Hey everyone. Welcome to the withering effect episode 67. Today's date is October 18 2020 and I am Dutch or Dutch versus known to the rest of the interwebs now. I'm Jimbo you may know me as Jimbo slice 23. So what have you been up to this week Duds? Pulling my hair out. Yeah, again, just Hang out in clumps. Yeah. So I went back to to Mountain work and determined that I don't want to do mountain work anymore. I hate the stupid Mountain.
I didn't take long. Yeah. Thinking about working on this mountain makes me just not want to play Minecraft anymore, that's how bad it's gotten, right? So I've devised a new plan for a new base, I am going to straight up move basis this late to a season. Well it's relatively early, but yeah. But when you think about it were over eleven weeks, In to a season. Yeah, yeah. So I've got a plan for new base that will still connect to the mountain.
I still plan on finishing Mountain, but it's no longer a priority, it's going to get done, it's going to get decorated. We're going to have a pirate-themed is all around it, then still going to look at. So if anyone stumbles across it in the real world they're like okay this is a nice build blah blah blah but yeah forget that mountain. Hate that mountain. Yeah yeah that can burn you out. Yes. And I was detail in my mouth. Even I could only do so much at
a time. Yeah, it's just way too much. Sometimes my Mountain was huge and you're going to build not not so much the scale of my size Mountain, but quite a few of these, what you're going to build three? Yeah, all of mine are about two-thirds of your size. So there are smaller mmm the smallest one being super small compared to yours but there are going to be three of them. Hmm. And I still had the larger Mountain which was just going to be a tiny bit smaller than your
Mountain too. You like I hadn't even built the mountain yet, let alone decorate it and textured. Yeah, it's nice to try something new. Yeah. And that's what I'm taking out of it is you could always say, you build a mount? Yeah, this is a lesson learned. That pushing my boundaries. Here's one of my boundaries I can build a mountain. No problem. Will I enjoy doing it? Not at all, but I know I can do it. Yeah, that was kind of my thing. You know, I wanted to build this
mountain. I've seen mountains being built actually at the time. My way, I started building my mouth and I saw other people starting to build mountains as the god kind of up with the trend right now. Yeah. And it kind of helped me get through building my Mountain skiing, everyone else.
Builders M&M's I'm you know, kind of I don't like I said, you know in with the trend so that kind of helped me get through it. But yeah, it's very time-consuming if you want to avoid burnout, that's something I would avoid that kind of that kind of work. Yeah, I knew burnout. This thing was going to be a real thing. So I purposely sectioned parts of this mountain off. It's like, look, hey, just work on a section at a time. It's all you have to worry
about. And the original plan was do just a section at a day, should take you 10 minutes to do a section. While it was taking me close to an hour to do a section. So, it became my only time to play Minecraft. I was texturing a mountain, multiple days in a row. I think, at one point, I did six days in a row of texturing, this mountain. I am only one third of the way through texturing, the mountain. Whoo. And I was just Like no this is
not going to work. I hate playing Minecraft right now because all it is, is texturing. A mountain? Yeah, had a base plan for earlier in the season that I didn't think was going to work but you my friend have showed me the light and it can work and I think we're going to get together and do something. Yeah. So no spoilers on the new. No spoilers just yet. Okay, but let's just say what Jimbo has been known for this season. I'm going to bring a tiny bit of that into my new base.
Are we done that? Talked about it. I already know about the plan. Hmm, should make for a fun collab. Oh, yeah. It's going to be a little bit of grind work, but nowhere near the groundwork of texturing Mountain note actually. I mean, as I've done a lot of this this season, as you mentioned, and it's a lot easier than you would think mine's got to have a little twist. Yeah, as yours is different.
Yeah. But other than that, I ended up building a blaze farm with Carl, we talked about how easy Farm building has become. Um, in Minecraft in the pre-show and me and Carl bildt, Ablaze Farm like quite literally. So, the blaze for him, it was 100% enclosed. Like, it was buried another egg. Hmm, we dug it out, built the farm decorated, the farm, put an auto smelter, and everything in it in an hour and 47 minutes that's it. Yeah, that's fast. So quick.
Usually, you have a blaze farm. There's a lot of redstone involved. Mmm, there are some where you use the He's to track the player. Yes. You know they kind of come to the player that could take a little bit but you use lava I use lava. Yeah kind of like a spawner. Yeah and 116 lava pushes mom's very much the way water pushes mobs in the Overworld. Hmm the farm is basically a skeleton or zombie grinder. Pushes it into a 2 by 2 whole.
We've got ladders on the inside to keep the entity cramming from happening. And really, we don't even let the entity cramming come close enough to it. Just chill there and it's a constant stream. Umm, of Blaze. It's not the most quickest Farm known to man, but there's relatively next to no waiting for a blazed come down, and we filled up an eight, furnace Auto smelter. Plus The Hoppers behind it and like no time. Yeah, that's crazy.
I think Carl got close to 40 something levels in an hour. Wow, yeah, that's not super fast, but considering he was already on level 20, so that's not like you getting levels like that. Anyways, it's a good Farm.
I'm really happy with And it's a huge jump from when like a commie craft you had a spawner that used rails to pick up the Blaze and those rails would drop them off and then another rail would pick that up and then drop it all up and then drop it off into a Crusher that would crush it for a few seconds. That's a law work. That's a lot of stuff. It really was to put inside a spawner adhere. Now it's just lava, push him now with Ava crazy.
