meet in discord and Minecraft as well (optional) and record the meeting to allow others to follow the discussion
Hi all. As the clock counts down on the demise of this marvelous home for our community, many of us are actively considering where we should move to. If you have any thoughts on the best all-in-one home for our continued sharing and discussion, please add them here. If you'd like to talk it over live, you can meet us in Discord at 1300 UTC on March 1. It might be fun and appropriate to pop into Minecraft while we're at it, if that's not too distracting, though the focus would be on the discussion.
The following is from a thread in FB which captures one part of the genesis of this proposed meeting
<Rose Bard> Vance Stevens and I talked about Moodle Livre. Now that I can work on the computer again, I need to discuss this with the team. The great thing about Moodle is that we can link the blog (wordpress) into it and use the blog as external tool to the community. Let's have a meeting in Discord this week to discuss it.
<Jane Chien> Absolutely! Mattie Tsai will be reading this tomorrow, and he'd be touched as well. Great suggestion! Moodle is better than Google Classroom! we'll set up a discord meeting this week.
<Jane Chien> Vance Stevens I think Friday March 1st 1300 UTC works well. I've checked with Olive, Rose, and Dak. I'll ask Don and Mircea as well.
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Fire Festival, is a series where the worlds top music artists from all genres come together to celebrate a virtual music festival as a community. Its was amazing to get VIP and to shoot this video, we had alot of fun and i cannot wait for more festivals to come around for 2019.
Here's a quick rundown on Minecraft Music Festivals, instructions on how to join #FIREFEST2019.
Audio:
1. Visit www.minecraft.xxx on any device
2. Choose which stage you want to listen to
3. Enjoy!
Video:
1. Visit twitch.tv/basscraftultra
2. Logon to Minecraft @ join minecraft.xxx
3. Enjoy!
(You may be seen on the video stream!)
Minecraft:
1. Buy Minecraft Java Edition from www.minecraft.net
2. Download, install, and login.
3. Click "multiplayer"
4. Press add server.
5. Type anything for server title.
6. Under Ip write play.minecraft.xxx
7. Double-click to join
8. Stay tuned to discord and twitter for announcements
Discord:
1. Visit discord.gg/firefest
2. Create and account and join the community!
Mon Jan 14 noon UTC - Guided sandbox practice - EVO Minecraft MOOC server with Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear
Vance and Bobbi team up to meet and greet visitors to the 2019 EVO Minecraft MOOC server each day this week at noon UTC
This is 4 am in California (say what??), 5 am in Colorado (maybe for lumberjacks), 6 am in Chicago (gotta be up for work anyway)
but 7 am eastern time USA and western South America up through 11:00 in Brasil (y'all can manage that can't you?)
The rest is easy: noon in London, 14:00 in Cape Town, 16:00 in Dubai and Moscow, 17:30 in New Delhi,
19:00 in Bangkok, 20:00 in S'pore and Shanghai, 21:00 in Seoul and Tokyo, and 23:00 in Sydney
Mon Jan 14 1300 UTC - Dakotah Redstone and Maha Abelmoneim help you Hug a Creeper on the EVOMC 1.13 Aquatic server
"Share the Love" will be held on Monday, 14 January 2019, 13:00 UTC This event will take place using Minecraft version 1.13, hosted on the "Aquatic" server 192.99.201.17:25571
About “Share the Love" - a.k.a. Hug a Creeper - lessons in seeing things differently, or "Why dying's not so bad after all". We'll talk about the meaning behind the event during or after we finish it, according to the preferences of the participants.
NOTE: this event will take place using Minecraft version 1.13, hosted on the "Aquatic" server... If you would be interested in attending, please let us know if you need some assistance in getting more familiar/comfortable prior to the event.
Monday Jan 14 at 1800 UTC - The Treasures of The Halls of Knowledge On EVO Minecraft 1.12 Server
Follow the white path, read the signs, be guided by tiles of gold, listen to the messages, talk to helpful villagers and travelers, find your way to the halls of knowledge and claim your treasure of gold. Remember to take pictures and at the end take a selfie to show everyone your achievement.
