I’m working on making some real life Minecraft blocks for a video and decided to use chalcopyrite as a raw gold. It’s always shown as iridescent but that’s just the patina. The fresh surface is similar to pyrite and other sulfides. Let’s see how long it takes to change color.

Fun fact! Angry villager particles work well as impacts for a small scaled version of the Late Heavy Bombardment.

I’ve never planted rainbow chard before and was very surprised to learn the roots are also colorful. So cool.

If you ever wanted to watch the colors of Shrek but not the actual movie and for some reason also in Minecraft... Here you go. youtu.be/ozVY725xbX4

I was curious what a video’s color would look like animated frame by frame in a color space. So I did that, but also in Minecraft. Movie Color Animations youtu.be/7mArP3bdar4

First two four leaf clovers of the season.

Found this massive mutant dandelion flower on a walk today.

Since I use a lot of display entities and animate blocks I need to know how many I can reliably do at a time and there are many ways to manipulate the entities once you have them. I build a little benchmark world and plan to add onto it over time. Entity Manipulation Benchmark youtu.be/Rc83yr5eeDM

With the first sulfur cave snapshot out, I did a quick video looking talking about real sulfur caves and how you find those minerals in real life. Sulfur Caves, A Quick Look youtu.be/Col0ApUB68E

Ha! I was right, the lichen spam in the revel seems to have been just a video presentation thing. You can get away with much brighter colors in the dark and still keep a distinction between blocks. The Java Snapshot today doesn't look like ketchup and mustard explosion.

Smithed Summit 2024 was an amazing event all held within vanilla Minecraft and I met so many great people. I am planning to have another booth at 2026, for which applications just opened! Check out the short trailer if you are interested too. bsky.app/profile/smit...

I made a simple tool to figure out planting times for vintage story crops. Link to tool is in the direction video description. youtu.be/Bmj_BEn0Hy4

I did a little extra video on part two of vintage story over on the second channel. Just covering some things that I cut from the main one. youtu.be/OQulgEjxJGs?...

I used some native sulfur that I collected in the Vintage Story video but since I’m going to be talking about it in a bit more depth when the Minecraft sulfur cave snapshot comes out, I decided to buy a flashier piece.

I wonder how much Mojang increased the lighting in the sulfur cave revel. You can tell they were doing some things with brightness past just the “bright” gamma setting in game. Maybe adding more glow lichen than normal just for watchability. The bright colors will look better in the dark

After a few hundred hours in game and many more in writing/recording/editing, my geologic review of vintage story is complete. Now I can actually play the game. -_- youtu.be/2D8y68Zf7Uo

All thats left to do is record all the rocks and minerals for part two of the vintage story geologic review.

Little daughter got a mystery bag at a rock/mineral/fossil show yesterday. The note that came with it feels targeted.

I have never seen something this color blue in nature before. I think they are shriveled up blue cup fungus. Also found some pixie cups and a beautiful hepatica leaf.

I was doing a little research for a river episode and needed to learn how water actually works in Minecraft, it was interesting and strange and decided to make a short episode on it. It made me understand a lot of the oddities that bothered me for years. youtu.be/em2Y4Rm2yiM

Me when someone mentions rocks. youtu.be/oSaz2A47_a4 (I'm glad I can inspire... art?) Thanks @gamma027.bsky.social

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

I decided to do a quick look at the current state of Hytale geology and world gen. Definitely some interesting things they are doing and it will be cool to see how it changes. youtu.be/qnnEknpbAB0?...

I wanted to give some perspectives on climate change and the relative values for CO2 and Carbon in general. So I scaled them all in Minecraft. The Scale of Climate Change youtu.be/Rmk6vAQN2p4

I came across this cheap knockoff in a bargain bin and I was compelled to see what could possibly be inside. youtu.be/5AAGRITP-RQ

youtu.be/d3H2pJW-S_4 I had a few things I cut and comments that were worth talking about in the vintage story review so I recorded a little extra gneiss over on the second channel.

We used a lot of physical maps before the internet and instead of tossing them all, I haven’t used wrapping paper for over a decade.

Once again I was a test dummy for kanokarob's new biome stronghold. This time I was also joined by Ryanthescion and Daskalos. This one was probably the most difficult one that I have done. youtu.be/30X9R9V26_4?...

Smithed is releasing a Community Direct tomorrow at noon (CST) on their YouTube channel. This will focus on upcoming datapacks and resource packs. I helped out with the event and maybe have a cameo. There is also a watch party on their Discord. www.youtube.com/@SmithedMC

Vintage Story has been the most requested game for me to talk about. After a few hundred hours of playing and exploring how the game handles geology, I can finally release part 1 of my geologic review. youtu.be/b4e7mTRB7qg

We're extremely happy to announce that we are working with the YouTuber @gneiss.name on a Geological Timeline project! Here's a little sneak peek at some of the things we've made! All assets we contribute will eventually be in PF! #Minecraft #minecraftmodding #paleoart

📢 EVEN MORE CAST ANNOUNCEMENTS!📢 CAVES Minecraft SMP is happening SOON!! ⭐JawUnleashed youtube.com/jawunleashed @jawunleashed.bsky.social ⭐Gneiss Name youtube.com/@gneissname @gneiss.name ⭐TalkWithBh youtube.com/@TalkWithBh @talkwithbh.bsky.social More incoming! 🎉

There were a few things in the maps video that I didn't cover so I recording a more casual followup talking about everything on the second channel. People always ask about how I do displays, so the second half of the video is a walk though the ones I used in the original video. youtu.be/HhBzkuB98cc

Several years ago while working in Madagascar I came across these small floating plants. I sketched them and the Malagasy name was Ramilamina. When I got back home I learned the English name is Azolla and are actually ferns. They fix nitrogen, can double in mass in two days, and caused an ice age.

Working on the geologic timeline project and adding these Osmunda. A fern genus that evolved in the early Cretaceous and are still around today. Model was created by the Prehistoric Fauna mod team.

Minecraft maps and map art has always been interesting to me and I wanted to learn more about them. I was expecting them to be this odd. youtu.be/4dEx8D1mjso

Picture somewhat related to video coming out soon. I can’t wait so I can play and not feel guilty for not editing.

I visited the Burpee Museum of Natural History and found a piece of me.

I decided to do a quick tutorial for how I imported real elevation data into Minecraft. youtu.be/ix4ecaixlmE

I was curious what some real life mountains would look like in Minecraft so I imported actual elevation data with world painter into some custom dimensions. youtu.be/PCZyPyAwQ5E

Very conveniently, Grand Teton's prominence fits perfectly into the max custom dimension build limit at 1:1 scale. I'm working on a video that was going to be quick but it seems I may be incapable of that. Its coming along and will be out soonish though.

I worked in Australian Neoproterozoic (1000-541 Mya) rocks for the month of July. But never really got into the Ediacaran formation, famous for early life. We did hike into rocks of that age one day and found two pieces of float with worm traces on ripple beds. Uncle Toby’s for scale.

These bell flowers are one of my new favorites. Such a nice purple color and the unopened buds have this great pentagonal shape. (Also I’m back from Australia and working on new episodes)

The last of the Gneiss Boxes sold quickly after the diamond and coal episode came out and I shipped the last of them out today! Thank you so much for everyone that bought one and I hope you enjoyed the loot. I rounded up the $2677 in profit to $3k and made the donation The Nature Conservancy today.

Completed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and wow that was a moving story. Wonderfully done and an enjoyable game all the way through. Such an interesting world and combination of traditional RPG, action and character mechanics.

I finally finished up the next ore video. This one covers both coal and diamonds and I'm really excited for how the geologic timeline is coming along. I set up the video as a premiere for a few hours from now. youtu.be/JivStfUWOwo

You always think of orchids being tropical plants and then you come across some pink lady slipper orchids on the side of a trail in the middle of Wisconsin. (Cypripedium acaule)

Did some bog hiking in the middle of Wisconsin. Was really pleased to see some pitcher plants in bloom and some little sundews along the path. #bogwalker

Went on a quick road trip to get some footage for an upcoming episode and stopped at Ableman’s Gorge near Baraboo WI. I was always impressed by these 1.7 billion year old ripples preserved in quartzite that are now a vertical wall. They were one of my early exposures to geology and deep time.

Another creator that uses Minecraft to talk about his profession is Daskalos, an archeologist. He unearthed trail ruins as if it was real life and converted it into a museum. I was on his server to chat and explore. It was great to see them through the eyes of a professional youtu.be/L6XNPa6-7vA?...