Author: CZghost

  • My friend’s E-book

    Hello and sorry for a long silence, I had nothing to talk about. My channel is freezed, I have no time for shooting. However, I still have something new.

    My friend launches a new info portal called “Cesta na Internetu” (Internet Road), it’s motivational infographics about social sites bussiness. They now published an e-book free of charge, you can download it here in PDF and EPUB format. The book has only 5 pages (it’s basically just a booklet), but it does contain important message and especially motivation for online bussiness.

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  • Websites redesign

    Video demonstrating the function of the new
    design of my websites (part 1)

    Hello there. I decided to rework my websites design as you can see at the attached video on the right. I plan to slowly redesign all parts of my websites (including FTP storage), starting with homepage which will receive a new portfolio glance. It will be a long time run, no denying it. Just homepage will eat a large chunk out of my free time. But my websites need it as hell. First part of the redesign is already done. The next part of the redesign is making it responsive and the last part is gonna be dedicated to fixing it for older browsers (notably Internet Explorer) that are still part of everyday usage of many users. The year won’t display the current year anymore but the year of last update.

  • Minecraft tutorials out to be released soon!

    Hi. Minecraft Survival tutorials might be released soon. I’m still waiting for Minecraft 1.13 Optifine release, but I have recording and streaming software already. After Optifine gets released, I’ll start recording the first episode of Minecraft Survival tutorials. I get my inspiration from player and youtuber paulsoaresjr who started to play Minecraft from its very start and he released first tutorials for Minecraft BETA yet. The second tutorials, from which I gain my inspiraton, started with the official release of the first version of the game. He ended his tutorials with fighting a dragon in End dimension. He then returned to the map just for recap what he did.

    Upcoming tutorials topic list

    Don’t take it as a final list of tutorial points, it’s only just a list of logical and average order of the tutorial topics. The final topic list is going to change in favour of generated map, where the spawn will be and how hard the map will actually get. Tutorials will start with Minecraft 1.13 or 1.13.1, depending on various events. Streams won’t start yet, I’m quite tight on time, even with just recording the tutorial episodes, so expect episodes delay in favour of weeks. University study is on the move. Here’s the told topic list:

    1. First night – The base stone of every Survival game is to survive the first night! So we shall gather resources and find a suitable place to hide (a cave or hole in earth). If we spawn on a desert beach island, I’ll restart the episode, because it’s going to be a challenge, which is not suitable for a novice player (such like me). We’ll play in Survival mode, with difficulty set to Normal (you can set it to Easy if the game is too tough for you).
    2. Seeking around, mining more rare resources (iron), smelting ore in furnace – We can’t use just wooden or stone tools, especially when the world has to offer resources like iron ore. Not only these tools and weapons last longer, they are even more efficient. We can also protect ourselves with iron, build ourselves an iron armor. We’ll also take a look at food and regeneration.
    3. Hostile mobs combat training – Beware of zombies hungry for your brain, skeletons ready to shoot you, drowned or spiders. Try to always follow the rule of run and you’ll be safe. Not always it’s possible, so you have to defend yourself somehow.
    4. Mining rare resources – GOLD! Who wouldn’t want it? We’ll take a look at what are the uses of gold and what’s it good for us. We’re also going to upgrade our tools. Diamonds are very tough material and diamond tools last the longest and have the best efficiency. A diamond pickaxe is also required to mine obsidian. We’ll discover what obsidian is good for. We’ll also add some other resources which are good for electrical engineering or payments.
    5. Down to Nether! – What’s the Nether good for? Lots of hot lava, loads of demons. Very risky place, however very valuable for its host of rare resources. We’ll need the Nether resources in order to brew potions or build a beacon.
    6. World exploration – There’s no good at living in just a single place, so we’ll extend our knowledge of the outer world. We’ll also use Nether to travel, we’ll discover the advantages of Nether travelling against overworld.
    7. Corals – The water world is so colorful! We’ll swim between corals, shipwrecks, and we’ll search for a burried treasure! We’ll discover the old underwater ruins and build an underwater Conduit to gain an advantage in terms of underwater work.
    8. Potions and enchantments – We’ll enchant our items and brew potions. Potions and enchantments will help us in loads of things: travelling, combat or mining.
    9. The End? – We’ll goind to visit the End. But that’s not the end at all! We’ll fight the mighty Ender Dragon several times! We’ll visit the End Cities where we can find another resources (including Elytra wings which we can use to glide).
    10. Flying and travelling the easy way – From the Shulker Shells, we’re going to craft some Shulker Boxes used to carry additional space. You simply fill it and grab it, the needed items are still there.
    11. Further world maintenance – You won’t want to give up your world so easily, right? So we’ll take a brief look at how to keep your world alive with new updates of Minecraft, new advancements and next world exploration. We’ll talk about expanding our territory as well as playing with your friends at LAN party by opening your world to LAN.
    12. From now the episodes are going to end. I’ll still try to keep you up with short streams (up to 30 minutes) where I’ll play the original map where I previously stopped. Streams are also going to happen in online worlds. I’ll probably host more worlds, with more series of Survival tutorials and following update streams.

