22 minecraft - just got the nintendo switch version!

Dear Readers,

I decided to go for the Nintendo Switch version of this game now! I still like the Wii U version but I see more possibilities with this one!

21 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - BUILDING A HOUSE AND FLYING BETWEEN VILLAGES

Dear Readers,

Just a single player creative session for today. I felt like building a house, so I started a superflat world on peaceful.

20 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - SINCE WHEN DID DIDDY KONG WEAR PANTS?, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Christmas was over now, so Mop it up and I played my world with the Mario 64 texture pack again. I tried the Diddy Kong costume. Hoo ha hee!

19 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - THE UPDATE THAT ALMOST RUINED CHRISTMAS, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

It had been a while since I last played and I had Mop it up over in my world. Before we started though, I had to download and install update 1.10, also known as Patch 15. It took almost 11 minutes to download & install and uh... it changed a few things...

18 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - CURING MORE VILLAGERS, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP AND CHRIS

Dear Readers,

Mop it up as Shy Guy and Chris came to my world to hang out. It had been a while! I continued adding more villagers to our little community.

17 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - ANOTHER NETHER ADVENTURE ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Mop it up as Birdo and I played another session where I focused even more on villagers. We also had another nether adventure.

16 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - NEW NEIGHBOUR VILLAGERS! ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Been a small while but we're back! Mop it up and I continued the villager restoration project by getting a new neighbour for our butcher!

15 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - VILLAGER RESTORATION ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP AND CHRIS

Dear Readers,

After installing yet another update(something to do with a guy named Gary Banner, whoever he is), Mop it up and I returned to my world for more Minecrafting!

14 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - A DANGEROUS GAME OF PING PONG, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP AND CHRIS

Dear Readers,

Mop it up and Chris came back to my world, or as Chris called it, Leprechaunia.

13 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - ENDING THE POTATO AND CARROT FAMINE, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

With all the fuss of debates lately, Mop it up and I decided to head back to my world and settle once and for all which was better: Fishing or spelunking?

12 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - UNDERWATER ADVENTURE ONLINE WITH MOP IT UP AND CHRIS

Dear Readers,

Mop it up very kindly built a fishing hole upstairs from the enchanting room! Hooray! Our house now had four floors! Chris also made a long-awaited return!

11 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - STRONGHOLD ADVENTURE ONLINE WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Mop it up came back to my Mario 64 textured world. I did the usual farming to begin with, until it got dark and rainy.

10 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - EXPLORING THE SKELETON CAVE IN THE NORTHEAST, ONLINE WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Mop it up came back to my world once again with the Birdo skin and the Mario 64 texture pack. Yay! I didn't go to the nether this time though!

9 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - CAVE EXPLORING AND NETHER RESCUE, ONLINE WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Mop it up and I decided to try some cave exploring this time! My first time going deep underground!

8 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - DEADLY TELEPORTING WOLF, ONLINE WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Mop it up came back to my world and we kept it on the Mario texture pack. It's nice of the world to welcome us with the Mario 64 title screen theme!

7 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - PLENTY OF CHICKENS IN THE SEA, ONLINE WITH CHRIS AND MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

I went back to Chris' world with him and Mop it up. I kept my Toad skin and they were wearing Mario and Dr. Mario skins if I remember correctly.

When I joined it was close to nighttime. I hung around the base keep and looked around the surrounding areas. No mobs were spawning. Mop it up found an emerald. Chris had all the villagers locked up in their homes, so no one was visiting our keep.

The next day it rained. I decided to check out the desert mountain near the southwest corner of the map, which was nearby. It's pretty cool with some cliffside caves here and there. I wandered around the desert, while it rained everywhere else!

That night it was dark when I got back to base. A creeper blasted me, but it only blew a hole in the sand luckily and I didn't get killed. It was a stormy night. I stayed indoors. Mop it up and Chris could hear the thunder while deep underground.

Mop it up wondered if anyone found pumpkins yet. I decided to go look for some by exploring the woods in the western part of the map. Didn't find any this day.

That night I decided to do some fishing. There was a little pool by the base designed for farming sugar cane but I could sit on the wall above and fish in safety and comfort :) Mop it up came along and asked if I had any good catches this evening, which I did. :) Just then though, another creeper blast happened below, which was near the creeper that got me earlier. It's a bad old spot for it.

Mop it up joined me after a while, so we were the fishing team :) catching salmon and puffer fish.

