Pixelmon (Day 3602 - 10/5/19)

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Stephen tells the viewers to never put soap in oil dispenser bottles. He says that the soap will not come out well and the spout will get clogged. Stephen talks about how they've been using the soap that they put in the oil dispenser bottle for a few years now. He explains that it doesn't take much soap to clean dishes, so there's still some left. Stephen says that they just decided to use up all the soap in the bottle instead of dumping it all out. But, they won't use the bottle anymore once it's empty.

Today, they played Pixelmon for game night. This is a continuation of the series they are doing on Minecraft mods. Stephen mentions that a lot of people requested the Pixelmon mod which is a mod that lets you play Pokémon in Minecraft. He says Hayley especially wanted to do it since she's a huge Pokémon fan. Stephen mentions that he, Emmy, and Dan had tested out the mod before the recording to make sure everything was working. So, he didn't get to capture his first reaction to the mod, but it took his breathe away. Stephen describes how there's Pokémon everywhere once you spawn in and how he even forgot he was playing Minecraft.

He then talks about how recording this episode took a while. Stephen says that he was so focused on the Pokémon aspect of the game like Pokémon battles and finding Pokémon that he didn't even do any Minecraft related things. He got so engrossed that he subconsciously forgot that he was playing Minecraft. It suddenly dawned on him later that he was playing Minecraft when he decided to help Mal build a house. Stephen realized that he didn't have any tools and that he didn't even craft any. Once he crafted a pickaxe, he started mining for materials and it felt like he shifted mentally from playing Pokémon to Minecraft. While mining, Stephen kept getting interrupted by wild Pokémon starting battles with him in the caves. Stephen says that overall the mod was great. He notes that it would be especially fun for Pokémon fans to see all the different Pokémon. Even though Stephen is not familiar with all the Pokémon, he still enjoyed seeing the variety of Pokémon. It was also fun for him to see and catch the Pokémon that he recognized.

Stephen says that they recorded the episode with a pretty big group. He felt like the mod had something for everyone. Stephen notes that the mod isn't perfect though. He says that it's cool that the Pokémon have moving animations, but sometimes the animations don't work and the Pokémon just slide across the ground. Stephen adds that the battling system is also not ideal. But, the stats and Pokémon moves seems fairly accurate to the original games which was impressive. The biggest takeaway for Stephen was that it was an open world multiplayer Pokémon game. Stephen understands that it's not an official Pokémon game and that it's in Minecraft, but the feeling it evokes is so powerful. He hopes there comes a day where there's a similar game to this on the Switch. It would be a game where players can go on adventure with multiple people, see all the Pokémon, and catch them together. Stephen says that even though this game isn't as refined as a official Nintendo game, it was incredibly fun.

Stephen looks forward to playing this mod again. He will post the video and see if people want them to contine playing. Stephen mentions that there are still a lot of things left that they can do in the mod like collecting all the badges from the gyms. He says that everyone in the group loved it especially Hayley. Then, he gives a shout out to Tom Fawkes for giving them a crash course on what to do since he's played the mod before. Stephen says that even though they tested out the mod before the recording, they couldn't figure out how everything worked. So, having Tom explain things to them was really helpful. Tom also spent a lot of time helping the rest of the group by crafting Poké Balls, so that everyone could catch some Pokémon. Stephen says that at the end of the episode, they got all their Pokémon out of their Poké Balls so that everyone could see them. He says that it was a fun time even if everyone was off doing their own thing whether it was exploring, having fun, seeing new Pokemon, or seeing what they could catch.

Stephen states that Pixelmon is a cool mod and that he can see why it's so popular. He hopes to do more Minecraft mods in the future. Stephen mentions that there will probably be 1 more episode of Pixelmon since he has a feeling that the episode will go over well with the viewers. Stephen tells the viewers to post recommendations for Minecraft mods in the comment section of this vlog or on the Minecraft mod videos. He says that he is very curious to see what some of the best Minecraft mods are.