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Picture of my tower basement atm, in 1.21, cozy af So, about my 1yrin1.21, that's.. being put on hold for now. Today alone I came across several genuine world-ending bugs, and that.. isnt' great! Is not fun, actually! Don't want to lose all my progress and have to start over because of a bug! So it's being put on hold, from what I've read 1.21 is the buggiest version so far, and the amount of constant patches and then patches for those patches (because the patch then broke something else) is .. well, it's not a risk I'm willing to take, bluntly so I'm building a new 1.20.1 pack and while I'm not swearing for sure I'll dedicate a year to it, given the current state of 1.21, i'll definitely be on it longer than a few days. There's also the matter of .. mods. I know I said I wanted to wait for mods, but this became a "death by a thousand papercuts" scenario, where okay I can accept the few mods I do have, I can make do, I can (and was!) having a lot of fun, but even the mods I know and love don't have full functionality as of yet (expected! nothing against the devs! making mods is hard!) and the straw that broke me was.. the risk of genuinely losing my world to bugs, it just isn't worth it, not yet. I'll wait and keep an eye on things and hopefully 1.21.x is far more stable and everyone goes "oh finally everything works so much better now" but until then, I really like how cozy and pretty I made my base so far, and I don't want to risk losing all of this when it's supposed to be my full year run because of things outside of my control

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it has been several in game weeks but I finally have my towers... basement, somewhat set up. I have the storage setup, atleast. .. kind of. It's really interesting slowly pushing everything into a single structure, but progress!

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Goofy minecraft jerboa

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humble beginnings, don't even have a house yet but I got some furnaces set up (the one with hoppers is mass producing charcoal for us) and I have the iron farm setup from easy villagers, poppies I'll eventually use either for decoration or biofuel (mekanism) i did dig deep enough to get a handful of diamonds but I'll be using those to make tools to upgrade my spells in my spellbook, but so far its a "its not much but its mine" feeling, now that I have enough deepslate I may try ver. 2.0 of the tower design

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so I know previously I said I was "done" with 1.21, until more mods released, I slept on it, and then after waking up I realized.. that was a silly idea. See, the point of spending a year in a single modpack isn't to perform some crazy feats, or rush to endgame, or do .. anything wild, the point is to learn to take my time with Minecraft, to relearn to love it by knowing I don't *need* to rush to the end of the game, that I can enjoy the game for longer than a few days if I stop treating it like a task to be finished, and treat it like a journey to be enjoyed. I did want a clean start though, because with the knowledge this will be the "real" run, I wanted to do things differently. I realized if I start the "1 year" now, it would make new mods be that much more special when they finally do update to 1.21, each would be savored as its own dish, instead of being a sample I try and ultimately dismiss for the large mods I know. On that train of thought, it will also encourage me to install- and USE different, stranger, smaller mods I'd otherwise never give the time of day to, due to larger, more popular mods rendering them irrelevant. It fits the spirit of what I want to do, learn to improve my building in minecraft, and by extension, learn to slow down and stop treating everything like a race to the finish instead of learning to stop and smell the roses, a skill in itself I desperately wish to hone and refine. Life is not about getting to the end, in fact most people desperately never want to get to the end. So why rush it? Why act like everything has to be done faster and faster, what am I rushing to? Why don't I stop, catch my breath, and take in what's infront of me, enjoy the day for the fact that I have a day *to* enjoy, rather than trying to simply finish a checklist that ultimately doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. I think.. restarting, and choosing to start this pack here, and now, this incomplete, small thing, is a step in the right direction, for me.

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quick mock up from my test world before I abandon it to the void, clearly its not complete, but the tower is where I spent and built most of my infrastructure testing out the 1.21 pack i'm working on mods still aren't there, and its reaching a point of "oh if I just had (mod) this would be SO much better.." and I don't want to end up growing to hate the world i'm building, so I'm calling it here, test world did me a lot of good, pruned a lot of mods that don't work, removed redundant mods, just generally cleaning up and finding out what doesn't work, what does, and what is needed that's actually available to me rn the house and connecting bridge were my original plans for the build, but realizing "oh, this world isn't going to last long enough for me to finish it" I got kind of sad and decided to toggle creative to just.. put the idea of what I wanted it to be, out into the world what could have been, and what may be in the future, now that I have a visual reference I can look back on and go "oh, yeah I liked that, I should build that"

