Day Fourteen Failure

I died, no surprise there. But the real fail is that I had two stacks of iron and my enchanted diamond axe! I was caving in that big cave system I found when I was sailing. The abandoned mine shaft had SO many cave spider spawners.

I finally got killed when facing my ummm... seventh one. I'm feeling a bit down after that. However, I don't need that much iron anyway. I'm going to begin the construction of my city soon, that'll lift my spirits. =D

Day Thirteen Renewable Resources

 I made another enchantment on level 30. The following events had me dead twice close to level 30.

 I decided to go to the nether to find a blaze spawner to make into a experience grinder. I also needed to find nether wart. Both, I found immediately. 

 Something I was thinking of finding was a large space to build a nether base on.

 I didn't find one, but...

 two nether fortresses! The second one I found has two spawners at a good range of each other, however it is out in the open for ghasts to shoot at me. So, I'm going to take the one buried in the netherrack.

 I next tried to find a NPC village in an attempt to find good deals and a blacksmith to get unlimited diamond. But, it was harder than it seemed. I died from a creeper explosion at level 27.

 I eventually did find a NPC village and quickly went to work to fortify it.

 This is not the perfect village but, it's the only one for MILES.

 I tried to connect the my current base with the village digging a 1x2x2000 tunnel there. I fell into lava at level 26 losing my first diamond enchanted pickaxe. D= What was I to do? I continued and finished the tunnel, I now have a safe way to travel from my base to the village and back.

I found three cave systems along the way, including an abandoned mine shaft. I need to explore those another day. With the system with the duel spider spawners still left to explore, I am set on my mineral reserves.

Day Ten Exploration

 I finally got enough leather for the books I need to make enough shelves. This is my first level thirty enchantment of this world.

I want exploring the waters and I hit a new land mass. I'm not sure how big it is yet, however I found a large cave system below it.

Besides the two dungeons I found, there is also a abandoned mineshaft I found with a cave spider spawner directly above another. I might turn it into a experience grinder. I also found melon seeds. Hurray!

Day Seven Performance

Hello everyone, I have to admit that I should have posted something earlier.

 I finished the construction of my house, like it?

 The abandoned mineshaft yielded no melon seeds, what did I do to get more food? Yes, build an underground mob tower. o.O 

 I hope that the trap doors would help the mobs to fall down.

 This is where I can view the floors in. However, using all my time and wood on a mob tower whose rates are really poor didn't help in my supplies. I was hungry and wood-less.

 I wanted melons to feed me, but I suppose I need to build a wheat farm now.

 Update 1.3 came out today and I was greeted by lag and more lag. The mobs and chuck loading act just like SMP. I think this is so they can work on both multiplayer and singleplayer at the sane time. However, this is to the disadvantage to the everyday minecrafter! UGH.

 To sort out the wood problem I wanted to build an underground tree farm just like I did with my other world. It worked well enough. BUT, I was too lazy and it would have taken a lot of time so I just settled with this. The cobblestone slabs are left-overs from the mob tower and I didn't feel like wasting them. They are there to keep the tree growth under control.

 What I like to do is to torch the entire world so no mobs can spawn. I will conquer the land by making the land light and mob-proof.

 Here is the farm. I made this really simple and it has solved my hunger issue. When I find the melons I'm going to chop the pumpkins and replace them. I don't need so many pumpkins.

 All the current passive mob animals, they all came two by two into a cramped pen.

I need books for the books selves so I can enchant to level 30. I'm almost there.

Day Three Mining

Its been three months since I played on my single player world. This was mostly because of a lack of interest and Ambrosia. I find now that there is never enough time in a day. I'm busy prepping for college and the slow support for my map hasn't helped.

But I'll say that I'm not giving up on my plan to build a city. I'm back on it! I wish to be more active on this blog again.

I found a very large cave and I'm still in the progress of exploring it. I spend a lot of time yesterday at it. I got a little over 30 blocks of iron and 12 diamonds so far. In the first time in a long time, I'm wearing a full set of iron armor!

Unlike my other worlds, I'm playing this on hard, yes, I did die twice so far. I was carrying my diamonds at the time, so I was actually pretty lucky not to have lost them in that magma shown above.

I'm getting my food from apples from the trees I plant, but I'm going to run out soon. My only hope for a good supply is to venture to the mine shaft I found and look for melon seeds.

Development

I felt that I should release some pictures of developing areas to get a glimpse of what's to come. 

Ambrosia Update 03-07-12

The construction of the main areas is nearing completion. I can now see the entire path of which the player(s) will take. However, it is still an empty shell and must be filled with loot, mobs, decor, and puzzles. I've been working on the map for about fourteen straight days. Meaning, all the hours would add up to fourteen days.


I've done the math and it seems I've included over one thousand accessible rooms, and only two hundred of them have been filled and completed. I never thought it would be that much when I first started this.