different variants worth)!

Video is out now! Check it out on YouTube here.

[mcyt-drabble-exchange]

MCYT Drabble Exchange: Overview and Rules

Do you like writing? Do you like Minecraft youtubers? Do you, perhaps, like writing about Minecraft youtubers? Well, we do too! Only problem is, we often stay up late wagging our fists at a half-finished document, cursing the fact that writing is hard, life is busy and there's just not enough time in the day to sit down and make a good fic. Well, if you’re looking for a quick little block people centered writing challenge, then boy, do we have just the mini-event for you!

Welcome everyone to the 2024 (first ever!) MCYT Drabble Exchange!

TIMELINE: May 6th - sign ups open May 17th - sign ups close May 24th - all assignments sent May 25-26th - posting period May 26th 11:59pm BST - posting period ends [What time is it for me?] May 27th-June 2nd - treating week

SIGN UPS: [closed]

TREATING SHEET: [here]

RULES: 1. As per Tumblr and AO3 TOS, you must be over 13 to participate. 2. You agree to create a work of exactly 100 words by the given deadline, or contact a mod on Tumblr for your giftee to be reassigned. 3. You agree to abide by your giftee’s DNW. 4. Your work must focus on at least one requested character, but can include non requested characters. 5. All works must be MCYT-centric. 6. This is a 13+ exchange, there is no NSFW allowed. This applies to sexual content as well as extreme (e-rated) gore. 7. Make your gift in good faith - something that you think your giftee would like. 8. All violent/dark/triggering topics must be tagged appropriately. 9. No AI generated content.

POSTING: You can post your work to Tumblr or AO3, we don’t mind either! We do however require you make a Tumblr post tagging both this blog and your giftee. We have an AO3 Collection! Works posted to the collection might take a while to show up, so please don’t panic if you don't see yours! They need to be manually accepted.

So, what is a drabble?  A drabble is a written work made up of exactly 100 words. Typically viewed as a challenge, drabbles are often meant to test a writer’s skill in brevity, seeing how efficiently they can communicate emotions or ideas through such tight restrictions. For this event, we are using this unique format to bring the joy of MCYT into the world! Think, how would a lighthearted interaction between Tubbo and Tommy play out? How many insults could Grian hurl at Jimmy? How much emotion can you squeeze out of QSMP Jaiden if you’ve only got her in your little writer hands for 100 words? For this event, we encourage you to be creative, try some new things, and most importantly, have fun!   (To get a feel of what you’re working with, keep in mind that the previous paragraph has a word count of 120, twenty words over your limit!)

Are violent/triggering topics allowed? As MCYT content can often include violence, character death, murder games, and other such themes, we do allow them. However those are opt-in - if your giftee hasn’t asked for it, then don’t write it. If you do end up writing about these topics, make sure to tag appropriately! 

What if I can’t finish on time? Contact us on this blog as soon as possible! A pinch hit will be sent out, and your giftee will be reassigned. If you do endup requesting a pinch hit, you will still get your own gift!

How will the matches be made? After the sign ups are done, the event mods will match everyone to ensure everyone gets to write what they signed up for! Once matches are made, you will receive your assignment via Tumblr DMs.

Can I make more than one gift? Of course! As long as it complies with your giftee’s requests you’re welcome to write as many drabbles as your heart desires!

I have a different question? Send us an ask or a DM!

[antimony-medusa]

PARKOUR PRO TAKES ON EPIC LEVELLED CHALLENGE (REAL) (HEARTBREAKING) (NOT CLICKBAIT)

Ranboo emerged from his front door and squinted into the rising sun. His house loomed behind him, a block of stone hanging in space next to more identical houses. The local neighbourhood of parkour pros didn’t have a lot of variation. The ground between the houses was a uniform grid of blocks of dirt placed two blocks apart, far enough that you could only jump it if you sprinted. Ranboo sat back on his heels to enjoy the view, and then grabbed frantically for purchase as the wheels set in the heels of his iron boots (custom heelies) slid on his stairs. He caught himself and took a deep breath, fingers digging into his doorframe. Falling would suck. He was better than this. He wouldn’t fall. His eyes dropped to the space between the blocks, the place where one of his feet was sticking over the edge. Or: Peerpressure Parkour Civilization AU

Status: 1/1 chapters, updated 9 August, 11,240 words

Fandom: Dream SMP

Rating: Teen Audiences

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF), Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Clay | Dream (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF)

Relationships: Ranboo & Technoblade

Tags: Alternate Universe - Parkour Civilization, Minecraft Mechanics, minecraft parkour, Is this angst or fluff well look out it's a patented classic NEITHER, This is sarcasm mostly, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Tommyinnit-Typical levels of swearing, peer pressure duo, There's also endersmile and allium and discduo, but this is a peer pressure fic, MCYTblr Summer AU Fest 2024, Ranboo Has A Spine The Tensile Strength Of A Chocolate Eclair, Peril, fucked up power structures masquerading as a utopian meritocracy, He/Him and They/Them Pronouns for Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF), It/Its Pronouns for Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF), Ranboo-centric (Video Blogging RPF)

THAT"S RIGHT BITCHES IT"S THE SECOND FIC IN A DAY I AM WIRED ON CAFFEINE AND PARKOUR. Inspired by the fantastic @ranboo5's art, the soundtrack being Ranboo & Technoblade's Excellent Adventure on loop, beted by @droidofmay who kindly pointed out the multiple sentences I just stopped in the middle of and moved on from, I emerge from a google doc covered in blood to bring you 11k of peerpressure duo.

I really really tried to keep it to 5k you guys. You don't know how hard I tried. Anyways. Parkour. Tommy is here for a bit. You can play spot the skeppy.

It SHOULD be accessible even if you haven't watched the source video, droid hadn't seen the videos. If you have a reasonable familiarity with minecraft mechanics slash have watched MCC you should hopefully be able to carry through.

A pinch hit for @mcytblraufest! HAVE SOME PARKOUR.

[real-nature-facts]

COUGH COUGH... sorry for the abrupt end to the animal crossing update leak post. a nintendo employee was trying to rip my eyes out. i put them back though so back to the leaks!

anyways i tried to draw what the cerburus npc looked like from memory. i couldn't take photos cause nintendo was trying to kill me w/ hammers

they wore a distinct eyeliner that they would teach the player how to use.

if you hit them w/ a net or axe they would insta-knock you out by biting the player. you wouldn't be able to play again until the next day

now back to general stuffs

increased resolution for patterns

on april 1st a cheetah npc will challenge you to a race. you cannot win this race

underground parts of the town can be accessed through any well

locust swarms attack players crops

villagers are actively aware of what you're doing. ie. you try to trap them w/ furniture or terraforming they'll stop you

if the player is persistent in this behavior the villager will move/pick up furniture or climb terrain and maim you, causing you to be knocked out if they get you

villagers can steal

there is a villager w/ the likeness of jerma985, their amiibo card reinforces this

more below cut

The minecalf amiibobo villagers bring in minecraft block furniture, including a functional crafting table

after 9:00pm on October, their is a chance a blood moon will occur. the blood moon causes all villagers to actively hunt down the player. getting caught causes a knock out. the blood moon lasts until the next day

tree decor. allows players to hang any item from tree tops

hammocks

anxiety visual effects for when player is being hunted

water furniture. ie. boats floaties

player built ponds. can be stocked w/ any fish & plants

ingame social media. like miiverse but exclusive to animal crossing

wilderness area the player can visit. actively hostile but many resources. villagers can be found here

direct hotline to tom nook can be called at any point. tom nook will comment on the current situation the player is.

direct hotline to redd can be called at after asking for their number. doing this loses tom nooks number permanently

Resetti is back.

a basic custom furniture maker function. 3d printer themed

K.K. slider will show the player how to pirate his music

running round the town 20 times w/ carrying 2 gold 12 clay 2 gold axes gives the player 90000 bells

a soundboard app can be gotten on the nook phone. for multiplayer

tom nook owns an xbox

microwave meals can be bought. they must be cooked first before becoming eatable. gifting villagers microwave meals gets a negative response

while the villagers can swear, the player can not.

aurora borealis

theirs a mew hidden under the truck furniture item

[morgueofstories]

I was tagged by @mistythedritten to do this challenge (which I'm excited Misty @ me)

How many works do you have on Ao3?

