This is very funny to see and it’s quite rare. Sometimes a skeleton will ride a spider. This phenomenon is known as a skeletal rider or spider jockey. So far I’ve only seen it happen twice and I’ve put in my share of days worth of Minecraft gameplay.
If you’re going about your world at night in the leaked prerelease of Minecraft version 1.8 you’ll certainly come across some Endermen. They’ll be moving blocks around, generally ruining the landscape. At night it is a little bit hard to spot them because they are all black, but if they do attack you it’s not […]
This is my little house in the pre-release of Minecraft 1.8. It’s recommended to start a new world because terrain generation is done with new algorithms. You can’t really tell from this image, but lighting has also gone a complete overhaul- it looks very good now. You can also see vine type things hanging from […]
My home base in my single player survival world is now completely surrounded by a wall to keep bad guys out. I make sure that the inside is lit up sufficiently so that no bad mobs spawn inside my safe zone. The structure in the middle is my lava pillar beacon tower so I can […]
The portal to the nether shouldn’t just be placed randomly. Here is an example of a (failed) attempt to make some kind of menacing or awe inspiring structure to house the nether gate. It’s out in the middle of the water and it was supposed to be looking a little like a shrine or something. […]
To the left you can see my main home base with a massive lava pillar on the roof serving as a beacon. Down the middle is a wall that will keep the bad guys out. The glass along the edges keep spiders from crawling up will minimizing the hindrance to my visibility. This wall wraps […]
This is a newer angle on my town. This path leads from the town to some hills that are behind me. The lanterns on the side of the path use glowstone to illuminate the area. The texture pack right here is called Jolicraft- one of the added benefits is that the moon is round! Some […]
I have a couple of drowning traps set up to get loot from wandering skeletons, zombies and creepers but this time it look like a squid has managed to get caught in my trap. Obviously he couldn’t have fallen in from the top, he’s unfortunately just spawned right there and now he’s suffocating.
This screenshot is taken from the top of the beacon tower looking out over Pig Field with all the torches lighting it up at night. In the center you can see the creeper face with some torches in his eyes for effect. The portal to the nether is located to the left and on the […]
Here’s the nether gate constructed out of 10 blocks of obsidian. If you look through the purple event horizon you can see a sheep who has walked back and forth through the event horizon a couple of times already. Obviously he’s trying to get to the nether where he’ll be able to collect some netherrack […]