In vanilla Minecraft, it’s never completely dark. Although the default brightness is set to “Moody,” the lowest available, in practice virtually everybody manually sets their brightness to 100%. I do it, myself. Not because I hate the darkness, but because

Today I bring you yet another small but fun feature in Primalcraft: throwing rocks. The overriding theme of Primalcraft is extreme survival in the stone age. So your earliest tools will always be the simplest of objects: sticks and rocks.

Continuing on my trend of adding fun but easy features, I’ve made it so in Primalcraft the player’s speed is based on the kind of block they’re traveling on or through. This is very similar to the hardcore movement feature

I recently finished Primalcraft’s knapping feature, and I felt the need to tackle something a little easier for a while. So last night I started trying to figure out how to make it so the player can move through leaf

I’m back with another update on my Minecraft mod, Primalcraft. It’s been a little over two weeks since I started working on knapping for Primalcraft, and I’ve got all the basics working. To do knapping, you need to find a hammerstone,

As described in my last post, I’m working on a knapping interface for Primalcraft. The basic idea will be similar to Terrafirmacraft, where you are shown a “rock” made up of a bunch of little squares, and you click a

Lately I’ve been working on flint knapping for Primalcraft. Our primal ancestors used flint and similar stones to create tools through a process called knapping. Flint was especially prized because of the special way in which it fractures to create

Last time I posted, my plan was to test out my entire mod, one feature at a time. I’ve checked in 18 different updates to my mod since then. Most of the changes are little bugs, like my new loose

I just spent a couple of days updating my mod to a newer version of Minecraft. It’s a pain in the tookus. When I started modding, back in the mists of time, Minecraft was still on 1.8.9. There were a