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mansion update
Feb. 13th, 2011 04:39 amSo, I'm working on the mansion in Minecraft again... so far I've added two rooms to the guest wing, and then I wanted to tackle the front--mainly, the gravel driveway. I was going to leave the statue in the middle up to the boys to build, but I found another issue first.
The front door. We centered the building around an uneven number of blocks, meaning that to have the door be in the middle, it's a single door. Usually on castles and mansions and stuff you see ornate double doors--but if I try to do that, it won't look right. So, I have a problem. I'm going to play around a bit and try to figure it out. In the end, if I don't like what I've done, I'll just leave the "doorway" open and see if the boys can figure anything out.
Another problem we had tonight: apparently I can't connect to the server when Chell hosts it. He also can't connect when I try to host it. Meaning that we can't work on the mansion at the same time. Other people could feasibly connect to the server. So this is a bit of a bummer...
All in all, I'm hoping that Notch fixes the bugs that need fixing, patch everything up, and we can be on our way. Because I'm fairly certain that once Minecraft is patched, we won't have trouble connecting anymore.
Non-Minecraft related happenings: I sent off the first chapter of the first book of the series to Rusty to read--he and I are thinking of working on a different writing project together, but he wanted to see some of my writing before we started in. The project we will be working on will be very different for me. Basically, he will know how everything it going to turn out--he'll play one character, I'll play the other. He'll feed me bits of info so I know how to stay on the right track, plot-wise, but otherwise I'll have no idea what's going on. It should be fun, regardless of whether or not it turns out to be any good.
xx
Parkyr
The front door. We centered the building around an uneven number of blocks, meaning that to have the door be in the middle, it's a single door. Usually on castles and mansions and stuff you see ornate double doors--but if I try to do that, it won't look right. So, I have a problem. I'm going to play around a bit and try to figure it out. In the end, if I don't like what I've done, I'll just leave the "doorway" open and see if the boys can figure anything out.
Another problem we had tonight: apparently I can't connect to the server when Chell hosts it. He also can't connect when I try to host it. Meaning that we can't work on the mansion at the same time. Other people could feasibly connect to the server. So this is a bit of a bummer...
All in all, I'm hoping that Notch fixes the bugs that need fixing, patch everything up, and we can be on our way. Because I'm fairly certain that once Minecraft is patched, we won't have trouble connecting anymore.
Non-Minecraft related happenings: I sent off the first chapter of the first book of the series to Rusty to read--he and I are thinking of working on a different writing project together, but he wanted to see some of my writing before we started in. The project we will be working on will be very different for me. Basically, he will know how everything it going to turn out--he'll play one character, I'll play the other. He'll feed me bits of info so I know how to stay on the right track, plot-wise, but otherwise I'll have no idea what's going on. It should be fun, regardless of whether or not it turns out to be any good.
xx
Parkyr
