Minecraft · 5:38pm Oct 7th, 2016

So, since I have to have something to do instead of housework and writing that I need to get done and Steam is broken for me right now, I'm doing Minecraft again.

Survival Single Player, because I'm so lonely.

Anyways, I started a new map and got pretty lucky — two desert temples and three desert villages, all in the same desert.

Screencap of the auto-mapper UnMined. It has a PNG output function, but for some reason it was producing a gigantic map made up mostly of blank space.
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And for a base, I did something I always like doing — converting a generated structure. In this case, the centrally-located desert temple was half in the desert, and half in savanna, so I decided to start working on an oasis. Since I'm in SSP, I turn cheats on sometimes to use commands for certain particularly tedious tasks. Rather than break 300 shovels and picks and spend 40+ hours, I'll just use /fill commands for things like mass landscaping, which is why the building is surrounded by those very artificial-looking terraces. I'm probably going to go back in later and carve them back further manually to give it a more natural look, but for now I want to finish the structure and a road to the villages.

Oh yeah, and I use Chroma Hills resource pack, which is why everything looks awesome.

Front of the upgraded temple. The road to the villages is underway in the foreground, and eventually a wall will be behind it.
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