Hey everyone, welcome to the withering effect. This is episode 14. Today's date is September 17th 2019. I am Duds or Duds versus known everywhere else. You can find me. Oh, right. It's my turn. It's your turn. Yeah, I'm bank for sure. And today we're going to talk about some Minecraft. I totally lost it because I was confused. You said the 17th and I looked up my date and I was like the 18th because yeah, I'm like just past midnight. You just stop living in the future. You should stop living in the past. I can't help it. It's my comfort zone. Yeah. I mean it would be nice. There's this podcast is starting off great. Ready? Yeah, which is which is awesome. Yeah, what have you been doing this week those? It's been weird lately with Minecraft and stuff for us. I think yeah, I've done nothing Minecraft for like the third straight week. I fully intended on sitting down this past weekend and recording an episode because I have the inspiration and the plan but I had zero Drive there's a side project. I've been working on for the past couple weeks that Is a very huge side project and while not all of my inspiration, is there a lot of my drive is there? So, yeah, I don't know if I want to talk too much about it because I don't know if the project will see the light of day and might be embarrassing if that happens, but it's still very fresh, isn't it? Yeah, it's exciting is what I should say. So it has my full on attention even though I'm like, yeah, but I could be doing this and I'm being supported by. Bunch of great people when I do that, so I should probably do that. It's one of those things for your really really want to you want to do it. But you feel like you have to do some other things as well. I wish I could bring people in on like the mystery project and they could get excited as I am because like I shared a little bit with you and I got excited by it through the illness. Yeah, and it's like I wish I could bring anyone in but it would if it ever did see the light of day it would basically just ruin the ject for anyone who paid attention to the backstory stuff. Yeah. It's a it's a delicate thing, I guess. Yeah. Anyways, it's kind of annoying for the listeners. But yeah, maybe we'll match how annoying it is week guys. I want to tell you a secret but I can't that's what it's like for me right now. Yeah. Oh that's that's the worst. Yeah. What about you? What are you been working on this week? Well, I created a really cool. Well my my 3D printer and I'm being a bit. We just saw that that's in our Discord. You guys should join it. It's awesome. Yeah, I was I was really proud of that one. Especially because usually when I start painting things it completely gets ruined. Yeah, I managed to not do it was really cool. And I didn't actually play bit of Minecraft. I did some speed running time which isn't really interesting for videos. I did beat my record by like five minutes. Yeah, so probably won't upload it. But yeah, why not upload it go ahead and get your record up there even better. I could I mean it would be like two places but now I'm exactly Place 100 so I might wait a while until I'm like booted. Off to like Place 101 and then go back into the 100's again or something. I like nature Place 100. That's kind of cool. Yeah, you got your name on a chart. Exactly. Yeah, it's it's it's not much but it's kind of fun to do. Yeah, what do you say we get in some Minecraft news? You got some news about the snapshot. Yeah. That was actually well the snapshot than enough much interesting news. I'll go through it quickly because there were a few minor interesting points I guess but there are some interesting news this week as for the snapshot. They tweaked a little things and most of them will call just bug Smart an actual changes but campfires can extinguished can be extinguished with a shovel which I guess is kind of cool. Yeah like that like throwing dirt over it. Yeah. I need to know if you take a campfire out with a shovel and you have food on it. Does the food stay on the campfire? Ooh, that's gonna die. Well, yeah. Yeah goes up. That's a neat little trick with the water. Mmm. So what else Farmland yep blocks that can be manually placed on Farmland without turning it to dirt can also be pushed by a piston without turning the farmlands back into their that's sort of more seems like a big facts than a change. But yeah, I don't have any blocks that can be placed on farmland and not change it to dirt things. Like what don't things that I close stone blocks work? Oh, Maybe half slaps. No, because you will place them on the bottom part. I'm not sure. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, well, maybe 100 maybe if you have a her hops lab. Yeah, but you can place that on there. Could you I don't know. So just wait a week. I'll mango will turn this into some crazy super fast Farm using this one tactic. Yeah. Sure. Yeah boats burn a bit longer. Apparently, they didn't burn mom and now they'll burn a bit better Burton a bomb. I mean, it's kind of nice. What is it cow sheep specs chickens wolf llamas and horses. They have like a small percent chance to spawn babies when they spawn in groups and stuff. The there's a small chance baby. So spawn apparently. Yeah. I thought that already happened that they be they just always sort of spawned as I was getting near them or something. Yeah, never noticed this before and probably will never notice it again. I mean, I know polar bears had like the Baby polar bears that would spawn but yeah everything else. Yeah to me. It just seems old baby foxes spawn and yeah, actually no did you say it? I don't think I've actually ever seen my baby pigs in a while, but baby baby chickens. I'm not sure baby. Llamas are might have seen something. I've seen paper. I don't know we play on a multiplayer server. So you can't tell if someone's throwing chicken eggs everywhere or Breen animals and your bases and stuff when you're not playing crazy. Yeah, this annoying ones like that. Yeah, totally new always throwing eggs everywhere. Yeah. Oh and almost one more. Thingy which also seems like I don't know. I it's for advancements and it's related to item. I'm just kind of read it because I'm not sure of all the words item free decade and advancements now makes a distinction between excellent ailments and stored enchantments like the worst storm in a gentleman books. I'm not fully sure what that all means but I'm guessing that it checks better whether you have actually an adjustment on my weapon or it's some not a weapon or something. Yeah, I don't pay attention to the advancements. Like I don't like I know a lot of people who will grind out the advancements and all that stuff. I don't I don't pay attention to those at all if it happens. It's like oh, yeah. I wonder if there's like an advancement that says, oh you need mending on a helmet or something like that and you just pick up a mending book and it goes oh Hey, you got it. Yeah, and it's like no I didn't it's still on a book. So now it knows it's not on the helmet. It's on the book. Yeah, I don't know I guess I understood it. Right. I mean it seemed more like a big fix again and actual change. