The ECH Files Part 5 : The Journeys 1, 2 and 3

When I played on ElyssiaMC and I wasnt building, I was travelling a lot.. 

To find ice, to find the town back, to travel by boat and see where I landed or simple a random teleport just for fun to see how many biomes there were or what kind of buildings other players had build.

 

In a lot of pictures you see me holding a kind of weapon.

That for a good reason, at night there are a lot of zombies and skelets, and everywhere is PvP, so any player you meet can be hostile and try to kill you to get your gear. 
I only met a player once and I ran away before he saw me. 

Well, I died a couple of times and cause I was traveling I had no clue where to look for my gear. The server only used random spanpoints and not manually added coordinate. Result: ever time I died, I had to make my own (standard) stuff and get enough food.

Some pictures are showing info about the biomes, coordinates, type of computer, Java version, chat lines etc. These were not attended. Because of the PvP players and other enemies I had not much time to take those pictures, I could be attacked any second.

Lately I found the pictures of my Journeys on ElyssiaMC back and I had the idea of creating a sort of exhibition of zooitroep, the famous photographer. I found a nice program Photo! 3D on a website with a not working download link. It could create different 3D galleries, so I manage to download it from a obscure website (and started after that, my Anti Malware programs). I had a lot of fun with it, but I had too many pictures to show for 1 gallery.
Instead of 1 3D gallery, there are 3 now. 


 The amounts of pictures urgs me to use: Pyramids, Castle and Neon Maze.
Form these 3 is Castle the worst, showing lots to the same pictures, had to be edited a lot.

I wanted to add Minecraft remixed (or inspired) music, after all it were Minecraft pictures.
On Newgrounds.com I found plenty. Some not very dull, some good. After some hours I had found 6 good ones. Then I released all these were already used by someone else in their YouTube vids.

At the same time I was busy with the Pub Boogie songs on Fireworks 2 and 3, Dutch Moonblaster musicdisks of MCD club and besides the Pub Boogie songs it had a couple of spacey ballads. Perfect for these exhibitions. I faded out the tracks when they are looped and the result were 3 vids, just long enough not to be bored.

If you want to see the whole exhibition of each vid, 
check the download links below:

ECHs Journey Exhibition 1 (Pyramids): Mediafire / Pcloud
ECHs Journey Exhibition 2 (Castle): Mediafire / Pcloud
ECHs Journey Exhibition 3 (Neon Maze): Mediafire / Pcloud

The manual is in the .exe itself, running smoothly even under Windows 10 !!!

PS: In the first picture you see the only time I travelled not alone.

The ECH Files Part 4 : The Speedway

The Speedway stayed unfinished, cause I could not figure out how the combination of trick wire, redstone and redstone lantarns should work. The speedway was build as a big 8, cause you cant go high or low without jumping in Minecraft. And I used ice as road so you could race with just ordinairy boats. 

 

Because the redstone experiment failed, I placed many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many sign boards, so you could see where you should go. 

However the ice was very slippery, as you can see in the video. 

I had to speed up the vid (it took more than 5 minutes to get to the finish line), to save the vid from boring. I hope you like the music, its the Benny Hill Show theme. 

To create such a big 8 from iceblocks I had to do a lot of digging and mining, my son helped a lot to save me from giving up. To get enough iceblocks had I travelled a lot, without any success. Then I found a small lake that got frozen at 1 side. I borrowed a special pick-axe  

from my son, made some buckets of iron and made a very simple Ice generator by filling holes in the ground with water from the lake, let it be frozen and dig it softly to get the ice block. I had to do this many times, so I made my own spawnpoint there. 

Besides me my son and another friend of his tried to race the track, still too slippery to be funny. I didnt know if there were bouncing blocks available on the server, if there were any I would use them and re-arrange the speedway into a bumper-car floor. 

That would be big fun with friends. I forgot to mention, because of the redstone failure, there is no round counter or a real finish line. So its easy to cheat and be the winner.

