Minecraft 4

Well, I was going to make another post about the server, but annoyingly the server was down, and I couldn't get any of the pictures I wanted. After being bored for a bit, I tried making a single-player, world, Bu then decided I didn't want to go to all the effort of doing stuff. After spawning creepers for a bit, I decided to try another mod pack that comes with the Tekkit pack -Technic. Technic is kind of like   Tekkit, it just is designed for single-player. Over my Minecrafting time, I had tried many mods, and was surprised to find a lot of them in the technic pack. My favorite mod ever used to be part of the pack, but no longer is.
Technic, like I said, has all the same mods as Tekkit, just more. The only one I know what it does is the Mo'Creatures Mod, which adds a billion trillion more mobs, hostile and not. After spawning in a new world, I started off by cheating so I could fly. Then I started exploring the endless snowy forest. In the first  minute I met a tiger, which killed me. Then I flew far, far away, and when it got dark I hid in a tree. However, a rat somehow managed to get on the tree, and knocked me off into the rest of the swarm, and a creeper. I died again. The third time I decided to kill all them by nuking the forest. I set off about 4, but then there was no place to build a house... I flew around a bit, and saw a new type of tree-the silver wood tree. These are apparently used in the thermocraft or somesuch mod. I have not started trying this one, so I don't know what is going on. I also got mugged by a purple slime, which didn't kill me. After a time I found a swamp, and built myself a simple shack of basalt and nether brick, admist the snakes and scorpions. After building it, I tried to shoot them all with my cannon, but all it did was put holes in my nice swampy yard. I had some fun running around, killing lots of the new mobs, and got some snake eggs, fur, croc skin, and some other stuff. I got to try dynamite, crossbows, flails, and a warhammer. The diamond warhammer is awesome.
I also got lots of pets. You can have lots of horses, pet dolphins, pet cats, and I think pet snakes. I had lots of all of these, but the way I set up my house they could not get in, and as a result they all got murdered to death by the evil wolf outside my house. This is really all I have to say, so I guess I'll just post lotsa pictures that aren't mine of Mo' Creatures.

Check Your Shoes

These guys are all around my house, and are really scary. They vary in size, but most of them are massive. A person is about as tall at its tail in this picture.

Where Wolf?

 There are now werewolfs, which are scary as shit, and impossible to kill. In the standalone version of the mod, gold is the only thing that can hurt them (and gold makes garbage weapons). Technic has silver though, so those maybe those can make anti-wolf weapons.

Jaws, Minecraft Style

 A new reason to always make extra boats-the shark eats you if you land in the water. And because its the ocean, it is hard to escape in time....

Gator

 These are kind of dumb animals. They sit in swamps, and walk at you really slowly when you hi them. Their skin makes armour, but its not any better then leather.

Meat on legs

 Its huntin' season in minecraft. Grab your musket and sword, we're off to get some of the finest venison in the whole world.

Super Horsey

 This is the most boss horse in the mod, which you have to get by breeding lots of other horses together. If you feed it redstone, it lights everything on fire as it runs :D Or at least thats how it used to be. It looks like there have been lots of updates since. And they finally fixed the problem with bringing little critter on the horse, so it doesn't cause explosions and death and millions of creepers spawning in your basement.

WTF

This one is new to me. I think its an ostrich, if I find one I'll kill it and see what happens.

Hes a big, mean, green fighting machine!

 Orges are fun, their attacks destroy lots of blocks. They are kind of like a reusable creeper. It can be really scary when there is one under you, who starts smashing the platform you are standing on.

TURTLES!!!!!

These guys are so much fun. You can turn them upside down and laugh at them trying to turn back over.

OOOoooooOOOOooooo

Wraiths are another really annoying mob. They are fairly powerful, and are kind of like a overworld blaze. What is even more annoying is the noise they make. If there is one outside your window, it is very loud an will drive you insane.

Kitty!

Cats are one of the most docile, friendly, not evil mobs added. They are even better then turtles, because you can make them into pets, so they follow you around (similar to vanilla wolves mechanic). Apparently the litter box (cats are difficult to maintain)  pisses off all hostile mobs, so they all attack it like idiots. There are also big kitties (lion, tigers and...bears later) which are really dangerous and aggressive. Theoretically you can tame the cubs, but don't even try without armour.

The bears are not all that exciting. I think they are only aggressive if you attack them.

Another new one to me is snakes, which are kind of cool from what I've seen. They slither around almost everywhere, and when you kill em they drop snake eggs. You place these eggs or something, and then a baby snake hatches. Then you can pick up the snake and it will wrap itself around you. I have a massive boa, and and trying to grow a whole bunch of others.

