#geode the warden

[lulu-the-warden]

Geode: The wandering trader that gave me this said it was a “pride flag”.  I guess I DO feel really proud wearing it! *has no concept of rainbow colors*

[lulu-the-warden]

"Fruitcakes?"

Geode pondered how to respond for a moment. He decided he was too old and too bi to care.

"Ehh...that's fair," Geode chuckled.

      “God damn, there sure are a lotta you fruitcakes runnin’ around here.”

[ask-wretched]

Big Man.

I have a cool rock d'ya wanna feel it? its a little spikey though be careful

(pulls out a small amethyst geode)

[willowsandwonders]

most high risk low reward amethyst geode I have ever found in my entire life. imagine trying to experience the joy of the twinkling amethyst blocks beneath your boots and suddenly you’re being sonic blasted by a warden

[sopuu]

What do you think of the new Minecraft update?

I LOVE WHITE WOOD. SO MUCH.

no longer will i have to strip every geode i come across of calcite for a good textured white block!!!!! imagine the colour/texture combos that can go with the wood blocks!! AND the pale plants are wonderful i can’t wait to build with them- now if only they added a bit more variety to the pale vegetation, perhaps even…white pumpkins…..

mc seems to be exploring more of the horror side of things too and i’m all for it- the creaking’s design kinda reminds me of the earlier versions of the warden actually. imo the mob is a super cool addition, sick design, tho i am a bit worried it’ll turn out to be tedious to deal with like the phantoms,, only time will tell ig!

anyways i really like how the game is getting livelier and more atmospheric by the updates! ik there’s been a lot of talk about the development side of things but i’m also happy we’re getting all these updates for free for a one-time purchase game yanno ^^

[thanatologie]

DARP Advent 2024 - Day One! Get to know each other! FIRSTS AND FAVORITES!

Preferred name:  amanda Preferred pronouns: she/her Favorite dinosaur: ankylosaurus, because i'm also low to the ground and will take out your ankles. What's the coolest rock you own or have seen:  those giant amethyst geodes.  kinda wanna take a nap in one. What piece of media was your first experience with Dragon Age?: origins, but i hated it.  was offput by the early-00s humor at first.  got over it eventually. What was your first Dragon Age game?: origins. Which is your favorite DA game?:  da2, i will not be taking questions.  a bigger bunch of disasters outside of the avengers i've never seen. What was your first DA book or comic?:  tevninter nights, probably. Which is your favorite DA book or comic?:  honestly the world of thedas(es)?  i love dumb lore dumps like that, ask me how many times i've read the iron manuals for tony. Who is your favorite DA character? (please don’t include untagged character hate in your answer – keep it positive!):  if i can't say emmrich, then it's varric.  and if it weren't so damn hard being funny all the time, and i didn't already have a funny character, i'd probably try to write him too. What was your first ship? Romantic or platonic: my warden that i can't remember the name of / alistair.  alistair was baby. What's your "forever" ship? Romantic or platonic: don't really have one, tbh.  or it's cassandra / swords & shields.  i never identified with her more than in that moment.  same, girl.  same. What is your favorite DA-verse creature? (nug, giant, halla, etc): will you hate me if i say the nugs with their weird little human hands 🥺?  because it's nugs with their weird little human hands. What's the best advice you've ever gotten?:  for better posture hold your shoulders like you're shooting lasers from your nipples.  correcting it longterm is a lot more painful, but this keeps me from letting my shoulders round again. Are you comfortable receiving feedback / asks from others as the event goes on and will request on certain days that other people reach out?   i mean sure? i come from the land of dwrp originally.  how's my driving posts came standard. What are your boundaries? i don't autoship and prefer to develop things outside of game mechanics organically.  also, i have things to do sometimes, i'm not ignoring you, please be patient. If you're okay with asks/comments, are you okay with them from anyone or followers only?:  always.  the marvel (comics! not that mcu shit) rpc has prepared me for this.

Share a picture of something you're excited about/something that you love if you're comfortable doing so!

this is clove. she drools when she gets pets and then likes to wipe it on your face. biscuit making champion of 2k24. i have a scar on the outside of a thigh because she tried to climb my leg once because i wasn't paying attention to her right that second.

Repost, don't reblog. Remember to tag your posts with #DARP Advent 2024 so people can find them later!

[chibi-celesti]

Time for Your Tune Up! (pt. 3)

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3(here!), Part 4

A/N: When you have to start over cause the app was killjoy (:

Characters: Jamil Viper x Yumei Archambeau (can be read as platonic or romantic)

Warnings: OOC-ness, boys flustering at implications galore again.