This activity has two main objectives:
Guide participants who are new to gaming in general and Minecraft in particular through learning the basic skills of how to move andinteract with different in-game tools and items.
Give participants an opportunity to experience an example of some of the Minecraft items and functions/mechanics that can be used in learning activities.
Tue Jan 15 noon UTC - Guided sandbox practice - EVO Minecraft MOOC server with Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear
We started out on a path not far from the 2018 Longhouse where Michiyo found a horse and mounted it while we waited for Dakotah Redstone to arrive and start the next adventure
It was getting dark (and Bobbi had to call her mom :-), so Vance and Michiyo warped to the Woodland Mansion, but it turned out to have been already tamed. I (Teacher Vance) saw from the map that we were not far from southeast of the spawn point for this year so we headed on a northwest trek, digging an L shaped cave to stay safe one night, then putting our beds on a well-lit beach the next (I always carry torches). I reached the Birch Mansion at the spawn point the following day but Michiyo, who had been trekking wonderfully for the past half hour, even following in swims downstream, somehow drowned just short of the goal. It was time to return to real life anyway :-) so I quickly completed the trip alone.
Tuesday Jan 15 1700 - 1900 UTC Build Our Town, Explore, The Treasures of The Halls of Knowledge
If you are new to Minecraftjoin and learn to move in the world and receive your first reward. We can then go explore a couple of places and build our first shelter at the location for our new town.
If you know how to play Minecraft join us while we explore and build our first shelter. We can also look at one example of a in-game quest for new players.
Tuesday Jan 15 2300 UTC Build Our Town, Explore, The Treasures of The Halls of Knowledge
If you are new to Minecraft join and learn to move in the world and receive your first reward. We can then go explore a couple of places and build our first shelter at the location for our new town.
If you know how to play Minecraft join us while we explore and build our first shelter. We can also look at one example of a in-game quest for new players.
Wed Jan 16 noon UTC - Guided sandbox practice - EVO Minecraft MOOC server with Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear
Michiyo was on the server but she had to go and tend to her studies. Mattie Tsai, Jane Chien's son, was there and I noticed he was in the vicinity of a house he must have built in a swamp not far from the spawn point, so I headed out overland to reach the spot. It's about a day's trek from the spawn point if you know where you are going, but I didn't so it took me longer, two nights. The second night I camped out on a beach on my bed and survived the night. Next morning I found myself surrounded by slime. Olivetree in Discord told me they were hostile, but I could slay them for slime balls, so I did that.
Moments later I found Mattie, mired in the swamp, and under attack by zombies which I slew snicker snack with my vorpal blade.
Maneuvering around Mattie I found that he was changing color from gray
To red, to grey / red, and back and forth again. I sent a screen shot to Olivetree and Dak in Discord, for their diagnosis.
Dakotah in Discord explained that Mattie had unfortunately, erm, uh, passed away. His mom will be sorry to know that.
From there I retraced my steps back to my house near the spawn point and laid down a track as I went, in shoveled earth and in torches.
Next day I will try to improve the path. I may lay a similar one from the spawn point to the Woodland Mansion, though bereft of it's original mobs, it seems to be of little interest to hard-core community members.
Gotta have something to do while awaiting participants to join us in-world.
Thu Jan 17 noon UTC - Guided sandbox practice - EVO Minecraft MOOC server with Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear
Today we all gathered at the longhouse (/warp longhouse). Several moderators were there as well as participant Michiyo, one of Abu Fletcher's students. Mattie was around as well but somehow got stuck in the APLACKA
We decided to follow the river over to Jo Kay's old place. We survived the night there. In the morning we went up the mountain looking for Rose Bard's old place but couldn't recall how to get there. But I spotted a settlement of some kind to the northwest.
I was using the map and trying to keep the group together for most of the day. But people dropped back one by one. As you can see in the map view below, it's after midnight already and I can see the lights of the village. I'm heading for it. It was getting late in real life too. I just wanted to reach it before I had to leave the server, or die in the attempt. I survived by spending the night in a tower.