It's making sure the The room is the correct size, making sure you've got enough height from the spawner. So when they hit the bottom where the lava is the spawn our goes hey I don't have any more blazes I must spawn more blazes. Yeah so by the time those guys who are on the lava get pushed into the hole, there's already more blazes falling down and when those guys hit the lava, there's more Blazers falling down and it's not an XP replacement farm for the
interment Farm by no means. Am I saying that but the fact that you get a fuel source of high quality fuel source at that while getting SP love it. Yeah, it was could say it is it is a great. I forgot what I was going to say, can't think of the word. It's a great. It's a great replacement for fuel. Yes, that's what I was going to say. Yeah, if you're running a coal right now, this is better. Yes, absolutely. I'm going to run mine with
sticks. Oh yeah, that's not a good fuel source but I have plenty of them but you're going to love that because that which forms running all the time. Anyways. Mmm, so good. I love when people combine Farms, right? Right, it's so cool. Yeah. What have you been up to this week? I've done. I've done a lot of resource Gathering. I'm using a lot of black stone as most of, you know, if you'd watch the episode there, a lot of black stone in my book. There's a lot of black Cinema
base. And yes, instead of me making a farm for because I, you could barter for it, get black stone. Mmm, I've been going down deep into The Nether because there's patches of black stone in the Nether and just finding out by hand. Now, this is To change. It's got to change. I can't keep doing that. I have a lot of like nether right or ancient debris I have I'm getting more and more quartz while I do this. That's the main reason why I wanted to do why I wanted to do by hand. Oh yeah.
Is just to gather the other materials I may need. Hmm. But yeah, I might have to make something to barter or some kind of barter Farm but there's a lot of other partner Farms, bartering Farms on the server. So I may have Have to use those to get the black stone, but it's not just black stone. There's a lot of other blocks I'm using in my builds and I just had to go around and gather
up resources. I try to buy as much as I can, if it's available in the shopping area, my base is just so massive that I'm going to be resource Gathering a lot. And most of the time lately, I that's what I've been doing. Hmm. Besides that. You know, I was able to build a little bit with Resources, I got and I got to play table, knees game. I know, it's been a good time, actually. All these games are pretty unique.
The what we have to do is you buy a map this map leads to either a treasure or a dungeon and sometimes the treasure that you get have another map that leads to another dungeon and these dungeons have all these different twists and turns and different things you have to do to get to different doors and sometimes. There's keys in these Treasures. It's just real unique. How he comes up with these ideas for these games. It's almost like Tango esque.
How he comes up with some of these games and it brings some trust issues with Albany. You know, you kind of like this, you like this guy being. What is he trying to do to me? That's why I've knees. Always trying to kill me. That's what's goes through my head all the time? Yeah, every every game he makes, you know, you could die, you should die. Like any game, he's made.
He's really good at mazes. He did a lot of Mazes last season, which frustrated a lot of people, you know, you get stuck in one of these mazes, you're like this guy. Oh man, this guy, I'm going to steal that walruses Tusk. Yeah, I've recorded that. It's in one of my episodes of the game and it's been a lot of fun. He's actually made it to where one person.
Just can't play the game. You need multiple people to play the game to get into certain doors and you can steal or kill each other for keys to Get in certain areas. Yeah, the main prize or these artifacts he makes like these Special artifacts for players to collect and have throughout the season and I thought that was really cool. Figured I'd share that. I don't know if I have an
artifact or not. I got a treasure which came with keys and meaning to ask you, if you ran into any doors, you couldn't unlock and what key did you need? Hi. There are keys that I need that. I couldn't get into. Mmm, but then there's areas I noticed I can't. To that have doors.
Mmm, so really curious how you get to these certain areas and at the beginning that work, many people playing this game but there's more and more people playing it and yeah, you know just have to look out for episodes. If you're interested in this game we're playing but it's been a lot of fun and I'm curious to how everything is set up. Yeah very much. I can't wait for obvious next
game. I know he's still busy on this one but the next one should be. I've been trying to convince him into trying a A Tango esque decked out. But there's just so much work in one of those and we don't really have the player count. Worthy of a game that size, yeah, man, I'd love one of those kind of collect them all games on the server. I think, that'd be really fun. Yeah, this game is a little similar to that.
I just thought was funny. You know, that Tango would come out with a game so similar to albany's, you know they're kind of another kind of on the same level there's similar but they are not a copy at all because omni's Is a treasured dungeon finder that you really have no clue what to expect. Whereas Tango is a labyrinth and you have to work your way through a labyrinth without dying, which you can learn. Hmm, but you can't learn omnes and Maps.
No, but yeah, that's that's pretty much all I've been up. We did that live stream that was actually yesterday. I started at 5 a.m. I know. I didn't see your live stream at all. Yeah, I actually had like up to 12 viewers is pretty. Wow, that's the prize as I got it before. 5:00 a.m. you don't expect many people to watch these. I started I had like seven viewers. I was like whoa, this is cool and it got up to like 12 and as a small stream around stream much 12. 12 is a good bit.
Yeah, especially at 5. A.m. yeah. And it kind of wakes you up and get you motivated to keep going. So, it was a good time. We do have to Carl mention, we got to get you set up. So your vod's actually show up on Twitch, basically your streams. We can't go back and watch old streams. Yeah, because you don't have it. Saved on Twitch. Oh, so like, yeah, I missed your streaming a straight but I went to go back to watch it and it wasn't there in Carl mentioned.
