A year ago I made a video about mountain scales and I pronounced Mt. Kosciusko as the Australians do, and not in Polish. Imagine my surprise while visiting the royal castle in Warsaw and randomly seeing the literal heart of Tadeusz Kościuszko, whom it’s named after.
I visited the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland and I knew there was a lot of sculptures done in the salt but I wasn’t expecting a statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who did many things but also who the mineral Goethite is named after.
Smithed Summit 2026 is coming and I was interviewed with some of the other booth vendors. The event will be running from Aug 8th to the 22nd this year. Excited to see everyone there. They are still taking applications for events if anyone is interested. youtu.be/bpwh5BLSvWo?...
Summit 2026 | Meet the Vendors
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Cut up a piece of carbonate rock today that was mostly a mix of iron/magnesium/calcium carbonate but it also had some malachite in it. I like the mix of colors.
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
Shrek Color Space
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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
Movie Color Animations
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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
Entity Manipulation Benchmark
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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
Sulfur Caves, A Quick Look
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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...
Smithed@smithed.net · 4mo ago🚨 Booth applications for Smithed Summit 2026 are OPEN! Calling all designers, developers, and artists 📢 No fees. Limited spots. Don’t miss out. youtu.be/Ud33t4ZwmwI #SS26
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
Vintage Story Temperature Estimator
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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?...
Extra Gneiss: Geologic Review: Vintage Story, Part 2
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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
Geologic Review: Vintage Story, Part 2
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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
Minecraft Water is Strange
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Me when someone mentions rocks. youtu.be/oSaz2A47_a4 (I'm glad I can inspire... art?) Thanks @gamma027.bsky.social
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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?...
Geologic Review: Hytale, Early Access
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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
The Scale of Climate Change
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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
Minecraft Ripoff: Magnetic Block World
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