I have 10 works rn and many, many wips that are waiting to be finished (college is kicking my ass at the moment as I'm on my final semester)

2. What is your word count?

14,030 words

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Mainly Dream SMP

4. What are your top 5 fics? (stats)

You're Not Alone Anymore, Your Suffering Left You Broken, Let Me Help You Heal, Mine, Beautiful The Way That You Are, Sometimes, You Can Ask For Help are my top 5 at the moment

5. Do you always respond to comments? Why or why not?

Sometimes I do respond to comments if people have questions or are confused, but I do not respond to every single comment

6. Angstiest ending for a fic?

I believe my angstiest ending would have to be for Broken and Barely Breathing as that seemed to be the one most people cried over in the comments

7. First Fic with a Happy Ending?

I believe it is Beautiful The Way That You Are as it ends where Dream starts to show off the tattoos that covered up his scars after Farfadox tells him he is beautiful just how he is

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I don't think so but I mostly don't check my comments for hate

9. Do you write smut?

On this account, no I don't but that may change with a Farfadream story idea I had (mostly just flashbacks of a traumatic time c!Dream will be going through)

I have dipped my toes into writing smut and have an account solely for writing smut (no I won't reveal it)

10. Do you write crossovers?

Does Farfadream count as writing a crossover?

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

I don't believe I've had a fic stolen but I don't check to see if my works have been posted elsewhere without my consent

12. Ever had a fic translated?

Nope

13. Ever co-written?

On a fic, no I have not co-written but I do have some story ideas that I collaborate with other writers on Discord (fun times)

14. Favorite ship?

Can't pick, there are to many c!dream ships that I love and I hope to make a post about the ones I enjoy soon

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but probably never will?

probably the Farfadream Mental Asylum au where Farfadox is a priest (secretly the king of demons) and Dream is a patient who is possessed by a dreamon

16. Writing strengths?

Once I write I don't stop and mostly I feel like writing when listening to a specific playlist which I will only put on to start writing

17. Writing weaknesses?

Procrastination, I always tell myself that I will write and then I don't, I also have trouble when it comes to writing people speak where I use the word 'said' too much

18. Thoughts on dialog in another language in a fic?

I enjoy it! I actually have written dialog in another language mostly when Farfadox speaks Spanish

19. First fandom you have written for?

Rise of the Brave Frozen Tangled Dragons back when I was 13 and had a different writing account before I created this one for writing Minecraft block men

20. Favorite fic you have written?

Your Suffering Left You Broken, Let Me Help You Heal is probably my favorite fic I wrote as I enjoyed writing Tina's perspective of the server where she realized that everyone on the server was the problem and not Dream (I also enjoyed writing the part where she sees Tommy as a spoiled brat)

And that is it! I will tag @sudspots-in-a-bubble, @mpregconnoisseur, @allytienesuenio, @somanywips, and @lookinghalfacorpse

[remembercomic]

Competing With The Optimal

In the long history of Minecraft, there is a handful of recurring game design elements that have appeared quite prominently amongst the various mods made for the game. Ore multiplication, item transportation, automated crafting, etc.

Of particular note at this time is that third one: crafting, because as of Java Edition version 1.20.3, the developers at Mojang have added the Crafter. After 12 years since formal release version 1.0, the unmodified version of Minecraft may soon have its own solution for automated crafting.

In terms of its design, the Crafter is a fresh entry in a troublingly-long series of changes made to the game that introduce a solution to a problem that obviates all others. It has exceedingly few drawbacks and occupies only a single space in the cubic grid, rendering any attempts to address the challenge of auto-crafting irrelevant if they don't somehow occupy an even smaller footprint. Its user interface is unique, in that slots can be toggled on or off, preventing them from receiving items whilst still contributing to the composition of crafting recipes. It even spits out the crafted product when triggered, either into the open world to be collected by the player or into an adjacent inventory, including other Crafters.

How then do mod developers compete? How can they reclaim some ground in what has historically been one of the high notes of virtually any mod with a solution?

Well frankly, they can't. Like the Shulker Box and the Elytra, the Crafter is a solution that renders the problem trivial, so the modders need to do something more creative with the solution in a way that complements rather than attempts to exceed it.

For the purposes of the Tricksy Foxes project, there are two blocks that attempt this: The Work Table and the Clockwork Friar.

The Work Table (planned only days before the Crafter's announcement) serves as a mid-point in the evolution from Crafting Table to Crafter. It has an inventory, it can still be used for crafting, and if triggered can craft its inventory according to a matching recipe. It does not have toggleable slots nor can it dispense its product into an inventory, but it can serve very well as a crafting table with built-in storage or a simple compacter (a form of recipe common in modded and unmodded gameplay). Relative to the Crafter, it's also quite cheap, requiring only humble wood to create.

The Clockwork Friar is almost a step beyond the Crafter, but comes with its own drawbacks in comparison. A programmable automaton, the Friar similarly has an inventory like the Work Table, but can only hold up to 9 items at the most. This informs it of the recipe it is to process and, when triggered, it siphons the ingredients from neighbouring inventories directly instead of needing them piped in. It can also be triggered with a simple interaction, with no inherent need for complex wiring. However, it is twice the size of the Crafter and Work Table, like the Crafter cannot be used for everyday crafting, and like the Work Table cannot deposit its product.

Ultimately, neither of these blocks seeks to directly compete with the Crafter, but rather to serve as useful tools in their own specific use-cases. In the context of Tricksy Foxes, a mod based around automation using behaviour trees, they serve as a means to easily enable the foxes to craft items, an action that would be overwhelmingly complex if it were performed solely inside of the behaviour tree implementation itself.

[ske-fmp-2025]

Wednesday - Week 9 - The Last Working Day.

Modelling.

For my last working day, I needed to get my map finished and ported in the game by the end of the day, otherwise my project will not a perfected as it could be. To get started, I began working on finishing the path that I had stared on yesterday.

This wasn't to much of a challenge, only because it was me just copying and pasting the bits of the path that I had already made. I did have to alter them each time I copied one but it didn't take me that long to do. After I had done this, I immediately noticed that this environment was missing details like planets and bushes so that’s what I worked on next.

The grass what a great place to started it added a lot detail while only being a few pixels big. I did end up getting the inspiration from Minecraft, with how they designed there grass. The only thing I really need help with the most was how they blended the colors together with there grass blocks and grass, I did also look into how there flowers worked with the grass.

Now onto the harder part, the bushes. I didn’t know if I wanted to make them be designed more similar to leaf piles than anything else or making them look more like a miniature tree. I did also look into what I could have around the bushes, and most tree's or bushes normally have a lot of vegetation/nutrients around them so it makes sense for there to be grass within the tree.

This is how I ended up making it. I did have help from a friend to decided what type of design that I should go for and he preferred the look of the mushroom top with it having a brown stalk. taking the color from the path. I do like the design as it makes the environment look extra-terrestrial, I mean it looks like blue funguses. And feels like if someone where to come here they would be surprised by the shape and color of the plants.

For what to do now, I needed to get all of these models inside of unreal engine so then I can finally remove the place holder base and path. This has been something that I have been waiting to do for a long time now, and it feels so good finally have something art wise to show.

UI Changes

This all that inside the project, I can finally start working on the finishing touches for the game and get around to the finally testing in the project. The first thing that I noticed that needed slightly changing was the UI, the Ui needed the font that I got earlier while making the main menu and I felt like that there should be a timer in the top left of the screen under the money.

The font fits in better than I thought it would. I originally was going to get a new one however it works. Something else I changed was the colours of the buttons at the bottom, there used to be an grey outline that really annoyed me so I got rid of it. As you can see now as well, I added a timer. This timer works exactly the same way as the previous one that I had made in my last project, it continuously gets the time from the game and set it as the text. It is really basic but it is all I need in this game.

Unit Changes

The last thing I changed today was some of the prices of the units that I have, most of them here have been changed around how strong there are in action. I do plan on continuously changing the prices of the towers until I figure out how easy/balanced it is.

