In which I go on the shortest spider hunt in history, and explore the area beyond the underground river. Several creepers suffer mysterious hunting accidents.
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( Update: Hey, Minecraft Hell fans! The Halloween update has launched, and I now have a video of my first adventures there! ) Notch has just released this picture of the new Hell Dimension which will be part of Minecraft’s Halloween update. We already knew that Hell is a parallel dimension to the main Minecraft world that you will be somehow able to “step sideways” into, and back. It has the property that a single square there is equivalent to a much greater distance, allowing it to be used as a dangerous form of fast travel around the world.  “If you are going through hell, keep going.†- Winston Churchill It’s impossible to tell from that picture whether we’re in a canyon on the surface or underground. It is possible that Hell might not even have a sky as we know it. We can see no water, nor vegetation. Bare rock, and lava are the order of the day (or endless night). The ground burns, and the very walls cry out for mercy. Churchill’s advice is apt. It does not look like somewhere you would want to spend a great amount of time. Only the brave, or foolish, would choose to use it’s space-warping properties to travel quickly around the main Minecraft world, and even they would not tarry. “It is occasionally possible to charge Hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain†– Doris Fleeson Would one bucket be enough? I think I’ll fill my inventory with buckets of water before I visit that tumultuous place. I have some other musings on the Halloween Update here, in episode 10 of my Minecraft Video series. I completely failed to do much of any interest in this episode. I chat a little bit about the upcoming Halloween expansion, and for some reason I keep calling gravel “granite”, which does nothing to make me any more intelligible. It’s an important question that just occurred to me while I was contemplating the universe in the bath. This song pre-dates Minecraft by several years, but there are a number of striking similarities. Most notably that both Notch, creator of Minecraft, and the Zoology Dragon invent animals THAT ARE MADE OF CUBES!!! They have even both worked on the Cubification of Cows.  Cow. Cube. Cowuube. Perhaps it would be best if we take the Zoology Dragon’s warnings seriously, and pay attention to the surface tension as we interact with the many creatures within the World of Minecraft. It’s been a busy week again, but I’ve found the time towards the end of it to get involved with Blue Kae‘s multiplayer server. Let me show you around!!! Also starring Petter of Don’t Fear the Mutant as Boba Fett, and Stefferoo of MMO Gamerchick as Egg-throwing Road-laying Person. Edit: Ahoy to all the folks visiting from the kind links my friends have provided! If you’re interested in my single-player videos, that series begins here. After a supremely hectic weekend, I’ve found the time to go deal with that zombie dungeon once and for all!!! Can the zombie menace withstand the power of science? Not when that science is red and cube-shaped, with TNT written on the side. I also build a water-feature, and do a little gardening. A short one today, as I need to go out soon. Even this 8 minute one took over two hours to upload and be processed by Youtube! In today’s installment I return to the Zombie dungeon. I rather wish I hadn’t! On the upside, at least these chronicles can help everybody else feel better about their own Minecraft misadventures! |
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