ElvenAvariel

My sweet SammySam just gave me a Premium Membership for Christmas! He's so sweet :3
Now to figure out how to make the most of this.

Been forever since my last journal entry. Not done much in the way of finished artwork. I'll draw a bit for my D&D group, but nothing polished. It seems most of my finished works are for when Org-Infinitus has an event. I got Manga Studio for Christmas, so Imma start playing with that.

Minecraft has consumed me again! I have this single player survival world that I have been working on for about a year, on and off. I recently underwent a massive project to make a multi-layer, underground tree farm. It takes FOREVER to clear out enough space for a large amount of trees to grow. Anyway, I'm on the last layer now (jungle), so it's almost done! Can't wait. Then I get to find a new project ^_^

So very strange. My page went from 2-3 views a day to 24 and 27 views the past two days. This confuses me to no end, as there has been no new favorites, comments, etc. Oh well, more views are good, so I've no reason to complain ^_^

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I looked up at my page statistics and saw "Deviations: 99" and I knew the next deviation had to be something special. It's probably going to take a while. No probs ^_^ I doubt anyone is waiting with bated breath anyway.

EDIT: Almost done with my 100th deviation! Expect it tomorrow, March 12th (my birthday ^_^).

A friend of mine just started posting LoL games, and PROMISES to post 1 video a day if he gets more likes and subscribes! Help him out! ...Please?

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As many fans of the game have probably heard by now, a (probably intentional) leak of the much-anticipated Minecraft Adventure Update has appeared! Since this is the closest think I have to a blog :/, I felt I should relay my experience with the leak thus far here.

Anyway, I start a new world and spawn right smack dab in the middle of a new biome, a swamp! The vines from the trees look excellent! I hit one, trying to collect it, but turns out it just disappears. I wonder if you can harvest them. With shears, maybe? I like how trees in the swamp are liable to grow right out of the water, and mushroom are definitely abundant ^_^. Two seconds later, I run onto some piggies, with their new 3d snouts. Cute... superfluous, but cute. I kill one and see the new experience orbs. Cool. A short walk away, I find a randomly generated NPC village (squee!). Being the genius I am, I promptly jump into the well and get stuck -_-. I have to bash a cobblestone block with my bare fist, while swimming, to get out.

After a bit more walking, I find a biome that I don't recognize. It's a forest of pines, which are usually confined to snowy tundra biomes, but there's no snow to be found. Then I find that some of the trees are missing their bottom few blocks. This spooks me, cause I remember reading that the new mob, Endermen, sometimes move blocks. I wonder if there are any around, but I fail to find any. I heard a click sound that startles me, but it was probably just a sound my computer made. The new biome sizes are very noticeable, especially with oceans! I can build Atlantis in one of these things! I started swimming across an ocean as the first day ended. There is now a neat bubble effect underwater.

I got to land shortly after sunset, and since I had been exploring instead of collecting resources, I decided to dig a 1x2 hidey hole and wait out the night. As I crawled out of my hidey hole in the morning, I noticed that you can no longer just hold down the right mouse button and jump to build upwards. You actually have to time it. Annoying. I also notice that your hunger meter goes down, even when you stand around and do nothing. What IS the meter anyway? Turkey legs? Elongated caramel apples?  

Around this time, I remember about the new sprinting mechanic, and thus spend a few minutes running high speed around an island. Then, another swim. The water seems to be buggy at the moment. It flashes as I swim. Then, I found something REALLY cool. I saw a glow underwater, I go down to investigate, and found an underwater abandoned mineshaft! Some of the wood in the shaft was inexplicably on fire when I got down there O_o. Granted, there was lava in the mineshaft, but the wood was nowhere near it. Strange. Still, it was cool seeing cobwebs and already-placed torches in the game. I was surrounded by the sound of skeletons and zombies. Since I wasn't equipped for such fighting, I decided to scale the waterfall back to the ocean. Almost couldn't make it to the surface in time.

MAN was that ocean huge! I ended up in the dead of night stuck in the middle of the ocean, no land visible from any direction. That's when I really would've liked to press "f" to turn my render distance up. Due to my laptop being sucky at playing games, I am constantly switching from normal distance when I am exploring and I want to see far, to short distance when I am building or mining. Now that requires going into the menu, several menus actually, instead of just pressing a button. Why? Probably because people were abusing it to look for dungeons. Thanks alot, people... (*is also guilty of this* -_-; ) Anyway, I eventually found a little island in the middle of this vast ocean. How is that possible with the new larger biomes? I dug another hidey hole and called it a night.

So, that's my account of my first 2 nights in Minecraft 1.8.

tl;dr - Minecraft 1.8 is a little buggy, but I love it anyway!

Mojang achieved 2 things with this pre-release. 1) Give the fans a taste of 1.8.  2) Make the fans understand why they have to wait for it ~_^