Isi's Mindcrack Mod Adventures, Part 16
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mindcracklovePreviously on Isi's Mindcrack Mod Adventures:
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS, ONLY ANDERZ REMAINS.
It's time for a walk. Since we have a moment here, let me tell you about the superstitions I've begun to develop. I've mentioned before when Anderz died back in Guude Country, I spent a lot of time walking back and forth across the biome where I had found him. Quite often more than one of the same type will spawn near each other. The numbers always vary, but it happens. Maybe that grief driven expedition was a failure, but I have yet to reexplore the forest where I found the other Anderz. After all, when I found him, there were signs that I had been through there before and didn't notice him. There could be another still hiding, right? I just have to walk through it enough times, facing enough different directions, and eventually I will see him.
I haphazardly wander the forest for so long and find no one. Not even someone I've found before. It would appear I've picked the forest clean of life. But I do eventually emerge of the west side and find an old familiar sight.
It's the marker I made on the edge of the desert when I finally un-lost myself from the Cheaty Swamp. I thought I was further north than this.
In any case, it is time to go further north. I had found Anderz in the northern tip of this biome, and the first one was in a pine forest a bit further north than that. Come to think of it, they probably weren't that far apart, but the way I compartmentalize areas with maps can skew my mental picture of the land. In any case, north is the way to go, but not the path I usually take. I wanted to see new land. I needed new perspectives.
I head into a hilly area, and I can tell I haven't been here before by the people I find. There's an Arkas here, and there's more people on the neighboring crest.
BdoubleO and Nebris hang out next to an impressive crack in the earth.
That's some ravine. You'd think, after my experience inadvertently falling to my death into places like these that I would actively avoid sticking my head over huge crevasses, but I just can't help myself. It looks so cool.
Further still into my lonely journey I find more impressive holes in the ground. A spelunker's dream, but I'm sure there's no point looking down there for a missing Anderz. I must pass it up.
Still heading north, and still getting the strange floating entity effect. If I ever had any qualms about abusing this, I am thoroughly over it now. Distant floating mobs combined with copious use of the OptiFine zoom feature made short work of identifying that every last one of these guys is not Anderz. I shouldn't even still be on this journey, if it wasn't for that suffocation glitch...
Even though I identify early on who I'm seeing in the unloaded distance, I still find it comforting to head towards them, if only for the brief, fleeting company of saying hi and moving on.
Somewhere along my path north I feel the need to cut east a little. Like maybe I should slowly start looping back on myself. And I find another familiar sight in doing so. Could this be the same Guude Country I've come across before? It is, and now that I'm here, there's something I need to do.
But first, GOOD LORD AT THE CAVES I keep finding!
As I was saying, now that I'm back in Guude Country, I want to see the village again, just to visit Anderz, at the scene of the accident...
Here we are again, at the same sign I placed all that time ago... I admit it was my plan to come back up here in the first place, but that kind of got hijacked when I decided to take different route north, but I found my way back here in the end anyway. It seemed fitting to visit this place again while I'm out on my lonely journey, contemplating weird existential shit like my place in the universe and where I went wrong letting Anderz suffocate like that. I thought it would be cleansing, but I'm still no closer to finding a replacement Anderz. It becomes clear that I'm going to need to go even further and find fresh land before I find him again. But I have resolve. I'm going to find Anderz even if it kills me.
Next time: WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS, ONLY ANDERZ REMAINS.
It's time for a walk. Since we have a moment here, let me tell you about the superstitions I've begun to develop. I've mentioned before when Anderz died back in Guude Country, I spent a lot of time walking back and forth across the biome where I had found him. Quite often more than one of the same type will spawn near each other. The numbers always vary, but it happens. Maybe that grief driven expedition was a failure, but I have yet to reexplore the forest where I found the other Anderz. After all, when I found him, there were signs that I had been through there before and didn't notice him. There could be another still hiding, right? I just have to walk through it enough times, facing enough different directions, and eventually I will see him.
I haphazardly wander the forest for so long and find no one. Not even someone I've found before. It would appear I've picked the forest clean of life. But I do eventually emerge of the west side and find an old familiar sight.
It's the marker I made on the edge of the desert when I finally un-lost myself from the Cheaty Swamp. I thought I was further north than this.
In any case, it is time to go further north. I had found Anderz in the northern tip of this biome, and the first one was in a pine forest a bit further north than that. Come to think of it, they probably weren't that far apart, but the way I compartmentalize areas with maps can skew my mental picture of the land. In any case, north is the way to go, but not the path I usually take. I wanted to see new land. I needed new perspectives.
I head into a hilly area, and I can tell I haven't been here before by the people I find. There's an Arkas here, and there's more people on the neighboring crest.
BdoubleO and Nebris hang out next to an impressive crack in the earth.
That's some ravine. You'd think, after my experience inadvertently falling to my death into places like these that I would actively avoid sticking my head over huge crevasses, but I just can't help myself. It looks so cool.
Further still into my lonely journey I find more impressive holes in the ground. A spelunker's dream, but I'm sure there's no point looking down there for a missing Anderz. I must pass it up.
Still heading north, and still getting the strange floating entity effect. If I ever had any qualms about abusing this, I am thoroughly over it now. Distant floating mobs combined with copious use of the OptiFine zoom feature made short work of identifying that every last one of these guys is not Anderz. I shouldn't even still be on this journey, if it wasn't for that suffocation glitch...
Even though I identify early on who I'm seeing in the unloaded distance, I still find it comforting to head towards them, if only for the brief, fleeting company of saying hi and moving on.
Somewhere along my path north I feel the need to cut east a little. Like maybe I should slowly start looping back on myself. And I find another familiar sight in doing so. Could this be the same Guude Country I've come across before? It is, and now that I'm here, there's something I need to do.
But first, GOOD LORD AT THE CAVES I keep finding!
As I was saying, now that I'm back in Guude Country, I want to see the village again, just to visit Anderz, at the scene of the accident...
Here we are again, at the same sign I placed all that time ago... I admit it was my plan to come back up here in the first place, but that kind of got hijacked when I decided to take different route north, but I found my way back here in the end anyway. It seemed fitting to visit this place again while I'm out on my lonely journey, contemplating weird existential shit like my place in the universe and where I went wrong letting Anderz suffocate like that. I thought it would be cleansing, but I'm still no closer to finding a replacement Anderz. It becomes clear that I'm going to need to go even further and find fresh land before I find him again. But I have resolve. I'm going to find Anderz even if it kills me.
Next time: WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!