Another friendly mob is birds. They chirp and tweet around in forests, and feeding them seeds friends them. Then you can wear them on your head, and they let you glide along, so jumping off a cliff does no damage and gives lots of horizontal movement.

Dolphins also are trainable, and you can ride em after feeding them fish. They are like really fast boats, although if you don't feed them enough when you try to ride you get sent flying off into the sunset.
There are also fish, but they don't do anything. They might work with the fishing rod, but I don't know. there are pirañas though....

There are goats, which eat all those pesky items you don't want and throw away with 'q.' Sometimes they eat that diamond pick you accidentally drop though...

As I was looking up some of the changes made to the game, I found that there is another mod pack, Yogbox, which looks like it is much simpler. Instead of adding all these machines and scary crap, It just makes more vanilla stuff. So it has weapon mods, mo'creatures, and various world-enhcnment mods. (Like Millienaire! More on that next!)

The Last Battlefield Post for a While

In the time since the previous BF3 post, I basically accomplished all the stuff I set out to do. I have 215 kills with the SCAR, which is far more then the 100 I was going for. I have unlocked all the accessories for it save about 5. I actually got a real kill with the repair torch, which I was amazed by. Almost as epic was the kill I got with the EOD bot, with is basically a remote-controled repair torch that is really loud and breaks fast. The 20 rocket kills were not too hard, they were just time consuming. And it got me kicked off one server for being such a noob. Anyways, the result of this is I unlocked the bestest weapon I could find- the MTAR-21 or something. I renamed it the MYTAR. Anyways, it is supposed to be a long-range version of the SCAR, with more ammo and much faster ROF. I think it is awesome, and I have done really well with it so far.
I also got some assorted other skilled kills, in addition to the repair torch and EOD. I have three or so with the knife, which is quite something. I also have about 30 with a handgun, which I discovered are actually really useful. As a result of this, I am trying to unlock another weapon (not a very good one) by also getting 25 shotgun kills. Helpfully, A good one was already unlocked before, so at least it is kind of not too hard. Except it is cause its a shotgun, which is terrible. For me anyways.

This sudden increase in how good I am at all this has boosted my stats (which I found). My kill/death ration went up from .25 to .58, because every round I was breaking even. My accuracy went up, but nobody cares about that. My highest kill streak is 10. 10!!!!!!! it was only 2 before...! So now that I am starting to understand what I'm doping, and the mechanics of the game, I only need to...UNLOCK EVERYTHING!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAA!!!!

What about flight? you ask. Well....I tried to do some with it, and I can kind of make the helicopter not crash, and the plane doesn't crash on takeoff anymore. I can't land the chopper or fly the plane though. And sometimes the chopper goes the wrong way into a cliff. But its better then the plane, which just goes straight off the map, or tries to turn and mistakes the green ground for the blue sky.

Anyways, this will probably be the last BF3 post for a time, and I will focus mostly on Minecraft instead.

Battlefield 3-2=1

A couple more days have passed in BF3, and I either found the server that everyone that sucks goes on, or I am starting to get used to the controls. Yesterday, in one match I actually had more kills then deaths! 32:30! This is quite an improvement over the typical 8:49 or so. As a result, I have unlocked many, many more accessories for my scar carbine thing. The unlocks are based on the number of kills, which I currently have 85 of. Annoyingly, the most resent upgrades basically allow me to make this medium-range machine-gun into a sniper rifle. Why would I ever need a scope for a weapon that is supposed to be used at almost-close range?? Well, a snipers scope. The holographic sight that I use is actually really useful. I also got a whole bunch of ribbons, which don't really do much except give extra points. I got a lot from using a carbine rifle, a lot from avenging my fallen team members, and a lot from saving my almost-fallen team members.
The round that was 32:30 I did amazingly well (for me anyways). The round started, I heard gunfire, and one of our team got the first kill. I ran into someone, panic-fired, and got the second kill. Then I became the squad leader (Which was awesome because we also got the best squad award that round :D). After that I was just pwning everyone, running into the mess of crates in the middle of the map, and running around corners, and seeing the other guy go around a corner, then kicking their ass. I even got some kills with the pistol I have, which is really bad, as well as a few assists/suppression assists from blasting in the general direction that bullets were coming from after being just revived.  In fact, almost all of the 30 deaths were from: (In this order)

Mostly: Snipers- damn their hides! I'm scoping at the only hill on the map, seeing if it worth going up. Then I see the glare of sun off the barrel of a rifle. Oh noes! a snipe-POW headshot I be dead again :(

A fair few: Trying to use a repair tool to kill someone - it works like a knife, so why can't I get a kill? Right- I can't get a kill with a knife either. I run up behind them, attack them with it, do some damage, then get shot in the stomach until I die.

