#Exploration Update

[radar-of-minecraft]

Minecraft Items Challenge: The Exploration Update: Finale

This post starts at my end portal, where which will definitely not waste my time.

A few pictures of me flying around the end at the start of my 90 minute shell grinding session, in The Exploration Update, looting does not effect shulker shell drops, so I had to visit about 8 end cities before getting my 40ish shells.

Weridly enough, I got enough XP from Shulkers to keep my elytra at almost half health.

Here's all of the shulker boxes freshly dyed.

and here's the collection update, in this post I obtained the White Shulker Box, Light Gray Shulker Box, Gray Shulker Box, Black Shulker Box, Brown Shulker Box, Orange Shulker Box, Yellow Shulker Box, Lime Shulker Box, Green Shulker Box, Cyan Shulker Box, Light Blue Shulker Box, Blue Shulker Box, Purple Shulker Box, Magenta Shulker Box, Pink Shulker Box, Red Shulker Box. This completes The Exploration Update.

[mystiffox]

— beast and ancient

they're like soulmates when you realize it's more than just romantic duos. two souljam halves of a whole, even

(not intended to be ship art, but qpr is fine by me!)

[azurityarts]

Giving some of my PMD OCs a redesign or some touch-ups

[sylph8-fr]

‘who asked for this?..’

well you see, sometimes☝️people get ideas for things without being prompted. this is called ‘new idea’, ‘surprise’ or even ‘innovation’

[legendofzoodles]

I love this image so much it has so much personality. You just know Time gave the two a talk about keeping within eyesight at all times, Four is chill with that but Wind wants to let loose.

Wind is practically bouncing off the walls let him do something!

art credit: @linkeduniverse

[jhonny]

STOP making kakyoin fight time-controlling superbeings, he is SICK of it

(part 1) (part 3)

[leohtttbriar]

i know that uhura’s role in tos was written to be like a radioman (the guy in wwii movies who carries the phone on his back sometimes) meaning that the “communications officer” role evolved from radioman to linguist in the time since tos aired. but that makes uhura in tos really interesting with a retrospective read of her character, applying things novels and later iterations of her have fleshed out, because she doesn’t do any visible linguistic work in any tos episode. she does security and navigation and piloting and engineering which sort of makes her seem like a valuably flexible sort of many-skilled officer.

it was probably both enterprise with hoshi and the 2009 movie that really cemented the idea of “communications officer means linguist or at the very least polyglot” instead of it just being an uhura-quirk. uhura in the 2009 movie does a lot of engineering/operating work of comm equipment and is implied to speak a lot of languages on top of be able to interpret subspace “noise,” so to speak (like, there’s no way it’s radio. it can’t be radio. star trek takes place across distances of lightyears—when they say “signal,” i’m assuming it’s not radio). and of course strange new worlds has run with the linguistics angle and made it even more explicit that yes she studies linguistics, linguistics is a core part of starfleet academic infrastructure, to the point where whole episode plots are written around the act of translation.

the retrospective addition of this expertise to uhura makes what she is in tos a character even more focused on leadership and, idk, becoming something like a captain, because she doesn’t seem all that specialized. she’s more of a kirk-like character, or janeway or sisko, characters that have a specialized skill but have set it aside mostly to pursue some sort of command. obviously this wasn’t the intention of her character. writers of uhura have mostly just stumbled on the idea of her as a polyglot (according to wikipedia, first introduced in the novel uhura’s song, so) and been like “neat idea! makes sense! explorers need to learn languages!” and kept doubling down on that idea until we get to an origin-story uhura in snw that (wildly) speaks 37 languages, for whatever definition of speak or language, i guess.

what all this overthinking on my part has generated is this idea of uhura very much like a futuristic-captain aubrey or a captain sisko not nailed down to one station, hanging off the shrouds of a solar-sail ship’s rigging, looking beyond, in the most romantic and idealized version of an explorer. i think a lot of people read/write female characters as being more down-to-earth than the whimsical leader-on-the-sea or more nurturing than than the hardened captain-of-a-ship, partly why janeway and burnham are so wonderful to me. but it’s fun to imagine tos uhura being the exploring-captain archetype, amongst the political structures of the 60s. like the additions to her character over the years have solidified that romantic adventurer portrait of her in tos, when the idea of her in command would be the least welcome.

and the fact that she was shown to be excited about a solar sailing ship in snw, like sisko was in ds9 for that one episode, i think emphasizes this read of her—and that her character-journey in snw is going to be how she goes from bookish linguist to “hanging-on-a-shroud-on-a-sunsail-ship” looking out to “sea”.

