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The Beauty of Nature

Flowers on the Hillside

Here are a few thoughts and essays, celebrating the beauty of nature and expressed through paintings inspired by Minecraft.

Poetry and Nature

Poetry about nature is inspiring, beautiful and serene. A poet can find inspiration in almost anything from nature: a clear blue sky, a babbling brook, or a rugged mountain landscape. With nature as the subject, the words can flow onto the page.

Nature poetry may be used in poetry contests or published in magazines or books. A nature poem may be written in prose or verse form. Poems that are written in a poetic style tend to be more dramatic in their tone and subject. Poetry about nature is an excellent way to convey the beauty of the Earth and to express your feelings. When writing about nature, keep these tips in mind:

  • Use descriptive language.
  • Write in a lively, conversational tone.
  • Avoid using too many technical terms and scientific words.

A Story of Gwendolyn the Fair

Here is a short story of Gwendolyn the Fair, inspired by my travels through the natural beauty of Minecraft.

Gwendolyn on the hillside with flowers.
Gwendolyn the Fair on a hillside of flowers

Gwendolyn the Fair was a beautiful maiden who lived alone in nature. She loved all living things, and liked to spend time outdoors observing plants and animals in their natural habitat.

She would spend countless hours in the hills, by the river, or walking through lush meadows. She would always take the time to appreciate a bee in flight, or the subtle colors of flowers and plants. And more than anything, she loved the majesty of the trees.

She would sit on a tree stump for hours, just watching them grow and grow. She never needed to be told what to do, or how to do it. She just knew. She had an innate sense of the natural world, and a deep connection with it. One day, as Gwendolyn was sitting under a tree, a huge, black bird flew down and landed on her shoulder. “Hello,” he said. Gwendolyn smiled. “Hello,” she replied. “I have been looking for you for some time now,” said the bird. “I am the King of the Birds, and I want you to be my Queen.” Gwendolyn nodded. “If that is what you want, then of course I will be your queen,” she replied. The King of the Birds smiled, and then spread his wings and took flight. “I am so proud of you,” he called back.

Gwendolyn smiled to herself. She had no intention of becoming a queen of the birds, but she liked to humor the animals.

Gwendolyn enjoying sunset by her village hut.
Gwendolyn the Fair enjoying the sunset by her home in the village

Later, Gwendolyn made her way back to her small, humble village. She tended to the flowers outside of her quaint little hut and enjoyed speaking with her fellow villagers.

Then, one day, a stranger approached her, saying that he was a traveler. “I have been wandering through these parts for many years,” he told her. “And I am always looking for a new adventure. Could I join you in your hut? I would love to hear about your adventures.” Gwendolyn looked at him. “I don’t think I’d like that very much,” she replied. “But it is nice of you to ask.” “Thank you,” said the stranger. “So what kind of adventures do you have?” asked Gwendolyn. “Well, I’ve been up and down the river,” he said. “I’ve traveled all around the kingdom. I’ve gone to the east and the west, and seen the lands beyond the mountains. But my favorite places are here, by the sea. And I have heard stories about your kingdom.” Gwendolyn smiled. “I am so glad you like my kingdom,” she said. “What kind of stories?” asked Gwendolyn. “Well, I’ve heard stories of a strange creature who lives in the deep sea. They say that when he rises to the surface, he can change into a beautiful young woman.” “That sounds like a very nice story,” said Gwendolyn. “Tell me more.” “I’ve also heard stories of a giant bird that comes out of the trees at night,” he continued. “And it always lands on someone’s shoulder and says, ‘Hello.’ “Gwendolyn laughed. “That sounds like a funny story. But if you really want to hear a story, I have one for you.” Gwendolyn took a deep breath. Then she told the stranger about the King of the Birds. “Wow,” said the stranger. “That sounds like a wonderful story.” “But what do you think about my kingdom?” asked Gwendolyn.