The next day I went to look for pumpkins again. Couldn't find any, but I did find a swamp full of lilies! I got carried away collecting about fifty something lilies, whatever I'll use them for. It was dark before I knew it, so I rushed home. I barely outran a witch unharmed too! Yikes!

I unwound by doing some more night fishing. Chris came along this time. I failed to catch a fish while he was watching, missing my opportunity to impress him. He said he was more shocked to learn I could fish in that little pond he made. I'm still not sure how big a body of water has to be before you can fish in it...

Some time later I finally found pumpkins! There was a big cluster of them in the woods near the centre of the map. I harvested about fifteen of them and brought them back to our supplies at the base keep, still rushing to outrun the dark of night! I converted five of them into seeds after learning that I could do it from Mop it up.

At one point, Chris went to the top of the mountain in the southwest to place some torches. I could see him clearly from the base keep. He wanted to do some daredevil thing by jumping down into some water. What he really wanted to do was make himself a mountaintop lair. That mountain's cliffside caves would be good for it alright!

I decided to look for chickens. I grabbed some grass seeds and spotted one swimming in the stream near our base. Chickens don't move very well in water so I was there for a while trying to get it to come out. Just then though, Chris killed it! Gah! He made up for it though... by giving me cooked chicken...

Chris: There you go. Your chicken.
Rocket: XD dang it chris
Rocket: cooked and all lol
Chris: I'm sure it tastes delicious.
Rocket: I was gonna keep it in the front yard or something so we could have eggs
Chris: There will be other chickens.
Rocket: I'll look for another one
Rocket: yeah plenty of chickens in the sea

Soon afterwards I literally found another two chickens swimming in the sea. What are the odds? I spent another two days trying to coax them out. Soon, I found another chicken and bred others, so by the time we finished up for the night, we had four chickens in the front yard. Lots of eggs coming in now :)

Mop it up made a scary portal. Also, the fishing pond was expanded! Yay! Though I forget who expanded it. I kept myself crouched to stop falling off the wall into the pond. I heard a baby zombie down there so I had to be careful. Mop it up killed it. I fished out a nametag and tripwire hook.

I fished out a regular fish too but Chris got in the way and he collected it! The next day he returned it though and whacked me in the head, like it was Monty Python or something!

Mop it up made an enchantment table. Some bookcases were collected too. Chris joked how they were full of porn.

Soon, Mop it up decided to check out the scary portal. It wasn't a safe trip... Deaths happened from fighting ghasts and withering away. Mop it up said there wasn't any cover in there and that it was wide open with not much cover.

I guess that leaves a goal for the next session in Chris' world.

6 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - SUPER MINECRAFT 64!

Dear Readers,

Mop it up and I played in my world again but this time, we used the Mario texture pack! It was my first time using a different texture in Minecraft so there were many wonders and delights to get used to. I stuck with my Toad skin and Mop it up used a Yoshi skin.

In this texture pack, various music tracks from Super Mario 64 play in a shuffled kind of way. First it was the file select music and then it was Bob-omb Battlefield.

My wolf now looked like Poochy!

The next track that played was the interior of Princess Peach's Castle. I joked and said it was from when Wrinkly Kong was playing video games in Donkey Kong Country 3. I've seen real life people get stuck on this level so maybe that was some kind of clever commentary.

The various kinds of fish are now different coloured Cheep Cheeps...

Rainbow Ride theme then played. I didn't think it was a very good choice, not unless you were doing some kind of fun action like riding around on a railway. I tried out the one Mop it up built between our mountain and the big lake to the north and it was pretty cool.

Mop it up found a horse and built a concrete pen for it outside. Later on I found a pig and a Goomba shaped chicken and led them inside the pen too with some seeds and wheat.

Snowman's Land music played. It's no coincidence that music from Super Mario 64 was chosen. Minecraft to me always had the spirit of an N64 game or at least was the next big evolution in exploring 3D worlds. GameCube didn't have enough of that with regards to being the next big step and had more arcadey stuff for the most part. Still a great console itself though :)

Night time brought the sleepy Piranha Plant music :) I never actually listened to the whole track before listening to this.

The Wing Cap music started playing too and I half wondered if Mop it up was flying around outside.

Then it was the Metal Cap music.