Gilbert's

Changed Gilberts Level 1 Price to 1000

Change Gilberts Upgrade Price to 1800

Changed Gilberts Level 2 Price to 1600

Mildred's

Changed Mildred's Level 1 Price to 1200

Changed Mildred's Upgrade Price to 2400

Changed Mildred's Level 2 Price to 2000

R.0.D.R.1.G.0's

Changed Base Price to 400

Changed Upgrade Price to 550

Level 2 Price is 700

5.P.I.N.9.L.E.Y

Changed Fire Base Price to 400 (I think that its the same)

Changed Upgraded Price to 770

Changed Level 2 Price to 800

Plan

I do also plan on changing some damage numbers next, instead of just changing the prices. Other than that, my weeks goal has been completed, I finished the map, all of the units have been implemented and work.

I do plan on releasing the state of the game I usually do next week, this is main because there as still a couple of bugs that I wish to fix and I would also like to add some final research posts here on my blog.

I think I did everything that I wanted to do this week, unfortunately while making the map there were more bugs that just appeared after fixing there ones that were already there. Other than that I think I did everything that I wanted to do this week.

[craftboysposts]

🏰 Who Will Win? Spider-Man vs Joker, Venom & Captain America - The Great Castle Race! ⚡🔥 #shorts #spiderman #joker #captainamerica #venom #marvel #minecraft #dc #avengers #animation #brawlstars #minecraftanimation

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[silent-sentinels]

Plural Asking 100 Questions: Part 10!

(last one! ready?) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

91. If you collectively had to choose, would you pick to become a vampire or a werewolf? vampire, we like the aesthetic better lmao also please let us be immortal so we can sleep more without time mattering as much hkjgh

92. Your body is transferred into one of your Members sources, which do you pick and why? oh hm well we don't have a source, but i guess we could all be transferred into disco? that'd be challenging kjhgfg

93. If all of you turned into animals right this second, which animals would we find in your System? LMAO OKAY SO!! a fox first of all, a manta ray, probably several fish, and also probably several types of birds, a bunny, a butterfly, a spider, a snake, some cats, several deer and deer-adjacent creatures.

94. What would a Minecraft server with all of your Members look like? (example: chaotic, peaceful, laggy, ...)

CHAOTIC AS FUCK HKJHG but also the body gets extremely motion sick from playing minecraft too long so that would suck hjkgh

disregarding that, maybe we'd try to recreate our city in headspace? could be a fun project to work on together!! though we're really not good builders hkjhg

i think we'd all share items, any chest is fair game if you're not a bastard about it hkjhg but also we're all so extremely forgetful and disorganized. maestro would probably try to organize everything to no avail hkjhg

did you know we never had minecraft growing up, so we just read the minecraft wiki for kicks? <- this was probably expertise's doing kjhgf but we do know a lot of crafting recipes now hkjhg also did you know 23 blocks is the exact height you can survive a fall from? and slimes at their tiniest deal no damage to the player? and-

oh motherfucker we'd be doing anything for an elytra but NONE OF US ARE GOOD AT FIGHTING HOW ARE WE GETTING PAST THE ENDERDRAGON hjkghg at some point we'd just gamemode some in

ryan and juliet are absolutely fucking with noteblocks and/or making a parkour course. scott is taming every animal ever hkjhg theseus is sitting in a corner and writing novels in minecraft book and quills hkjgh and we would all build a safe little house for ceres <3

mom and lili would make a cute little garden together and oath would be vigilantly guarding them from hostile creatures. we'd probably put lili in creative mode, we are NOT LETTING HER DIE HKJGHG

i think faucet would find it peaceful, since it's just us!! <33 and distance will probably do that thing where distance travels very very far away in a straight line before coming back with a bunch of things distance picked up!

burden would probably pick up on anything we're lacking and build farms for it. or make transportation easier. or place more torches so its safer. or craft better armor for everyone. just, responsible minecraft things hkjhjh

95. If you could choose between only living in Headspace or only living in Meatspace (real life), which would you choose? well our headspace is hazy and vague, but if it was a solidified headspace, then we'd love to live in our headspace city!! but if it has to stay hazy and vague we would uhhh probably lose all sense of self in there hkgjhg it's like brain fog but In The Real, the fuckin pale is swallowing us hkjgh

for all the drawbacks real life has, we do have people here we love and want to stay for. headspace would be a nice escape, but we're determined to live out here for the people we love.

96. What topic would you collectively make a youtube channel about? (it can't be plurality!) we'd probably make an art channel? speedpaints and animatics and such! we've always loved cool art channels... ooh maybe song covers too? who knows :3

97. Which superpower would your body obtain, if you had to collectively decide on one? flight!! its a little lame compared to other powers out there, but we've always wanted to fly :]

98. Who would pick the coolest tattoo for the System and who would pick the worst? the coolest would be a toss up and/or collaboration between Songbird and Debonair, who would probably pick some sickass artsy thing. the worst would be Sharps who would just convince us not to get a tattoo because it would hurt and like. yeah shes right it sure would hgkjhg

99. If you only were allowed to eat one food for the rest of your life, but you would have to decide on the food collectively, what would it be and what would the decision making look like The decision making would involve Yearning bemoaning a lack of sweets and ultimately resolve in us choosing wonton soup, which is our favorite food and has enough vegetables for our daily nutritional intake. rip cotton candy tho 😔

100. What is the most fun about doing polls and answering questions, in your opinion? we like getting to explain ourselves. we are a constant conversation, and we like getting to share even a bit of our thought processes (if faucet lets us, of course.) if theres a poll or a question asked, we know the answer we're giving is warranted and wanted, in some way. we like knowing there's people willing to listen to us :']

for these questions specifically, we've also been trying to get to know ourselves better!! we're still new, still processing, still trying to understand how we work! like, these questions made us realize sharps is an age slider and helped us situate headspace a little more so!! hkjgh yippee!!

thank you for reading any of these if you did!! we love you!!

[redwoodapothecary]

Silly PJO Minecraft AU (with added origins mod stuff)

Origins I’m including:

-Drowned. You do 2x damage when using a trident. You can use channeling without a thunderstorm and riptide without water being around. More trident durability. Guardians don’t attack you. You do extra damage while underwater. You burn in the daytime. You take extra damage from smite. Hunger burns faster than normal.

-Witch. Potions last a lot longer than normal. Short term effects will be applied whenever needed (like fire resistance when you step in lava). Friendly with all forms of pillagers. Villagers hate you, iron golems attack.

-Elytrian. Permanent wings. You can launch yourself in the air every 60 seconds. Deal 2x damage when flying. Can’t wear anything higher than chainmail armor, except an iron helmet. Take more kinetic damage like falling or bumping into things. Gains slowness and weakness when in any form of cavern/under a roof lower than four blocks.

-Illusioner. Can go invisible and spawn four copies of itself. Can shoot an arrow that gives target nausea II for 15 secs. +2 damage with bows. Pillagers are friendly. Villagers and iron golems hate you. Shields don’t work. Swords do less damage.

-Shulk. Has 9 additional inventory slots which you keep upon death. Iron armor is the equivalent of diamond armor. Can break stone blocks without pickaxe. Can’t use shields. Burns hunger faster.

-Evoker. Can summon the fang magic thing (yk the things that come out of the ground and fucking chomp). 10% chance to not break a totem of undying when you use it. Pillagers are friendly. Villagers hate you, iron golems attack.

-Blazeborn. Immune to fire and lava damage. Deals more damage while burning. Immune to poison. Spawns in nether. Takes damage when in contact with water.

-Bee. You inflict poison with a short cooldown. When you’re near multiple flowers of any type, you gain regeneration I. You can freely take honey from any hives. Slow fall. Two less hearts. Cannot eat meat. Can very slowly fly up.

-Enderian. You can use enderpearls and reach three blocks further. Water causes damage. You can’t see players with pumpkins on head.

-Avian. You can double jump. Increased breaking and attacking speed. Decreased damage. Slow fall. Increased speed. You can only sleep up high. While in water you have slowness. You can’t eat meat. You lay an egg when you wake up.

-Phantom. Phantom state allows you to walk throw solid blocks except for obsidian and bedrock, making you invisible, but it takes hunger fast. Outside of phantom state in sunlight burns you. Three less hearts.