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm feeling. This is what they've already come out and said 115 is the bug fix update. So, oh that's true. I kind of forgot about that. I mean, they're nice little tweaks, I guess to me. Me get my FPS higher. I want this game running smooth. I have a decently Beastie computer. It shouldn't run like a seven year old computer. Yes, the S is always a bit strange with Minecraft. I feel ya like there is a way to sort of control it but you can only control it between like a few hundred FPS which is strange obviously. Well, I can say if you won or time. I know there's a lot of people who don't yeah. It's have mine out at 200. I don't let it get above it just because I don't really see the point of it. But when I'm tapped out at 200 this piece you should easily be able to do that. But when I'm in my base, I stay in like the low 100's which is nothing to complain about for sure because we have people on the server playing under 30, and I don't know how they do that. Yeah. I mean if it's dirty you can sort of notice but as long as it's above 60 or four the even yeah, you really don't I don't I just let it run wild though. I don't kept it. It's like just do whatever fine. Well, I see I noticed when recording, I don't see the frame changes as much unless there's a giant jump. So if I have late leave it uncapped and it hits 400 and then it drops to 130. I see that in my screen and in the recording so okay. Yeah, I kept it at 200 so there wouldn't be giant jumps all the time. And I don't know yet. Basically to make it more stable. Yeah makes sense. I guess my turn with the news. Yeah so out today their biome vote for Minecon came out finally and it's yeah the leftover ones from last year, which we just nice. I think I was kind of excited about that. But now I'm just like hey, I really wanted that Savannah update and now I can't vote on it this year. Okay. So the biome is getting updated our mountains Badlands and swamp. I have a feeling that Badlands and swamp will be the two that get to the finals. I don't see mountains going very far because it's mountains to me is too much like Tyga. I feel bad Lance. I don't know. I I've never really heard anyone say like well, I like the Badlands was yeah, that's the other thing. No one likes Badlands the only once once in a map hear someone go to the band Le the Badlands and it's just to collect their Arcola. Yeah, maybe that's why people will choose it but I feel people are not gonna be Really really? Well, how do you say it inclined to pick that Lance? Mmm? I'd like to see mountains personally to be honest, but I hope they can elaborate a bit more on what they're actually Gonna Change. I want palm trees in Minecraft and I still don't get a bio on the has palm trees in it. I mean Batman's good work for that maybe a little bit. Yeah. I don't know if they're going to introduce any new tree types or anything like that. Obviously, they didn't do that with Tyga so I doubt they do it here. But I don't know to me. I we had this conversation earlier. I felt they should have waited until they had videos prepared for all three. Yeah. Well, I was just really I was excited when I saw like we can see what the map or what the biome folks just gonna be and then there's literally no more information than just saying which biomes which kind of disappointed me is like give me at least some information or a little I don't know. Give me something. Well, I mean they said check back later, which obviously means they're going to stagger the video releases throughout the week. But I hate when people do that. It's like rip the Band-Aid off man. Get me excited for an entire week. Don't get me excited for one day. Yeah, I mean, I guess it makes sense to sort of hyping maybe for the coast next week. I think well in like ten days. Yeah, it's getting right. So weirdly 10 days for Minecon. Yeah, so the probably just typing it. So more people watching stuff but speaking of Minecon. They've got the community panels for Minecon announced. How do you like that transition? That was awesome. Oh, yeah. That was a smooth one some move like butter. No one would have noticed if you didn't mention it. Well, that's why I had to mention it Praise My transitions. Yes. Anyways, okay. So the Minecraft panels I'm going to go ahead and list out the name of all the panels and then I guess we can talk about the ones that really interests us. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. If we don't talk about one you guys are interested in let us know in the comment section or in the Discord and we'll go back and we'll do some research and we'll talk about it. Next time. We promise. Yeah, so the pedal is our crafting experiences game design in Minecraft. Diversity three created for the community side craft presents how automation can enrich your game experience how we craft secrets of the marketplace partners and then hermitcraft much better together. Now out of all of these the ones I'm interested in are the crafting experiences game design. I'd like to hear from people working on the game what they've created sigh craft how automation can enrich your game experience. Just because those guys are Redstone Geniuses, but also I think it's interesting topic. Yeah, just it. Oh, yeah, finally, I really like the hermitcraft people. So I hearing from them is always fun. Hmm at the marketplace Partners. I don't want to like I don't want to rub them wrong because obviously those guys do hard work and stuff. But to me it just kind of feels like Microsoft pushing a hey, here's some stuff you can buy Bye. It's