Hi there to all you Casual Gamers out there. Random C here, it has been a while since I updated anything here so I thought I better get back to it.
If you are looking for build ideas in Minecraft you most definitely have come to the right place. I love minecraft, and the modding community that build wonderful furniture mods, mechanical mods, tinkering mods and of course the modders that added Redwood trees and Ruins.
My Favourite mods are Natura which adds the huge Redwood Trees, Tinkers Construct, and of course any mod that adds Christmas themes! I whole-heartedly thank the people that code these mods, as they add so much to the game. I will admit, my partner adds these mods onto my profiles for me, but, I am learning how to do this (slowly).Above, you can see my version of the Great library from one of my favourite builds, however this blog is more about Christmas themes.
I finally managed to work out how to use a condenser microphone and decided to talk about one of my builds, the Redwood Christmas Tree. I tend to do all builds alone as I have OCD about them, as you will hear from my vlogging partner and Foster Daughter, Random E, in my vlog. The Build took me around three hours and is part of a much bigger build 'The Hotel' , I hope you enjoy it and please leave any feedback here or under the video on you tube, vlogging feedback especially welcome as this is a new adventure for me and, I hope, not to painful for all you casual gamers out there!
Well, what can I say about this latest expansion form Blizzard.
DEMON HUNTER! I love it, the weapons are great, and the Havoc Trait is a good playing style.
I absolutely love the starting quest and working with the broken ones, (they are my favorites) although my man prefers the Shiva's.
It has taken me a while to write an update on this as I have been so busy playing it. I bought the pre-order and played a tonne of invasions, mainly for the Armour, although I was lucky enough to gain a few weapons for my characters too. I created an alliance Demon Hunter, Bumped my druid up to 100 with crafting skills upgraded to 700 and then left her until launch day. I paled my Demon hunters story line until she hit 100 and then started to level my alts.
I have currently played through the invasion on Dalanaar and am headed to Stormhold, i get the funny feeling Silvanas is going to enter the battlefield at some point but only time will tell.
I was lucky enough not to have any issues with launch day, except a queue, but that was expected. Al in all from this side, it was a pretty successful launch and it has bee a good expansion so far.
There has been a lot, and I mean a lot, of talk about Pokemon Go. Most of it is positive but there are some people who seem to have jumped on the meme wagon without truly thinking through what the game is all about.
lets start at the beginning, nope not the beginning of Pokemon, but the beginning of Niantic, the company that created the, in my opinion, first augmented reality app, Ingress.
Ingress is a game were people like me went out to capture portals all over the city, or for other people, the globe itself. It's a map of portals superimposed onto google maps and the aim of the game is to capture as many of the 'Enlightened', I mean oppositions portals as possible. In order to capture portals you had to get out your house and travel, walk, or in some cases, hike to portals, hack the portal for items, blow up all the resonators on that portal, and then place all your teams resonators on that portal to claim it for the resistance... or the enlightened... if you were that way inclined. To me, this was a way to get me out walking and get some exercise, it had the bonus of being fun too. In other words it motivated me to become a little healthier than I was before.
Niantic then created the overnight phenomenon, that is Pokemon Go. Now the Gyms in this game work basically the same as an ingress portal, you sent in your Pokemon to try and take down the opposition and claim the Gym, but there is so much more to it. You walk even more with Pokemon Go. You are out at Pokestops collecting items such as Pokeballs to capture Pokemon in, your wandering endlessly looking for Pokemon, especially rare ones. You get home you can 'power up' the Pokemon you have caught or evolve them, you can send your duplicate Pokemon to the in-game professor for Pokemon candy in order to evolve or power up your Pokemon. So I made the switch to Pokemon Go because there was more to do for me.
My Niece, who lives with us, didn't play Ingress. It was a bit too grown up for her and it was not her style, I had to play it by myself when she was at school, but Pokemon lets us go out together and walk. She talks a lot more when we walk together so I know whats going on with her more now than I ever did because we can be walking for hours, not just the ten minutes it takes to get her to school. She loves the app, she gets all excited when she catches a new one and so do I.
I would not feel comfortable with her going out alone or with friends to play the app as she is only ten but this is where it is good to be an adult who plays games, or apps, like this. We both have fun, I can keep an eye on her and make sure she is safe, and its something that we all have in common in our house, when you have 'tweenagers', yes I said 'tweenagers', having something in common is always a great thing no matter how small it may seem.
My Niece had seen some of the Facebook memes and decided to do her vlog about Pokemon, she asked me to record her video and ask questions during it. She answered in her own way, she is straight up and truly, even had a perspective on this I had not thought of. So please watch, enjoy and please, learn from her words.
So you've bought the game because you've heard all of the hype but you really don't know much about the survival aspect of the game.
There are a few things you need to do to help you survive through the first night in the game but you only have one day to prepare, One day equals ten minutes in the 1.7 version.
You need a shelter. anything that is 3 squares by 3 squares and 3 squares high is good enough however make sure you leave a gap so as you can see the daylight again as if your mining down into your shelter through the night, you can loose track of time. You also need torches, this is a must if you don't want zombies, archers, spiders or worse, Creepers, spawning right beside you in the dark.
