After several Hardcore Minecraft playthroughs, and after several absolutely ridiculous Hardcore Minecraft deaths, I've decided to take it easy and enjoy a nice, normal Minecraft world. One that I can build up and transform into my very own over time regardless of if I accidentally fall down a hole and splatter myself in the Nether. 🤣 We all know it's gonna happen; it always happens!
This isn't a creative world. It's your average survival difficulty game because I'm crazy and don't feel like I'm achieving anything unless I'm gathering my own resources and spending time terraforming the land. And yes, even if I'm building up my own massive world full of towns and cities and environmental marvels, I need to do it the proper way and not the easy, boring way.
So, welcome to Fan'driel. Seed number: 2081902666 | Map type: Default
It took a while to find this area! I wanted the perfect map to call my own, to return to over time whenever I get the whim to play Minecraft. I started a bunch of maps in creative mode so I could fly around and find the perfect location to start from, and at last I found this lovely location. Then popped it onto Survival and got to work.
What drew me to this spot is the nice flat land in the middle, surrounded by mountainous terrain, a nice lake at the back and a winding river at the front. The dark oak forest to the right also helps — that biome is my favourite.
I'm kind of picturing, at the moment anyway, this flat region being full of farms and prettiness. An esplanade around the river. A fishing dock. Some winding stairs up the mountain beside the lake where the city will look down upon the environs below. We'll see how it goes!
Normally I'd regale you with the tale of how I built up my mine and set up a temporary base of operations, but today, instead, I'm going to skip all of that and get straight into the meaty bits. The formation of my aesthetically-pleasing medieval city.
Since the river area was the easiest to work with, straight off the bat with minimal tools, I decided to start there and make myself an esplanade. With how Minecraft generation is now and how much harder it is to get to diamonds and how iron and coal are best farmed at different layers, I focused on just getting a lot of iron and coal for the time being and just living with iron tools until later.
Because this city is going to be medieval-inspired, most of my building materials are going to be wood and stone. And a lot of lanterns all 'round.
It took a fair amount of time to mine up all the cobblestone, smelt it back into stone, turn them into bricks and back and forth from my mine and back over and over to get the basic layout of my esplanade down.
Once I get to the beautifying stage, I'll have little plots in there with trees and flowers and seating arrangements, but for now I'm happy that all the stone is down.
Next, I wanted to find a good spot to get a path from the esplanade around the side of the left mountain, towards the lake, and get started on winding it around the lake and up the back mountain like I originally planned.
To do that, first I had to deforest A LOTTTTTTT of trees. The cleared area in the screenshot above was four iron axes worth. I'm going to need a lot more axes. The one tree by the pig I'm planning on keeping there because it has a bee hive on it. I'm not disturbing the bees! I will work around the bees.
A lot of deforestation later, and I had freed the area I planned for a path. Just a few more white trees to go and then I could start terraforming the land for farms and things as well. A lot of that area is going to be home to paddocks!
All of these trees are being transformed into good ol' charcoal. I won't have to go mining for coal ever again!!!
What I didn't take into account was just how much digging and replacing dirt I was going to be doing to terraform this Former Forest. xD
Luckily, I've been in a pretty zen mood the past couple of days so I just got to digging, sleeping the monster-filled night away quickly, digging some more, rinse and repeat, over and over, until soon enough, everything looked much more presentable. Well, almost everything...
I did half of the area! xD Still the other half to go.
That was a couple of days work. I'm seeing dirt removal behind closed eyes though so I thought it was time to go back to the mines for a bit and dig up some more cobblestone to turn into stone bricks. Get that road underway while I'm all dirt-digging'd out. xD
I really wish they hadn't changed ore generation so substantially. I could be spending this time digging for diamonds whilst gathering all the cobblestone, but no, now diamonds are located at -56 or so where no normal stone even spawns. I did dig down there, ready to go diamond hunting... shrieked in terror and ran when I came across the new Warden mob... I'll just stick with my current efforts, methinks. xD
Though diamond shovels would be a blessing. Dayum, iron shovels break in seconds. I made so many iron shovels. SO MANY.
I also planted a bunch of oak trees in my newly flattened area. I need a lot of oak wood for fences to use as decorations and because I decided to land smack bang in the middle of a birch forest, I'm inundated with white wood instead of normal soft brown wood.
Need that brown wood. Hurr hurr. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.
Should get a lot of apples, too. :D
After a while of farming oak trees, I finally had enough to make a buttload of fences. I quickly got to work placing them all around the esplanade and the bridge!
I think my next point of decoration for the esplanade and bridge will be some simple cobblestone stairs in the water. And I need to make some lanterns for the bridge. I'm not too sure how my streetlights will look yet, at this point, but I'll work it out!
While my goal was to grab some cobblestone to make some stairs, since I had previously cooked every single cobblestone I had to turn into stone bricks, after I got a few stacks I thought I might finally venture into the deep, dark underground and look for diamonds. And keep some of the dark cobblestone too for future possible use. It's just irritating because I have iron pickaxes and this stuff takes forevveerrrrrrrr to mine through.
As soon as I find diamonds, I'm making some enchanted pickaxes because dayum, I need them.
There's one of those new ancient cities located around my mine too, but that place is terrifying and every time I step near the place the new Warden mob terrifies me. Apparently it can two-shot people who are wearing full Netherite armour too. Soooo, not too sure about exploring that city just yet. xD
My first diamond mining trip wasn't too bad. Found 9 of the things. Enough to make a pickaxe and enchanting table, that's the main thing.
If I want to make an enchanting table though... I'm going to need to capture a bunch of cows for there leather. Which means, getting back to the big massive flatlands and getting those farms and paddocks up and running. Eurgh. Flat lands!
So, instead of flattening more land, I finished my bridge instead. xD
I'm not sure I like it, exactly... I feel like I need to do something to break up the monotony of the fences. I'm sure there's something I can add to it to make it look a bit nicer. But for now, it'll do. :)
So this is what I've done so far. It's taken me a few days to get here, but I'm happy with how it's turning out. I'm going to be working on this over several months, whenever the urge to play Minecraft rears its ugly head, and hopefully I transform this into a little world worthy of escaping to. I might even do my first ever gaming videos too when it's a bit more built up, to showcase how it's going! :)
The next things on my To-Do List are to flatten the remainder of that land, get some animal farms and produce paddocks up and running, beautify the lake at the back, work out a nice-looking streetlight to use, and prettify the esplanade a bit.
Mostly I need to grab three thousand shovels and terraform. xD
Until next time! :)
Posted from Kaelci Games with Exxp : https://kaelci.games/2022/07/30/minecraft-crafting-a-new-world/