Then Big Boo's roundabout music... really not sure about this one. It's an unsettling and eerie thing in Big Boo's Haunt, but here it sounds like it might get annoying :/

The sun was the beautiful swirly symbol from Super Mario Sunshine :)

Mop it up helped me with my pumpkins... then they started growing like crazy! I had placed them too close to one another. Mop it up then forgot that wheat gets damaged if you run over it! Kind of reminded me of Yoshi from the old Super Mario World cartoon :)

Lots and lots of Jack-o-lanterns were made from the big crop. Mop it up set up another pumpkin farm near our house. At least now I understood that pumpkins grow into the space next to where they're planted. Nice that they don't have to be replanted either.

Mop it up said there are different music tracks I haven't heard yet. For example, in the Nether, it plays the Bowser's stage and Lethal Lava Land themes. Very good choices I'd imagine!

I wonder if the game plays the Hazy Maze Cave music? That would be pretty awesome if it did. Imagine hearing that in an underground ravine! Ooo!

Mop it up found diamonds. They look pretty sweet. Lovely jeweller shape and with eyes of its own! Standard Mario styled item :)

I made some pumpkin pie. Very good item to make as it fills 4 food bars and we now have a flow of pumpkins, eggs and sugar cane coming in.

Mop it up had a nice sky light in our roof. That was until we needed to make an extension and installed an enchanting table upstairs. All Mop it up's work too. Nice stone and wood finish to it too. Very talented interior designer :)

I decided to look for Lily pads. The ones I had fished out previously are very handy for farming because I can walk on them and not fall into the water. In the Super Mario texture pack, they have a beautiful Super Leaf design with green stripes and eyes :)

I ventured north with help from Mop it up's railway. I was hoping to find a swampy area around the huge lake but I didn't find anything and kept running out of daylight time, so I had to make constant commutes over and back. I left a little boat up there overnight.

It's kind of weird how the swords look like Hammer Bros. hammers. I thought they were axes at first, but then the axes look like the axes at the end of a castle stage in Super Mario Bros.

Mop it up brought back tons of gold and iron... continuing to strike it rich :) also built a Nether portal near the mountain. Definitely not time for me to venture there though.

Wow, the flint and steel shows up as a Fire Flower! Kinda clever :)

I sailed around the lake to the north. Found a jungle biome in the top northwest corner but no swamp area yet sadly. I eventually decided to suit up in iron armour as the days just felt so short. The cacti I saw along the way were made to look like Pokeys. :) Love it!

Mop it up had the enchanting table but also an anvil upstairs. There's no village in the map so it'll be kinda tough to find bookshelves, but they can be found in strongholds too Mop it up said. We just need to find one of those.

I went exploring in the west for a bit and found a swampy area! Woo! Lots of lilies as well :) I was so wrapped up in gathering them it was pitch dark on my way back home.

When I got back to our mountain, I found that Mop it up had put lots of lights all over the top and it looked like a big cheerful birthday cake! The idea was to light it up so we could find it in the dark on our way home.

After my lily quest, I stayed home. The farm was now much easier to walk around in with the lily pads covering some of the water and I spent the rest of the days of our session fishing. At night while Mop it up was out working hard at more stuff, I stayed at home with the wolf. At one point it was sticking its Poochy head through the door! Maybe a pet flap should be a feature!

I ought to go cave exploring some time... Like Mop it up said, it's Minecraft, not Fishcraft!

5 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - STRIKING GOLD ONLINE WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Mop it up and I went back to my world. I kept the Toad skin and Mop it up changed to Toadette. Chris wasn't with us this time.

Most of the real work and adventuring wasn't done by me at all as I spent almost the whole time fishing and farming! Mop it up did loads of stuff. First, there was all the storage boxes and sign labels made for them.

I fished up a pufferfish for the first time. The description says it isn't really good for eating as it's poisonous so it's best for brewing and it can't be cooked either.

A full set of iron armour was made for me in case I wanted to go adventuring and I didn't mine, smelt or craft any of it. Such kindness...

Meanwhile I was just defending my farm from more creepers. I built a fence around it and installed a gate. I fished out some more weird stuff like water bottles and string. Lots of pollution here...

However I fished out lots of real fish as well. Good for our food supplies!

One night there was a skeleton wandering outside our home. There was a wolf attacking it and helped defeat it. I gave the wolf some bones and tamed it the next day.

I caught a clownfish. It's edible and non-poisonous, but doesn't restore much and it cannot be cooked.

Mop it up explored the map but couldn't find a village anywhere. I'm not sure if I had structures turned off or on.