-Feline. You do not take fall damage. Can jump higher while sprinting. Slight dark vision. Scares creepers away. Footsteps don’t cause vibrations. Can only mine natural stone when there are at most two adjacent stones (strength potions negates it). One less heart.

-Merling. Can see, breathe, and break blocks underwater. Increased swim speed, don’t sink. Can’t breathe outside of water, but rain and water bottles negate this. Nether and end are very challenging.

-Slimecician. Every block is bouncy, negating all fall damage. When hit you have a 10% to create slimes. Increased jump. When you lose all health, you shrink to half your size (can happen twice). Can perform a great leap in the direction you’re facing. Hunger burns fast. Burns in hot biomes.

-Fox. When you’re around mobs, you gain speed II. Berries give you an extra hunger point. You become camouflaged after standing still for a couple seconds. You can perform a great leap in the direction you’re facing, costs half a hunger bar and deals more fall damage. You can carry a few items in your mouth. Night vision. Can’t hold a shield. You pick things up from further away. Two less hearts.

Characters I’ll be including:

-Percy Jackson (Drowned)

-Annabeth Chase (Witch)

-Jason Grace (Elytrian)

-Piper McLean (Illusioner)

-Frank Zhang (Shulk)

-Hazel Levesque (Evoker)

-Leo Valdez (Blazeborne)

-Grover Underwood (Bee)

-Nico di Angelo (Enderian)

-Will Solace (Avian)

-Octavian (Phantom)

-Zaria Asghar (Feline)

-Theodosia Collymor (Witch)

-Chinatsu Anzai (Merling)

-Myrna Bellew (Slimecician)

-Floraline Sampson (Bee)

-Belamira Marques (Fox)

-Esmarie Sidney (Illusioner)

-Indra Pruitt (Drowned)

-Sione Fuamatu (Evoker)

Plot idea (haven’t FULLY figured it out yet):

-Theodosia is out mining, looking for redstone for her potions (and to sell some to Leo). Zaria is tagging along with her, simply for protection and because she has nothing better to do. As they’re mining, they discover a mineshaft. At first, they assume that it must’ve been created by one of the many other people in the server. Theodosia wants to back out, stating they should leave it alone, thinking it’s somebody else’s property. But Zaria opts to loot and explore the place instead. As they explore further, they realize that it couldn’t have been built by one of them. There’s multiple spider spawners, and none of them know how those things function, let alone how they’re created; they don’t have the technology for that. Theodosia, becoming curious, and wanting answers, explores further, and becomes obsessed with exploring the world around her. Zaria, Floraline, Esmarie, and Belamira join her on her adventures. I’m also going to include the canon characters and I plan on them having a significant role, I just don’t know how. I have a couple ideas for how this whole thing could turn out.

That’s the basic plot, the quests/discoveries I’m gonna add in order are:

-Mineshaft discovery (explained above)

-Trail ruins. They find a brush and pottery shards, as well as armor trims. The pottery shards, when pieced together, give clues and hints as to what these ancient people might’ve been like. There’s also disturbing imagery hinting at how they may have disappeared.

-Desert pyramid. They find normal desert temple loot: gold apples, a couple of diamonds and emeralds, string, and armor trims. I’m mainly gonna use this as a way to get their armor to look cooler and give them better loot.

-Jungle temple. They find normal jungle temple loot, but Theodosia takes a specific fascination with this one, considering it’s the only one in a biome with no villages, further proving to her that there were ancient peoples living in the world before them. This is where her slow descent into obsession and insanity begins.

-Thinking about adding a pillager outpost type quest but I don’t know how that would work, as pillagers are friendly to Theodosia because she’s a witch. And also the pillager outpost has nothing to do with the ancient people.

-Stronghold. They find this before they know what it’s for/how to activate the portal. Theodosia determines that it must be something religious/supernatural, as it was so heavily guarded, and the strange way the portal looks and is held up. She becomes further obsessed with uncovering the mystery.

-Ancient city. They find notes and books in the chests that lead them to clues on what to do with the portal, however, they don’t have all the details. They figure out they need something called “ender eyes”, but they don’t know how to make them. They know what endermen are as one of their friends (Nico di Angelo) is an enderian, but endermen don’t drop their eyes, they drop pearls, so they’re even further confused. They find a note telling them to find a mysterious structure. Theodosia is probably slowly losing herself at this point and can’t think about anything other than figuring out what the fuck is going on. Perchance I’ll kill someone off here. 😈 (they also already have access to the nether at this point, as that’s where Leo came from, a lot of them just don’t really know how it works).

-Trial chamber. Mysterious structure previously mentioned. At this point, her friends are sort of done with her and how they keep risking their lives for her, and they all get into a big argument, so she’s on her own at this point. After a series of puzzles, killing off breezes and other various mobs, and gaining a fuck ton of loot, both good and bad, she finally achieves what she’s been waiting for. She finds a trial key, and it opens a vault. Inside the vault, she finds a book, which explains how to use the mysterious portal she found in the stronghold, the details of various structures scattered throughout the world, and a brief history of the people who previously lived in the world, and why they were wiped out.

She quickly tells her friends, frantically explaining that she’s been right and showing the evidence. That it did in fact lead somewhere. Most of them don’t take her side, claiming it’s far too dangerous and not worth it to go through with her plan. She gets angry and goes off to collect blaze rods anyway. Jason probably joins, just to keep her safe. Floraline gets angry at her for killing blazes and taking parts of their dead bodies, mainly because she sees it as a threat to her boyfriend, who is half blaze.

She eventually gets to the end, and upon discovering a dragon, realizes she was unprepared and reckless. She realizes that the dragon was depicted in the books and pottery she had discovered. This creature was what wiped out the ancient people she had spent so long obsessing over. And now she has no choice but to defeat it, or her and her friends might suffer the same fate.

[ogy-gia]

Videogame night at Camp Half-Blood

How I imagine the cabins playing videogames in the Big House:

I'm going to skip cabin cabin 2 (duh)

🌱Once a son of Demeter didn't choose the grass-type starter in Pokémon. His siblings are still resentful

🌱Cabin 4's biggest fear is facing a fire-type gym leader

🌱They also play Pikmin

⚔️As you can imagine, cabin 5 is very competitive

⚔️They say they have strategies for choosing their Mortal Kombat characters, but in reality they only choose them based on their appearance

🦉Annabeth and the rest of cabin 6 show their creative Minecraft worlds to the rest of the campers because they are rlly proud

🌊I imagine Poseidon's cabin (AKA just Percy) also playing Minecraft, building mega aquariums for axolotls or things like that

☀️Cabin 7 loves Just Dance

☀️They ALWAYS compete with the rest of the cabins

☀️🌕They once challenged the Hunters of Artemis (for some reason the image of the Hunters losing in Just Dance seems incredibly funny to me)

🔥I can't think of many things for cabin 9 tbh

🔥I guess they enjoy any videogame

🔥Or maybe they enjoy disassembling and remodeling the console more

😘I imagine that cabin 10 enjoys designing MII characters more than playing

😘Although they sometimes play Overcooked (there is a lot of yelling and hair pulling)

⚚Cabin 11 enjoys Mario Party-type minigames

⚚Or also games that involve racing

🍷Dionysus' cabin loves Cooking Mama

🍷Mr. D likes playing Princess Peach Showtime

💀In cabin 13 there's only Nico

💀I can imagine him playing Blazing Beaks with Will

🌩I think the children of Zeus are into typical Mario games or also airplane games

🌈Cabin 14 loves Slime Rancher. Although they sometimes get stressed playing

🌈Oh, if you could hear their screams when the music of the Tarr starts playing

🌈They suck at Mario Kart, unless they're playing Rainbow Road

😴Hypnos' cabin always surrenders mid-game

😴"Nah, this is boring, I'm tired, can someone finish for me?"

