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Thanks for your input. Do you have any suggestions as to what would be a better distance to go for? Should some structures be closer to each other than other type of structures?

@@Kjotleik yes 100%; for example there's no need for fortresses to be tens of thousands of blocks apart, maybe 500-1000 as well as trail ruins since they're already difficult to find to begin with

In the current datapack Fortresses are on average 1500 blocks apart. Trail Ruins are at 10k blocks on average. If I understand you correctly it would make for a better datapack if these were on average 500-1000 blocks apart? When setting the distances I am setting both minimum distance allowed and average distance for the game to figure out structure generation. As for strongholds those are set to 10k (min) and 30k (avr) in the pack. Would you recommend these numbers be divided by approximately three? I appreciate this discussion. Nobody has been this involved in giving me feedback on the pack before. I'm sure your comments here will help making it a better gameplay experience next time I release a new version of it.

@@Kjotleik Yes because who the hell wants to run 30 THOUSAND BLOCKS IN A SURVIVAL WORLD just to find the stronghold. fortresses around 1k is good since they're so abundant and are such a useless structure and trail ruins at 10k blocks apart??? how do you expect anyone to get armor trims. my suggestion would be to just nerf the distances everything has to be 2-4x rarer than vanilla instead of like 20x rarer (and this is what i oiriginally expected from the datapack)

Good argument about those armour trims. It is noted that you would like the pack to make structures 2-4 times rarer compared to vanilla. This conversation has made me think I need to make another version of it. Once 1.22 comes out in December I plan to update it anyway. I will still have one version as it is today, but add another version as per your suggestions. It has been a pleasure having this conversation. You've had reasonable and good arguments supporting your wishes. That is always a very big plus in my book.

It did take some time, Delmer. I assume you can use other non-full blocks as well. Like slabs and fences (but I have not tried those myself) since a water-source needs a full (solid) block next to it in order to freeze into ice.

@@Kjotleik Ah ok, so I have to use non-solid blocks. I did not know that. Solid blocks will not defrost the ice. Thanks for that wonderful and helpful tip. I live near a frozen river on my personal world and I always wondered how to stop the river from freezing. Thanks again.

@@delmer6339 Yes. Water next to non-full blocks will not freeze. It is important to check the ends of the cold biome as an ice-block counts as a full block. Ice-blocks WILL freeze water-blocks touching it in cold biomes, even if it is a non-full block on one of the sides of the water-block.

Yes, Epona. It went well. Didn't do as much of deepening and widening the river as I thought, but it is functional. And I'm happy with that. If I had not compromised on my dream-river I would still not have gotten this episode out.

Thanks, Delmer. I have been away from recording for a long time. I had to make that fact a part of the video. I'm happy you enjoyed it. I hope others do too.

@@Kjotleik Now that the secret is out and you are about to embark on a new minecraft world next year, I am excited to see your build plans for the rest of the year.

Thank you, Epona.

I am going to start looking at the datapack this coming weekend. There are major changes from 1.20 to 1.21. I will make a 1.21 version once I understand what has changed. Is there another 1.20.x version you are looking for? I don't think the launcher has anything to do with the game not launching using this datapack. It is the datapack that needs updating. This one may not work with versions above 1.20.1. Are you looking for information about where to put the datapack or how to edit/change the files inside of it? I assume the latter. But I don't know, hence the question.

@@Kjotleik Hi, no unfortunately I am only interested in 1.21, I found your datapack in the form of a Fabric mod, unfortunately for me, after trying to configure it in the config file of my modpack it no longer wanted to be used.

OK. I will start looking into upgrading it to 1.21 this weekend. I don't know how much work it will take, so I cannot promise a date for the updated version. I will have it in the form of a datapack, not a mod. So it will not be configurable. But if someone wants to make a mod out of it, they are free to do so. I give my datapacks away for free. Anyone is allowed to make their personal changes to it as they see fit. Also, if there is a particular thing you would like to change (and it is not too much work), feel free to give me your wishes and I'll see if it is possible to make a special version. Given I have enough time on my hands.

I've updated SparseStructures to MC 1.21. Link is in the description of the video.

@@Kjotleik ok cool but how does this work ?

