Minecrafting LvL 9000

To date, my most ambitious endeavor in Minecraft has to be, the House. Simply put, it's tedious and detailed and gigantic in proportions. This house is around 150 blocks tall, probably 10 times that in area.

It's a two story house. I'm sure you're thinking, a house? on minecraft? pfft, big deal.

Well, get ready to have your genitals blown clean off from excitement!

This is no mere Minecraft house. This is THE Minecraft house.

Observe:

This is the front of the house. Please bear in mind that this is all still under construction but we are nearing the last stretch of work. Also the interior is quite dark in these pictures. In the game your gamma has to be at 100% to be able to see clearly and the pictures were taken at 50% gamma (default) and then brightened considerably.

The living room is the first room on the right when you come in the door. 

Here's another view of the living room. That's SpongeBob on the Big Screen TV.

This is the brightest room in the house because of its nearly all glass ceiling. It's got a comfy bay window seat and an aquarium. 

The dining room and the kitchen are directly below the major part of the 2nd floor and are therefore, the darkest rooms in the house. Please forgive the crudeness of the pictures.

Most of the appliances, carpet, and wall decorations are retro inspired. I just love the rounded edges and bright colors. Quite a challenge to replicate with blocks, I should add.

First up, on the second floor is the spare bedroom. I went for cool bright colors and ended up with what some may think is a child's bedroom. Lol, maybe I did it subconsciously.

Here's the bathroom. It's got a toilet, giant fat bottom tub, and walk in shower. Every sink in the house works properly with some red stone technology. ;) The dark thing on the bottom right hand in the sectioned off toilet area.

This is the master bedroom. The furniture is french inspired, a vanity, and a chaise lounge chair. I went with darker colors and simpler patterns for what I think is a sexy grown up room. :) It also has a walk in closet, not pictured, and plenty of skylight.

Among the things not pictured are the car port, game room, backyard, river, and soon to be built fire pit and BBQ areas. 

I have lined up a video session with a good friend and video editor who will be posting this to youtube once it is complete in the coming weeks. Until then, my world is always open when I'm online and building. I will be accepting temporary friend requests to anyone who wants to see my world but you have to tell me that is why you want me to accept your request, otherwise it will be denied. I usually delete the temporary requests after 24 hours. 

That is all for now fellow Minecraft addicts.

Thanks for reading.
Love,
LaLadyPanda

Minecraft Pixel Art!

As you may or may not know, I'm a Minecraft fiend!

I play on Xbox 360 and ever since it came out, it's pretty much the only game I play. I have built a theme park, a city, and countless houses.

If you're online and you want to play, my gamertag is La Lady Panda.

Now that we have pistons, I've been building even more and I'm hoping to get it recorded so that I can do tutorials and add them to my youtube page.

In the meantime I wanted to share some of my previous creations with you. Here are some art pieces I've made.

PIXEL ART:

Here's Boo from Super Mario. His mouth is the entrance to the Nether which has a Boo Roller Coaster!

The carpet in our Toy Store (in the mall of my city) is ELMO! :)

Here's a Fire Flower I made and Skull and Crossbones my friend Hunter made for the theme park. Under the Fire Flower is the Tunnel of Love :)

Here's Gir from Invader Zim sitting just in front of water slide, also in the Pandaland theme park.

Super Mario at the entrance of the Boo Coaster in the Nether.

My Little Pony at the end of the Rockin' Coaster in Pandaland.(Don't know why it's blurry, sorry :[ )

NOT PIXEL ART:

Here's a 3D Cookie Monster.

And a Creeper water fountain for Creeper Hotel and Resort.

That's all for now friends. I'll be posting more pics of my creations. Let me know via a comment if you want help with something you're building or you want ideas for what to create. I am a pretty vast wealth of knowledge and creativity.

Thanks for reading.
Love,
Mery Ann

All You Minecrafters!

Sooo I was checking out OXM magazine on twitter a couple of weeks ago when I ran across a build competition for Minecrafters on Xbox worth 800 microsoft points to the top 5 winners and I said to myself...HECK YES!!

I quickly jumped on and added OXM to a couple of my favoritest builds and took screenshots to then tweet to OXM magazine's UK twitter.

Keep in mind that ALL of my creations have sub-creators and master builders who work along side me to create these awesome builds. In a later post I will be detailing my collaborators so if you're one of them and you're reading this...would you like just your gamer tag mentioned, your real name, or both and let me know if you have a site or page that you want to shout out?

Here were my submissions:

 This one is a bird's eye view of a city currently still under construction. The city so far boasts a bank, hospital, police station, fire department, restaurants, clubs, kwi-e-mart, gas station, church, botanical garden, office buildings, pre-school. elementary school, high school, McDonalds, Krusty Krab, Taco truck, Ice cream truck, suburbs, community pool, hot air balloon, and a full mall with a food court, movie theater and nearly a dozen stores!

And this one is a theme park that is already finished. It has two roller coasters, two water slides, two mazes, a food court, cookie kiosk, cake kiosk, tons of pixel art, bow and arrow mini games, a tunnel of love, bumper boats, and even a music fun house.

The city submission got me into the TOP 5 and the theme park got honorable mention! I'm saving most of my points for the next DLC content which should be dropping in the next few weeks. 

If you would like to see the article about the competition and the other winners and honorably mentioned click here:

http://www.oxm.co.uk/43124/features/minecraft-xbox-360-the-five-greatest-oxm-community-creations/

I'm hoping to create a section in this blog to walk you through my creations picture by picture for those of you interested. If you have any Minecraft 360 creations you would like to show off, leave a comment with your gamer tag or send me a message on Xbox, my gamer tag is La Lady Panda.

Thanks for Reading!
Love,
Mery Ann