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In this blog I'll update my progress on my castle and any builds I do!

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LucasW4R

Beta Post 11 - PUMPKINS!!!!!


Beta Adventures with Techno

I'm back once again to talk about the greatest thing this ancient server has provided to us (i.e. me), pumpkins! 

Describing the search for pumpkins in beta is like looking for diamonds... oh wait, that's easier! After aimlessly walking around for several hours, I found a grand total of (!!!!) 4 (FOUR!!!!) FUCKING PUMPKINS! 

Why are they so hard to find in Beta? You can't farm them, so they're equivalent of truffle in the wild without a dog to sniff em' out!! What was Notch thinking?! :fubar: 
But that's not what this blog post is about... it's about how what the great Haloman(30) has given to this far-gone server.


*clears throat* 

Uh, he added them to a store upon my request.
WHICH IS FUCKING AMAZING! I can finally use pumpkin as a building block :party:

Here are some pictures I took after buying a stack worth!
 

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LucasW4R

Beta Post... 10 (right?) - I'm Back


Beta Adventures with Techno

Hello! Guess who's back, after 3 years W4R! :rolleyes:
I'm not a ghost, I swear, I'm finally back to doing some blogging! It's been a while, hasn't it? Three full years since my great disappearance (unless you use the Discord), but I've still been playing on the good ol' beta server building things that span... a lot of space. I'll show some of those things I built! It's going to be a lot, so grab something to drink and experience what I've been doing for three... long... grueling years. Hopefully it's not too much for my audience of... three people (is that being too generous?) :worried:

 

Section 1: Getting Personal (yes, there are sections to this)

 

Reading my older blogs, I realized I never shared what I did outside of playing beta Minecraft like the loner I am :crying:. So, I'll be typing out a short, sweet, hopefully-not-that-long-but-pretty-lengthy summary of what I've done!
After the great departure that is Beta Post 9?! - The Great Return, I was entering the second year of my A-Levels; essentially a more advanced high school; and doing really good! However, I eventually decided to drop out of my Fine Arts course, in short, I hated it and would rather focus on my other courses: Psychology and English Language. I was admittedly really freaked out about failing but ended up passing with decent grades... despite the missing third course. The summer breaks were long, giving me ample opportunity to do nothing but play on the beta server and not blog! But besides not doing the blog, I was hard at work making videos and custom cursors for my Youtube channel, Nyan Neko Forever; it even has a website!! It was my main focus for years and as of the 17th of this month, it turned 5 years old! 
Anyways, come the end of summer and I'm immediately in university for an Animation degree! It was in a great location: easy access to great food, amazing teachers, high-end equipment; except the course only started the year prior and I had a whooping total of... two classmates. 'That can't be right?' I hear you say (yeah buddy, YOU). The course was so new and difficult to search up, that a grand total of three people—one of them didn't make it in—figured out it even existed! However, it was a very fruitful year for me. I was able to create a DVD that is selling very well and later on, finished a 10-page comic that eventually got added to rereleases of said DVD! I got to learn how to use professional animation programs and even got to practice stop-motion animation. Only downside was the lack of classmates and the course only being two, very limiting years. A majority of the time, I was the only person in the classroom, but I oddly enjoyed that and was more productive than I've ever been since. 
Eventually, I finished my first year and decided to swap universities... but, with my luck, I had to redo the first year due to the way financing was setup. But I didn't mind, it was the one of the top 20 animation universities in the world, after all! But one of the downsides was the type of people who got accepted into the course, a majority of my classmates didn't even know how to draw let alone knew the basics of animation. It felt, for lack of a better term not really, like a kindergarten where I'm the only 1st grader. Not much to talk about for this year besides my crippling addiction to collecting steelbooks and the two PS3's I bought to watch said steelbooks. I had my own dorm for the first time, too! It was miserable!
Now, to current day. I finished my first year—yet again—and currently trying to swap into another university—again... I think I'm the problem. :whew:
(I'm 22 btw)