I fished out more weird stuff like tripwire hooks and worn down leather boots. I put them on for fun!

Mop it up found some cool floating pieces of land. I really must go exploring...

I fished out lily pads and found them great for walking around the crops in the farm as they allow you to walk on water! Fished out some leather too. The wolf was my fishing buddy and at one point I accidentally hooked it. Whoops!

The wolf sometimes joined us indoors when we went to sleep. Nosy thing. Also, the days seemed really short. Gives new meaning to the expression "Not enough hours in the day"!

Mop it up found some pumpkins and put one on to give me a scare :)

Got pumpkin seeds out of it too, so I planted them on the farm, replacing some of the wheat crop. Mop it up advised leaving a space between pumpkins to allow them to grow but it was too late... I planted them all in a line. Whoops!

Mop it up then found an abandoned mineshaft and some gold! Happy times!

Me: "We're rich! I'm rich! You're richer!"
Mop it up: "Who is richest? Creepers?"
Me: "Not sure, they're inclined to blow it all away"

Lapis, diamonds, melon seeds and loads of other stuff were found down there. When it was night, the wolf and I stayed indoors and looked at Mop it up's dot on the map.

We called the end of the session when the huge haul of stuff was brought back. So much stuff!

4 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - IN CHRIS' WORLD ONLINE WITH CHRIS AND MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

The next Minecraft session I had with Chris and Mop it up was on a world Chris was hosting. Chris was dressed up as Dr Mario and Mop it up was dressed as a Shy Guy. I still had the Toad skin.

I spawned near a village and that's where the base was built. It was a nice looking place, built like a castle or a keep. Chris guided me there. He even made me a bed which he placed between the other two beds they had. We had some fun jumping on the beds before I went exploring the keep.

At night, the villagers piled into the keep and took up our workspace. They got in the way of the crafting, smelting and storage stations. The keep lit up well enough at night and there was a nice vantage point to survey the surrounding lands.

The next morning I borrowed some tools and iron to make an iron sword and headed for the beach. I also gathered some wheat to make some bread for food. Nice handy farms around here. Potatoes were growing here too.

The next night I got a scare. A creeper was standing on top of our beds! I lured it away and it exploded in the hall beneath the lookout tower, not causing too much damage. I spent the rest of the night repairing the steps and restoring the glass in the windows from the supplies.

Mop it up was slain by a zombie at one point while far away. There was a spawner nearby.

Later on I got another scare when a skeleton appeared in the keep! Mop it up and I caught it in time.

Mop it up found some sugar cane and planted some outside. Will come in handy for paper. Chris crafted compasses and gave me one! Nice!

I kind of claimed the chest near the bed for storing food. Didn't put a sign or anything above it though.

I took a notion to explore all the tunnels mined by the others. Quite a network of them and it was like exploring an ant colony. It was pretty cool. Or at least it was until I came to the stronghold they discovered and explored it. Everything became more like a labyrinth then and I got lost! To make matters worse, a witch hit me with a poison splash potion. I survived but I didn't bring any food so I wasn't regenerating health!

Mop it up eventually found me and led me out to safety. My hero! :)

I hung around the keep for a good while afterwards. The others went very far away and explored a cave with lots of iron and a ravine. It was night time but they were safe. I had a desire to go fishing. I climbed the lookout tower with the hope of spotting a spider I could sword for its string. I saw one in the desert and quickly went out to attack it, getting enough to make a fishing rod.

"Is it safe to go fishing at night if you take a boat?" I asked the others. I didn't really want to wait until morning so I made a boat as well. I then headed for the beach.

I cruised out a bit in the boat and hit the invisible wall! Gah! It was really close too. I made another boat and did some more fishing.

I didn't catch much at first. Just a wooden bowl. I eventually caught a decent amount of fish, even caught some salmon. I fished out some other junk too like some nametags. Chris came out to say hello by jumping around on my boat lol.

Poor Mop it up got pricked to death by a cactus. I never actually saw that death message before in Minecraft.

The next morning I did some more fishing but from the beach instead of bothering with the boat. A curious cow wandered up to me. It was all interested in what I was doing.

I caught a bunch of fish and went back to the keep to cook them. Chris went afk (or afc for controller?) to take a shower. I decided to cook all of Mop it up's potatoes too. Make fish and chips as a reward for saving me earlier :)

I went out to harvest more potatoes too. I cooked about 50 of them and put them in storage. Chris asked jokingly if we could make twice baked potatoes.

