Hello, Ezra here, and today we did something very special; experimenting with dry ice! For those who don’t know, dry ice is incredibly cold carbon dioxide, much colder than ordinary ice. But when it melts, it releases lots of carbon dioxide gas and expands into any space it can fit, creating lots of good explosion and smoke effects. So without further ado, lets see some of the experiments we did, because guess what, we recorded most of them in our first ever Youtube video featuring me, Hannah and our family and some friends on this website! Enjoy! (P.S. Don’t turn on subtitles on this video. It says that I say things that I don’t say in the video.)
You can try all of these things with dry ice, hot water, cheap plastic bottles, some bowls and soap. But remember; don’t try this at home!
[Wait. Is that sarcastic? Does that mean that I should try it at home?]
I didn’t say that.
[But is that what you meant?]
Ummm… I specifically said not to try this at home.
Hello, Ezra here, and today I am writing my current plans for the scary Minecraft Map I’m going to try to make this school year. I don’t have all the backstory figured out yet, so I’m going to update this post as soon as I have it all figured out. But for now, I hope you enjoy this sneak peek at my current backstory idea.
In the late carboniferous period, over 300 million years ago, a small and recently evolved species of lizard that was-
Okay. Wait. Hold on. You’re doing this all wrong! My voice does not sound the way you’re imagining it does. Stop that! You’re making me sound ridiculous! Besides, This is a dramatic backstory part that goes back 300 million years. I need presence.
So imagine that my voice sounds like one of those guys who narrate nature documentaries. Like David Attenborough from the Planet Earth series. Or Morgan Freeman. Someone like that.
Ahem… In the late carboniferous period, over 300 million years ago, a small and recently evolved species of lizard that was in constant danger of the giant insects and gargantuan arthropods that lived in that time began to evolve in a way that other creatures of that time were not. Instead of striving to become bigger and stronger and faster than everything else (which was quite commendable in that particular age), it gradually became more INTELLIGENT than everything else. And, by chance, the species survived long enough to become a formidable predator in the mid-Permian period, the age where lizards first started to become giant reptiles who ruled the world, such as the mighty Dimetrodons. However, the highly intelligent creature, having had 45 million years to develop and evolve, had a highly developed anatomy and mind. It dug burrows, made basic tools, camouflaged itself in order to catch prey and developed a uniquely potent venom that, when applied, rushed to the nervous system and affected the simple reptilian part of the brain that processes the fight/flight response (which was… well, a large portion of the brain of a large primitive lizard). All of these attributes made up for a lack of strength, as the creature had a relatively weak design of standing on it’s hind legs, making it easy to catch off balance, but allowing the creature to use its forelegs to grab objects with flexible fingers and opposable thumbs. The lizard of over 300 million years ago had become a domesticated, reasoning humanoid predator.
However, at the end of the Permian period, the species died along with 95% of all life in the biggest extinction ever recorded due to the creation of a worldwide desert with too little water. The species, depending highly on water, could not cope and died out quickly.
In modern times, a team of archeologists illegally searching for objects of value under an ancient temple stumbled across a giant salt pit at the foundation of the artifact. After professionals excavated the pit, they found the body of a previously undiscovered prehistoric reptile- perfectly preserved in the salt and buried with tools dating back over 250 million years ago.
No one had an explanation for why it was found in a pit of salt, but it seemed like the creatures had preserved their bodies much like the Ancient Egyptians did. And they had made tools! This suggested that the they had more intelligence than any living thing since humans. And to think that they evolved over 250 million years ago when everything was supposed to be primitive! Unable to resist the temptation of cloning the creature to see how it acted, the government secretly started to work on recreating the creature.
Afew years later, a call went out for guards with high positions in government affairs to come to a secret underground facility…
Of course that’s where players will come into the map as the guard.
For those of you who didn’t understand all that or didn’t want to read through all that backstory, here’s the simplified version. Make sure to keep that Morgan Freeman voice up!
A long time ago, lizards turned into awesome human-y reptiles because they didn’t like big bugs and lizards. Later their big brains made it easy for them to kill stuff because they could lay traps and make tools. But then the water went away so they died. But a long time later some dudes broke the rules and went into a really really old building and found a big hole filled with salt. Then they called in secret agent dudes to dig it out and they found one of the really really old human-y reptiles with it’s skin still together right. So the secret agent dudes thought “Hey! These guys were really smart to bury themselves in a big salt hole!” and tried to make one that was not, you know, DEAD. Then they called in more secret agent dudes to their secret hideout.
Yep. That’s it in a nutshell.
