AND I was carrying my diamond sword and pickaxe at the time and I'd just found about four more diamonds and a crap-ton of redstone. Now it's all gone ;___;

On the plus side, I have a new icon. Three Creeper Moon.

I made a rainbow!

This makes me think: it would be cool if we could use dyes and glass to make stained glass.

Coming from me, that could mean a few different things; in this case, I'm talking about a Minecraft squid.



(as you can see from the ink sac in my inventory, this is not actually the first squid I found)

I installed the Overviewer 3rd party mapping program for Minecraft, which makes high-res zoomable maps of your Minecraft worlds. It took 3 hours to run (it'll take less time now that it's done the first one). Here's my world!


I don't know why that narrow strip of land is there at the upper right. That might be a mistake.

( two more, zoomed in )
There's also a farm cottage and a signal tower. The manor house is built into the side of the mountain and I'm going to expand that so it has more hidden rooms in the mountain. The village is located on the bay on that big landmass on the far right. On that finger of water between the big chunk with trees on the right and a smaller desert island on the left of it. And I just completed the tunnel connecting this village to the castle and have laid down mine cart tracks through about half of it.

Still sick. I went to Spanish class, where I learned something about myself: holding back and not just answering all the questions myself requires patience! Patience that I did not have today!

Also I told the class what a subject and object were. Of a sentence. Because they didn't know. And the teacher was just confusing them further. I really need to resist the urge to do that, it's disrespectful to the teacher. But he didn't mind this time; he actually asked me to repeat it so everyone could write it down because he liked the way I put it. I said "the subject is the thing that does the verb and the object is the thing the verb does it to." With gestures.

WTF, I learned that in 6th grade. What the hell is wrong with schools? And/or students?

In Minecraft news, I met my first ghast today. The good news is I didn't die! It didn't even manage to set me on fire! I tried to shoot it with arrows but either they're impervious to arrows or I was missing - it was pretty far away. When I didn't hurt it and it started coming closer, I ran the hell back to my portal.

Then later, I stood atop the battlements of my castle, shooting at zombies:

I was aware of the new music but I hadn't seen any of the other new things. Except are the grass and trees a more natural green? It looks that way to me.

But apparently there's a whole new world to explore! A scary world with killer flying jellyfish that shoot fire! I might have to make some more arrows before attempting to go there! At least I finally killed enough spiders to get the string to make a bow. That's the only way to deal with skeletons unless you can stand somewhere behind, or ideally above, cover and smack them with the sword when they try to come after you.

I think part of my problem is I keep trying to play using the finger pad thing instead of a real mouse. It is much harder to steer with that thing. I've mostly stopped using my desktop, it's really slow and takes so long to boot up. So Minecraft is installed on my laptop. And I haven't been bothering to go get the mouse and plug it in. That was fine on Peaceful mode but on Easy mode (which is plenty hard for me, thanks!) I really need to use the mouse or else I get killed. And then I drop all the cool items I had. Then I get killed again trying to go back and find them.

But we press on.

Meanwhile, yep, I definitely have a cold. 99.5°F. Someone bring me Jamba Juice!

Seriously, I'm not going to spend the day in front of the computer again tomorrow because I have to go to the lab for a thesis defense. BUT I did say I was going to post a picture of my house and I can't let you all down, now can I?


I planted some cacti too. And I've devised a system for placing torches to help me find my way back to my base underground. I still get lost though. There have been three times now where I just had to dig my way out and came up under the ocean. I have to plug the hole with a brick so it doesn't start flooding the mine. It won't fill the whole mine like in real life but it'll make a waterfall and make things confusing.

Also I have now mined enough iron ore that I could start making MINE CARTS. I made a video but when I try to upload it to YouTube, it just says it's configuring the video and it never finishes. I'll try again tomorrow.

And then I will go to the lab!

I actually did leave the house today; I was going to meet my classmate from Spanish to practice (and sort of tutor him because let's be honest, I'm the best student in the class apart from the one girl who speaks Spanish as a first language). But he didn't show up! I only waited about 20 minutes - we were going to meet at a cafe so I got a sandwich and tea and sat outside in the little plaza and there was a crazy guy ranting to himself the whole time. So I didn't feel like hanging around for too long.

ETA: OK, the video uploaded! Here it is:

I actually quit playing voluntarily this time. As opposed to quitting when it's midnight and I have to get some sleep because I have class in the morning. I fell in lava twice in a row. And when you fall in lava, all your inventory gets burned up and it's gone forever. I had just mined a bunch of ore and diamonds and about 80 units of red dust! And they're all gone!

The second time, I thought I was doomed after I dug through to an underground waterfall and got swept way down into unexplored caverns. But I dug my way out of that! I even had to kill some zombies and the only weapon I had was a stone sword! I had to use up my good pickaxe getting out, which meant I couldn't dig any ore on the way. So I went back to my house, made another pickaxe and went back in... and fell in lava again. At least I didn't lose as much stuff the second time but I did lose a fair amount of red dust. It only appears near lava, see, so mining it is dangerous. Especially when you're kind of bad at steering with the mouse.

On the plus side, I started a new map (I started it earlier today, I mean; the falling-in-lava occurred in this new map) and this one has islands. I built a sweet house and a dock and I'm working on a wall to keep away the creepers - creepers are vine monsters that explode. They suck. I had to repair my old house twice because creepers exploded parts of it. This one has a stone wall that they can't get over. I also had a boat but I crashed it. It's a known bug that the boat steering is a little wonky. That wasn't really the reason, I just didn't realize it would break if I drove it into a wall. I didn't think I was going that fast! I am better at driving boats in real life. Also at not falling in lava. I have never fallen into lava in real life.