Halloween in Minecraft

A few weeks back, Anne got into Minecraft and we have been having a lot of fun building a world together.  It's a modded world, using a pack of 1.7.10 mods I put together, because newer versions would not load on her laptop.  Last night we had a blast decorating our virtual house for Halloween, using the various pumpkins, scarecrows, skulls, spiderwebs and such from the Chisel, DecoCraft, Fossils mods and the vanilla game.  Here are some shots of our house and the elaborate swimming pool out back.



It's amazing how many different game sessions and challenges we can come up with.  Sometimes, we just go exploring or mining, other times we crack open stacks of fossil blocks and see what DNA and other things we can come up with, or we hop into the Twilight Forest and look for more animals, or build new buildings, or decorate existing locations ... it is so many different games rolled into one.  After 11 or 12 years of playing in this blocky world, it has never gotten dull.

Then we built a house to put our tracks and mine carts in, and I decided to make the building show up on the minimap in the shape of a track, so I put lines of iron blocks across the top with wooden crossbeams.  After which, we needed an actual track to ride.  Which I then extended down underground and we added some Halloween decorations ... then I saw on the mini map that there was a lava pool directly beneath that layer so I expanded to tracks down and around over the lava pool with water and lava falls and more decorations.  And as it was coming up out of the ground over the roof of the building, my mind's eye saw that if there were two carefully placed trees the track could go up over the trees and down into the head of the giant anvil pet building ... a number of fun challenges involved in that whole process.


Then we came up with a new way to collect and display the stone tablets from the Fossils mod: we build 3x3 wall segments, place them in the middle and if a large painting appears we trim the planks around it.  This also had a very Halloween feel to it:

So, rather than spending actual money and cluttering up our real-world house, we had fun making our own private places instead.


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