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Look at all the coal and iron that I found, and that gap in the ground, it is the entrance to my mine! I found all of those raw materials in that one place, making it the largest sum of coal that I have found yet. It may not seem like a lot, but I do not spend that much time mining in one sitting. I always end up clearing places so I can build new things when I feel like building. This may be the reason that I have not found anything better than iron.

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I was still exploring/revisiting old areas and made it back to my mineshaft. I decided to go exploring in it again for a bit since I never fully explored it.

While exploring I'm a fairly cautious person. I block off any tunnel openings with dirt or sand. (so it's easier to dig up later) I noticed a few cave spiders so to look around I put a few glass panes in so I wouldn't be surprised by anything. (It's easy to be overwhelmed by cave spiders if you've never had that unpleasant experience.) I also had a glitchy creeper that kept falling through the ceiling. Also there were a few minecarts with treasure chests :D

The last picture you can see me destroying a spider spawner. (also lots of spiders and webs). And my final inventory before setting out. The treasure chest is all that I ended up with before moving on, and the picture of the mule's inventory is what I ended up bringing home with me. 

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Dude guys, I'm so sorry.

First I had to take a break because  I got frustrated because I couldn't screencap inventories (Which I didn't know until after I took a million caps of my inventory for posting purposes and had them all planned out...)

Then life got super crazy and busy. I haven't even played since I took these caps. ; ; I'm gonna find out whats going on with my cohorts as well. ^^ 

Anyways I've got some pics of the new flowers, some new biome pictures, some generated structures I found. (Temples, villages) Also There's a picture set of what happens when you look for new biomes on a game that was created before the update. There tends to be straight edged chunks when you move into the newly generated areas. (Kinda lame-o)

anyways.

Hopefully things have chilled enough that I can get back to posting semi-regularly.

<3

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Current Playtime: 24 hours 30 minutes

I did A LOT of exploring looking for new update-related content and I found a lot of it. I started going through the screencaps I took (Over 100) and threw together this quick post of just some non-update related formations and scenery I saw. Some if it is just kinda (really) awesome. 

I should have a more update-related post in the next few days! 

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Exploring the update! I left my home in search of the new things that the update had to offer, taking three loaves of bread, one sword and two pickaxes. I managed to make a boat for the journey, which made my journey much easier. The picture that you see above is the first newly generated island that I have been to, it is much bigger than the picture leads you to believe. I did not manage to find anything that great on the island, but I did find enough coal to last me quite a while, which makes me a happy camper.  

Current Playtime: 26 hrs

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Current Playtime: 21 hours 45 minutes

After this I'm all caught up to where I'm currently playing (Mostly so I can post about the update, I'm really excited!)

I did some more exploring and ended up finding some really awesome formations. (The hooked mountain with pumpkins, maybe slightly nightmare before christmas-y?) And an awesome jungle mountain with an overhang. I went to explore that closer.

Suddently nightime. I climbed on top of the mountain and kept climbing and found out the trees were taller than the clouds. I don't normally see worlds generated where things go over the cloud layer so I thought I'd take a few pics.

I worked my way out of the jungle into some nearby plains and found another village! This one had a blacksmith so I got some goodies in the chest that generated there. I decided to tame a horse and use the saddle I found to get home and transport some things I'd collected. When I went back I brought a donkey instead of a horse for the extra storage. 

I had to fix up the village a bit and forgot to take pics of it though. A lot of it was on the side of a hill so I leveled the ground a bit and make the hills more gradual around the village. 

Finally I was home again and remembered one of the biggest reasons I wanted carrots is so that I could finally get a mule. They're so much better then donkeys since they seem to have a faster movement speed. (I like the darker coloring too) so You can see my lovely addition to my pets/family. :D

I'm probably going to be following this up in the next few days with shorter posts just talking about the update. 

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Current Playtime: 20 hours

I've been breeding/hatching chickens in my house a lot lately, then I do some chicken-harvesting and start again. I decided to make a Mrs. Cluckles, I'll always leave the cluckles when I collect feathers (mostly) so I'll never accidentally run out of chickens inside :3 Also, one of these chickens isn't looking too chickeny, he's kinda tall. And he's redecorating. 

Since I'm finished with my garden for now I'm going to go ahead and do some fishing so I can try and get some cats (and a dog). After catching a few fish I went to the jungle nearby to harvest a lot of trees and found an ocelot around the corner. I followed him around (FOREVER) until I was very very far from home, then I tamed him. :D Now I have a kitty. Then I found a few wolves stuck in a jungle bush.

Once I tamed him night began to fall so I built a platform in the water so I could fish at night. I noticed some trees burning in the distance and went to explore once it was daytime. I found a lava pool and later an interesting mountain formation. I hope I can find it again it would make an awesome outpost.

That's all my precious chicken-lovers!  <3 mooingboog

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That's right! Anzaroot is the winner in our gardening challenge, mooingboog came in second and captain-willum came in third.

Anzaroot wins:  (10) Sugarcane (10) Cacti (10) Roses (10) Daffodils (10) Carrots (10) Potatoes (10) Red Mushrooms (10) Brown Mushrooms (10) Seeds (10) Melon Seeds (10) Pumpkin Seeds (10) Cocoa Seeds (10) Netherwart (16) Soulsand (16) Mycelium  & 10 levels

Mooingboog gets to choose one item

Captain-Willum gets to choose one item and gets half the number listed of them.

Stay tuned for the announcement of our next week-long voting challenge! And thank you to everyone who voted!