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| Standing on rock path looking at 500k boring as hell wall/hall. |
Survival versus cloning in creative. June 17th, I cloned 77,918 blocks. In one day. From 556,827 to 634,745.
And it wasn't even all day, it was a few hours just over 3 hours, yeah a complete waste of my real life time, but at a rate of 5.25 to 7.1 blocks a second or something like that, depending on how many other things distracted me in the world, or if I typed a number wrong. 314 to 435 blocks a minute-ish?
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| roof view of the boring as hell wall/hall |
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| inside view, yep not really interesting at all it goes on and on like this |
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| survival path 5,250 or something, distant hub is at 5k |
At 500,000 ~ 500,000 cloning the boring wall, I decided to dig for a while/use up survival inventory. The survival built path starts at region 2, with a cliff at 1,024 blocks. And then I added a stub at the goal 500k ~ 500k.
500000 - 497007=2,993
500000 - 6500=493,500
493,500 - 2,993=490,507 in other words, 507 blocks short of 10k
2,993+6500=9,493 total survival path built since, I don't remember when I started building it.
I don’t even know how many days I built those 9,493 blocks of path.
I don’t know how many past worlds of collected inventory located via tp hubs in years old chests were moved to build that path. Or how many of the blocks had to be crafted out of collected ingredients: i.e. cement is made out of pigment, made of collected flowers, bones, lapis ore, plus fuel in a furnace for clay to make clay bricks and cactus for green. Additionally the pigment is 1 of 9 parts, four parts sand, four parts gravel, to one pigment to produce 8 blocks of cement powder. Also, sand stone (both tan or red) is mined, or made out of four blocks of sand, and red clay bricks are crafted out of 4 furnace fired bricks.
Here’s the really insane part. All of the above = impossible. Survival build of a million block path, in 7 blocks of sea water, I do not have that much time left in my real human life-span. And yet, some part of my brain still says, … yes. And that is the point. To definitively know, -- you can’t do it.
It's sort of a useless example of AI versus human. No, it's not "artificial intelligence" it's x, y, z, math, kept in the game buffer, repeated with changed coordinates, over and over. You know, artificial stupidity. And in my case, again, that's not the point because it's digitally facilitated depression. Instead of mental health help, drugs and therapy I can't justify, as one of the long term unemployed. Never gainfully employed in a career that paid me enough for my share of our cost of living. It's not the world -- it's me. That's a lie just like this nowhere-land. But, it's also true. Just as this virtual "world" is what it is.
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| 2nd build base hub, book used to note locations to tp back to later |
The book is in inventory slot 1. Avatar is holding a map that displays build base 2.
The question is, am I going to attempt to join the conversation or do something in real life? Is this virtual suicide via sloth, yes. And video game addiction, yes, no doubt about that.
Thursday June 26th,
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| Boring as hell hall/wall meets useless hall wall at 500,000 ~ 1,000,000 |
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| same just inside the 'M' x 'M' block area looking at corner |
I added four beacons yesterday. I had them in a chest in my old build base for 9 years I think? And I thought, oh, that's perfect, add one to each corner, give them a color so it looks unique from the others and then build a survival hub under each one. Haven't built the hubs yet, just cloned the wall and leaving gaps of 7 blocks shallow sea. Haven't felt much like building anything, just digging and making piles. I know,.. what? Looks like I've been cloning these walls for years. But, as I explained above it only takes a few hours to clone 77,000 blocks. Even if I average just over 70,000 blocks a day, that's two weeks. And just now, today I cloned from 875k to 'M' ... 125,000 blocks seems typical for when I get close to the end, I just kinda want to finish and so I just do this, usually while BFF is playing TV shows after dinner. Damn, thinking about all that brain-dead time is rather sad.
Speaking of brain-dead time. I took some screenshots of my mud pit.
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| This is the largest hole I've dug in this world, so far. |
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| standing on the stoop of the survival hub looking into the same pit |
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| rows I've dug in survival past the pit, all dug one step block at a time |
And what have I done with over 211k blocks of mud? Well, it's inside of things with colorful blocks on the outside mostly. Or in the gap error holes created when an entire region didn't copy from one world to the next. Like the pile I'm building here. A gap centered at 0 ~ 1,500 crossed by the million block rail in the center of the 'M' x 'M' area like an I beam in a square.
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| Not even 1/3rd of the blocks mined, are used here, for example. |
It's kinda like a reverse pit mine. I'm adding the mud, filling in the caves after I mine the iron, coal, diamonds, gold, etc... and then plan to cover the outside with grass, but not really worried about completing anything. I just used so many pic axes digging that I ran out of diamonds. And then I had enough diamonds to build one of the beacon piles with them. I also leave diamonds, planks and food and other stuff in all my survival hubs. Something built to be a survival hub, just doesn't feel like a survival hub unless it's got a chest with some stuff to "survive" with in it, I guess? Who even knows at this point. Is there a point? .... nope. It's all just about not thinking. Not feeling sad or angry about life. Does it work? I don't know. Honestly, I need to get past this phase of my life. Accept all of our mortality, sooner or later, it happens to the best of us, and the worst, alike. Is death what makes us all equal in the eyes? or judgment? of what feels like, to so many of us in this time of more information that one fool can bear, as a distant and too silent creator?
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