Project Wasteland has been started https://prnt.sc/Vnlpveb-eqt0

What this means is a total and utter destruction of an island of it's resources for personal profit. Or in this case, pure amusement and sheer ambition. This will serve as the icon of my world to show just what beauty there is in a game that has not even 10% of what the game has now. Don't want to create giant quarry holes, but in the future I may use it for landscaping practice.

How am I going to accomplish this? I have about a full stack of iron blocks. Not just iron, but entire blocks. If I get desperate enough, I could just Y 12 and strip mine. Why am I doing this? boredom, also searching for a dungeon and many a time they are under the stupid water. Searching for the last couple of items then I will have 100% made and found every block.

Only took *checks watch* about a decade.

Watching YogsCast Moon Quest and feeling nostalgic of the good 'ol days when the game was just fun for the sake of fun. I miss adventure maps, stupid LPs with convoluted stories, and no bad-timed humor just to be edgy.

Seeing Twitter in a fire over Minecraft's new MCBan system, methinks that someone should probably put water to the fire and show that this is only bad for those who want to ruin another person's day.

While I don't necessarily agree with how they're taking as this has been proven to be a very terrible idea thanks to Team aVo's wonderful display of what kind of havoc it will reek on the general gaming populace, it does show how the community has changed over the past decade. No longer are players willing to put up with the abuse thanks to ex-League pro players coming in to dump their radioactive waste everywhere and want a nice environment for us and our children.

Minecraft has grown up, whether we like it or not. I am surprised that this change hasn't come sooner thanks to the efforts of Account Migration. If you have nothing to worry about, then don't sweat it, if you think that this will be a massive issue then it will be resolved in time.

It is a massive game with many people of varying backgrounds, there are going to be a lot, and I mean a lot, of false positives that will cause MicroJang to backtrack and rethink this entire idea.Should you still remain weary, if you're a Java player, there's always the Time Machine tool.

Maybe should get that feature for Bedrock? It's an idea. There's also Discord, twitter, and if you're very desperate facebook where you can chat outside the game and avoid being banned. However, pretty sure that if the water is full of rotten animals, it's not going to matter one way or the other, so best avoid situations that would cause you stress and play with only those you can really trust.

The WINNERS of the Exoplanet Event are finally announced! Read what the judges had to say!

The Wild Update isn't really wild. In fact, it's not even growling, it's kind of sitting there purring. There have been many bad updates, this is certainly one for the books.

We got a mob that's a worse hopper, a boss monster that is as pointless as the panda even with the drop, and more cut content than a pokemon game.

It saddens me that we will not be getting fireflies in the new Minecraft update simply because we got the frog which I'm not for nor against. However, I would have preferred something else entirely.

Anyway, I love fireflies. I love them in video games, they are the most charming of bugs that signify the beginning of summer, they are the definition of a children's vacation, to deny that is almost paving over what little entertainment Minecraft has left for pure efficiency of creativity.

There are very few games where they are a nice atmospheric touch to add calmness to the ambiance and even less where they are interactible. Hopefully Mojang will reconsider it and re-introduce them alongside the long-awaited Seasons update which I have already believed will never come.

To make my stance very clear, let me show you one of my all-time favorite games with my all-time favorite level, bar none. This is coming from someone who put hundreds hours into OSRS and thousands of hours into the Harvest Moon games.

Let me introduce you to Katamari

Given how empty my world is as well as my pursuit of improving my building skills, the next project on my list is making a bunch of village homes.

https://prnt.sc/hn5p8VPd9h4H

Blacksmith is almost done. Haven't been to the Nether yet so no lava and it's missing a glass pane and chest. Not sure how to do a table since I can't place a pressure plate on fencing. Or at least not sure if I'm able. Alpha has some janky mechanics, I'm sure I can come up with some solution. No, there's no wood slabs. might be just a fence and stone slab which will look super awkward.

Might spread them out across my worlds and make them varied in design. Have enough iron saved up where I can make "golems" to defend bigger ones that I make.

Finally got back to working on my lake MahnMaid and finished the first part of it https://prnt.sc/86FkoD-llEm_

Took several hours, a few iron shovels, and a couple hundred stacks of sand and gravel to get it done. Did this through Layering because old minecraft had some issues with water and thus had a tendency to creates little whirlpools that would be nearly impossible to clean up.

Thinking about littering "rocks" in it or making a sandy island. Not sure yet, but it's a project to keep me busy and give me something to do.

Decided to take a break from my world to play some Alpha 1.0.1 and a few moments into my new world stumble across an amazing find https://prnt.sc/U7JFslT6SU-1

I had a blog idea about this concerning "Rose-Tinted Glasses and Nostalgia," but I don't think it would be a good topic that I can talk about that hasn't been beaten to death by various other communities. My belief is that video games have long since been a hobby and become more akin to a job. Add to the almost rocket-like rise in NFTs only further solidifies my stance.

Not to say everyone only plays video games as a job, but these days more play them simply because it's mainstream, it's an obligation if you aren't up to date with the latest titles and DLCs. If you want to hear more, maybe I'll expand on this. For now, it's going to remain one of my wandering thoughts.