SLUR CITY

The Prequel Story

The Beginning - Slur City

so like i said, wubby started his playthrough in early 2025, and i started my world not long after. but that was slur city, and my world is called slur universe, so what happened there? (yes, i do realize how absolutely ridiculous this all sounds)

the world i started to play along with wubby, slur city, was pretty cool. i actually used "wubby" as the seed for the world, in case you're interested for some reason, and i had a great time with it! i hadn't played in almost a decade, so it was basically a whole new game to me. i spawned in, set up nearby, and probably played in that area for a day or two (real life days) before embarking on my ✨ big adventure ✨

for some reason, i was dead set on living in a cherry grove. i scoured the wubby seed on chunkbase, looking for the nearest cherry biome that was a decent size and had good biome variety nearby, and finally found one ..... ten thousand blocks north. and for some reason i was cool with that, so off i went! honestly that night was so fun, i ordered food, smoked some weed, and with the world map up on my second monitor i set off, taking the time to hit every village on my way to my new home. i think i started sometime between 8-9pm, and i didn't get there until well after 2am. and i had work the next morning 😭 but it was worth it, that was one of those special gaming nights you just can't force. like the experience of playing BotW for the first time, that "blink and 3 hours have passed" level of locked in on the game. and when it was all said and done...

i was home! annnd actually, i was wrong. i knew it was "well after 2am" ... what i didn't realize was that, according to the timestamp on this screenshot (which was taken just as i arrived), it was 4:41am. holy shit LMAO i must have been fucking DYING at work the next day!! i do remember it being bad, but my fucking god that is brutal

anyway, i made myself at home, building a barn/farm area that i used as my temporary home, until one friday night when i was home sick with norovirus and i finally decided to look up a nice build tutorial to follow for my permanent home.

i continued playing in slur city for a while. i built my first ever iron farm (which was excruciating), an infinite lava generator, an auto bonemealer, a stone/cobblestone generator, a kelp farm, and bubble elevators, and i was really excited about all of them because i'd never built stuff like that before!

i also did a bit of very simple redstone on my own! i did my own redstone in two builds, and i was super proud both times, even though they were stupid simple in both cases and in one case wildly inefficient and nearly pointless, because i did it all myself!

the first one was a fix for my iron farm. when i said it was excruciating i meant it - i spent like 3 nights in a row trying to get one working. the first half of my time was wasted on a god awful version that i was trying to follow because it was the video that had the most views, and that one literally never produced a single iron golem, no matter how much troubleshooting i did. after finally giving up on that design, i tried another, which honestly blew my mind when it did work because i was hours in at that point and had basically given up hope. the only problem with this design is that it stops working after about 20 minutes, which sounds like one of the most common iron farm issues. it apparently has something to do with the villagers not being able to sleep, which you would think a tutorial with millions of views would cover in their design, but apparently not. so, i dug under the farm, built a redstone clock (the kind where you switch a lever on and off real quick to activate it), and hooked it up to a sticky piston under one of the blocks between the zombie and the villagers. it's noisy, but it works! honestly, this might have been the proudest moment i had in this world. after all the nights spent banging my head off a wall trying to get these damn farms to work, being able to fix the final issue all on my own felt amazing

the second one is a lot less functional, and is, unsurprisingly, a product of one of those "i had a minecraft idea at work, wrote it in my notes app, and built it 8 hours later when i got home" days. i don't have any screenshots of this, but my farm in slur city was a large fenced area, with a bunch of smaller areas all in a row each containing one species. i could run up and down the line, kill what i needed to through the fence, get like 75% of the drops, and enter their pen through a gate if i wanted to grab the rest. but the obvious problem was how many drops i had to either just leave on the ground to disappear, or enter the pen to grab and inevitably have a few animals escape when i open the gate. lose-lose. so, my big genius idea that popped into my head while driving to whatever kitchen i was delivering to next, was to shorten the length of their pens to the number of blocks water travels + 1. i would then fence off a bunch of water at the far end of the pen, attach the separating fence posts to sticky pistons, run redstone under the pen toward me, and hook that redstone up to a lever. now, when it's murder o'clock, all i have to do is walk up and flip the lever, then the water will bring all the mobs close enough to me to kill, while also keeping their drops close enough to the fence for me to collect without entering the pen. i can kill and loot easily, and i never have to deal with escapees. genius

except for the fact that it didn't consistently bring the mobs within melee range and it also didn't bring all the drops within pickup range and it was also really ugly. so yeah now you understand why i'm more proud of the iron farm one

