Isi's Mindcrack Mod Adventures, Part 7

[isi]

Previously on Isi's Mindcrack Mod Adventures:



The Jims #2 and BdoubleO #2 are in holding, and once again we're starting with some more exploring.


It can be a little maddening when a map ends before you want it to, when the edge stops just before leading into biomes that you want to explore. I'll just press on west beyond the border and when I'm done, head back east until I'm on the map again. But then there's that pesky jungle. When I tried to retrace my steps, everywhere I turned, there was jungle in the way I needed to go. Okay, so now I'm just wandering blind until I can stumble back onto the map. I turn a corner...



...Nope, definitely haven't been here before. Baj and a second Zisteau, both people I need.



...And Doc, looking thoughtfully over the jungle.



This is great! Sure, I'm still a bit lost, but I found three people, all of whom I need, all in the same area, so I'll count this as a success.



I take detours around the jungle, going east wherever I can, and since I'm holding wheat, I don't realize that I've been back on the map for a while now. When I do realize it, I just keep going until we get to the Cheaty Swamp to drop them off. I need to go back to BdoubleO Country and pick up the others.



All together now!



EVERYONE IN THE MOSH PIT! NOW MOSH!



Filling out that first map was such a success in terms of finding people that I'm eager to make a new one. I center this one over my spawn point, go get a better picture of what's going on in the area around my mosh pit, even though there's going to be some overlap from what I've already seen on the first map.





Skirting around a jungle, I find some Beefs among the trees, including one weirdly trapped in the leaves. I've already filled my quota for Beef, so I leave them be to turn the place into an epic jungle village.



I've already filled in most of my map and have seen no one new, only repeats. Really quite disappointing considering how fruitful the first one was. Here I am already beyond the south edge surveying a Kurt who's looking rather adventurous next to this cave. There's a lot of plains beyond the map's edge, but I don't probe too far with my luck the way it has been.



Well, this map hasn't been too helpful, so I'm taking a boat and following the coastline off the north east corner for a while until I find someplace completely new to explore. For context, somewhere just below the cross hairs next to the jungle is where the mosh pit is. The taiga biome to the right of that is where I found the Shrees, the JSanos, and BdoubleO #1. I had found some other people in the forest to the north. Somewhere along the river between the forest and the desert is the hole where I almost lost Beef #1. The red dash west of the village is the huge lava flow from earlier. A lot of this area had been explored before I made the map (also why I'm not going through the rest of that jungle again), so I suppose it's not so surprising I couldn't find anyone new. But that's why I'm taking off.

Progress Report!
Found:
Adlington x2
Arkas x1
Baj x1
BdoubleO x2
Beef x2
DocM x1
Etho x2
Guude x2
JSano x2
Just Defy x2
Kurt x2
MC x1
Mhykol x2
Nebris x2
Pakratt x2
Shree x2
The Jims x2
Zisteau x2
SBK x2

Needed:
Anderz x2
Arkas x1
Baj x1
DocM x1
MC x1
Millbee x2
Pause x2
Pyrao x2


Next time: Now for something completely different.

Comments

[placeblocks]

Wow, how many are you up to by now? I feel like we need a check list of "Found" "Found x2" and "still need" or something. Finding three in such close proximity might be a record, haha.

[isi]

Oh, that's a good idea, having a progress report at the end. I have to go somewhere soon, but I'll definitely write one up when I get back.

[isi]

Okay, I've added a Progress Report section to this entry. It'll be before the "Next Time" preview, but still within the cut. What do you guys think of the format? Now that I look at it, I think it might look better as a table, but I've never coded a table before...

[placeblocks]

Looks good to me. You could put it in a table, but I don't think that's necessary. It's pretty easy to read as-is.