Fri Jan 18 noon UTC - Guided sandbox practice - EVO Minecraft MOOC server with Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear
Michiyo appeared at the appointed time, and I joined her at the spawn point. We decided to go in search of the House of Knowledge which entails talking to avatars outside the birch house and then following the speckled white path to the riverside where boats are waiting. I got in a boat and invited her to do the same. I saw her in the river and she kept going down it in a fast-paced swim, so I followed. I finally caught up with her near the mouth of the river at the edges of terra incognito. Dusk was near, so we planted torches, laid out some beds, and made it light again, since it was only us on the server.
I asked if she wanted to go back or onward, she said onward, so we explored the coastline to a point where we could see Dak's mushroom structure on the mountain top in the distance to the west. It was getting dark so we set up beds in torchlight where we were and survived safely until it got light suddenly.
I said I would remain one more Minecraft day and suggested we head back toward the mushroom structure. We traveled through a forest and came to the back of the mountain where we climbed up toward the mushroom on the other side and walked on the top of it, where passing clouds sometimes obscured our view on the green valley below. It was getting dark so I started heading toward my home base via my mountain tunnel to the north.
I lost Michiyo suddenly and Dak told me in DIscord that she had found his secret tunnel and would emerge the other side, so I went down the mountain to try and intercept her. I could see on our map that we were right on top of one another, though she was inside the mountain. I started up the mountain to my tower on the top and since it was dark I laid torches for her to follow.
She found them and was soon nearby. We were nearing the top of the mountain and the tower when skeletons attacked. I managed to fight them off and head back uphill, passing Michiyo, but she was heading downhill, away from me and my shelter. It was time for me to leave in real life and I saw she had been slain by a zombie, so I went on up the mountain and followed my trail of light down the other side to my mountain eyrie. I took a screen shot at that point:
Teacher Vance and Olivetree Grove show Maestra Mirelle around the builds near the spawn point - images and YouTube
Maestra Mirelle was moving about quite well, following instructions in Discord and successfully swimming the river to enter the cave full of minerals at the Temple of Lost Knowledge.
To facilitate travel, I built a land bridge from the Temple of Lost Knowledge to the landform leading to my castle. I must remember to go back and remove it lest mobs use it for nefarious purposes.
I recorded this exploration of the Temple of Lost Places while waiting for Mirelle to appear
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Sat Jan 19 1300 UTC 1.13.2 server extreme survival adventure
Wow! That was something else. We managed to "survive" for 5 days. However, we took some casualties and we sure didn't have Seal Team coordination. : )
It was too hectic for me to take any photos and while we communicated a LOT we were also talking over each other and often engaged in overlapping conversations much of the time (which is a possible feature of group interaction anytime there are more than three participants).
One failing (if we can consider it a failing) is that we never had any clear objective other than just surviving. I suppose that's OK.
On the plus side, as a group, we divided tasks, shared resources, worked together, all of which required substantial language use. This would have been too overwhelming for my Japanese EFL learners, but would have worked for more intermediate learning, I think.
Dakotah's "above the fray" view
Teacher Vance's view from the trenches up to where he drowned in one of them
Jane reacted on Twitter
Sat Jan 19 1600 - 1800 UTC on 1.12.2 server
If you are new : Meet other community members, learn the basics, find your first treasure, learn to obtain basic resources, learn to craft your first tools. We can also explore some builds. ( this will be a relaxed activity where participants can go as fast or slow as they need to. What we complete will depend on the time available to each participant and the pace they are comfortable with.)
If you have some experience, explore or start gathering resources and build your house at the /warp 24k location where we are building our new community town.
Week 2 Archived
Sun Jan 20 1800 - 1800 UTC Meet, Learn, Explore, Build with OliveTree
This Play time takes place on Minecraft 1.12.2 and we will be also in voice on Discord
Meet community members who are here to learn how to play Minecraft or to help others learn it.
