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Neville Park

@nev@status.nevillepark.ca · last week

Introducing my sister to Minecraft, the thread 🧵

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Neville Park

@nev@status.nevillepark.ca · last week

The latest from me and my sister's Minecraft realm: I got around to crafting us leather boots so we could scale mountains and not freeze in the powdered snow. We climbed two of the continent's three tall mountain ranges and were in sight of the third when it got late and I had to log off. We visited a small patch of Pale Garden, which was lovely, I hadn't actually visited one.

We're in Peaceful mode so I'm always like, "This cool place is normally home to terrifying hostile monsters but we don't need to worry about it"

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Minecraft screenshot: a small ring of steep, snow-covered mountains with tall spruces on the lower slopes. A dramatic waterfall cascades from one of the mountains into a balmy little flowery meadow in the centre, which has one tall oak tree with a honeybee nest on it. On the right side, the roof of a village house can be seen through the trees.

A wide-eyed white fox with frosty blue accents sitting on the snow at the top of a different mountain (the one near our home village).

My sister's Minecraft character, with torch in hand, looking upwards in a Pale Garden, a type of forest with eerie ashen grey-tinged trees, moss, and flowers. (There is also a cow in the background with exactly 0 thoughts in its head.) Beyond the trees is a snowy mountainside.

The view from the Pale Garden's canopy shows another tall snowy mountain ringed with more Pale Garden, surrounded by a sea of dark oaks interspersed with giant red mushrooms. The sky has a misty grey tinge.

Neville Park

@nev@status.nevillepark.ca · 5 days ago

Introducing my sister to Minecraft, cont'd: beyond the mountains from the last post, I glimpsed a Woodland Mansion. Sent her a screenshot asking, "Did you do some building when I was offline?" (She didn't buy it.)

We explored every room of the mansion and freed several allays (little blue glowing fairy-like creatures) imprisoned there, and emerged with inventories packed with loot. A river nearby led through a lovely taiga (with a village in it!) on the way back home.

Revelations from my sister:

I told her she could tell the compass directions from (among other things) the sun. She said she didn't think the sun in Minecraft set in any particular direction. Note: it has visibly set in the same direction every day. (I do get her point though, there is no reason it should set in the west like on Earth)
She informed me that many of the stones and minerals from Minecraft are actually from real life. Yes, I am absolutely looking forward to when she mistakenly assumes that some thing made up for Minecraft is real, or vice versa.

(For context, she is 2 years younger than I am and we are both in the 35-44 age bracket)

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