Gneiss

Gneiss

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I’m a geologist and creator of things.

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The dew drops on my strawberry leaves were just perfect this morning. Also, the next ore video will be out this week.

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If you are oxidizing smaller copper cubes do you think the distance scales to the size of the cube or is it still 8 meters apart?

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Years ago I collected some samples and sediment from the Ordovician aged Whitewater Formation in Indiana. I almost tossed out the sediment last week but decided to sieve it and see. The formation is famous for tiny brachiopods and trilobites but I didn’t expect to find one this small. Just 4 mm.

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Went for a walk in the woods and found some great mushrooms. Really like the red/orange agaric. Wonder if it’s a pH thing that controls how red they get.

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I might have exported all the assets from Minecraft Dungeons 2 and make a java resource pack.

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Do I need to make paper cutouts of ore blocks for 1 min segment about copper and ore? No, but here I am.

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Visited a banded iron formation which had a fault in it that was filled with pyrite. I know where the iron came from but I wonder about the sulfur.

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Working on the copper and gold episode. Draft visual for carbonate hosted replacement where acidic copper laden water is neutralized by moving through limestone and the copper is deposited in the rock. Usually malachite or azurite though, not the apparent native copper ore that Minecraft has.

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Always wanted to talk about elemental abundances in the solar system / bulk earth / crust so I'm forcing it into the gold and copper ore episode. This is a draft display showing changes between crust and bulk earth for each element. The bars are log abundance change.

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A year ago I made a video about mountain scales and I pronounced Mt. Kosciusko as the Australians do, and not in Polish. Imagine my surprise while visiting the royal castle in Warsaw and randomly seeing the literal heart of Tadeusz Kościuszko, whom it’s named after.

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I visited the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland and I knew there was a lot of sculptures done in the salt but I wasn’t expecting a statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who did many things but also who the mineral Goethite is named after.

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Cut up a piece of carbonate rock today that was mostly a mix of iron/magnesium/calcium carbonate but it also had some malachite in it. I like the mix of colors.

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I’m working on making some real life Minecraft blocks for a video and decided to use chalcopyrite as a raw gold. It’s always shown as iridescent but that’s just the patina. The fresh surface is similar to pyrite and other sulfides. Let’s see how long it takes to change color.

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Fun fact! Angry villager particles work well as impacts for a small scaled version of the Late Heavy Bombardment.

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I’ve never planted rainbow chard before and was very surprised to learn the roots are also colorful. So cool.

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Ha! I was right, the lichen spam in the revel seems to have been just a video presentation thing. You can get away with much brighter colors in the dark and still keep a distinction between blocks. The Java Snapshot today doesn't look like ketchup and mustard explosion.

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Smithed Summit 2024 was an amazing event all held within vanilla Minecraft and I met so many great people. I am planning to have another booth at 2026, for which applications just opened! Check out the short trailer if you are interested too. bsky.app/profile/smit...

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I used some native sulfur that I collected in the Vintage Story video but since I’m going to be talking about it in a bit more depth when the Minecraft sulfur cave snapshot comes out, I decided to buy a flashier piece.

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I wonder how much Mojang increased the lighting in the sulfur cave revel. You can tell they were doing some things with brightness past just the “bright” gamma setting in game. Maybe adding more glow lichen than normal just for watchability. The bright colors will look better in the dark

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Looking forward to playing around with it when the snapshot is released and I’ll probably make a video about it as well.

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All thats left to do is record all the rocks and minerals for part two of the vintage story geologic review.

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Little daughter got a mystery bag at a rock/mineral/fossil show yesterday. The note that came with it feels targeted.

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I have never seen something this color blue in nature before. I think they are shriveled up blue cup fungus. Also found some pixie cups and a beautiful hepatica leaf.