Thank you very much. I'll get some Minecraft done this weekend. Not sure how many days I'll spend editing. I'm out of practice, you know. I know the developers of this game in real-life. I was thinking on only making one video covering this game, but I'm going to play it a bit more. I am pleasantly surprised that I like it. Despite puzzle-games not being my strength, I've managed so far. How far can I go? I'll find out, I guess. You can also try it out for free. The link in the description does take you to a page where you can click to download it. There is a button that takes you directly to the download, you don't have to pay anything. But the option is there (to pay) for those who want to support the developers. They are just happy people play it, really. Have a good summer, Delmer.

@@Kjotleik I will try this game when I have the time. Thanks.

Thank you, Fellonius. I am ready to start a bit of YouTubing again now. I'll take it somewhat slow at first. Hopefully I'll get back into it quickly.

For some weird reason this comment was "held for review." I cannot understand why. Oh, well. I just approved it and responded. Thanks for the info. I did read the changelog for 1.1.2 when I downloaded it. Looking forward to the change when completing world no two.

This is a datapack, not a "mod" as you think of it. When I start updating it for 1.21 I will have to go through each file, line by line, to check for changes. It will take a long time to do that. For customization (keeping it for 1.20.1) not much is needed. If you want it for 1.20.1, I could help with making a special version with your wanted changes. Let me know. But if you want it for 1.21 it will take some time. The plan is that I will begin looking at this once I'm done with updating my Precision Fishing datapack to 1.21. Again, it takes time. More time than I anticipated. One of the reasons is that I'm not really a programmer. I'm just at the copy-and-paste level. But I am going to get it done in the end. I just have to spend the hours necessary. If you know anything about minecraft datapacks, feel free to look inside the files and see what needs to be done. A lot of people would be faster than me, I'm afraid.

@@Kjotleik im playing modrinth 1.19.4 and it still seems like im finding lots of villages and modded ones so i want to customize it to make it more rare to find one

I just checked my computer for older versions of this datapack. I don't have 1.19.4. I have one for 1.19, but when I try to create a 1.19.4 world it doesn't work. The game refuses to validate the datapack in that version. So I have 1.19 (but not the dot-updates for 1.19) and 1.20.1. I will start working on 1.21 soon-ish. I'm afraid I don't know what changed between 1.19 and 1.19.4, so I won't be updating it to 1.19.4. Too much work.

@@Kjotleik oh thats also probly why i couldnt find it in config files do you know any other mods/data pack like this one?

@@Emmett_Plays Minecraft is so popular, I'm sure something like this has been made as a mod by someone. I just haven't looked into it. You'll have to search Modrinth, I guess.

Hello. I am going to begin updating my datapacks for 1.21 this coming week. There are a lot of changes between versions from 1.17 and upwards. It is going to take me the rest of July trying to figure this thing out. I am a typical "Copy and Paste" kind of datapack-maker. Everything that changes takes a while for me to understand and fix. If you have tried this with a newer version of minecraft than it was intended for, it will most likely never work at all. If I manage to update my current version to 1.21 I'll make a new video about it sometime in August. Then it will be easy to change just one thing and make villages appear as often as normal. I can help you then, when this work is done.

I've updated SparseStructures to 1.21. Links in the description of the video. If you want vanilla villages (not spread out as in SparseStructures) you want to get the VV Edition (VV = Vanilla Villages).

Thanks for the report. Will take a look once 1.21 is out.

Link to 1.21 version is now in the description of the video.

Thank you, Delmer. I am missing making them as well. There has been some real-life issues here. However, it does look like it will be possible for me to start up again this summer. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for June/July. Before that time I am going to record a game made by someone I know in real-life (Pushle). I made a promise to do so.

Please tell me what minecraft version you tried it on. I'm sure something has changed between versions if it stops working.

@@Kjotleik 1.20.6

@@MathsOP Thanks. Yes, I believe there was some resource pack changes before 1.20.6. That is why it doesn't work any longer for the newest version. I'll have to look into it one of these weekends in the near future. No promises as to a date as I don't know myself when I'll be able to update it. Real-life steals some time...

Link to 1.21 version is now in the description of the video.

Good to hear. I'm still playing 1.20.1. Will probably check if my stuff works in 1.20.5 once that one is released. I think that will be the last before 1.21. I could be wrong about that, though.

I'm happy you find it useful. I felt the same way before I made it. Now all my green markers are gone. 8-)

Exciting!

