I've been thinkin about starting a slightly modded survival with Biomes O' Plenty and i was wondering if you guys would love to see some screenshots of the amazing biomes i might encounter while playing :)

why not

Looking forward to it

i'll start today in that case :)

What do you guys think of me making some sort of diary oriented posts sharing experiences while i play, besides stunning views of biomes i find?

One word:
YouTube

@Retrochewy One word:
YouTube

I find writing this diary/journal and posting it here way more interesting than making actual videos about it :P

Day 1 ; 26th November 2017
I created a fresh new world on hardmode and found myself upon a nice Plains biome surrounded by forests and a big redwood forest biome in the distance

After gathering some stone i started mining in hopes of finding some iron.
Luckily enough, i stumbled upon a big cave and went around finding quite a bit of iron and redstone

Biomes O' Plenty makes the caves far more intriguing to explore.

After a small mining session i went back to my small house to smelt some iron and try to find diamonds afterwards.

While i was going back to my mine, i got outnumbered by mobs that naturally hurt alot in hard mode, and got myself killed by a skeleton.

Luckily, i came back for my stuff and managed to get into the mine without dying.
After an hour or so of strip mining i managed to find a vein of 5 diamonds, including a bunch of iron.
While i was getting back to my house, a creeper caught me off guard but i managed to move away from him in time before i died. Had to fill up a big hole aswell.

This is all the goods i have gathered after mining

After that i finished decorating my small house and made a little wheat farm and lured in 2 sheep for breeding aswell.

Quite compact but has everything i need so far.

After 2-3 hours of playing i decided to call it a day.
Hope you all enjoyed this diary/journal, feedback and criticism will be greatly appreciated. :)

Images not working on that post @EnderConstructor

@NerdieBirdieYT Images not working on that post @EnderConstructor

Sorry for the little derp, first time ever posting images on the forums, think it should be fixed now :)

Day 2 ; 27th November 2017
I have been working on some manual animal farms for food and wool collection

Im thinking of trying to find a suitable place for a permanent home and i set sail in hopes of finding something interesting.

Think something similiar like this will be in the 1.14 update :)

I've came upon some land that looks very apocaliptic but not good enough for an actual home since there isnt much that spawns besides Llamas and pesky mobs.

Clumsy me gets blown up by a creeper that came behind me without me noticing. x_x

Took me a bit to get back for my stuff, but i got everything back.
Went across these nice flower plains that look genuinely nice but not very fps friendly.

After quite a long hike i have stumbled upon an Acacia village that has a few farmers and a librarian with a luck of the sea III book.
Also savannas have some interesting but deadly quicksand pools, which i had to jump into out of the curiosity of course.

I found a great biome close to the village called Lavander Fields.

I will stay here and make a possible base and villager farm in the future unless i find a more suitable place than this.
Pros: i have a relatively infinite supply of purple dye because of the sheer ammount of lavanders in this biome.

Besides that i was just caving through a mineshaft and farming food and wool today.

Thats all i did for today, hope you guys had a nice read, i'll try to make a nice nether tunnel to transfer my stuff and animals through for the next time. :)

Sounds like a good day.

Indeed

Shouldn't the lavenders also lag u?

@Retrochewy Shouldn't the lavenders also lag u?

Flower field has random arrays of tulips that cause more lag than these lavanders so nah they dont lag me :) I can always move if i find a better place

Day 3 ; 29th November 2017
After some more strip mining i decided to pack my important stuff and transport them to my future home in the beautiful Lavander fields.
I didnt make an actual house yet but i decided to explore the nether a bit in hopes of finding some nether warts and blazes for future potion brewing.

This is the view infront of my portal, BoP adds nether biomes aswell :o
The name of this one is "Phantasmagoric Inferno".

I manage to find myself a fortress and a blaze spawner relatively close to my portal, but clumsy me, instead of placing torches on the spawner, start fighting them.

My 3rd death so far unfortunately, but i will try to die as least as possible from now on, since i made a full diamond set and a shield afterwards.

Moving on after collecting some blaze rods, their molten cores and netherwarts, i started wandering, and came across this beauty.

" The Undergarden "

Full of overgrown netherrack and these tiny trees.

" Fungi Forest "
Huge mushrooms surrounded by netherrack infused with mycelium :o

Also collected this interesting flower, that dealt quite a bit of damage after breaking it.

Dealt about 4 hearts of damage, this was after i regenerated my health a bit. Some moderate loot i got from the chests i found in the fortress aswell.
Returned to the overworld after that and roamed around the Lavander Fields to check my surroundings and see if i find anything worth taking a look/picture :)

Enormous birch forest

" Shrubland " Eerie looking trees that are black on the inside and a few jungle bushes. (managed to get some cocoa beans and sapplings)

Had to take some time to adore the beautiful night views at this place.


Some uninvited guests who were trying to disturb me while i was taking the screenshots :/

One of the zombies tried to kill me with the lavanders aswell!

Nice view of the place during daytime.

Was thinking of starting my base in one of these hills on the edge of the biome. Thats all i had for today anyways. Tommorow i might try to find a stronghold, if i dont succed i mightaswell start making my future base.

Nice job

Im actually really enjoying looking at these! Ive never played BoP so this is fascinating to me!