Minecraft Monday - Hardcore Single Player

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I am back again today on the second Minecraft Monday since creating this blog. Today's Minecraft Monday post is going to be about my Single Player Hardcore world I created. Yesterday I took screenshots but I forgot to write up this post so I have to do it now. Anyways, if you have no idea what Hardcore Single Player is, or you want to see what mine looks like, just read on. Note: I would have done a video but my camera does not work very well for videos. 

You might wonder, What is Hardcore Single Player? or maybe even, What is Minecraft? Well, if either of those are the case, I will tell you. Minecraft is a world of squares, simple really, unless you go into the fact that there are a lot of items. The newest update brought so many things I cannot even list them all. I already wrote a post about Minecraft so I will just move onto what Hardcore Mode is. Hardcore really is hard. You have ten lives, but once you lose those ten the game is over and your world is deleted. If you are playing a Hardcore server and die, you get permanently banned. Not only do you only have ten lives that don't come back (unless you use things like mushroom stew), but you are on Hard too so there are a lot of monsters. If you want my opinion, Hardcore is challenging and fun but don't try it out unless you have, or nearly, mastered Survival mode. Another thing - don't build anything awesome in Hardcore, just don't. I made the mistake of building an underground fortress in Hardcore. I still have not died but I probably will eventually so I will lose everything.

 

I guess I should show you the fortress now. I just call it a fortress because I like the name but it is still sort of small. To the right is one of the screenshots of the dining room area. The dining room is where I keep my blocks, and of course the chairs and table are there too. I This is the biggest room in the house so far so I call it the entrance room. 

This picture is of the kitchen. I was risky enough to go outside one day to get more wood and food - right when the sun was about to set. I was fine, but that was a really close call. I grabbed some of those flowers in the picture too so my kitchen would look nice. In the chest is food, and I have some coal in the ovens. I do all my crafting in here too so I call it both a kitchen and workshop.

Here I show my really small bathroom. I don't have enough iron - being under a tiny island - to create other things, but I got the bathtub in. And trust me, that was no easy job. Since I live under an island (I will explain that part soon) whenever I try to expand my walls or ceiling I flood the house. One time I was mining when all of a sudden water started pouring in. I closed the gap and continued mining (after many more floods). The three things I mine most besides iron is: Andesite, Diorite, Granite which I polish to use for the floors, walls, stairs, and ceilings. Because those things, especially Andesite, comes in big deposit's I get flooding a lot thanks to them digging into the surface. I am very tempted to just dry out the water surrounding my island using stone, dirt, and sand (I get a lot of those).

Before I tell you about my island, let me show you my bedroom. Like all the other rooms the flooring is made out of polished Granite and Diorite and the walls and ceilings are made of polished Andesite. This room is nearly as big as my dining room, or possibly (I would have to look) bigger than it. Those double doors lead into my current mine. You can't see all of the bedroom in that picture but I added a place for a bed once I get wool. Inside a chest (not in the picture) is things like tools, fencing, extra coal, and other random things. So far the room is really plain but I just built it yesterday including the mine.

Now the island... when I first started my Hardcore World (after Katie messed up my last one) I was near an island. I grabbed some wood and swam to it knowing that chances of many monsters spawning on such small land was unlikely. Well, I built a sand and dirt house even though I normally make a wood pickax and stone sword first and then a wood house (I am very skilled in Survival) but I did not want to take any chances. My house was actually just under an oak tree so I just had to make walls. This became my ground-level house. Later on I started mining but ran into some

Andesite, Granite, and Diorite. Then it hit me - the new update. I looked online what I could use those for and saw they could be polished. 64 pieces - 1 stack - will turn out to be 64 polished pieces. I then came up with the idea to just create a nice, underground home using those three things. Soon enough I got my entrance room which later on became a dining room. Then I added the kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom while creating mines behind the walls and in the ceiling. I noticed the mining was ruining my castle-like design so I stopped and just did it in a second entrance room. But there was just too much water and nothing good. Closing up that mine I made one in my bedroom by mistake. I was putting in walls when I saw Andesite. In need of Andesite to finish the bedroom I started mining. I think I went through 1 iron and 1 or two stone pickaxes just to get it all out. It was starting to look like a mine so I turned it into one. Once all the stuff is out I am going to turn it into another room.

Well, that is a little bit about my island and house. Below are some other pictures if you want to see the specific designs I did. I hope today's second Minecraft Monday was good, and let's hope I don't get blown up by a Creeper today (I have to gather wood, that is why). Be prepared for next week's Minecraft Monday because I think I might introduce... something or another. I will decide this week so don't worry.

 

Note: In the last picture it shows my upgraded version of my house under the tree. I took out the tree, made the home wood, added windows and a door, and put in the polished Diorite and Granite floors. And for the picture before that, I don't show the glass hallway leading into the main house but it is there. The island is actually nearly as small as my ground-house, believe it or not. And I still have to change the glass main room walls into wood or polished Andesite instead of sand and grass.