like yeah, so it's said the console version right that after marketplace where you can buy skins and such its own Bedrock. So that would be right Windows 10 Edition or whatever. Hmm. It's I mean, it's too far away for me. Really? Yeah. Like I said, I don't want to like the idea of that Marketplace. Yeah, and I don't want to discredit anybody who posts on the marketplace because obviously you've got to be doing something right? Yeah people are willing to pay money. I like your stuff so kudos to you guys, but it's not something. I'm really interested in hearing about but that again it's just my opinion sighing craft. I'm super excited about because I want to automate everything and I wonder if they'll talk about ways that prevent leg and stuff like that. I doubt it because it's like raft but well, I'm also curious and how they because obviously they got to be doing other things than just I do. Amazing things. Yeah, how they well they talked about was because obviously they talk about automating with more than just Redstone, right? So to me, that's what really piqued my interest. What else are they doing to automate stuff? They also have psycho off. That's mother, isn't it? I don't think it's modern. Okay did today by any chance also have a modded version of it or something? I don't know. Okay, because I did I mean I'm not watching them that much. Yeah, basically I tuned in whenever there's a new Farm exploiting new mechanics, but I sometimes like to watching some videos or fill mango doing crazy stuff ready and I saw some things that definitely And be done with vanilla Minecraft, like placing blocks of dispensers and stuff and he would build automated total making machines and stuff which we didn't just dig out the tunnel, but also just build it. Yeah decorated tunnel. She that's why I thought that might have been shy craft, but I guess I was wrong. It may have been I don't know. Hmm. They do some crazy stuff over there. They do crazy stuff. Yeah, it's cool to see but I'm just also interested in. What not let Stone they do Kinda Yeah. I've not seen much of that if they do it at all. Like maybe they don't. Yeah, maybe they're just talk about water streams and they've tricked us all that would be funny. Yeah, and then you have hermitcraft and that's an obvious thing about playing together nicely. We talked about this on 12b the flip side of our chat with Nina and how you should play nicely on a server. Or somebody will make a new server and take all your friends. That is a possibility. Yeah, but not a serious note to me. I wish they would get rid of all the fluff before the update announcement and just put these panels in front of it. That's what I want. I'm not following. How do you mean so of all the fluff? Minecon is an hour and a half? Right? Right. They don't talk about the new update to the last 20 minutes. So for an hour and 10 minutes it just a bunch of random stuff. No one really cares about it kind of feels like they're just there to entertain kids. Oh, right. Yeah and instead of having all of that, I would rather have these panels because to me the only people who are tuning into a livestream are people at a much older age. I would I mean basically not people who would be entertained by some of the stuff they do so you could make all the stuff you would what I call fluff before the announcement and to you too. videos instead of making these panels into YouTube videos All right, because all these panels are just going to be individual videos on their YouTube channel. It's like well, I would rather you guys play the panels before the update then watch somebody do some crazy science project to make a dirt block or something. Yeah. That's a good point. Although I think you also made a good point by saying like they like probably getting the younger viewers as well. Yeah. They probably don't want to listen to a lecture. That's To which I mean, I don't mind that like I like listening to people sharing their ideas and stuff. But I guess when you're young let's say the age of 12 or something. You're all day. It's cool that it's all you do already I can imagine they wouldn't like that. Yeah. All right, I guess that it's it for the community panels. We've got a link for that should be in the show notes. We have a link. For the biome vote that's going to happen it by the announcement video or whatever also in the show notes. I'm sure they will Carl's got this he's all over it. Yeah, he does a good job in that. Usually. Yeah, we did have a listener comment from the Discord this week. So thank you guys so much for joining the Discord. We actually have people joining in and it's really nice because that's our preferred method to talk to you guys because it kind of puts everything in one place for us. We don't have to go check all these different websites to get comments and stuff. But anyway start actually goes quite active this week, which is nice it did. Puppy pictures I posted well pictures were posted questions were asked. Yay. Anyways, so C-3PO one of our newer members joined in and was asking I would be interested to hear your views on the Minecraft Community the different sort of factions. We have like Builder, uh, see modded Etc The Good the Bad the Ugly what parts of the community keep you coming back to Minecraft? Yeah, we should hmm. Well, I might be worth mentioning. That's he was at Monona on a server for a while. So yeah recognized a lot of the stuff we talked about and also 12. Yeah wealthy. I think those are interesting questions some of it. I don't think we have that much like we don't really blame all the both of us. So that's not something we can talk much about sections. I'm not sure if I'm older than all but I smelt really played that either I think factions is more PVP based. So my gripe with modded I always like to tease them and it's kind of half-hearted because there are different kinds of modern players, but I always tease them and say they're just hoarders because that's all modded really gives you as in more ways to store stuff. I love it. I feel like yeah, but it's not fully true in modded to me. It's just I can't go learn a whole new version of Minecraft when I'm still learning. Earning a lot of what this game has now. Yeah, that's what I have as well like the Krause knowledge. She would have like, oh, I can't cross that in vanilla Minecraft and you sort of forget what