“It is very beautiful,” said the stranger. “I think it is very nice here. And I would love to stay for a while.” Gwendolyn smiled. “Then it is settled,” she said. “You can stay in my hut for as long as you like.” Gwendolyn was a happy young woman who lived in a beautiful kingdom. She loved her village and enjoyed spending time with her fellow villagers. She had been traveling around the kingdom for many years, and was always looking for new adventures. One day, she came upon a strange creature. “Hello,” said the stranger. “What are you doing here?” asked Gwendolyn. “I am a traveler,” he replied. “I am always on the lookout for new adventures. I heard about your kingdom and I want to visit it someday.” “Oh, that sounds fun,” said Gwendolyn. “I love meeting people and talking about adventures.”

Cavorting with Chickens
Cavorting with chickens

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A Few Minecraft Ideas

Minecraft Trees - Painting

I’m still playing Minecraft a few times per week and thinking about more ideas to post on my blog about this game. Minecraft updates its content a lot so there’s always something new to write about it seems.

Minecraft Apps

Mojang’s first mobile app was the official Minecraft pocket-edition app for Windows Phone released on the Windows Phone platform in 2013. It supported the Windows Phone 8.0 and Windows Phone 8.1 operating systems. It was later updated to support the Windows 10 Mobile operating system.

Minecraft – Infinite Worlds

With infinite worlds and amazing dynamic lighting, Minecraft is one of the best ways to pass the time. Especially with all the maps you can get. The game can be played on a mobile device or computer. You can find lots of the best minecraft maps on dedicated Minecraft maps sites. These maps are ranked based on votes from thousands of players.

Minecraft Saddles

This guide explains the steps required to craft a saddle in Minecraft. Saddles make riding a horse much quicker, but only after you’ve crafted them. Saddles and horses can be used to store items for easy transport without manual clicking.

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A Few More Minecraft Paintings

Minecraft Village at Sunset

A while ago, I shared some Minecraft paintings. Here are a few more to enjoy.

Steve walking in the grass, away from a pit of lava. Done in colored pencils.

Art Drawing With Colored Pencils

Color pens are among the simplest drawing mediums to use since they are quite inexpensive. If you’re starting out with sketching or painting, then you should start off by using colored pens rather than charcoal pens as it helps create your drawings look more professional. Artists-quality colored pencils have a high quality of pigment and wax when compared with the normal colored pencils widely used by novices.

Coloring with coloured pencils allows you to create rich, detailed, and colorful artwork. The art with colored pencils can also be so soft and shiny they eventually become so lifelike they resemble real paintings! Colored pencils are the perfect medium to use for children’ drawing lessons. They are easily available from many local art supply shops.

When working with coloured pens you will have to choose a pencil that is capable of displaying the colors which you need to express. It is always important to make sure that the colors you use are of fantastic quality. Most art supply stores sell art supplies such as colored pencils at inexpensive prices. Art supply shops are a good place to begin for finding art supplies.

When you begin coloring with pencils, it’s highly advisable to start off by using a variety of mediums which are very similar to watercolors and pen. You are able to experiment with different mediums to get those which you like best. Among the best mediums for coloring is watercolor. Watercolors offer a variety of colors to pick from. This makes it feasible for you to have unlimited choices when you are coloring. A whole lot of artists prefer to work with watercolors due to the fantastic colours it offers.

Another medium that you might consider using is chalk. Chalk has a number of tones which it offers. You can even experiment with the different colors of the color chalks that is available so as to create another appearance. Art supplies stores usually sell coloured pencil sets that include everything that you need. To start painting with color pen, you can mix unique mediums together till you come up with the ones that you enjoy best.

Using art supplies such as art pencils permits you to create your own art that you may share with other people and show off to friends. Even in the event that you don’t intend to sell any of your art, you can always utilize art with colored pencil drawings to grow your scrapbooks or house decors. These exceptional mediums are fun and simple to use and bring out the imagination in your painting or drawing!

Donald Trump with sheep in Minecraft
Donald Trump is surrounded by his sheep in this Expressionist painting in Minecraft.

Are we all sheep?

The 2020 Election will soon tell us if Donald Trump’s presidency was an aberration or if it is a sign of more to come. Trump’s followers are intensely loyal. Some might even call them sheep.

