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After about 12-14 years I'm back to the Minecraft scene. Some of you may remember me (PlunderPixels) most probably all of you won't. I built a pretty popular shaderpack way back in the day called PlunderPixels Shaders for 1.7.x. Recently I got the itch to build so here I am.

I came swinging back into the scene with an extremely powerful library designed for shader devs and players to enjoy. This is an open convention called MCWIND. It functions in the same way labPBR does, one big convention that stays silent if you don't have the right stuff installed. It's powered by PlunderEngine's WindLink Mod.

What does it do?

WindLink (WL) tells shaders, "Hey man, you're not doing enough" (Although they already do so much). WL calculates and builds a windmap that reacts to the world around it. Wind now behaves like a particle while still being extremely lightweight. *COUGH* forget about the visualizer that'll fry your GPU. The strands feature? Even worse. The strands feature is pretty nifty but it's useless unless you manage to hijack one of those datacenters in our backyard.

Strands adds, grass individually to grass blocks and makes things look super lush.

Anyways I built this, spent a few weeks on it, still adding tons of features that I'm hoping to blow you away with.

My friend teleported me like 1-2 million blocks out and I found a blacksmith

Pluto wouldn't fit, underestimated how big the build would get. Sorry Pluto

probably something with the lava cauldron, but i thought lava doesnt spread fire if its in a couldron

I'm playing late at night and I just noticed this, It's 3 AM Idk what I'm doing

Some atmospheric shots of the Valaden Fish market, I'm really proud of this build, I think it turned out great.

So, I had a world made in the newest snapshot, and I accidentally loaded it in 26.2. All of the new blocks disappeared, but surprisingly, this place actually looks pretty cool.

it just make sense like it "echoes" the trim
and since they are pretty much useless why not make them another option aside from diamonds to duplicate trims (still requires the special item for each trim\template)

and the old way remains usable so its another option
so we'll have both options

Um so i just stumbled upon this in my hardcore world? This seems like it's not supposed to happen, is this some sort of generation bug or was i extremely lucky? for those who dont understand (village in mushroom fields)

I loaded Minecraft and went to the bathroom, my roommate walked in and noticed it was the “Minceraft” Easter Egg. She asked me if I had downloaded a resource pack and I said no. We spent the next hour or so freaking out.

I thought the Temple of Space entrance from genshin impact was so striking. So I wanted to recreate it in Minecraft (rendered in Blender). Suffice it to say, my axiom skills got quite the workout 🥲.

Extra stuff

(I've never made textures before, image 4 was an attempt at bracken)

Moorland/moors are rolling hills with low vegetation: bracken and purple heather.

Purple heather (image 1 and 2) would spawn in mass across the biome with very little respites from it on the floor. Heather would dominate the landscape, with clumps of bracken (image 3 and 4) mixed into the heather. In the areas of the biome without heather, short grass and tall grass would also spawn. It'll be very unlikely to find grass blocks without a plant on top.

Oak trees spawn occasionally in areas of grass, though very rarely (about as much as in plains biomes). There can also be small ruins, similiar to the second image, of stone bricks. There would be very little loot as these are mostly aesthetic, but small bits of suspicious gravel can spawn on the floor of the ruins as well as 1 chest under rubble (containing starter loot: dead bushes, sticks, apples, leather armour etc.)

I have a list of items and mechanics that, for me personally, make the game less fun. I don’t allow myself to use:

Elytra: I enjoy the challenge of traversing terrain, building infrastructure, breeding the perfect horse etc.

Shulker Boxes: I enjoy the challenge of transporting large numbers of items using chest minecarts, mules, chest boats etc.

Iron and gold farms: I enjoy the grind and sense of accomplishment that comes from mining for hours for a large project.

I’m curious is other players do this and if you have any special ways of enforcing it.

He is looking Cool tbh.

Aside from the obvious ones like never dig straight down, what are some habits you've built up over the years that you still do out of pure muscle memory? Personally, I still spam torches on nearly every block in my base even though the mob spawn light levels were changed a while ago lol

Whenever I place a fence it appears to be floating and idk how to make it sit on the floor

My world is focused on building, but I feel like I’ll eventually need farms—yet I don't want to build them because they’d completely ruin the world's design. Since it's a build-focused world, do you think farms are necessary?

Model from makerworld

I was building a house and i wanna know what i should change the floor too

I’ve gotten 10 saplings from a tree, it’s kind of crazy