⚖️Cabin 16 plays Splatoon

⚖️They enjoy seeing their color spread over the opposite team’s color

⚖️They also yell sometimes

🏆Cabin 17 plays ANYTHING to prove that they are the best

👶Cabin 18 plays My friend, Peppa Pig

👶Also the Paw Patrol videogame

👶But not in an "immature little kid" way, they take playing these games very seriously

🍀Cabin 19 enjoys casino-type videogames

🔮Cabin 20 has the ability to Avada Kedavra NPCs in Hogwarts Legacy. Nobody knows how or why; it seems like a bug that the game has when a child of Hecate plays. That’s kinda enviable

I also love imagining the gods finding out that it's videogame night and arguing on Olympus about which demigods are better

They would definitely indirectly interact with their children:

⚔️The Mario Bros character that a son of Ares was playing with once began to behave as if it had obtained 10 super stars. In the corner of the screen, there was a message that said "power up: Ares' blessing"

🦉In the chat of the Minecraft worlds of cabin 6, a strange player called "Plls_Athie" sends messages:

🦉"Oooh, that's nice"

🦉"I would add cobblestone blocks to the columns"

🌈Once, in Slime Rancher's "Range Exchange" trading system, a character named "Siri ROFL" offered 60 gold plorts in exchange for a carrot and a pogofruit

🍀The gods forbade Tyche from helping her children (obviously), although they continue to have suspicious success in games that involve chance

🔮Hecate might cast some Mist over the eyes of her children's opponents when they play Mario Kart, just to confuse them a little

[khanhngoswh00880]

Week 9: Gaming Communities, Social Gaming and Live Streaming

Gaming communities and social gaming: The online gaming community is a dynamic and thrilling environment that continues to evolve. With a vast number of gamers worldwide, game designers and developers are striving to create captivating experiences within this emerging metaverse. Minecraft serves as a notable example of a successful online gaming community. It fosters a lively and engaged community, attracting players from across the globe who come together to construct, explore, and enjoy the game.

Minecraft offers players the ability to craft their unique worlds using custom blocks, structures, creatures, and environments. They can join servers to collaborate with others or participate in entertaining mini-games such as Capture the Flag or Spleef.

Interaction among players takes place through chat rooms, forums, and in-game events. These avenues facilitate the sharing of building tips, discussions about strategies for overcoming challenges, and the forging of connections. Minecraft's online gaming community excels in bringing people together irrespective of age, gender identity, nationality, or language barriers. It provides an inclusive space where individuals can express themselves freely without fear of judgment. This freedom fosters creativity among players, leading to impressive creations within the game's virtual realm.

Live-streaming: Live streaming platforms have become popular hubs for gamers to live broadcast their gameplay to a global audience. These platforms offer user-friendly interfaces and interactive features, transforming gaming into a communal experience where the boundaries between players and viewers are blurred. This shift from passive consumption to active participation has had a significant impact. Live streaming has given rise to a new generation of gaming celebrities, as streamers accumulate large followings and become influential figures within the gaming community. This phenomenon has transformed the nature of fandom, with viewers developing personal connections with their favorite streamers, resembling the traditional celebrity-fan dynamic.

 

Furthermore, streaming has democratized the creation of gaming content. It has opened the doors for anyone with a passion for gaming and a desire to share their experiences to become a content creator. This inclusivity has led to the emergence of diverse voices and perspectives, challenging the traditional narrative of the gaming industry.

Reference list

MetaEngine n.d., ‘Online Gaming Community Examples and Best Practices’, www.metaengine.gg, viewed <https://www.metaengine.gg/blog/online-gaming-community-examples-and-best-practices#:~:text=When%20looking%20at%20successful%20online>.

‘The Influence of Streaming Platforms on Gaming’ n.d., www.linkedin.com, viewed 22 March 2024, <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/influence-streaming-platforms-gaming-desoniqstudio-5xflc>.

[pumpkinshaders]

so making custom blocks and items and whatnot shouldn't be too hard, but changing the player's model and the UI seems like it'll be more of a challenge. i'm definitely biting off more than i can chew but i'm nothing if not determined.

currently planned (easy): >Moss beds (moss carpet + feathers) >Kill pile (edible food block, remove food with an empty hand, add food by right clicking with raw meat) >Herbs (adding new plants + modifying vanilla minecraft plants to make medicine) >Greencough status effect (permanent like Bad Omen until treated. maybe treatment has a small chance of not working?) >Whitecough status effect (same as Greencough lol but different treatment) >Moonpool (portal to Star Clan dimension. only active on full moons) >Star Clan dimension (likely timed. might just replace the end with it with you waking up back in your bed after you leave. maybe sleeping in a bed near the moonpool?) >Dark Forest dimension (like the nether. but for cats. probably timed + respawn at bed like Star Clan) >More prey mobs like crows, mice, snakes, etc. >Kittypet collars, cat beds, cat toys >Add the unimplemented grey tabby from Bedrock edition

(medium): >Punches with nothing in your hands does more damage >Bite attack (no idea how i'd implement this tbh) >Random generated clan cats (domestic cats are already a thing so the models, textures, and animations are pretty much done for me, all I need to add is the randomizer + names) >Some sort of way to identify clans (probably borrow from banners with colors + symbols lol. Player can make their own & customize + edit their clan banner, random generated clans get banners, etc. maybe call them 'scent markers' lol) >Can't mine things that are too tough (stone, wood, etc) and mining things is much slower (can mine sand, dirt, gravel, leaves, etc) >Can't use pickaxes, axes, swords, shields, etc. >Raw meat restores more hunger points than other food >Only 10 HP (5 hearts) like a regular minecraft cat. (+ no fall damage, + speed boost + creepers and phantoms repelled. not sleeping does not spawn phantoms.) >Hostile mobs no longer hostile to the player (unless attacked) >Patrols (I don't know anything about AI but how hard could it be to get them to travel along a path. i can feel the icecream truck looming above me just typing that) >Simpler territory (clan banners have a radius of n~ blocks and within that radius is their territory

(hard): >Fewer inventory slots (maybe just 3? 5? that being your hotbar) >Change the player's default model to a cat (with textures you can change + customize or randomize) >Allow the player to revert their character to default vanilla player (because i imagine trying to build as a cat with such limitations would suck. thru UI or command) >Rank system >Clan leaders get, essentially, 9 totems of undying. >Villagers can no longer be traded with, but they will randomly give the player 'gifts' (raw meat, milk, etc) >If you accept too many gifts from villagers they'll attempt to tame you >Add Kittypets (tamed cats are automatically kittypets, kittypets can spawn in villages & will follow villagers) >One armor slot (collar. if equipped it acts like curse of binding, cannot be removed. it will break if it takes sufficient damage. clan cats will avoid you like creepers/phantoms if you have a collar(?)) >Seasons (probably just a calendar i don't feel like figuring out how to do that properly. different events are triggered based on the season.) >Events (like the Gathering on full moons) >Can sleep on regular beds, chests, and active furnaces. >Territory (i'm thinking you can open a map and the claimed territory will be visible. as for how this territory is marked out, maybe warriors can. mark? while on patrol? territory markers/banners fade over time (maybe only visible to cats/cat players) and need to be re-marked. if you mark within another clan's territory cats of that clan nearby become hostile to you, you lose reputation with that clan, etc. but this won't happen if the marker is faded, and vice versa) >Reputation system with other clans (+ maybe other cats? might be a lot) >Some sort of interaction system with NPC cats

(???): >Robust config (hopefully ingame. adjust how many inventory slots you want, if you can/can't mine certain blocks, change your rank + clan, etc) >Super secret unobtainable OP item (Scourge's collar) that kills clan leaders instantly >Item that allows you to edit cats' data in creative (age, texture, rank, clan, name, etc) >Quests? >New achievements :D >Rabies maybe? Strength and poison effects? >Witches give gifts + extras but don't try to tame you

currently implemented: >nooooooooone of that <3 >I hate javascript >Everybody pray for me because i deserve it.

[2seagull]

This is a picture of my best friend, Hannah, playing Minecraft. Minecraft was made in 2011 and is a video game in which you live in a world made of blocks and use your resources to complete objectives, adventures, and create anything you can imagine. You can either play by yourself or with other people. I play Minecraft publicly on a separate area of the game called a server. 9 years ago, I actually met Hannah on a Minecraft server and for the first time saw her in person last June. In the photo, Hannah is playing a multiplayer game. This means that as many people can play within the same moment as Hannah and have the same objectives or opposite objectives as her. In the photo she is going up against other people, completing her own quests whilst facing multiple challenges. Hannah and I play these multiplayer games on Minecraft very often and it is something we love to do and have fun doing.