He went back to watch it also but it wasn't there. So we got to find that setting for you. Turn it on. Yeah. Yeah, let me know sure we move on to the news. Yeah that's it for miweek. All right Minecraft news, we have one 16.4 pre-release one straight up, skipping the snapshot straight into the pre-release. Mmm. So the new features are going to be a you I called social interaction screen, And the social interaction screen opens with a configurable
configurable. Holy cow key, binding by default P whether a player is hidden reset when rejoining a server. So basically what it is is if you get sick and tired of seeing someone in your chat spamming something you can mute them and it really what it is. It's a mute button for somebody in your multiplayer chat. Yeah. Mainly for smps. Hmm. What's the other thing on Bedrock Realms Realms? Yeah. Stuff like that. I'm sure for the big like Hypixel servers and stuff like
that, too. There's probably somebody always spamming something in a chat somewhere. Mmm, he can just like shut up. Click it. Also it's helpful. If you were to record something, you know, and you don't care, my dad to interrupt your recording. Hmm. So that's helpful there too. Yeah. What about the technical changes? Yeah, technical change new. Net new network protocol scheme with a high bit bit of 30 set for What's the protocol version will increase by one for each
snapshot? But full releases May keep the same protocol version as the previous full version in cases, where the network Protocols are compatible. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what that what that means. Very wordy way of saying, man, just you do you Mojang I'm sure a listers like comprehend all that. Yeah, more information is now added to the crash log in cases where poor? Is causes the server to crash. We know what that means though.
Yeah, that's all I got for the technical changes. This wasn't going to be any kind of big update. I think it is just one of the last men things. They wanted to get out before they really start hunkering down on 117, right? And I think this is the last 116 update. I don't know for sure. But yeah, 1/16 been a great update. So yeah, I'm sure they're always, you know, out there listening to any bug reports or anything that may come their way to where they Might go to one 16.5.
But yeah, there's nothing going to be added. I doubt and sound like it at least. All right. So we do have a listener, comment. Should we go ahead and read this? Yeah. All right, the email says, Hey, Duds and Jimbo. It's Chief Big Bear from Discord and Patron. I was listening to an episode from several weeks ago, and y'all were talking about another, I armor and some ways. It could improve such as adding gold to the texture and it gave me some ideas personally. Like nether, right?
Or personally, I feel like another height is just too bland and could be spiced up bit more. One of the ideas I had was that maybe if you were wearing full another right, it could give you by resistance kind of like a bit of a full armor boost since. Now, the right tools and armor are fireproof, it would be logical that wearing full another ayat would make it a player fireproof. At least for a few seconds after coming in contact with the fire or lava.
What are your thoughts and what are some other ways you think another ion? There could be improved or changed to get the players some extra Buffs, love the podcast, keep up the great work. Y'all always brighten my day stay with her Chief, Big Bear. Well, thank you for the compliments Chief, Big Bear. Yes, and thank you for joining the patron. Mmm, very nice to have you here, very much. Appreciate first thing. We can't stay withered. You gotta drink your milk.
Yeah. Drink your milk at the end. Make sure to drink your milk second. I feel like they're there is some Resistance involved with another right in Ogden, he's game. I had to swim up a downwards flowing, lava source and I just use my nether right armor. Now one of these nether, right? Armors did have fire resistance on it but by the time I got up to the top of this flowing lava source, I had like a half a heart of damage and it took it took a few seconds to get up
there and I was very surprised. I didn't take a potion. No splash potion or A thing of fire resistance, I just went right up it. Yeah, I feel like there's already some fire resistance involved with the nether, right? Maybe he's asking for a little more fire resistance, maybe without the fire resistance on the, on the armor that certain enchantment. Yeah, you know, without the enchantment give us a fire assistance, you do get the knock-back proof, it does help you with that.
Besides, that is there anyways. You would improve it. There's ways I would improve all the armors. I hate armor in Minecraft and most of its esthetical, not so much functional. I like the way enchantments and everything work. I like how you can kind of pick and choose where you want certain chant minutes to be. My biggest complaint is they are putting different Buffs on different armor sets like you don't want piglets to chase. You put on a piece of gold armor.
You don't want knock. Back put on the thing. Another right? You want to swim underwater for longer periods of time without Enchanted armor but on a turtle shell head. Yeah, there's all these different things and I think that's really cool. Except for the fact you can't customize the armor so much, and this is where I'm sure there's going to be someone arguing with me. So, you create this really cool custom skin to express yourself, and I love that. I love that Mojang. Went that way.
And then you, Cover yourself and very Bland looking armor and often as it is. Now it's very weird armor like I have another eight helmet. I have an Elijah. So basically Nothing But Wings, and then I have another right, pans and gold boots. That's my armor said the season. Mmm. None of it matches. None of it goes together. Very well, it really looks weird in changes your skin. In general, it changes this custom skin. You worked hard to design at least some of us work hard to do.
Design on and I get having different armor. Give you different Buffs, that's awesome. I really do kind of like that but to have the armor. So Bland and sewn on customizable in the looks department and everyone's going to get well you can just get a resource pack and change it that way. It's like I shouldn't have to though. I would love for there to be a built-in way in the game to upgrade armor. I've always thought another
right? You have to build another right armor with Diamond and Old. Do you just don't have another agent? A prayer? I'm done. At least there is gold in there somewhere and there's no gold on the texture of this armor. And if you do just the ingot in a smithing table to Diamond Armor to convert it to another iron armor, there's no diamond in the texture and I think that's something that should be
done. Another idea, I always had was, if you make the armor so say you worked your butt off and you have straight up another. I'd armor. Take your nether right chest plate, and you put the nether right chest plate in the smithing table. No, not the smithing table crafting table. You put it in the crafting table in the, you surround it with leather. I think you should get a leather covered another. I armor. So now you can at least die, the armor, whatever color you want.
