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Angry wolves circling the fire In Primalcraft, I’ve changed wolf behavior so they’re aggressive toward players at night. But I also wanted to provide some protection against them, even in the early game when you don’t have shelter or armor. I thought it would be really cool if they were afraid of fire, so I implemented a modification of ske...

Yesterday I talked about some of my goals in creating my Primalcraft mod for Minecraft. As I mentioned then, I’m focusing mainly on creating a detailed and challenging Stone Age survival experience. To that end, I’ve currently finished several major features of the mod: Stone age tools. Your first tools are rocks and sticks. You have to find...

I started working on my Minecraft mod in March of 2016, so it’s been well over a year, almost a year and a half. That feels insane to me. I’ve probably spent hundreds of hours on it. I could have written a novel by now. After I started playing Minecraft, it didn’t take long for me to feel like everything was too easy. And there were some parts ...

Three and a half years. Yeah, it’s been that long since I posted anything on my blog. Shortly before my fifth child was born, it all became too much. I now have six kids, and my youngest is 2 years old. I’ve moved twice and changed jobs twice since then. So all that happened. For a long time, I simply felt overwhelmed, and didn’t have time for ...

It’s been a while since I posted. Suffice it to say that life has me awfully busy and stressed out. It’s hard to find the time and motivation to write. So here’s an easy blog post for you: another in the series of what music I’m listening to. In my last post, I focused on djent and avante garde, jazz-infused progressive metal with a heavy metal ...

Ing over at Blog Ing recently posted about a new band he discovered, and he linked over to my music category here on the blog. I haven’t been paying much love to that category lately, which isn’t to say that I haven’t been listening to music and discovering lots of cool bands. Quite the opposite. So it’s time to share some cool and interesting ...

Lately I’ve really been enjoying Pinterest. For years now I’ve wished there was a good repository of good fantasy art to use for inspiration in roleplaying games and for my writing. Deviantart has a lot of good stuff, but it’s hard to find just what you want. Elfwood has some good stuff, but it gets lost in piles of mediocre and just plain bad a...

What I’m about to tell you isn’t revolutionary. Others have preached the true word before. I’ve seen hints on Victoria Mixon’s blog, and I know John Brown did a presentation at a writing conference (don’t go to those links yet; I’m going to explain it better here!). But I have yet to see the truth about “show, don’t tell” collected into a single...