It's been a long, long time since I posted a #minecraftmonday. I played a bit last night, and over the last few weeks. After trying all sorts of servers, and purchasing donor ranks here and there, The Kid and I were a bit sick of having all our hard work blown away whenever the servers updated. We'd previously had our own hosted Minecraft server, but the Kid had moved away from Java edition and had been mostly playing Bedrock edition on the Xbox.
Walls built to keep the mobs out and the villagers safe.
As I was still on the PC, we decided to switch me over to Bedrock edition too and get a hosted account so we could play in the same world whether we and our friends were all online or not. For simplicity's sake we went with a Realm, although I kicked it off with a world seed we selected.
Farm crops for food and trading, and a grove of trees to harvest so we can keep building.
So far it's been great. I've been doing lots of building to destress (I've previously written about using Minecraft as a tool for anxiety management). One of the fun challenges has been fortifying a village we found, and encouraging it's growth. We're now branching out and trying to rehabilitate two abandoned villages.
We built a few dormitories to encourage an increase in villager numbers ... which also meant an increase in nitwits ...
The Kid goes off adventuring, while I'm content to just break blocks and build things. It's been a little harder to build anything impressive so far as resources are limited - I'd forgotten the challenges of vanilla survival. It's fun though, and I'm sure we'll end up with a few impressive buildings as we go :-)
The Kid and I back when we played on the Castia server, Java Edition. I still use the same skin.
Until next time,
@Sammie
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