Yeah. That's one of my ideas and I'm sorry, if that sounds weird. I was like holding a cough, back the entire time. Yeah, I agree with, you know, given it different colors. I feel like the the nether right Exterior compared to the diamond texture in the gold and all the other armor is a lot more. Unbel Aunt I guess you could say it's a lot more detailed. Yes, I will agree with you that the another I armor is the best-looking armor of all the
pics. Yeah, but when you compare it to just the skin that you create, it's really boring. Mmm. And again you have the problem with everyone looks the same, you still? Yeah. I mean if you can't get another right, you'll be in diamond and and that's the only way you can pick people apart. And yeah, it's because they have different armor on. But really, when you see someone
it's it's them with armor. You really have to either, you got to see their name tag or their face, to really tell people apart, and it would be nice some way to be able to show your skin even with your armor on. It does get annoying. Like, if you were to like my plan on my plane, this season was to record. Not without the armor on but it's pretty dangerous. Yeah. And then you don't think about it can be a hassle taking it on and off. So I really don't think about it.
When I record same, that's kind of going out the window. It would just be nice. Like you said to be able to use your skin a little bit more with armor on. Yeah, another idea is so we have Phantoms which are the world's most annoying mob other than bats. Hmm. But they drop Phantom membrane which can be nice. Nice when you repair and light show without mending, but other than that was slow falling potions. It doesn't have a lot of uses.
What if you could create a craft Phantom armor which is just invisible armor? Yeah, I mean that'd be cool. Maybe it's you have to combine and I'm not saying make it easy. I'm not saying you should be able to take diamond armor covered in Phantom membrane and call it done. I don't care if you have to create the super special customized crafting table, that takes a lot of grinding to create if you can Add the option there, that's what I'm asking
for. Like we're going to be talking about it when it comes to block of the week but another write something, I don't care if I have to make an entire table at another, right? Yeah give me the give me the choice to do. Some more customization, that's all I want. I'm not asking you to go the modded route where you have to, like, build components for your tools and weapons and stuff. Even though that's kind of cool. I'm not asking to go that route. Just more options is always a
good thing. Yeah. And make the Trident worthy of a Weapon. It's literally just a fork right now. Yeah. Well, there's the argument with the armor where like you said, there's gold involved in it and the Penguins don't recognize that gold and they still come after you. And some feel, we brought this up before that. If you have never write armor, the piglets should leave you alone. Yeah, if you have another right, whether it's a be gold or nether, right? They should still leave you
alone. There's still gold involved. Yeah, I thought that was pretty self-explanatory. That'd be nice. It. And I mentioned, I think another I should have the opposite effect of what it does now. So if they see wearing gold their passive to you, I think if they see you wearing another right, they run from you. Mmm, because of how Beastie nether I armor is technically supposed to be in the game.
It's really not. It's just a little bit better than Diamond. But the concept another I'd armor is at its the big ol powerful, top dog now, and it takes a lot of grinding to get there. I want, I want pink ones to run for me if I'm Wearing full on another iron armor. Yeah that'd be fun. That'd be fun to mess with might break the game a little bit but who knows bam? Alright I hope we answered your question Chief. Big Bear again thank you so much
for your support. Yeah, joining the Discord giving on Patron. All awesome, we really appreciate that. Yeah, thank you. Why were there? I want to mention we hit 40,000 listens last week. Bright 40 thousands. Holy cow. I remember week. Two or three. Going, this ain't gonna last much longer come a long way. We have really have. It's, it's hard to believe been a lot of fun to get to talk to a lot of people that you wouldn't think.
Yeah. We'd be able to get here especially like you said your first two weeks. I was involved at the beginning but you know, I noticed, you know, was a very big at the time with the structure you had in place, you know, there was something there and for it to get to this point 40,000 listens. You know, some of the guess we've had on or pretty big names and, you know, it's, it's a, it's something to be proud of.
Yeah, I'm going back, I'm trying to look at I don't think we kept track of the first weeks listens. Hmm. Carl came on at one point, really took over the analytics for us but I want to remember after the first couple days, really only gettin like 10 or 11 listens, that was his kind of a tough like, okay. So yeah, this will be a fun little experiment. I meant but it ain't going to go anywhere.
Yeah and now we're at 40,000. Listens averaging 560, listen or unique listeners week 828 Spotify followers. That's just from Spotify nice. Holy cow. The support from you guys is just amazing and I could never, I could never grasp. I mean we're still not big by any means, but I think we're reaching that. Hey, we're medium or medium now, right? Yeah. Yeah, we're not tiny. We're just not big. It's in some instances, we get recognized. Mmm. Yeah, which is a lot different. Yeah.
It's very different than before. That being said, I know some of us have been here since day one, and if you're like a day, one listener, post a comment in the Discord or on Twitter or anywhere for a see I want to see how many day one listeners there actually were Yeah. Who are all the oh jeez. Oh jeez, put it in the chat. Yeah, and if you're not an orgy and you just joined Like Chief, big bear. Thank you, too. You're never late to this party.
This is awesome, right? And I love how you jump in there, immediately send comments and stuff. We'd love it. We love the listener comments, keep doing that. Yeah, definitely. All right, but talking about followers and people on the show, we never expected or anything like that. This week's disc or dad is brought to you from. Ruff. I'm hoping I would say your name, right? We had fun in the Discord, trying to figure out how to pronounce the name using typing.
Hmm, Carl was supposed to hit us up with a disc or dad so we wouldn't get it wrong but we haven't heard it yet. So if we got it wrong I'm sure you'll make fun of us next episode. Yeah, we'll practice. They're gonna be on the show next week. They get an ad asking about questions and stuff for next week, take it away. Hello everybody. I am all rough and Minecraft Gameplay developer at motion and I will be joining Duds and Jimbo on next week's show.
Also you can submit questions for us to answer but make sure to post your questions on the withering effect Discord by Friday, October, the 23rd. I'm so excited. See you guys there. All right, thanks getting rougher, giving us an ad. So everyone knows you're going to be on the show and we can get prepped with questions and everything like that. I'm so excited for that, for that next week. It's going to be awesome. Yeah, yeah, look, really looking for that for the milk patreons.
