{"id":1491,"date":"2012-06-08T01:41:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T05:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2012-08-27T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T23:06:49","slug":"on-being-a-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2012\/06\/08\/on-being-a-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being A Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mONkEyhouse<\/a>This is a preliminary post which will be added to over time. \u00a0Members of the ds106 digital storytelling<\/a> group The Monkey House<\/a> may be interested in some of these resources and hints for use with MineCraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1) Monkey Skins<\/strong> are available for your MineCraft dude (while you are waiting to customize your own).<\/p>\n

The Skindex<\/a> currently shows 23 skins when you search for “monkey.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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You can either download the .png skin file for use further editing, or you can upload it directly to \u00a0your Minecraft profile so that you immediately look like a proper chimp.<\/p>\n

2) Monkey House Texture Pack:<\/strong> Following on a question from @BenjaminHarwood<\/a>, I investigated the Texture Pack feature, and created the beginnings of a Monkey House theme that substitutes a banana for the apple, and introduces some simple monkey artwork. \u00a0To achieve this end,<\/p>\n

a) download the Monkey House Texture Pack: MC_mONkEyhouse_v1.zip<\/del>\u00a0(Sat: 145 pm: v2 is in preparation) to a spot you can locate on your computer. The texture back is in a ZIP file format. Do NOT unzip it.
\nb) Run Minecraft. If you already have Minecraft running, make sure you save and quit the world: you need to be in the main menu to continue.<\/p>\n

c) Click\u00a0Texture Packs<\/em>\u00a0button.<\/p>\n

d) Click\u00a0Open Texture Pack Folder<\/em>\u00a0button; this will open the folder where minecraft stores all texture packs. If nothing happens, you need to find the folder manually. Depending on your operating system it is:<\/p>\n