July 9, 2011 - Blog Name Change

I'm changing the title of my blog from "Facepalm" to "Philosophy of a Teenager." I did this because facepalms are mostly for fails and etc. "Philosophy of a Teenager" suits it more because I am a teenager, and you are reading about what normally goes on in my head... Or in my life... Or stuff... Yeah...

Minecraft 1.7

A bit late but here is the change list:

- Added pistons

- Fixed clay generation (?)

- TNT can only be triggered by redstone or fire

- Fences can be stacked

- Added Shears

- Redstone wire now connects to a repeater

- Shears can be used to collect leaf blocks without hacks

- Shears can be used to shear sheep without hurting them (WWF!)

- Sheep no longer drop wool from being punched, only from being killed when unsheared

- New texture for cobblestone and bricks

- When pressing F3 in-game, a value from 0-3 will appear to indicate direction

- The gray textures in the breaking animation have been replaced with opacity

- Spawn rate of squids increased (a lot)

- Single slabs now use the bottom half of the full block's texture

- Cobweb now require shears or a sword to be broken properly and drops 1 string when broken

- The bed side texture has been moved in the texture pack file, as well as the cake texture

- Weather seems to be more common (?)

(?) Means trivial

July 5, 2011 - Minecraft Soon To Come

Over a few months, notch has said to expect a few things. This is my opinions on them.

1. Official mod support

This is good, by the time this is release, I should be able to finish my mod. This thing should make installing mods easier.

2. New features in the terrain generator

Ehh, I don't know, it's just a few new things. If they generate larger dungeons, volcanoes, taller mountains, I'd be happy enough.

3. More achievements

Depends on what they are... Achievement Get!

4. More underwater content

Notch said no sharks because it'd be hard for the player to deal with. If he adds like more fish types, coral reefs, underwater cities, scuba gear, I'd be pumped. He should also make the fish mob so that there's a higher chance that you'll get fish.

5. A new sky dimension

Awesome! You would need to make bridges and make sure that you don't dig too deep or you'll fall through the island.

6. More playable Records for the Jukebox

Wait, what? YES! That would be awesome! That way, I won't have to make my own music which takes ages.

7. Minecraft Pocket Edition

I really don't care... It's just portable Minecraft. Also, from the preview, it's just the creative one for Xperia Play.

8. Xbox Edition

Uh.... That depends on how good it is and if you can play if you already have an account. It's gonna be like Minecraft... the FPS! Haha...

9. Adventure Mode

On Notch's twitter, he said that he's going to add a brightness slider he also said, "real miners play in the darkest setting" so I am not a real miner... but then again, the glare is horrible... He's going to add NPC villages, randomly generated dungeons, critical hits, and sprinting... At least those are the things that I think revolve around the Adventure update.

A few other things he's going to add is more farming options so we aren't just going to farm wheat and sugarcane...

Also, he says fully working Creative Mode. I really don't care about creative mode in single-player but he says that admins can enter Creative mode on a SMP server.

EDIT: Ignore the part in the number 2 about the dungeons...

June 28, 2011 - 1.7 and 1.8 for Minecraft

Notch says that 1.7 will be mostly an update about pistons... The creator of the Pistons mod submitted it to Notch and he's adding it to the game without it needing a mod.

1.8 will be the Adventure update. He's going to change how Minecraft is going to be played. It's focused mostly on exploration and combat, making it more rewarding.

He's going to be implementing newer, more complex terrain features. He's also going to add new combat mechanics, a new lighting engine, and new, explerimental gameplay ideas. Apparently, farmings gonna be more interesting, more crops maybe? There's gonna be bigger incentives to explore and NPC villages.

In other news, I've been playing Terraria with a bunch of my friends. I'm currently in Hawaii. It's not as hot as I expected... Must be global warming. I've started to play Magicka after being goaded for weeks. It's incredibly fun, unless you're playing with a bunch of d***heads.

June 24, 2011 - YogBox

Hello guys, today I'm going to write about Minecraft, but not about the normal thing, about a few mods included in a mod pack. It is called the YogBox which has a pretty good list of mods.


The link for the YogBox page is below right here... 
http://yogiverse.com/showthread.php?11841-YogBox-A-carefully-chosen-compilation-of-good-mods

These are the mods included in the mod pack.

- Somnia by MALfunction84
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...tes-the-world/


- More Health by nohero
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...?f=25&t=122510


- ModOptions API by Clintonxa
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...=1032&t=207630


- Mo' Creatures by DrZhark
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=86929


- GUI API by Lahwran
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...pi#SettingsAPI


- Pistons mod by Hippoplatimus
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...=1032&t=247686


- DaftPVF's mods (Slime Gear, Score, Heal on Easy, Starting Inventory, grass tweaks, Treecapitator)
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...=1032&t=132377


- Risugami's Mods (ModLoader, AudioMod, Death Chest, Shelves, More Stackables, More Arrows)
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=80246


- Airship and sky pirates by Pchan3
http://www.steam-craft.com


- Millenaire by Kinniken (with Core Replacement pack by Digital War)
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...=1032&t=247048


- Hogofwar's Mods (Magical Bone Sticks, Bone Torch, Biome Caves, Tree Dungeons, and many more)
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...=1032&t=206974


- Buried Treasures by Club559 and NCrawler and Pudding Huxtable
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewto...=1032&t=164228


- ConvenientInventory by Evenprime
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=162534


- Painterly Pack by Rhodox
http://www.painterlypack.net




Lets start with Somnia. It is an interesting mod. When you go to sleep, time continues on as if it were real-time, except sped up. That's about it... at least that's what I've seen so far. Since the Curse Network is down, I couldn't go on it and see it.

