With the first sulfur cave snapshot out, I did a quick video looking talking about real sulfur caves and how you find those minerals in real life.
Sulfur Caves, A Quick Look
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Also I sometimes know how to spell reveal.
Ha! I was right, the lichen spam in the revel seems to have been just a video presentation thing. You can get away with much brighter colors in the dark and still keep a distinction between blocks. The Java Snapshot today doesn't look like ketchup and mustard explosion.
Smithed Summit 2024 was an amazing event all held within vanilla Minecraft and I met so many great people. I am planning to have another booth at 2026, for which applications just opened! Check out the short trailer if you are interested too.
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I made a simple tool to figure out planting times for vintage story crops. Link to tool is in the direction video description.
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I did a little extra video on part two of vintage story over on the second channel. Just covering some things that I cut from the main one. youtu.be/OQulgEjxJGs?...
I used some native sulfur that I collected in the Vintage Story video but since I’m going to be talking about it in a bit more depth when the Minecraft sulfur cave snapshot comes out, I decided to buy a flashier piece.
Looking forward to playing around with it when the snapshot is released and I’ll probably make a video about it as well.
I wonder how much Mojang increased the lighting in the sulfur cave revel. You can tell they were doing some things with brightness past just the “bright” gamma setting in game. Maybe adding more glow lichen than normal just for watchability. The bright colors will look better in the dark
Not trying to self promote here but I do think that since the game has so much to talk about geologically it’s not a bad idea. My two videos basically became an intro to geology and economic geology. Like, if I was just teaching there isn’t much else that I would cover.
After a few hundred hours in game and many more in writing/recording/editing, my geologic review of vintage story is complete. Now I can actually play the game. -_-
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Yep, you are correct. That one is from the green river.
All thats left to do is record all the rocks and minerals for part two of the vintage story geologic review.
Little daughter got a mystery bag at a rock/mineral/fossil show yesterday. The note that came with it feels targeted.
I have never seen something this color blue in nature before. I think they are shriveled up blue cup fungus. Also found some pixie cups and a beautiful hepatica leaf.
Interesting, just the right height to be under.
The water flow code is something I didn’t look into yet. It’s one of those things that you think makes sense but then there are some strange cases too.
I was doing a little research for a river episode and needed to learn how water actually works in Minecraft, it was interesting and strange and decided to make a short episode on it. It made me understand a lot of the oddities that bothered me for years.
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Something recent? My channel actually took off because he tweeted about my old missing colors video years ago.
Me when someone mentions rocks.
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(I'm glad I can inspire... art?) Thanks @gamma027.bsky.social
No worries I’m still here. I have a shared sheet with values and maybe the code somewhere.
Let's do this.
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I decided to do a quick look at the current state of Hytale geology and world gen. Definitely some interesting things they are doing and it will be cool to see how it changes.
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I wanted to give some perspectives on climate change and the relative values for CO2 and Carbon in general. So I scaled them all in Minecraft.
The Scale of Climate Change
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Yeah 100%
I came across this cheap knockoff in a bargain bin and I was compelled to see what could possibly be inside.
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I had a few things I cut and comments that were worth talking about in the vintage story review so I recorded a little extra gneiss over on the second channel.
Ok, my assumptions: it is a natural rock.
Then it is very strange if it is a coral, which the one picture does look like. The rest of the pictures and the floating part makes it look and sound like pumice.
Maybe the hex pattern on the one image was something growing on a piece of pumice?
We used a lot of physical maps before the internet and instead of tossing them all, I haven’t used wrapping paper for over a decade.
