Stardew Valley 1.3 Update Features Confirmation News!

For those of you who didn't know, I love Stardew Valley.  I have 100s of videos on YouTube at jetrecords226.  There is great news coming for long term players of the game.  There is a new 1.3 patch update.  Listed below are all the updates straight from the developers mouth, Concernedape.

Multiplayer

Shortly after you begin the game, Robin will offer to build up to 3 cabins on your farm. Each cabin will house a farmhand, controlled by one of your friends.

Farmhands can do almost anything the main player can do. They can farm, mine, fight, fish, forage, marry NPCs and take part in festivals. Each player has their own inventory. When a farmhand is not connected, their inventory can be managed through a chest in their cabin.

Certain decisions can be made only by the main player: when to sleep, when to start and end festivals, and whether to side with Joja, for instance.

You won’t need to set up a server to run multiplayer. Friends can be invited onto the farm through Steam. The invite mechanism for non-Steam versions is TBD, but likely to be similar in most cases.

A lot of players have requested player-to-player marriage. It’s an idea we like a lot, and want to make available as a feature. Player-to-player marriage won’t use the mermaid pendant, but rather an alternative method that requires a similar amount of effort to wooing an NPC. We’re still working out what that will be.

Local multiplayer, split-screen and PVP are not planned at this point.

Other Rumored Features

It's confirmed that all updates will come to PC first then to console later.  The expected timeline for the update is confirmed to be Spring 2018, so any time between March and May.  There will be a boat in the game.  It's not confirmed on what the boat will do.  Some speculate that the boat will take you to a new area like the bus, some say the boat will be a new vendor like the cart lady in the woods.  Either way it will be a new addition to the game that promises more new content.

There will be new community events and achievements with NPC.  There is a confirmed new event for Winter so far.  There are not any specifics on what it is or related to. 

I touched base earlier with the Multiplayer features.  There will be an option to marry you multiplayer friends, and goals to complete in order to woo them like the difficult NPC's.  

There are new decorations and signs that will be added to the game from the beginning, and you will not have to unlock.  

Home Remedy on How to Remove Superglue from your Fingers

First of all, we all make mistakes.  In hind sight, I probably should have used gloves when I did a DIY project.  Well, to make a long story short...I got my fingers stuck with superglue.  I couldn't use the internet to research a solution, since my fingers were unavailable.  In a rush, I grabbed anything I could to help myself.

First, I tried soaking my hands in warm water for 10 minutes.  I could feel the superglue gumming up, but the superglue did not come off my fingers.

Second, I tried washing my hands with antibacterial soap.  That really did not help either.  The superglue still was there, and my fingers were still stuck together.

Third, I looked at the kitchen sink, and I grabbed the Palmolive. After a few rubs, the Palmolive took effect.  My fingers were unstuck, and the superglue started to wash away.

I was relived.  I still saw some superglue on my fingers, so I used finger nail polish remover to erase the remaining superglue.  My hands were back to normal, and all was good in life again.  Lol.  I put some coconut butter lotion on my hands to heal my dry skin.  Thank you for reading, don't forget to hit that subscribe or follow button to be alert for more DIY post and technology news.

What's Your Opinion on the Black Panther Movie?

I have been really busy creating content for twitch TV and YouTube, so I haven't had the opportunity to see the new Black Panther movie.  I saw on the news this morning that the movie has been #1 at the box office for 4 weeks in a row and has gross over $1 Billion dollars.  The statistics support that Black Panther is a good movie, but what is your opinion about it?

I got friends and family that seen the movie, and they say it's okay.  I read reviews on the internet that said it was game changing like Wonder Woman, but I honestly thought Wonder Woman sucked.  I wasn't feeling the world war stuff, and it really didn't match the themes I was familiar from the tv series or comic books.

The Division - New Global Event In March 2018 - Live Streaming at Twitch.tv/jetrecords

Massive Entertainment has announced the for the entire month of March 2018, it will do Global Events for Tom Clancy's The Division.  The first Global Event starts on March 1, 2018 and it is called Outbreak Part 1.  The coolest fact about global events is this is your only opportunity to get more exotic loot and gear for free.  The best weapons and equipment await those that play the game well and accept the challenge.  I'm live streaming at 3 PM on March 1, 2018.  Below is the timeline for other Global Events happening in March:

The first event should be Outbreak, starting tomorrow - 01 March 2018 and will be concluding on 05 March 2018. The Assault event should be running from 08 to 12 March 2018, while Strike is scheduled for 15 to 19 March 2018 and Ambush kicks-off on 22 March and concludes on 26 March 2018.
In case you have missed out on masks from one of the previous events like I did, this will be your chance to grab them. You will also be able to complete your classified sets, with your best chances being whenever the corresponding Global Event occurs.

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For example the Assault global event will reward Striker, Sentry's Call and Reclaimer classified sets. While this event's masks aren't highly sought after, its classified gear certainly is.

The Strike global event will award Banshee, Predator, FNC and Nomad sets, with Ambush yielding Alpha Bridge, Hunter's Faith, Firecrest and Tactician's Authority sets.

Details for each Global Event and its drops can be found on The Division's website. 

Biggest Minecraft Update Ever - 1.13 Update New Mob Boss

In the 8 year history of the game MineCraft, there has never been an update this big!  This update is called the aquatic update b/c so much of the update revolves around the player's interaction with the sea.  In the new update, there is a hostile mob that dwells underwater that hunts sea turtles, and you will need new abilities to take it on and protect the aquatic world.  Reaching the Aquatic Mob Boss is the whole point of the update, and the most powerful weapon in the game, the Enchanted Trident will be your goal to obtain and tool to use for victory.

