Archmere Junior Portfolio: December 2020

Hello, sorry for not posting this yesterday, I got caught up in things and I forgot to make screenshots of my Minecraft house. So while I was in quarantine when my mother and my brother got COVID-19, I didn't have a lot of motivation to draw or paint and so what I normally do when it comes to this is that I start to play video games. In case you didn't know, I am in the Archmere E-sports club, which is essentially a club for video games. Paul and Aidan had set up a public Minecraft server open for the school to play in. So while Minecraft is naturally a game to fight monsters and find advancements to your armor and weapons in order to defeat the Ender Dragon in the End of the game, I'm more into working on an extravagant house to live in. And so that's exactly what I did! Here are many screenshots I took of the completed house, you may have to click "see more" to see the full thing.

This is the outside of the house, my friend Ethan says it reminds him of a hut, but it's way bigger on the inside. I used two different types of Minecraft wood to make the roof, and many other kinds to create the walls/base of the house.

This is the entrance, consisting of a small room with doors. And here are the stairs to the second floor.

I built a swimming pool with kelp, lily pads and some fish (so it's kind of a little river too? I don't know, a friend suggested it would make the pool look less plain.

Look at the little cods!

This is the kitchen? I can't really build much here to make a proper kitchen. I had some cake on the table originally, but then the boys came and ate it all.

This room is actually supposed to have all of the walls filled with bookshelves, but finding the amount of leather to make all the books in order to make the shelves is a tedious job, so unfortunately for now it is left unfinished. But the idea is that this is meant to be the library room for enchantments and things like that.

This is my mining setup/storage room. This is where I keep all of my essentials and mining place. I wanted this area to have more of a classic Minecraft feel where people would normally build their houses out of cobblestone and other stone they find like granite (what the floor is made of), but a little more polished with the brick stone walls and moss added!

This area is my giant map, which I'm probably never going to fill in because that's also a tedious job.

This is the halfway entrance of the second floor, I really like how the walls came out! I wanted another rainbow in my project.

This is the bedroom hallway. There are 6 rooms each decorated identically... it's kind of like an inn, if you say so. Banners are placed along with places to cook and keep storage, also loom tables and crafting tables, also a set of armor to come with each room!