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26 July 2025

I launched The Lemming Mines on 1 June and it's come a long way already! It's like I've broken through the two-week phase of Neocities as well as Minecraft itself lmao. As of this posting, I've removed the "under construction" status from my homepage, but in truth, it's always under construction in some sense! Plus, I made this fun custom Lemmings screenshot and wanted to preserve it after moving it off the homepage :D

Under Construction

For posterity, here's a summary of what I've done here in the first two months:

  • Sussed out some basic html and css (javascript can wait!)
  • Posted 14 journal entries – effectively the "two week phase" up to the dragon fight
  • Added the About, Q & A, and Mods & Settings pages
  • Added a convincing-looking splash text (just one message for now)
  • Found an actual name for the Minecraft series (it started as Ela's Adventures in Minecraft)
  • (mostly) Stopped the site from looking like ass on mobile
  • Made item-based images for journal links (low-key proud of these!)
  • Made my own logo! This is the latest addition as of now, other than this post obviously :P Up til now I was just using a simple title from Textcraft. (The new design still uses Textcraft in part for the word "Mines").
  • Played and written another 8 parts, which will see the light of day eventually! Believe it or not, I'm *less than halfway* through the backlog I had when I launched the site! I'm rather enjoying the workflow I have going at the moment, because it means I get to relive the early days of the world and also add a bit of cheeky post-commentary :)

Where to from here? Well, keep posting the journal of course, but there's more I want to do with this site! I make NO promises but here are some ideas that are swimming in my head right now:

  • A 404 page
  • Randomised splash text (I have a pile of fun messages for this!)
  • More "Random" posts – Minecraft-related but outside of Indigo Empire
  • Make my own buttons!