User:JavaRogers

Hiya. I'm Rogers. Java Rogers. I'm a fan both of coding languages and of the English language :)

The "Back in my day" section
According to Mojang's records, I registered my username back in March 2011 (Beta 1.3).

I remember watching the entire How to Survive & Thrive tutorial by paulsoaresjr as each episode came out. I found his first episode, "How to survive your first night", because it was featured on Minecraft.net.

One of my most memorable worlds had the seed "glacier" (or "Glacier"?), in Beta 1.7. You spawned a short walk from a neat little valley with a bluff inside, and at the edge of the bluff was a giant suspended boulder where I built my base. (Think Ministry of Truth in Vivec City.) I really got into mods after I started that world, and that was back when you had to get mods off the Minecraft Forum, and they directly modified game code; you would delete  and overwrite the lettered classes in your. Anyway, I'd turned that bluff into a fortress, defended with TF2 sentries and flamethrowers. Some glitch eventually took out a chunk of the bluff down through to the void, so I just built bridges across the gap and pressed on. Eventually a biomes update totally changed up the world's biomes, and ocelots started getting into the woodworks. I didn't abandon it until the save files actually corrupted and I couldn't recover them.

Nowadays I really like building, especially medieval towns.

What I work on here
I haven't been active lately. A while back, I was focusing on bringing some better documentation & instructions to in-game commands. When I search online for details, there are Stack Exchange questions AND answers that cite our wiki here! People use this to learn about the game, and I feel like by analysing game commands and expanding these pages, I'm making an actual difference to the whole Minecraft community, and I love that <3

Minceraft geology
My hope is that volcanoes someday make it into the game. Mojang has said volcanoes are always up for consideration, but their rule is basically the player has to buy in to strife (e.g. triggering raids, braving the Nether, delving dungeons, battling dragons)—It should be by choice. So unless there's some way to trigger volcanic eruptions, we probably won't have lava flows.

I'd also like to see gabbro and rhyolite added, as well as pumice or scoria, just to complete the suite of igneous rocks:

A rock is volcanic when cools from lava that erupted from a volcano. Volcanic rocks include basalt, andesite and rhyolite, as well as tuff, obsidian and pumice/scoria. Any volcanic flow turns into when flash-cooled. Any volcanic eruption can create an ashy cloud that lithifies into after it settles.

A rock is plutonic when it undergoes a long, slow cool in an underground dike or magma chamber (a "pluton").

If you see volcanic rocks underground, they form at the surface, so it must have been buried by all the rock & sediment above it. If you see plutonic rocks at the surface, well they only form deep underground, so the surface of your Mincraft world must have been much higher there before.

Felsic melts (melt = lava or magma) are high in silica, which holds the melt together and makes it viscous, and sticky. Silica is like the gluten strands in raw sourdough. Felsic lava flows are slow and go POP! a lot as trapped gas escapes as large bubbles. Think lava in the Overworld. It only moves slowly, and only makes it 3 blocks from its source.

Mafic melts are low in silica, making them runny. They flow faster and thinner, and gas escapes from them more like bubbles from a soda. Think Nether lava. It runs almost like water, making it 7 blocks from its source.