almost 10 days ago, i got admitted to the hospital because of heart problems. i spent 3 days in intensive care unit. now i am home and i will make myself a new world in minecraft beta 1.3.

when i started this page, i already had iron tools (because this is easy to get for a minecraft veteran like me). but i am making this page because i will make the safest place in all of minecraft where nothing bad can happen. i'll be turning the game down to peaceful when i go mine though, because minecraft still scares me 13 years later and i can't get scared because of my heart.

the goal is to make a big, tall hill that is flat at the top because things that are higher up are safer.

18 dec 24 i've marked the approximative space that i have to fill with dirt in order to make the safe world. i'll probably make it bigger, but if i can get a hill so big that'd be great.

i'm not stupid. i know i'd be saving a lot of dirt if i were to build a hollow dirt structure and light it up from the inside. but i want a solid, real base. i don't want it to collapse or anything and i want it to be strong.

this is why i like terraforming the way i do, because then i can walk around in the world and everything looks nice. right now i'm mostly gathering dirt, though. i was thinking about strip mining so i could get diamonds and a diamond shovel. it's hard for me to care about mining because i can't go mining with monsters present so in my head it's like i can't really mine at all. it's stupid, but the view is nice. i like this world. it's kind of plain and doesn't have crazy mountains but i like it.

21 dec 24 ah, those pesky 1.3 cave generations...

just a big deadend like that looks scary, especially with such a large entrance, when you expect to find somewhere else. and yes, on the right there is a small hallway hole through the stone, but it leads to nothing at all.

i've been making the hill bigger but it's taking a long while. i went further to get dirt today, and i almost got lost. almost, though, because i kept seeing my torches lighting up other caves, so i knew i was close. on the way back, though, i saw a big hill in the trees in the distance, much bigger than what i'm currently building. that's unfortunate ! but at least that safe world will be mine and i think it makes more sense to build it in the open like this, with a sharp incline rather than on a hill covered with trees.

25 dec 24 the hill is finally starting to fill up after a lot of terraforming.

as you can see it took a while to fill up but at the end of the day we will get our safe world. i did finally go mining in peaceful mode though and i have exciting news about that.

i found my second dungeon on this map, i had found one on the first day before. i felt bad because i'm on peaceful and i could see the zombies trying to spawn. i think i've seen skeleton or spider dungeons in 1.3 before, but i'm not sure, and the two dungeons of this map were zombie dungeons. either way neither dungeon had disks if i recall, and i got some mossy cobblestone. i don't really know what i'd do with it but it's good to have it as an option.

and i also found my first diamonds, which were the reason i was down in the cave in the first place. i took a screenshot of them to show you because i was very happy. it was the middle of the night.