I didn't make a special post about it earlier, but 1.9 got prereleased for testing. You can find the update notes here, and I will be doing today's episode with the new build.
So last time I died from monsters, which hasn't happened for a very long time. The time before that I fell to my death. And before that I drowned. Maybe this time I'll actually be able to do something productive before my sudden and grizzly end at my own hands.
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| Oink. |
That metaphor got a little away from me at some point.
Anyway, something I forgot to talk about last time was critical hits. One sure fire method of getting them is to hit a target when you are falling down from a jump.
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| I already used the heavy joke last week, or I would reuse it today. Meta! |
In the new 1.9 build, there are a bunch of new things, you can find them at the above link, but I want to show some of these things anyway. At least the cool ones.
After some searching, I found what I was looking for.
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| Snow! |
And then I found the other item I need for today's modern army.
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| Pumpkins! |
But the actual creation would have to wait, I needed a place to build a house. Someplace safe, near the snow, but also near the forest, maybe with some water, and stone right at hand.
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| This looks just the ticket. |
With a place to build a house, some snow off the ground, and some minor crafting, it's time to bring life to the lifeless!
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| Pictured: The Lifeless, see also: My social skills. |
Just place two snow blocks onto one another, then pop a pumpkin on and...
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| IT'S ALIVE HAHAHAHA |
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| THEY ALL CALLED ME CRAZY, WELL, LET'S SEE WHOSCRAZYNOW |
These are snow golems. They don't take fall damage, and they melt in desert biomes. They are entirely useless as far as I know.
After a bit of digging and clearing, it got dark on me all of the sudden.
Thankfully, I had a house built for just this occasion, and I have enough wool for a bed. I dig a little alcove deeper into the earth, I don't know if the spawning bug is still present, but I'm not chancing it.
For those wondering, the bug is that if you got to sleep in a bed at ground level, the game will spawn monsters on top of you. It doesn't happen if you go to sleep above or below ground level though, so that's why you'll always see me place my beds in odd places.
In the morning I set out to find a new purpose, maybe find a village, or show off the endermen, I didn't find any of them last time.
Random fun fact: Enderman take damage by touching water, this includes getting rained or snowed upon.
Oh god of coal, how you tease me so.
Thankfully, there is more deeper in the ground hole I was exploring.
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| Coal, delicious, nutritious, and full of 12 essential vitamins and minerals. |
You know who else likes coal though?
Creepers.
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| I just want a hug. |
After chopping the creeper into mincemeat I head deeper into the shaft with my new torches made from the coal I already found.
I immediately find more coal. So I turn around and... find more coal. So I go down the other shaft, and find some iron. And more coal.
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| How much coal does one man need? |
The shaft is getting a bit deep now, so I climb out and have a look see at where it's going.
Well then, now I've seen a chasm, so that's good.
Hmmm. The lava down there gives me an idea...
After returning home from my expedition with a stack of coal and torches in hand, something interesting catches my eye.
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| Did the sun fall? Did I misplace a torch? Was there a lightning strike? |
Oh silly me, it's just an open lava pit in the middle of a tundra.
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| How does one type an Icelandic accent anyway? |
After a minor fight with a skeleton in which I nearly died, but didn't, so won't show, I got back home to find one of the golems in a snowball fight with a zombie.
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| Two inhuman abominations enter, one leaves, tonight on pay-per-view! |
Okay, so they aren't entirely useless. Oh wait, no, I lied. They are, snowballs don't actually do damage.
After that rather serious anecdote, have an amusing picture.
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| The creeper in its natural habitat, surrounded by pigs. |
So I had spent the entire night wandering around killing random things and looking for an enderman. I didn't find one, and now it's morning.
And I found another lava pool.
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| Or maybe a Yellowstone joke might work better. |
Doesn't matter though, becasue I have 15 iron, that's just enough for what I need!
A sword and buckets. And enough for a pick later. Bolly!
But where to build it? Hmmm. How about in the middle of the frozen lake? Sounds like a plan if I've ever heard one!
Now , all you gotta do is take 16 buckets of lava. Add them to the mix. Pour some water over the top, a bit of salt- just a pinch!
Now, it's night, I should go to sleep and get more lava in the morning. Or I could work through the night, thus doubling the usable hours. I see nothing wrong with this plan. It won't be like last save either, I have an iron sword this time.
And that makes all the difference.
And would you look at that, somebody wants to play!
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| He's all purple and stuff. Let's see what color he bleeds. |
I know that you can only aggro endermen by looking directly at them.
Let's do that.
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| Good evening, Mr. Man, I was wondering if you would be interesting in purchasing a fresh case of MURDER today. |
Hmmm, I haven't really done this before, but lava can be used as a very effective weapon, if a bit fickle. Let's try it out on something easy. Like a creeper.
It was just luck of the draw really, I just found this poor little guy stuck in a hole, waiting for someone to help him out.
Oh well.
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| ...I just realized I MAY be a bad person. |
So I headed home, after some other encounters where lava was my best good friend, to find this sight.
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| The most intense staring match ever. |
Okay then, I'll leave those two to it.
After dumping the lava and making more obsidian, I came across a little glen, and a lot of animals.
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| A LOT of animals. |
You can't see it form here, but that pool was filled with pigs. I made a mental note to fill it with lava later, but for now, more obsidian!
And then the sun came up.
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| Thank Celestia I made it thru that night unharmed. |
Oh! And then I found more pumpkins! Hmmm. More pumpkins means more minions. Let's keep these for now, they might come in handy later.
So, after 16 buckets of lava and many a lighting of some defenseless creature on fire, I have finally created my baby!
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| I have odd parental issues. |
Now, take some flint and steel to it, aaaand
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| This looks suspiciously ominous. |
ONWARDS
NEXT WEEK: Where no Man Should Go
