Random Diversions

It's taken a while, but my new base is (mostly) back up and running. Moving your entire network takes a bit of planning, because once yo...

I guess I should have posted something before I took a week away from the computer to do some house-sitting! This is a quick update about th...

Looking around my shop today, I don't see many changes, but they're there, honest! Last post  I set up the core of an Applied Energi...

This week, I think I actually accomplished some stuff in my Direwolf20 mod pack world. Last update , I dealt with some niggling stuff, but I...

Last week's post covered some of the changes/improvements I made to my base in my current game of Minecraft. Since then, I've been ...

After my somewhat disastrous trip to the Nether last report , I spent last week working on base improvements. After upgrading base power to ...

I had limited time for Minecraft this week, but I did get a few things done. In the last post , I mentioned doing some basic automation to k...

I've been playing my modded Minecraft world a bit since my last post , making slow progress on my base, doing a bunch of mining, and cre...

In my recent recap of 2015, I mentioned my last Minecraft series, the City Builder Challenge , died a death of ennui. Rather than trying to...

Stage four of my Citybuilder Challenge city is now done. This was a fairly easy stage to complete because most of the groundwork was in pla...

No, I haven't given up yet. Stage three of my Minecraft Citybuilder Challenge is now done, with some extras in place that put me part w...

I'm still progressing on my Minecraft Citybuilder Challenge . Looking over what I've built and written about to date, I've reali...

First Settlement The first stage of my Citybuilder Challenge is now complete. It took more time than I'd hoped, mostly because I wa...

I haven't played Minecraft in a while, since patch 1.8.0 or so, and I feel like building something, so I've decided to take on a Cit...

A few more days have passed (OK, several more days), and there is progress!  Last time I mentioned finding a spider spawner in my mine. I&#...

Some time has passed, work has been done, and improvements made. Nothing spectacular yet, but my little desert base is starting to take shap...

After a night of mining, that extended into the morning of day eight, I've come to a decision: I'll make this desert wasteland a sol...

After a couple false starts, getting lost in the desert, dying to a zombie horde, things are looking up! I spent the night doing some minor ...

Yep, it only took three days to die. After spending the night in the village I stumbled over, I ran outside a bit too quickly for someone wi...

Another day, another aaah, run away!  After spending the night huddled in my little hole in the wall, I ran outside, hoping to find somethin...