Minecraft

Not a MineCraft mod, ECO brings back the 1999 experience in style – block style.

Yesterday, “Kingdoms of Amalur: The Re-Reckoning”, an update of 2012’s “Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning” was released. It’s a refresh of a game that seemed groundbreaking at the time, being a single-player experience that would familiarize its players with the world of the MMO at that time known as Project Copernicus. The story of Project Copernicus and its developers, 38 Studios, would fill books. Its failure left Kingdoms of Amalur in a weird spot: An MMO-ish single player RPG set in an MMO world that would never exist. While playing KoA, it’s easy to imagine other people crafting at the quest hubs, teaming up for the dungeons, and bringing the world to life. As a single player game, it plays like an MMO just after the servers come up. ...

For all those old EverQuesties who remember the glory of Freeport before it was ruined and destroyed in the Prophecy of Ro expansion, Utenan1 has recreated West and North Freeport in Minecraft. They are so dead-on that even more than a decade in, I could still find my way around blindfolded. (Can anyone claim that with new Freeport?) West Freeport North Freeport

I’ve been teaching myself the basics of modding Minecraft. So I’ve been toying with with Minecraft file format, and as a first test of my Python libraries, I turned all the dirt to obsidian, all the water to lava, all the trees to brick and their leaves to sponge. Just… because I can. Now everyone can see what the world looks like to me when I close my eyes….

Well, I know it’s not really “house” of the day. The first two were – a house of wood the first day, and a house made of cloth the second day. The third day, I built an arch out of dirt. And today – a druid ring, built of rock and trigonometry. I seriously had to calculate sines and cosines to make the thing circular. The point is to improve the looks of my overworld. When I look out the window of my apartment in the “H”, I want to see things worth looking at. I’m done with making things deep in the ground. For now, anyway. ...

Hey, if your teenage is a Minecraft addict, we have something in common. I thought, for awhile, that I was free of Minecraft. I’d gotten bored with digging holes in the ground. Exploration was fun, but there wasn’t anything to FIND – the world would go on forever in every direction, and all the same. If everything is the same, well, might as well just stay at home. ...

I’ve been wanting to write more blog posts, but every time I sit down to write about Minecraft, I end up playing Minecraft, and then it’s suddenly midnight. If you’ve managed to avoid all the Minecraft hype over the past few weeks, I hope it’s warm and cozy under your rock. The basic premise is, you’re plopped with nothing into the middle of a world that is fully moldable and destructible. At night, The Monsters Come. You must first build some sort of shelter and hide before the sun goes down. ...