That listen to the show live, I know, we're bouncing around our recording times because me and Jimbo, I kind of wanted to lean towards Sunday mornings for recordings now but we have a guest and guests always kind of determines the time and I think we're going to be doing it on a Saturday, right? So keep an eye out for that will post the actual time we record when it comes closer to the date. But I think it's going to be a Saturday recording session.
Yeah, definitely got to reach out to the guests, just to let you make sure our timings are right guests. Always come first, sure to guess always come first on every show but it sounds better when you say it. Anyways, this week's block of the week. So like always guys, you can get on our Discord, join to vote on block of the week. We're actually starting to run a little bit low on blocks, so we're going to start. Changing in block of the week for some other stuff which might
be fun. So if you were wanting to vote on Mob of the week or biome of the week or even tree of the week, maybe we don't know Now's the Time to join the Discord. Anyways we had you guys vote between a smoker a composter and an anvil and the winner of block of the week this week is Anvil. Congratulations, Anvil. Finally, Anvil WinZip is not for block of the week. Like three or four times. Yeah, it was a landslide. Hmm. And Bill had 37 votes. Composter had 12 and 4 smoker
with six. Poor smoker. Thanks for the six people who voted for smoker, didn't want to feel left out. So I have a few things on the Anvil here. It's crafted with three iron blocks and For iron ingots, that's 31 ingots in all this block allows players to repair items, rename items and combine and chants. It can only be mined with an ex
pickaxe pickaxe. Yeah, now you can put a slab or torch underneath of it because it is a falling into T, that could drop as an entity and you can pick it up. Then it has three different stages. While being used. It starts to deteriorate as you use it. It's found naturally in the for Drew. Of a Woodley mansion and an anvil that falls on an item and of the destroys, the item. Mmm, forgot about that. Yeah, forget throw that in
there. Alright, so when it comes to improving the Anvil, there's a couple of obvious things. And just about everyone who commented on how to improve the animal, we're on the same page so we normally we kind of call out other people's ideas on what they would improve. Well this week we're on the same page, almost All together except for a couple things. So one we all kind of agree. We should have an Unbreaking Anvil.
A lot of people mentioned, you should be able to enchant the Anvil to get the Unbreaking effect. I say nay, you don't enchant the Anvil but you build a nether right Anvil. I'm talking three nether right blocks and for another I ingots that's the Unbreaking Anvil. Yeah that's 31 nether rating gets that's a lot. Work. That's a lot of grind, but this is the one item I think would be worth the grind you. I mean, you see people grinding out. Another right beacons. Nay, the nether right?
Anvil is where it's at. I don't know why. I keep saying. Nay Nays a new thing. Yeah, I know he's a new thing. It's really anyways. So the Unbreaking nether right, Anvil? Dang said it could do finally combined age. Chess play in a light. Ra, why is this not a thing yet? Yeah. Also, I want it to be able to confine or combined Infinity, bows, and mending Bose, who I go back to this enchantment. And at the time, I understood why they did it. Now, I don't understand it at
all. I used amending bow. I have used an Infinity bow. I've never once had to repair my Infinity bow because it gets you so little, maybe I'm in the minority in that it's definitely culture. Show. Yes to add those two together. I'm going to infinity guy, I broke. I think I broke it once and that's it. You know, I definitely need a two of them.
Yeah, another another thing I didn't mention about the Anvil is as you add enchantments to your your gear or your tools or whatever, it may be your XP doubles. So it does become very expensive if you put a lot of achievements on one thing that's why it's nice. To enchant something ahead of time to get so many Chapman says you can on that piece of gear or tool ahead of time before you add stuff, and that's what brings me to the next fix for the Anvil. Or shall I say?
The nether another right? A look at that segue. I know it was an unexpected segue. I gave you. Yeah. Never too expensive. It's like a Scottie Pippen layup to a Michael Jordan slam dunk. Mmm with another. I am Bill, no repair, no enchantment. Is too expensive. I don't care if it takes three hundred levels. If you have the three hundred levels you can do it. Yeah. I like that. Hmm. And to me this is all rewards. You don't have to go digging for a bunch of nether, right to make another.
I Danville you don't have to do any of this, you can still play the game normally and it would be very effective. But if you're willing to put in the time to build another right Anvil that could never break, you should be rewarded. And these are Some very good rewards. Yeah, I have a lot of nether, right? Put aside, hmm that I'm probably not going to use. I mean once you have this armor, you know unless you lose it in the void or you know it despawned you can't get back to
it in time. This arm is going to be there forever. And so I have all this extra nether right sitting there on the side. You're not going to use the blocks for a beacon. Most likely there's no advantages to another right Beacon. So something to use the nether right on like a like an anvil and mean something. Yeah a new object you could use your nether. Right is always nice. Exactly. And the final upgrade I have, we talked about earlier, really let
you customize armor. I'm talking, you open up the AI or the UI for the nether. I Danville and it's not just the two little spots, you can combine items. It's a full-on crafting table looking object. Say I put six nether right ingots and they lower six and two Diamond things on the top left to top right? No. Well now you get another a armor with Diamond shoulder pads, doing stuff like that.
Let you customize your armor, make you look different than the other Smurfs and another right purple, errs, running around, stand out in the crowd. I mean that's a status symbol there. Not only did I have enough nether right to build another right Anvil. I Enough another right to create my own custom armor out of it. Yeah, this kind of stems from listener comment about you what different things you can do with together. Right. Armor.
Another right, am Ville. Yeah, to give you that ability to make people stand out, you know, the blandness of the armor to become customized. Yeah. And I want to do that with all armor. So you have leather chest plate, I use the chest plate because it's the easily, it's easily the most Customizable say you do the bottom six leather and the top shoulders gold, you would still get gold shoulder pads. But now you could dye the leather chest section that's the stuff I want.
