Volume 12
The Rebirth! Team Member Interview! Block of the week! New Article Intro?!
Welcome to a fresh new article of OR News! We are back to Volumes with exciting News to share for all!
Table of Contents
Update Galore - Nether Bunnies
Block of the Week - Fungal Planks
Volumes Are Back!!!
PaintedYeti
We are back to Volumes! It has come to our attention that we were really lacking with just articles and it wasn't up to the scale to what we did with normal Volume. Because of this, we are back to our roots! We are going to do our best to have weekly Volumes covering all the news the week provides. However, even though we are doing Volumes we will also have articles. Articles should come the day of or after splitting up all segments with the Volume so you can choose what looks interesting to you. We hope this will propel us to more regular content for months to come!
Update Galore: Nether Bunnies
PaintedYeti
We have had A LOT of updates since our last article so let's quickly go through ALL of them explaining them concisely and clearly!
St. Patrick
St. Patrick's brought a new event with green sprawling from all around. Clover balloons came to hold new furniture and eatables. You could also get crates from the store which had more awesome furniture and cosmetics exclusive to the event. They also had a small chance to give you clover keys for free! This event lasted a week and came and went with all the items never to be obtained and grow in numbers ever again.
Savannah
During this event, we also got another Update that amazingly reshaped the savannah! The savannah landscape was changed! It feels like a great transition to the revamped deserts. Baobab trees with new baobab wood have been added as a more saturated acacia wood.
Easter
Easter was another event that took place! New event crafts were added with new furniture and cosmetics. You could also get these keys for absolutely free but in a different way! For the first time, we did not have event balloons! Instead, we had eggs spawn all over the resource world! You could then trade these eggs with Hopper at Origin Isles(Hopper is the one in the render above)! This event was a hopping success!
Nether
The nether has finally come to a resource world near you! We can now explore the fiery landscape! Make sure you have your totems of keeping! The nether as of now is the vanilla generation but admins have said that they intend to one day have their own custom generation like the overworld. Although there is no new generation there is still new content in the fiery depths. Crimson and warped blocks got their vertical and carved planks along with lanterns. There is a new blue nether wart, and soul brick blocks! We also have chiseled bricks for soul sand, red nether wart, and blue nether wart bricks. Soul sand bricks also have a possessed form that is craftable. There is also a new transit block that acts as a teleporter to get you around your realm faster without wasting home! Awesome update!
You can read more about all of this on each blog post which we have linked at the top of each segment! We hoped you enjoyed our shortened and more direct updates notes! On to the next article!
OR Spoilers – Frosted Scouts
We have SOOOOOO many new spoilers to jump into! A skill/badge system. New interesting quests, and some of the favorite mobs you never saw coming to OR!
All of the following statements come from Eraze:
These won’t be boring people skills, no no no
We are calling them “Badges”
It’ll be a scout style system
And there will be scout clubs too, like Harry Potter houses - everyone will have to choose between 3 clubs
And different houses could have competitions and special meetings rooms at Origin Isles
So there will be a skill system eventually where you'll level up different areas of the game by doing tasks and quests ect.
We're working hard on Badge system, first Adventure World and our path for exiting BETA
We do have plenty of smaller updates that will come while we work on these big pog updates (like the Discord linking system that you have already seen bits and pieces of)
Let's break this down. So a skill system is coming to OR and it will be called the badge system. This suggests that the woods will have this huge use as our hub for skills. Along with the skills, we will get new quests to level up as well bringing even more life to Origin Isles.
With badges we will get 3 scout clubs. The clubs could possibly compete with each other and claim rewards.
Along with the badge system and clubs, we can expect our first Adventure World and even more awesome thing during the beta period.
Let's move on to our final spoilers:
All from Eraze:
Just imagine every one IMAGINE
If we added caves and cliffs before Mojang did at the end of the year
I found an old friend on our dev server........
Moobloom will also join the Origin Realms family eventually
I hope that one day we can bring all the abandoned mob vote mobs home to Origin Realms :(
I can't wait to see all our mobs we really wanted to have a shot to show themselves off in OR in all their original and new!
Those were most spoilers for OR with past few weeks! If you want spoilers as soon as they come out so you don't miss any content, join our discord for spoiler on the regular! We may have some content that we missed here so go check it out!
Block of the Week
PaintedYeti
Fungal Planks. The first ever custom wood added to Origin Realms with many unique properties. On todays first of the week, we will be covering Fungal Planks.