If you're new learn/practice the basics: how to move, interact with objects in the environment and ow to create your first tools.
If you have some experience, you can help someone else, you can explore and you can help the community build out new town.
Teacher Vance managed to get online at the appointed time and found Black_Kitten online. The odd thing was, she was in the game in text chat, but I couldn't find her on the map. So I offered to tp where she was, and I found her in a village with an extensive library and librarians who will trade emeralds for paper. She had built a house somewhere but couldn't get back to it. And having joined her, I couldn't even find myself on the map now, so we were both lost.
She said she could find her house if she could start back at spawn on our server, so we both warped to the Birch House, and she showed me how to get to her house from there. It was an interesting way, and once I'd followed her there I knew exactly what I was going to do for my streamed event on Monday at 1400 UTC.
Mon Jan 21 1400 UTC - Learning2gether with EVO MInecraft MOOC - Wilderness adventure trek to Black_Kitten's village; aka Riverbend
We will use Dak's Wilderness Warp in the BirchHouse to arrive in The Wilderness, an untamed and as yet unmapped place where the air is clear and the land pristine. When we arrive we'll head west, the direction shown in this image (actually the direction was to the east, my bad).
Our destination is Black_Kitten's home at a distant remote village. We can reach it easily in a "day's" travel.
Black Kitten wants help finding clay to make flower pots and in setting up a kind of dock to act as an exchange point for travelers who might find her home.
Apart from that, the village, and the area, is interesting to explore.
Facilitated by Vance and other EVOMC19 co-moderators
Tue Jan 22 1330-1500 UTC Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear hold a Guided Practice Sandbox on the EVO Minecraft MOOC 1.12.2 server
Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear plan to hold a Guided practice on the EVO Minecraft MOOC 1.12.2 server today Jan 22 from around 13:30 (we hope to get back home in time for it) until 15:00 max (bedtime)
This is for anyone with questions or who wants some guided practice or who just feels like playing and happens to be there. We'll be in Minecraft 1.12.2 and in Discord.
What did we do?
EVO moderators met in Discord and talked about how to help participants who were weak in English. In the background we worked on our projects individually. Teacher Vance traveled to the 20k area and found a desert temple there. I hope to return there with an expedition to excavate it.
Wed Jan 23 1300-1500 UTC EVO Minecraft MOOC helps Michiyo build a home
No event was declared for today, but Teacher Vance went into Discord at around 1300 UTC to see who was there. Rose was there working on a project she was planning with Jane. I went to the server and found Michiyo there. I tracked her down wandering around the boat buildings near the Birch House. I asked her what she wanted to do. She said she wanted to build a house, so we wandered up the hill opposite the causeway leading out to the floating structures. I found a flat area, a clearing in the woods, and as the sun was getting low on the horizon, I suggested we build there.
We set to it. There was not a lot of conversation because Michiyo wasn't in Discord and there was little time for text. I decided to model the process. I laid down dirt walls and when it got dark I planted some torches. When I ran out of dirt I added cobblestone for the ceiling. Michiyo followed my actions and helped building.
Soon Dak arrived, followed by Jane. By then I had pulled some glass from my inventory and made windows, and donated my bed (I can always make another). Dak added a door and attractive flooring. When Jane arrived I left them to complete the job because I had a real life dinner cooking in another room. When I returned next day, I found the place appearing much as I had last seen it.
There have been discussions among moderators as to the "correct" approach to getting newcomers into the game. Ideally it would be good to have workshops IF we could get people to attend them. Workshops can lead people efficiently into building, but self-guided tutorials are helpful for just-in-time learning. My approach is to just "be" on the server when I can and help people when they have a question. So when Michiyo said she wanted to learn to build, I was there to model it for her. Now that she knows what she wants to do, and as she often drops by the server, we learn more about how we can guide her, but in the MOOC way, in response to learning what SHE wants to know.
Both approaches have their merits. It's good if a group of moderators can work on both approaches in aggregate.