you can do in normal Minecraft. And then right. Yeah sort of hopefully playing two games. I'm not yeah, I would get confused. I think to me. I don't like faction groups or PVP years. I feel that they're the more toxic of the community and the fact that literally they just complain. I haven't seen one not really complain, but maybe I'm just being mean and spiteful but the whole especially when the combat update happened and the complaining that they can't spam quick anymore. And that's probably clicking was a talent. It's like no spam cooking is not a talent that when most of you guys are using Auto clickers and hacking and stuff. It's like no now if you can do that style of PvP with the 1.9. That's a lot of skill right there. Mmm being able to tell shots and Shields. And yes, that's actually where I think it gets interesting because I did obviously do some PCP. I agree and a lot of the places it's people just complain like I wanted one point. They just want to spam click. Yes. I can't really see the appeal. I just don't see it to me here to bring. Bring back this bam clicking. It needs to be a new weapon like a spear something that doesn't do a ton of damage but allows you to quick-strike left and right now needs to be a way to sort of have your own style. Right right with them clicking. There isn't much Beyond like the only thing you really need to do is just click as much as you can and aim right basic Ray. I mean, there's a little bit more to it. But you know, that's kind of the basics and now we already have to sort of dying. Alright, so you can use a shield. You know that this yeah. I think it's more interesting. Also, there is like a whole part. Sort of that anarchy server, I guess where it's there is no rules like do whatever which is obviously a massive amounts of cheating. But yeah, everyone does it which levels the playing field right and that creates his own sort of interesting style of PVP and and not just that but gameplay it's sort of a constant pressure on you. Like you have to be careful where you build a base even because people are gonna try and find it and Well, it's not probably going to stay up after that. Yeah, which I think has its own appeal, but I can definitely see how people wouldn't like it. But I think there's that there are Stephanie PVP areas that are different than the well the spam clicky complainers. Let's call it that I guess we'll see in PvP is just not my cup of tea so I don't go looking for so all they ever see or the Highlight clips and there's usually always some young kids screaming that 1.8 was the best version of Minecraft right won't go any later than that. It's like but did you give the other way a chance? Because to me it's more. I don't want to say realistic in a blocking game because it's very hard to paint realistic but not many people can hold a sword fully out and wave it with their wrists for five minutes, right? Yeah. Yeah that ties in with uh sees I don't do uh sees because one I'm not a good PVP or into PVP doesn't interest me. So I don't really feel the need to get better at PVP. Uh, he's are crying to well rare as well. I guess. Yeah. Well, there's a lot that I know a lot of them have like rules which I'm not a big fan of I like it as vanilla as possible. Basically. Also, I usually just try to be alone or like to be alone, which usually doesn't happen in unity people want to be in teams and I fully get that. At yeah, which makes it a bit more tricky to join in somewhere. Yeah, I think we covered a lot of the ugly the good people like El mango and the hermitcraft community who I feel play the game the right way and constantly lifting other people up like hey keep working at it and stuff to me. That's one reason. I keep coming back the ripple effect has a ton of great members who are very supportive. So Always great to find a server that has that. But other than that, it's I don't know how to explain it to me without the inspiration everything kind of falls down. Mmm. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. A lot of inspiration comes from just having nice other people around but that's where like adventure maps can come in because if you play adventure maps, that's somebody else's inspiration that could Inspire your inspiration on vanilla or modded or whatever you play to build or maybe you just don't like to build you like storytelling and so all you do is the adventure maps. That's really cool. Hmm and there are some great adventure maps. I actually played a few of those and they make really well not just beautiful Maps but good stories. Well fun maps to play at least. Yeah. Well we did that when knocks crew flight one. Yeah. We did the flight game. It's a quite a while back ago. We should do that again. That was fun. That was so rage-inducing. Well not that one does something like it. Yeah. It's a lot of fun fun adventure maps. Yeah, there was Okay, but C3PO. Hopefully we answered your question. Yeah, it was a good one. Yeah, I like the question. It's definitely it sticked with the topic. We didn't really go for that part. Yeah, so if you guys have more questions drop them in the Discord, like I said or tweet them at us because at least it will like slap Us in the face and tell us there's a message there. Yeah, this court is probably the more reliable placed. Oh, yeah because you have for people watching out for that question. Yeah, and also I pay attention to this court with her all that much. I mean I do but not much. I'm not very active Twitter person. How dare you not tweet me 24 hours. I'll tweet you. I'll do it one day where I just tweet you every hour. I like status updates. So please don't actually sounds like a fun idea. I'm gonna do that one. No cheese. Look what you guys did. I'm blaming the listener we ate is it a day of annoying that welcome to tweet day where Bank does nothing but tweak Duds pictures of his food. I'll do it on your birthday. Oh, please don't I like to enjoy my birthday. Well, I mean, the funny thing is you would get a ton of messages from like family and friends and stuff and I don't believe that you would get spammed with I like that idea, but my family and friends don't tweet me because I know my real name and phone number. And I destroy well. I just don't know your phone number. I told them about my Twitter and they're just like wait, you do what? Nah? I didn't that's true all they my son. He