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Added 34 more photos to the trip link above!

With the announcement of the Minecraft better together update which supports cross play we've chatted about having an FG server. Last time though we never pulled the trigger as it still hadn't been rolled out to all platforms. Chatting to Matty @Misneach_ the other day about quite enjoying playing on a vanilla server, he checked and the better together is now across all platforms. So PC, PS4/5. Xbox's, Switch, phones and tablets alike can all play together on the same server and with discord available for free, it's easy to all chat together too. What is Minecraft? I think most people know of the game but having had a few conversations with FG'ers not everyone knows the game. In short, Minecraft is an open world sandbox game with the aim to traverse and survive the 3 dimensions and ultimately kill the 2 bosses, the Wither and Ender Dragon. Along the way you can take the short route, the long, manually mine and harvest resources or set up automatic farms, build, trade, fight - it's up to you. How to join; If you're on console or mobile device, the version you download will be the correct version. For PC, you will need to make you download the version which in most places it is referred to as the "Windows 10 version" (if you want to cross play do NOT get the java edition). If you're new to MC on the PC then you will need to buy it however, if you had an old java account you could, and maybe still can, claim a free Windows 10 copy. Actually joining the server, you will need an invite, however Matt has set the server up as friends of friends, so one of us already on the server should be able to chuck an invite your way if you want to join. We just need your Microsoft account name to send you a friends request and invite. I'm sure there's something important I'm missing but any questions just ask and I'll update this post to include the Q&A's.

I'm curious as to what some of your "go to" games are? We all have one or seven that when we don't know what to play, or are waiting for the next big release to arrive, we go back to at some point. It could be a favorite game, One you've mastered or a timeless classic. I have a few. Resident Evil 4 on the Wii, The Messenger, any Mega Man game and of course Destiny. So what's some of yours FG?

Love this thread Chad @Riff Machine . Mine I think will always be Destiny for the foreseeable future. Its become it even more so 7 years since it started because of how its removed so much FOMO, so now I know I don't have to play it - and thats when I end up playing it once or twice a week. The shooting and objectives just end up being a very satisfying experience. Outside of that I seem to have settled into a routine with FIFA and GT Sport. Both are easy pick up and play games but what that does mean is I struggle to pick up others around it as life duties kick in on other nights. Nice to see an array of games above too. @Riff Machine @slamminbones what makes you pick Single Player campaign games? I struggle even more when I've completed a game when I was younger to replay it again. @Greboth @Plumbers Crack I want Minecraft to be one for me but I think I struggle with how its looked over the years without the rpg objectives my uncreative brain needs. Valheim could give me that itch though. I think both games can do that but you don't realise it until you're actually playing them. I miss R6 @The3rdWalker but know my mental capacity would struggle if I didnt play it twice a week. @J4MES OX4D what objectives can you do on Truck simulator games? @Spacedeck I think the key with mine is that they're shared experiences. When I gamed as a kid, I think it would then be linked to my personal life interests - so all the football games got serious playtime. Its not sad you don't have a million hours in one game, its great that you're still searching for one and are willing to try more games. I'm sure any of us could help get you hooked on one of our 'Go To' games 😎

What a drop! 😂😂

So thanks to some very generous donations i've hit £347 for my walk for the Alzheimers Society!!! Well on my way to hitting my target of £500 😀😀 Please take a look at my justgiving page and donate if you can, it's such a worthy cause https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ants-big-walk

The server has been up for about a week already so we've made a start on setting up a base. We've set up on a Savanna plain for now and this is where you'll spawn in as a new player. Early game it's hard to have enough resources to set up big farms so we have a small crop farm, a small automatic melon and pumpkin farm as well as a kelp farm (which can be used as fuel in furnaces) We've also captured and started breeding some animals as needed the food as well as the wool for beds and leather for books. Matt has set up an automatically storage room for the most common items in the game. This just requires dumping everything in a single chest and it will get put in the correct chests. With more chests down the stairs and the potential for some bulk storage to be added in the future. The red and gold rails on the right hand side of the above picture, is a small furnace array. It's only made up of 8 furnaces but put your items in the top minecart and the fuel in the bottom, flick the lever and your items will get evenly distributed amongst the furnaces, smelted and returned to the bottom chest. Effectively this means smelting this 8x faster and great when you need to smelt hundreds of one item. We also have an afk'able mob farm just off shorte that was only finished last night. Mobs in MC give you several important things so it's useful to have an automatic way to harvest these drops. Due to lack of resources,the farm is quite small but ultimately will be 4x the size of what you see here. And of course, the drops from the mob farm are automatically sorted too 😄 Plenty more still to do but this is a good start 🙂

the med countries as far as I Know bond more over food than drink but I would love to sometime come up north to where you are and go to a pub and have a beer or two but it's nice talking face to face with people from other cultures, such a great experience that is kinda rare, I could talk with @TurboR56Mini And @RenFengge For days about anything, all of you are great here at fg and I am grateful at being a part of this family

Not confirmed yet and probably wont be anytime soon officially as this would be another PR disaster for Blizzard right now, but the leaker is highly regarded and the reasons given seem credible Leaker reveals why Overwatch 2 is delayed despite new heroes & maps being “done” - Dexerto WWW.DEXERTO.COM A popular Overwatch 2 leaker has revealed the reason why the sequel is taking so long, even though much of it is finished. A delay like this would pretty much destroy the brand IMO. It's already in massive decline after neglect and general community burn-out but waiting upwards of 4 years for what could be construed as DLC would be the final nail for even the most die hard fans. I'd also like to think that gaming has evolved way more in a couple of years than outdated shooters like this. It will never have the impact the original once did even if it came out tomorrow so this is really bad news all round.

This sums it up pretty well

Hytra was a Michelin ⭐, and yes, the execution was spectacular. With that said, that was more about the experience. The food, the wine, the company. We were building memories and friendships. The majority of other other meals is as local as it gets. Massive portions, seaside dining, popular squares. Hell, if I found a dude grilling on the street I'd post up, drop some euros and get into it. The island fire looks the worst so far that I've seen. They evacuated one of them, it's scary shit. Very analogous to California which has been on fire for a few years now. As for drinking culture, apparently we have to visit Crete for that 😁.

Was really tasty, a malty beer. Reminds me of a darker German beer. It went extremely well with my piles of meats! It is a Greek beer too.

I’m with Dave, Minecraft is always a relaxing choice that I’ve spent far too much time on across the various mod packs. Though currently trying to play on 2 vanilla servers and a modded one is tricky. Sim racing is another go to of mine usually playing Assetto Corsa or Assetto Corsa Competizione. I don’t play them enough but games I can play any time and waste hours on too.

I usually play American Truck Simulator or Euro Truck Simulator. Nice and relaxing, they don't require much brainpower, very addictive plus they are good games in their own right. If it wasn't for those two then I probably wouldn't play any games between releases these days.

Whichever modded Minecraft pack @Grebothcurrently has on the server if I want to relax

Rainbow 6. It's still one of the best FPS games on the market. When I don't feel like Rainbow 6 it's actually Genshin Impact!

It used to be DayZ, as the original Arma 2 version is my favourite game of the last 10 years but currently it's a modded version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and I'm dying for the new one to release as its going to be on game pass. I've been playing Destiny 2 today a little bit on PC and I had forgotten how relaxing I find that game. If all else fails, Escape From Tarkov or Star Citizen take the strain. On PS my chill games is RDR2 and Gran Turismo.

Last of us only. I've never enjoyed a game so much.

Let's hope they just shelf this thing. Deciding to make a sequel to this was a mistake. It's Rainbow Six Extraction.