Starbound

Once I felt ready, I spent one fuel traveling to a nearby snowy planet and setting up base there. It was a cool experience to have. The special effects behind space travel in this game are exhilarating!

Steam had a great game that was definitely in my interests: Starbound. I ended up going on a small side quest playing this game for hours—according to Steam, ten hours.

The first impression I had was how futuristic it was! I started alone aboard a nomadic spaceship. The ship was complete with a few basic consoles I could use and no fuel.

Another impression was how there was no way to change the controls, so I had to spend the first few hours struggling with awful key arrangements which I was obviously not used to. Eventually, I got frustrated enough to look online and figure out in the geekiest way to change the controls by looking in the configuration files. It all worked out in the end!

This game has a steep progress climb. It’s really challenging to move up in the game. After the small tutorial, and the battle with a penguin space pirate, I was left alone to my devices to figure out what to do next. 

The space pirate utterly destroyed my burrow, I had to repair it, but that didn’t take too much time. Then I spent some time searching for leather so I can make some armoring and warmth from the cold climate. Later, I spent tremendous amounts of time mining for ores and exploring the planet. I briefly went to a nearby snowy planet. And then I finally got enough fuel to travel to another solar system…this is exciting! All this took ten hours—this show how steep it takes to climb and progress.

Beta World

I made a new world in vanilla Minecraft called Beta. An expansive desert was all I saw at first, but I ventured to the west and found a lush mountainous region. After building up a small base, I expanded my assets to the mines I found under the desert. 

There is a desert temple near the spot where I first spawned. I want to explore that area.

Right now, I’m struggling with food. A combination of desert and mountains doesn’t really help me find good sources of good, but I have cows and pigs near my base—so I’m thinking about setting up a pasture and breeding them.

Desert temple on the upper-right.

My ultimate goal is to establish a base of operations and reach the End, a dimension where I must fight a dragon. But for some reason, it totally bores me.

After this, I might, just go ahead and explore the world of Tekkit.

Technic Obsolete

When I went out to search for the Technic launcher and downloaded it, I came to an unexpected shock: It was just a modpack organizer.

And another phrase in the Technic Wikipedia confirmed it: ”Welcome to the Technic Pack Wiki! This Wikia is for the Technic modpack, but it seems that the Tekkit modpack has completely replaced it and now there is no more Technic modpack...”

Well, I had to swallow up my pride and admit that Technic was truly gone. I guess the mass fabricator is now a thing of the past. However, putting aside my disappointments, a close observation to Tekkit, the newest modpack, it seems to prove that it might be a cool mod to play.

Unfortunately, I was immediately turned off when I saw it only used Minecraft version 1.6 compared to the current version of 1.8 that vanilla is on. In Minecraft 1.8—and also the updates found in 1.7—contained many major changes that I would want.

Thus, until I can get “futuristic” Minecraft again, I probably would just stick with Minecraft Vanilla.

Back into the dark ages with medieval tools, magic, and castles! 

Alpha a Success

My base carved into the mountainside. This was a good world, and I may play it again sometimes.

I finished looking around and learning a bit about the new system. The general environment in the Minecraft world looked the same, but I could see a few differences.

The first blocks I noticed were those strange brown and white colored blocks on the mountain side. Once I collected them, they were labeled granite, diorite, and andesite; all which Minecraft Wiki defined—or implied—as decorative blocks.

It was getting dark soon, so I started building a shelter in the mountainside. However, my gameplay was interpreted by no sound problems once I put on my headphones to hear if there were monsters nearby, so I didn’t finish until today.

I set out to explore and find monster. Eventually, I found a zombie moving at a pace faster than I can remember. It started after me, but fell over a cliff before I could finish it off.

Before I knew it, the sun was rising.

I didn’t really want to commit to anything, so I think one day will be good. I’m going to get serious about Minecraft Technic again!

Tekkit vs Technic

The official website to Tekkit. It has a pretty spiffy design!

For a second there, I thought the old world of Technic had withered away and was gone for gone; it was supposedly replaced by Tekkit. Tekkit was a completely different mod. After a few minutes of confusion and disappointed clicking, I gained joy when I found out Tekkit and Technic were two different mods, and Technic is still very much active! What a relief!

I’m also planning on launching this journal to an online blog to share them with people.

For now, I’m going to play vanilla Minecraft until I can get a grip on the basic features again. There have been a lot of new updates since I last touched it—I’m planning on exploring them too. My last world was called Omega, so I will call this new world Alpha.

Unfortunately, my gameplay was interrupted when I found my computer didn’t have any sound; thus, I started the long and frustrating process of getting it fixed. Thankfully, I was able to get sound back…about one hour later.