Or, if you need (which I sincerely hope you don’t), here’s a simplified version of the simplified version;
Scary human lizards die. Humans try to make more after they die. They get in trouble.
Well… there you have it.
I hope you liked this sneak peek and if you have any suggestions please tell me in the comments below.
Have you ever thought that it would be cool to have a Minecraft bow with Power 1000? Did you even know that such a thing was possible? I had never really thought about it until recently so then I tried to figure out how to do it using commands..
Usually, if you were enchanting something with a command, you would hold the item you want to enchant (say, a bow) in your hand and type in:
/enchant playername 48 5
You type in whatever your Minecraft username is and then write ’48 5′, 48 is the minecraft enchantment id for ‘Power’ and the 5 makes it power 5.
This command works perfectly well if you want normal Minecraft enchantments, you know, Power 5, Infinity 1, Knockback 3. But these only work as well as an enchanting table or enchanted book, what if you want Power 500? Or Power 10000000000? This command simply will not enchant something higher than level 5, or even level 3 on some things. If you want the most epic bow (and pre-named too) then you have to use a different command:
All you need to do is press Ctrl + C to copy the command above and then go into the chat bar in your game and press Ctrl + V to paste, and a Power 1000, Flame 1000 bow named ‘whatevernameyouwant’ will magically appear in your inventory.Of course to give your bow different abilities all you need is the id number. And for your convenience, I have written the id numbers for all the enchantments here for you:
My skeleton horse, silly! Everyone knows that I have two pets in Minecraft; my dog, Darkseid, and my undead horse, Doom! Right guys? ….Right?
Hello, Ezra here, and no, no one really knows my horse is named Doom. But word will get around eventually, and THEN I can make fun of people for not knowing who doom is. I mean, where will they be living at that point of time in the future, under a rock? Honestly….
Oh. Sorry. Got off topic. let’s see…
To summon my beloved steed Doom, who, by the way, was on the previous logo of this website (and Doom being on the logo of a website is cool, which makes Doom cool, which makes YOU cool if you get Doom, which makes Doom popular, which makes Doom more cool, which means you’re just one in a bunch of people who owns Doom, which makes you less cool, which adjusts more attention to Doom, which makes Doom more cool. It’s a great deal! For Doom, I mean), type this in:
Sorry. That’s kind of a fuzzy image. The command is:
“/summon EntityHorse” makes you summon an ordinary horse. the “~ ~ ~” part indicates where I want it to appear. “{Type:4” makes it a skeleton horse. “CustomName:”Doom”,Tame:1″ names the horse Doom and tames it. “SaddleItem:{id:329}” gives the horse a saddle.
So get Doom now and rub it in your friends’s faces that you know how to summon him and they don’t, until you realize that other people got him as well and you are not unique in owning Doom.
Sorry. I felt a little sarcastic when I wrote this post. Forgive the attitude.
Long story short, if you want this to be you:
Then all you have to do is follow the easy command instructions above, or better yet copy the command I wrote above and paste it into a command block on your world!
These are bits and pieces of stuff that other people have done that we like.
A fellow Home-Schooler we know made a Youtube series with the help of his dad about how to start off on a Minecraft world. The name of the series is called “Minecraft for noobs (Cartoon) by Alex85552100”. Think of it what you will, but it has good animating and is quite useful if you’re a newbie.
YES! This is me and Hannah. I don’t care if this isn’t about other people, I had to put this in here.
Now, this is a good bunch of videos here. For more information on this series, see my post: “On my way to a Minecraft map!” in the ‘Coding’ or ‘Gaming’ categories. Just note: these videos can be scary, as they are about a horror map.
I have no real purpose in putting this on besides it being awesome. ALL of Element Animation’s videos are awesome. You should check some of them out.
footnote: Hello from Dec. 23, 2015. It appears this video doesn’t exist anymore. I will replace it soon. Thank you.
If you know any really good videos, tell us by commenting on this post and we might add them to this list!
One thing you guys should know; one of my biggest goals for this year is to create an original scary Minecraft map and a matching resource pack.
I was originally inspired to do this by an amazing Minecraft horror map created by “Xander369” and “Charlie-309” called Alien: A Crafter’s Isolation [Insert preferred cliche scary noise here]. It is a Minecraft reconstruction of Alien: Isolation (which I have not played), which is a video game based on the 1979 film Alien (which I have not watched). I first saw it in the narration by Paulsoaresjr, famous Minecraft Youtuber. To see the four-part miniseries narration, click This incredibly convenient provided link right here or the example provided at the bottom of this post or on the “Other people’s stuff we happen to like” page. Be warned though; it is a horror map. Some may find the videos scary (duh), especially the first time they watch it. I’m totally over it now, but the first time I saw this map in play I was freaked. And same thing for the first time I played it. So… be warned.
