Tildes Minecraft Weekly

You should've joined us! (and you still can). You don't need to be "professional-level" in order to join. Just join us to have fun. @chocobean, @maro_mich, and others joined us with 0 background knowledge of minecraft mechanics and had a lot of fun. bootz (sorry, forgot how your username is spelled)'s house is a tiny stone hut but he is the one who built the majority of our farms. 2+ of our users were cave goblins who almost never left the underground. And so on. Hell, if you think about it, almost my entire base is a bunch of flat, rectangular buildings with windows; everything minecraft builders would advise you not to do. I'm not even close to as good of builder as @Evie, @GravySleeve, @IsildursBane, @mintysaurus, etc. And in fact, last season I lowkey built nothing except for a shitty hut, an ice tunnel, and a giant statue of myself.
It doesn't matter how good you are, just join and have funsies. Last season, in this server, I met the person that later became (and of course still is) my best friend!

As a bonus, you get to hear my extremely inappropriate jokes on the regular, too

I've started work on a tiny, unremarkable base right near the behemoths of Tildes Town. The beauty of a sandbox is the freedom to do everything and nothing. You can make a giant rocket or a simple footprint in the sand and be Neil Armstrong for all eternity.

To be completely honest, I was really excited to play Minecraft again when the server last came back online, but after like two days of seeing other people's builds I started feeling like an absolute moron and lost my desire to play

I have heard this before from people and seeing impressive builds sure can be intimidating. However, people creating these awesome builds had to start from somewhere and often already spend many more hours in game than you did.

It is the same as any creative endeavour, it takes a lot of practice to get at a certain level. Nobody is "just good", some people might have a little bit more eye for detail than others but that is something completely different.

Building can also be a very iterative process, at least for me. Where you start out without a clear idea or just a rough idea and slowly rework it to see if you can reach it. For example, for the first weeks or so my house was just four walls, basically a squire/rectangle box. I didn't like it but was entirely sure what direction to take it. Then I decided to cut out a corner and add some detailing which gave me inspiration to continue working on it. But even then it took me a while to figure out what direction to take it. I think I initially didn't even plan for a third floor, but at some point decided I wanted a happy ghast and a place to park it. In a similar sense I at some point figured that since my house is at the edge of town I might try adding a gate. Most details around my house are the result of months of tinkering with it.

Hamsters castle is a good example as well. If I remember correctly it started with just a tower and the compound around it including the other town gate just slowly appeared over time.

The fun thing about playing on a server like this is that you can actually walk around and look for inspiration. See how other people have done stuff in detail and borrow certain elements in your own builds.

And there is no requirement for it to be grand and awe inspiring, there are plenty of people who have build smaller simple builds and homes. If you look at bluemap, certainly in town you will also see simpler homes. And again, most of the fancy ones didn't start out being that fancy either.

As long as you are having fun nobody is going to judge you for the quality of your builds. I'd honestly invite you to pick one of the plots still available and give it a go.

Finally, even though people build a lot of creative stuff this isn't a creative server. There have also been people who decided to just head of in unexplored directions and build up everything from scratch. Which is also a very valid play style.

To be completely honest, I was really excited to play Minecraft again when the server last came back online, but after like two days of seeing other people's builds I started feeling like an absolute moron and lost my desire to play. It's like I'm not even playing the same game as everyone else, and it doesn't make me feel particularly good.

You are not the first person to express this sentiment. I know in talking with others on this server, we have felt that being on this server has pushed us to build better, and that our best builds have been on the server. For me, there has been a few things I have done on this server to help me build better:

• I am willing to experiment and build some stuff over again. In building the exterior for the community storage, when figuring out the exterior walls I built a few different sections with different blocks before committing to a design I liked to build. This process also left a small one or two block gap, which I actually liked and carried over in the final design. I will also realize in figuring out as I build, that something is misaligned and am willing to do the work to move everything over, which helps a lot.
• When figuring out a build idea, I wait until I have a rough idea of what I want, then I tour the server for further inspiration in that build style and also search online for others who have built in that style. Last season both myself and @Evie built gothic cathedral inspired builds, and I would occasionally go to her base to see how she did something.
• I normally have various projects going on in the server, of differing build styles. I normally have my main build, that I iterate throughout the season, only adding on when I get ideas, and then secondary smaller projects for when I do not have ideas on the main project. This works well for me, but I know others have a more planned out vision for their build so primarily work on their main project. Find what works for you.

Lastly, I want to encourage you that those of us on the server are just happy to see the world filled out more, and do not care about the builds themselves

Echoing creesch and TSP, definitely don't feel intimidated by other builds. Everyone starts out with more or less the same skill at this game, its just a matter of putting time into whatever project you build. Even a small stone shack can become impressive if you just keep chipping away at it and adding more and more details. Reference images are also a great way to learn how to build in my opinion, just find something you like and try to replicate it with blocks.

One other thing to keep in mind is that for my city, I've been building everything twice because its a lot easier to do these complicated designs in creative with the Axiom mod and then use the Litematica mod to recreate it on the server. I'd never be able to achieve the results I have so far otherwise, and these aren't necessarily beginner friendly mods. But just like everyone else, I start with a dirt hut at the beginning of the season and work towards something better, it just so happens that I have more free time than most (until recently that is).