Section 2: Beta Adventures
 

I really don't know where to start with this, I've built so many new things that I forgot when I even built them! So, I'll just give a little guide through some screenshots I've taken! 
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If you remember the last image I posted on the 9th blog entry, you probably recognized that I redid that screenshot but with what is there now! You can see how much new stuff there is and listing all the new stuff while take forever... which is why I'll list them all in this long blog post! The other images show the new small village extensions. The cathedral was a very difficult build; the limited block palette of beta made me think outside the box, but I'm happy with the final build. The third image is the newest extension and is much smaller but more packed with detail since I've improved so much over time! I'll get to the large tower and castle scene in the first image, but for now, let's move to the right and into Oak Village!
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Oak Village is a very quaint village that has a total of 5 homes and more to come! This was my first big project after finishing Techno Castle, which I eventually decided to call Galix, it was meant to be a small transitionary area but grew into a locale I use to sleep and store items. The 3rd image shows a beautiful backyard that I'm super proud of. Such a small area yet it feels relaxing and lived in, I love that little yard. I own a house at the village, but if you ever join the server, take up one of the homes and make it your very own!
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The good ol' central train station. Hey, you remember JupiterGalaxy700 right? Of course you do! I mentioned them in my very first blog post... you did read that, right? Well, I decided to rework the central rail and instead of having it be a floating rail line, I decided to put it underground which is what the first image is showing. The central line has 6 available lines, only 4 of which are actually in use, so feel free the take up the two remaining lines! So far, the lines don't go that far out but I hope to eventually have them go thousands of blocks out! The two other images show some of those rail lines, the third image showing one of the stations I've built! The bridge took forever to build and many... painful block placements (breaking stairs is torture in beta). 
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Now for that build tower that reaches height limit! I mentioned interest in building a great tower and, guess what, I built a castle instead! What... you thought I built the tower first? Nope, I used the ruins of an old castle and built probably my most detailed build on the server yet. I even through enough cobblestone to dent my stash by 5 percent! It's a huge build, bigger than some of the smaller villages I mentioned earlier. It's also around the time I realized how rare brown wool was and my sickly hunger to skin shear every brown sheep I saw began. You'd be shocked to hear I only have a stack and some of that chocolatey goodness. Oh... you want me to get back to that tower? ...You don't care about the castle?! Well, if that's how you feel :dull:. The tower was relatively quick to build, I already knew what I wanted and just went for it. I wanted to make it interesting, so I had it bulge out towards the top to give a more unique shape and I think it looks amazing despite it being only made of cobblestone blocks! The spire reaching the limit makes it easy to see from anywhere on the server as long as it's in render distance and you're looking in that direction!!!
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This will be the last thing I talk about for this section, a beautiful oceanside town outside the castle from above. It has 5 homes and an impressive archway that houses the guards of the town. There is even a small wagon behind one of the buildings! These buildings were tough and outside of what I usually build, but I found it fun to build and experiment with styles I usually avoid. As for the third image, it shows a train station called the Rustic Station. It was the first build I did in creative (1.2.5 version of minecraft) before building it in the sever. The green wool was annoying to obtain but it was necessary for the build! I had to hunt for cactus and dye sheep like there was no tomorrow! The station connects back to the central station and even connects to Galix's main station! It's probably the most interconnected station in the server!

Section 3: What Next?

I'll eventually be entering my second year of university soon and will be on a vacation in Florida a few days after this post. So, I won't be able to update for a good month. But I plan on returning to blog weekly and to keep up to date with what I'm doing on the beta server :rofl:. Very exciting isn't it! After my long three-year hiatus, the great W4R returns to his throne to rule over the plebians that live on MY land!!! Sorry... got a bit power hungry there for a second. But I hope that my three, maybe less, readers look forward to my blog returning like the good old days many years ago. I have big plans and ambitions for the server, some that may take weeks, some that may take a few hours. Whatever they are, I plan on building until I burn myself out and/or need to focus on university instead of playing a block game... maybe that last part is more important. 

Well, I hope you enjoyed reading my blog and look forward to my great return!! :inlove:

LucasW4R

Beta Post 9?! - The Great Return


Beta Adventures with Techno

Hello! It's been forever since I posted and trust me I'm not dead... hopefully not, am I a ghost?! I've been doing a lot more stuff recently, playing 1.19 and all that jazz. But I felt that minecraft was special during its early times, its why I even started doing my beta adventures. For these next two weeks, I'll post every 3 days a new update post! 
For my plans, I will begin creating a great village to surround my castle for refugees to live in and a grand spiral tower to the castle! 
Each project will be open to the public to use, all the houses can be yours if you like it! The spiral however, will be my property and no one elses!
This is W4R, signing off!
 

