So I started playing Minecraft again, and I am enjoying it much, much more than I did last time and I think that this is both because I have embraced the way in which I can treat it as a casual game and still have fun and achieve things.
I am playing Multiplayer on DakkaDakka, courtesy of a “vouch” from a friend, and that’s a different experience again, but on my current Single Player game I have decided to do two things
- Build an incredible mountain fastness with exciting dungeons of adventure beneath
- Move the map as it currently is “up” to Minecraft Realms so that I can share it with select friends and essentially have my World backed up “in the cloud” without having to admin an MC server, which while I am sure I could manage represents time that I could spend branch mining or looking into how to get into the Nether. Yes I am that much of a n00b
Anyway, here are some pics from my soon-to-be Realm, let me know if you would be interested in logging on every now and again and helping me civilise the place 😉
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- My tower…
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- The tower from the shoreline
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- The tower from Mushroom Island
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- The entrance hall
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- The master bedroom
I see what you mean about the tower. 🙂
Might have to look into Realms … do you know offhand if it can support mods or if it’s vanilla hosting only? Also what is the draw of Realms over using another company (eg. https://cubedhost.com/ ) to host?
The plan with the tower is to make it a lot more imaginative and interesting over time, but for now I just needed something that would tell me where I was from a reasonable distance away without having to make a compass or over-use F3.
I basically plan to turn the entire mountain into a gigantic castle over time. 😀
My understanding of Realms is as follows:
1. Pure Vanilla only, but immediately supports latest stable version.
2. The draw is effort free admin-ing on my part, for less money (just) than Cubed though I guess I could be persuaded to consider a non-Mojang solution seeing as I am confident that I more than have the Linux / Unix sysadmin chops to handle it, I am just being lazy 😉
There is a good faq here -> https://minecraft.net/realms/faq