Human society is a very complex system. The interactions of the individuals are governed by rules and regulations, which form the fabric that holds society together.

Sentient beings have a tendency to gather in groups. We call these groups societies. All societies are governed by rules and regulations, whether they be written or unwritten.

The rules and regulations that govern human society are derived from the very nature of humans themselves. Human nature cannot be separated from the rules and regulations, for they are not separate.

The traits that define humans are as follows:

  1. People have the ability to sense and perceive their environment. This is called perception.
  2. People have the ability to react to their environment through actions they choose, called agency.
  3. People have the ability to perceive their own actions and those of others, called consciousness.
Moonlight figure in Minecraft
A lone figure stands in the moonlight in this watercolor painting from Minecraft.
Skeleton in Minecraft
A skeleton stands at watch in a charcoal drawing from Minecraft.

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Getting a saddle in Minecraft

Mama and baby horse in Minecraft

Ever since Minecraft added horses to the game, everyone wants saddles. With a saddle, you can ride horses, and a few other animals in the game. But finding saddles is tricky business. It’s not the easiest thing to do!

Can you make saddles in Minecraft?

The short answer? Nope. It’s a little strange that in a game called Minecraft you cannot craft a popular item like saddles. Instead, you need to find one. The good news about saddles is that they’re straightforward to find. Maybe not totally easy, but straightforward.

Finding saddles in chests

The most common place to find saddles is in chests. These chests are scattered around in various places in the Minecraft world. Spots like dungeons, desert temples, and even a Nether Fortress.

Different locations have different likelihoods of having a chest containing a saddle. Your best odds are looking in a Nether Fortress, but that’s more difficult to get to and fight your way through in survival mode.

Fishing for saddles

The easiest way to get a saddle is by fishing. It will take some patience, because each time you fish, you have a slightly less than 1% chance of getting a saddle. But even if you have to fish 100-150 times, you’re very likely to get one. You’ll also get a lot of fish!

Fishing for saddles in Minecraft
Fishing is boring, but it’s an effective way to get a saddle in Minecraft.

This is a boring, but safe and effective way to get a horse saddle. Even if it takes a while, it’s sometimes a lot quicker than mounting an expedition to a desert temple, dungeon, or other remote location in the game.

How you get your saddle is up to you, but once you have it, you can ride tame horses and other animals in Minecraft!

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Amazing Minecraft Maps

Beautiful Sunset in Minecraft

Have you ever been curious about ways to get more from your game of Minecraft?

You can increase the overall gameplay to limitless levels with Minecraft maps. Minecraft maps are customized made worlds that are preserved within the Minecraft video game.

They may be anything from an incredible role playing experience that draws you within an epic storyline, to a difficult challenge or puzzle training course map that lab tests your dexterity, skills, and issue solving ability.

Minecraft maps are custom-created worlds that players create and save within the Minecraft game. They entail a quest to move from one point to another, following certain restrictions. Consequently, the maps can be anything ranging from a great role playing expedition that immerses a player into a great story to an interesting puzzle map that puts to the test your problem-solving skills. The maps just present endless possibilities, the only limit probably being your imagination. Surprisingly, anyone can create amazingly unique worlds with Minecraft; below is a detailed guide on how to install Minecraft PC Version and create exceptional custom maps.

With Minecraft maps, the options are endless truly. Really the only limit is your very own creativity. Anyone can create their very own world inside the game. Give it a try for yourself and talk about your Minecraft globe with everyone!

Would you like to know how to play these amazing maps? If you are the adventurous kind, then you might want to try Minecraft adventure maps. Let’s learn!

The Minecraft PC edition is built on Java, and you can play on any Mac, Linux or Windows machine provided you’ve installed suitable hardware and software. While Minecraft appears to be simple, beneath the surface, this game is extremely sophisticated. The procedural creation of the game and in- game physics requires decent hardware to truly enjoy. Consequently, the edition has a lengthy demo that its designers highly recommend taking advantage of buying to establish if your computer has everything it takes to enjoy Minecraft experience.