[hyakunana]

Sponsor Switch!

[emacrow]

Commander Johnson, I-I think I found what or who been stealing our extra spare material supplies

Astronaut Jennifer said in the com as she stared, standing stiff as a board if it weren't for the gravity of Mars making it difficult.

What she was staring at couldn't be human but yet so close and eldritchic- alien like as the inner part of her mind was screaming danger danger, That Is Not A Human Being, Run RUN RUN,HIDENOWHIDENOWNOWNOW

It's look like a adult, a very slim and very tall adult if it weren't for the fact that his skin was tanned with a bit of splash of starlights all over, wearing a suit made of galaxies covered in red Mars rocks, his hair was white, whiter then the clouds on earth, ears pointy and curled a bit as if it wa to shield or reflect to what its was hearing(but they has moved back in a aggressive manner thar remind her of snuffles when threaten) and eyes glows so ominously Neon Green with black instead of white surrounding the iris, splatter of star like freckles that looks like he almost has two pupils mixing into a slits like in each of them.

Teeths razor sharp and thick, as the thing looks like it was growling at her with his body arch over, hands with extra digits of long blacken claws like nails dig into the dirt, hiding all the stuff that the alien had stolen along with a lil head of another mar baby, it weren't for the fact there was no sounds in space, she would've been screaming float running back to her headquarters base.

She was only patrolling the part of the base where they were trying to grow plants in one of the green houses they painstaking made on Mar, but then she saw the glow of unnatural green slipping out of the sealed tight glass.

Curiosity took the best of her as she put on her suit and went to check at that spot is where she find what seem to be a native Mar creature and its baby hoarding all the missing stuffs that they had lost in the base, along with the missing robot, opportunity as the top of it's hoard pile in a makeshift hole(it's a Nest and she has enter this creatures domains) near a small pool full of of oddly frozen water that glowed luminous.

It was a stand off between her and the creature not moving an inch until Jennifer's coms responded back as she flinched, her heart dropping snd face paling dramatically when the creature's ear flick a bit as it heard the static electric device.

"J-J-J-Jennifer, do you copy? I repeat, Do you copy?!?" Commander Johnson spoke a bit frantic.

Unawared of the danger he had put Jennifer in when she flinched, the creature lunged, Jennifer scrambling to turn around and hop/run back into the safety of the base as fast as she could.

Like inspiration for @tinycoded360

[awwfulsounds]

Apple Mac OS 9.2.2 operating system running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac 2001 (x)

[radar-of-minecraft]

Minecraft Items Challenge Attempt 2: The Exploration Update: Part 1

Welcome to the Exploration Update, the one where I massively increase the file size of my world.

This update is full of absolutely massive Late-Game features, like rocket boosting your elytra.

Also, this is the first update that is supported by Vanillatweaks, my favorite resource pack

And now we are off, we are looking of a post-Bountiful Update village and a woodland mansion, which I go the complete wrong way to because I looked up a seed map and then typed in my seed wrong.

Here's the librarian that ends up giving me both maps, I had to make a little sugar cane farm in order to make the THREE STACKS of emeralds I needed to unlock the explorer map trades

Here's the mansion! The main strategy for Woodland mansions is to land on the roof and break in a window, and then go room by room clearing it out like an old shooter.

Didn't get a picture of it because Evokers attack you the second they see you, but here are my first two Totems of Undying

Here's a vindicator that jump scared me while In was digging through a chest.

here's a whole hole left by a creeper, holy shit!

on my way back I saw this village that got cut in half by an update so it's just a single villager house and some crops.

and I've made it home, lots of loot in hand, I managed to get a golden apple and a saddle as well.

I made a new Collection Section, Dark Oak this time, because every block in this update is a shulker box.

In this update I got the Totem of Undying, Ocean Explorer Map, and Woodland Explorer Map

[intotheelliwoods]

Thinking about Sprouts stress-induced extra beanage, lmao

2 Arms Left Masterpost <- <-

[shorooq-mahmoud]

Emergency and urgent update ‼️🆘🆘

The war on Gaza returned 💔💔😭😭😭

109 martyrs in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, 75 of them in Khan Yunis, south of the Strip😱😱😭😭🙏

"Please don't skip, I need your support to help my family leave Gaza and go to a safe place"🙏🙏🙏

[nvoc]

WUTHERING WAVES ; rinascita 01

[lico-arts]

I offer you 🫴

A fashionably late chap 8 doodle dump ✨

In which i needed Mafuyu to cry about as much as I did. And I'm realising my obsession with savanarook completely eclipsed Vil this time, oops! I'll have Tapis Rouge brainrot to make up for it, for sure