A new adventure with nosey neighbors – Better Minecraft EP 1

Today we’re starting a new world in the better Minecraft mod pack I’m playing on the forge version as I get a much higher FPS with my shaders and I feel like shaders can bring a lot to this kind of mod pack I do believe the forge and fabric versions are somewhat different

So if the fabric version is the better version let me know and I’ll use that version next time either way the SmartPak has over 200 mods and I’ve barely played any of it so this is going to be really fun to explore and if you

Have any tips feel free to leave some in the comments I have already played for about half an hour so here’s a quick recap of events I found a sign some animals a village that might be hostile and a village that I can eventually trade with I think this

Is the place that the sign was pointing to I’m wanting to build my house in the center here as it’s surrounded by water and looks cool on the map I’ve planted some seeds and decided that this spot is going to home my first build which will

Give me a place to stay while I gather materials to build my first house and that brings us to the present in the pouring rain and snow that won’t be too much of a problem though I plan to spend some time Underground today as I need to get iron

For tools and decorations later we’ll grow more trees like you can see popping up in the back there and start building this side of the river is going to be themed around wood cutting so we’re going to be living in a formal of sorts

For a little while I just need to do a little more preparation and then we can head Underground and there’s our preparation done it took a little while I had to wait for some trees to grow so it ended up stopping raining I’m not gonna complain though because the view looks awesome

We still have to go down I have not explored this at all yet so this should be interesting okay oh that cave didn’t go nearly as far as I thought it might so I guess it’s time to start digging that’s just go down here uh well we found a cave awesome

See this is more what I was hoping for what is wow that looks pretty cool I hate that my brain goes to ceiling butter okay so this is our entrance must remember that uh there’s more of it down there like bluish as well oh this looks promising

There’s some pretty stuff in this mod pack oh and it twinkles well I’m not seeing any iron right off the bat I’m also not sure if there’s a separate all generation mod in this so hopefully I and there we go okay it does seem to generate normally

Um you look like a place a creeper wants to come out of it’s just a solid wall never mind how did I not see that well there’s more iron so let’s dig ourselves out of staircase Place some Torchlight oh this is further that’s the down spot okay that’s a blue I saw earlier

This soapstone is so dark let’s try to make this area up here a little safer we don’t want any surprise creepers that should be lit enough uh I’m not seeing more iron which is not great call I should definitely get a little extra oh hello where one pickaxe down and we’re up to

23 irons so I think that’s a good start however I do think I’ve found most of the visible iron in this little cave which is slightly disappointing but we can get some more coal and then I’ll start I guess just trying to strip mine see if I can find some that way

I am not entirely sure how the new biomes will work in terms of um like iron ore generation mountains and stuff uh there’s a little Gap here let’s see if there’s anything in here nope nothing however there is a skeleton to our side here does this carry on at all

Oh yeah that goes down there okay so this is where we need to go um there’s a zombie this looks like it’s gonna have some iron let’s have some snacks before I get shot by a skeleton dude come on come on what is that that’s a red sand hat

Well I guess we’re going for some festive mining um I put a Santa hat on and a goblin arrived so cave Center I may have also been shot but we’re gonna ignore that one what can I get from you um oh that’s good that’s good okay um I’m not

Entirely sure what is happening with the skeleton he might be in a full Santa suit which I find a little bit funny oh yeah um wait I went mine oh for a second I thought I was at 92 Center which was a little bit confusing or slowly returning to a couple days

Back okay as long as the sky is in the area I need to try and find some iron because he is going to make my life much much easier I need to also avoid skeletons because I have well I’ve got a Christmas sweater and a Christmas hat apart from that I

Don’t know much do you have an iron pickaxe I can possibly steal borrow for eternity foreign why should you drop just one okay let’s grab the stone there’s our first creeper in the distance that’s terrifying not today buddy don’t know how long this guy’s gonna stick around for he might have already gone

Low no he’s here where about are you little dude you stay down here they jumped up he’s jumped up they are very very helpful what is is that a cockroach oh my gosh well our little Goblin Merchant friend has cut me off we’ve got 60 Iron Ingots

Which I think is a great deal for how much iron we actually got um I am gonna head back up to the surface now I’ve got five torches left and there is a wide area to cover so I’m not going to venture too far out I’ve already had my first creeper show up

Um so yeah let’s head up to the surface and see if I can remember my way out uh hello really did I throw my sword as well no I didn’t so I do not like you is it just him there’s a guy over there as well

Is it just you next to me though oh oh wow okay he had silver I wonder what I can do with that I mean apart from like maybe tools and stuff um they seem to like the trees which is a bit of a problem for me well that was

