After many years of starting and putting down, I've finally decided to play Modern Minecraft (current version 1.20.2) and have thoughts. Might make a blog post about it, have found diamonds in my roughly couple hours of gameplay already, an ametheyst Geode, and my first dungeon.

Will wait until I've pretty much done all the things (ED, Wither, Warden, Elytra) before I give any serious thoughts given my nearly 10k hours of Alpha Minecraft.

Taking a break from carving continents to collect some stuff and maybe find the things I still need for my museum.

So far, found two more dungeons. One was right next to the other. Got more pumpkins, roses, and dandilions for a Halloween-themed project I might do.

Any ideas for alpha builds?

Back on my world for a bit to do some random building with materials in ways I rarely create. Nice two level barn thing with double double doors. Found more diamonds, should try to get the two discs I need for my museum.

https://prnt.sc/PvP9F0ViDB0t

Member interviews are officially back! Peep our interview with YokaiS and learn a bit about their modeling, animation, robotics, data packing and inspirations!

Planet Minecraft is bringing back Member Interviews and is seeking community input. The interviews will feature questions with selected members, discussing their creations, inspirations, and more. The community is invited to suggest members they'd like to see interviewed and share feedback or suggestions on the upcoming series.

Read more and make suggestions here!

Don't ask me how long this took, but I've been flattening out this area for mini R & D projects to do in my world. Either that or turn it into a Mega City. Option 3 was going to go straight to bedrock with this, but I think that's too long of a project even for me. Besides, doubt there's anything here that'd be worthwhile that I can't try and either find in the world or brut force somehow.

What do y'all think?

https://prnt.sc/s6YEYXcPLUqZ

https://prnt.sc/utRkwdqjlkQj

Even though this doesn't seem like a lot, I have about 4 d.chests of dirt, one of sand, half of cobble, half of snow blocks and another half of logs not including miscellaneous crap I've collected. I'm going to use most of the mats for most of my upcoming building projects so don't think it's just going to sit there.

Happy 1 Year to my Alpha SSP world

https://prnt.sc/JHwzdoMce5ct

While I haven't played a large amount, I did do stuff for the better part of the time. Mostly digging, looking for diamonds, and trying to fill that stupid lake of mine. Found more diamonds today looking for gold.

Should try to get the records, thinking about an obsidian arena and trying to get skellies to fight creepers. Not sure how well that would work.

It's been far too long for me to not do this, now that we have the means and the ability.

https://prnt.sc/CP83oG3RhcPL

The (at least close to) original YogsCast SoI map. Time to explore to my heart's content.

I noticed that "Da Roolz" have gotten extremely small now. When did the finally chop down the brick?

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.