"You want me... to help you? Do you hear yourself?"

"I'm not messing with you, Jamil. I want you to help me."

The Scarabia Vice-warden was still skeptical. Why would the Prefect he tried to use as a puppet in the past ask him of all people for help?

It sounds ridiculous... and yet...

"...Fine."

“Fine?”

“I'll help you with your Life Extending Agent.”

Yumei sighed in relief. “Thank you, Jamil.”

The vice warden waved off his response. “So, where is this Port of yours located?”

The Prefect made this his cue to remove his jacket and vest. He was quite casual about undoing his top, it threw Jamil off a bit, making him hide his face in his hood. Warn a guy will you! 

The last button of his white school shirt had been undone, and Yumei turned his back to the (still hiding) Scarabia student. “Between my shoulder blades.” 

“Huh?” Jamil moved his face away, and saw what the other boy was referring to. Right there, smack dab in the middle, was said Installer Port. It's so small, one could almost mistake it for a blemish.

“...”

With a hand to the Reyvateil's back, Jamil gently pushed him towards his desk chair, moving it to where Yumei could lean on the back of the chair and his own back facing Jamil. “Pass me a supplement.” The dual eyed boy compiled and gave him one from the satchel. 

Eyeing the geode in his hands, Jamil leaned closer and began to gently press it in.

Yumei hastily covered his mouth. “-!”

“You ok?”

“Y-yeah. Just don’t wanna freak you out, is all.” He laughed pathetically.

All the vice warden did was shake his head in turn. He continues, making sure his pace is steady as the geode vanishes bit by bit. He doesn't miss the occasional flinch and muffled moan coming from the boy beneath him. Any attempt to brush off those sounds impossible, and his face blushing in denial as well.

After a few seconds, the Life Extending Agent was fully seated in the Reyvateil’s body. “There. All finished.”

Yumei slouches in his seat, breathing a sigh of relief. “Thank Sevens.”

~Later that evening, Scarabia Dorm Kitchen~

Jamil chuckled seeing the dual eyed boy eating away at his cooking. “You sure are hungry.”

“Y can hal i! I taz a wo ou’a e!(I can't help it! It takes a lot of out me!)”

“Swallow your food before talking…” the other boy shook his head.

With an audible gulp, Yumei finished his meal, fully content. “Say, Jamil? If you want, do you-”

“Sure.” Surprised, the Reyvateil looked to charcoal eyes who read his thoughts. “I can help you next time, my Diamond in the Rough,” he ends with a smirk.

[convexicalcrow]

ngl when chunkbase said there was a skele spawner and a geode close by, I didn't think it meant this close by wtf. XD

This is going to require ... a lot of thinking about how to wrangle the two farms lol. In the meantime, I have built the world's longest and jankiest staircase to get back up again. I will probably put in bubblevators later on maybe. ig I got lucky that it's surrounded by deep dark tho so I don't have to worry about mob spawns. And I've broken all the shriekers I can find bc who wants a warden down here? not me lol. There was also a smol iron vein nearby that I got a stack of iron from, so. :D

I do want to get this one up and running, as well as a zombie spawner for leather/rotten flesh. Once they're built, I'll probably test them out in easy to make sure they're working, and once I'm happy with that, I'll move to easy permanently.

also apparently my closest cherry grove biome is also near where my stronghold is so. that's ... fun. o.o i haven't even been to the nether yet, let alone thought about the end. XD

And we're going to get cherry trees next bc this is in the middle of the mountain my starter base is looking at, and a) it's covered in so much snowier snow oml and b) I'm gonna build a lil shrine there and plant cherry trees everywhere. So all the spruce has to go and I'll prob make a lil snow farm to go and replace all the snowier snow with proper snow so I don't have to deal with it. I have leather boots, but tbh that's not the point. XD I should flood it with water, that'll sort the snowier snow out. :D

Also there are two lil cave areas that connect through from the outside of the mountain near my storage house through to the grove here. So I've been tidying them up a lil in preparation for proper stairs and pathways.

I didn't take a screenshot of it, but there's now a dirt bridge connecting my starter cave area to this mountain and that leads into a tunnel that opens up to this grove. I got so many tunnels going lol. XD

I did have to take my first death tho bc as I was digging the janky staircase down to the skele spawner, I got lost in a small cave area and couldn't find where the staircase had opened into the cave. IT WAS SUCH A SMALL AREA HOW DID I GET LOST idk but I got an axolotl out of it so who's winning? :D But this is why I play with keep inventory on so I can die and go back to spawn and follow the staircase back down to where I left off lol.

