With the latest update to Minecraft, which I posted about previously, I was reminded that it had been a couple of years and a few updates since I last really dove into the world of one meter blocks. So I decided to see what The Wild update… and the other two since The Nether update… had brought to the game.
The Wild update arrives
I wasn’t really ready to commit to a rolling up a whole new world, but I didn’t want to play solo either. So I went and played on the AOKayCraft server, which is run by one of what I consider the extended family of our corner of the blogesphere.
I have, in fact, see the giant recycling center and the hospitality center shown on the site. I even claimed a room.
And running around there helped get me back into the mood for Minecraft. I was able to fiddle with the field of vision settings to get it to the point where it wasn’t causing instant motion sickness on my 34″ monitor every time I turned around quickly.
Meanwhile, we were taking on the plains in Valheim and slaying Yagluth and kind of reaching an end to our journey there. There were still things to do, and I am not pulling down that server quite yet. There is still some slim hope that the mistlands biome might show up some day soon, given how much the devs have been teasing it. (And because they’ve also got the game on XBox live for PC and XBox… which Microsoft did the dev work for… so they will have even more customers eventually hitting a wall after Yagluth.)
I will have more to post about when it comes to Valheim, but it really felt like we might need to find another title to occupy us. Of course, there is a promise of Wrath of the Lich King Classic, but Blizz has not been forthcoming with dates on that.
Meanwhile, we all knew Minecraft and there isn’t a co-op server world easier to roll up than doing one on Minecraft Realms. At least not one that I know of. So I put that in motion quickly enough.
The main delay was that I wasn’t interested in a random world. I kind of wanted something good, something with some resources nearby that we could dive right into. So I went Googling around for the best 1.19 Java Edition world seeds.
I came up with one (seed 5636173029472278327) that starts you near a village that is next to a ravine with a large mining complex in it. It was also close to an ocean, so boat exploration was an option. I figured that would be a decent start.
But them I went over to the Chunkbase to their seed mapper to see what else was close by. There were warm oceans and badlands biomes not too far away, easily reachable by boat.
The map based on the seed value
So I fired up the Minecraft Realms account, created a fresh new world with that seed, and the group joined in. The village is nice. I still have to get used to the earth opening up right next door.
That is a heck of a drop
I wasn’t in early on the Minecraft thing. I didn’t play until Father’s Day seven years ago. But the game has actually changed a lot since then. People were worried about Microsoft taking over, and I was worried at one point that they were going to dump the Java edition, which doesn’t have a cash shop like the Bedrock edition, but things are still moving along.
Anyway, that is our home for the moment. A fresh new world is always fun.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 