Chris was messing around with the one square block of water Mop it up was using for the sugar cane farm. It must've been really deep so for fun I went to check it out. Chris jumped in with me and drained the water, making us stuck in a one block wide hole surrounded by sand! He tried to dig out as carefully as possible but some freak chain reaction happened and I got killed down there. Oops!

Ah well, it was no problem because it was right next to our keep and I had no trouble getting my stuff back. It actually worked out for the better, because my map suddenly became over 3/4 complete instead of the barely 1/4 I had explored for myself.

I did some more fishing and we called it a night after that.

3 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - FIRST ONLINE MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE WITH MOP IT UP AND CHRIS

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about my first online session playing Minecraft with my American friends Mop it up and Chris, who would join later.

I created a new world in survival mode. Up until now I had only played the tutorial world so playing this game was still pretty new to me, though I have been watching Minecraft videos for years. I kept Player vs Player switched off and set the difficulty on easy.

Mop it up and I spawned in a wooded area and got to work straight away on punching trees to make tools. We found some stone nearby at the bottom of a cliff and made stone tools. Mop it up found a place to build our house and built it speedily out of wooden planks and lit it up with torches, while I continued to fumble with the controls and gather seeds from grass. The house was finished in the nick of time, as a spider riding skeleton spawned right in front of me and gave chase! Made it back to the house and jumped inside! Mop it up built some storage chests inside.

After the first night, I went out to gather more seeds. Just around the corner of our house was a little body of water, so I started the process of converting it into a wheat farm. I spent most of this day gathering seeds from grass. When it got dark, Mop it up was still working on the house when a Creeper came up from behind and exploded! I was the only survivor unfortunately and when I tried to attack it, I threw my sword at it instead! Gah! Wrong button! During the second night, Mop it up repaired the house and also had a basement built.

After the second night we found a skeleton had invaded my farm! I jumped around and distracted it while Mop it up defeated it. I continued to work on the farm and gathered more seeds from the open field down the hill.

On the third night I decided to choose a skin for my character. Mop it up had a cool Captain Toad one. I browsed the various options, some of which were DLC (shakes fist) and decided on a regular Toad. When I think about it now, he was always the best at pulling up vegetables so it's even more fitting! Mop it up had also put a nice stone wall around the pit near the house so we wouldn't fall into it. I continued gathering seeds for wheat farming the next day too.

Then Chris joined. I was dealing with a Creeper lurking near my farm at the time, which I could see from the roof of our house. Mop it up said a wolf killed it, which was pretty interesting! Thanks wild wolf! At one point there was a skeleton on our roof so I sworded it off.

After the fourth night I fought another Creeper away from my farm. I found the Wolf that fought off the Creeper and fed it some bones. I fed it like six bones and it wouldn't be tamed! Ah well. Chris had built a place for himself upstairs from our place and into the mountain. He says it was the supervillain in him that inspired him. He kindly built some steps too.

After the fifth night I had a bit of a fence around my farm to keep out creepies. Mop it up explored some caves and also brought back a lot of beef for our food supply.

On the sixth night, Chris tunnelled his way into our house. Gah! At least they're connected now! I made some shears out of iron ingots.

On the seventh night, Chris had died in the game. I was the only one at home and the others were looking for Chris' stuff. The next day I decided to look for sheep and shear their wool.

I found a few sheep while exploring and sheared them. At last we now had enough wool to make beds for all of us! I checked out Chris' place. He had a nice skylight above his bed. Mop it up and I put our beds in the basement.

Chris had an itch to explore the area to the northwest and I tagged along with him and Mop it up. I found some giant mushrooms and Chris was messing around with a pumpkin on his head, trying to jumpscare me. :)

It was getting dark again so I headed back to our base. Mop it up and Chris explored caves. They didn't find any mole people but found skeletons and a Creeper blew Mop it up up. I got a bit confused on the way back, so I navigated the dense forest with my map and got back to base without too much damage done. Chris helped Mop it up with recovering equipment.

I explored the southeastern bit of the map that was left and found a mushroom biome, which was a nice discovery. Mop it up and Chris found lots of redstone but didn't have any iron pickaxes, so I crafted some for them at home.

It was getting late so we called it a night. Our next plan is to excavate that cave of its redstone. The others said there's lots to find there!