How to sign up and install Minecraft PC Version

Start by signing up for an account free of charge and either play the demon or go straight to buying a copy of the game. Signing up is quite simple; you only provide a valid email address and a password( which you create ). A verification email from the developer prompts you to confirm your email. On clicking on the confirmation link, it takes you to the next stage of the sign-up process: setting up an username and buying the game.

Now proceed to download and install the game . On the download window, select the right download for your PC; if you’re using Windows, select Minecraft. exe; for Linux, or any other OS capable of running JAVA, use Minecraft. jar file. Operating System X users, on the other hand, should use the Minecraft. dmg.

The Different Kinds of Minecraft Maps

There are many different categories or genres of Minecraft Maps that you can play. Here are some of the most popular types.

Adventure Maps

Adventure maps in Minecraft concentrate on telling a story primarily, and enable you to play out the function of the primary character in the experience. Ensure that you read all the in-game text, because they shall offer guidelines on how to proceed, and permit you to follow the main tale of the map.

CTM (Complete the Monument) Maps

In CTM (Complete the Monument) maps, you are positioned in a difficult area filled with dangerous mobs and must survive and discover particular objects that can be utilized to comprehensive a monument.

Horror Maps

If you’re up for a bit of a thrill and want a more tense Minecraft experience, then try out a horror map! Be warned though, most maps have many jump scares, including sounds from custom source packs. Not for the faint of heart.

How to Build Minecraft Maps

Create the landscape; there are several ways to create a great scene including;

Shaping the world by hand; this approach is, however , suitable for a minuscule project and only when you have plenty of free time. Otherwise, you should consider using any of the following mods or programs:

  • MC Edit, an open source program that enables you to update your present world. It is somewhat clunky but has several essential features like the ability to utilize some MC edit features to execute an array of things.
  • World Edit, a portion of the SPC ( Single Player Commands) mod allows you to alter and shape the terrain from inside the game. It, nonetheless, requires some amount of learning curve.
  • Voxel Sniper is a very powerful tool that you can use when terraforming your world. This program is not only versatile but also serves as a wonderful compliment to World Edit.

Build the structure. The choice of the edifice to create depends on what you need for your adventure map.

Add the details; after building the structure, you need to append the details. Use any of the following ways to achieve your objective:

Sign Dialogue

Here you use a symbol to deliver the dialogue the player is speaking to or by. If speaking to; you typically should trap an NPC, Villager or any other item akin to them.

Found Notes

Among the very many ways to implement Found Notes are Image to map which converts a photo to an in- game map and Command Blocks, the most powerful block in Minecraft. The latter, nonetheless, requires that you first switch to creative mode and enable the cheats.

Add loot and additional features; finally, add the loot (if any) for your players along with any other feature hat you might require, like red stone contraptions. It is advisable to be at least relatively handy with red stone because it can significantly affect the impressiveness of your maps.

Minecraft PC edition is the most versatile and evidently provides the most bang-for-money especially if you consider the various multiplayer servers. This version, additionally , allows you to change the entire game using different mod packs entirely. Use the above comprehensive procedure to install and create Minecraft maps. Take your time while building the maps; avoid rushing or setting deadlines that are too tight, because doing so affects, adversely, the quality of the outcome.

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Tips for Trading with Villagers in Minecraft

Villager in Village, Hi

Clicking on a villager can open up a GUI allowing a new player to trade with the villager. NBT data, nevertheless, is ignored, so the content material of a written book will not matter.

In Java Edition, your trades prize the participant with 3-6 experience, or 8-11 experience if the villager is in circumstances where it is ready to breed of dog. Trading a different give may activate an offer once again. This is especially true in Bedrock editions, except that one trades don’t reward any knowledge: the first-tier trades of a Farmer, the rotten flesh trade of a Cleric, the pork chop trade of a Butcher, or the string trade of a Fletcher. For instance, if a farmer villager includes a trade that is 8 pumpkins for 1 emerald, and a collection of 64 pumpkins is exchanged, this will count as 8 tries with each attempt having a 20% possibility to reactivate the villager’s trades. all shepherds will spawn with just two choices, buying wool and offering shears). When they do, they’ll receive Regeneration I and be encircled with purple and green contaminants for a couple seconds. After an give has been used 12 situations, it is guaranteed to end up being deactivated. The opportunity of an offer’s deactivation is certainly random, but an offer can be used at least two times before it is qualified to receive deactivation. When an give is disabled, a crimson X can look in the trading user interface, and it gets the same particle impact as an give being created. Each career includes a set sequence of tiers, and can only unlock a finite amount of offers.