You can cut down trees without an axe but it wastes valuable time so make sure and get enough wood to build a crafting table, sticks, blocks for the axe head or pick axe head (for mining) and burning material to make charcoal (About 10 tree blocks) then make sure you chop wood for your shelter with either a wooden axe or a stone axe. The video below shows most of this and how to make them, although the Xbox has a click option that does it all for you if you have the right materials but I am not sure about the Play-station versions, so if you do need to know, it's in the video.
You do not always have to make a shelter either, if you spawn next to a cave, you can just block it up with dirt to keep you going through the first few nights until you gather what you need. You might want to make a stone sword in preparation for fighting at night or a pick axe if you prefer to mine at night too.
I often take notions to build full villages or towns with a main house that I use for crafting and shelter at night. This scenario has two man houses so far however as its meant to be for PVP once its all built. I still need to build the third house but the village is working and the farming is dealt with.
In the main house I have all of the tinkering set up. With the tinkering mod you get double the ore when smelting and you can make weapons, armor and tools out of copper, steel and other metals, as well as wood. Its a handy set up to have as sometimes Iron is somewhat difficult to come by.
Just as a recap the mods I use for this profile are:
Bibliocraft
Tinkers construct
Natura
BiomesOPlenty
Carpenters Blocks
Decocraft
Forestry
Chisel2
Growthcraft
Gardenstuff
Journeymap
NEI
Waila
Ruins
My favorite story line of all the WOW expansions so far has to be the Gilneas one. For anyone that may be thinking of going back to WOW or for any teenagers that are thinking of trying out World of Warcraft I would highly recommend trying out the Worgen first off.
Wow is a very longstanding MMO and as such there are always kids wanting to try it out so this is a walk through specifically geared for any new players but if your nostalgic this may well take you back to World of Warcraft.
You begin by being sent to speak to Prince Liam and Quest 1 and 2 involve killing 6 Worgens, and evacuating the market square, be aware that once you knock on a door to evacuate the person, an aggro Worgen may come out too.
You need to speak to Gwen Armstead as well, she will give your quest 3 and ask you to try and find and bring back supplies that have been stolen.
Quest 4 - is your trainers quest
Speak to your trainer, Druid, hunter, warlock etc, in the military district, hes not far form the market square. You get your second ability.
They then give you Quest 5 which is to use your new ability, if you're a hunter this is 'Steady shot' to kill Bloodfang Worgens. You can find these on to the west on your map and the area is highlighted blue on the mini map.
Quest 6 is called safety in numbers and you need to report back to King Graymane in the military district.
Quest 7 is called Old Divisions and the king asks you to go and speak to Captain Bodreck regarding Darius Crowley inside the Stoneward Prison. Use your mini map in the top corner and follow the route to the yellow question mark. this
Speak to Lord Godfrey who is next to the king and he gives you Quest 8, called 'While you're at it' you need to kill 5 Bloodfang.
This video takes you through the first 8 Quests.
Quest 9 is where you speak to Captain Broderick and he sends you up to speak to Lord Darius Crowley.
Quest 10, the Prison Rooftop He asks you to survive 2 minutes of attacks form mass groups of Worgens. the easiest way to do this is by hitting the tab button as you see the Worgens coming and hit your attack buttons, hit tab and attack and so on as if this is your first attempt at this quest it might look like a disaster but it's not really. In the video below my niece is playing with me and she manages it by using the tab button and pressing the number key for her attack move too.
Quest Eleven, 'Brothers in Arms' asks you to go back and speak to King Greymane.
Quest Twelve, 'The Rebel Lords arsenal' asks you to speak to Josiah Avery
This video takes you through to Quest twelve.
After speaking to Josiah you are given quest 13 'From the shadows'. You have to kill Bloodfang Lurkers. You are given a Mastiff to help you as they can see them. When you here a (in my nieces words) a ghostly noise nearby, press control and 1 and your mastiff will attack if the Bloodfang lurker is in range, press tab to target it and then attack.
Quest 14 sends you back to speak to the King. Quest 15 the king asks you to Save Krennan Aranas, you are given a horse and when you near Krennan, who is hanging from a tree, you click the new action you have been given and your horse then takes you and Krennan back to the king. Quest 16, 'Time to re-group is completed when you speak to the king. While you are speaking to the king you may want to stop for a while and listen to the conversation the king is having with Lord Darius Crowley.
Speak to Crowley, he gives you quest 17, 'Sacrifices'. you ride with Lord Crowley and round up 30 Bloodfang Stalkers, this quest can be confusing as you're not actually rounding them up but potentially throwing grenades at them. If you don't round up 30 you won't get the next quest from Tobias Mismantle, jump on a horse next to him and go back out to get the full 30 Bloodfang Stalkers. Also, if Tobias Mismantle is dead when you reach the cathedral, you will need to wait on him re-spawning to get the next quest (These have both happened to me in the past and are irritating but fixable).
Tobias gives you Quest 18, 'By Blood and Ash'. You need to use the cannons to kill 80 Bloodfang Stalkers. He then tells you to go and speak to Lord Darius Crowley inside the cathedral. Crowley asks you to kill more Bloodfangs and once you have completed this you get a nice little cut scene to watch...and it is one of my favorite scenes of this story line.
After the scene you find yourself in Duskhaven, speak to the king, once you have spoken to him you must speak to Lord Godfrey for the 21st quest.
This takes you through to the transition and onto Quest 21.