It doesn't feel like that would be too far of a reach of vanilla. You're not going into full modded where you have to custom build parts from giant machines and all that kind of stuff. It's you're using the things are there but you've got to put in the grind to get it and I think that's perfectly. Okay. Yeah. Now In the Discord, Chief Big
Bear actually mentioned. That maybe the nether right Anvil, someone mentioned other Italian, Ville take square root mention nether, a table and Big Bear was going off of that saying. Maybe you could upgrade books with another right Anvil? Like it's let's say you have an Unbreaking to book, you put it in the nether, right Anvil? Get an Unbreaking 3. Now, this would also mean your Anvil would have some durability to it.
It, you know, eventually it would break because to have that at your disposal would be 0 P. So, in that case, your Anvil would probably have to break. If you could do something like that, but it's something to look for. Yeah. I'm too. I mean maybe another another Station. Instead of an anvil, could do something like this for you but be expensive. Yeah. As something like a nether, a Danville.
Yeah. But when I think about something like that I think to me that wouldn't be worth the grind because just going through the villagers to The highest level book would be a lot easier than member. I built a villager breeder in 15 minutes and got in mending in another 10 or 15, right? That's true. So within 30 minutes, I had had five villagers one with mending. Another with Unbreaking to a super cheap price. I think that kind of grind is a lot easier than the grind for
another, right, just to waste. Now the right on upping enchantments, I see where they're going and it's not a bad idea, but the cost per grind. I'm going to say again the just not there. Yeah it's true. I think that's it for blocks a week. I felt like I was on a soapbox for a while. Listen to me rant. It wasn't really a rant because I was getting excited like these are things I could see in the
game that would be awesome. It's the listeners choosing and Bill and throwing their topics out there and I'm like, okay I would do this this and this and I read the Discord. I'm like yes. They're like they're thinking the exact same thing I am, this is awesome. Yeah, never really in bopi pretty pretty cool. Now The regular Anvil. Is there any anything you could improve from that? I think it's pretty well set and cut-and-dry, you know what it does.
I don't see anything else, you could add to that. It's really an OG block, which become really hard to improve. Mmm. The only thing I can think of is you should be allowed to repair your Anvil but I don't think you can repair Ambrose in real life. I think when you crack an anvil in real life like it's done. I think they melt it down and
make Make a new one. Okay, so mmm, I don't want to take that away like if I say well repair an anvil would be nice especially how you repair a goal of now where you can click on an iron ingot repair, that's cool and it's understandable. But I think in real life, if you can't repair an envelope I mean maybe you can weld a crack or two and I don't know, it's a very oh, gee block, which makes it really hard to improve upon it has a function and that function to very good function.
Felt like a really thought out function. So the only way to improve said function is to start over. Yeah. Yeah. That I kind of feel bad for because like you said my job was to update the Anvil and all I did was create a new item, but yeah. Now, nothing else think about when you, when you smelt an anvil, I've never smelted an anvil. But yeah, this might be. I don't know, pointless, but instead of getting maybe an Ingot, I'm not too sure. Where do you get them thinking?
You would get an Ingot if you were to smelled it, if you can. Can but maybe get an iron block instead. Yeah, which would still be kind of pointless. Maybe if you broke it down to the last crack, or whatever durability smelled it up. Get an iron block. Yeah, if you knew it was getting ready to break, right? I see. I didn't know you could smelt and and Bill. So that's it. I don't know if you can or not. I'd you figure you could but
maybe not now. But what you said would be perfect if you knew the Anvil was on like one of the last repairs and you could throw it in a smelter and at Get an iron block out of it to put to the next Anvil. I would do that every time. That's awesome. It's a great idea. Yeah, Ingot Ingot would be, I don't know. You'd get way more than an Ingot of an anvil. So I figured it diamond block would be fair. You mean Iron Block? Yeah, you got diamond blocks out of anvils.
I'm going to be smelt in a row that did say diamond. All right. So should we move on to our topic this week? Yeah, that's all I got. So this topic we're wanting to hop off the 117 train. Because we have a Mojang employee coming on next week, obviously. So we're going to be talking a lot of 117, a lot of behind the scenes and everything like that,
right? So I wanted to talk about build ballots because building the blaze farm last night, I noticed the bill palette, it's the same build pellet mean you came up with for the Wither Killing Room, okay? It's not a very like a pallet. You would normally see in me and you talked about this, I was wanting to go dark dungeon team and you were wanting to go bright colorful theme.
And we kind of smash that together, you were very much bone blocks and warped wood where your things and I was like, well I'm going to use this black stone and red nether brick and then we smashed our two ideas together. It's a very weird palette but I think because they're all Nether ish, it's a great palate. It really is complementary colors to the tee. Mmm. I mean, you have complimentary of red with the green and the
Warped block. You have the complimentary of the Blackstone with the En Bloc and because it's not like a red red or well, I guess the nether brick red is pretty red, but the the green is kind of like an off green turquoise. Hmm. Probably you could say, yeah,
it's not. So Christmassy, you know, it does it come off as Christmasy. But yeah, they just they go together really well in the boom, Blox, give it a brighter feel really do. It's a beautiful palette and I was just sat there in this Blaze. On which is it's built completely different than the Wither Farm, or the Wilderness skeleton form, the shape and the functionality is completely different, but using the same palette, it's like they feel like the same area and they're
completely different sizes. Glute lie, different shapes and it feels cohesive and I was just like, you know what, how do pallets really change us and impact builds? So I wanted to start with how our pallets have changed. How we've grown as Builders per say is it's a beginning. Like, if you go back and you watch my early stuff, my early builds are very modern pallets that use a lot of whites. I use a lot of glass very much straight lines. Not a lot of Curves. I don't like curves.