#JessicaCarra

[ivys-garden]

Village Additions

Small towns and rural villages are very common in Scotland and Ireland, and so naturally an update themed around celtic europe would include some updates to villages.

First, 7 new village types would be introduced in this update.

1. Marsh Villages, spawning in wetlands (a biome introduced in my pond update) with houses on stilts and made out of willow (a wood type exclusive to wetlands)

2. Jungle Villages, Spawning in a new “Jungle Clearing” biome, a jungle without any trees or leaves to allow pathing. Houses would be made of Packed Jungle Leaves, Bamboo and Jungle Wood

3. Wisteria Villages - spawn in the Wisteria Forrest, houses made of Wisteria wood and Colored chalk

4. Mesa villages, spawning in badlands, houses are made of coloured terracotta and red sandstone, resembling some of the Pueblo ruins in the southern US

5. Dark Oak Villages, Spawning in a new “Dark Oak Clearing” biome for the same reason as the Jungle Clearing. Houses would be made of dark oak and deepslate and take on a more dark fantasy appearance (the woodland mansion would also be changed to fit this block pallet)

6. Mushroom Villages, Spawning in the Mushroom Forest, houses would be made of mushroom bricks and resemble smurf houses

7. Highland Villages, spawning in the Highlands. These villages would be made out of white chalk and Birch, also having thatched roofs.

On top of this there would be other changes to villages, mainly:

1. The desert village would be updated to include Palm (a wood type from the pond update)

2.Pillager Outposts would take on the apprentice of the biome they are in

3. Pig Pens Would now include mud

4.There would be a new structure called a stable that could Spawn that houses Horses, Mules and Donkeys normally, but in the Savanna and Tundra would House Llamas and in the Desert and Badlands would house camels Abandoned villages would contain Zombie Horses, creating a way to get them in vanilla Minecraft

5. Chicken coops would also be added

6. Goat pens can now be found, mainly in Tundra villages

7.Shops are a new type of structure in villages, they have more high level loot but stealing from them angers the iron golem. Replacing the taken item with one of a similar value is allowed

8. Inns are a new structure that is full of beds, would help increase the village population, and stop players from breaking into someone's house for a bed

9.The Plaque would spawn on the village well, the Plaque is a copper sign that when written on will create an area around it that upon being walked into will display what is written on the Plaque on the top of the players screen.

This would allow players to name locations in game and welcome others to them (eg by default all village plaques will display the message “Welcome to the village” on them)

The player can take the Plaque form the village well or can craft their own via placing copper in a crafting table in the same configuration as a sign.

10. Villages now get upset and increase their prices if kept in cramped conditions, encouraging players to make there own villages instead of trading halls… this likely wouldt stop all trading halls as there are many ways to cheese cheaper trades and redstoners can always find new ways to cheese things, but it might encourage others to take things more slowly to avoid the hassle

In short, these small changes give villages more life and encourage more exploration, introduce new challenges with the shop mechanic and encourage creativity with the plaque and by encouraging players to build their own villages instead of making trading halls…

But that's not all:

Dogs!

That's right, Scotland and Ireland love dogs and now you can too!

There are a grand total of 20 different dog breeds to discover (note: the dog model is mainly the default wolf model, but certain aspects like size, hair shape/size, leg/body length and ear positioning will be changed to better fit different breeds)

(Note: dogs do not have unique patterns in the same way that cats do, meaning a vote in a similar manner to the Cat vote is unlikely. I can see mojang doing a “what should the final dog breed be?” vote But I have no way of knowing what breed would win. Therefore I chose Grim due to his importance to classic Minecraft and the fact that anyone can enjoy a Skeleton dog, even if they don't know the reference)

Stray dogs Spawn in villages alongside cats and can be Tamed with bones or any meat item that isn't Rotten Flesh or Fish.

Dogs will sometimes chase cats and vice versa, though they never attack each other.

Speaking of cats, you may have noticed there's more Dog breeds than the Cats 11, not to worry, I added more:

Now, what would Dogs do?... nothing. Cats don't do anything, why should Dogs get special treatment? They're just pets. Let Dogs be just Dogs.

Though, Cats do scare Creepers, so Dogs could scare away Zombies as Dogs are very territorial and protective and Zombies are the only kind of mob that will break down your door.

(Note: Lhasa and Pit Bull breeds will also chase wandering traders, as a reference to the classic “Pit Bull Vs Mailman” gag. Lhasas are included in this as from personal experience with mine Lhasas f*cking hate the postal service)

But wait, there's more!

New Villager Professions

That's right, Scotland has a lot of different Professions that are iconic the the country but that aren't represented in Minecraft, several items in Minecraft are also currently unnecessarily hard to create, so this would work to add a new way to obtain them:

The Beekeeper

The Beekeeper village is visually distinct by their full white clothes. Their House has a pen outside that contains a tree with a bee nest, as well as a bee hive being smoked out to show the player how to collect honey. The Beeker trades beehives, bee nests, honey bottles, honey come, honey bottles, bee eggs (a new placeable “block” like frogspawn that hatches into bees, can also be obtained via breeding bees), and Honey Blocks

The profession block for the Beekeeper is the BeeHive

The Carpenter

The Carpenter is visually distant due to their brown apron, tool belt and lack of headwear. Their House is made entirely out of wood (note: for the badlands, since it has no wood type, the house would be dark oak). The Carpenter trades all wood types

The profession block for The Carpenter is the Table Saw, a block that acts like a stone cutter, only for wood, creating a cheaper way to obtain fences, slabs and stairs

This also brings in new block varieties, mainly Bookshelves, Chiselled Shelves, Chests, Crafting Tables and Barrels of all wood types (note:those who have noticed I've called the Chiselled Bookshelf the “Chiselled Shelve” well done! That was intentional, now any non block item can be placed on the Chiselled Shelve, displaying a 2D rendition of said item, up to 3 non book items can be stored on any layer of the chiselled Shef, so 9 in total)

There would also be a new set of blocks called “Carved Wood” that could be traded from Carpenter or made via the use of the Copper Chisel, a new item made with one copper ingot and one iron Nugget stacked on top of each other.

For specific patterns:

(Note: These patterns would not be exact and only inspiration would be taken, there just here to show the idea)

The Engineer

The Engineer is visually distinct with their soot covered clothing, copper arm and red goggles. The Engineers house has a copper water wheel on the back and a lighting rod on the top. The Engineer trades redstone components, some rudimentary redstone experiments can even be found within his home

The Profession block for the Engineer is The Crafter.

This would allow for a quick way to obtain redstone components for big projects

The Rancher

The Rancher can be identified by their cowboy-esque attire. The Rancher has no home, their profession block is located in a wooden Bard which contains different animals. Ranchers trade for all animal parts not already covered by the Butcher, Sherpard and Tanner. Mainly Feathers, Eggs, Saddles, Horse Armour, Milk, Butter, Cheese, (Some) Goat Horns, Glue, Rabbit Hide and Rabbit's Feet

The Rancher Profession block is the Butter Churner (more on this later)

The Pyrotechnic

The Pyrotechnic can be identified by their horribly stained multicolor apron. The Pyrotechnics House is notably charred, with Blackstone and basalt replacing some of the blocks. The Pyrotechnic trades for Fireworks and the ingredients to make them

The Pyrotechnics profession block is the Pyrotechnic Table, a block that simplifies how fireworks are made, simply insert a charge and the correct amount of coloured dye with a blank Rocket and you've got a Firework! (Note: diamonds would still be used to make the rocket last longer)

Also, while I'm on fireworks, fireworks charges would be changed to operate in the same way the Sherds, Trims and Disks work: as rewards form generated structures that constantly gain new additions

Firework charges can also be duplicated through the use of surrounding the charge with 7 gunpowder and 1 diamond

The Architect

Oh Boy.

The Architect can be identified via their hard hat. Their House is made entirely out of stone, like an inverse of the Carpenter.

