History of “The Block Brothers”- All Good Things Must Come to an End (365/365)

Hello world. Sorry again for the delayed post, but there just wasn’t anytime to write it yesterday. Let’s jump right back into it though.

Today we have another Back in Time post for you. This post will be about the final quarter of the year (the past 3 months). We will start out with October, which was our greatest month of all time.

Note: Tyler and I are writing these posts together. However, in this post and future posts, there are times when we will be talking about our individual opinions/experiences. To attempt to avoid confusion, we are using different color font at these moments.

Jonah- Red
Tyler- Blue

OCTOBER-

Again, there were no major developments during this month at college, but as I said, October was our greatest month of all time.

First of all, we started our new posting schedule, which was one of the best things we ever did. There were some advantages to making random posts all the time, such as not being restricted to making a post on a certain day. But it also brought some order to the blog and forced us to make more diverse posts, instead of just having Featured Pictures all the time.

Secondly, we finally purchased our own server. This was a lot better than running servers on our own computers since they generally couldn’t handle it.

Now let me just say this now, because it must be said eventually. We were planning on releasing the server to the public, but it is a lot of work. It’s a lot of work to set up, find plugins, maintain the server, keep people in line, etc. It takes a lot of time that we don’t have. So we will not be releasing the server at this time. We apologize for this. It may happen one day, but not now.

Thirdly, we had another great post in October. On October 26th, we had our 300th post. We decided to try something a bit different, and tell a fictional story about how our characters (SunBurntIcarus and Batman) met in Minecraft. It turned out to be a truly great post and it easily one of our all-time favorites.

Finally, our views were through the roof. We averaged an amazing 603 views per day. In addition, we got a record of 1,174 views on October 26th. Tyler’s ever popular Featured Pictures: Cool Minecraft Creations post got 427 views, while our co-op post “Minecraft 1.4.2…The Pretty Scary Update” got 374 views.

We had hoped to one day get 1,000 views, and it happened. It was absolutely glorious. It hasn’t happened since, but maybe another day.

That’s about all there is to say for October. Let’s see what happened in November.

NOVEMBER-

November originally seemed to be October- Part 2. Our views were consistent with October, until about half way into November.

Half way into the month, views started to fall…fast. We found this to be rather strange, and perhaps we were a tad bit disappointed. However, we were still getting views that we would have been ecstatic about back in July or August. Plus, for the last couple months, the Cool Minecraft Creations post had been taking most of the views, which also completely baffled us.

Anyway, we ended up averaging 445 views per day in November, which is amazing, but the last half of the month was spent in the 100s.

There was no major post news, except for the fact that we started a new series. In November we started a Creative build series.

They only other thing is that in November we were starting to grow tired of school and the blog, and we were anxiously looking forward to December when school would end and so would the 365.

Once, when I was feeling overwhelmed by the blog and wanted to quit, Riley told me that we were doing something that a lot of other people aren’t able to do. That inspired me to keep on going. Besides, we were so close to finishing that it would be stupid to quit.

So let’s talk about December, shall we?

DECEMBER-

And here we are. We’ve looked at every month this year in an in-depth review session, and now we’ve made it to December…to today.

December has been…interesting.

The first week of December was rather dull, but once we made it to Week 2, things got more interesting. Our LOST series had finally ended after 11 months. “Finals week” was pulverizing both of us. And we finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel.

Mustering up whatever strength we had left, we wrote posts, knowing that it would be over soon.

We didn’t really have any different posts this month though (besides these ones). We did start a new Desert Survival series, but nothing else.

Our average in December currently stands at 165, which is slightly higher than we had in the last half of November.

Despite the fact that views are lower than they were a few months ago, they are still fairly high.

That’s about all there is for December.

We said that we would also have our Favorites post today, but we are going to delay that until tomorrow.

Tomorrow, we will have our grand finale.

Thanks for reading and Happy Mining!

Why Survive When You Can Build?- Part 4 (357/365)

Hello world! Here is another episode of our Creative build series. I forget what day it was, but sometime this week Tyler and I worked a bit on the server and made 3 new items. Let’s see what they are.

First, Tyler recreated his skin.

Which, as you saw earlier this week, he had some difficulty with.

Ironically enough, however, yesterday on the server I was clearly glitching out and I saw Tyler with his head on backwards. Weird.

Anyway, he inspired me to recreate my skin and so I did.

And don’t ask me why, but I decided to build an ice cream cone. I was bored and I wanted to try it out. It wasn’t as cool as I imagined it, but it’s okay I guess.

Here is our world now. We have a total of 7 creations…with one in-progress and awesome creation.

That’s all for today. It may be a couple weeks before our next post in this series, but don’t worry, we are working on something cool.

Thanks for reading and Happy Mining!

Featured Picture: Batman Statue (308/365)

Ok, so I know that it’s Saturday today, but an update on Survival Island is all but impossible. Tyler and I wanted to put it on the server and work on it together, but there’s something strangely idiotic with my internet.

Here’s the deal. For the most part, I can connect to our server when it is running Tekkit (which is Minecraft version 1.2.5). When it is running Vanilla, however, I can’t connect. This has been a problem since 1.3. In fact, no Vanilla servers work.

We know that it’s a problem with my internet, even though it shows that I have a decent to good connection to all the servers, but we have no idea what could possibly be the problem with it.

As a result, there is no Survival update today. But, I managed to do a little Tekkit today, and I built a little Batman statue. Don’t ask why, I was just bored.

Tyler shook his head at me, but I thought it was pretty cool.

Sorry that I don’t have more pictures, but I seem to be unable to log into the server at the moment. Have I ever said that I hate my internet? Cause I do.

That is all for today. Thanks for reading and Happy Mining!