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LucasW4R

Beta Post 8 - The Castle is Complete!


Beta Adventures with Techno

Tada! I actually finalized the design of Techno Castle. You can join the Beta server RIGHT NOW! and check it out. 

Hello, It's W4R here. I haven't posted much blog posts recently since school is making me tired af. Here are some screenshots to look at!

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LucasW4R

Beta Post 7 - Nothing New


Beta Adventures with Techno

Hello! I sadly don't have anything new to report on.

 

However, the new shop is nice. It's a bit pricey, but it's a start. It gave me the idea to build a supermarket of my own. I plan on making it a small convenience store in my biggest plan after Babylon, a city. The city will have an underground rail system and the tallest skyscraper in the server. It'll be a bit far from spawn to give me space but it'll be worth it in the end!

 

LucasW4R Out! :hi:

LucasW4R

Beta Post 6 - Castle Screenshot


Beta Adventures with Techno

Hello! This is gonna be a rather simple post since I haven't done much today, However, I'll probably be doing a youtube channel. It won't be 100% a thing until I figure out if it's viable or not for me; though I hope I can do it. 

Anyways, enjoy this screencap of my castle!

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LucasW4R

Beta Post 5 - Thanks Haloman for the new Plugin!


Beta Adventures with Techno

Hello Guys!!! It's LUCASW4R!

I completely forgot to post yesterday (again). but I will be posting about my idea for a new area on the server called: Babylon District. So Babylon District will be a large egyptian themed area focused on the leader of Babylon (being me). It'll be far from spawn and you'd need to take a train system to it but I'll be all worth it in the end as you grace your eyes on the new area! I'll be much larger than Techno Castle, so expect a lot in it!

As for random stuff I did, I made a diamond pickaxe for the first time and finished the walls of the castle (yippee)! 
I'm also making the giant chest room, which is under my house! 

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LucasW4R

Beta Post 4 - Plans!


Beta Adventures with Techno

Hi guys! I don't have much to talk about today but I'll discuss my plans for future builds after I finish Techno Castle.
 

Creating builds in Beta 1.7.3 takes time since walking in general is slow, but I don't let that get me down. Techno Castle is a pretty basic project but it's a large structure that anyone can visit. 
My next project will be the light house, which will be built of snow and red wool. It's more expensive as wool in general is a pain to get, but once the light house is complete. I'll start building my grand hotel that goes up to sky limit, I'll be located near spawn and will have a elevator system for all to use! I hope you enjoy my work!

LucasW4R

Beta Post 3 - Progress and my House!


Beta Adventures with Techno

I'm really sorry to my readers that I didn't post yesterday :( I can't really make up for it, so I'll just go my usual route. *clear throat*

Hello guys! It's LucasW4R! Today was a rather normal day on the mc server. No one was on sadly... not even Jupiter. 

 

However, I got a good chunk of the castle done! You can see it in the images below as well as my house. I'll show my mine tomorrow since it's literally the biggest thing I've mined out lol. I broke probably 50 pickaxes and only found 9 diamonds in total (btw I found more diamonds today :pogchamp:<poggers). Anyways, enjoy the images. Also, before I go, give me recommendations for things to build!

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LucasW4R

Beta Post 1 - Water Elevator and Diamonds!


Beta Adventures with Techno

Hello! This is my first blog post. Sadly I don't have images to share but I'll make up for it next post! :party:

 

Today I met a cool player called JupiterGalaxy700, we almost have the same name. They're the brains behind the minecraft axis system near the main spawn. It's very impressive how much they build, especially considering the amount of rails and powered rails it takes to build such a system. I while ago I connected my castle to the elevator shaft, now I built the small hub room for the elevator. It took a long time and a lot of glass, but it looks amazing with the yellow wool I added as carpet! I spent a lot of my time mining mostly for coal and iron, but I ended up finding my first diamonds! I got 4 to be exact but it was really exciting. :bigsmile:

 

The castle's roof also got filled in for the first section, making it very nice to walk around inside now... but now that I finished that part. I have to work on the other sections now ;-;. BUT, it'll be worth it since the finished castle will be the best tourist attraction on the server! In fact, everyone will call me "King Techno of the Galaxy!!!". or something like that... That's all for now! See you next blog post!