The Artichet trades all variants of bricks, tiles, pillars, cut stone variants, polished stone variants and chiselled stone brick variants

The Architect's profession block is the chiseller

All stone blocks with a brick or polished/smooth variant would now get all of the aforementioned variants, with some names and textures being switched around. Peat would also get all of these variants

Mock ups of what these could look like right here (warning, bad quality)

Certain blocks can also be altered in different ways:

● Squid Ink + Prismarine = Dark Prismarine

● Ground Nether Wart (from Mortar and Pestle) + Netherrack = Red Netherrack

● Moss + Stone = Mossy Stone

● Ground Chorus Fruit + Endstone = Purpur Endstone

● Deep Slate/Stone + Exposure to water/rain = cracked Deep Slate/Stone (can be prevented via Glue, takes as long as it takes Copper to oxidise) (this only applies to bricks and tiles)

(Note: there will not be coloured terracotta variants of any terracotta blocks, that's highly unnecessary…. Alright, MORE highly unnecessary)

This would help to simplify different stone block pallets as well as examining block pallets that are underrepresented

(Note: any stone blocks that don't have at least one variant in the base game are not eligible for this, eg Calcite)

Also, now concrete can be used in the stone cutter to make concrete stairs and slabs. Actually, F*ck it, Coloured Terracotta too

(Part 2/5)

Hivy, This is Ivy!

Throughout my time on Tumblr one of my favourite things to do has been to create hypothetical Minecraft updates, I've done this twice before with The Pigeon update and The Pond Update, but a few weeks ago I let you lot chose what geographic area I should turn into a hypothetical update

Yall chose Celtic Europe (and Oceania but that's for later) AKA, Ireland, Scotland, Whales and Cornwall. I was very glad with this outcome as I myself am Scottish and I had a lot of ideas for this…..too many ideas…. So many ideas that I had to cut an entire section and now some stuff feels barebones….whoops. (but hey now I can work on a full portion update later…yay.)

But, enough of that, let's move on to:

The Fae Update!

New Biomes + Structures

There are 6 new biomes in this hypothetical update, each referring a different local found in celtic europe these are: The White Cliffs,The Glacial Pass, The Wisteria Forrest The Heather Moorlands/Peat Bogs (take your pick), The Highland Forests, and… you'll see ;3

The White Cliffs

The White Cliffs are a new coastal biome, consisting of grass topped cliffs, sandy bays and rock structures jutting out of the water. Suspicious sand and gravel generates naturally here and loot from it follows the fishing loot table, though with an increased chance to find nautilus shells and a rare chance to find sniffer eggs

This biome is based on the White Cliffs of Dover and the Jurassic Coast

The White Cliffs has only three new features:

Puffins

A new passive abiant mob, they drop Feathers when killed. Instead of the normal birds nest (introduced in the pigeon update) puffins lay there eggs in “wall nests” grey nests that attach to walls, these can be used as a decorative block

Seagulls

A neutral mob who drops Feathers and fish when killed, they spawn both in the White Cliffs and on beaches and open Seas. Seagulls will attack the player if they are holding any food item in their hand, stealing it.

Seagulls serve no other purpose.

Chalk

Chalk is a new stone block. It has the blast resistance of wood and is exclusive to the white cliffs, making up the cliffs themselves.

Chalk can be dyed any of the dye colours in the game, creating a softer, more Pastel variant of that colour (queers rejoice). Chalk can be made into slabs, stairs and walls in the stone cutter.

The Glacial Pass

A cold mountainous biome, the Glacial past is mainly made of stone and deeplate, with ice and snow also being common. Dipstone spikes can be found here as well as gravel structures resembling Eskers and Terminal Moraines (yes my favourite subject is geography how can you tell?). Suspicious gravel can be found here as well as suspicious snow, which can also be found in the igloo. Strays, Polar Bears, Foxes and Rabbits Spawn in this environment

This biome is based on glaciated uplands

Seals

Seals can be found in all cold environments. Seals will follow the player when they swim, upon coming on to land Seals will bob in the afternoon expectantly.

Seals can be fed fish, clapping after this is done

Seals drop blubber when killed. Blubber can be crafted into blubber blocks, when lit on fire these blocks burn light yellow. Blubber can be used to make torches, lanterns and campfires.

Blubber can also be crafted into a chest plate, the blubber chest plate reduces projectile damage and prevents Frost damage in powdered snow, but it slows you down while on land

The Wisteria Forest

A replacement for the old flower Frocester, this is a rare forrest in which all natural flowers spawn

Purified water (a type of water introduced in the pond update that can cure harmful status effects and restore hunger permanently for a short time) would spawn here too, as well as unicorns and kelpies (introduced in the pond update, will be discussed later)

Other Mobs that Spawn here will be discussed later

Wisteria Trees

Wisteria trees are a new wood type. The wood itself is a pale green with a purplish grey bark. Wisteria leaves are pale lavender. Wisteria trees also have hanging leave variants, much like willow leaves (pond update) that grow in the same way as glow berries

Butterflies and Moths

Passive ambient mobs that spawn in all biomes, though moths are most common in dark oak forests and butterflies are most common here. Both come in many colours, much like tropical fish. These mobs are as large as the bees (traditional dictates that all Minecraft arthropods must be massive, also yes bane of arthropods works on these, but do you actually care?)

Butterflies and Moths drop their respective wings when killed, these can be grafted onto the elytra (using the dragonfly carapace, an mob drop from the dragon fly as introduced in the pond update, speaking of that, the Toad from that update will also eat Moths and Butterflies) grafting these wings on changes the electable texture to resemble the wings of these Mobs (Note: despite both having many textures the electric will always adopt The Lunar Moth and Monarch Butterfly texture respectively)

Crann Bethadh Sprout

The sprout of a legendary tree, this is a two tall plant with ever changing leaf colours, shifting throughout all the pastel colour variants

The player can take a cutting of this plant using shears

This plant can only be dug up by the sniffer

Flower Crowns

By combining any 4 flowers in a circular pattern in the crafting table players can make flower crowns. Flower crowns adopt the colours of whatever flowers were used to craft it. Flower crowns can be worn on the head and serve no purpose other than to make people look pretty ;3

Wisteria Grass

Wisteria grass is a new grass type block that is pale lavender. It behaves the same as grass. It is only found in the Wisteria forest

The Heather Moorlands

Heather Moorlands are made up of water, grass, mud and a new block. No trees and few other plants spawn here, but cattails, reeds (pond update), sea grass and lily pads would be common here.

Bogs would spawn here

Toads, Frogs and Dragonflies would spawn here

Heather Moorlands are based on….Heather Moorlands.

Peat

Peat is a new powered snow-like block. It is brown in colour and makes up most of the ground in the Heather moorlands. Any plant can be planted on it.

Falling through peat takes notably longer than it does for powdered snow, players cannot freeze in peat, only suffocate. Peat can be safely traversed with leather boots.

When broken, peat will break into Peat Logs, peat logs can be burned in the furnace as an effective fuel

When lit on fire, Peat burns Bright Red, peat logs can be used to make peat lanterns, campfires and torches.

Combining 4 peat logs together makes a peat block, smelting a peat block creates Hardened Peat. Harmed peat can be made into Smooth Peat, Chiselled Peat, Peat Bricks, Cut Peat, Peat Pillar and Peat Tiles

Gortach

The Gortach are a new Undead mob. They spawn in swamps and peat bogs and resemble Bog bodies. They hide in dirt, mud, sand, gravel and peat and jump out of the ground to attack.

Gortach inflicts poison with their attacks. Gortach can carry swords, axes, and spears

Gortach drop their weapon, peat logs or Rotten flesh when killed

Spears

Spears are crafted either with one iron ingot and two sticks in a diagonal pattern, or are dropped by the Gortach

Spears are weaker than the sword but have a better reach, can be thrown (though this isn't good for their durability) and completely bypass shields and armour, hitting the opponent as if they had nothing at all

Spears have all the same enchantments as the Sword + Loyalty

Heather

Heather is a new purple flower exclusive to the Heather Moorlands. It gives purple dye when ground up.

The Highland Forest

Made up of rolling hills and Birch trees, all normal passive Mobs can spawn here, but sheep, goats,bees and cows are most common. All normal hostile Mobs can spawn here

Loch Lurkers (a rare UnderWater horse-like mob from the pond update) also spawn in the lakes here

Birch Updates

Yep. This is a secret Birch forest update.