doesn't even know about the whole YouTube thing. Anyway, yeah my family knows and they're supportive. But when I bring it up at the dinner table, they're just like man, it's like okay. Yeah. Thanks. I know. I know my my family would I mean they would think it's fun because they always like to see me make stuff. Yeah, I think my brother would just get really annoying now, which is the main reason why I'm just not seeing anything. I just don't want him to get annoying not in a bad way. Like you would really like it because he's played Minecraft himself as well like a really long time ago and he's mentioned that a few times to me like, oh you would like that. Yeah, yeah. Well, they found it interesting because like I was building computers on their dining room table, right like oh, well, that's really cool that you're putting a new skill together building PCS and stuff. What are you gonna do with it? And I'm just over here playing Minecraft. Did it - like wait what you needed that beefy computer to play that it's like no I needed it to render the video. I'm making while I play right? This is the old meme thing as well, right? But like a beefy the beefiest PC you can do and then it's to just play Minecraft. Yeah. No my old computer played Minecraft just fine. I was getting pretty much the same frame rate, but for a 25-minute video it took an hour and a half to render with this computer. It takes me 25 minutes to render right? Well, I'm also if you start using shadows and stuff, that's really that really asks a lot. I see I can't use shaders because because you know what I'm playing Minecraft I have view bobbing turned. Off because I'll get motion. Oh, right and a lot of the shaders have that really bright sun right well and it just makes me so sick to my stomach squeaked out a lot though. Like I know there's two big ones where I've played around with those you got what is it sus and then another one which is similar but not as intense kind of forgot what it was. But you can tweak those settings a lot to sort of adjust the lighting and how you like it and all that. Hmm. You you might want to give it a go. Yeah see, I mean if you can be both are reading. Well, like there's a couple of YouTubers I watch it's mainly the YouTubers who don't play Minecraft who are new to it and they're like, well, I could throw shaders on here and now I get a good looking game and stuff and it's like, yeah, but you're just throwing a bunch of stuff at the computer hoping something sticks and Good or trying to make a really bad build look good and just like right but then you have somebody like Corrales who knows how to build and knows how to build. Well who's playing with shaders on the season with hermitcraft and the shaders Don't Force good-looking stuff. It amplifies good-looking stuff because it's just little tweaks and it that's what I always try to aim for just to keep to keep it Minecraft and yeah, but looking like Minecraft, but just I don't know a bit fancier. Yeah. Yeah, like you say if you change the game through much like also it gets it gets the same effect as having a texture pack like you build something and it might just look completely terrible for someone else who doesn't have it. Yeah and especially playing on a server. I kind of like just being sort of having a neutral things are going on. So it doesn't leak it looks good when you don't have any modifications, yeah, but speaking of texture packs. I want to go on a tangent if as If we're not already on a tangent because trust us this was not a topic that we have written down didn't know but this kind of fits in with one of our topics with the block pallets right textures. What if you could choose a texture to change hmm? What texture would you change and how would you change it? Oh, that's hmm. There are I think there might be quite a few actually. I would like to see gravel. I'd like to see a bit of a change on that. Hmm. It's it's a bit. I feel it's a bit of a messy texture. Yeah, and I think it could be a usable texture like taking make it into something that makes it I don't know. I think they can make it more interesting. I mean, you're kind of catching me out of the blue with it if that's even a way you say it so that was strangling sneaked a short of think quick about as well what else you'll always has been a bit of a weird texture to me. I I really like that it updated now though who I might know that I've paid a lot of attention to the new will well, they fix the colors a couple of days ago and they kind of I don't want to say dulled but it's not as busy as it was. All right. Well, they always have that sort of wavy texture in them. Yes, I did. I'd like to I don't know. I don't know. I think the carpet shouldn't have that wavy texture on them. Yeah, I think they should be a little bit smoother. I'm good with a little bit of wavy texture but a carpet block because how many times you walk in a room and you see your carpet with lumps. It doesn't happen a lot. So for carpet and Minecraft shouldn't have lumps but I would change another brick. I was just going to say Netherrack Sol you went from that'll break deeming the reggaeton that'll break or wet. That'll break or just not a break in another brick in general. Want to do because everyone's doing this on their texture packs and turning nether brick black. I'm not a big fan of that. Really. Mmm. I've not diet because obviously if you do it to your stuff other people aren't going to notice it and I might not look correct. Yeah, but I it gives more color with stairs slabs and fences and stuff right feel we feel we already have read another brick now that you can make out of Nether wart and stuff. Hmm. So it's like I'd like to change the Rhett another break it goes. It's it's all red like the spots in between. The stones are red as well. Which I think is a bit weird. Like they should have a little difference at least like the normal breaks. Yeah, the clay ones like you have read breaks and then the gray infill Parts the cement I think it is. Yeah, they should start doing that with the Another brakes as well. I think turning it black. I feel is an easy way out. Yeah erase like I'll change my texture pack. So it's it becomes a block that I can use everywhere, which I'm not a big fan of I'm not really a big fan of the purpley color Rider, but that's mainly it's hard to build with it. There's nothing