Dub 'n' Draw: Fairy Boy

Tonight's Dub n Draw brought to you by DJ Fortify.

Just a random fairy boy that I decided to not finish drawing. I stopped short of his one arm and hands. Doodled in openCanvas 1.1.  Art © me.

Testificate Termination Terminal

I've been playing MineCraft for quite some time now. Oh, the adventures. One of the more recent additions to the game has been NPCs (non-player characters, for those who don't get gaming lingo) and the villages they live in. Of all the names that the creator of the game could call these villagers, he named them "Testificates". The intelligence of these beings isn't the greatest and even more recently an update allows them to multiply if the conditions are ideal.

A village is a good source of a quick wheat field and shelter. I understand the nature of the testificates in their pursuit of self preservation when night falls. They go into any building with a wooden door to keep themselves from being eaten by zombies (though I believe the zombies would quickly starve on what little to no brains testificates possess). I outsmarted that problem with an iron door and a button. At any rate, the particular village I had made base at began to become overrun with multiplying multitudes of the idiots. No peaceful building could be accomplished with these morons constantly in the way. On top of that, they also can create iron golems that will attack anything that so much has breathes on the testificates the wrong way. This poses a problem when you accidentally injure a nosy villager only to get pummeled by their iron giants.

I devised a devious solution. I removed all the doors from all of the buildings and constructed a little building for them. I like to call it...

The Testificate Termination Terminal

Here's how it works. When night comes and the villages run for the cover of their cozy home, there is only one door in the entire village that they can enter. It opens to a small 1 x 2 block chamber with a pressure pad on the back block.

 

  

 The redstone wiring comes from under the block the pressure pad is sitting on and steps up around the side of the building....

 

... where it stays level for 3 blocks before stepping up one to link with a redstone torch. This provides the switch necessary to tell the piston when to retract.

 

 The redstone torch has another block above it with more redstone wiring wrapping around another 4 blocks to power the piston inside the building.

 

 Here is the piston extended with some water above it. I found that lava spreads differently and takes time to despawn, keeping other villagers from using the booth as their AI keeps them from just jumping in.

 

Now I haven't done testing with the water to see if I can simply drown the poor fools, but watching a herd of them cram into the death box when it was the only door in all of town was quite humorous. I sat back with melon in hand, munching away as they filed in for their lava shower.

My village is very quiet now. Ahhhh.

My Little Ponies

My fiance decided that the writers of 'My Little Ponies: Friendship Is Magic' are brilliant. For the first 2 episodes of season 2, they cast the voice of a Star Trek villian, gave a Star Wars ending, and the name of the villian is the antonym of the ship's name in Firefly. I think the Serenity reference was a stretch but any brony will tell you the other two tidbits will hold up to even the harshest critic of the show. Pure brilliance.

Coloring kind of day

I got a couple coloring books and a brand new box of crayons. I was sitting down to have my boys color with me. Everything was going well until they started eating the crayons. I yelled at them because they should know better at 5 and 10 years old. They ran off with their tails between their legs and hid under the bed. Stupid dogs.

Dub 'n' Draw: Creeper

This is what happens when I listen to dub and after a little MineCraft.
~ art © me  creeper © Mojang

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