Edit: Oh and also, never be afraid to ask for help or advice on a build, sometimes a fresh set of eyes can help with a problem or spark inspiration on what you want to do next.

Earlier on, we actually used to have a whole bunch of US westcoast-ers online during your typical gaming hours, but they've been busy with other things irl afaik. It's true that often times only "AFK me" is online when you're playing, but hey, I genuinely miss our casual chats during my mornings/your afternoons fwiw. You're a nice person to chat with, so I hope I'll get to see you around again!

You're more than welcome to build something within or near my "canonically claimed" parts of the world, just poke me in-game and we can discuss

It's true that I haven't posted screenshots in a while and instead used direct map links, so I'll keep the idea for the next thread in 1-2 weeks, and try to capture some nice ones until then! Maybe I'll even find a shader my pitiful laptop can support when voxy is also running

Until then, you're welcome to virtually visit Słonecznikowo via the bluemap: click here for "perspective mode" or click here for "free-roaming mode"

Several months ago, I put a reminder in my calendar for a "mid-season restart event" in late June. The "plot" is that there's, say, a command block at spawn that teleports you to the one of the uninhabited corners of the map (say, the southeast one). If you want to participate, you leave all your tools/blocks/etc at home and click the button at or after a specific time. There, people can have a "first month of the season" experience again, starting from scratch and creating a mini "tildetown 2", doing anything they want without using their "past life's" items until the event ends after, say, 1 week. However, I never got to organise it (both because I didn't have the mental capacity at the time, and because organising events for real people is very stressful to me)

I'm happy to hear you're checking my builds every now and then, though you're busy with other things irl nowadays :)

Those cranes (unlike the construction crane in another part of my base) are heavily based on @Evie's design. I was originally going to go with a far simpler design, but decided to instead use Evie's because it'd canonically make a lot of sense for us to use similar-looking cranes, considering our bases' somewhat-overlapping history/canon. And in fact the westmost the docking station - the one that'd canonically be used by cargo/oil ships handling Słonecznikowo-Leszczyński Platform logistics - has schematics that are completely identical to hers.

Sidenote, I'm keeping a (pretty long) book where I note down everyone who's ever helped me build this base, and anyone whose schematics I've used for parts of my base, even if it was just a tiny bit of indirect assistance, so I can credit every person when the base is finished. You're in it too!

Currently, the only legit way to visit me quickly is via high speed rail on the overworld. There used to be a 2nd way (via the nether hub), but I'm not properly connected to it at the moment and likely won't reconnect to it in the near future. Technically you could just sail all the way to me, but it'd take a long-ass time.

To take the train to Poland:

• From Spawn, move north to enter Tildetown.
• In Tildetown, move west until you reach Mayor Bront's town hall (the building with the tildes flag), the bartering hall, and the dragon statue
• Enter the town hall and take the water-elevator down to the train station
• Take the train towards the west until you reach the tildes grand station (i.e. below comm. storage)
• In the train station, switch to the train platform handling the route "IC15 POLAND EXPRESS". Ideally, ensure it's morning, noon, or shortly before sunrise before you take the train, to avoid any unpleasant encounters.
• Take the train to Poland. In each junction, click the relevant button that takes you towards Poland, as per the signs placed around each junction.
• Exit at the final stop (Słonecznikowo Główny). You are now in Słonecznikowo

The majority of my base (at least the part east of the river) is mostly spawnproof, but not entirely. Mind you, I'm building very iteratively, so I've only been building rough building exteriors for the last few months. Once I finish doing the same for the old town (the part west of the river), I'll start finishing/detailing the exteriors etc. It's going to take me a super long time until I can start doing interiors.

Well, the obvious answer is that this is the time to sign back into minecraft ;) But, on bluemap you can also see it

I share one of those three stats displayed with you

Hahaha. That makes sense, but never have I mashed the sprint button so fast whilst munching a potato, not wanting to get someone's hard work blown up

I can't remember why I thought it'd be difficult. Hm. I wanted to use a copper golem to take the outputs from the iron farm - a double chest full of ingots and poppies, and sort the ingots and poppies. I can then take those output chests and feed one into an iron block crafter for storage, and the other to my auto composter.

But the farm chest will get empty, and the sorted chests will also get empty, and I think that's where I got stuck. Won't the copper golems have a decently high chance of sorting the output chests into the wrong place? How do I ensure that when all chests are empty, if a poppy comes in first, it always goes to the poppy output? I could use a traditional sorter I suppose, comparator and water stream instead maybe.

At this point I'm just thinking out loud, haha

Aw that's kind but it's okay. I might pop in using my trackpad tomorrow night after work :)

All it took was one giant railway to pique my interest again. It's okay for movement, wsad plus look works. It's the mine and place and scrolling wheel that is missing. And combat of course, lol. Maybe I could find some way to make it work. Hm. Nothing ventured, nothing gained

(also, I just finished a game, so I need something else to play, might as well try the 'craft again)

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When I was building the sulfur farm, I travelled via boat up the rivers to comm. storage, and I quite enjoyed seeing your house peeking over the trees. Your build style fits really well for that area, it is a fun vibe