Minecraft build

So in Minecraft, I built this.
I went with somewhat of a Ancient Greek architecture. It has piston-doors and inside it has a little fountain and a testificate.
It's not much, but I have build some other stuff in my world, but they are mostly based around screwing around with redstone, so I wont show them now.

Mediamaailmat-survey

Thanks for the gaming session today, it was interesting to try something a bit different this time! It's all valuable research data, too.

As I mentioned, I'd kindly ask you to fill the following short survey. The data is processed anonymously, so feel free to be honest ;)

Here's the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JT3PFPN

Thanks in advance!

Last contact lesson

Hey,

I've been really amazed by the quality of your buildings and the lack of English in communication. Take it how ever you will :)

On Monday 20th, we will have our last session. We'll play through a scenario this time, so there will be more structured game-play this time around. Our scenario will take place in a post-Apocalyptic world, and we will try to salvage what can be salvaged.

Thanks for the pictures, some of them have been featured in a couple of conferences. The lava-lamp by Leevi, Antti and Joonas, for example, was shown to a group of American game-designers.

We'll update your game clients too, to a more recent version of Minecraft on Monday.

Have a nice weekend!

Connection problems?

Hey everyone!

I think we have some kind of problems with the minecraft server system? It´s not working at school at all, it wont connect to the server, so I´ve been playing in different server and I finished with a nice but simple house. I think I´ve learned the basics quite fast and I´m getting better everytime I play. With Civilization our group have quite big issues, I think the turn is still stuck on Teemu, and I haven´t even played the first round so I´m getting annoyed with the whole thing with Civ. It seems to be a nice game tho. Maybe we should have another meeting soon with the group so we could get things moving on? However, things are going great with minecraft without counting the connection problems on school server. So teachers, please make up a meeting soon, so we can get things organized!

-Aleksi 

(Im playing with my own computer, and i changed the texture pack so it looks different than playing with the school laptop)

Week 3

First I have to complain about the Minecraft server system. It's is not working (yet?) at home, and I don't have time to play it at school. However i have builded two scale models; Burj Khalifa, the highest building in the world, located i Dubai, And the replica of the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Both are quite small buildings, but since the server doesn't work outside the school, I haven't had much time to play.
Our Civilization game is stuck on Valtteri, and I haven't even played the first round... Im getting real frustrated right now. But here is the screenshots:

More minecraft

Last week  I haven't got a clue what I was going to build. I was thinking of building a ship that would have been on water but instead I started to help Leevi in his project and in the end I was helping him to make it complete. You can see the picture of the building we made from Leevi's own Minecraft post from last week. We made a building which had water walls and we thought that it was a bit boring so we cowered the whole thing whit glass and putted some lava inside it. So basically it is a huge house whit water falls and inside it, there is a lot of lava. We made a little farm outside the house where there are some cows and next to them is a diamond covered swimming poll. So that's it from this week and next week we will build something new!

Dear classmates, teachers and bloggers

Hi all!

So I finally got into this blog and saw your amazing posts and buildings you´ve built in Minecraft. I´m just a rookie player in Minecraft and I really dont have a clue how to play it but I´m learning fast! Couple times I´ve tried to play the game in our multiplayer server but it comes up with a big error. I got in yesterday and started with some basics (walking around, digging, etc). It seems to be a little bit different game than the games I´ve played before but I like it alot! Next post of mine will be nice, you´ll be amazed for sure!

Feel free to comment and give me some tips for the later challenges I will face on Minecraft! About Civilization, I´m trying to learn the basics and build some kind of village but it is a kind of hard game if you haven´t played it before!

Best regards,

Aleksi

Getting started with minecraft

The Lava Lamp

By Leevi, Antti and Joonas










So it is glass palace filled with lava and water with a pool and cow farm outside or simply lava lamp.

It started when I thought about making a huge water fountain.
When I had placed some pillars of wood Antti came and asked me what was I doing I told him I was building water fountain and he started to help me out. When the woodblocks were placed Joonas came up after problems with getting minecraft working and started working with us. After we got the water flowing correctly we thought that it looked bit dull so we decided to but glass around it so it would look more like a building. Then we decided to make it a lava lamp so we filled it with lava from within and made a spot to enter the lamp and see the lava inside within a little glass room. Then we just decorated it. Antti made a pool outside meanwhile I and Joonas decorated the surroundings and inside then we bred some cows outside and put up fences to keep them there and it was done.

Minecraft experience

> join server
> no creative
> walk two steps
> suddenly fall 100m into lava
> look up and see this
> cannot die
> great job guys
> call for help
> no answer
> trapped there for 3 weeks
> had to eat my left arm in order to survive
> giving up on hope
> water comes pouring down
> it's a miracle
> swim up like an otter running out of air
> get to the surface
> sun is blinding
> can't live this way
> jump back
10/10 game of the year

Learning how to play

I have been able to play only little bit of minecraft becose we can oly connect to the server when we are at school. I have also practised the CIV but our game leader hasn't started the multiplayer or iven messeged me about the multiplayer game.CIV is been very nice game to play on singleplayer but it is pritty slow pase game so the multiplayer game will last for some time.

Update April 17: The poll is broken, it resets every night (thanks a lot Blogger!), so I added another poll that should work below the post. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Dear all,

We had some discussion on the Minecraft page, thanks for the active people, a big thumbs up!

You guys in a couple of weeks?

We had a couple of suggestions and I've comprised a poll of them, that you can see below this text.

Please give your vote and decide what we're going to build! See you on Thursday!

Minecraft

Here's an introduction to one of the games we play during the course, Minecraft.

We're going to use Minecraft during the course for building projects. As you might (or might not) know, Minecraft is all about building using lego-like blocks. The blocks are harvested or mined from the world, so to build something, you need to gather the materials first. However, what we're going to build is up to you, the players. The projects will be selected by you, from suggestions that you're going to make. 

Additionally, in this blog, you will report your progress for example with videos, pictures and written reports, it's up to you! Also, the planning and decision making will take place in the blog.

If you're not familiar with the game yet, don't worry! We'll be going through the basics during the first lesson. Meanwhile, grab a headset, sit back and check out the following introduction video to get in the mood: