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content/posts/a-tour-of-my-screenshots-folder/index.md

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 categories = ["april-cools"]
 date = 2024-04-01
 summary = "The history of my Minecraft adventures as told by my screenshots folder"
-draft = true
 slug = "a-tour-of-my-screenshots-folder"
 tags = ["april-cools", "minecraft"]
 title = "A tour of my screenshots folder"
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 ## Preface
 
+> This is a post for the [April Cools Club](https://aprilcools.club) which encourages people to break away from the typical cringiness of April Fools and do things you don't normally do.
+
 To set the stage, every screenshot you will see going forward is gonna be Minecraft. I just love the game and I have had such fun with it for the past 5 years that it feels remiss to not share every so often (which I do these days at [@msfjarvis@mstdn.games](https://mstdn.games/@msfjarvis)). These are gonna be in order from oldest to newest, and I'll try to annotate each screenshot with dates, alt text and the relevant anecdote as I remember them but honestly a bunch of this is just goofy shit I happened to capture.
 
 ## Just a bridge, really
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 ## Getting real personal with a Warden
 
-{{<figure src="meeting-a-warden.webp" alt="" title="Date taken: March 12, 2023" loading="lazy">}}
+{{<figure src="meeting-a-warden.webp" alt="A very close over the shoulder shot of me mere inches from a Warden which is staring right into my soul" title="Date taken: March 12, 2023" loading="lazy">}}
 
 To break up the monotony of placing sand for the Guardian farm I paid a visit to a near by Ancient City and ended up a little too close to a Warden, which did eventually kill me.
 
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 I wanted Ancient Debris for a project and decided to just get a whole load of it at once, which resulted in this set of TNT-filled tunnels. Here's the damage all the TNT did:
 
 {{<figure src="nether-mining-post-boom.webp" alt="The same tunnels from above after all the TNT in them was lit. They are now wider, more jagged and a lot more lava-filled" title="Date taken: July 11, 2023" loading="lazy">}}
+
+## My first Sniffers
+
+{{<figure src="first-sniffers.webp" alt="A fenced off patch of moss with me standing in the middle and one Sniffer egg on each side" title="Date taken: July 12, 2023" loading="lazy">}}
+
+When the Sniffers were added to the game I just had to get them, and obviously then I created a farm for the seeds they "sniff" up.
+
+{{<figure src="sniffer-for-a-sniffer-farm.webp" alt="Elevated shot of a large Sniffer build, the back of it is built with colored glass and you can see some 10 Sniffers inside on a floor of mud blocks" title="Date taken: September 13, 2023" loading="lazy">}}
+
+## The End Ring Project
+
+{{<figure src="incomplete-end-island-ring.webp" alt="Top down shot of the main End island, showing a Prismarine ring going through all the end gateways which are illuminated by Prismarine Lights" title="Date taken: March 28, 2024" loading="lazy">}}
+
+I envisioned a continous ring of Prismarine walkways around all the End gateways to be a cool way to get to them rather than just pillaring up but I biffed the "circle" so many times that it's kinda stalled at the moment. 
+
+## All Trimmed Up
+
+{{<figure src="obtaining-every-armor-trim.webp" alt="A short hallway of Spruce planks showcasing every single Armor Trim as of Minecraft 1.20.4" title="Date taken: March 16, 2024" loading="lazy">}}
+
+I went on a quest to obtain every single armor trim and enough Netherite to create armor to put them on, which in total probably took 20-odd hours including all the Diamond and Ancient Debris mining as well as actually locating all the trims. My Minecraft closet has more variety than my IRL one which feels like cause for concern.
+
+## Bonus randomness
+
+### The Minecraft x FaZe collab
+
+For some reason Minecraft likes to spawn Nether Fossils that look way too much like the [FaZe Clan] logo and I apparently have a bunch of them screenshotted, so here they are:
+
+{{<figure src="fazeup-1.webp" alt="The FaZe Fossil in a soul sand valley" loading="lazy">}}
+{{<figure src="fazeup-2.webp" alt="Another FaZe Fossil in a soul sand valley" loading="lazy">}}
+{{<figure src="fazeup-3.webp" alt="Yet Another FaZe Fossil in a soul sand valley" loading="lazy">}}
+{{<figure src="fazeup-4.webp" alt="Would you believe it? Another FaZe logo in a soul sand valley" loading="lazy">}}
+{{<figure src="fazeup-5.webp" alt="To break up the monotony, this FaZe logo was in a 'Quartz Flats' custom biome from the Incendium datapack" loading="lazy">}}
+
+### The impossible portal
+
+{{<figure src="chunk-pruned-portal.webp" alt="A Nether portal with its left side of Obsidian blocks missing but the portal is still intact" title="Date taken: June 12, 2023" loading="lazy">}}
+
+I manually prune unused chunks before Minecraft updates in order to let them regenerate with the updated terrain and accidentally sliced off this portal as it happened to be on a chunk boundary. It's all the way back at my starter base so it does not see much use, but it's there.
+
+
+## The end...?
+
+I don't know why I picked this to do of all the things I could have for April Cools. However, reliving all the memories of fun times I had with my friends and even by myself were worth the pain it was to go through 800 odd screenshots and find moderately interesting things :)
+
+Hopefully I have something cooler for next year and that I actually give myself more than 4 hours to write it up.