There has also been much discussion about how we can help participants who are weak in English improve their language skills, or at least achieve a point of flow where they feel comfortable to where they want to learn enough language of their own accord to interact with us in English, and we have in fact written a lot ourselves on the language benefits we believe accrue from playing Minecraft, but that is for another post, perhaps for discussion of some sort as suggested by Don in this post on the Google+ Community.
If you'd like to join us, indicate your availability in the poll,
we'll see it, and we'll schedule a time we will definitely be in Minecraft when we know that others can be there.
We can either meet with no plan, or if you would like an adventure, we can explore the jungle mansion near the spawn point
Or go looking for desert temples. Teacher Vance knows where two are, at least one of which (the one pictured above) is likely unexplored (hence not yet looted).
Pictures from the Sandbox Adventure Sat Jan 26
In the end, EVOMC19 participants were online only briefly, so Dak and I chatted in Discord while Teacher Vance roamed around the server, making discoveries which would help me lead adventures later and creating paths.
In search of the Woodland Mansion I happened on mountains where alpacas live. There were several herds of brown and white ones.
I found a tower just west of my homestead
Southwest of that I came across a village. The alpacas were in the mountains in between.
I created a path from the village heading back toward the tower but I didn't complete it because Dakotah appeared and helped me find the mansion
I spent my last two hours in world setting a torch trail from the mansion back to Dak's mushroom tower. The last part nearest the tower was over treetops (no torches)
Dak helped me find my way through the tunnel and into the pools to the north that exited again to the north on views overlooking my house and his builds
My way was torch-lit already up the mountain to my Scraggly Tower and down to my mountain eyrie, where I found a bed and a good night's rest
Sat Jan 26 1800 UTC Learn, Craft, Build and Explore on EVO Minecraft 1.12.2 server
This session's activities depend on your comfort level in playing Minecraft.
If you are new: learn the basics of how to move, craft your first tools and build your first shelter.
If you have some experience: build your home, mine for resources, start a farm or explore the surrounding area.
You can also help others who are new to the server or to Minecraft.
Start building our 2019 community house at RiverBend town (/warp 24k). Do you have an interesting design that would go well with the area?
+Rose Bard, +Dakotah Redstone, and Jane Chien are hosting a building challenge. This is an activity designed for beginning English language learners. Please join us for a test run and we welcome your input afterwards.
Tue Feb 5 0100 UTC K4sons hosts visit to VSTE monthy Minecraft Monday server party
Kim Harrison a.k.a. K4sons invite EVOMC19 participants to come to VSTE's Minecraft Monday (New York time) on February 4. She asked if Dakotah_Redstone and Beth O'Connell would plan it with her. She indicated: The VSTE folks meet from 8 to 9 PM EST (New York). Today they were visiting East Coast Miners, a building guild for under-16s patterned on the work of Jo Kay's Jokaydia. Find out more at http://www.eastcoastminers.org/
This became Learning2gether episode 400 - EVO Minecraft MOOC visits East Coast Miners for VSTE Minecraft Monday
EVO Minecraft MOOC visited East Coast Miners for a tour of what that the teachers are doing with kids after hours. After settling into the environment, we started recording at a turtle farm where one of the kids was raising turtles. The new release of Minecraft 1.13.2 contains an underwater environment that spawns corals and a variety of sea creatures, so after swimming with the turtles, we moved to a coral reef where we swam with dolphins and other creatures, and visited an underwater shipwreck. There DarkKnight tossed some treasure maps into the water and you can see on the video where your map shows your location and allows you to use your F3 coordinates to navigate to X-marks-the-spot, where there was buried treasure. We all went there and eventually uncovered a treasure chest full of goodies. We then lapsed into a reflection of how this might work for learners of a variety of topics, including learning languages. Jane in Taipei related how her son Mattie was interacting with the East Coast Miners and developing his English and problem solving skills.
