Pages Tagged “Minecraft”
Tech Tips
- Installing Valhelsia on Linux MultiMC no longer downloads mods from CurseForge, and CurseForge won’t run Minecraft on Linux. But AT Launcher will, and has a workaround for CurseForge’s API limits.
- Minecraft Bedrock Beta vs. the Microsoft Store There’s got to be a better way to do this. Actually, I know there’s a better way to do this, because Minecraft already does it in Java Edition.
- Rebuilding a Minecraft Village’s Economy Upgrading a Minecraft world to the Village and Pillage update leaves all villagers unemployed. Here’s how to build all the workstations and upgrade the village!
Blog Posts
- What is up with MacOS system updates?
On Monday, the home laptop mysteriously started lagging on heavily-modded Minecraft worlds that it had been just fine with the day before. Katie tried all kinds of troubleshooting over the next few days: using different launchers, trying local and server-based games, disabling mods, reinstalling Sophos, rebooting the system repeatedly. Nothing helped. Until she checked the […]
- The Sun Sets Over Minecraft Earth
I like Minecraft Earth, but it didn’t quite hit its stride before the pandemic, and didn’t adapt as well as Pokémon Go has to the pandemic. I’ve mostly stopped playing since hitting the level cap because gameplay is still too awkward, and while it is fun, it’s not enough fun to overcome that when I […]
- Be sure to wear a face covering when out in public
- Jedi Blocks
Apparently Mojang hired Anakin Skywalker to write the captions for block descriptions in Minecraft Earth.
- Wait, What Hands?
Kiddo found this image somewhere and wanted to put up a few signs.
- I Guess
I’ve got to appreciate this network error UI from Minecraft Earth. Especially the button text.
- 15 Minutes with Minecraft Earth
Took Minecraft Earth for a spin around the block. Most of the demos I’d seen showed either the build-on-a-plate mode or the AR adventure mode, so I wasn’t sure how the map mode was going to work. You see a Minecraft-ified version of your local area. Real-world buildings appear as raised ground instead of buildings, […]
- That time I had to rebuild a Minecraft Village’s economy
The latest Minecraft update, “Village and Pillage,” has completely revamped villager professions and trading, and made major changes to the village structures as well. Each profession now has a work site defined by a block like a stone cutter, or a loom, or a composter, etc. and unemployed villagers will try to fill jobs based […]
- Cosplaying WonderCon 2019: Paper, Spider, Trelawney
For this year’s WonderCon, Katie refined her Professor Trelawney costume from Long Beach. The biggest change: extending the skirt instead of using actual layers, because it was warm in Anaheim. Just for the weekend – it jumped about 10°F just before and was expected to drop 10°F afterward. She remarked, only half-jokingly, that if she’d […]
- A joke that will only make sense if you’ve played Minecraft: Story Mode
This wine could be made…useful.
- Boom Today
Downloaded MCEdit so the 8YO can edit Minecraft worlds. He used it to fill ten entire chunks with TNT…then lit one of the edges. The chain reaction has been going for at least ten minutes, punctuated by periods of major lag.
- A Dynamite Approach
Working through a book on modding Minecraft with the kiddo. It knows its target audience: the first few lessons are all about explosions! It’s written for 1.8, which is a problem because a lot of the structure has changed between then and 1.12, but a decent IDE with auto complete and a sense of common […]
- R2-D2 is looking extra boxy
Not quite Minecraft IRL
- To the Limit
Kiddo’s been wanting to learn programming, with the ultimate goal of modding Minecraft. We’ve done some Ruby, but he’s impatient, so last night I we started Java with a simple program that repeats a println X times. He wanted to pass it the integer limit. After a few minutes, I suggested we watch a movie […]
- Mobile Minecraft
The first time I played mobile Minecraft, I ended up stuck in a tree all night, trying not to move so the skeletons wouldn’t shoot me down. Every time I ventured down to try to finish my shelter, I got killed and re spawned in that tree, so I finally just set the phone down […]
- WonderCon 2018
It’s been ten years since we first went to WonderCon, back when it was still in San Francisco. At the time I thought it would be fun to come back, but maybe not every year. As it turns out, we’ve kept going back yearly, only missing one! It’s effectively replaced SDCC for us, between the […]
- Minecraft’s Hierarchy of Needs
Minecraft’s hierarchy of needs: Tools Shelter Light Food Once all those are taken care of, you can start exploring and building.
- A Minecraft Halloween
Homemade spider jockey costume (a composite Minecraft monster consisting of a skeleton archer riding a giant spider). Kid-sized, built by Katie (I assisted, mainly with painting, but the design, planning, and most of the construction was her). Mostly cardboard, covered with paper to smooth it out and provide a painting surface. Heavy fabric and dowels […]
- Bedtime Stories
Wow, bedtime stories have really changed in the last couple of years.
- Nether Mined
Kiddo talked me into Minecraft. Today we made obsidian from a pool of lava, and gathered enough to make a Nether portal. We got back from the Nether OK, but it sent us to a new portal hundreds of blocks away, in an unexplored cavern…under the ocean. We spent all afternoon tunneling up (slowly) and […]