Minecraft game to build nice little houses, so new block types are the most exciting things that can be added to the game, as far as I’m concerned. I’m pretty happy, then, since the new “lower” 1.16 update, released this week, has added loads. Also, almost all are at the bottom bottom: Minecraft’s strange hell dimension, which was pretty disappointing for the first nine and a half years of its existence, so now I can build nice little houses IN HELL. The new nether is a gloomy and varied wonderland, containing everything you need to make the kind of healthy farm you would do in the normal world, only with mysterious-looking materials, in a haunting wasteland. It is brilliant. And so, to show you all that it can do in Minecraft 1.16, I built a special house using only blocks that can be found in the background, and filmed a relaxing mid-2000s MTV-style video tour around it. Please come and join me:
If you can’t see the video right now (but honestly it’s worth the music), enjoy these screenshots from my project. This is where I set up the build, in the new valley and souls biome, with a 16 × 16 build area marked in a horrible blue fire:
I would love Grand Designs if it started like this every time.
Three hours later, this is what occurred to me: horribly but faintly higge devil’s mansion made of quartz, black stone and strange blue-green mushroom wood:
This is one of my legitimate favorite versions to date, and it wouldn’t have been possible at all in 1.15.
It has a library, a kitchen, a hall, a workshop and even a small garden. But what really makes my home away from home is the attic dungeon where I have imprisoned a pig man named Bin Lord:
Stop running around your prison like a fool, Bin Lord.
However, Bin Lord is not the only inhabitant of my shadowy tower. An elegant little roof garden is home to the atrocity known as Bumeggs – a furious white-eyed boar beast named Hoglin:
Welcome to the Sorrow Zoo.
Still, the new nether is not all about the nightmare killer pigs. There’s also a new kind of nice, if a bit sad, creature named Strider, which wanders up to her breasts in lava, looking for mushrooms to eat. I liked one of these, so I dug a pond in the front yard, filled it with refreshing magma, and spawned old Boafus here. I love him and I feel sorry for him:
I just wish the mosquitoes didn’t seem so shocked. I want you to enjoy your lives wading in liquid rock.
I am eager to see what people can do with the new materials offered in 1.16, and it is only a matter of time before updating the semi-official RPS Minecraft server to open this new frontier. If you have any ideas of what you would like us to build let me know.
