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So I'm fucking deep in this cave. And I was planning on the best update so far. But my curiosity got the goddam best of me. BAD FUCKING IDEA. Long story short, a zombie dropped on me and raped my butthole. I died. All my shit is in that cave. I'll update when I get a control of the situation.

Edit: Update: I went back to where I died. OF FUCKING COURSE ALL MY SHIT DISAPPEARED. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO /wrists. I honestly don't know what to do right now. I guess this poses some new options.

1. Start over and not document anything
2. Try to rebuild my arsenal and stay here
3. USTREAM - follow me live as I build a boat and sail the fuck away

Let me know please.

Into the belly of the...Spider Den?

Fuck me, I hate spiders.

First though, an improvement. I put a glass cover over the mine shaft so it's easier to see down into.

Good, yea? I made a little hole so I could climb down the ladder, too. Ingenius engineering. But little did I know what I was getting myself into.

I started hearing the spiders when I hit dirt in the mine shaft. Now, I've figured that when you hit deep underground, theres usually an open pocket right behind it or near by. This made me want to find the spiders because I knew it would put me in a cavern, but I would have to fight a group of them.

This seemed like a good place to stop digging down, and start digging through the dirt. This didn't lead to the spiders, but it did lead to some nice resources.

A couple of steel blocks

I LOVE GOOOOOOOLD! I'm darn tootin' serious, Cletus. We done did struck gold down in there. But before you get all excited, gold really isn't all that useful. It's about as strong as wood so making tools with it would be a waste. Maybe if I get more of it I'll make part of my hut gold.

So that was about the extent I was willing to go in that direction because I wanted to find the spider room. And boy did I pick the most perfect direction.

And I kept expanding in like a diagonal direction. It's twice the work, but the rewards...oh the rewards...

2x2x2 block of steel

This seriously couldn't have gone any better. Because I cut out this big chunk of steel, I found the mossy rocks. You may be thinking why the mossy rocks are important. Well I'll tell you. The mossy rocks indicate that there is a creature spawner on top of them. That's right, I found the spider lair. 

Here's just some basic info about creature spawners. They are always in pockets in caves. They look like cage that's on fire. They will keep spawning a certain type of mob until it is destroyed. BUT there's always treasure chests. It's like a mini dungeon. 

So up I go. Let's see how I did.

I told you the spiders were big

Huzzah! I am victorious! I actually got rolled by the closest spider in the last picture. I came around the corner to take a picture and I got charged. Thank god I didn't die though. Now let's look at the rewards shall we?

Chest 1

Chest 2

What hefty drops! 

String (1): used to make bows. I'll make one soon but I need to make a ton of arrows first.

Saddle (2): you can put them on animals and ride them, but you have no control over movement.

Bread (2): eaten to restore health.

Wheat (2): I'm pretty sure you use it to make bread. Not sure how, though.

Steel brick (4)

Bucket (1): collects water and lava.

Redstone Dust (1): acts like electricity.

The redstone dust was by far the most valuable item in the chests. The only thing I know about it is that you can lay down the dust to make a wire system. I currently only have one dust so I can't do anything with it yet. You can read about it on the wiki page: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone.

And that's about it for now. Who knows what I'll find next...

Curious sheep is curious

Oh. A sheep. Until next time.

Splorin' and Feng Shui pt.2

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Extreme Home Makeover! Just kidding. But seriously, that's pretty much what I did. If you remember what my hut looked like from the beginning, it was just some wood planks I threw together so I didn't get attacked. It's now bigger and better then ever before...kinda.

Yes that is glass. It's so I can do this when I'm inside:

Kinda serves as a ground level watch tower I suppose. And if we turn around, we can go downstairs to where the action is taking place.

As you descend, you get a nice view of a fine arts painting. Paintings are pretty cool. You make them by putting a wood stick around the border of the workbench, and a wool I guess in the center. There's a bunch of different pictures you can get in various sizes. And the best part is that you can take it down, put it back up, and get a different one.

Just around the corner is the workstation.

I'm like Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor

So left to right we have a large chest to store a ton of items, a stove, and the workbench. Now I havent explained the stove yet. You have to use coal or wood planks to get the fire going and with it you can cook meat, smelt, ect. For example: if you wanted to make a steel pickaxe, you'd have to smelt three steel blocks so they became steel bricks. Then use the steel bricks with the wood sticks on the workbench and draw a pickaxe. And I think cooked meat restores more health than raw meat.

