Month: July 2024

Minecraft: Brick Castle

(Paynecraft: -3148, 64, -295) I placed this brick castle in a Savanah toward the west of spawn. It’s near a village as well. The structure is huge, but appears to be mostly hollow. Getting “inside” required breaking through the interior walls. Once inside, it was just a dark, cavernous...

Minecraft: Raspberry Pi 5

I decided to upgrade my Minecraft server to a Raspberry Pi 5 to see if I can get better performance, especially when creating new “chunks” (new terrain).  Originally, I was just going to swap over the USB3 SSD but after some reading, it appears I can get better drive...

Minecraft: Running on a Raspberry Pi

I have been running Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi for myself and my boys for several years now. It seems to run fine but has been having some challenges lately, especially when generating new chunks. I suspect this is because I have added several “world generation mods” recently but...

Minecraft: Fortified Desert Village

I was wandering around checking out how my new “world generation mods” were working and stumbled across what I believe is a Terralith “fortified village”. Specifically, a fortified desert village. (Paynecraft: -2603, 72, 1551)...

Minecraft World Generation mods

Tristan recently commented that I should look into world generation mods for my Minecraft server as it would make the world more interesting. I wasn’t sure what that meant. It turns out that developers have come up with a variety of ways to add additional “biomes” to Minecraft. Early...

Exploring II

Here are some additional structures added to the Paynecraft Minecraft world:...

Exploring

I started playing with WorldEdit on my Minecraft server. The basic idea is that you can copy a volume of blocks in your world and save them to a file (“schema”). I used it to recover some buildings from a server I was hosting that was hacked (“griefed”) but...