I don't use a lot of wood or anything like that. It's gotta be a stone block. Of course, that was mainly because I was scared of fire tick burning my entire buildings down. But over time I very much embraced. The on uniform textures, the putting a stair, where a full block should be, so it looks like there's missing brick. Hmm. Leaning heavily on wood to offset Stone texture.
Taking glaze terracotta building, this crazy pain in the butt pattern, just to hide it behind some chest because that little line of sight behind the chest really sets the room off. Like, if you look at my storage room right now, it's sealed, Turn the shroom shroom light. See, Leonard's room lights. It's two different colors in there, but they accept each other so, well, that it really works with the Warped wood and Spruce build palette. Yeah, it's just crazy.
The different things you can do from very different blocks. Etho, is where? This is really coming from. I I don't can't believe I've never really watched Etho till this year but his build pallets are just so out there. Like, hey, I'm going to build with melons today. You like, wait, what? You just gonna like place? Around in like a little garden, right? And that's no, he's using melons as a building block and it looks great. Yeah, another block people were
using is the mushroom block. Yeah, like the red with the spots or even the stem of the mushroom block that like a wavy texture of it. It gives it on a luxurious feel. If you use it on walls or ceilings that I thought was pretty interesting. A lot of people are using those. Yeah, and much. Room blocks. You can place a block next to it and reveal a whole new texture when you break it. So yes. But what about you? How is your palate changed the years? You been playing?
Well, I've been using more blocks but a lot of my, the look of my bills have been kind of the same. I have like a word down modern look. I try to use different blocks every season this season. They gave me Blackstone. So I had to use the black stone. I love the black stone. I like to use. Lock. That is very abundant. You want to make sure you can get ahold of some of these blocks. You know, you don't want all a
bunch of rare blocks can. All your builds could be hard to get a hold of. So, I like to use something abundant along with something that could have stairs and slabs. Something to give you some depth, some variation. But mainly, I mean, a lot of my builds are pretty similar. I'm not trying to, I don't know, dude. Anything to different as I create a new wheel every time. Yeah, I mean, I like, I like to play with circles like, to, a lot of my builds are symmetric,
that's one thing. I might try to move away from his symmetry. Yes, do it. The second, I broke symmetry last season in my little castle base. It's like taking a heavy backpack off, it's like, I'm okay with the fact that these two staircases, don't mind up, I'm okay with the fact that there's a tower on One side and not on the other. It's a relief because it's it's freeing now. You're like, okay, I don't have to mirror what's over there. I can do my own thing on this side too.
And no complement each other and we'll be all right, right? Yeah. I think the problem people have is like, you try to go symmetrical and like, it's one block off somewhere. That could really irritate people say, I would probably irritate me also, especially if it was my build last season. I did work with like even blocks, it's kind of, it's a lot. Lot harder to work with even number of blocks and it is odd. Oh yeah, because you could have your, you know, your middle area
with even blocks. There's no middle area, it have to be a two-block middle area. It does make things. A little difficult that was last year. This year, I'm going for more modern futuristic and I've been using that in a lot of my past builds, so I haven't really changed much my blog. Pallets are a lot of variations I like to use. If I find one block, I like to find as many variations, is that of that block as I can. And this this more is more involved in the terraforming,
huh. I'd like to tear for my like to like I said, I like that worn down. Look and is if you can find as many variations to go with your main block type, this could really bring out the worn down. Look. So that's why I like to use the block variations and I'm not I don't What use would very often don't use would, it doesn't really mix well with the futuristic modern look. Yeah. And that's one thing I've gone. I've gone.
I was very modern and I become more of a classical Builder just because of stripped would stripped word looks so good. And we mix stripped wood and concrete's together it to me. It's really nice look, especially if it's a gray, concrete gray concrete so amazing. I love it. Give me a Stern slab please. But Yeah, and this goes to the next segment, I was trying to talk about and it's how pallets really impact builds.
And like you said, you're looking for an extremely abundant block, to be your base block and then you're finding complementary blocks that have different variants, right? Right won't different variants, obviously means stairs and slabs, right? Remember when all we had and white stairs and slabs were courts and it was gorgeous, such an expensive block. I can't use a Quartz block here because I need it for stairs and slabs.
So, you were like, mixing in bone blocks and you were like, it's called texturing, but it doesn't look right at all, because the two textures just so far off. Hmm. It's like stairs and slabs really impact build pallets to the point where it will straight up. Make me say, I'm not going to build this because I don't have a stair in slab. Version variant for me, it's mainly mob proofing. I hate mobs around my stuff. Usually, I have a lot of Stone.
So, if there's a chance, a creeper can spawn where I'm building, I just, I just don't build it because I'm the kind of person when stuff gets blown up. I don't rebuild it. But if you look at my cow farm, that blew up in this last episode, I didn't rebuild it. I just said, okay, all these cows are dead to me. Put something else there and move on. I'm going to go find a new food
source. Yeah. See I like to build big in one thing I want to mention is if you build big, it's hard to get detail in every Everywhere. Yes, because everything is so massive.
I built these big towers and I just want to point out that if you would just put some depth in there, you don't have to detail as much for instance, you know, I have the towers and it's kind of like a big shaft smooth shaft, don't take that out of context, but if you were just to put some depth in there, it would make it on a it make it a lot easier to detail, that could be detail. In itself?