Thank you, +Kim Harrison for inviting us on the East Coast Miners server. Treasure hunting was a lot of fun! The coral reef and tropical fish are so beautiful! I think that kids can learn far more by collaborating and communicating with players in Minecraft than they can by taking online synchronous language lessons (Online language tutoring/learning has been a trend lately). I see a lot of creativity, problem-solving, and peer-teaching with patience in Minecraft. I was taught by Cats, a teenage east coast miner, how to fly. She gave me lots of tips and feedback to my repeated failing attempts, and with her help, I re-learned how to fly in survival mode in Minecraft!
===Info on East Coast Miners from the website: http://www.eastcoastminers.org/==== The East Coast Miners Minecraft Community is operated by two educators and one geek (engineer) in the hopes to enrich STEAM skills science, technology, engineering, art and math as well as communication and collaboration skills.
I happened on +OliveTree Lighthouse and +Michiyo Toshima on the server last night while searching for coal at night in a darkened mine, and ended up at a place where Mattie and others had been building fanciful sand castles near some well looted tombs. I was using my phone as a hot spot and suddenly it ran out of battery, in case people were wondering where I went (no, it wasn't another skeleton :-)
Jane Chien
Mattie says he wanted to create a sky base but he forgot to set home, so he did not know where this place is. Do you have the coordinates?
Michiyo Toshima
Last night, I was going to make “my house” much nicer. So, with Olivetree Lighthouse, I explored the desert area. I have collected cactuses in order to make green things. Then collected some sands to make glasses. If I have some time to continue “my house” building, I maybe in the world at around 14:00 UTC on the Feb. 7th or 8th. It would depend on how early I could get back from the work. If I were there, I would. If not, next day or time.
Vance Stevens
Hi Michiyo, I've put these dates in the Events Page calendar, and if people are free, they can try and join you there. I will try to be online at this time on Thu. On Friday not sure, because I'll be traveling back to Penang. missions4evomc.pbworks.com
OliveTree Lighthouse
+Jane Chien I have a house there. You can set home there if you want so it's safe
+Michiyo Toshima Sorry I couldn't play Minecraft today but I'll try Thursday.
Thu Feb 7 EVO Minecraft MOOC moderators Teacher Vance and Dakotah Redstone follow Abufletcher to newly-discovered temple
Michiyo was not able to attend this evening so Dak and Teacher Vance followed Abufletcher to a temple he found buried in a village just north of the one we all went to last week on our adventure trek. We looked it over but didn't crack it. We're hoping someone will want to explore it with us. You can find it on the map just north up the river from our recent trek destination and inside the big grey wall Dak erected around it while we chatting in Discord. Here's a picture:
We may all go back there tomorrow (and we did, see the next event below).
Fri Feb 8 Michiyo joined EVO Minecraft MOOC participants in a deliberately executed tomb raid
This event was blogged as Learning2gether episode #401 here
On Feb 8, 2019 the EVO Minecraft MOOC temple busting team of Abu Fletcher, Dakotah Redstone, Jane Chien, Mattie Tsai, Michiyo, and Teacher Vance applied logic and geometry (or at least Dak did) to the puzzle of getting into a desert temple by excavating around the side of it and under it, exposing and rendering harmless the TNT, and helping ourselves to what was in the zombie chests. Dak got the diamond horse armor since he was most deserving and most instrumental in the excavation and had the greatest appreciation for horses in Minecraft as you can hear in the video. The event was recorded by Vance Stevens as Learning2gether.net episode #401
Michiyo wanted to make 'her house' much nicer, with +Olivetree Lighthouse, so she posted, "I explored the desert area. I have collected cactuses in order to make green things. Then collected some sands to make glasses. If I have some time to continue “my house” building, I maybe in the world at around 14:00 UTC on the Feb. 7th or 8th. It would depend on how early I could get back from the work. If I were there, I would. If not, next day or time."
It turned out that Abufletcher, Michiyo's teacher in Japan, had discovered a new temple, which is where I met the group when I arrived. Just as they were all about to head down the andesite road that Dak had created over to the new temple to see if they could unlock its secrets in a systematic manner.
which I will reconstruct since these links to Google+ will no longer work this coming April
Don Carroll
A most unusual temple!!! Come and help us explore (but not pillage) both the temple and the village on top of it! Dak is busy building a protective wall around the village (immigrants welcome).