really that matches that color. Turning it black though. I'd like to change it but I don't know I could see where you're coming from the blacks. Nice though. Don't get me wrong. I it looks good. I'm trying like it throws when you think also I would change. I mean the obvious ones are get rid of the wavy lines on the glass. I don't know why they I mean they moved him to the corner now, right? Everyone's first thing they do when they load Minecraft is Get a texture pack that has clean glass except for me except for bank because he's weird. I didn't know I never really liked full clear glass. Yeah. Thanks Sue's I'm trying to record a podcast here and she's just over here snoring her brick or brain out. I hadn't noticed but well, I just sit there and I'm saying the recording it's nice and soft and then it's like what the heck was that? Awesome? I mean she's got to be in the both gasp. He's still Bruce always in there. Yeah. Okay back to the sketch. It was a nice little tangent. Yeah, I don't think there's a lot of other blocks. I would change other than like earlier you talked about the season watercolor. I'd like yeah different colored water more. Hmm. It's their dishes at their stuff. Yeah well and they had it more. I don't know they seem to play with it a little bit. Yeah. Anything else? Oh, I know what I'd like I'd like wooden buckets. Wouldn't buckets. Yeah, that's kind of an item sense. But I'd like I'd like to be able to make wooden buckets that you could actually sit down kind of like share now that we owe ya I was going to say especially since we go barrels now as well. Let's see. Yeah. Uh, yeah wooden barrels are wouldn't wooden bucket should be nice. Let's just stay on this kind of topic go ahead and hit the block pallets will save our next topic if we have time to join us. Yeah, we'll save it for our next episode. You did a lot of work on that other one, so it's a good topic to have but if we don't have time, I'd rather instead of cutting it short. Let's save it. Yeah, so filling up the time quite quite a bit. Yeah, we're afraid we wouldn't we would struggle with time but yeah, you know tangents happened and Duds talks about random stupid stuff for 10 min. We totally didn't calculate in like the tensions. So yeah our time time calculations for well, we didn't it. Sounds like we plan a lot. We don't I think that's what makes it great is that we don't plan a lot like we have bully do but we don't yeah. Okay. So you're working. Yeah main topic was going to be blocked palette tips, right? Basically how to build with different styles like modern and medieval. Mmm yada yada yada, and I thought that's where changing blocks. Cool for me out when I plan a block pallet always comes down to okay. What style do I want to use right you have that's obvious. What do you call this time period present time period you have the ultra modern style and then you have the medieval style medieval will always give you the most options. It feels like Minecraft or design with medieval in mind. Yeah, I feel like yeah, that's definitely an easier style to build and I feel like you got more options. Yeah concrete helps a lot with doing modern nowadays. Yeah, it helps a lot but it's not. I don't think it helps enough, right? But I've always wondered if I'm just not really good at doing the modern style like my general preference and things just usually more the fantasy medieval kind of style. Yeah, so maybe I'm just way more familiar with that then the kind of model run a futuristic stuff. Yeah. I have a feeling that my next few bigger builds will be more modern because that's the style. I've always kind of levitated towards MMR gravitated. That's probably the better. Word. Yeah, but I stayed away. I was like, I'm Really Gonna focus on building medieval this past season Ryan. I've done it. I don't think I'm very great at it. I definitely think last season's base was a better version of this kind of style but it didn't turn out bad. I grew as a builder and I'm happy with that and actually lost. Oh, sorry. Yeah. No you go ahead and I was going to say lost not by actually building. A sort of modern. Yeah, you were very mad. That actually worked out really. Well. Yeah. But going to me like when you're choosing a style or something story matters, like tell yourself a story for the area. That's what I did for this bass me and you had like a story written out between our two bases Dave Turin the foot gold about it while building which is a shame. I think that affected my building a bit as well. Yeah. I think we kind of need to get back to that. Hmm. But yeah story and I have General rule. I always try to do when building stuff and I call it the rule of Threes. So when building you need to have if you're building a wall, let's just start there. If your will has zero depth. It's just going to be one wide. Mmm, and he's have three different textures in it. And that could be using the stone brick unpolished andesite and maybe a cobblestone. Right, and that's how you would texture that wall one deep more you can do a too deep wall. That only needs one texture, right? All right, so because now you have depth added to it and that could be maybe you just switch out. A block for a stair block because now that stair block has a little bit of depth added to it or something like that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, so I think so, but just just to make sure I got it right. So basically you have you want to always have three features in your bowl, right and either a block type would be a feature. So like you said, what was it and the site and then Stone break and then cobblestones. Three different block type. So each one would be a feature if you use one layer of depth, so you create a hole or whatever that would count as a feature as well. So you could have one less type of block. Yeah. Does that mean you won't go over it as well like, you know stick with the tree or I go over it all the time. It's really is a minimum. So that's just your base framework. Basically. Yeah. It's to try to keep a flat look out of the game. Like I don't want anything too. Feel flat and that tell when I was starting to build everything was booting was flat and I was like, well, how do I add texture and depth to something that I can't make deep and right when I was like well do three different textures on one wall where if you have two