User:Holroy

Main Description
In the spring of 2016 I started playing minecraft on my old iPad, and found this wiki to be very useful for getting information related to my own experience playing minecraft pocket edition. After gaining some experience and spent some time playing it's now time to give back to the community.

Late 2016 I've also joined the Wikicraft server, and the Hüntar realm, and thusly broadening my experience with more variants related to Minecraft Pocket edition. I thoroughly enjoy exploring and building within MCPE, and are not into roleplays or pvp's.

My Articles
I've written a few articles, some blogs posts and some sub pages. Currently the list consists of:


 * User:Holroy/WikiActivity – Which strips away some change commentaries (from forum threads I'm not following)
 * User:Holroy/How Not to Get Lost – Description on how to use various techniques within Minecraft to not get lost when exploring and wandering about
 * User_blog:Holroy/Some_griefances_on_Categorisation (2017-02-06) – Lately I've been reviewing how pages have been categorised on this Wiki, and as part of that process I've seen some strange habits which I would like to address
 * User blog:Holroy/Fire spreading (2017-02-03)– In this blog I'll cover the area of how far fire will spread over air, stone and into wood.
 * User blog:Holroy/Finding MCPE biomes using a MCPC biome finder (2017-01-24) – Have you seen some of the tools available to MCPC for finding biomes, strongholds, villages, and so on, and missed the opportunity for doing the same on MCPE? I have, but recently I found a way to find biomes on MCPE since the MCPE and MCPC seems to use a very similar biome generator.

My initiatives
Here are some of my larger initiatives on this Wiki, organised by the status of the initiatives.

Current or ongoing Initiatives

 * Add Loot Tables to specific structures (Status: Next action) – I found a list of the specifics of the lootable contents for various generated structures, so I want to add these into the specific pages. I also would like for a general description of the files to be added to the main page. This does however need some work to connect the different loot table files to the correct structures.

Awaiting responses...

 * Clarification related to Update-categories (Status: Awaiting response) – Various blocks and items have a notice in the infobox on when it first appeared, and it is listed on the various Update pages. Do we really need to categorize them with a Update category as well? I think not, and would like for a clarifcation of how to handle these categories. (See also Thread:179389 ) And when clarification is in, I can proceed cleaning up the category usage.


 * Land policy on "Stackable?" treatment  in Infoboxes (Status: Awaiting response) – Currently this varies a lot, triggering slow edit wars. We should really land on one given way of using this. My preferences is no question mark, and the text "Yes, up to 64".


 * Initiative for Tutorial Pages (Status: Awaiting response)– I want to start writing tutorial pages specific for MCPE, where we can focus on actual working solutions and suggestion.


 * Initiative for Redstone Circuitry (Status: Awaiting response) – A more specific set of tutorials, or a distinct set of pages related to various circuitry involving Redstone. I.e. Redstone clocks, elevators, doors, and so on

Ended initiaves
These are mostly completed already:​


 * Conform usage of Hunger points (and shanks) (Status: Completed) – For some time now, I've been seeing various uses of the terms around Hunger, so now I conformed the Food pages to use the template "7 Hunger points " with Image code:, and also extended the template allowing for "17 Hunger points " with Image code.


 * Extended Health Template (Status: Completed) – Similar to the above, I've extended the Template:Health Icon to allow for larger values using the x0.5-x10, x10-x90, x100-x300 syntax. Two examples: and.


 * Correct loot tables for Mobs (Status: Completed) – Complete mob drops according to official looting tables, including effect of Looting Enchantement on weapons used for killing mobs.


 * Single Category:Generated Structures (Status: Completed) – There are not that many structures within MCPE that they can't be within a single category. After discussing a little on Discord, I cleaned up some of the duplicating categories. And as Category:Trees are a sub-category of Generated Structures, there is no need for them to be in both.


 * Added page on Commands (Status: Completed) – I wanted to list all the available commands, with some basic examples.


 * Extend Achievements to include new achievements (Status: Ongoing) – Added in achievements related to some of the new updates. Still missing a few images to be updated to newer version, or achived version.


 * Change into new infoboxes (Status: Planning)  – See box on right of Template:Infobox . The infoboxes used on MCPE Wiki are old school, and not suited for portable devices. A newer version exist which allows for structuring the infoboxes better, and would simplify addition of data belonging to that kind of infobox. This is a major thingy though, and needs some debate before I kind start it... Update: It has been considered previously, and staff decided it wasn't worth it and that they didn't see the benefit as good enough related to the effort. If someone does want to do this, I'm ready!