And than there were the inactivity...

Yeah, I have not been able to maintain my blogs the way I wanted to when I decided to relaunch my original blog. I am back now though, or at least I hope I will be. I got some very interesting projects going on in my survival world, so there will be a lot of interesting projects going up here in the upcoming months or so. The projects I have at the moment will primarily evolve around my transportation system, but also around expanding my already existing farms and generators. I am hoping to finish my tree farm over the course of 2017, but I said that last year that I would finish the farm over the course of 2016, so it is probably very likely that I will not even get close to reaching my goal of finishing it over the course of the year, as there are a whole load of work I need to finish. I was conducting a minor inspection of my farm recently, and the signs are not looking good as I will have to either raise the tree farm by a few blocks to make it pass over a desert that will block my progress shortly, or I can choose the more tidious option which is to remove the sand that are in my way and use that sand to produce the glass I will inevitably need for my tree farm when the time comes for me to enclose in a glass cube.

Aside from my tree farm being a constant pain in my side, I also need to continue my progress on my transportation system. I am currently working on making a system which will make it possible for me to travel in between my builds at my primary base. I currently got my main base connected to my roller coaster project, but I still need to connect my secondary base as well as my plot I have designated for future expansions. So there are a whole load of work that needs to be done, so I will probably have to get right to it if I am to have any hope of achieving anything in my survival world.

Hopefully I will be more active in the future, but I cannot guarantee anything. Because I got a whole load of stuff to take care of on my own side. But I'll see what I can do as we go along :).



Oh and yeah, in case anyone is wondering, I will probably use my Google name to sign my posts from here on out.

- Mattias.

Plan for the day: August 2nd

Hi everyone, and welcome to my plans for the day!



Primary goals for today

• Find and locate an area on the map that could be used to design a sea- and mountain based base. The base would be equipped with a storage facility, a small harbor, as well as living quarters. The base would be built in such a fashion that it starts as a boat house out at sea and integrates into the mountain.
• Begin the first stages of constructing the base, which amongst much else includes connecting the base to the world network in the nether for easy and convenient access to it.
• Document the first few stages of the project, and post it as a short tutorial on the blog.
• Plan and lay the foundation for the base, as well as planning what should be included in it's design

Secondary goals

• Complete the first stage of the base, which involves building a starter's house.
• Carve out the first stages of the mountain-part of the base.
• Make the base independent with it's own food supply.

This will the first time I am building a base of this type, so it will be very interesting to see how this one turns out.

- Shaun.

Welcome home! (introducing my primary base)

Hi everyone!


So for the first post in my quest to tell the story of my survival world, I decided to focus on the most essential and key parts of my survival world, that being the very heart and core of it all: My primary base, storage facility, mine, secondary observation deck, and the first tree farm I ever built, the latter of which remains a vital part of my everyday activities in my survival world.

View of my primary base from my bridge. On the right hand side we can see my tree farm which currently supplies my world with birch wood, and in the middle of the shot we can see my secondary observation deck which in the early days of my world served as a waypoint I could see when exploring the fresh lands around my base. It has later lost much it's former use, but still serves as a observation deck. Just underneath the observation deck, covered in protective cobblestone and "hidden" away (or used to be hidden away in it's earlier days), there, you can find my primary base. 

Let's start off with my primary base. When I first started to play Minecraft, I was a noob, and had no experience whatsoever with builds in Minecraft. So what I ended up doing during my first day in Minecraft, was I found a naturally generated cave, cealed of the lower bottom of it, and carved my home into it's entrance. This, was my first establishment and the place I spent my first night and second day in before I was able to gather enough resources to build what now resides on top, that being a small and simple square house. It was originally built in wood and had only 2floors, each floor being 2blocks high, but after reading on the wiki that wood could burn down if hit by lightning, I decided to cover my base in cobblestone just in case so as to avoid it burning to the ground.

