Sorry for the late post. I just noticed that I never actually told you what happened after I made the mistake in the
Minecraft Tips Post #2 and Minecraft Mini-Lesson #1 post. Well, I dug straight down, since there aren't underground caves. After about 2 minutes, I found iron: there were two iron ore blocks showing on the side of my tunnel. I dug both of them and stepped into the space where they used to be to see if there were any more iron ore blocks. There was one right above me. I dug it, and four pieces of gravel fell on top of me and I started suffocating. I quickly dug the four gravel blocks before I died, but I was lucky. If there had been more gravel on top, I probably wouldn't have been able to dig my way out fast enough. So, now you know why it's better safe than sorry, even if you're in Pocket Edition.
I've been having a ton of fun trying out the new features in the computer version of Minecraft. One thing I really like about the computer version is Creative Mode. It's exactly like survival mode, but with unlimited items and invincibility. Yes, I know that sounds kind of obvious, but what I mean is that Creative mode in Pocket Edition is totally different, and it's not really as fun. It takes away a lot of the fun stuff in survival mode, like the day/night cycle and hostile mobs. Not to mention that even peaceful mobs don't spawn naturally and require spawn eggs (and there's only 4 peaceful mob spawn egg types available right now.)
I'm amazed by the
variety of stuff in the computer version. There's just so much. The huge variety of blocks and items makes structures look really realistic, and I'm totally a building person in Minecraft. This is a good time to mention that I
love building from tutorials. I'm working on using more creativity when thinking of ideas for things to build in Minecraft, but I still think it's fun to build awesome things that other people have built.
Right now I'm building an
Ender Dragon statue from a
YouTube tutorial at a 16:1 scale. That's one pixel on the real Ender Dragon to one block on the statue, which is a scale that's commonly used in Minecraft to build statues of mobs or players. I'm going to post screenshots of it in progress. Right now, I'm building the head. It's so huge that bats are spawning inside of it! Here's some pictures:
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| Some very confused bats |
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| The inside of the unfinished head |
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| The view from the outside |
Unfortunately, my dragon is going batty. Excuse the old-fashioned, not-really-that-funny pun. I will try to get more posts out now, especially book reviews, because I kinda forgot about those for a while.
