Planetbase - Preview

Tutorial Play-through

To set up a colony

You start with a lander full of resources, seven colonists, and two robots.

To start, building an oxygen generator and an airlock would be advisable, as the tutorial shows.

Next, the tutorial has you build a water extractor and a solar panel, also advisable.

Next up are the canteen and the dorms. Personally, I'd make the canteen, biodome, then the dorms in that order, but oh well. It's a 

tutorial.

A picture of my construction bot building a bed in the dorm.

The tutorial eventually tells you to recycle your lander. This is a good idea since it makes it easier for your colonists to access the materials.

Next, the tutorial says to build a mine, biodome, and processing plant.

A lab is also good to build later on in the game. It allows you to convert medicinal plants into medical supplies.

The last thing the tutorial has you build is a landing pad. This allows trading ships and more colonists to land.

The Help Menu

Plantebase - First Impression

What is Planetbase?

Planetbase is a sci-fi "survival" game. In it, you take control of a group of colonists with the goal of making a self-sufficient base in varying environments with different dangers. 

You use the colonists and robots you start out with to build various pieces of the base. Whether it's an oxygen generator, solar panels or a canteen, each piece is useful.

In this beginner walkthrough, the YouTuber shows how to start playing the game and progress at a decent pace.

Car Builder Day 4

194 mph car, two seats.

Car Builder Day 3

100 mph minivan, six seats.

Slowest sedan 54 mph, four seats.

Car Builder Day 2

100 mph sedan, four seats.

Slowest minivan (54 mph), six seats.

Extra marks for making it a bus? No?

168 mph sedan. I couldn't get it to 177.

Car Builder Day 1

100 mph two seats.

Slowest car two seats, 53 mph.

157 mph minivan...couldn't get it faster.

Minecraft Farm Project

Command Block Security

After a while we ended up with other players entering our world. I devised a security system to prevent that. What it does, is it executes a /kill command every 20 seconds that affects all players who are not in a designated team. Since it kills them so quickly, you don't need to worry about them using commands; they can only use commands and chat while they're alive. So here are the commands I typed in chat, and the command I typed in the command block. Everything in caps are names that can be changed to suit your needs. Example: TEAMNAME, PLAYERNAME.

/scoreboard teams add TEAMNAME

/scoreboard teams join TEAMNAME PLAYERNAME

     you can add more people at a time by adding a comma and another PLAYERNAME. Example:          /scoreboard teams join TEAMNAME PLAYERNAME, PLAYERNAME2, PLAYERNAME3

/give @p minecraft:command_block

     This gives you, the person making the security, a command block. 

In the command block, you will type /kill @a[team=!TEAMNAME]

     This means "kill(/kill) everyone(@a) not(!) in the team(team=TEAMNAME)". The "!" is very important, otherwise it will kill everyone who IS in the team.

Lastly, to make it as compact as possible, you will need to configure the three buttons on the bottom of the command block UI so that it shows "repeat" and "always active".

"Repeat" makes the command execute 20 times per second or so. "always active" means it does not need a redstone signal to activate.

Follow these steps correctly and everyone else who enters your world will die.

Please note that I am not responsible for any mistakes, unintentional deaths, or screw-ups of any sort.

Have fun. :)

Friday Post April 8

Setting up a "superflat" world in Minecraft

First click "create new world"

Then go into "Advanced Options"

Next, click the world type until it changes to "Superflat"

Finally, click "Create World"

Building a spaceship "floating"

Simply build up a tower of blocks to the height you want your ship and break all the blocks except for the top one. Next, simply use that block as your starting point.

Taking screenshots in Minecraft

To take a screenshot, press F2. The difficult part is finding them.

To find the screenshots, first click "Options"

Next, click on "Resource Packs"

Third, click on "Open Resource Pack Folder"

Finally, click on ".minecraft" in the top bar, and open the folder named "resourcepacks"

Uploading to Picasa and adding captions

Uploading

On the Picasa website click "upload" and drag any images you want to upload into the window.

Captions

To add a caption, hover the mouse over the image until "add caption" appears underneath it. Then click "add caption" and add a caption.

T4 Bacteriophage

B-Wing Starfighter

Rotoscoping Completed Project

Friday Post April 1

What I Did

This week I continued making my Rotoscoping project. I finished the drawing and started colouring it.

What I Learned

I learned that f6 is an easy shortcut to add a new keyframe.

Rotoscoping Progress

So far I've gotten the house outlined and drawn. I just need to add colours.

Something