Surface and Maps!

THE SURFACE

I think I'll call this
Surface Valley

I had a swim with
a sheep in this pond.

I was incredibly glad to find the surface. I felt like I had finished my journey, I had explored enough caves to find the necessary resources for a compass for the map. At some point I had found some reeds (in an upcoming screenshot). Seeing as I had what I needed, and finished the blogged journey as an extension of that, I felt like taking some more screenshots from atop the mountain/overhang my house was based in. Get ready for some awesome landscape...

Reeds are in
the bottom left corner

My wheat farm and
reed farm in the background

Another angle of
Surface Valley at sunset

I think that wraps up surface, but Blogger is really being annoying with uploading pictures so I might have to edit this post later. And I can't show .swfs? Or even link to a different section of the site showing them? At the moment I would not recommend Blogger to anyone, might change to some other blog site. But maybe not. We will see.
Ok, time for the rest of the post:

THE MAPS!


Here's what you all been waiting for, the map! as you will see they are named with a number, starting with map_0 and then map_1 and so forth.

For some reason my
right arm is grey.

If you look up it tilts
down, good if there are no
holes in front of you

you can look up more than this,
but you get the idea.

Craft with 8 paper around
a compass.

Here's the recipe for a compass,
if you didn't already know it.

There we have it! Apparently in the future maps will be able to be cloned and named for multiplayer, and you can place them on walls for town maps and stuff. Awesome.

This map has been really fun to play, with some great memories, like the dungeon, the cave, the joy of finding the surface, the beautiful grass, it was the best. 

Hmm.... I'll have a look at http://notch.tumblr.com/post/5861083562/minecraft-beta-1-6 to see if I've missed anything...

There's no way I'm listing all those bugfixes, but:

Mushrooms now grow, but super slowly. That means mushroom stew is now a replenishable rescource, and it heals 5 hearts, better than porkchop (4), and only beaten by cake and golden apples. food info... http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Food

Nether works in multiplayer now and apparently the yogscast (http://www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos) have done a video on it, and it sounds cool. Something awesome happens when you try to go to sleep in the nether, up to you guys to find out what. This might change some time though.

Now there are 15 records, but they aren't in game yet, so they should be appearing in the future. Just like pistons. Perhaps I should say something about those.

Pistons are powered by redstone and simply extend one block when powered, and contract again when unpowered. But these will make way for some interesting creations, from mob grinders to puzzles to mazes with moving parts. Minecraft wiki page: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Pistons. This is the one update I am most looking forward to, as I can see so much potential for it in multiplayer.

Well thats the end of this 1.6 blog journey (that's what I called the world), I won't be playing this world any more, or maybe I will. But I doubt I will post on it anymore. Hope you enjoyed my "tutorial" on 1.6, and feel free to comment. You can only comment on single posts, so if you want to comment on the story as a whole, comment on this one. If you want to comment on a certain part, maybe comment on that. To comment, click the grey writing on the top of the post, then leave a comment in the comment section underneath the post. Bye bye for now, I think my next post will be about a flash game. Probably my text adventure.


err, for some reason the text changed font in this post, edited it now. but it's still acting weird. sorry for the text being not as close together as the rest, also it doesn't auto capitalise for sentences, which is why you might notice all of my uncapitalised first letters, another reason blogger is letting me down. I hear on tumblr you can get your own domain, yet another reason for tumblr, sigh....