Next, MoreHealth. It is a very helpful mod. In the beginning of every world, you start with 5 hearts. You can find heart fragments underground. By combining 4 heart fragments, you get heart containers, which increase your health by a full heart. The maximum amount of hearts you can have is 20. That's about it for this mod. It's a lot like Zelda...

After that, ModOptions Api. I don't know what it is, when I figure it out, I'll post again.

This mod is probably a mod you've heard of before. Mo' Creature. Holy shit this mod is good. I've been using this mod for a few months now. It is truly amazing. It adds a lot of additional creatures. My favorites are the bunnies, the deer, and the birds. There are many colored bunnies that spawn everyday. You can put one on your head by right clicking it. The deer are so realistic and so cute. It is incredibly hard to catch up to one. It will run away from you so the best bet is to hit it with a bow and arrow. The birds are so numerous. It's rare for me to find a forest without a single bird. You can throw seeds and they will gather at the seeds and eat it. If you kill a bird, then you'll get your seeds back. Nothing else to say except it is truly amazing.

GUI API... I don't know what it is...

Ooo... PISTONS! There are two types of pistons, the normal pistons, and sticky pistons. These things are amazing. They can launch things in the air, such as TNT, items, mobs, you name it. You can find YouTube videos by CaptainSparklez working with the pistons.

DaftPVF's mods are a game changer. The slime gear is not very useful for me. The game having score is amazing. I'm trying to get an incredibly high score. It has also made me a lot more wary because I don't want a creeper to creep up on me and kill me, which erases my score. My current highest is 32,719. The starting inventory is very useful because of another of his mods, Treecapitator. The starting inventory includes a wooden pick, axe, shovel, and sword. It also contains a recipe book which shows all the recipes. Treecapitator made cutting trees more efficient and less time consuming. All you have to do it cut somewhere at the trunk and it will make all the wood come down like a rain of wood.

Risugami's mod are vital to this mod pack, at least one of them anyways. Modloader is needed to install the mods. The AudioMod is, well, something that I don't know. The death chest is where a chest a placed when you die and all your items will be stored inside them when you die. If the all the contents can fit, they'll be dropped on the ground. Shelves is like a chest but it can only store 9 items. It only needs 3 block of either wood, stone, brick, or obsidian. It is a good way to display your items. More Arrows is an addition of a lot arrows. One of them is the exploding arrow, my personal favorite. You craft it like a normal arrow except the flint is replaced with gunpowder. It had the speed of an arrow and the destruction of 1 block of TNT. If you get caught in the blast radius, it won't hurt you.

Airships and sky pirates. Airships is like boats... except in the air. I think it's "c" to open the airship inventory... I don't know. You can load it with arrows and shoot things. Like the sky pirates, which can become annoying if you don't know how to deal with them.

Millenaire... My favorite mod. It implements a currency, something that Minecraft really needs especially in SMP. It randomly generates a village on new chunks that are generated so if you have an old world, you can only find a village by finding a chunk that has not been generated. All I'm going to say is that it is what makes this Mod pack my favorite.

I didn't see much of Hogofwar's mods except the magical bone wands. There's a bam stick... which predictably blows up. It won't of course... Nothing much to be said about this. I didn't see much... Like I said.

Buried treasure... I've found only 2 treasure chests in 6 worlds... They are hidden underground and include treasures... like gold ingots or maps.

ConvenientInventory should never be included in this mod pack... I absolutely hate it... It's useless...

Finally... The Painterly Pack. The texture pack that goes along with this is a custom texture pack that includes everything... Things might look weird if you don't put the one included with this mod pack on...

Bye...

Book Review 02: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

I have read this book over and over again and it is still incredibly entertaining. The book is about a clone named Matteo Alacran, the clone of the drug lord El Patron, the original Matteo Alacran. In the future, everybody hates clones and they are treated horribly. It takes place in the country of Opium, a strip of land between Aztlan (currently Mexico) and the US. Opium, hence it's name, produces huge amounts of opium, which is controlled by Matteo Alacran who uses "eejits", enslaved people who have computer chips implanted inside their brains. Matt, the clone, lives in the house of Celia, a cook at the Alacran house. She was to take care of Matt. One day, two children, Emilia and Steven, find the house and they spot Matt. They leave and return again the next day with Maria. Matt breaks out by breaking a window, but never experiencing pain before, he steps into the broken glass. The children carry him back to the Big House. A man, Mr. Alacran, recognizes him as the clone of El Patron. In the next few months, he is treated like an animal by most of the Alacrans. Maria doesn't like that he is treated like an animal and tells Celia, who passes it on to El Patron. El Patron punishes the main in charge of Matt my making her an eejit and gives Matt a bodyguard. He also orders the others to treat him respectfully, but they only treat him nicely in front of El Patron. The bodyguard is Tam Lin, who Matt looks up to as a fatherly figure.

You go and read the book to find out more of it.

10/10 Stars

FULL SCORE

Book Review 01: Watership Down by Richard Adams

This book is absolutely amazing. If you like the "Warrior" series, then you will like this book. It is a story about a group of rabbits that leave their warren to find a new home. A rabbit, named Fiver, senses danger and wants to leave. He convinces a few other rabbits to come along, Hazel (Fiver's brother), Bigwig (an ex-Owsla officer), and later on, Holly. Just read the book... It's really good. There's also a film on the book.

The book was overly good but it took me a long time to read. I was pretty bored at the start and stopped reading for a day. Then, I picked it up again and finished it.

7/10 Stars