A new form of Birch tree “Silver Birch” that grows much taller and has yellow leaves can be found here. This form gets its own sapling

The Birch block would also get a minor update to make the black segments more like stripes and not ugly blobs

Leave Updates, Packed Leaves and Thatching

Players and Mobs can now walk and fall through leaves.

When breaking leaves with anything other than shears or silk touch leaf blocks will drop leaf items (except wisteria and Spruce, which drop Petals and Needles)

By placing 9 of these in the crafting bench the player can create packed leaves, a new solid version of the leaf block

Thatching is a new block of greyish colour that is crafted with 6 wheat on the top and bottom and 3 leaves of any type in the centre of the crafting bench. Thatching looks the same as a Hale Bale, only without the string holding it together.

Goosegrass, Nettles, and Thistle

Goosegrass is a plant that grows in any forest, but is most common in the Highlands. Walking through goosegrass results in it sticking to you, taking up one of your unoccupied armour slots and slowing you down. Walking through it at all also slows you down, much like cobwebs, making this plant dangerous when fighting mobs

Nettles can only spawn in Dark oak and Highland forests. Nettles stay low to the ground, if they are walked on by a player they are inflicted with Poison. Nettles can be collected and made into a healthy soup

Thistles are a new type of two high flowers. They can be ground into purple dye. They hurt the player if walker through

Deer

Deer are a new mob found in all forested environments, much like Wolf's they have different textures depending on the biome

When killed, Deers drop Venison, a new edible meat

Like Goats, Deers will try to charge the player. Also like Goats, after hitting a block deer will drop and antler

Fog

Fog is a new weather type, lowering the amount the player can see for a short time and allowing a few Mobs to spawn, particularly endermen

Shelf Fungus

A new decorative block that grows on trees

Wildcats

Wildcats are a new ambient Mob, they share a model with Ocelots and Cats and they drop string when killed

The Mushroom Grotto

Oh yes. A new forest of giant mushrooms and mycelium. This biome is very rare. The Mobs that Spawn here will be discussed later

Mushroom Wood

Much like the nether mushrooms, overworld mushrooms are now a woodtype. The mushroom stem can be stripped and converted into all wood blocks. Mushroom wood is white in colour.

New Mushrooms

Yep. There is now a mushroom for every colour of dye in the game. Mushrooms can also now be ground into dye

Here's what all those mushrooms could look like (minus brown and red of course):

(Note: this is based on design, not colour)

Before moving on, sniffers don't just get the Crann Bethadh Sprout. They get a new plant for every dye type in the game

Plus, they can dig up two new mushrooms exclusive to them, when ground these mushrooms become two new dye types… Well, not quite. They Become Rose Dye and Spring Green Dye, the two removed wool colours. This is the only way to get these mushrooms and these dyes. This would make the sniffer more worth the work put in to get one and create a lot of more strange decoration choices

Here's what they COULD look like (note: again, colours don't line up)

Mushroom bricks

Smelting the Mushroom blocks (not the stem, the block itself) creates mushroom bricks: multicoloured bricks taking on the patterning of the mushroom used to make them

Mushroom bricks can be made into stairs, slabs and walls

Puffball Mushrooms and Faerie Rings

Both exclusive to the mushroom forest.

Puffball mushrooms are brown in colour and are plants that stay on the ground, when walked over they release spores that inflict harmful status effects such as Poison, blindness, slowness, weakness, nausea, lethitatvia, and mining fatigue

Faerie Rings are Rings of mushrooms that take up one block on the ground (they also come in all colours)

If a player steps on one it is like they are walking through cobwebs, and upon getting out they will be inflicted with slowness.

If a mob steps in one they completely freeze and their AI is disabled until they are knocked out or the ring is broken.

This would help allow players to use Mobs as decoration without lagging there game

New Structures

Bothies

A bothy is a public structure found typically in the Highlands, there small houses for folks to take shelter in.

Bothines can spawn in any woodland biomes, they'll appear as a simple wooden house. Inside Bothies will have a chest with low level loot and a bed.

Occasionally, suspicious sand,mud, gravel or snow will spawn outside the bothy (depending on the biome), these typically have low level loot but items such as armour Trims or record disks can be dug up

Stone Works

Based on the numerous palaeolithic celtic stoneworks,these are small abiant structures spawning in the Dark Oak, Highland and Wisteria forests, as well as Heather Moorlands, Snowy Tundras, Wetlands and Mushroom Grottos

There would be many variants of these structures resembling stone circles, stone henges, standing stones, stone portals and cobbled walls.

All of these are made from base stone blocks, though sometimes other blocks can be found like chalk flooring or trees/water spawning in the centre of a stone circle

Sometimes, though rarely, these structures could spawn with a “Stone Holder” a new block that holds a tool or weapon (similar to the myth of the sword and the stone) these can be moved with silk touch. The player can remove the weapon, which will always be made of iron (that's important for later) and could have some low-level enchamtmants

Occasionally, these can also structures spawn with suspicious dirt, which can be dug up with the brush. Pottery sherds are more common in these structures, but apart from that, they exist only as set dressing ;)

Castle Ruins

A more substantial ruin, Castle Ruins can spawn basically anywhere, but are most common in Highland forests.

Castle Ruins are winding structures, they have a Dungeon below with Gortach or Bog spawners in the cells. The main ruin itself is made up of narrow passageways, imagine a smaller version of the bastion.

There would be numerous loot chests around, but upon opening one, a new mob would be summoned called a ■■■■■■

This mob will be discussed later :)

The Beast's Lair

An underground structure most common under the mountains or Highland forests

Made up of narrow passages leading to open rooms filled with gold blocks, loot chests containing riches and even some new vaults. There's also a shocking amount of skulls littered around

And of course the new boss here: The Wyvern

The Wyvern is a draconic boss mob spawning only hear, it has 4 legs and two wings and is bright red (Note: no. Wyvern never meant a dragon with only 4 limbs. That is a modern addition. Wyvern and dragons were different because of what they breathed)

The Wyvern is very powerful up close and can attack from far away with its poisonous breath

Upon its defeat the Wyvern will drop copious amounts of gold and emeralds that it ate, perhaps even some diamonds if your lucky

Faerie Mounds

Spawning exclusively in the Wisteria Forests, Highland Forests and Mushroom Grottos, these are small dirt hills with a spawner inside and a handful of loot chests

They are essentially fae Dungeons

The mobs that Spawn here will be: you guessed it, discussed later

Clochan + The Dubnos Tunnels

Clochans are typically just an abiant structures common in the Highlands, small cobblestone huts with nothing interesting about them.

But occasionally, they lead to something greater. Some of them spawn with holes leading to a second structure made up of 5 rooms, oriented in this pattern:

In the centre room are 5 stones, each baring a carving of one of the 5 element symbols (note: these are taken from the unused painting textures, with a new one added for wood), at the base of all these stones is a new kind of Vault “The Fae Vault” exclusive to this structure and the beast's lair

The carvings look like this:

The goal of this structure would be to go to each of the challenge rooms, each of with have there own stone with a carving, right click on said carving to indicate you have completed the room, and once all 4 rooms are complete return to the centre room to click on the craving that was not represented by one of the carvings in the other rooms. Getting this right results in the appearance of 5 Fae keys from the stones. These keys can be used on the fey vaults to claim the structures loot

Failure to complete the structure will be indicated by the carvings glowing Red and numerous waves of Mobs spawning

The challenge rooms each contain a challenge pertaining to their element: the fire room is filled with fire, the water room is flooded, the air room requires parkour, the earth room is a Maze and the plant room is filled with Sweet Berries, Goosegrass, Nettles, Thistles, Puffball mushrooms and Faerie Rings (yes I know mushrooms aren't plants, shush.)

On top of that, there are several spawners for the fae in this structure, with various types appearing to attack you. Though these spanners will be deactivated upon completing a room

(Note: carved stones can be moved with silk touch)

They fae Mobs that Spawn in these will be discussed later.

These structures would create unique challenges for the player and would bring more life to these biomes, encouraging exploration.

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