The ECH Files Part 3 : The Island

When my first house was finished I wasn't very happy with it, it looked like a prison.
So I went on an adventure and got to the seashore, just a 2-minute walk from the town.
My son was already busy creating some kind of harbor with lights and I was staring at the sea. Closeby I saw a small island, so I got there swimming Minecraft style and saw there were a bunch of small islands.
Well, I started to connect those small islands to 1 big island.

A lot of sand was needed so my son helped too with digging and reclaiming.  When it was
finally finished, but it was soo big, I didn't know what to do with it. I always wanted to build a big castle in Minecraft so I started with only stones where the desert made of. That means lots of orange and deep red.  My son helped with providing enough stones and I created my castle without any drawing.

It has a private room for me with some food, tools, and weapons for emergency and you can look from any tower or through the windows if somebody was coming my way from the sea. To survive I made also a small garden with stuff to eat, some trees for wood and some fishing rods and boats. I had no animals I didn't know how to get them to the island by boat. 

Watch the video if you want to see it with your own eyes. I had some space left so I created a fishing pond, but I never caught any fish there...

The music is a bit Caribbean style, it was recorded on cassette and converted to mp3, however, the aging did serious harming to the sound. I couldn't find the original game
CD-Rom (Kaleidoscope I think), if I find it again I will fix the sound and re-upload.

The ECH Files Part 2 : ECHClans Territory Town

You should see the video of the town first. The music was taken from TrackMania United Desert, very suitable in a video about a town in the desert. But as you can see in the end, also close to the sea, which made the location even more special. 
The town seemed to be unfinished and it is. After 1 friend was building some walls, others made structures that got in the way of these walls. And when that friend stopped playing nobody (including me) had the courage to continue. 
So you find some (un)finished houses, 2 mines, a monsterspawner, big towers to improve your falling skills, a farm, some special horses, chickens,  pigs, cows, sheeps, a temple and a minecart track to a some harbour. There was room for more members, but nobody travelled that far. Only an other player wanted to annoy us by claiming land close to the town. Lucky he had not much status, so he could claim very little. 
You also find a small nightclub in 1 of the corners of the town. 
My house was called ZT prison ( ZT is the short alias for mine Minecraft alias zooitroep), beneathyou find the temple and the minecart racetrack to the harbour. 
Beware of the monsterspawner, if you are not fast enough, you will be killed. 
And be carefull when looking below from high towers ( there are lifts), you get easily lost all your stuff if you hit the ground tne wrong way.

The ECHs Files Part 1 : Introduction

An Introduction:

During the last part of 2016 and the first part of 2017 my son (jeffrey123454) and I (zooitroep) played for the last time ever, the game Minecraft. We did not know at that time, but after June 2017 we both stopped. My son stopped earlier than me, cause he lost interest when his companion from school got banned forever from the server we were playing Minecraft on and other friends didn't want to join anymore.

The Minecraft server was called Elyssia MC and had fresh ideas about roleplaying.

Every player could choose 2 skills, like Miner, Explorer,  Farmer, etc. 

Those skills got upgraded by doing lost of things. Also, you could trade a lot, build your town, by claiming land and rent it. There was also PvP, but only outside your town. And all chests were locked for all other players unless you gave them 1 by 1 permission. 

I was not playing on that server from the start of ECHClan Territory (the name of the town), 

it was much later after his schoolmate got banned when using mods to get more loot when mining. My son got banned too but got access back later. By that time the town was almost finished, when I started building my first home, fixing the road to the entrance to the town (a lot of holes to fill ) and build more walls. 

Most of the buildings and other constructions were made by online friends of my son, 

with a little help of course. 

Lately, I asked my son how it all started. He said, we ( he and another friend) were looking for a place with much space, they fund in the desert a big tree and my son wanted to have a treehouse in Minecraft. And so it all began. 

I played on the server mostly with my son only, he helped mine with preparing and building of my structures like the underground minecart track, the icy speedway, the island and the underground temple. See the other videos in this playlist. He was the major and could claim enough land to build big structures. 

So when I was finished building, he played other games and didnt care about ECHClan Territory anymore. I tried to maintance it for a while by paying the rent and change little things on my structures. 

I made a couple of videos about the ECHClan Territory and I will create a shorter post about each of them to give you some backgrounds.