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me: finishes scouring curseforge for 1.16.5 mods which will improve my life and probably run decently well on a server without disturbing the vanilla feel, and moves on to other Tasks

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vazkii: ***RELEASES CRUCIAL 2***

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collecting horses. making a ranch. :3 maybe this will be the project that finally forces me to learn to landscape lol. interiors: easy. walls and roofs: figured it out. garden type shit: yeah sure. a whole fuckin. ?? area???? why !

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WORLDEDIT HOUSE. WORLDEDIT HOUSE.

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--MODS (ver. 1.16.4 ~ 5 only)--

EASY; OBVIOUS

better third person (TEST THIS 🚨)

wool to string wool tweaks is better ✅

tameable rabbits ✅

more flower bushes ✅ + custom mod for more small flowers 🔲

string lights ✅ (In-game book with recipes/tutorial?⚠️)

botany pots ✅ (learn recipes ⚠️)

invisible armor (actually 1 utility armor slot and 1 visible armor slot but same thing) ✅

NEW

added camels ✅

added chimneys ✅

bell noise when fish on fishing line ✅

can sleep slightly earlier (before stars show up) ✅

better caves, better mineshafts, and stronghold saver ✅

DID NOT add better portals because no they aren't ❌

supplementaries ✅ (hanging signs, notice boards, item shelves, fireflies, etc.; life is good)

added endermail (endermen will deliver packages for you) (do test this one 🚨 it's hard to do in creative)

added flower doubler ✅

added "kelp acts like bonemeal" ✅ (note: only one of either kelp or bonemeal will grow a vine and I forget which 🚨)

added "eggs hatch when they despawn (but only on hay bales and also only when there are fewer than X chickens around already)" ✅

added sleeping bags (skip night without setting spawn point) and hammocks (skip day) ✅

added ability to use banner pattern on bed ✅ (test this 🚨)

added tea ✅ (are the teapots and stuff placeable though..?? 🚨)

BIG DEAL; CONSIDERING

create ✅ (disabled ugly ores and custom stone types in worldgen; they aren't needed to make water wheels which are ALLLLL I care about 📝)

quark (some. mob variants, maybe vertical slabs, oddities for item pipes, etc) ✅

mcmmo 🔲 (pros: taming. cons: I don't actually even like mmos)

inventory tweaks quark has everything we need actually ✅

tree felling ✅ (serilum ver.) (it's so good) (NO AUTO-REPLANTING)

lava lamps ❌❓

ON THE LOOKOUT

one person sleeping makes night be over (check which version this became a thing in) QUARK HAS ✅ BUT TEST IT THOUGH 🚨

always show coordinates and ONLY coordinates (no F3 PLEASE) (Resource pack I got for this seems not to be working. Alt: serilum's gui compass. 🚨) 🔲

immortal neutral mobs (incl. bees) Does not appear possible with any currently existing mod. However, friendly fire prevents damage to pets and I have added passive endermen to prevent aggroing our very tall friends, which should mitigate this as much as possible. ✅ WATCH OUT for cats and rabbits though, that is very much still a massacre waiting to happen. CROSS-TEST WITH RABBIT TAMING 🚨

mooblooms & moolips ✅ CHARM HAS REALLY GOOD ONES

dog variants ✅ betterdogs. Con: to get specific dog type, name of type of dog must be in nametag name, which is mildly weird. Pro: fuck it !

legible signs. (editable signs also?) ✅ vanilla tweaks and quark, respectively.

feathers + leather without killing mobs ✅ charm "chickens drop feathers passively" rule, plus combination of "rotten flesh to leather" & all-paper books.

renewable saddles + name tags ✅ saddle recipe + nametagtweaks. (note: I think I actually have more than one thing installed that adds a nametag recipe but whatever. do test both of these though 🚨 also horse armor?)

more stars/more interesting night sky 🔲 (I hate texture packs. maybe I have to fucking make one)

candy colored texture packs and shaders 🔲 (I DUNNO, YOU GUYS)

BETTER STAINED GLASS? ?? also glass slabs, stairs, etc. might have to do this myself 🔲 (absent by design may add the shapes, as would glasscutter if it were ever updated to 1.16. try absent again now that optimization mods are working? the stained glass though, I do actually have to fucking do myself; nobody understands my aesthetic tastes apparently. CROSS-TEST ABSENT W/ QUARK'S FRAMED GLASS BLOCKS? 🚨)

GOING CONCERNS

proximity chat (found a voice chat mod that might work. to test. 🚨)

teach everyone how to screenshot

NEW PROBLEMS

"In Control!" does make mobs noticeably less lively if you're not within a couple dozen blocks of them. BUT the performance increase is VITAL... play with settings.