anyway, aside from that, i also built a huge wheat field outside my house, and decorated all of my farms and generators so i could use them as cool displays instead of needing to hide them somewhere. i also died about 40 times in 10 minutes after discovering that my home was above a deep dark biome. i made a very basic nether hub consisting of torch trails, tunnels, and 1 block wide bridges because i was short on materials and too scared to try going on the nether roof, and the first place i used the nether to travel to was my original base ten thousand blocks south. it had been over a month since i left, so it felt really weird to be back there, but it was fun - and came with the exciting surprise of realizing that i had completely abandoned a bunch of loot when i left for my ✨ big adventure. ✨ i guess i must have just taken what i needed and planned on coming back for the rest, but forgot about it by the time i got to my cherry grove. there were a couple music discs, armor trims, even some diamonds that i left for some reason?? and thankfully i had some bundles on me and not too much important stuff in my inventory, so i was able to bring the majority of the useful stuff back home. and thank god for that, because for anyone who's never walked 10,000 overworld blocks in the nether - it takes like 12 minutes. of just running through precarious paths in the nether. and that is why i never visited my old home again

my final project, which is probably what overwhelmed me and led to me quitting, was building a village from scratch to give myself some neighbours (and a more humane trading hall). it suffered from major feature creep and i never ended up finishing it, but what i did finish was alright, and i did it all on my own! i wouldn't say it was good, but it was decent for someone who wasn't much of a builder. my house was very nice, but i followed a video to build it, and at the time i was kinda starting to feel like the more i had to do with a build, the worse it looked. i think i was just stuck in my head about wanting everything to be so pretty, without realizing that that was making me feel creatively stifled. but we're getting ahead of ourselves - my village was cool! it was fun to see iron golems and cats start spawning, baby villagers are so funny, and it's just neat to watch them live in and interact with an entire village that you built yourself. i definitely spent more time than i expected to just watching them and seeing what they did and how they lived, like a lil hand made fish tank of weird creature men

(note from the day after i wrote this: wow i was fucking baked lmao
"hand made fish tank full of weird creature men" ??? ok dawg)

sadly this is where i ran out of steam and in a matter of probably 2 weeks went from playing every day to playing for the last time. i don't really know what caused me to lose interest, but the village project was just getting bigger and bigger and i was feeling more and more unhappy with some parts of it, so i'm sure it didn't help. there was just one more thing...

The Middle - The End

about a month after i stopped playing, i had a free night with nothing to do in the morning, which was rare at the time, and figured i'd take a trip down to slur city. for some reason i had a goal in mind before i'd even opened the game: beat the ender dragon. because this guy who has been playing the game since the year it came out had somehow never beaten the game before LMAO. and i did it on my first try! after 15 fucking years i went to the end for the first time and finally beat this game!! i felt kinda silly being so stoked about it when it's something that literal children have been doing for years, but hey, it's a big moment for every growing boy :)

i made it about 60% of the way through the credits before i skipped them. seriously, what the fuck is that shit??? the worst part is that they had it, the first few lines of it genuinely gripped me, i got emotional and even felt some tears coming on. but instead of tying it up in a nice bow, they went on.. and on... and on.... about just increasingly schizo shit. and i'm so sorry to whoever poured their heart into writing it, i know a lot of people really love that poem and it means a lot to them, but i literally started to feel like i was cornered in a bus stop forced to listen to the ramblings of a cracked out homeless man who doesn't know what planet he's on

but after that, i dove back in and made my way to an end city, which was incredibly frustrating for a solid 45 minutes until i realized that i was just mega overthinking the movement when fighting shulkers. i got an elytra (not without a few close calls), flew back to the overworld, threw mending on it and played around with it for a while and ..... that was it. after that i just never went back to playing, and not even intentionally, it just kinda finally fizzled out i guess. i was a lil bummed realizing what had happened, but hey, i made my 2 week phase last a couple months, so i figured a break was okay

The End - The Beginning

that last time i played was at the end of march. i started getting the itch to play again toward the end of the summer, and i finally went back in early october. but, for a few big reasons - which you can read about back on the slur universe page - i didn't want to go back to slur city. it was time for a new world, but i was feeling a lil sad about leaving my old world behind. it was imperfect, but i had made my mark on it, and boy did i ever spend a lot of time there. and so, carrying on the legacy of my old world, my new world was born: slur universe

(note from the day after i wrote this #2: that last line is so corny but i think it's kinda funny that you can
progressively see me get more and more baked throughout the writing of this page so i'm leaving it)

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