Two or three: Getting killed by the admin for using RPG - but I need 20 rocket kills to unlock a gun! And they keep giving me such great set-ups! Although I seem incapable of killing anyone with it anyways. It hits right next to them but doesn't even do damage.

Ummmmm.....too many: Not realizing I'm standing on a grenade- shut up. Just don't say anything. I am probably the only person on the server that actually got killed by a grenade, so it is an accomplishment.

All these are clearly not just me sucking, unlike it was before, when I could attribute almost all of my deaths to:
Someone who has actually played this game before. And they have a really good gun that can blast me from anywhere on the map, that sprays 1500 bullets a minute, and two hits are lethal. Or they have an AK with no accessories and were just shooting at a wall, when I stupidly walk into a wall of lead. Or I was standing still and got knifed. Or blew myself up with the RPG. Or was in a epic showdown in which the boxes above the other guys head got shredded, along with me.

My the next things I plan on doing is
1) get up to 100 kills with the scar so that I can get the infrared sight, which will be useful on almost all of the maps. This hopefully won't take to long. I only need 15 more, so I might also unlock the next two accessories in one match. The bipod (useless) and some other dumb sniping scope.
2) Learn to fly!!! I have no idea how you go about flying around, and every time I try I crash. I figure that the best way to deal with this is to go on an empty server and get lots of practice without people trying to shoot me out of the sky. Don't they realize that I am so likely to crash that their missiles don't really change anything? Although, come to think of it, I probably annoy many people when they waste all their heat seekers at me, only to have me crash into the ground just before the missiles hit. HA! take that you bastards.
3) try to find someone that will kindly let me kill them once with the repair torch, cause I'm never gonna get a real kill with it.
4)Get those 20 rocket kills. Hopefully this won't be too hard. Maybe I can ride shotgun in a transport chopper, and use my RPG from up there. New game strategy - GET TO DA CHOPPAH! Just don't try to fly it...
5)Find someone that will let me kill them with the EOD bot, which is a repair vehicle that you remote control, and I haven't tried because it is going to be even harder then the impossible repair torch.

Battlefield 3 Intro

As I mentioned at the end of the last post, I recently went shopping and bought Battlefield 3. This post will be recounting how badly I suck at FPSes. 

Over this past weekend, My family got a brand new TV. The new 46" Screen is something that we have needed for a long time. The TV this is replacing is a good 20 or so years old. Anyways, after we set it up (by which I mean I set it up and everyone else looked like idiots) I decided that I was going to hook my computer up to it, once I had installed BF3, which I had also gotten that day. This did not happen over the weekend, because it took 2 hours for the game to install, 2 hours for it to download and install updates, and then about 4 hours for it to download and install the expansion packs. In short, bye-bye weekend. 

The first day that I could play, I spent a long time looking at all the available weapons, wondering where the medic kit went, and being awed by the leveling system. I did not spend much time playing, but a good summary would be that I sucked at it. I might have gotten one or two kills. Probably around 20-30 deaths. And its not entirely my fault! I was trying to use a rocket launcher on somebody's tanks, but later realized that it was and anti-air one. So basically I stood scoped near a tank trying to fire until it ran me over. Then, after rage quitting, I hooked it up to the TV. It looks amazing, and I rally want to take the new TV and the rest of the family can use the crappy old one... 

Next day was only vehicles, by accident. I have no idea how to fly in BF3, so that accounts for some of my deaths. Who was the idiot that put a building at the end of the runway anyways? I pulled off a few kills from tank wars and about two from shooting tanks with the RPG. I get a couple that are my favorite kind, where I drive around in a go-cart really fast and run into people. I got about one kill-assist from infantry combat, and thats it.

And two days ago, I actually started doing... only badly. I found a only-infantry server, and actually managed to get a few kills. In the process I discovered some useful things, such as the scope, and the melee key (which I can't do anything with, cause I'm generally too surprised: HEY! Whas this guys doin behind this crate! OW! I should knife him. OW! wheres the knife key? OW! right, its f, right next to g for grenade. OW! damn! death number 147.682). I also stopped trying to use a shotgun all the time, instead converting my engineer to use a scar-something carbine-I-think. I managed to actually do well, but then for some reason the server was changed and some ass got a tank. Game over, never got another kill. Had some fun with shooting up a building tho.