    Conclusion

    I’d like to end it all by saying that whenever I don’t know what happens or not, I’m still looking forward the first recording for a tutorial. I don’t know when the recording will begin, I’ll only say it’s not going to be within a week, expect a month or more.

    I want to also tell you that I’m currently testing the new editor Gutenberg which I used to write this post. I’m currently happy with it, so I’ll see if it will be true in further time 🙂 Thanks for reading,

    Sincerely, Marek Poláček aka CZghost.

  • Added multilingual support for my websites

    Hi there. I managed to add a multilingual support for my websites. Finally found a plugin that manages to enable translations for various posts, pages, widgets and pretty much everything on the sites. It also automatically checks for IP address country origin and sets language based on that.

  • reCAPTCHA added!

    Hello. I just managed to add “reCAPTCHA” system to my WordPress site. It’s now in testing phase until I see it really works. Yahoo email domain was removed from banned list, so if you are using Yahoo mail service, you can now freely register. If Captcha form happen not working, I’ll add spamming domain in ban list again.

    The Captcha form is designed to protect sites from spam bots. It does not block human spammers, so please read out rules for comments and registers. If I happen to find a human spammer, he’s going to be banned manually.

    Thank you.

  • First release ever: What a garbage! :D

    First release ever: What a garbage! 😀

    Don’t you bother about very first map releases? Every mapper ever started with something that may make him embarrased or just say “Hey, how’d I make this garbage?” But the reality is simple. We were just very young and it was something very new to us, so of course the first release is just fun without a piece of design on mind, just some sort of test 🙂 But I couldn’t live without introducing my very first map, I ever made public. I originally posted it to Worldspawn sites (now hosted at ws.q3df.org). It sits there for a long time with 192 download for over 5 years, so it’s pretty old 🙂 I was 15 when I made this map 🙂 So you take the count 😀

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  • New visual style – milder and cleaner

    New style was installed and activated, named Matrix. I have chosen it rather than the previous one for its milder and cleaner look. It looks more like personal portfolio blog and that’s why I have chosen this one.

    If anyone has something to tell me, then go ahead and comment below 🙂

  • Just a reminder…

    I just want to inform you, that I am still alive and this site still works 🙂 Currently I do not have much time, but I have a small map to be done and be sure I will alert you about its beta announcement. This time it is still in alpha. I need some inspiration to make some details. The map should be in half nature and half industrial scheme, using Sock’s industrial textures pack and some custom sounds downloaded from Freesound. There will be also few easter eggs to be found 🙂 Do you have some idea to implement in the map? Go ahead and comment 😉

  • Registrations temporarily disabled

    I had user registrations enabled to allow people register and post comments with their account, but now I was flooded with number of spam registrations from yahoo.com emails, so I was forced to temporarily disable user registrations until the thing will be solved. There is no easy and guarranted way to do it on my own. Sorry for this restriction…

  • New link and new style!

    Welcome back on my website. Hosting and style changed. I know it’s not perfect, I will search for next of course, to see if I find any that can be free transofrmed for no charge. So have I this one, feel free to write if you know any good else that will fit my tranformation needs.

    I hope you will like this web. I deleted forums since it was not used, FTP downloads folder will work after some time. Now write in your notes new address of the sites. Thank you 🙂

    Marek “CZghost” Poláček,
    author of websites 🙂