Build The House Redux
Part 53 ~ 24 August 2025
Posted: 20 April 2026
Remember how all the way back in Part 1 I started building a house, then went off on multiple tangents before finishing the job? Well, it happened again. This time around, it's been even more egregious! I've built a flower farm, lit up a ton of caves, and CODED A MOD while this build sat in a barely-started state. This may sound like I'm beating myself up, but really I think it's just funny where the game can take you! Sometimes the creative juices don't spark in a way that's conducive to building a cute house, and sometimes other matters are just more pressing – like inventing a suspicious stew substitute! But today, I picked up some floral inspiration, and – OH MY GOSH, IS THAT A SKELETON HORSE?!
I swear, the universe is telling me not to build this house lmao. I finally started building, and a thunderstorm started. I somehow hadn't seen a single skelly horse up to this point (I know lightning rods prevent them, but still...) so I've been spending these rare stormy moments out in the open fields in the hopes of manifesting a skeletal steed. And in what can only be described as a miracle, I watched a bolt of lightning strike the grass right in front of me, leaving behind the world's first skeleton horse – on day 723.
The ensuing "four horsemen" fight was rather more messy than I had anticipated. I'm a wee bit out of practice :\ These skeletons get extra powerful bows, the skeleton horses are extra squishy, and there's friendly fire galore. Also I may have tripped on a block and chopped down one of the horsies with my axe. Oopsies! Only one of the four horses survived the encounter. Still, one is better than none! So I headed back to base, grabbed a saddle... okay, two saddles, a horse armour, and a horse to keep this guy company! This area is connected by the nether horse tunnel after all :D
I saddled up the skelly horse and took advantage of its strange unique talent – swimming – to ford the river back to the house foundation, where I hitched it to a post alongside its living companion. I got back to building, and actually made some progress, before day 729 rolled in with ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM. So, I winged it to the plains again, and spent a night watching the thunder crash around me. (Plus getting jumped by invisible spiders.) Soon after midnight, the clouds lifted, so I started scouring the area for phantom ponies. And I'll be darned, I found another one! This time I did a much better job and saved three of them, meaning I effectively have a full set of four!
I kid you not – it took five and a half months to get my first skeleton horse encounter on this world, and then I got another one FOUR HOURS later (going off the timestamps on the screenshots). It's not like this is the first time I've run this drill. It's just one of those wacky statistical flukes that the game can throw at you. Like getting no wither skeleton skulls from your first 100 skeletons and then getting two in a row.
Anyway, what was I saying at the beginning? "But today, I picked up some floral inspiration, and..." Right! Over the course of a few hours, it blossomed into a delightful daisy dwelling! I found a picture of a cherry blossom house – it's from a Youtube tutorial (I didn't follow it, just looked at the picture) – and adapted it to fit the locale. I settled on a birch and oak palette, with a yellow terracotta accent to give the build a daisy aesthetic. I also made the house a bit wider to fill out the available space. I freestyled the back and inside with whatever I thought made sense to connect everything together. Oh, and I installed a giant daisy satellite dish on the roof. Hopefully all that skeleton horse stuff will cover for the fact that I didn't take any work-in-progress shots of the build... So, spontaneously generated like a flower by bonemeal, here it is in all its botanical glory!
I then took on Minecraft's true final boss, which of course is INTERIOR DESIGN. We've got: daisy-coloured carpets, a utility corner, a four-poster bed with storage draw/bookshelf, lots of potted flowers, a dining table, and a computer nook! I don't think this computer can run Minecraft, but at least the lights flicker when I switch it on lol. It's connected by copper "lightning cable" to the daisy satellite dish on the roof. The place could use a few more decorative touches, both inside and out, but for now it's nice to have a home away from home here in the flower forest. I've named it Daisy Cottage – my little piece of Floral Paradise 🌼