To get there (in 1.12) type: /warp tombUnderVillage. Note capital letters. Please don't destroy any of the buildings.
OliveTree Lighthouse
Great find :) Sorry I couldn't join. I was fighting with command blocks and was reading and watching things online trying to get them to work as I wanted.
Vance Stevens
The actual /warp is templeundervillage (note lower case). I had to go there to test the /warp, and I found that someone, probably one of the villagers, agitated at the recent interest shown by explorers from another dimension, placed an iron door over the entrance to the most sacred part of the temple. I guess they make iron doors in the blacksmith shop adjacent to the temple precincts. To open the door, you have to know how to operate the 'device'. Once inside, the way is, hmmm not exactly clear, but the direction is (whatever you do, don't jump down there!)
In another post I invited participants to come help us "loot" this temple but I withdraw that poorly worded invitation and leave the disposal of this one to my esteemed colleague and co-moderator, Abu Fletcher.
If interested in looting a temple I can invite you to another one, if it hasn't been looted already (I wouldn't know for sure until I went there and tried to loot it). Sign up for the expedition in the reply area below.
Don Carroll
I'm more interested in how the temple and several village structures seem to have become intertwined. I'd like to see if we can untangle the parts before damaging anything with a "smash and grab" approach. Honestly, after looting a few temples, it all gets to be pretty routine. Often I don't even bother.
I'll be in-game at about 14:00 UTC.
Vance Stevens
+Don Carroll Yes, exactly, by "looting" a temple I mean to approach what lays beneath the blue and red tiles in a calm and systematic manner, avoid setting off the TNT, which we know is down there, if we do not work systematically, and on arriving safely in the space below, that we open the lids on the chests that will also be there and peek inside.
I think this is one of those constructive activities that show Minecraft in its most collaborative mode, and reveal to participants how critical language is in the process (for example when Abu Fletcher told me once, in text, DON'T STEP THERE. Step is probably a useful word in English, as is its appearance in a negative imperative.) But more importantly, the instructions to one another as we work toward a common goal are the point of the exercise.
Hope to see you at 1400 if the bus I'm on reaches Penang in time.
If anyone would like to join us in the exploration of this temple and / or others, please click REPLY below.
Don Carroll
Here's an aerial view of the temple/village (from the dynamic map).
Actually, Vance I would suggest that we entirely leave the "loot" alone. It's really not interesting. Instead, I'd like to see us work creatively and in unison to "map out" how the temple and village structures are intertwined. For example, can we find minimally invasive ways to get into the main temple structure WITHOUT damaging ANY of the exteriors of any of the village structures?
In fact, anyone who just wants the loot is welcome to get it through a diagonal tunnel (as I have done before on many temples).
Or maybe I should just go in and grab the loot myself now so we can focus on the archeologically interesting aspects of the site. : )
Vance Stevens
+Don Carroll I liked +Dakotah Redstone's spiral approach, evident in the video, here.
Where? EVO Minecraft MOOC 1.12.2 server with voice in Discord
Week 5
Thu Feb 14 1800 UTC - Continue with developing and finishing EVOmc19 community building with OliveTree Lighthouse
OliveTree Lighthouse posted this to our Google+ Community
If you cannot make it at this time, please feel free to work on it any time you feel like it or suggest other times when you can log in. Also please feel free to suggest any ideas to make the area better, more useful or more appealing.
Hope to see you this evening/morning :)
Fri Feb 15 1800 UTC - Try again developing and finishing EVOmc19 community building with OliveTree Lighthouse
OliveTree Lighthouse reported that last night she got kicked out of the game and didn't seem to be able to log in or stay for more than a couple of seconds at a time :( So much for wanting to take pictures of before and after.
She'll try to continue on Friday Feb 15. Scroll up to the Feb 14 event to see details, and just mentally add a day to the time where you are
Future events might be scheduled here, or they might be scheduled in our Google+ Community through March 2019
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