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i connected two dots

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storage facility WIP a friend helped a lot with designing the exterior, bc I just ran out of ideas (fire escape and big industrial AC) wanted to go for a corpo baseline followed by a patchwork, hardly maintained follow up cyberpunk like facility for the digital storage I know AE2 looks way more cyberpunk and would fit this aesthetic too, but I decided that the pack i'm playing rn, won't be very long term, and this storage facility in itself may not see much use, but in my 1yr long term play, I have installed, and exclusively, installed, AE2, so it's coming, but i'm thinking about building a much bigger sky cyberpunk thing for that

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just a little messing around while im waiting, liking how this is turning out so far

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origin story (silly)

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What I'm doing in the interim

I decided to give my old world a proper send off, and am going back to this 1.20 pack I was working on, a lucky block one block pack. It's a lot of fun, way more fun than it has any right to be, and I think that's where I'm going to spend my time for now, as my interests mostly lie there now, 1.21 and the backend changes that mods will take advantage of, Ars Nouveau tends to stick tot he most recently updated version of Minecraft and adds all the cool new toys there, so there we go, while I'm waiting (patiently!) on those updates, I'm making a custom pack, so expect to see me learning to build in the sky

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so about that 1 year run

instead of relying on someone elses modpack, I'll just make my own

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A tragedy has befallen my world

I was using a .. very powerful spell, I should've realized, but alas, the hubris of Man, I did not, that unclaiming the chunks under my base to clear out a massive area to setup AE2 (I have never used it before, all I know is it needs a _lot_ of space) and this is the result. I could've rebuilt it, which is what I thought until I realized my basement was also demolished.

"just load a backup" is what i thought, sure i may lose a few hours, but hey, better than losing the entire packs effort, surely Alas, this pack creator has once again proven their lack of foresight (as I've come across in MANY situations in this pack, going "???") and they didn't include FTB Backups, which so that backup I was convinced would be there, sadly wasn't. Even so, I could've rebuilt, could've continued onward.. but to what end, I found myself asking. I was already reaching a point of wondering if I'd even continue playing this pack, and starting my _own_ custom pack for 1.21, and this really sealed it for me, this simple act of my own hubris and the faith in a fallback plan that wasn't there. Atleast I built a pretty base, and learned more about building

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my 1 year in a modpack

not sure if im going to continue to do the full year in this specific modpack, simply because the mod creator seems to find interesting and fun things people do to bypass systems and exploit things, and ... well, disables them, which is Fine, do what you want to do, it's your modpack after all, but I personally just find that mentality to be suffocating, a "specified progression" path where out of the box thinking is punished or outright removed feels antithetical to the general joy of minecraft I'm going to continue to play through this pack for the time being, simply to continue working on my building skills, but in the meantime I'm building my own modpack, specifically for 1.21+ (where as most modpacks are still on 1.20) especially since my favorite mod, Ars Nouveau has been updated for 1.21 recently (although still in beta/testing stages, just seeing it there was enough of a push) The major mods I'm waiting on right now are some of the tech mods (thermal, industrial foregoing), Create, Sophistocated Storage (both backpacks and the storage itself) and then a few other mods I've played with that I think would be fun for what my 1.21 pack will be (a one block skyblock) like Cyclic, Quark, and RFTools. the reason I'm waiting and not diving in head first, throwing caution to the wind, is simply because while the one block map type will permit you the majority of _vanilla_ resource generation, I'll have to add something like ex nihilo and create custom recipes to get mod-added ores for progression in those packs, nothing harrowing or difficult to do, i'd rather just know for sure what mods I'll be settling on and then creating those custom recipes for sieving or whathaveyou before diving in head first

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I was trying to capture the feeling of something that just makes you go "NOPENOPENOPE" but idk if I succeeded I wanted this building to stand out like a sore thumb in the area, something that you can't help but notice but gives off the presence of "yeah no I shouldn't be here, I don't want to go anywhere near *that*" I think I'm happy with how it turned out, (may add some dirt to the surrounding terrain to help balance it out more, things got destroyed in my Battles) but the structure itself, I *think* I managed to capture what I was aiming for