Yesterday I found another inf server, and finally got to start practicing with the SCAR. As it turns out, you unlock weapon accessories as you get more kills with a single gun. So now my SCAR has a red-dot sight (the worst sight that is actually a sight) and a laser pointer duct-taped to the bottom. However, these must have a huge benefit, because I got my first 2-kill streak ever! I think I actually got two or three double kills in total. Now I just need to unlock a weapon that is actually somewhat accurate, and I can start racking up them point thingys. I am disappointed in the grenades, because they don't do anything, and I have never gotten a single kill with one. They are apparently for suppression purposes only.

Suppression is a new thing in BF3, and I think it might not be in any other games. It is very annoying if you are bad, and useful if you are good. Which means I hate it. Basically it is supposed to simulate the effects of being scared shitless by bullets whizzing around your head. It means that the screen goes all fuzzy when you are charging down a hill towards a group of enemies in a foolish suicide rush. Fuzzy screen= can't tell what you are shooting at, so the other guys blast you to smithereens while you murder a bush. I got a really good taste of this while laying on a roof. The roof has little walls all around it, and I was hiding under one. Then a sniper starts blasting over my head. I don't get hit, but I cannot see anything at all. Then someone else pulls out a rpg and my hiding spot is not amongst rubble on the street. In conclusion, don't hide on rooftops with no ammo. 

#4: My Not-Nuked Home

Before I add the other pictures that were not posted on the last post, there is another story to tell.

This weekend was uneventful for almost everyone on the server, and so more of us were on then had been in a long time. Firstly, the nuke-maker managed to blow his house up. After this, he started making a new one which is actually kind of cool, it is a factory/skyscraper design. 

This was the first time playing for one guy, and so we were all going over to his house to pester him annoyingly with all of our awesome stuff. I came over with my laser gun (mining tool, thats totally what I mean by gun) and shot a couple trees, covered his hut in snow, and wished him a merry nuke-mas, and gave him one. After this, I was starting to fly away, when I saw the nukerer placing a wall of nukes behind the new guy's house. Being the nice person I am, I attempted to brake all the nukes. However, it seems as though shooting a nuke with a laser gun doesn't brake it, it sets it off. To summarize, the house is now at the very bottom of a crater that goes all the way down to bedrock. 

Anyways, more pictures. 

The Entrance

This is the entry hall to my base, which is helpfully located inside a volcano. The door, due to my lack-of-skill with redstone, is just a forcefield. The torches and glowstone seen on this picture have since been replaced with tekkit lamps, which I call florescent lights. 

The Elevator

This is the elevator shaft, which is supposed to use minecarts to go up and down the vertical rails. Everyone on the server can fly and not take falling damage, so we just jump. This means most of this is useless, but too frikin bad. 

My Workspace

The problem with this is that I could not get a picture that showed the whole ground level, so this is the only one I am posting. On the left is a whole bunch of Industrialcraft (one of the Tekkit mods) machines, and then the right has my furnaces and crafting bench. Behind me are three massive diamond-generators, which are making Red Matter instead.

UU Matter

Going through the door seen in the previous picture, This is my UU matter generators. UU matter can be used to make *almost* anything, including iridium. To my right is my extra-scrap-converter-into-not-so-useful-items system. 

Portal and Liquids

 This room, Sublevel 1-A, Originally was a fuel generating room. Then my engines overheated and blew it all up, so this is the reincarnation of the room. I have actually made more fuel then I have any use for, so currently it just sits here. The extra space has been remade into my portal room. Behind me is a water pump, and to my right is...

The Bar

The Bar! We have the finest brews, from lite beer to blackened dragonblood, and a cow to add milk to your coffee! UPDATE: Sadly, in a effort to prevent break-ins, the cow was brutally murdered.  Each drink now for the low, low price of 5 stacks of diamonds! (and its funny cause we can easily afford that)

Crops

One of the Tekkit mods ands many new types of crops. However, they are a complete and utter nuisance. Of all the parts of the mods, this is the most annoying and time-consuming. The left hand picture is of my hops and coffee farm, both of which are used in all of your brewing needs. The right is everything else, cocoa plants, resin plants, redstone plants, and terra-wart plants. 

My Mutant-Chicken Farm

Yes. I have a nuclear reactor. In fact, I have two. The other is right behind me. In my original design, these were the key components and power sources of my base. However, I made another system that never needs refilling, so these don't get much use. Also, they are hidden on top of bedrock, surrounded by explosion-proof stone, and have auto-cooldown timers. As you can tell, I realllllllyyyy don't want my base blowing up. 

Also, as a side note, while I was working on my door and my new project room, I discovered that someone had infiltrated my base! There was an additional redstone setup in my door, which allowed one it to be opened! Even worse, down in the base proper, I found someone's sneakily hidden room. It was cleverly hidden, and allowed people to hide in my base and dow whatever they want! I am trying to come up with the perfect defense system, but it is very hard....