Minecraft desert village viewed from above.

Different careers are designated to each villager, and so are viewable in the trading GUI. They are able to unlock new tiers when a preexisting give is traded. Each tier contains a defined group of trade presents, and the tiers will be the same for just about any given career ( start to see the chart below).

Any trade with a villager is guaranteed to reactivate available choices (and unlock a tier, if some haven’t yet been unlocked) the 1st time it is traded. For instance, brown-robed villagers could be fletchers or fishermen; e. On subsequent trades, it’ll only have a 20% potential for doing this, per trade. etc . blacksmiths could be armorers or weapon smiths; All presents involve emerald as a currency, plus some item pertinent to the villager’s profession. Every villager spawns with tier 1 of their given profession, which range from 2-4 preliminary unlocked trades (i. Remember that the trading GUI should be shut before a villager will unlock a fresh tier.

Villagers will deactivate an give if the offer offers been used some amount of situations. It is certainly also the only legitimate approach to obtaining bottles o’ enchanting in Survival setting.

Villagers will distinguish between harm values, so different shades of wool cannot replace light wool, charcoal can’t be traded instead of coal, and damaged equipment cannot be traded instead of fully repaired equipment. Villagers will make offers predicated on their profession and profession, and can only make trades predicated on what offers that they’re making. Different offers could be seen by pressing the still left and correct buttons next to the presently displayed offer. Trading enables the acquisition of odd products.

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A Few Minecraft Paintings

Minecraft Painting - Ship

This is a very small collection of a few paintings inspired by scenes from Minecraft. All of these were created with Topaz Studio 2 and Photoshop after starting with some carefully-selected Minecraft screenshots.

Minecraft Village Painting - Van Gogh
A village at night, painted in Van Gogh style.
Canyon surrounded by trees.
A canyon surrounded by trees in an Expressionism style.
Jungle Lagoon from Minecraft
A lagoon deep in the jungle in the style of Edward Hopper

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Ready for a New Minecraft Adventure

New Game in Minecraft

I’m playing Minecraft again and ready for a new adventure. This morning I decided to begin a brand new game of Survival Mode Minecraft. It’s my favorite mode for gameplay. I love messing around in Creative, but Survival is a lot more fun.

I started near a hill and made the decision to build my house on the top of it.

With any new game, you need to first find wood! I gathered plenty and assembled my first set of tools, including a pickaxe, shovel, and axe. Then I started digging down to try and find some coal to make plenty of torches.

Finding coal is one of the first things to do.

I also dug up a lot of dirt, because the house I wanted to build for my first night was just a simple dirt house. It’s not very exciting, but it works for the first night.

I kept digging down and found some iron. Seven blocks in total, which was enough to start smelting into enough iron bars to make an iron sword and iron pickaxe.

Soon I found some iron, too.

After a lot of digging, I had enough dirt to build my house. It’s ugly, yeah, but it’s home.

Home, sweet, dirt home.

Here I am inside my dirt house, armed with my iron sword and ready to see what more fun I can discover underground.

Ready for adventures, with iron sword in hand.

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The Minecraft Villager Up Close and Personal

Minecraft Villager Standing in Village

Villagers are passive Non-Player Character types (NPCs) that spawn and move around in Villages. They have different roles, such as priests, butchers, blacksmiths, farmers, nitwit, and librarians and spawn in their respective buildings. They possess large, bald heads, green eyes, mono-brows, and long, huge noses.