Right now, I hope to have made a completely original Minecraft Horror map and resource pack by the end of this school year. Right now, my plot line idea is to- no, wait! I’m going to be terrible and leave you all wondering what my plot idea is! HAHAHAHAHA! Why? Well, either because the plot line is not fully developed, I don’t think you guys care, or I’m just plain crazy. Take your pick, because they’re all true. (Oh shoot- I don’t think I should have said that.)
Anyways, I am also learning different command systems so I can use them on my map. If you can suggest useful command strings I could use on my map, I might write a post on how to create a land bound, peaceful ghast!
Thank you, and attempt to stay sane (or don’t. I don’t care.),
Hello again! This is Ezra, and this is where you can write about any weird, strange or totally awesome things that you have done. If you’ve ever been put in an asylum, ridden a giant tortoise, built a 3 story blanket fort, kept a snowball in your freezer until September and pelted someone with it, lit your pants on fire, got abducted by aliens, spent a while living in a tree or something else weird and awesome like that, then do two things.
1:Put yourself in a loony bin. If you’ve done any of the things I just listed (assuming you weren’t just hallucinating) then you’re probably best off in an insanity asylum, because you must be absolutely bananas.
2: Write us your story! If you’re seeking to impress us (“us” being the crazy people who write stuff on this website), your story must be really crazy. We want to see it!
So don’t wait! Tell us your “que what now” story by commenting below!
I wanted to ask all the Minecrafters reading this post (or the people who don’t play Minecraft for some incomprehensible reason [translation: buy Minecraft.]) a question: What is the smallest entity in Vanilla Minecraft?
Bat? Nuh-uh. Endermite? No. Baby chicken? Nope. Particle effects? Not even close. Give up?
The answer is…. WitherBoss {NoAI:1,Invul:879}
…..
Man. I can almost hear the crickets chirping.
As the command-savvy Minecrafters reading this may have guessed, the writing above is the format for a command. This particular command is a command string I figured out that makes a tiny statue version of the terrifying boss known as the Wither. I am going to write a walk through of this command string for the less command-savvy readers.
The command is typed out like this:
To start writing a command, just push the backslash button (/) and you can start typing your command. /summon will prepare you to summon an entity, and the word WitherBoss will specify that the entity you want to summon is a Wither. (Or you can type Pig or Bat or EntityHorse or VillagerGolem or whatever other entity instead of WitherBoss, but this command won’t make anything but the Wither tiny.) the wavy lines (~ ~ ~) are coordinates in relation to the source in an X Y Z format. So if I wrote ~ ~2 ~, the Wither would two blocks above my head. If I wrote ~ ~-2 ~, the Wither would spawn two blocks below me.
Now comes the most important bit. If you do this wrong, then you are almost guaranteed to have a super-powerful, flying, explosive-throwing monster bombing your world. So PAY ATTENTION!
{NoAI:1} means no artificial intelligence. It means you are spawning in a variant of the Wither: a version with no brain. This good for you, because a Wither with it’s brain still in it’s head is a psychotic pyromaniac who flies and makes things (“things” being you, your friends and your pets) go boom.
Finally, we come to the ,Invul:879} part of the command. This is the part that makes the Wither tiny. What it is saying is that this Wither is in stage 879 of growth, counting down to adulthood.
This is what you get:
Can you see the little black spec in between the top and left hand notches of the cross hairs? You can? THAT’S the Wither, and I think any optometrist would agree with me that if you can see it, you do not need glasses. It took me a LONG TIME to see this little sucker the first time. This is a larger version of what you have just seen (or not seen, as the case may be).
Something that the readers should know: I lied about this being the smallest entity in Minecraft. It is the smallest version o this entity that I could still see. You can make a version even SMALLER than this!
There is one more, crucially important step to creating this extraordinary creature: decide that it’s name is Squishy and call it that forever. If you do not know why you have named this potential psychotic killing machine Squishy, watch the Pixar classic Finding Nemo. If you do not know what Finding Nemo is, please locate the nearest eight-year-old with awesome parents and ask him about it. Anyway, name him Squishy.
