The first post on this blog was back in June and outlines a little about us.
S, E and O are home educated and spend lots of time playing Minecraft. I have another blog called The Gallivanters which I have posted on everyday for the last 5 years but this one is a new departure.
What's happened in the past week on Minecraft?
Last Sunday night Minecraft went down for 3 hours! Due to a problem with the authentication servers.
Orin aka DobotAttack age 6
Has a new Realm mostly so he can play Pizza Spleef with his friends. S, E and O all have Realms atm.
O has been using mods via the Technic Launcher platform - my fave of which is Tiny Man and has introduced a new word to our family "Ensmallening" - led to lots of conversations about scale.
Watching Dan TDM again for first time in ages for mod pack ideas and projects
Etienne aka GoldenEt006 age 8
Has actually been playing another game online! League of Legends. He does also play MK8 and Mario Party but not generally on line. E played Legends at teenager J's house and was keen to play at home. His friends A and J play too.
Don't worry there's still be hours of Minecraft
E has a Realm and a Technic Launcher server hosted by Apex set to Attack of the B team - it is a really big mod pack though and only one or two of his gang of friends can play it. I was so proud of myself for co-ordinating it all - it is a shame it hasn't worked out.
E's made a Big leap in coding - he literally pushed my hands off the keyboard when he realised what he needed to type to modify the command for an enchantment - I wrote about this on my sister blog The Gallivanters on Wednesday - using commands outside of a command block - Definitely inspired by the Red Engineer.
thing this morning E asked for help in making his Minecraft sword extra sharp. He is really into commands now and we talked about the instructions contained within each section - once he realised how the code was comprised and which bit did what he was literally pushing my hands off the keyboard to make amendments himself.
Those kind of lightbulb moments are really cool to be around.
The sample code we used to copy was for a Iron Sword so he said "Why have iron when you can have diamond?"
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/168227/how-to-make-an-enchantment-with-more-than-standard-allowed-max-level
and swapped out the word iron for diamond and then further down the code changed the numbers .........
First time the base that E shares with his friends was raided on Cosmic PVP - continues to really enjoy PrestonPlayz and Woofless on YouTube - E learns lots from YouTube and "my YouTubers" as he calls them.
E likes to play SkyWars on Hypixel. He does play other Hypixel games (Build Battle, Warlords, Galaxy Wars) but likes Skywars best.
Sapphire (Saff) aka CaramelTiger age 10
S's best YouTube channel remains as Aphmau Minecraft diaries and this inspires much of her play especially RolePlay.
S has been building on various friends Realm's - mostly people she's met via the HE Server and a few people she also knows IRL. She often plays with Orin 1:1 but only plays with Et when there is another person in the mix like a mutual friend.
She plays regular Minecraft on the PC in her room and Technic Launcher downstairs - Copious dogs has been a popular pack this week.
S is really keen to switch her realm to a modded server - Crazy Craft maybe with deco craft which she likes and has been discussing this with her friends to avoid some of the problems E has had.
TMO (The Mummy One)
I've been really enjoying helping E with enchantments and commands and seeing him really think about the possibility and helping O with mods- O mostly plays on the PC right by the kitchen so I can chat to him most easily of all - S can do all of this herself and more uses my PA services to link up with friends who don't have Skype. I follow all of the trio's best YouTubers on Twitter which keeps me in the loop.
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