Minecraft Soundtrack

*Bzzzz* goes the buzzsaw of time, slicing possible into actual and a whole lot of not.

The Minecraft Soundtrack Project has morphed! I'm now collecting tracks into a 10-track album. This is a project with limited time and resources (my own), so it will take a while. I've got 3 songs so far. Want to listen?


You can download the tracks right now for free to do whatever you want with. They are experimentations of mine and I do not hold them out as art that anyone should pay for. Have fun listening!

But, how do you put music into the game?

It's a bunch of jibber-jabber, I promise, and only half-worth it for this file.   Instead, you can play the file using winamp, WMP, or whatever you use for playing music.  If you still want to drop it into Minecraft, here's the short tutorial:

1.  Find your minecraft directory (see the start of this thread)
2.  In the "resources" directory you will find all the sounds from minecraft.
3.  Convert them to "ogg vorbis" format and replace them with the sounds you like.

Bored Yet?

How about a giant Minecraft avatar to smack against your retinas!

DERP!

Still with me?  Cool.

A small update on my own little Minecraft projects:  I've made some headway with the sculpture.  I've uncovered enough to carve the head, and realize I need more room.  I don't want my dude to end up looking like this dude:

"W T F"

Here's what I've got so far, from a couple angles:

Looking down from the entrance toward the statue

Looking from the statue toward the entrance.

I've got a long way to go, but my method is to spend around the same time the soundtrack takes to play (45 minutes) each day.  It's gone well so far, as I have over 34,000 bricks of various types stashed in storage, from this dig alone.

On a related note, PC Gamer released this playful jest of a cover recently.  The Minecraft mob lit their torches and demanded it become reality.  Soon?  Perhaps.

Thanks for reading!

Boom, Minecraft castles everywhere.

 The glittery holiday dust has settled, and the sidewalks are lined with Christmas Tree corpses.  I don't know how your festivities went, but I grew a beard, ate too much, and forgot about my blog.

A few announcements to kick off the new year:

1. No more complete short stories or poems will be posted on this blog.  This is really no biggie though, as the people who actually read the stories have my personal email and I will happily email you my stories if you ask.  If you don't have my email, just check my profile.  The reason for this is that most higher end publishers don't accept work even if it has only been self published on a personal blog.  To them that means "already published".  Most lower-tier publications couldn't care less, and that's my market right now, so I'm just planning ahead.

2. This blog will now be viewer-defined.  Whatever gets the most traffic will get emulated.  Repeatedly.  The most popular post by far is the one about Minecraft (it trumps all other posts combined).  Therefore, this post is an update to that one!  With pictures!  The picture at the top is taken from my finished Scottish L-Shaped Castle's balcony.  I built it in about a day total, including time to build my necessarily extensive network of mines.  Here's what she looks like from the back:

mine entrance is in the background below the white crosshair

And from the front:

Check my Causeway!

At Night:

Looking out from a top floor room with a skylight, window, and balcony:

What's next? Well, I have a concept world I created for a new story series.  I'm going to construct the main city in Minecraft.  I won't name the city or the world, but I will show progress and pictures in future updates.  Thanks for reading this update, and here's a monumental minecraft city to get you thinking about the possibilities: