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Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: hymn to the crystals ~ rebecca tripp cover, final fantasy ost

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m:vg: vintage story

to be honest

do want to get back into vintage story at some point , just not sure if want to continue world or maybe start over . progress is much harder than minecraft ( obviously by design , not complaint ) so start over would probably frustrate , but ...

see , have this thing about minecraft now that really prefer to build in creative to then play in survival , and did that with vintage story world too - not initially , did build first iteration of house in survival mode , but then get really frustrate with lack of space and swap to creative for expansion . all of materials and items still obtain through survival , just add more house space in creative .

but that is sort of problem . want to know and experience what vintage story have to offer , but already impatient and struggle with pure survival gameplay in minecraft , on easy difficulty . and remain relatively spoiler free of vintage story even still , so do not want to like ... accidentally ruin experience because accidentally create knock-on effects from this , somehow . there was already one noticeable knock-on effect - time still pass , so things will still rot and decay even if in creative . >_>;;

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: 赤煉瓦の小屋 ~ garnet cathedral

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minecraft ~ macinaalo faerie world index

another website addition !

not really any world screenshots so far , still have to actually sort through all of those and decide how to keep things , but build index is also still there - just figure make sense to keep that separate from main world tour stuff . visit macinaalo index to see actual world , see build index for proper breakdowns and rambles :P

really , world tour screenshots could very , very easily balloon storage way out of control , so want to be careful about what get proper showcase . have to keep good amount of storage for other sections of website too , and only have 1 gigabyte - in current state , entire screenshots folder for this world is 1.3 gigabytes !

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: ancient ~ stardew valley ost

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m:vg: minecraft

minecraft ~ no-iron rule set

just put this up as website page - no-iron rule set for minecraft . well , actual rule is very simple : can not use items or blocks that contain iron , whether personally craft or naturally generate . but this have lots of consequences on what is or is not possible anymore .

some of these consequences harken back to older versions of minecraft , before certain items exist , and may feel nostalgic oldschool . others completely change progression - must create first diamond pickaxe through trade and loot , for example , and will probably go armourless for long while unless willing to kill ridiculous quantities of cows and horses to constantly upkeep leather armour .

Current Mood: morose

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everyday: whine and moan

just quick notice

guess should make public thing too . kind of not in best of shape right now because birthday approach , and birthday seem to get really hard ever since NDE . will also have actual NDE anniversary to deal with come january , so . fun , good times ...

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: play minecraft right now

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m:vg: minecraft

minecraft ~ hmm

just ponder for moment here .

remember even when first play minecraft , could not settle for just one single house with every survival function - craft , smelt , enchant , etc . of course always useful to have some spare furnaces and crafting tables on hand in that house , but always like to have separate buildings for some of these things too .

and as minecraft grow more and more in scope , like ... there is less and less way to cram all of these things into one single house , unless decide to build mega mansion . which some people do and have fun with that , but that never really suit kossai .

there was time when one simple chest storage room was actually good enough . those days long , long gone . so instead prefer to build up new little storage areas by theme for particular blocks . feel like remember , navigate , and enjoy better that way than if was to have one mega storage room with redstone auto sorter . more convenient , maybe , but less fun .

there is so much to do now , so much to play with - no need to dip into every single one , but should at least play with these funny little toys in ways that enjoy most .

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: daytime ~ odd realm ost

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m:vg: minecraft

minecraft ~ village

so , this world ... is really really fun again . some time away and then new extremely inspirational videos ( vampires SMP ) really kickstart this love again .

have set up to play creative-survival hybrid : love to faff around and build , but build alone is not really enough to keep attention . need more reasons for things to exist in world , and also really like to just explore . but really hate build in survival mode , and also do not find fun to just fly through places in creative - so need both to have most fun !

hermitcraft videos fun and inspirational in own ways , but just not really into all of this megabase mega storage stuff personally , or big industrial farms . like , not as if have other players in this world to trade with , and not as if need huge bulk resources when build mostly in creative anyway . instead , what really like is lots of little buildings - like , well , village !

so , for everything that make , want to also think about practical purpose - some kind of storage or survival usage . make tailor shop months ago , and hey , start to use lots of fun custom banner designs - that would be good place to put all those away in . or like make decorative wine barrel storage , but realise actually lack potion storage ... great place to put those , right ? and by perfect coincidence , already set that up right across from potion brewery !

also set up proper to-do list in planify , which is like . so good for brain . can keep track of things that want to do and always have that inspiration on hand ...

but also , if really really frustrate with village , can fly off somewhere else and set up little minibase there . maybe want to keep eye on that human village , or want to explore these cool ruins or trial chambers , or really whatever . experiment with different builds and ideas in these places , and then just ... return when ready . xaero's map mod is also really nice for this - can mark anything , anywhere , at any time .

think would be cool to also properly revamp some of those human villages - natural generations , that is - especially ones closest to main court territory , but that is more just for roleplay and creative flair so not highest priority right now . have big island to work from still , and that is even after literally cut through land with 2 custom rivers !

also have litematica now , so with some fiddle around , can easily paste in towers as see fit ! also figure out some fun ways to decorate these towers , but want to do that uniquely for each one , so schematic is just blank version . ( this also give power to use schematics other people make , but less interest in that right now . )

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: firebugs ~ minecraft ost

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m:vg: minecraft

minecraft ~ farms

most of pictures go up on tumblr right now , but ...

screenshot from minecraft - ground level view of small crop farms, built under tree canopies

honestly so totally in love with these farms . always used to make proper 9 by 9 farms , but given almost always play singleplayer , that build up to be way too much supply , and then farms become just decorative ... which is not very nice when those farms do not even look pretty !

so , decide to make little farms that would be functional at smaller scale , while also pretty enough to be decorative in case ever need to stop harvest . since this whole world is faerie world ... why not fit under pretty little trees ? and make circles , too ! yeah , circles go pretty far in this world . ;D

can not really tell from this angle , but jungle logs in back also grow some cocoa beans ! this turn out to be perfect solution , as did not just want to plant random jungle trees in this biome , while still desperately want cocoa beans . can now farm some right at home !