Started another 1.9pre2 world. A Minecraft weekend.

After my unsuccessful experiment with the mods and texture packs I deleted my Minecraft folder and reinstalled it. I started a new world. I worked on trapping animals and getting ranches started. I got a collection of sheep, pigs and cows. I haven't started chicken coop yet. They are missing in action. I'll go look for them sooner or later.

I made a cool shaft for freefall with water break for jumping down to the bedrock level. I was pretty happy with it. I kept jumping again adn again after I made it. I feel that my understanding of water physics is getting better. I have used water for jumping down from high places. I sort of know how to create a water wall, but not completely. I uploaded a short clip of me jumping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2MACqegRzk

I recorded the video using Xsplit. I tinkered for hours because the video quality was terrible. I kept uploading and deleting the video. It turns out that I set the Xsplit video quality to very low setting. I thought I was just making the viewport small. I was also mystified why I was only getting 360 low resolution even though I uploaded the video in 720p. I was pretty unhappy about it but when I checked the video this morning, it had HD 720 video! I guess it takes some extra time to get the HD video to come out in youtube. Anyway I'm pretty happy now.

I tried using Fraps and it looked nice but it's not free. I wonder if I can do some sort of video editing before uploading it. Or maybe I need to look at annotations.

I was mining diamonds last night and got distracted by cave system. I found a spider dungeon. After finding this and that, you lose track of where you are after a while. I decided to track back by knocking out torches. I did that partly because I didn't have any more sticks or wood, and I was down to 20 torches.

I watched a video by Ethos last night. Let's Play Minecraft Episode 106. It was pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYUnhWOyCLA

Found a nice blog about Minecraft

http://porkchopsandpickaxes.tumblr.com/

The author's pictures have a nice distinct style. Looks familiar somewhat but I don't know where from. Some resemblance to Coraline.