Charm (I think?) villager adjustments COMPLETELY fuck up the village near spawn. (Solution: maybe just turn them off... they're not that good. Also, may be able to get away with JUST turning off lumberjack and leaving beekeeper on. Test savanna and extreme hills villages with these rules.)

Better Caves fucks up the cool tunnel I wanted to make next to the ice spikes but I might just worldedit it into submission lol

Quark mob variants are OKAY. I do actually need to test 🚨 whether quark and charm can both have them enabled at the same time and have that like. work. Because charm's are slightly cuter in general but I like quark's purple cow hsjdjfjf

Chimney mod is cool but oh my god I have to 🔲 turn the amount of smoke particles it generates down

QUARK CANDLES ARE MADE FROM TALLOW AND NOT BEESWAX FOR SOME REASON... but charm's only come in one color. also neither of them cluster like the ones from 1.17!!! I HAVE COMPLAINTS 🔲 (solution: different mod OR custom mod OR crafttweaker)

also quark's blossom trees are a cute idea but they're ugly. fix? 🔲 AND fix the decorated paper wall and lantern.

related: macaw's doors has sliding paper doors. pros: MANY MORE DOORS, TRAPDOORS, WINDOWS. cons: choice paralysis? cluttered recipe book?

🔲 STILL DO HAVE TO PUT MORE FLOWERS.. IN IT..THE GAME.

wooden axe is the wand tool for worldedit and so does not work as an axe. I'm pretty sure there's a way around this but I think it's funnier to just ban the use of wooden axes specifically. unhinged server laws. also yes I want everyone to have access to worldedit. yes I will murder and kill them if they use it to be rude. we live in a society

the nether is still ugly. there's not really anything I can do about that though

🔲 Limiting factor on arrows is now flint, which is annoying to get, so maybe do something about that too.

🔲 also I totally have not found a good lead recipe so that too

🚨🔲🚨 and finally: this post is now way too long so I have to work on making a coherent file that lists included features, and another that lists stuff I'm still looking to add remove or change. NOT EVEN I WANT TO READ ALL THIS !!!

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ok the cabin is done and looks fucking spectacular so now it's time to learn how schematics work. copy and paste this bitch

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also I have to find some more personal anecdotes about people running their own servers for their friends vs. paying for one because once again. the easily accessible guides are so unhelpful. if I buy a raspberry pi and connect it to my router will it get good enough internet to make minecraft happen for 4-6 people??? WILL I BE SAFE FROM CYBER CRIMES??

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Egg House (Part 2 of 2)

So! I had a template for the Shape of my Egg-Shaped House, and I knew I wanted to make the final build out of wool instead of concrete. First I built the shape I had used before, entirely out of white wool this time. Then I had to consider what kind of pattern I wanted to make on the “shell”.

Much like the shape the first time, I totally nailed this immediately. I knew I wanted a vertical pattern to make the final build look tall and kind of elegant, and I knew I wanted pink to be the dominant color other than white, AND I had kind of a vendetta against flower petal shapes from the time I tried and failed to make Very Big Ones freehand to decorate a bridge in my old survival world, but THIS time the shape was done for me and I just had to fine-tune it a little and there are NOT that many iterations you can even try out on a shape like this. So. Easy!

Here is the back, since the front was visible in the first post. The other things I wanted to try and evoke were gold and cabochons; I was kind of aiming for a magical girl vibe. Like a fabergé egg that would turn you into a magical girl if you opened it. You know?

It would have been next to impossible to add dimension using, I don’t know, lightning rods / vertical fences (Stick Out) or stained glass panes (Sink In) on such a (RELATIVELY) small build without the main idea getting totally lost in the shuffle, so I went simple. Representative. YELLOW. And just added the General Idea of a Delicate Gold Band around the middle...lol.

(I also simplified the front door.) I thought the trap door porch I used on the prototype looked pretty neat, but also that the, and I just looked this up on wikipedia just now, the ARCHITRAVE, the decoration around the door... frame... was overdesigned and bad, much like that word !!! So I ditched it. And changed the glazed terracotta under the doors from PINK to WHITE, because the design for the white one ROCKS and I wanted to incorporate more blue anyway...

