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Jonny, and Joel talk about the changes to projectiles, and fog in the latest Minecraft snapshot, the locator bar, and happy ghasts with air skills, then discuss their tips, and tricks for making Minecraft blocks something they’re not.

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FROM: MrHaleon
MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: Locator Bar Use

Pix, and Joel,

With the locator bar, I think it’s important to remember that some of the main users of Minecraft are children, often together or with their parents. 

As a parent that got into Minecraft because my children wanted to play (Then stumbled into a certain survival tutorial series that helped me learn it!) I can’t tell you how often it comes up that someone needs to find someone else. 

The coordinate system isn’t always intuitive for adults, much less kids, so the locator bar will be a great addition to help people find each other in casual games.

MrHaleon managed to survive because his daughters found him before the zombies did.

FROM: Whitebush
MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: Helpful Happy Ghast

Hello again Joel, and Pix,

While listening to Episode 346, you strayed a little talking about the ghast’s tentacles making noise while close to the ground. It made me think that the tentacles could actually be a useful mechanic. 

Standing on the happy ghast is supposed to be a useful way of building high up. What if while standing on the happy ghast you could feed it something that would make it stick it’s tentacles straight out in the left, right and rear direction, perpendicular to its body, and you were able to place a starter block on any tentacle to start a mid-air build? Mounting the happy ghast again would lower its limbs, and allow you to fly elsewhere to continue building. 

Whitebush fell to his death when while standing on his “helpfully” placed gravel block, and his friend rode in, and absconded his happy ghast.

FROM: The Almighty Duck
SUBJECT: Block Palettes And Building Methods

Hiya, Pix and Joel!

I’m a big fan of the show, and I love hearing about what you guys are doing in your worlds while I’m chilling at work! So much so that you keep me inspired to work on what will eventually become a massive campaign map, one with custom mods, many settlements, and a fully original quest line!

The main problem I have, however, is with the building side. In my brain, I find it difficult to disassociate the block texture with what it actually is in-game. For example, if I see a prismarine block surrounded by spruce trapdoors, I’ll always see exactly that rather than a “barrel of fish” like some mappers intend for it to be.

Since you two are actively building, and adding details to your builds, I was wondering if you would be able to share a little of your wisdom on things like how you use block textures to create new details, or even how you began to disassociate blocks with their textures.

The Almighty Duck died from fall damage, not realising the pool of water was actually a layer of Lapis Lazuli blocks!

Block Texture: Disassociating For Details