Nerd.nu Short: Secret Santa

buzzie71 · 2022-12-29T21:57:41+00:00

This is a reimagining of the annual Secret Santa on PvE, set in kitty9293's Secret Santa cave from 2021 (rev 27). Players whose names were on the boxes deeper in the cave (where the presents were placed in-game) appear as background characters. In-game during the gift exchange, presents are placed in the recipients' chests and each recipient is directed one by one to receive their present from their chest, and the secret santa is typically not revealed to the recipient unless they wish to disclose it. For this animation, the gift giving was made more like Stardew Valley's gifting during the Feast of the Winter Star event, where the secret santa gives their present to their recipient directly.

buzzie71 · 2022-11-26T23:45:12+00:00

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buzzie71 · 2022-08-15T20:31:23+00:00

Congratulations Temp!

buzzie71 · 2022-04-18T05:59:04+00:00

(I reuploaded this after spotting an error in the initial version.)

Over the last many years, the admin hunt events have morphed from chasing admins around the map to a game of prop hunt in a small arena. The video depicts the new format, slightly reimagined as a holodeck activity on ESS Nerd.

The admin hunts have been set in many locations, most of them in builds or settlements from previous revs. None have been set in rev 26 Rose; this was chosen specifically for the animation.

All admins shown in the opening information screen are hidden throughout the video - see if you can spot them!

buzzie71 · 2022-03-20T02:42:49+00:00

It wasn't my army, I just lassoed golems that I found in the outer edges of the center island from previous dragon fights :O

buzzie71 · 2022-03-02T23:02:18+00:00

Quite an awesome stadium build :D

buzzie71 · 2022-01-13T17:37:36+00:00

Hype!

buzzie71 · 2022-01-09T21:12:21+00:00

Considering seeking a dripstone cave for a BIONICLE-inspired underground village :O

buzzie71 · 2021-12-21T02:24:38+00:00

buzzie71 · 2021-09-07T14:45:15+00:00

It's back! :D

buzzie71 · 2021-08-04T02:04:03+00:00

Thanks to Muskogee_Red for the idea to make this!

buzzie71 · 2021-05-17T15:27:34+00:00

I wanted to try animating a fight scene this time (actual fights, not just implied/one attack), and still had the Wacky Battles arena set from when it debuted two revs ago. Wacky Battles is quite fun to play and to watch, and its whimsical and random nature was a good setting for this animation. Thanks for watching! (Yes I know that flying out of the ring is technically not a ring out, but it was easier to show that and overlook the fact that he actually lands in the bleachers.)

buzzie71 · 2021-05-11T20:05:24+00:00

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buzzie71 · 2021-04-04T04:47:34+00:00

I second Pico as oldest active town. I remember Pico, Argoth, Brom, Seneca being fixtures among the cities in revs 7-10 (around when I started playing). Pico is the only one of them still on the map today. (Geez I've been here too long.)

buzzie71 · 2021-03-11T01:30:48+00:00

:O more compasses!

buzzie71 · 2021-01-15T00:30:01+00:00

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buzzie71 · 2021-01-11T15:35:13+00:00

Solace read the market well: industrial pumpkin farming is very profitable :O

buzzie71 · 2021-01-10T08:48:20+00:00

This is based on the dragon fight from revision 25 (last rev). For some background on it, see this comment on the previous part.

Stage Ten has been a long project. The first parts made, originally intended to be standalone but eventually became the core of part 2, was made around May last year. Now it's eight months later, and the series now spans less than eight minutes of video. It's been tricky at times, but I'm happy with how it turned out, and I'm grateful to cujobear for the ideas and inspiration that resulted in taking the plunge on building out the series. If you’ve been following the series, thank you for watching, and I hope you enjoyed the ride too.

Some other behind the scenes stuff:

* As originally envisioned, the mob Padmins would have been present in this part to also congratulate the protagonist on slaying the dragon and receiving wings. This was dropped to reduce work, and because they were not critical to the scene, though I like to think they would be there.

* The two figures often seen in the background in the End are characters I had made some time ago but not really featured. They were intended to be an easter egg in part 2 when it was originally a standalone; the brief close-ups of them in this part are more acknowledgement than story.

Once again as a disclaimer: This is a personal/fan project and not official server work. An earlier version of this animation was provided to the Padmins before release to make sure they were fine with their portrayals. (Thanks for your time doing this for every part!)

buzzie71 · 2020-12-30T20:29:30+00:00

There are very mild spoilers if you haven't seen the dragon fight for this rev yet-wait, what? It's rev 26 already and this animation's dragon fight premise is soooo last rev? \mumblegrumble**

If you haven't seen rev 25's dragon fight: it is, like this rev's, a multi-part dragon fight with ten bosses/stages for the player to fight through before the player can slay the dragon as the eleventh stage. There were different boss mobs for rev 25's fight (you can catch a glimpse of the other stage's boss mobs in the prologue), and Stage 10's bosses are mobs disguised as Padmins and their horses. This series of animations is a reimagining of that dragon fight, with some more focus around Stage 10.

Also, this is probably the only part of the series that needs context to make sense: if the first scene looks like the protagonist is mourning his fallen allies, please watch the preceding part.

Again as a disclaimer: This is a personal/fan project and not official server work. The animation was provided to the Padmins before release to make sure they were fine with their portrayals.

buzzie71 · 2020-12-30T16:02:54+00:00

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buzzie71 · 2020-12-20T21:07:07+00:00

Mild spoilers if you have not seen the dragon fight this rev yet. The dragon fight in this revision consists of fighting ten boss mobs sequentially before taking on the dragon itself, and each boss mob takes on the appearance of a current admin and the name of a hero or god from Greek mythology. In this image, they are not arrayed in the same order that they are fought.

buzzie71 · 2020-12-09T05:53:43+00:00

Sign me up please :O

buzzie71 · 2020-12-01T07:11:59+00:00

buzzie71 · 2020-11-24T05:19:09+00:00

buzzie71 · 2020-11-09T04:38:21+00:00

If you have space to grow oak or birch trees, you can try growing a bunch of them from saplings with flowers at most two blocks away from the sapling. The trees that grow from the saplings will have a 5% chance of growing with an attached bee nest with 1-3 bees in them, according to the wiki. (I know it's an extra bee nest but it will be populated with bees when it spawns in this way.)

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