...I also simplified the mosaic under the floor. And made the glass part of the floor blue. As one does..??? I’m still not sure if I like it; honestly, the vanilla stained glass textures do not please me, for whatever reason. But part of what I want to accomplish is to give the friends moving into these houses inspiration to personalize them or build something new instead, so I’m not going to sweat it TOO much.

The general concept here is the same as the prototype, but this time it looks better. Picked some more colors for the candles to be. Added plants to the pots. Added some lightning rods for. Verticality? I don’t know. I like them. ADDED A SECOND FLOOR,

on which I also built a cat bed, which was a bad idea, because cats can’t climb ladders. I’m going to move it downstairs. At which point: this area will be basically empty, and can be used for whatever!

You can see that in just this one spot, there are little holes in the Egg Shape; those 8 blocks are the only places where the wool blocks “overlapped” instead of being diagonal to one another, so I used that as an opportunity to build in some skylights. And then added lanterns, too, because, you know.

With that, the design for Egg House is more or less complete, and I can reproduce it in survival when the time comes! Next will be some slightly less gimmicky builds, which are going to take a lot longer because I don’t get to tell my brain “ok now figure out how to make an egg”. Challenging.

(P.S.: I also changed the floor in Blurple House around. It looks like this now.)

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JUST REALIZED THAT IF I'M USING WOOL FOR THIS BUILD THAT MEANS I CAN ALSO USE CARPET. YET ANOTHER BLOCK I AM CONSIDERING SERIOUSLY FOR THE FIRST TIME. WHAT CAN SHE DO

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Blurple House

It’s recently become more likely that my friends will be able to join me if I make a realm for everyone, so I decided to take a break from survival mode and design some starter houses! This is my first time really Trying in creative with the intent of actually re-building in survival later on, so it’s been a fun exercise to keep in mind what blocks and resources are likely to be available from the jump. So far, so doable, although soul and sea lanterns would make great additions later on!

For this one, I started with a color scheme of blue and light blue terra cotta and picked the spruce because I thought it went best with those. I wanted to go for something kinda-sorta modern without being too “clean” (BORING). I’ve seen people use spruce trap doors for all kinds of builds, and I think they helped serve that purpose pretty well here.

Inside, I added some contrasting glazed terra cotta accents and decided to center the crafting table. Once the real house is built, I’ll be stocking one of those chests with all kinds of stuff.

I might get rid of those trap doors; there are spruce planks underneath and I think they work better--or I might even go with bottom slabs, now that I’m thinking about it, so the path is sunken into the floor. And actually... Maybe the magenta accents would look better if the arrows were all pointing towards the table? Hmm.

This is also my first foray into designing a bed! I was watching a tutorial for dog beds and remembered that sometimes people also put blocks around... their own beds! I like how this one came out. The white banner is a placeholder; I’m going to try and design flags for everyone before I invite them in. 8 )

There’s also an open area on the roof that could be used for whatever. Actually, I was thinking of putting a rabbit hutch out back, but maybe it would work better up here?

I’m also planning on adding a place for a horse somewhere; maybe I will move that to the back, although I think it would look pretty impressive if it were next door instead! But in the meantime I want to move on to the next design: A Really Big Egg That’s Also A House. Wish me luck !!!

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what do I even do. I think it would be okay to remove wildlife and disable or HEAVILY nerf spawning for most of the mythic mounts... I've been trying to figure out whether the "I can't find this texture :(" thing was a problem iris was causing, because CLEARLY the texture EXISTS because the mobs render just fine; something's just weird in the pipeline somewhere; & that turned out not to have been the case, so maybe I have to check like. sodium indium and entity culling... also I've been getting that "tried to access a block entity before it was created" thing again; I forget who was doing that last time but I know I solved it. so I'll have to see about that, too.

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naturalist and megaparrots do not have this problem. incidentally.

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I'd sacrifice wildlife to get rid of these lag spikes but mythic mounts has GOT to stay but I am SO mad about the lag spikes. so mad. I have a strong computer now this is Literally not my fault and yet it has been made my problem

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mysteriously running into outofmemoryerrors while developing 1.18.2 modpack... I'm inclined to blame wildlife since it seems to be confusing the fuck out of the renderer and that's the only other error I've been seeing in the console but what if it's something stupid again!!

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CUSTOM BACKGROUND COLOR IS SO GOOD I cannot believe how much it adds to the Minecraft experience to be able to turn your menu bg bright blue

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ok I defeated betterend actually. it has not exploded the server. Have not loaded the end in at all yet though so we'll see how THAT goes at some point

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why is betterend the way that it is