depths you really only need one texture because now you have two different. Shapes you're making right that being said if you're making a circle don't make the circle just stone brick. Yeah, that doesn't count just because there's like five step Downs in a circle. Doesn't mean that the rule of three works. Well, if you go on a circle, you would have a circular wall which would sort of going to being a straight roll. At least. That's how I would look at it. It doesn't always work but it's a great little hint that I came up for myself, especially like I came up with it when I was doing another tunnels, right because another Turtles can be long and flat you don't want to do a lot of crazy stuff to it because you have to repeat it for hundreds of blocks. Well, So you have to chance like normally another tunnel would be like, what is it three by three? Yeah, if you have to Bridge and you created something where you have to make it like what 10 white because you have like walls with a lot of depth changes and stuff. You're gonna have to build that when bridging. Yeah, and another that can be big Parts yet to me. The easiest way to add depth is if you have a stone brick wall you Put a log of wood of any kind of type in front of him because I guess you went depth and then you take a stone brick out and put a stone bricks tear and there's another side of depth to me. Those are the two easiest ways to add depth and texture to it. I think senses and what is it the iron fences they kind of work well to Kosovo falls off a sort of Step Yeah. Well, yeah if you could add glass panes and thick Same idea except the work. Mmm. My favorite was my very first comic craft base. I had that giant glass wall and the last wall head white glass blocks light grey blocks and black glass blocks, whatever and then I would texture it just by randomizing all of those blocks and then I would go behind and switch out random blocks with pains and it gave that giant glass wall this It's really cool texture. I was that still probably my proudest design I've done mmm, okay. And I'm going to have to build it somewhere. Oh, that's a fun project for the future. I thought about going back and rebuilding the first Common craft base because it's not very big. Hmm. It would make a great starting base. Yeah, I'm going to years ago. Was that like? Oh God. I don't know. Yeah three years. But what was cool about that was I found that underground cave Lake thing. Right? And I was like, well I want to build on top of that thing. That thing is cool. That's the whole basis. Of course. We didn't have really black block or blocks other than coal and I didn't want to mined for coal. So I just use black terracotta. So everything was brown the interesting to just get to see of that map and then create like a blank map again go there and make a new base and see what happens. Yeah, like how you would instead of sort of revamping that one just see how you would use that area and I would agree. Oh, yeah, because the area behind the base was gorgeous and that's why I chose it and then I never used it. I don't want to hold and I stayed in it. I think that could be really interesting you gave me inspiration stuff, but I don't need that. I already have inspiration for my current base and I've got the stupid secret project that were working on. Thank stop trying to divert me from doing stuff. Yeah. I'm good at that sometimes I guess. Yeah, it's funny cuz you explain to her. I'm going back to topic. They are ya block pellet way you sort of have well, I mean, I know you are really very rule or planned out on building but you have your rules of three kind of thingy. Yeah. I noticed a lot of it I have as well, but I'm going a lot by feel so obviously you're if you're Style you're going to build in. Yes, because I'm older nice throw. I generally just sort of pick a base block with the medieval east of it's usually all right. I'm going to use wooden logs to just Mark corners of what I'm gonna build. Yep with modern. I try and use well I've used concrete and I've used like stone bricks just sort of a neutral. All I'm just gonna smack this down and get a shape going and then I start layering. I try and play with the shape a little bit. I start playing with different blocks and I just try a lot and then in trying all those things, I generally find things that are cool and quite often. It's still real things that help any doing the sort of weird things is when I discovered like oh if I get depth that Stinks look so much better. I think it probably started with having like a glass pane as a window and then having like a stair on the outside on the wall next to a pillar to sort of create a I don't know that transition thingy. I was like, wow, this really gives it a realistic feel or at least not that flat kind of I don't know wooden box house feel my favorite aunt window ledge or whatever is using the r It's me. I always love how a stair transitions into a pain. Right. I think it could be better as in if I wish the window is pushed back a little bit because it does stick out a little bit further than the top half of the stair. But to me they work so well together. It really depends on what I'm building. Yeah, I think like whatever you're building as its own. I don't think there's anything that fits on everything like it. I don't think there was a magic thing that always works and to say it's my favorite Block in the game. So I'm going to say it man. Yeah, I think that's funny. I think I think there's probably people who do have that. I just don't I don't have a magic trick as it were I have found gray concrete. Hmm is closing in if Greg hartree had other textures and concrete powder and just concrete to me. It's my it's very close to being my favorite blog because you can use it in modern style and I've used it a ton in medieval style just as an accent block. Oh, yes, Marine. I think they work really well with the stone bricks and wood. That's a good point. And I just thought of something I actually lied a little bit. I do have one magic trick. Okay that leaves. Yes, these all the things you're everywhere where you think? Oh, this is difficult, especially on corners and and connection Parts. It's sometimes just really hard to make something that looks nice. I don't know how just go for it with leaves. Yeah. I don't know how many times I've looked at six ago. That's ugly. I'm