Tomorrow, we go cherry tree hunting. I also want to mock out the roof for my storage house in creative bc the vision I have is. Complicated lol. And I want to get it right before I start building it in survival. And I want to start making the lil river that's going to flow between the two mountains. Do some terraforming to get the shape right and fill in any open cave areas that I don't want to just flood with water lol.

[orchid-151]

Geode was out and about on a balmy late spring day, sniffing around for apples, carrots, sugarcane...whatever he could get his big, furry paws on.

That was when an unexpected scent crossed his sensitive nose. What was this? Illager...and villager. Hmm, but no sounds of fighting. Also, he hadn't been hit by a crossbow yet. There was a trace of potion, too. He could smell just the tiniest amount of netherwart.

Geode followed the scent, feeling around the trees.

A soft noise pricked his antennas. It was the sound of a baby babbling. It was right in front of the old warden.

Geode knelt down and ever so carefully felt...he felt two tiny heads.

"Babies?" He said gently, "Whoa...what are you two doing out here??"

The two start to giggle as the huge hand pets over one of them... They were not frightened of the elder warden. They babbled, as if they were trying to say something.

[clovercrafted]

Hope I'm not asking too many, but 🦙, 🌻, 🕰️?

Thanks for the ask :D

🦙 (llama) give us a list of your favourite Minecraft mobs! Why are these ones specifically Your Little Guys? Ironically, love the Llamas but thats probably because I love llamas irl as well. Love how we can put little carpets on them and dress them up and make them into the most fancy of lads! Wish we could dress other mobs like that. Axolotls, again same reason I love them irl as well and I have a small collection of build-a-bear lotties! Warden, big, strong, husband material. He's soooooo mysterious and can kill me by screaming Very Loud which 10/10 would die again. I will forever mourn the loss of the glare. I miss him every day. OH and I actually like the Wandering Trader. He's my buddy, he's my pal, I made him my husband in one world, worst trades on the Overworld.

🌻(sunflower) what are your favourite biomes? Furthermore which biome feels most like home to you (might not even be your fave!). If you could add new biomes to the game what would they be?

OOOOOh. Okay so-

Flower Forests - Theres flowers, there's forest, there's cute bunnies, and it's super super pretty

Meadow - once again, flowers everywhere but meadows just have this detatched feeling seperate from all other biomes thats just so isolating and makes you really think about how vast everything is

Warped Forest - blue/turquoise mushroom trees go brrrrrr

Lush Caves - there's literally magic in these caves I swear to god

Giant Tree Taiga - a new entry but I've really been appreciating spruce lately

Biomes that most feel like home to me are dark oak forests (first ever minecraft world, my little cobblestone shack was in a tiny pond in the middle of the forest) and swamps (mine and my brother's bases are set in a swamp and the amount of time I've spent there is A Lot).

Biomes I would add-

Ice Caves- just c'mon Ice Caves would fuck hard. We have dripstone all you'd need to do is make it look like ice and slap some ice in a cave and be like boom ice cave

Lush Forest - azalea forests that spawn with moss and clay like a surface lush cave almost

Rose/Peony/Lilac Plains - sunflower plains exist why not these?

Mega Deep Ocean - give us fucked up sea life!!! I want the horrors!!!

Crystal Caves - give us some different geodes!!! give me shiny rocks I wish to Eat Them.

🕰 (clock) what version of Minecraft do you remember playing first? What has been your favourite update? If you could make an update what would it be?

I first played uhhhh 1.13 I think it was? Update Aquatic since bedrock was my first chance to own the game on my own console/device since I had to share the old pc we had with my brother. But I remember me and my brother having game night when I'd sit at the desk waaaay back with Alpha when he used to play.

My favourite update is defo Nether Update. A common answer and pretty basic but I am gentle hold the Piglins and the amount of blocks added was astounding! 1.18 is a close second but I miss the old generation a lot more than I enjoy the new sometimes. I fuckin love the caves though!

As for an update hmmm... I'd either love to do an End Update or a Second Update That Changes the World which would update old biomes and add some new interesting ones... like more cave biomes... please Mojang... more cave biomes. I like the three we have but please........... m o r e. Imagine: ice caves, fungal caves, crystal caves, volcanic caves, better mineshafts, proper ocean caves...... imagine the possibilities!!!

[floaroanemoia]

For Sarana, Lian leaves a split stone — a geode, recently harvested by his own hand from the Oreburrow Tunnel. The crystal clusters found inside are coral-orange in color.

