The Making Of The Bottom Floor

I feel like a chinese farmer I am grinding so many blocks in Minecraft for hours at a time.  I knocked out my bottom floor already.  I guess time flies when you are having fun.

I have My Minecraft Apartment High Rise episode 3 already uploaded, and ready to watch.  I once again did some narrating, and it should make it easier to understand what I am doing.

I found my first dungeon last night.  I play on peaceful so the mob spawner didn't spawn any mobs.  It is probably a good thing because I didn't really know what it was, and I probably would have died, and ragequit.  I found some cocoa beans in the chest along with pretty much worthless stuff.

I still have alot of the outside blocks to remove, but I just wanted to get the bottom floor done so this weekend I will probably spend clearing it out.  I built another stairwell going down to make an underground level, but I may not do it right now.  I guess it all depends on my building ideas once I have all that area outside cleared.

My video card is also on its last leg, and I will have to go buy a new one sometime this weekend.  It is a little ironic to have to buy a new video card for Minecraft.

My Minecraft Apartment High Rise

The top floor of My Minecraft Apartment High Rise is now finished.  I have put alot more detail into it now that I am using Invedit to build.  It is amazing how fast I can do things now.  It should allow me to do more updates as I am able to complete things much quicker instead of spending half my time gathering, and crafting materials needed.

Initially I started off with this huge mountain of sand, and had a general idea to square up the sides, add some windows, and make it my next castle.  It felt like it was going to be like all my other houses so I decided to actually decorate this one floor by floor.  It took a while to level off most of the top of the mountain initially to get a good foundation to start building.

The top story was completely dug out block by block.  It took forever it seems.  I had a few different plans, but finally decided on this one.  I spent alot of time doing things over after not liking the look.  I tried to add an  aquarium to one of the apartments, but I just couldn't get it to look right so I blew it up.

I have tried some different looks for fireplaces, but so far after finishing them I end up destroying them because it doesn't look right.  I did experiment a little with the lighting in each room.  I tried to make them a little like chandeliers with the glowstones instead of putting up stupid torches everywhere.

I think it turned out pretty good so far, but I am not looking forward to digging out block by block on the next floor down.  It has to be done, but I first have to go outside on the top floor, and dig around the apartment high rise to square it up with the top floor.

Even with Invedit it still takes forever to dig, but it definitely speeds it up which makes it alot more bearable.  Wish me luck on digging, and hopefully I can get episode 2 out tomorrow.