i've never been great about maintaining a "forever world". i'd play for a session, maybe come back a couple times throughout the week, but then i'd put the game down again. And when i'd come back, the temptation to start a new world always won me over. When my friend wanted to play minecraft with me, it had been a long while since i had booted it up, so i said: sure! why not.
i didn't realize how different the experience is having another person to play with. i mean of course you could just find somebody with a license to java edition minecraft and play for a couple hours, but my friend like, really likes minecraft. so we kept playing on the new world i made until i gave it a name ("there's a cat in the wall", if you're curious — it's a stupid inside joke). I've been able to actually look forward to playing minecraft guilt free, and keep myself motivated as i do. who knew that, for example, owning an elytra would free yourself so much?
in addition to keeping this world and occasional backups, i figure i should also commemorate it here! so i'll go ahead and bring up articles from "there's a cat in the wall" since show-and-tell is a lot more fun than just keeping it in my head.
my friend built the entrance, but behind this portal is a hallway of mangrove wood and stone with all of the various tidbits you'd want in a home base. storage, furnaces, netherwart farm, etc. it feels like the centerpoint of the survival world right now, even if in the future i'll probably end up moving away from it and building elsewhere.
(insert photo of inside cave) there's a common theme in this world that the cutest or most thought-out decorations were probably not built by me lol. i'm still learning all the little tricks when it comes to building, so i'm not expecting a lot from myself. however, if there's one thing i've learned it's the importance of using like 30 billion shelves literally everywhere.
these fake vertical slabs are a god-send and anybody who tries to tell me otherwise is just objectively wrong. i don't know when they were added, as i only discovered they existed after a long hiatus from minecraft, but boy do i overuse them now.