gonna put a bunch of leaves around it. Yeah, that works also like you can't go Put leaves ever around your building. Although some builds can actually do that. But yeah using leaves it adds like a little bit of Dimension to it anyway, and and it's just a great way to hide like ugly spots. Yeah that being said in my new hallway extension. I looked at the ceiling. I was like man, I really like the shape of that ceiling. I'm gonna splatter leaves every I don't know why I did it but But it turned out pretty good. Yeah, I like I don't know that least of a lot of Randomness to them. It seems I mean obviously they ever they don't never random texture but I love him mixing the Birch leaves oak leaves juggle leaves together because yeah, well maybe the Burton Oak because they have the same texture of this different color. Well to me when you mix the jungle in there, the jungle has like what looks like a little seeds on it. I really like that. So if like you just throw a random jungle Leaf block and with a pile of bushes or whatever you now have this like little seat thing in there and to me it looks really good. I do like the jungle leaves a lot but they have sort of barely some it seems like that. The leaf blocks are more open like you can see through them a bit more which is nice. I don't I don't know. They don't always work together with Oaken Birch. No, that's why it to me you. Place it on top. Yeah, you have to have other leaves behind it to kind of consider the fact that like you said, it's an open block you could see through the darn thing, but I should give that a go adding some some jingle these guys. I like building trees. Hey, you want to come build some trees in front of my base. I need some trees built what a might actually be a good way to get some inspiration back in stuff. Yeah up to you that that's really what it's kind of been delaying. It's like I know where I need. Three big trees, but I really don't want to build two big trees because I suck at building trees. So I'm gonna do they streamed in a while. That might be a nice live stream again. Yeah, I need to get back in there yet. I can build some trees. Yeah, we can build some Trace. Yeah, you can build some trees and I can work on ground cover because I like playing with ground cover. Oh good boy. Yeah kind of like how we did the last Comic crab season were working on the island. You are building. Yeah, I'm trees like crazy. Well, I was working on the cover around it. Yeah, the bombs race. Yeah Minecraft or Mojang. We need some palm trees and maybe they can have red dragons in them. It will be cool. If they create it leaves for those bombs worries because palm trees after Owens heard of leaf style, right? You can't create engine well with the current if you make like half slept lie for so that's what I was just thinking right you could make awesome palm tree. Oh my God, I want to have Leave blocks. This is something oh my God. I almost wanted as much as I want a red dragon. That was to hurt at the Soma Priestly thingy. Yeah, holy cow that well, he's so awesome. You didn't mention a red dragon this episode yet. Thank you. I mentioned it twice now. You're just so used to hearing it. You didn't yeah, probably there goes that stupid red dragon comment that's never even happened. You mentioned it even more to me than just on the both Cal so it's even Worse. Oh Yang until you give me one. I'm going to keep talking about it. So somebody tweet Mojang this podcast and maybe they'll give you an awesome idea of if the palm tree leaves and now you're promoting the red dragon. Yeah. I know. I really want the palm tree leaves like I want that more than the red dragon right now, but I know tomorrow so that's the Red Dragon. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean the red dragon I'm not sure if it's so realistic thing. It's not but half slab Palm leaves. They can't do you never specified a size on the dragon? Yeah, I could make it the size of like a bat you can't ride that though. the size of a phantom Yeah, good enough. It's kind of like hell when you get the boat to people are in there, but your feet are sticking out the front of the boat because the boats aren't designed to be big enough. I think of when I was really young. This is actually kind of funny. I had my parents have quite a big Garden. Oh my God, my grandparents and they live like two blocks away. So really close. Yeah, and I remember one birthday. They were like, oh, what do you want? Birthday and I was like, yeah, I want a donkey like an actual donkey and then boy, I mean I was like, I don't know four or six or something. I was really young and I remember like I asked for it quite quite a lot. So my grandpa he actually gave me like on my birthday a tiny toy donkey. It's sort of like that like you under red dragon and get it a toy Dragon. Yes. No, I want a writable. It doesn't have to be the size of the inner dragon for sure. But Red Dragons are awesome, but didn't get any missile this half slab palm-leaf idea. I really am like that's actually usable, right? Yeah. I kind of want that more right now. So also I think it would add a lot of building options. If you get some wood leaves imagine the kind of roof you could make yes Market stalls and intense and are you good? It's like Shifty shakes and that kind of stuff. Don't tease me bank. I just did. Okay. Well thanks to you we now need to go ahead and in the podcast because I got to go build some Shifty Leaf huts and stuff. Right. Are you going to try and make a mold back out of it? No, I can't be that technical you kidding me. I think you could this good tutorials online. That's true. Stop distracting just have to like retexture like another slap, right? Which lab that's true. / / right? So just retexture purpose lips, too. Palm trees yesterday. You can do it. Yeah. All right. That's that's go to to finish this. Yeah, go ahead and take this out. Yeah, if you like the show tell everyone about it and your Minecraft community and that home and everywhere where you work and stuff, you know, she had an episode social media leave us a like and a rating and a review that really helps us get more listeners. If you like to get into contact with the show send an email to podcast at ripple effect as B.com tweet us or the best thing is to join a discard method little checklist. 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