A surprisingly Christmas themed mining session um I think I’ve got enough iron for now uh it’ll at least cover tools I’ve got more Stone pickaxes anyway so I’ll work my way through those but for now I think we’re all set and it’s time to start planting trees properly

I’ve gone ahead and laid out a path system to keep the area a little more organized they’ve got our villager friend our mine off of this Branch our little Sawmill is going to be off of this branch and the rest is going to be trees for now I’m

Just using path blocks for this um but the whole wooden wood cutting area will get a whole redesign later right now I just need a lot of wood for buildings so I’m going to go ahead and fill up a double chest with wood and we should hopefully have all we need to

Start building and here we are I’ve got a chest full of logs um I should only be using oak and walnut for my first build but I did make sure to gather a decent amount of other stuff just in case um I now have a forest as well I haven’t

Let it grow too far over as I have plans for this section over here um it’s pretty nice to run through as little branching parts that actually are open I did have to knock back a few trees um in the process of doing all of this I

Figured out who lives at the Village next door um they’re not that friendly and one of them fall in a hole I live next to pillages there’s a there’s a few of them anyway um they seem to keep to themselves for the most part although as we saw earlier

One of them did come all the way over to our villager Hut but I’m gonna be putting up a wall eventually so that shouldn’t be much of an issue for now the bigger thing is how am I going to start building this I don’t have the replay mod as I believe

That’s fabric only um which I didn’t realize beforehand let’s pick a spot that I can jump to you this pumpkin cool and there we go foundations are done I’m gonna hop to another angle quick as you can see not the largest floor plan most of that is going to be workspace

This Square to the right is going to be like an office with a little bit of a loft so let’s have a look at what the final build looks like here we are final build um I really like how this is finished up there is an Enderman at the top there

He’s just disappeared um got a nice little log pile and inside this I’ve set up like a what would I guess be like a pulley system to make stuff easier to move this is where stuff would be cut um I’ve got some piles of planks at the back here

And then over here is where full logs would get moved over to get loaded onto a bud which I have not built yet um when I do I’m gonna finish this whole little I guess dock area which should look quite nice um obviously everything is pretty much

Purely aesthetic at this point but I like how this has turned out I really like that the stone on the water actually gets some moss on it it helps a lot um everything’s connected by paths as well so it’s pretty easy to move around heading back inside

Um pretty high ceilings for the most part apart from here in the office space which these work as chests I guess which is quite nice I’ve got a little desk set up here and I actually had a Enderman show up Midway through building and claim this is his spot thankfully he did

Have a grass block and wasn’t trying to steal my walls but anyway moving up I’ve got a nice little um I guess not stairwell uh bottom of the ladder area um and going upstairs this is my temporary bedroom so I’ve got two double chests here this

Counts as well not a single chest but close enough um a nice little bench I can open up these shutters and look out I really like this little view yeah I think it looks really nice oh this I love it’s just a little I guess walkway on the

Side like I say everything is accessible so you can walk all the way around from the other side of the river I think it actually looks quite nice so when this is finished um with like a little boat and everything I think it’ll look quite complete but for now I’m really enjoying

How this sits on the land looks really nice on the map as well fits right in with the path system um and just looks a little more lived in the forest is looking pretty cool as well from the top um I finally figured out where I was going

Wrong with the farming I did not realize that the crops in this are seasonal and that’s why this wasn’t growing didn’t help that I had a bird stealing everything though let’s just cut these uh but yeah so I guess I need to start looking at what I can plant through different seasons like

What’ll grow throughout the year now that the salt Mill’s finished um and I actually have a place to stay I think it’s about time we give Viola here a bit of a house renovation and here we are house is finished I think this is a definite upgrade over what was there beforehand

Um still pretty simple not too much going on a little bit of Garden area and inside is still quite empty however this I think is fine for now um and at a later date we can come back and give this a full interior makeover buff

But I do think that with that oh I also found some bees well I didn’t find them I planted a lot of trees and they just showed up but that I think is going to Mark the end of today’s Journey I think we got quite a lot done a bit of

A forest going and a nice little uh Sawmill which I’m still very happy with um the house as well looks quite nice oh let’s have a look from the other side yeah I’m very happy with where this is at the moment um obviously at a later date this will

Have a boat area this entire Forest will probably be completely um custom built once I have tree farms set up and whatnot oh there’s some more bees over there okay we’ve got another Hive over there but I’m really liking where this is at the moment so thank you

Very much for joining me in this first episode of better Minecraft um really enjoying this mod pack so far it looks incredible with shaders as well um next episode I’m probably gonna try and explore a bit see what’s happening around our little home area um and get some gear because a Christmas

Hat isn’t quite cutting it anyway I hope you’re having a wonderful day and I hope to see you in the next one bye this is the part where I really hope that I was recording