Obtaining
To get your hands on this new custom block we need to look at an older block that has been spruced up. In the dark oak forest you can find giant red and brown mushrooms. They have been updated to be all custom blocks. The stem blocks are called Fungal Logs. Like any ordinary log, you can put it in a crafting grid to make fungal planks.
Unique Property
The fungal planks have a unique property to them which will give builders 16 more blocks to build with in any setting. Fungal planks can be colored with any of the 16 Minecraft dyes to your preference. All you need to do if put your choice of dye in the middle and put a surround it in fungal planks like crafting colored glass.
We hoped you enjoyed your first Block of the Week! This is one of many to come!
Realm Review
Rwolf
Our team has chosen this new article series by explaining what Realm Reviews. Realm Reviews is an entertainment article that gives a review of a certain players realm. The twist is, when we review the realms, we will also be giving constructive feedback on how to improve the realm! We will also be using a 10/10 rating system for every category.
The Categories
This article series will consist of three categories. We will be looking into each one in depth for the realm that is being reviewed. The first category is building. Building is pretty easy to understand, we will discuss the good parts and the flaws of the builds and then give some feedback for the player to improve their build. The second category is the function category. This section will focus on what functions are found in the realm. Such as casinos, mini games, or red stone contraptions. Our last category is, the Fun category. A brief explanation for this category is how many people interact and visit your realm.
The Rating System
The rating system is basic. We will be using a scale of 0 to 10. 0 being an okay realm whereas 10 is the best realm I have seen.
Conclusion
Realm reviews is a series coming VERY soon and we hope you enjoy the first article! This post was jut the beginning. Stay alert for the next article! See all of you next week on Origin Realms News.
SoyTutta Interview
CheesCakex5
Today we are interviewing one of the pixel artists of Origin Realms, SoyTutta (Tutta)! If you don’t know, Tutta is the person that has come up with Origin Realms profile pictures/in game dialogue pictures that we know today! I would have interviewed Tutta a long time ago, but they were gone for a long time, but here we finally are, Enjoy!
CheeseCakex5: How did you first find out about OR?
Tutta: It was really funny my first contact xD Eraze contacted me asking if this pixel art that I made for a bestiary belonged to me and as I told him that if I commission some paintings, emojis and gui. I worked for a long time without really knowing what exactly OR was xD. In fact I didn't know the name either and came to think it was a mod but I was always in love with the designs and everything around the project. After a few months I was able to enter the discord and was really impressed with all that I was doing. I was very excited to work on it xD
CC: What is your favorite part of your job?
T: My favorite part would be to do the npcs portraits, the first ones I did were of my favorite npcs, in fact xD. OR-bit and the Librarian are so beautiful that more than once I have wanted to redo their portraits just to redraw them. I also like the creative freedom I have in doing the paintings and gui. I almost never get any restrictions xD
CC: What is your favorite part about Pixel Art compared to more traditional pen & paper type art?
T: I am a fan of pixel art, all my favorite games have always been kept in a pixel style. It is difficult to draw and color the pixelated characters with pencil and paper xD. I also love the small canvases because they force me to improvise and take advantage of the space
CC: What do you think is key when mimicking the Mojang style?
T: More than trying to imitate the style of Mojang I always try to think about what I would like to do, I take many references from different games and the only Mojang game I usually try to get inspiration from is Minecraft dungeon, but that game has an artistic direction that I love.
The best thing that someone can do when making art for Minecraft is not to try to limit themselves by it, to do what we want to see in the game and not what already exists in it (Always having several references at hand and practicing constantly is good)
CC: How does it make you feel that so many people are making their own renditions of your dialogue pictures?
T: I was very happy that people liked my work, the day he rebelled took me by surprise and kept me happy for the rest of the day. It's always nice when people create their own portraits OR. Although I was a bit depressed when I heard that someone was reselling my work, it is already a problem of the past that has been solved xD. In general I feel very happy and proud that the community would have liked my style so much and that they even want to have their portrait taken.
CC: What is your favorite part about making dialogue pictures for these NPCs?
T: Definitely my favorite thing is the Endergized designs. I love being able to redraw npcs that are not in the shape of a player (like OR-bit, the mayor, the Phoenix, ect) Basically I work doing fanart xD
CC: That was the last question Tutta, any final thoughts or words you want to express to the people at home?
T: I would like to remind everyone that if someone tells them that banana bread should not be pierced by a banana, they should be careful.
CC: Alright thank you for your time Tutta! It's greatly appreciated! Stay Awesome!
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