Hello, Ezra here.

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.),

Ezra

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!

Ezra

Hello. Ezra here.

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).

So FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS. Okay? Cool.

Ezra

Hannah here,

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:

/summon Rabbit ~ ~ ~ {Riding:{id:Chicken, Riding:{id:Bat}}}

… 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:

/summon Cow ~ ~ ~ {Riding:{id:Pig, Riding:{id:Bat}}}

Which creates this:

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.

Hannah

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.)