Far Lands or Bust! #400

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd89XzZXstE

Current distance from Kurt: 119 episodes

We start off with an hour long episode! It's a special one because it celebrates this milestone so there are special events Kurt does in fours. It's also significant for being recorded in 1080p.

Outside his hidey hole adorned with four lovely yellow flowers, he's welcomed by congratulatory creepers, spiders and a skeleton! Our hero escapes by wading backwards through the water while shooting at them.

Throughout the first day he reflects on his long journey and on other milestone celebrations he's done like the glowstone he bravely retrieved from the Nether. As we all know, he's still playing in this version of Minecraft because the Far Lands were removed from later versions. At this stage the FLoB world has grown to just shy of 14 GB.

A bit of my own reflection: Several months after he started the first episode I was looking for good Minecraft videos on YouTube and found him to be a likeable presence. After watching X's Adventures in Minecraft myself lots more people started making videos and I found Kurt this way. Since then I was always playing catch up and always falling behind! Hopefully starting this blog will help me stick to my little catch up routine.

He ends the first day with a very professional snore and seeks out materials involved in his special activities for this episode, coming across and clearing out a spider spawner which was also infested with zombies, finding no redstone but cocoa beans instead.

Soon afterwards he makes a base camp where he places a gate around Wolfie and prepares for one of the rare occasions he goes caving in this series in hopes to find redstone, diamond and slimes.

He properly begins caving after the second night. He spends this on his elevated hidey hole at the base camp, where he lights the place up thoroughly.

On burrowing deep with a MindCrack Ultra Hardcore style stairwell he remarks how much darker it is underground in this version of the game. He also briefly goes into a viewer question from Alzeraf (spelling?) "What aspect of YouTube has caught you the most off-guard over the years?". He replies that he didn't expect a fan following to a personal hobby which he started out of being dissatisfied with his old job and the way his life was going and having no rewarding creative outlets.

I feel this is something I can relate to as well! I want to improve on these areas in my life too and I hope that blogging will lead to something rewarding, but who knows yet? I must continue on my own journey...

Just as he contemplates branch mining he finds a heap of redstone! A good day's work done at the end of the third day!

On the fourth day he finds that his stairwell leads directly into another heap of redstone! His amazing luck continues when he finds 4 diamonds in the corner of the hollowed out space he made for slime spawning. It was the first time since about episode 8 when he found diamonds in this world years ago and they look so bright when he finds them too.

He comes back up to the base camp and makes 4 pistons and a lever, which he's never made before. He also tries to guess making cookies but couldn't figure out how to make them, let alone gluten free ones!

Finished caving, he feeds Wolfie for good behaviour and makes a hidey hole nearby, using the pistons for the doors.

It's the end of the fourth day but he still has to make the commemorative structure, so he has to go into a fifth day.

He makes the structure with a block of netherrack on top of posts, the 4 pistons he places on the 4 sides of the netherrack with the platforms facing outwards, the lever on top of the netherrack that makes the pistons push out in their 4 directions and 4 red wool on the piston platforms for added effect. He then makes the cobblestone foundation with 4 torches, a sign that reads "The 4 Pistons of Episode 400 -- Sep. 3, 2014" and decorates the foundation with redstone lines and a little symmetrical path. He then digs the little path out and puts hardwood floor blocks in. Very neat looking structure when you pull the lever!

Unfortunately he didn't find any slimes in the cave he dug out at the foundation. Perhaps they're metal slimes? ;)

Before he signs off on the fifth night he announces a special 4 hour livestream for meeting his donation and episode milestones, playing 4 hours of MindCrack Season 5 in version 1.8.

I will blog about Kurt's MindCrack adventures too so it's not just Far Lands or Bust I have to catch up on. Let's see if I can pull this off and see how my writing style evolves! :)