Villagers are considered as one of the most intelligent of all peaceful mobs. However, there are some factors that they are unaware of or pay no attention to. Villagers realize the day-night cycle as well. Villagers are not fond of water, and unlike the other peaceful mobs, will immediately attempt to find an escape route. Villagers will attempt to avoid zombies. However, they do not attempt to escape any attackers except zombies. Unlike other mobs, villagers do not notice when they are set on fire, making any source of fire extremely harmful to a village’s population. Villagers won’t run if they are burning aswell, displaying no try to place the fire out.

Villagers only spawn in villages which may be located only in the flattest (or near to smooth ) biomes, such as for example desert biomes, savannas, and plains. Whenever a villager notices a zombie, they immediately start to hightail it from their website. Villagers are fast plenty of to flee a zombie. Nevertheless, this won’t constantly protect them. When it turns into nighttime, all villagers move in-doors to protection. However , there exists a flaw in this behavior. Whenever it really is raining outside, villagers still understand it as day time. Zombies, however , won’t die since it is raining, and sunlight is not out. This may trigger some villagers to die. Villagers may also run aside when they visit a Vindicator or an Evoker.

A prevalent view in a village will be villagers facing one another, assuming the human-like feature of “talking”. Whenever a player episodes a villager, they possess steam via their heads, most- most likely indicating anger or frustration. By 1 . 6, villagers will make noises (sounding similar to a “hmmm”, a grunt, or a humming audio ). They make sounds on several events: when breeding can be activated, when hit by a new player, or whenever a player trades with one.

Trading with Villagers

Villagers could be bartered with in the overall game for various products based on their ” career ” or kind of villager. The currency that they deal with are emeralds. Some villagers will trade for emeralds, while some will need emeralds and present products. Farmer type villagers, known for his or her brown clothes, are recognized to trade products linked to farming, such as for example wheat, carrots, potatoes, and melon seeds for emeralds, or vice versa. The butcher type, known for the brownish clothes and white apron, will trade for meats such as for example porkchops, beef, mutton, and poultry. It is a lot more common for the trade to need the raw edition of the meats. Priests, which may be identified by their complete purple clothes, trade for Ender Pearls and Eye of Ender. In addition they permit the player to get enchanted products by trading an unenchanted edition of that, and a few emeralds as the price of enchanting that. The blacksmith kind of villager trades for armor and equipment and weapons. The librarian villager is well known for his all white clothes and ” intelligent ” appear, buys paper and offers publication and navigational related products, such as for example bookshelves and compasses. Finally there is an added villager known as the Nitwit, it wears a green robe and will not trade when one correct clicks him.

Villagers all focus on one trade contract. Once the participant will this trade and closes the trading user interface, the villager could have a ” considering ” type animation and develop another trade. This will two things. Initial, it allows even more trading choices, up to maximum of 5 per villager, and second, it resets the trade. Each trade can be utilized 3-5 instances until it should be reset once again. The villager is only going to reset if the ultimate or “newest” trade is completed one or more times. Once all five are unlocked, continuing the last trade will continue steadily to reset the trades, and in addition has a little potential for replacing a preexisting trade with a fresh one.

Trading is among the fastest methods for getting emeralds legitimately in survival setting without the utilization of cheats, while farming pets and crops are much faster than digging for emeralds. This enables players to continuously trade and renew trades that yield emeralds to the participant. That is also known occasionally as “farming emeralds”, or “emerald bartering. “

By Minecraft 1 . 8, the villagers’ trading got a major upgrade. Villagers could will have many trades if they are spawned providing the participant more versatility when trading. Another element that helps can be that whenever trading, fresh trade possibilities may appear depending on just how many fresh trades players possess made already.

The Exploration Upgrade added new “cartographer” villagers, who’ll trade their Exploration Map for a Compass and varied levels of Emeralds gathered by the player.

Popularity with Villagers

A player’s reputation within a specific village could be increased or decreased in lots of ways, with one notable consequence: if the participant has a reputation below -15, naturally spawned Iron Golems can be permanently hostile towards the participant. Popularity could be obtained by trading, breeding, etc ., but will lower by attacking villagers and/or iron golems. A player’s popularity could be saturated in one village, however lower in another.