Saturday, 24 October 2026

23. Kazpack IV as it stands today

    This is not the definitive version 1.0 of IV. I just wanted to give a little update on it.

Mods:
- AnimationAPI (dependency for Ars Magica 2)
- Ars Magica 2
- Backpacks
- Baubles (dependency for Botania)
- Botania
- Chest Transporter
- Chisel
- CodeChickenCore (dependency for NotEnoughItems)
- Disenchanter
- Dynamic Lights
- FentLib (now called AngelLib; dependency for Vintage Damage Indicators)
- Forestry
- Galacticraft Legacy
- GraveStone Mod
- Iron Chests
- Iron Furnaces
- JourneyMap
- Lycanites Mobs
- Magical Crops 4
- Magical Crops: Armoury (expansion for Magical Crops 4)
- Mantle (dependency for Natura)
- Millénaire
- Mo'Creatures
- Natura
- Nature's Compass
- NotEnoughItems
- Optifine speciffically OptiFine HD U D6
- Pam's DesertCraft
- Pam's HarvestCraft
- Pam's Harvest the Nether
- ReplayMod v1.7.10-2.5.2
- Simple Flight
- UniMixins (dependency for JourneyMap)
- Vintage Damage Indicators
- jglrxavpok's Uncrafting Table
- Waila
- Waila Harvestability (expansion for Waila)
- Waystones

Resource Packs
- Faithless
- Der's Shaded Font
- Der's Smooth Shaded Font

Thursday, 22 October 2026

21. Preparations are going well

     I have been trying to prepare for the next series by studying for Galacticraft in a test world and, though very poorly, I've already learned how to make a moon base. Sure, it's literally just a room, an air lock door, a solar panel and an oxygen collector, but that's just the start, isn't it? There's still, what?, two weeks to go with MD? Pretty sure there's enough time to study a bit more.

    Spoilers for Episode 13 and the rest of the series: my ultimate goal is to finish the castle. Spoilers for the midsesh between 13 and whatever I'll do in 14: most of the work I did was completely negated by a little discovery I made.

    I'll probably be naming the next series Minecraft Diaries Z, in honour of the original series-es that I based MD on (it seems that one of the jokes I did in one of the Portuguese videos is actually coming true). Fun Fact: the original Minecraft Diaries Z was really short-lived, with only 13 episodes, while Minecraft Diaries "1.0" (for the lack of a better term, it really was just "Diários de Minecraft") had a longer run of 35 eps. MD X, the follow up to Z, had 28 and the following MD M had only 21.

    I'll also probably be removing Hats and Morph from the modlist and adding Backlytra. Hats, I haven't been able to get the hats to appear, but that could just be something with the config, so I'm still testing it. Morph, the only reason I wanted it (and also Animal Bikes for KP III) is because I like being able to fly on survival, and I learned about Backlytra, which does just that by backporting the elytra to some of the earlier versions. I still have to test it, though, so I'm not fully sure if Morph will truly be gone from the list.

    And, finally, tomorrow's video will be coming late because my lazy ass has not yet made the thumbnail for it and I have school tomorrow morning. It'll, really hopefully, be out by 7pm UTC−03:00.

PS: I also need to install Galacticraft Planets; I forgot to do that. And also, have an actual list organizing what I want to do instead of figuring it out on the fly like I did with MD. I'm very likely to have ADHD; I really need something telling me to do something for me to actually get something done.

PPS: Backlytra does not work. You can, in fact, glide... but you do just that: glide. I tried using rockest to fly up: nope; not how it works. It's also very inconsistent. You have to be running and be, like, five blocks away from the ground for it to open...  Elpis, the worst of curses...
    I found another mod, though: Simple Flight. "This mod doesn't have you flying like you would in creative mode, no, it has you flapping your wings to gain and maintain altitude or gliding from ledges and cliffs to avoid fall damage or blasting into the air with the power of a jet engine strapped to your back."

PPPS: It works. It's pretty fun too. Even with the leather wings, which only gives you about 16 flaps [PPPPS, not even that; literally just 8 flaps], is pretty fun to use. Sure, it's not an elytra and I really wanted something that felt as responsive as THE elytra, and not the BACKlytra, but it's really fun. You'll look like Flappy Bird, though. "a careless misstep could have the power to put an abrupt and bloody end to your little romp in Survival Land..." so much drama for nothing. Even the leather wings let you flap accross a forest in a jiffy if you know how to space your time in the air and when to land to restart your counter. And it's not like the wings break if you run out; you just fall without being able to fly without doing an Icarus... Elpis, the best of blesses...
    Hats didn't work, though. Bye to Hats, buh-bye to Morph.
    Two mythology jokes in a row.

Monday, 19 October 2026

19.b Plans for Kazpack IV

     I have began lay out the groundwork for Kazpack IV. I still have to actually test the modpack before I start a series with it, so Minecraft Diaries "1.0" still lives... for, like, a week, before I finish testing the mod. It really won't take long to do that. MD will likely live on to episode 15 or 16.

19.a I'm thinking on doing something.

