(Most of this post’s original content has been removed as it’s not Games related, and rewritten in the General blog. I was too much on a ‘rant rampage’ and I need to stop doing that. Sorry)
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I got Minecraft again, thanks to my BF
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I was playing Sea of Thieves solo, totally not trying to avoid my BF from wanting to join me. For ones that are curious to what I mean, you can read about it here in the General Blog.
Heading for an outpost to sell my loot.. while also VERY carefully watching this fucker at the same outpost I was heading to. Thankfully when they left, they headed on a mainly NNW trajectory(and I’m going ESE), allowing me to sail back safely. So yeah, that was a bit of a white knuckle moment.
Made it back, sold my stuff and then sank my poor ship. It had gotten into a fierce battle with an emergence skeleton ship (and won). But it needed a rest and I gave it a proper sendoff (including an achievement for doing so).
Then Wolfdog asked me “you have Minecraft right?” Explained the crap that I lost access to the email my old account is connected to and I’m SoL until Mojang does their stupid migration thing.
“want me to get you the game again so you can set up a new account” he asked.
My face when he asked that.
“Aww hun, you don’t have to.” I said, reminding him about his financial situation and how I didn’t want him to hurt because of me. But he said it won’t and didn’t mind doing so. He mainly wants to show me a ‘very cool’ Minecraft world that has to do with Disney’s themeparks.
Half of me felt this was really suspicious, of why he’s suddenly being so generous in wanting to help me out. He’s never done this before. Not even Kovo offered to do this. Still I did accept it, offering to pay back the kindness in full (financially or some other means). But he didn’t really mind doing it, saying he “understands what it’s like to not have access to an old account anymore”.
I logged into my old Microsoft account. …Uhh. Are you fucking serious. Was there a fucking chance I could had retrieved my old account anyway?! Did my old account become part of my Minecraft account?!?!?!
Dunno. It never said “multiple accounts detected” when I redeemed the key he gave me. So uh, maybe yes maybe no? Never got to see if I could possibly access my old account as I felt Wolfdog wanted me to get this done ASAP. So I did.
Tried to join the server he wanted me to join. Wouldn’t allow me with the current version of Minecraft (1.17.1). It requires version 1.22.2 instead. He (unnecessarily) walked me through the process of downgrading the version. Thanks for the instructions hun but I know what I’m doing here.
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Checking out a really cool world
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The world (or, server actually) is called ‘MCParks‘. It features every single park owned (or built) by Disney. And I’m still shocked.. that Disneyland is the original. For the longest time I thought Disneyland was a ‘cheap knock-off’ for California. While it doesn’t have as many attractions and rides as Walt Disney World’s ‘Magic Kingdom’ in Florida (plus Epcot and Universal Orlando Resort), this park makes up showing charm and top notch themed rides.
So he starts off telling me that you can listen to realtime music and sound that affects where you currently are in the server, by typing /audio and clicking the link. Then logging into their server and clicking ‘Connect’. I started hearing music based off the area (as if I was right there IRL).
We start off of him showing me this Tiki place and teaching me how to interact with certain things to make them work. And I must admit, it’s pretty cool. But it wouldn’t possibly prepare me for the ‘Tiki Room’. The birds, things coming from the ceiling, moving heads. ..Impressive work! He tells me Disney themselves actually helped with the server to make these rides as authentic as possible. These things use scripting never before seen in Minecraft.
Rode on the Pirates of The Caribbean ride. I can see why Orion and a few others said Chapter 1’s Tall Tale’s intro is based off of this very ride in Disneyland. Even having the familiar “DEAD.. MEN.. TELL.. NO.. TALES..”
Even met Jack Sparrow in Minecraft form. Really wild.
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But what really made my night.. they have Haunted Mansion in this!! 😀 This ride has been recreated so many times– in GMod, in VRChat, and now in Minecraft. And it’s just as fucking epic as before. Even having a ‘special twist’ near the end of the ride seeing.. what appears to be your player’s tombstone. EESH!
“Hurry BAAAACK!! .. Hurry BAAA-AAACK!! …Be sure to bring your.. DEATH certificate! We’re… dying.. to meet you!”
I’ll pass, thanks.
But yeah. I had fun. Really awesome server. Can’t wait to see what else they come up with. I’m wondering if they’re going to go beyond Disney’s parks and recreate all Six Flags locations (or even better.., the water park in Santa Claus, Indiana). It’s just fucking wild they were able to recreate all of these parks in a perfect 1:1 ratio (using Google Earth’s satellite images and help from Disney themselves).
And holy FUCK the special events they do at 11am, 4pm and 9pm EDT. Mad props for doing things that seem unbelievable they were done.. in Minecraft of all games!!
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Since then I got OptiFine installed, got a 32x texture pack, ‘made‘ (more like edited thanks to minecraftskins.com) a new skin for myself, and even got Vivecraft working. And holy fuck it looks even better in VR! A bit more laggy though in certain places, but still. Wow. It increases the immersion.
Now if only I had a system powerful enough that has an RTX 3090. ..In VR. Holy FUCK the realism!