Yeah, you look at your Tower. Your Tower is not just a straight line, vertical, you constantly were to go up. Bring in. Go up, bring in, go up, bring in. Mmm. So you have a gradient already there you're adding depth, right? And which in itself, is adding a texture, because you're hitting right on when I was talking about one of the main rules, I go by when creating Bill pallets is a rule of three, so you either need three completely
different textures or you. Need to completely different textures and one block that adds depth whether that's a half slab or a stair. Just one of those that adds a little depth or you could have two blocks that add depth and one texture. So, if you're using all stone bricks, you need to mix in slabs and stairs along with your brick texture, right? That's pretty good to go by. Yeah, it's a good example. It's very easy and like all
rules. There's always going to be something that contradicts what I just said but it's a very Very good beginners. How do I texture and detail? Well, you have the rule of Threes either to depth one texture, three different textures or two textures one depth. Like I said when you go big, like when you go big that all goes out the window because you can't add the kind of detail. I talked about, right?
Yeah. To add like different details of stairs, it's Labs, not so much for the block variance, but just to add detail General. Like, if you were to build a window, With the house. You know, this, this window would have stairs and slabs. And, you know, you'd have to make it, make it look like a window or something different as a window. And with builds that big, you
can't add those kind of things. So, yeah, I just wanted to let people know that if you would just add just some depth in those Mega base type builds, it really? It makes, it makes it detailed in general, just like that. Yeah, because you're not going to be able All to texturize that big of a build and it look good. Hmm. But that also means you can get away with using the one texture as long as you add depth, right? Yep.
That kind of goes into where I said if you're using or if you're creating a big build stairs and slabs, really aren't for you because a single block will give you better depth and a better texture than a star in a slab will. Hmm. And we see it with how you're building your Tower and it constantly goes in up Look, if it went in as stair, it really went look like it's going in much at all because of how large it is. So you're going in a full block. Really does stand out a bit.
Yeah. The other thing I wanted to bring into block pallets has don't forget. Things like flowers flower pots. Cauldrons just these random anvils chest and her chest. All these little things that add more detail and can bring in different colors. Like in the blaze farm, we had this section. That's got another work. That was originally just a plain wall. All and I kind of thought.
Hey, let's do in or let's do in some potion brewing stands and that's going to be awesome and we're like, okay yeah, that's great. And then Carl was like, hey, we have these blank spots right here. Let's throw in some Nether wart. So at least another words crying and it's not a lot, but just bringing in this nut, another piece of red color in this room, it's like wow, okay, that really works with the palette. Yeah, it never hurts to try
right, something like that. Yeah, so don't don't forget about items like that. It doesn't always have to be a You can be an anvil, another word flower pot, stuff like that. That brings me to a dime, Dynamic lighting. A lot of people when they build, you know, it's mainly a block their building. I don't know how to explain this. I like to use like, half slabs stuff that can make mobs on spawnable, bond proof. Yeah. I like disheartened proof cheese. I can't think of anything I'm saying.
And then using the dynamic lights, you have your, your blue Lights this season that don't give off much light, you know, it's not going to mob proof anything but it gives it just enough to really give you that Dynamic lighting and that's something I like to do. I like to use glass for the floors. I like to use slabs for the floors. Trapdoors also yeah, carpet. And then instead of lighting everything up to make it more proof, use the lighting to really.
I don't know, give your base that. Wow factor. That that Dynamic lighting for instance, I have my fog effect in below. That is like a light light source so you're getting like a glow from the floor and as dark as it is in that room. It's mob proof and you're still getting that. Wow factor. Yeah. When we talked about Tango, Tex decked out a lot, and he plays with the lighting effects because they're on a mushroom Island and so, he doesn't have to worry about spawns.
And there are some spots and that build Or just like, you could tell when all out with, hey, I want it to be dark and stuff. But I'm gonna have a little light coming from back around this corner. That kind of gives you a little hint at stuff and you're right. Dynamic, lighting plays, a huge benefit, and how you can build. And we're not talking about the OptiFine, Dynamic lighting,
where you have to use that. We're talking like you said, we're if you look around my storage area it's all lit up and everything but if you look up and into the mountain, it's just pitch. Black And it's supposed to make you feel like you're under the night sky all the time, right? Yeah. So don't be afraid to play with the dark. Yeah, it's definitely an advantage to be on a mushroom Island. You could play with it a little more. You don't have to worry about spawn proofing.
So much, it's a good idea to build on a mushroom Island if you want that Dynamic lighting look. But I mean also, like I'm not on a Mooshroom Island, you can still get that. Mmm. Hey, you just got to be smart about it, right? Also, I'd like to mention even some of the blocks I use. Like, if I were to, like, I want to use a lot of black stone and it's a dark block. It is Blackstone, I like to use light colors with that dark to, I don't know.
Make it pop a little more if you use lighter colors with darker colors. I always make sure to do that. Like, if I were to use Sandstone, I try to find something darker to go with it. I don't know if that's just me. I know there's ways to, you know, use light colors together. Other but I always prefer dark and light blocks together. I think it, I don't know. I think it looks better that way. Yeah definitely, don't be afraid to play with random colors to write two colors.
Like, especially the Terracotta has not so much. The clay is terracotta is those are really hard to kind of really put out there. Mmm, but terracotta, is, are such a nice natural feeling color that they can go just about anywhere if you do it. Right. So yeah, definitely go with those things. Terracotta. Oh yeah. We one of my favorite. Some very colorful. It's not it, but it's correct. But unique gray. Yeah, mmm. That's it. You mentioned playing with colors in here.
My base is black and white. Yeah, as of right now, I plan on putting some color in there, I like to have like you. Like I said, dark, and light colors and then mainly, black and white and then have that one accent color throughout my build. That's usually how I do it. Hmm, yeah. We'll see see how it comes out. Yeah. He's experimenting. Hmm, I was nice. But do you have anything else?
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