Monthly Archives: April 2011

I’m Mining in the Rain

Posted on 2011-Apr-19 by

Seattle is bright and sunny today, but it is dark and wet in Minecraftia. The ducks seem to like it: Minecraft 1.5 is up, and weather and achievements are so far pretty interesting. Some of the achievements are more like … Continue reading →

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Portal to the Nether

Posted on 2011-Apr-04 by

Goofing around on the Yogscast server, I dug out a mountainside temple and built a Nether Portal: The thing is, the server has a mod to make portals work, even though they don’t normally in SMP. I stepped in as … Continue reading →

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Inattention Kills

Posted on 2011-Apr-03 by

Playing solo survival on seed “wolf” while the Shaftlands are still down, I’ve found several gigantic sections of clay, so I’ve made a strong brick house, like the third little pig. No big bad creeper gonna blow my house down. … Continue reading →

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Tales of Minecraftia

Posted on 2011-Apr-02 by

Naturally, there’s Minecraft fanfic. Hopefully no creeper slash. /via @collinf

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The Shaftlands

Posted on 2011-Apr-02 by

I’m amused by The Shaft podcast, and so I’ve joined their SMP server, The Shaftlands. I’m not hugely social, but I’ve built a giant twisty Capsela Towers with a cactus deathtrap front lawn for killing monsters: Sadly, this will probably … Continue reading →

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ThinkGeek USB Nether Portal

Posted on 2011-Apr-02 by

I desire this object: ThinkGeek Minecraft USB Nether Portal. April Fool’s, but they make some of their popular jokes into real products. Even if it doesn’t actually send objects to the Nether, so it’s broken like Nether portals in SMP, … Continue reading →

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