Here's what you want to know, the new features of the game:

You can swim! You can dive into the water and start to swim with the fish and sea life. There are sea turtles, Puffer fish and more aquatic life find and discover.  In the update, sea turtles will swim to the shore, and you can see fish swimming in the water.

You can catch fish in a bucket filled with water first, and you can keep it as a pet or eat it.  It makes it easier to catch fish other than using a rod, and you can also create your own zen pool to collect exotic fish and have them swim around. 

Also there are new coupling features. Sea turtles will mate and lay eggs.  There is a new breeding mechanism when sea turtles are fed sea grass then mate.  After mating, the sea turtle digs in the ground and lays eggs.  The sea turtle will incubate and ground the egg nest.

Here are the other updates along with the codes/commands for you programmers:

General

Data packs

• Like resource packs, but for loot tables, advancements, functions, structures, recipes and tags.
  • Used by placing them into the datapacks folder of a world.
• Data packs are .zip files or folders, with a pack.mcmeta in the root. See: Tutorials/Creating a resource pack#pack.mcmeta. The packs are located in (world)/datapacks/.
• Structures will load from (world)/generated/structures/(namespace)/(file).nbt before checking data packs.
  • However, this directory should not be used to distribute structures. Instead, move these files into data packs.
• Reloadable using /reload.
• Structure: pack.mcmeta, data folder containing a namespace folder determining the namespace of its contents
  • A namespace should only contain the following symbols: 01​​234​5​6​78​9abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-_
  • Inside the namespace folder, there can be folders for functions, loot_tables, advancements, structures, recipes and tags.

Death Messages

• Added a death message for when the player is blown up by a bed in the nether or end.
  • "Player was killed by [Intentional Game Design]"
    • Clicking on "[Intentional Game Design]" opens a link to MCPE-28723.
• Added a death message for when a mob or player causes another player to die in the void.
  • "Player didn't want to live in the same world as Player/Mob"

Loot tables

• Added the set_name function to loot tables.

NBT tags

• Added the HomePosX, HomePosY, HomePosZ, TravelPosX, TravelPosY, TravelPosZ, and HasEgg NBT tags for turtles.
• Added the AX, AY, AZ, and Size NBT tags for phantoms.

Options

• FS (Fullscreen) Resolution
  • Is used to change the resolution.
• An option in chat settings to toggle automatic command suggestions (defaults on, otherwise hit tab to bring them up).
• Options when editing a world to make a backup and open the backups folder.

Particles

• Added the minecraft:bubble_column_up, minecraft:bubble_pop, minecraft:current_down, and minecraft:squid_ink particles.

Sounds

• Added a new sound effect of squids shooting ink.

Statistics

• Added the time_since_sleep statistic.
  • Used by phantoms.
  • Reset when the player leaves their bed.

Tags

• Items, blocks and functions can be "tagged" with an ID.
  • Block tags can be used when testing for blocks in the world.
  • Items tags can be used when testing for items in inventories.
  • Function tags can be used when calling functions using commands or advancements.
    • Functions tagged in minecraft:tick will run every tick at the beginning of the tick.
    • Functions tagged in minecraft:load will run once after a (re)load.
• Tags are created using data packs in data/(namespace)/tags/blocks, data/(namespace)/tags/items, and data/(namespace)/tags/functions.
  • When overriding a tag from a different data pack, you can choose to replace or append.
    • By default all tags append if another data pack created the tag.
    • Adding "replace": true to your tag definition will make the tag overwrite instead.
  • For example: data/(namespace)/tags/blocks/foo.json
  • This will create a block tag called (namespace):foo.
  • The json file contains a list of all blocks that should be "tagged".
    • This list can also contain other tags of the same type.
      • You can add for example #foo:bar in a tag value list to reference another tag called foo:bar.
      • Self referencing is not possible.
• There are 22 vanilla tags for both items and blocks: minecraft:banners, minecraft:buttons, minecraft:carpets, minecraft:doors, minecraft:logs, minecraft:planks, minecraft:saplings, minecraft:stone_bricks, minecraft:wooden_buttons, minecraft:wooden_doors, minecraft:wooden_pressure_plates, minecraft:wooden_slabs, minecraft:wooden_stairs, minecraft:wool, minecraft:rails, minecraft:sand, minecraft:acacia_logs, minecraft:birch_logs, minecraft:dark_oak_logs, minecraft:jungle_logs, minecraft:oak_logs, and minecraft:spruce_logs.
• There are 7 extra vanilla tags for blocks: minecraft:anvil, minecraft:flower_pots, minecraft:enderman_holdable, minecraft:water_hacked, minecraft:waterlogged, minecraft:slabs, and minecraft:stairs.
  • Blocks in the minecraft:water_hacked tag will render in water as if any non-filled space in the block model was water.
• There is 1 extra vanilla tag for items: minecraft:boats.
• Advancement item predicates now support item tags.

Gameplay

Enchantments

• Channeling
  • Only has one level.
  • Used on tridents to summon a lightning bolt on impact with a mob during storms.
    • Requires the target mob to be directly under an open sky and in a biome where it is raining.
• Impaling
  • Goes up to level V.
  • Used on tridents to deal more damage to sea creatures.
• Loyalty
  • Goes up to level III.
  • Used on tridents to make it return when thrown.
• Riptide
  • Goes up to level III.
  • Used on tridents to launch the player when thrown while in water or rain.

Movement

• When sprinting while swimming, the player will now go much faster than normal swimming, and rapidly dive down to the lowest point in the body of water.
• The players hitbox is only as large as 0.6×0.6 blocks (same as while flying with an elytra) while doing this
• Vertically, the player can fit through a one block gap like this
• If the ceiling block is solid, movement is very slow while in such a small space, for any other ceiling block like a bottom slab movement speed is as normal