    I have been watching quite a lot of Grian's videos lately. I've considered myself a "fan" for quite some — pretty much ever since I began taking English learning more seriously (so, like, 2020 to 2021) — time but I haven't really watched his content since Hermitcraft S9. His videos have been getting pretty long since and, because I got back to school from Lockdown, I haven't really been able to keep up. Just in a week time, I have binged Past Life, Nice Life, the Hardcore challenge, Third Life, Last Life and Double Life and am currently at episode 6 of Limited Life. You'll see, even, that I might have picked up on some of his mannerisms on MD#11 and #12. (I assure you that my English-y accent probably does not come from him. Tomska, Tom Scott, Eddache, RobWords, Dr Geoff Lindsey, TheAmaazing, HyojinCho she who must not be named, Limmy, CallmeKevin, RTGame, the many 2nd Folk Revival artists I listen to... I know some of these aren't English but I'm pretty sure these are some of the ones who influenced my accent the most.)

    Back to what I wanted to say. I must say that, watching some of the videos, even though the Life series is pretty much a vanilla series, I have gotten some ideas of mods that I could try adding to the game, but, (I really hate this) I'm pretty sure that these would either conflict with some other mods that I have already added (these which I didn't really like that much) or would add stuff that messes with the world gen and that I would need to walk like dozens and dozens of chunks to generate. I also think that the current modpack that I set up (which I nicknamed Kazpack III; Kazpack I and II will never see the light of day) has gotten pretty stale. And I'm pretty piss'd off that this happenned right after I made the first spell, got the reindeer bike and finished the first level of my "greenhouse". It's Episode 12, for Pete's sake. I haven't even done anything yet.

    - I want to add Natura and Serene Seasons, but pretty sure they would conflict with Biomes o' Plenty, which I already found pretty boring, which I can't remove because that would remove whole chunks from the world.
- I want to add Galacticraft, but I would need to make a whole voyage everytime I wanted to look for the resources.
- I have, for a g e s, wanted to add Morph, but, for whatever reason, I have never managed to get it to work. I have iChunUtil. Portal Gun, another mod by iChun, does work in my world with no problems whatsoever. But, for fuck knows how, the bloody mod does.  n o t.   w  o  r  k. 
- I'm also tired of Vampirism. I haven't generated the vampire biome, but I don't know if it could corrrupt some other stuff.

    Now that I think more about it, we'd have Ars Magica, Magical Crops and Morph right along with Galacticraft... Science Fantasy it is.


PS: just finished Limited Life. Off to re-rewatch Past Life I am
PSPPS: I'm an idiot. There's still Secret Life and Wild Life to go. Past Life only comes after that.

Sunday, 18 October 2026

18. What to do?

    I started the Minecraft Diaries using the Faithless resource pack by StitchSprites. It is a very pleasant RP, I have to say that — I love how the colours he used seem to just come together quite nicely — but I just think that it is way too modern for 1.7.10. Idk, it feels like it would work much better if I made the series in 1.8.
    Then, I tried looking for another RP to use and, in MD#10, I tried playing with t0by1o9tt's Epic Adventures which, despite being pretty modern also, unlike Faithless, I think it fits the "2014 aesthetic" I want to go for much more. However, it is a very dark RP, both literally and figuratively. I could not see anything at night and while mining, and it's all so unsaturated. There's no *whimsy*. All sad and stuff. Then, you remember that you have Ars Magica and Biomes o' Plenty along with it, and they just stick out so much... So much so that you'll see in MD#12 that I went back to Faithless.
I could, also, just play with the bloody programmer art like a normal human being but where's the fun in that?

Do anyone have any suggestions of RPs or any mods, even, that I could add to the series?

This is where the modlist stands by the time of writing this:
- Animal Bikes
- Ars Magica 2
- Backpacks
- Biomes o' Plenty
- Chest Transporters
- Chisel
- Gravestones Mod
- Iron Chests
- Iron Furnaces
- Journey Map
- Magical Crops Core
- Nature's Compass
- Not Enough Items
- Optifine
- Portal Gun
- Vampirism
- Vintage Damage Indicators
- Waila
- Waila Harvestability
- Waystones

Friday, 16 October 2026

16. Hello World!

 This is my first post on this blog. I have absolutely no idea of how this works, but I hope that this turns out as a pretty fun experience (:

Just as a little teaser for Tuesday's video (Minecraft Diaries #11), here's the thumbnail I've made for it:

I have to say it. I'm really not one to constantly be boasting about every single thing I do right, but I'm really proud of how my thumbnails have been turning out to be. If you, somehow, know about my "pre-history", as I'd like to call it, before I went by PeanGKaz, you k n o w I couldn't make thumbnails to save my life. The best one I ever did (which happens to be in my best video from that time and which I will not name for no reason whatsoever and certainly not because I die from cringe remembering literally anything I have done more than a year ago) was, still, just mediocre at best.

23. Kazpack IV as it stands today

     This is not the definitive version 1.0 of IV. I just wanted to give a little update on it. Mods: - AnimationAPI  (dependency for Ars Ma...