Next up: New TVs and Battlefield 3

#3: Pictures of Power. Alliteration in Action!

As a follow up to the previous post related to Minecraft, I am attempting to include some images. The purpose of these is NOT to just figure out what I can do with images on Blogger, there is actually a deeper hidden meaning that is layered in so many shadows it is going to sweat itself to death. Someone else will be paying for the funeral.

The Server Host's Base

This one is the server host's "base", which is really just a pile of tekkit stuff all crammed together with a couple beds nearby. It appears as tho he was going to make a cool underwater base, but all it is is a tunnel surrounded by lava.

Dueling Arena

Inside the Arena

Both of these are of our dueling arena, which is the only place we get to go to fight. The problem with tekkit is that some of the armors in it make you, quite simply, invincible. We had a big fight once, and because of the armor we didn't even loose a single half-heart. Here at the duel arena, we fight with only a few weapons and vanilla armor, and can actually die!

My next post will have pics of mine own base, which is way awsomer, in addition to being hidden in a volcano. I suck with redstone tho, so it is a terrible door.

Second Post: These Titles Will Become More Creative! I Promise!

Day two:
Slayer


So I figured today I would just write a whole lot of random stuff about...stuff. I figure I will start off with what I did on my Minecraft Server yesterday, because it is far more interesting then the schoolwork that I did not do. My MC server is not actually hosted by me, as a first note, but because I am on it almost as often as the server host, if not more, I figure I can get away with calling it mine. Additionaly, it is not really a Minecraft server, because it is running Tekkit, which is a fun, annoyingly complicated version of minecraft. Tekkit is basically 40 or so mods that were al piled into one new client. So anyways, I went on to check on my crop fields, because I am attempting to cultivate a lot of redstone-plants. Not that I need anymore redstone. I checked on those, and attempted to grow another couple. Whoopdeedo that took all of 10 seconds. Next I go to check on my iridium generator, which is actually a massive system of 4 sub-systems. It has a auto-cobble factory, eight recyclers, a lava-cell generator, and the actual iridium machines themselves. Also there is a nuclear reactor hooked up, but I hate that thing sooo much it doesn't really do anything.
So after a while of running around trying to clean up all the mess from the building of it, and trying to make all my excess lava cells do something. One of my friends who plays on the server logged on, and I decided to go pester him in his base. I had not been there before, and it took me ages to find it. He had  a really ugly wind-farm near this random super volcano with stuff written in diamonds on it. His base was tiny and pathetic (Mine is huge and expansive, taking up quite a few chunks underneath a volcano in the middle of nowhere).
Having mocked him, I looked around and found that he had a uranium factory, which he was using to make many, many nukes..... Then he started making "nuclear art" which seemed like a very safe, clever thing to do right next to their own base. I decided to scare him, and made a wireless circuit (Yes, Tekkit adds, nukes, wireless redstone, iridium, uranium, nuclear reactors, new plants, teleporters, 3 new kinds of TNT, a bazillion different weapons, and the ability to make diamonds for free, at up to 1 every 2 seconds!) going to the nukes. He broke it, which resulted in me filling his house with random Mobs, then a lava-diving/mid-air battle, which neither of us won. The only thing that was unfortunate was that our server is on peaceful, so no aggressive mobs spawn.

Having done this, I realized it was 11:30 and I hadn't even started my schoolwork.

Intro

ego sum deus. omnes viri ab terra saxa est. factum est. anyways....

So... This is a blog. It is created by me, and has a very interesting subject matter. In fact it is so interesting, I probably shouldn't tell you what it is, because you may not ever be able to stop reading it. As a precaution to prevent lawsuits against me due to your death by starvation, because you were too enraptured to get food or drink, I will refrain from telling you what the subject of this blog is. It may be gradually revealed to you as time passes, but in small quantities to keep yourself alive. Nevertheless, I believe that you will find it quite interesting anyways, just hopefully not enough to cause lawsuits against me. It is worth mentioning that the subject may have something to due with Not Lord of the Rings, unlike the title may imply. I hope that that little tidbit keeps your interest for the time being. Also, BTW, every single time I spelled interest I spelled it wrong. Gotta love spellcheck. Hopefully the author of this blog will not end up like the one in the book Feed, which I was really depressed by when the main character died after being killed by their brother after being turned into a zombie. SPOILER ALERT if you happen to be reading/going to read/other-tense-of-read-that-is-not-past-ing that book. That would probably go better before that line...