Also note: It is completely normal for this creature to make weird noises, smoke and bubble and possibly change which direction it is facing. It is NOT normal or it to grow drastically, flash, change color, explode, take damage, move or act hostile in any way. These are the behaviors of a fully functioning Wither Boss, who, as I may have mentioned earlier, Is a homicidal Boss monster that wants to kill you. If your tiny Wither starts acting like this, I reeeeeeaaaaly strongly suggest you use this command against it:
If done right, this will kill all the Withers in your world. If done wrong, It will most likely become an unavoidable and unstoppable doomsday device and will instantly kill every living thing currently existing in your world (namely every player, every living thing within a large radius of that player and possibly anything living anywhere any player has previously stepped foot).
If you play Minecraft, then you know that sometimes you will see a “Spider Jockey” (a skeleton riding a spider) or a baby zombie riding a chicken. If you don’t play Minecraft, then this article won’t be of much use to you and I ask you to please consider looking at one of our other posts.
You only ever see animals or mobs riding each other in these two instances. But you can use a certain command to make any animal ride another.
If you type (make sure you copy this exactly):
/summon Skeleton ~ ~ ~ {Riding:{id:Spider}}
… into your chat bar, that will make a Spider Jockey, so if you type:
… into your chat bar, do you know what that makes? A bunny riding a chicken riding a bat! (Come on, tell me that’s not awesome.) You have now made an Animal Stack. You can replace these with any animals you want, as long as you keep the right format:
Just as long as you remember that the animal on the bottom of the Stack is in charge, so if your bottom animal is a bat then your Stack will fly away. And if you put a pig on the bottom then your Stack will follow carrots.
Tip: If you add, {NoAI:1} into the command ( /summon Bat ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:1, Riding:{id:Pig}} ) than it makes the bat into a statue, it won’t move. You have to add it in after each animal individually to make them all into statues,
( /summon Bat ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:1, Riding:{id:Pig, NoAI:1}} ) doing this makes for great pictures or awesome museums.
To summon just one entity at a time or to learn other Vanilla Minecraft commands, go to DigMinecraft.com. They have a nice list of commands with easy to follow instructions for actually using them.
Hello. My name is Ezra, and I don’t like blogging.
Really. I don’t. I don’t like it when people just dump all their “stuff” on the internet so people they don’t know can take an interest in their lives. I mean, I understand the importance of social activity over the internet (even though I’ve never really talked to people over the internet except for a few E-mail messages and a semi-private Minecraft server in possession of me and my twin sister, Hannah, who will also be writing blogs on this site), but some people just sit and blog or go on Facebook or whatever ALL THE TIME. They spend as much time writing about “all the exciting stuff they are doing nowadays” on some blog site as they spend actually DOING the exciting stuff that they keep writing about! I’m still waiting for one of my friends or family members to tell me that they saw a post on Facebook or Twitter that said nothing except that the guy who wrote it had spent some time on Facebook writing posts. Maybe in the future people will put themselves (and others) in incredibly frustrating paradoxes by writing a post about writing the post that they’re writing about and how it’s about the post he’s writing about the post that he’s currently writing.
Wow. Sorry. I Guess I really needed to get a good psychopathic rant out of my system. Anyways…..
Despite me previously not liking blog sites, I’m going to give this blogging thing a shot and dump some “stuff” about me on the internet so people I don’t know can read it. (Who’s idea was this?!!? This doesn’t sound safe at ALL! Doesn’t this counteract the “don’t talk to strangers rule or something?)
Speaking of who’s idea this was, a member of my family encouraged me to create this blog alongside Hannah, saying that a blog about two Minecraft obsessed evil-genius-y twins who love to read, are learning crazy Minecraft commands, are moving to Costa Rica to start a farm and who want to design a video game in the future sounds fun. (Not to brag, but she might have a point.)
So I am hoping to post information that will make you think and might come in handy someday, stories that I hope people may find entertaining and clever witticisms shoved into my writing wherever i think they will be at least a little funny (and if you can’t find the jokes, so be it. I am NOT saying “LOL” at the end of every joke. I could go on a whole OTHER psychotic rant about abbreviations like “LOL”, but maybe later.) . I hope people who are eager to read such things find they’re way to this site and that no one decides to leave a comment about them leaving a comment about the comment they’re leaving.
REALLY hoping this turns out well,
Ezra
P.S. If you ever start to think “this kid is insane!” (I’m not necessarily arguing about the accusation, but still), just remember: I might be a crazy person, but YOU, dear reader, are the person reading what the crazy person is writing. Ah, but as a member of my family once wrote on a sticky pad on her office door: Relax. We’re all crazy. It’s not a competition. (And yes, she is a professional. Which just makes the note all the more awesome.)