Leave an object in my ask and my muse will react to it being given to them || Accepting

     For millennia has it been known that the land of Hisui houses conditions within the earth perfect for the formation of crystals. From the pulsating, glowing origin ore in the Coronet Highlands, to the colourful array of jade shaped into tears and rested upon the breast of not the clans but instead those truly of the name they fought over, to the most unassuming quartz buried just beneath the surface. Formations valued for their beauty, but arise from just the right and unique imperfections. For this reason, when the geode is presented to her, Sarana takes a moment to let her eyes flicker over it—to climb up to the peaks of tetragonal pillars; to watch how the sunlight filtering through the canopy of nearby trees reflects through its structure. It is a wonderful sight, truly—reminiscent of fiery sunsets she recalls seeing when winter begins to take hold, albeit for how the warmth radiating from that manifests not a as a tangible thing, but instead a concept; a memory.

          “Why thank you, Warden,”

     Are the words that escape from the medium’s lips as hands move to take the gift from his grasp. It is heavier than expected, but not overwhelmingly so, with the remnants of dirt clinging onto rock letting go as the exchange is made. However long did it take the young warden to find, she wonders? Had the Lord he cares for aided in the endeavour, or was it a discovery made solely on his own? They are questions which linger in the back of Sarana’s mind, yet ones she knows to be inappropriate to ask when the geode in question has been so generously handed over to herself.

     Instead, red lips form that of a gentle smile, unspoken gratitude lingering in the shape.

          “I cannot say that I have encountered anything like this on my journey. It’s quite beautiful. You’ve certainly an eye for creations such as this.”

[lulu-the-warden]

"Damn it..." Geode grumbled, hobbling around what was left of his garden.

Someone had gotten in while he was sleeping. He smelled the lingering scent of a miner. Must have been a really crafty one to remember to tiptoe around. They hadn't even set off the shriekers.

"Grrr...now what am I going to eat this winter?" The old warden wheezed.

[lulu-the-warden]

"Oh, thank you...wait, heifer??"

That was a term for some female animals. Geode wasn't as bothered by it as most bull wardens would be. If anything, he found it amusing.

Geode made a soft, raspy chuckle as he slowly and stiffly hobbled to the downed beehive. It was easy for the old warden to find, since the sweet scent was so strong. He eagerly dipped one claw in and licked the sticky substance off his fingers. Geode was faintly aware of bees trying to sting him, but they couldn't get through his long fur, either.

As he ate, Geode remembered the last time he had honey.

"It's been a few years, hehe," Geode reminisced, "My old partner kept bees. He made makeshift hives out of planks and honeycombs and we had honey whenever we wanted."

Geode ate some more.

"Oh dear...I forgot how dirty this makes my fur," Geode added, grooming stray honey off himself, "We'll need a dip in the 'ol hotspring, that's for sure."

@lulu-the-warden - replied to this as well.

Shuffling movement stirring just outside of the cave entrance momentarily drew Wretched’s attention away from his meal. He’d a feeling that was Geode, and a couple of whiffs confirmed it. Normally, even timidly approaching a hungry Warden while he was tucking into a tasty treat was an awful idea, however it was obvious by now that Wretched did not consider Geode any sort of threat. In fact, Wretched tended to his elderly companion like a bull would his doe- minus the tenderness.

Following the pause was a beastly chuff expelled with force, then he began to further shred the tree. As much as he desired to devour this entire hive all by himself, Geode could use it more.

“Well, come on, then, you old heifer. There’s plenty’a honeycomb left in there.” He’d even peeled more of the tree away so that the other could gain easier access. No act of kindness could go without that sprinkle of spice though, of course. After moving out of the way a bit, Wretched busied himself by trying to cleanse the scattered bits of wax, bark, and honey slathered across his fur. He’d go crazy if he didn’t get this off of him soon.

[aetherknit]

the thing is that i used to pine for mooblooms and curse dwt's name but then glow squids ended up working so seamlessly in an update about underwater caves and bioluminescence -- to have these dark, massive caverns and see swirls of light in the water. it's like... Epic

[pineapplesquash]

quick sibling doodles before I yeet to bed-

[namesetc]

do u have any names relating to the Deep Dark in minecraft? or like, underground flora in general <3 <3 <3

achlys

adrienne

algae

blake

bone / bones

colton

catalyst

cavern

clan - cland - clandestin / clandestine

dusk

donahue

darcy

erebus

ebony

ender

fern

fungi

foncé / foncée

geod

geophyte

glow

lisha

lamp

moss / mozz

mushroom

mycelium

nettle

noir / noire

onyx

obsidian

pitch

poison

pilea

root

sculk

shriek / shrieker

shulker

sable

stone

spore

shroom

sombre

sout - souterr - souterrain / soutteraine

toxin - toxic - toxina - toxica

truffle

vein

void

vitt

warden

wither