stormylaura

Alright, guys, get ready to CHILL! And die. And have a blast!! Vechs’ new Super Hostile map, Iceolation, is available to his early access tier of Patrons ($10 USD pledge). The map will be available to everyone in a month or so. On a twist from his standard CTM maps, you collect 8 “objects” (spoilers, don’t want to say what they are) to place on a very special monument. With a very detailed plot based around a girl named Tali, you’ll find yourself immersed in a wonderous glacial world, filled with wonder and beauty. This Super Hostile map feels seamless, and you’ll find yourself anxious to see what’s around the corner. Bring a furnace, friends, cause it’s COLD on that there glacier!!

Hey gang! Vechs has been hard at work with his new programmer, Dries007 (find him at https://twitter.com/driesk007 ), to bring you guys a sleeker, more streamlined, whitelist process for Super Hostile Online. And yes, even if you were already whitelisted, you do need to do it again. But it’s no big deal; it’s quick and painless! I can promise, the custom mobs on SHO will certainly cause you more pain.

You can find the new whitelist instructions here: https://www.superhostile.net/whitelister

See you guys in SHO! Also, in the Vexy Discord community 😀

–StormyLaura

I was cruising along in my little airship. Suddenly, alarms started going off and the airship lost altitude. Nothing I did helped, so I braced for impact….

I survived. I’m alone. My airship is nothing but wreckage, maybe some salvageable materials to aid in my survival…

So. Cold. Must get warm.

This is Iceolation. The newest Super Hostile map from the man who has brought us hours of fun (and torment, and a few rage quits) over the years. Vechs is at it again, in a map due in December, and this time, he’s making Minecraft do what he wants, with a unique temperature mechanic and armor with unique temperature attributes. The video below explains it very well.

I got to play the first bit of Iceolation. Let me tell you, it was simultaneously thrilling and scary. Immediately, my player’s temperature began to drop. Really altered my early game, what my priorities would be. I quickly realized that environment, not monsters, would be my biggest challenge early on. When your temperature drops too far, you start getting hit with debuffs. And they can get rather nasty. I equipped the leather armor in the chest, as that slows down the temperature loss. The way the terrain looks, it really feels like you are in an arctic glacier. Beautiful, but so deadly.

Quickly, I ran through ice tunnels, slid on ice-covered lakes (love that speed boost!) and made my way to something that felt was very familiar. Intersection 1! (Cue Dramatic Music) 

I’ll avoid spoilers, and just tease a bit. Stone brick ruins. Lore hinting at a tragic mystery. A far distant hill with a beckoning pink flag on some sort of structure. A lonely wolf. Snow covered trees. The beauty and majesty of the areas enthralled me as I explored. But OOOPS, don’t forget to not freeze! I couldn’t help some happy wiggles as I wandered, curious about what was around each corner. I found it amusing that when a zombie hit me, my concern was that he might break my armor. After all, that’s my protection from the brutal environment! It was Minecraft experienced in a new way. Like an old friend with a new haircut. And yet, it felt so undeniably like a Vechs map that I’d have known even without being told.

Get ready, friends. And bundle up; December is going to be very, very cold. 😉 Oh, and a quick note… while the map will be publicly available, patrons of the $10 tier will have early access to the map!

See Ya!

––StormyLaura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLat9w-_Eq0&t=2s

Vechs is back at Minecraft again, and he has brought me, StormyLaura, along for the ride. We are playing Waking Up, in 1.12, with the drop tables from his Super Hostile Online map. We are playing on hard difficulty. The logic for that was, you know, we thought maybe all the gear that would drop would make the map too easy. Heh. Heh heh. Too easy. Riiiiight. There are many glorious deaths. There are creepers galore. There are feesh that our Vetchus cannot leave alone. Now, I will admit. Playing a Super Hostile map with Vechs himself is a little scary. It’s like bungee jumping. You know you’re going to land and be all like “THAT WAS AWESOME!!” but there’s a little flutter of fear. Your heart beats a little faster. You know that, by playing Waking Up with Vechs, you are taking your virtual life firmly in your hands. Also, for those who are wondering (and I know you guys are, as I would be too!) Vechs is hard at work making Super Hostile: Iceloation. This will be an ice-themed single player Super Hostile map. He has also mentioned maybe updating his maps to be playable with modern Minecraft, now that he has seen, firsthand, how his old maps don’t work so well in the new Minecraft versions. In the more immediate future, stay tuned for more fun (and deaths!) in Super Hostile: Waking Up, Revisited. It’s going to be one heck of a wild ride, my friends!

–StormyLaura

Important 1.13 Update From Vechs —-
As most Minecraft players know, the 1.13 update is not only bringing us whole new oceans, it is also breaking a lot of stuff. Specifically, command blocks and functions in custom Minecraft maps, servers, etc. And Super Hostile Online relies very heavily on functions to let us have things like the class hats, the Rune of Returning, and so forth. Vechs tried loading SHO in 1.13 the other day and he was mildly dismayed to discover just how broken SHO was. That’s the unfortunate news.

Now, we figure that somebody will write some sort of patch program to help with the problem; after all, Vechs’ server is far from the only one affected! So Vechs has decided to put updates of Super Hostile Online on hold, just for now, until some sort of patch tool is available. In the meantime, Vechs will work on becoming acquainted with 1.13 by working on his next single player Super Hostile map, Iceolation. That map has some fascinating freezing mechanics that I think people are really going to enjoy! He has also said he wants to update his old maps to be playable in the newer Minecraft version, as well. I’m sure I speak for many of us when I say that would be AWESOME!! So, guys, some really good Vechs goodness will be rolling our way soon.

–StormyLaura