The entrance to my primary base as it appears today. During special occassions the walls here will be covered in banners in all kinds of colors, depending on the occassion.

In the early days of my survival world, I lacked the experience and will to fight the hostile mobs that lurked around my base, and I did not want to walk far away from my base and running the risk of starving to death, as I had no idea how to gather food. Yes, I was that noobish back in the old days of my world. The only food I knew about was bread, and the wheat took forever to mature, so I had to conserve as much energy as I possibly could and walk as little as possible. On day 3, I therefor ended up making a run for it and collected enough sand to smelt the glass I needed to build a small and simple greenhouse, taking the shape of a glass cube with oak wood as it's framing. This, was what would turn into my first tree farm when I finally sorted my food situation out properly. Due to my paranoia of being stalked by creepers and other mobs, I ended up connecting my tree farm to my base through the use of an above-ground tunnell, which made it possible for me to harvest wood and access my tree farm without having to go out into the outdoors. Though this tunnell has later turned into more of a hinder rather than something useful, it has been able to survive to this day and it's still used, though rarely now that I have built a proper walkway system. As I stockpiled on resources, I began running out of resources, and had to expand my base with a small warehouse. With how paranoid I was about being stalked by creepers, I ended building my warehouse directely connected to my base, and have it hover in midair so as to save down on ground floor. Without knowing it back than, I had set the stage for what would later turn into my signature build in Zurvival, that being my supermassive base, built 98% in midair.

A view from inside my mine which is located underneath my primary base. 

As time passed, I soon began expanding my base, and over the two years that have passed, I have expanded my primary base to encompass a tree farm, cow and sheep farms, an automated smeltery, and my most recent addition; a massive warehouse which will store all my future resources and items. The mine underneath my base also serves as an extension to the base itself, seeing that it has turned into more of a caving project over the years rather than just for mining purposes. My base also features a two laned transportation system via minecarts, which takes you to the rest of my survival world, though it has not been expanded properly yet with the two lanes.

My automated smeltery. It runs on lava and will automatically smelt resources. Because it's located inside my spawn chunks, it will constantly smelt resources on it's own, no matter how far away I go. As long as I'm in the Overworld and it has enough fuel and stuff to smelt, it will run without the need for me to replenish any of the resources. 

My primary base will be shown a significant bit of attention in the nearest future, seeing that my current major project, my new warehouse, are being constructed just behind it. My warehouse will be connected to my primary base, and will be accessed through entering the base and than the warehouse itself. I am currently also planning to add a conveyor belt of hoppers so that I can transport resources from my mines to my base, but we're talking long-term plans as I do not have the resources required for such an extensive operation to be undertaken.





See you around in the next post, so please do stay tuned :)!


- Mattias.

Minecraft neste?

God dag til alle lesere!

Ja jeg vet det har vært en stund siden sist nå. Har hatt det svært travelt i det siste så jeg har dessverre ikke hatt tid til å avse for bloggen. Men jeg har ikke gitt opp, så ta det med ro, det blir mer i fremtiden :). Årsaken til at jeg skriver dette her nå er at jeg har opprettet en splitter ny blogg dedikert til Minecraft. Bloggen vil følge min utvikling i en egen verden jeg har døpt Zurvival 2-1. Jeg vil vise dere mine byggverk, og kanskje også lage en del bruksveiledninger for hvordan jeg har bygget dem slik at dere selv kan være med å bygge hvis dere skulle ønske det. Siden jeg for lengst har lagt bort Panfu som tema på bloggen min, synes nå i hvert fall jeg det er på høy tid at jeg går videre og starter med noe nytt. Så fra og med nå vil jeg publisere flere og flere innlegg her med Minecraft, frem til Minecraft tar helt over. Jeg vil publisere både på norsk og engelsk. Engelske innlegg vil bli publisert på en egen blogg mens de norske blir publisert her på shaunogvenner. Så følg med, for det vil skje en merkbar utvikling her fremover.

Da ses vi!

- Shaun.