Now the good part. I decided to build my own mining cave underneath my hut. I'll be a straight shot down to the unbreakable bricks picking up whatever minerals I see on the way and then branching off.

The start of something great...or not so great

More steel!

Welp.

Yea...I'm pretty far down. And that's about where I left off. I'll possibly do another update later tonight if anything happens. Stay tuned.

Splorin' and Feng Shui pt.1

So with this post I'll just try to bring you all up to date with where I'm at. I didn't take as many screen shots as I should have to it'll basically be a quick summary.

After the sun came back up I did a bunch of exploring around my "home". And to my surprise, there was a ton of natural cave systems. All of which seemed to go deeper and deeper.

And curse my curiosity, for all it does is get me into trouble.

Creeper

There's actually a funny story behind this interaction. I get up to that hole in the wall to go further, but I can't see a damn thing. Throw that torch down and I'm staring into the eyes of Mr. Creeper here. I guess that's why they are called creepers. But I had nothing to slay the peeping tom of a beast with. So I run back to my hut and make a sword (wood stick in bottom center, and a wood/gold/stone/steel/diamond in true center and top center). But of course when I returned, the creeper was no longer there. We shall meet again, evil doer. 

It's strange... It seemed like the creeper was protecting something because after I traversed farther, the cave split up into and upper and lower section. It's too bad I didn't see the upper section until later. 

As you can see, we come across a new type of block on our adventure. This, my friends, is steel. As far as I know, it's the second strongest material to make tools with. And that creeper thought he could hide his treasure. This was the only natural system that I found anything valuable in, so I decided to dig for my own. What's the show where they redo peoples' homes? Let's do that.

Minecraft Day 1

I've already lost count of the days in Minecraft, I just know it starts on day 1. So I'm not sure how much to put into each post but I'll play it by ear and see how it goes. ANYWAY, god I hate this intro shit. When you enter the world for the first time, you get a single spawn point and it doesn't change (oh joy). From the videos I've seen, you usually start close to the water instead of like 10 miles inland and surrounded by mountains. 

My Minecraft vista starting point

Minecraft doesn't completely fullscreen so this is the best I can do...actually it's not, but I'm taking too many pictures to care. As you can see, you start with nothing. But worry not. Your fists are suitable for destroying most simple materials like...trees? Yes, trees. Punch trees for lumber gogogo. 

Seriously though, lumber is like the foundation of this game. You need it to build a workbench which you can use to craft tools and other materials.

  

Workbench | sticks | lumber | feathers

Here, I've already made my workbench. I've also converted most of my lumber into wood planks and those into wood sticks. I also picked up some feathers courtesy of a dead chicken.

Inventory crafting

Workbench crafting

It's easy to see that you NEED a workbench. But I guess I should explain how crafting works first. Not only do you need the right combination of materials, you also need to draw the item you want with those materials. So if you wanted to make a pickaxe, you have to go to the workbench, put two wood sticks in the bottom center and true center spaces, and three wood/gold/stone/steel/diamond across the top three. As I make more tools and things I'll show you what I'm talkin bout Willis.

Another thing I should mention is that I'm playing on Hard, because I'm a real man. This means enemies spawn in dark areas: caves and night time. I think there's only four types - big spiders (big.), zombies (normal slow zombie), skeletons (they shoot arrows at you), and creepers (they go al qaeda and blow up on your ass if you are close enough) - yep four. With that being said, structural protection is highly suggested. Sooooo I builded a hut.

So homey

And that about sums up day one. Why did this take so long to write? Maybe I'll do a couple a day and make them shorter, who knows. This ain't nazi germany but you just read the first day of MEIN KRAFT

So it begins...

So after a mostly one sided debate with myself, I decided to start playing Minecraft. If you haven't heard of it, here's the wiki. Minecraft is a sandbox game which means everything in the world is randomly generated. No two people will ever have the same world and I've heard that each person's Minecraft world is three times bigger than earth. This is about as unique as it gets.

So enough with the introduction. Let's Minecraft, bitches.