Every Day a Holiday!

“I started it as just a way to practice for survival building in Minecraft, and to have some screenshots to share on Twitter,” he tells me “but coming up with random stuff every day was tough, so I looked up national/international days and found some websites that have lists.

“I look at the list of national day holidays and try to pick something interesting, which tends to end up being food because everyone likes food,” he explains (correctly).

Many of his other favourites include animals too, because who doesn’t love our furry friends? For World Penguin Day, Rossi built one of these waddling birds, though he says it took him a while to decide which breed to go for. I think the classic white-bellied, orange-footed look was a good choice.

He says he had fun “trying to imagine what a groundhog would look like in Minecraft.” Watch out, Mojang artists! Rossi and his adorably buck-toothed rodent are coming for your jobs!

Rossi’s final favourite is actually because of a mistake. For, er, Little Red Wagon Day (no, I don’t know what that is either), Rossi made a very lovely cart, complete with white trim and wooden fences to keep the wheels on.

But, he admits that at first, he forgot the handle! “It was very much added as an afterthought,” he says, “but I really like it because it shows mistakes happen,” he says. What a positive attitude! (Though if he’d kept it a secret, I never would have been able to tell...)

He also tells me about a final step to these builds that doesn’t get shown on his Twitter account. “I archive every build by cloning it to a special area,” he explains. That means you can see all 100+ builds in a single place, like a big museum of weird and wonderful holidays.

Though it has occasionally led to its own mistakes. “I have accidentally cloned over and had to rebuild a couple of the archived builds,” Rossi tells me. “That’s the danger of using the clone command! Get a coordinate wrong or forget to change them and things get deleted.” Whoops! At least he has them all documented online to look at again as he rebuilds them.

Rossi might be open about his mistakes, but it’s no mistake to say that his Twitter account is a lovely daily celebration of both fun events and Rossi’s building skills. Now, apparently the day that I’m writing this is Apple Pie Day so I’m off to get a delicious slice!