April Newsletter (Patreon)

Hello Patrons! 

First of all thanks so much for your support again!  Your support has meant I have been able to invest in some new equipment for making videos and streaming which I will show you below. In this month's newsletter:

City Building

Village to Kingdoms

Livestreaming

New equipment

A trip to Edinburgh

City Building: 

We have had a busy month with more progress made on the Cloud Forest Park with the addition of the Flower Dome.  Thanks to Ruben for making it for us.  We have also started work on a Star Wars Theme park.  Other builds currently being made would include a massive FedEx company by Tronity, skyscrapers by Leon and a huge hospital by Waredog and Nathan which has some epic planning to it! This is only scraping the surface as there have been many other projects started like the MintyTea skyscraper and the Mintenol biofuel plant! Special thanks to Admin John Kelly for keeping things working smoothly on the server and in discord.

The village to Kingdoms series is one of my most successful building series ever with each episode getting around 20k views.  Thanks if you are one of the viewers! I am trying to figure out more ways of getting Patrons involved. So, if you think you would like to maybe make some 5x5 builds for the kingdom then I could add them in in one of the episodes.  If you have any ideas for what I should add to the Kingdom then please let me know in discord and your idea can be added to the town. Yesterday's episode was quite short and I would like to know what you think of the length of each video.  What is the best length?

The kingdom series will be recorded on twitch and I will be working on this quite a lot so please follow me on http://twitch.tv/andyisyoda . If you are new to twitch please give it a try - you can install the app on phones or tablets or just watch in any browser.  If you make a user name you will be able to join in the livestream chat.

I recently invested in a 27" monitor and it is amazing.  There is no way I would have been able to do this without stream tips and patreon - so thanks very much again. If you ever get the chance to get a 27" monitor I would say go for it as having the extra screen space is quite amazing.  I had 22" monitor for a long time and while this is fine the extra space is awesome for having minecraft and my livestream chat side by side meaning the livestreaming experience is better for me and for my viewers.

I also got a streamdeck made by Elgato and this has been so amazing for streaming.  It means I can change to different scenes and have sound effects instantly.  I will be programming it with much more cool things - coming soon!!

Edinburgh Trip

As you read this I am taking a few days off (the first since December) and visiting some family in Edinburgh. If you follow me on Instagram you will be able to see some pictures of my visit.  But, I will be putting some exclusive pictures in discord. I will also try to use Youtube stories but I am rubbish at remembering to do this!