Happy days! 8-)

While I thought about it, I decided against it. I'd rather start recording the August MHC this coming weekend (yes, I know... I'll miss day one on Friday). I think August will be fun.

@@Kjotleik Already started, "fun" is yet to be found....

Nobody, I presume. I haven't seen anyone but you, FelloniusWizard, FairyKairi and BSM (multi-player) doing this month. If there are more I haven't seen them. I'll just take the "survived the full month" victory and be happy. I got as far as I could given the time left after I found the feathers. 8-)

Hold on a minute... I'll just re-define the word "everything" and have it accepted as the new definition.

@@Kjotleik Yea, brush four times et voila! Everything!!

If I remember correctly it was Ulraf from Mojang. Logical it would be him since he is the one behind Archaeology in Minecraft in the first place. At least I think he is the one with most passion about it, if not behind the idea originally. Happy minecrafting!

@@Kjotleik That sounds right, yes. I just couldnt' remember his name.

The long road back home. I'm feathering with excitement. 8-)

LOL... I would've gone in search of a feather the whole nine days if I hadn't found them. Stubborn Norwegians, you know... 8-)

@@Kjotleik The Viking Blood carried you, your forefathers would have search for fourfeathers....

Do wolves kill chickens as well? I thought it was only foxes... hm...

@@Kjotleik I think so? But there could be foxes in the taiga too.

There are foxes in Taiga. That I know for sure.

Safe? In a boat on the ocean? Hm. All the things I don't know about this game... thanks. 8-)

@@Kjotleik You're safe from phantoms at or below sea level, which includes riding in a boat on the ocean.

And here I was thinking that Phantoms could swim... hm... but maybe they don't spawn if I'm in a boat? Have to test that one out one day.

@Kjotleik It's not their ability to swim, it's spawning rules. If you're at or below whatever y-level is sea level, they won't spawn.

Wonderful news! 8-)

8-0

Yea, all Microsoft games are mind reading stuff, so it should know what he wanted!

Indeed. The hunt goes on...

A fletcher should have, but they are really rare, especially in the desert, I guess.

Sometimes you get lucky, other times... oh, well. Three more days to come.

When did people watching my content start paying attention? You're too smart to be reading playlists... stop it immediately... He-he-he... 8-)

No communications between the logic part of my brain and my emotional... LOL. 8-)

@@Kjotleik My brain's in a Nine Day Cycle, so all extra fiddling about is strictly NOT in the brain (either).

Nothing like a healthy measure of Alive! 8-)

What a deep and wonderful world where black meets red...

Four is an important number. I guess. I think. I feel. I presume... 8-)

The month is not over... 8-)

Lots of shipwrecks in the oceans. Not so many with feathers, unfortunately. And if you don't define "nearby" too narrowly, I'm sure one of them nearby wrecks will have a feather... right?

Yes, shipwrecks or villages... or a fox in a taiga killing a chicken.

LOL. I thought about that after recording the episode. Oh, well. What can I say... I like axes... he-he.

Thank you. It is fun to do MHC again. It has been too long since I did my last. More fun to come.

Ha-ha... at least I have a shield. Which should increase the likelihood of me surviving a bit. Fixing it all in a day? Hm. That required efficiency. Now where did I put my efficiency?

@@Kjotleik Same shelf as Discipline and Order, I guess. 😀

More like two months... this is archaeology, not drag-racing.

@@Kjotleik But we only have nine days, that's more than the Time Team gets at least. Good luck anyway, love seeing you dig a hole in every episode! ;-)

I've recorded MHC videos this weekend. One each day until I've caught up with the dates. I'm behind. Pushle to be recorded during this coming week.

You are correct. We should have... should... 8-)

Steal? Did I say steal? I meant borrow. One feather, one copper ingot and one... um... stick(?)... I don't really remember exactly. In 1.20 we can use a brush to carefully dig suspicious gravel/sand. In your day one I saw you destroy a suspicious gravel block. Ooops. If you dig it, it will disappear giving nothing. If you brush it, it can give you loot. No, you are not stupid. You just don't have the knowledge of the brush-mechanic. Don't mistake lack of knowledge for stupidity. You can be the smartest person on the planet, but if you sit inside a room not reading or learning anything... well...

Well, I may have missed a few chests. There could still be a feather up there. But if you go there you will at least get all the food you will ever need this month. 8-)