A lot has happened since I last told you about my adventures in Minecraft. God of War Ragnarök has monopolized my last weeks… And no wonder! Then came Evil West, which served as a nice transition until the release of the highly anticipated The Callisto Protocol.
Needless to say that The Callisto Protocol it hit an incredible shit and lasted less than 24 hours installed on my PS5. It will be time to play when they clean up the game.
“Trust the plan“… but very little
I have never played Dead Space and was hoping that the Callisto Protocol would be an introduction to Dead Space Remake. Plans went to hell, so I decided to play the original Dead Space… and I swear to Odin, I’m finding it to be a beautiful horror! I scare very easily, but my pride urges me to go into each zone and bust them all.
This week I was planning to do an experiential on Minecraft and Dead Space, but I finally decided that I needed to rest a bit from all the scaring. Not for nothing, but because I want to continue living. I went into Curseforge and I searched for the two most adorable mods I could find. And I found them!
Naturalist y Eden Ring, this is the name of the Minecraft mods that I have chosen for this experiential. “Again Elder Ring?”, you will say. The ones that are needed! Trust me, she’s going to rock you. It has been impossible for me to combine them, so I have decided to divide the article into two parts: adorable animals and incredible views.
Naturalist, little animals everywhere
I chose the mod Naturalist for a very simple reason: the only thing I do lately when I’m not working or playing is watching documentaries. So I decided to go on a Minecraft adventure as one of those animal-watching explorers. I even thought about making a documentary and bringing you the video, but it has been impossible for me for a while.
The mod is a complete savagery (never better said) because it includes a good number of real animals. The species are distributed throughout the biomes in a very coherent way and it is not too difficult to find them. They are everywhere.
The animals are divided into two large blocks: forests and drylands (savanna).
- forests: bears, birds (different types, including eagles or hawks), butterflies, caterpillars, deer, fireflies, snails, snakes…
- Sheet: lions, giraffes, elephants, hippos, rhinos, vultures, zebras, wild boars, eagles…
The variety is enormous. My idea for the documentary came when I was installing the mod because each animal has a unique behavior within the ecosystem that this mod creates.
The animals do not replace all the enemies that are in Minecraft, but rather integrate with them. One of the things I liked the most is that the vultures they are predators of the zombies, the giraffes they let you ride them for a while if you give them a golden apple, they rhinos systematically attack when approaching their young…
In the mod description you can find all the behaviors. My experience in this mod was basically gathering some gear and traveling the world observing the behaviors of each animal’s description. I encourage you to try them all… except what it says about the snails. Please don’t step on the snails.
An experiential style remains diary-documentary collecting notes with all the behaviors of each animal of the mod. I leave it there. Now I’m going to move on to the next mod. Get ready for the magic!
Eden Ring, a dimension apart
Elden Ring is a recurring theme in these experientials, as you will have been able to verify over the weeks. My heart longs for FromSoftware to announce an expansion during The Game Awards…although that’s unlikely. Keep in mind that I am writing this post BEFORE the gala.
My search on CurseForge led me to the mod Eden Ringwhich is inspired by Elden Ring and is presented as a new dimension of Minecraft. Other dimensions are the End and Nether. This means that it is accessed through a portal that you must build. What I found behind the magic door has no name.
The description of the mod does not deceive: up to 12 biomes, new types of wood, gravity control mechanics, sky and weather customization, cave system and life in the whole dimension.
Do what you want in this dimension, but the FIRST thing you should do is wait for the night and gaze at the big moon at the zenith of its beauty. You can see it from any biome or part of the dimension. It’s hypnotic. I observed it several times from various biomes. I show it to you from the Pulse Forest biomes (Pulse Forest) and Golden Forest (Golden Forest).
The colors are just amazing. Each area is totally unmistakable and has a very special beauty. The next biome I saw can be translated as Colony in the Sky (Sky Colony) and it is quite dangerous because it is suspended in the air… like Azula’s lighthouse. Each ball you see in the image is a location. Some are solid and others are hollow.
The colors began to go out of hand when I entered what I decided to translate as the Forest of Raining Ideas (Brainstorm). It took me quite a while to get it, but I finally got it: there is clouds, rain and thunder
And if you think things can’t get better, imagine my astonished face when I arrived at the Forest Old Mycotic o Mycotic. I don’t care what they call him, for me he is the Bosque Barbie. It is simply beautiful because it is an area where mushrooms reign. A fungi bosque! Combine bubblegum pink with off-white to give a mushroom effect. My all-time favourite.
Now I’m going to get serious: if you go to the Pulse Forest (Pulse Forest), do it at night. Don’t miss the incredible spectacle of cool colors and lights of this reed-style forest. They are thin and elongated trunks like reeds with luminescent blue lines running through them and small greenish tops from which small phosphorescent blue lianas fall.
At the foot of the reeds are bright pink plants that contrast incredibly well with the blue and green tones of the biome. The incredible thing about these zones is that they are suspended in the air and can be seen from the Brainstorm Forest, for example. From afar it is an incredible LED show.
The incredible thing about these zones is that each one grants you a wood of its characteristic color. By making things out of them they will retain their color, making it possible for you to build some really nice houses.
I will admit that I spent much longer on the Eden Ring mod than on Naturalist. I am fascinated by natural colors and luminescences of our world, so I turn into a moth when I see worlds as colorful and illuminated as the ones presented by this mod. Also, the fungi barbie forest made me fall in love with what is not in the writings.
In any case, I am prepared to continue my survival horror adventure aboard the USG Ishimura from Dead Space (2008). Maybe I’ll give The Callisto Protocol another try before Dead Space Remake. Who knows? Maybe next week you will have more news… or not.