I forgot I had this account... AGAIN...
Look, I'm not much of a blogger, ok? I "don't have anything to say" unless I sit down and start typing it out; but since I "don't" have anything to say I never start... Whelp, here's a big ol' dump of an update....
Kiddo's basically OUT of MineTest. He spent too much time watching Minecraft videos on youtube and begging for all the mods he saw there (and he got a tablet for his birthday, not from me) so he's got the minecraft app on there to satisfy him... but he wasn't satisfied and began to pesters me for all the mods he sees in Minecract videos on youtube... so I tell him "I'll look into it" but then I forget about it until he asks again and I tell him I still don't know. The other day he was asking, and googling, for "How to hack into Jelly's Minecraft World," apparently one of the Youtubers he watches frequently for all the "Epic Minecraft Pranks" that the kid adores... even though he's not on a minecraft server... even though he's been told repeatedly about ettiquete... even though both his parents have talked to him about it (they seem to listen to her better than they do me... unless I'm yelling, which I don't want to do.) He keeps asking me to teach him how I do my coding stuff, but he doesn't pay attention (see the not listening unless yelling parenthetical). Heck, the kid can't even tie his own shoes (he doesn't pay attention when you show him something, so invents what he imagines he saw - Cookie Monster has been over this).... but that's enough griping about the kid... (I really hate Minecraft after all this)
I'm doing NaNoGenMo again.
I'm working full-time with benefits again... for now... hopefully it'll last a while (but I'm slacking off at work to write this, oh well.)
tags: update, parenting, minecraft, minetest
Starting Minetest with the kiddos
Installed Minetest last night, and showed the kiddo this morning, still hunting for some fun mods for us to play locally. The eldest is very excited, yelling in my ear every time we find something new, almost went deaf when we discovered a dungeon. Last night I fell into a hole, and couldn't teleport or anything, all I could see was a tiny dot of sky above me, So I reset the game - after learning to craft torches today we expored and found tons of ore and another exit, leaving torches throughout for the future.
I built a glass wall infront of a cave for my home, and kiddo dug a home for himself that we've begun building out. So far, we've figured out how to craft a furnace and smelt with it, and a chest to store some extra inventory. Having a devil of a time trying to find some cotton to craft a bed with, and some red dye for that, but I've found a jungle where this is supposed to be, but trying to teleport there has been unsuccessful (I have no idea how the coordinate system works, it seemed straightforward, but discovering current location is harder than I thought) I've installed a crafting guide mod, but now I need to find materials for a blue book to make it useful.
Eventually we'll find our way to the tildeverse.org server, but I want us all to understand the game better before getting into multiplayer. Everything seems to take longer than I'd like - but steel tools are a huge help!