WEEKLY NEWSLETTER (NOV 17): Back 2 cool Redstone & Random links

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ABOUT OLIVER’S BLIND PLAYTHROUGH

Here’s a little bit about About Olivers no-wiki playthrough of Minecraft! Well, I just spoiled everything. Oliver has been serializing his playthrough of the game across ~100 episodes and 2 seasons. But there’s a catch – he started with no external guidance, just pure raw grit (and ingame tooltips)! S2 ended recently.

Check out the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL68V5Cxs_CvRNiVSsYW6797R4CRYIMEv3

NEAT TOOL FOR VANILLA MODELLING

This tool is CLEAN! And packs a punch. https://bdengine.app promises to give you the ability to create & animate Display Models online, then paste the generated /summon command into Vanilla Minecraft. Its interface comes with built-in sound effects and calming background music! HeadCreator, Animation, Sound, a web-based Blender-like interface and more. View example models! https://block-display.com/

Created by https://illystray.com, a famed and skilled texture artist and modeller!

REDSTONE MUSIC AND INVENTIONS

• Meat Mallet shares their musical instruments and related contraptions on their YouTube channel
• JazziiRed shared their collaborative redstone instrument with a completely reimagined sound O.O
• We can’t forget the Transcendent Creator, oCd/Disco_ who left us many minigames 10+ years ago

BUILD HIGHLIGHT: MORTAL ENGINES!

This one speaks for itself. New York on wheels built by creator KAIZEN87 (as seen in Time magazine!) ft. DISABLEOS X MR_PAHNA and available for free download to celebrate a milestone. Minecraft needs more Mortal Engines builds! I attempted my own for the first time a while back, which I’m a bit torn on.

OLD BUT GOLD: DREAMING OF SPIRALS