Hey Friends! Welcome to the snowpocalpyse! I realize that you fine folks in Northern climates will snicker but we here in Oklahoma were not built for this nonsense. Nor do we have anything resembling the infrastructure required to remove said snow accumulation. Around this point we are somewhere in the vicinity of ten inches of total snowfall with another system coming in tonight and dumping more snow on us. The snow itself isn’t that bad were it not for the icing we had gotten starting Sunday of last week. Thankfully we are fairly well stocked and have no real reason to leave the house given that we are both working remote at this very moment. I have been for the better part of a year and my wife’s school transitioned to distance learning when the weather started. The snow is super powdery which means that in some places that are some massive snowdrifts that have accumulated.
If you have read this blog for any length of time, you have probably encountered me talking about Kenzie my tortie cat that is pretty much my constant partner in nonsense. In fact as I sit here typing this she is laying on “her box” beside me which is a cardboard box that my current computer case came in that I taped back up because she liked laying on it. So it should come as no surprise that when I was able to get cats in Minecraft this weekend, and finally found a nametag down in a Mine… that the first thing I did was name one of the calicos Kenzie. This was easily the highlight of my weekend, and I spent a lot of time roaming around with Kenzie at my side as she scared away creepers. Unfortunately… Grace had a mishap with one of her cats and it accidentally fell in some lava while she was spelunking and as a result… I have been reluctant to take Kenzie out adventuring much. So she is sitting here with my other two cats waiting on me. It feels real bad when the meow at me… but now I am scared I will lose them.
Today’s Minecraft video which should release at 11 am CST, will feature a walk through of the World I have been spending a lot of time playing in. Towards the end of last week I investigated the product offering called Minecraft Realms, and ended up creating one that my friend Grace and I could run around in. Shockingly she had never played Minecraft until recently and after spending some time in a solo world it seemed the time to start experimenting with multiplayer gaming. Effectively this is our base camp, because I happened to turn around this corner from where the spawn dropped us and noticed this mostly clear valley with a mountain at the far end. I dug into the side and the rest was history and have slowly been both hollowing out that mountain and expanding via tunnel and sky road.
Behind our base we have a pond, and it seems like this pond is a magnet for Baby Zombies doing mischief. A few days ago I went out to the back dock because I heard a Zombie groan and encountered this sight. That is in fact a baby zombie trying to use the boat that we have at the end of the pier.
Then yesterday I go out to the dock because once again I hear a baby zombie…. and this time it is one of the rarest natural spawns in the game which is a Baby Zombie riding a Chicken. The Zombie in the boat was more than happy to sit there doing nothing, but this time the chicken Zombie absolutely made a beeline for me… so I unfortunately had to end it.
The other side project that I was super invested in yesterday was setting up a Bee farm. I love these doofy little buzzers in Minecraft and as soon as I was able to enchant a pick with Silk Touch, I ventured out into the wild to try and find a hive that I could transplant. If you look hard enough you can see one hive that doesn’t look like the others, and that is the original wild hive. From that I used it to harvest honey comb and make more bee habitat and finally breed the hell out of them until I have a veritable armada of flying cuteness buzzing in and out of base. The side effect is that everything here grows much faster so our crops mature crazy fast thanks to the influence of my Bee friends. Hammond the pig seems to be completely oblivious to their existence. I have a row of campfires underneath so that I can safely light them and harvest either honey or honeycomb whenever I need… but I leave them unlit during other times as to not risk damaging the bees.
And that’s it friends. I have been spending most of my time on this multiplayer world and I am not sure how much time I will actually be spending in single player from this point forward. I mean I could have in theory uploaded my single player world to Realms, but I opted instead for a fresh start and this world has been VERY good to us given how many rare resources we have been able to pull from it.