Mostly Minecraft

In this blog I discuss what I'm up to in Minecraft, the current status of my modding projects, and share various Minecraft news and information.This blog is embedded in my website joacomp.com and refers to content found in the website.

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'Unacceptable decline': Australia crashes in latest education results

Australia is losing to Kazakhstan in the latest global education report card of Year 4 and Year 8 results.

My son complains that he is learning less now since he moved from northern Sydney to western Melbourne. It seems that our kids might not get very far if you depend too much on the government school system in this region.

I know some parents are too busy to help their kids with homework and keep tabs on their development. I can help with this if you live in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Just comment below or send me a message via my website joacomp.com.

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Just compare our maths curriculum with that of the Common Core States Standard Initiative in the USA

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Valuable Item Protector

I’ve just submitted a new structure-command block mod on Minestruck.

When installed it protects most of your most valuable items by preventing lost items from being destroyed or despawning. This makes possible a gameplay setup a little harder than gamerule keepInventory true, but not as unforgiving as losing all your items when you fall into lava or the void. Check out the link for more detail.

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Happy Holidays everyone! I’ve made a video to demo my item sorter structure I described in the previous post.

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My Sorter Structure on Minestruck

I tidied up that sorter I showed in the last video and saved it as a structure. I also found a new website called Minestruck, that specialises in publishing MC structures, to post my new creation on.

It’s a pretty nice looking website. I had a bit of trouble creating the account since the site is still in beta, but the admin were very helpful and sorted out the issues quickly.

The link is here!

I’ve made a video but it needs the usual attention before I can put it out there.

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Here’s my second update. This time I did a lot of work with hoppers to make a reliable and efficient sorting system to separate out one kind of item. It was quite a learning curve but was happy with the result, except that it gets kind of laggy when it’s running.

I also made a couple of other crazy inventions too.

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It’s been a while but here are a few things I’ve been up to lately. In fact this video is a bit old since I took a while to do the editing. Hopefully I will be able to show some progress in the next one!

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I’ve been experimenting... with bats!

I still have much to learn about command blocks. Lately I’ve been starting another round of experimenting to set up the concepts I will need for my next mod. Bats are actually very useful in MC for a number of command block tricks because they follow a random path. Here is a simple and fun trick with bats: 

first, create an Always Active repeating command block with the command 

execute @e[name=SquiggleBat] ~ ~ ~ setblock ~ ~-1 ~ log

(sorry but don’t copy and paste this text directly into MC because you may also pick up invisible characters)

Let that run, then create your bat by typing:

/summon Bat ~ ~ ~ {CustomName:SquiggleBat}

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Command Blocking

I'm starting to plan another command block mod which should be a lot of fun but might take quite a lot of work. I'm planning to keep all my mods self contained but also mutually compatible.

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Highway Maker

Check out my new command block mod Highway Maker, see right (joacomp.com). It's been working pretty well for me and I've tried earlier versions on LAN and Realms servers with no problem. This mod should be possible to install fairly easily even with fairly limited Minecraft knowledge. I already have a version ready for MC 1.11. Once I've published it, you can upgrade when you upgrade your world MC version simply by uninstalling the old MC 1.10 version and installing the new version as if from scratch.

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First entry

Hi, this is QuBeetlEagle. (my Minecraft user name) Here I’m going to be discussing all sorts of Minecraft related stuff. If you see this blog directly in the Tumblr.com website, don’t forget to check out my website joacomp.com.