Who loves Minecraft?

Ah, man... so many sleepless nights.

My latest project was to build an entire fantasy viking village. It was half-done until a fire burnt a lot of it down.

@ Pred - that's a real shame! How did that happen? I'd recommend a less flammable substance than wood for building in, but then it wouldn't be a Viking village. Personally, I am rather proud of the obsidian tower I built. I play on peaceful mode, and not on a server at all, though. I know some people would call that cheating.


@ Billy - It's just a download, I think. It's been around for about three years and they've had a couple of cons for it, even. I don't think they had many people there, though.

The basic idea is you mine for resources and craft things you need. (mine + craft, very descriptive name!) The real beauty of it is that you can arrange the world to your liking. It looks very old-fashioned, because the maneuverable parts are large cubes. Your character is two blocks high and less than one wide. Despite that, I just love the scenery!

Go to www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/ if you're interested. It's a fan site for helping with the how and why of doing things. They also have history on anything they have a page for. If you want to know when wolves were first added, for instance, they have that in there. I don't actually know where to go to buy it, or exactly how much it costs. Sorry for that!

Oh, never thought of lightning wiping out a village!  I don't suppose there is a lightning rod in the game, darn it.  I was pretty amazed the first time rain turned into a thunder and lightning storm.   I was mining in my little cave when I heard the thunder and just had to go up top to see if there was lightning, too.  I love how realistic some parts of this game are, like the moon having phases and the stars actually turning above at night - and lightning! 

I can be pretty bad at making the controls for a game do what I want, especially when there's running and jumping involved.  I am terrible at Mario on the Wii, for instance.  Because of that, I started on peaceful so I wouldn't die all the time.  I still plan on switching to survival eventually, but I keep thinking I'd like to finish something else first.  So far I have completely explored my first cave system, built and partially furnished the tower, and found a few more diamonds while exploring my huge cave system.  I am still not done with that place, and don't hope it'll run out of new twists and turns anytime soon.  But I did finally get bored with caving and started building a rail system. 

As for the obsidian, I did not turn on creative mode, although there have been times I've been tempted.  I patiently waited until I'd found three diamonds and made a diamond pickaxe, then even more patiently waited until I'd mined a couple hundred blocks before starting to build.  I only got about half-way with that, but then it didn't seem quite so long to mine the rest.  Lemme see if I can attach a picture of it in here ... well, I'm not sure where on my computer those screenshots were saved to, so I'll have to research that first!  

I love Minecraft I have spent so many hours playing it, and you're right, it is so realistic that when I'm in a cave and I almost fall off the edge or into lava I gasp out loud and have definitely almost had a heart attack from falling off the roof of my castle :-D

...I even have a Creeper plushie! It goes sssssssssssssss....boom! when you squeeze it.

Also have a pair of replica torches over my headboard. 

Is it double-posting if there's been a week or more since your last post? My last post is already getting long.

Pred - that wiki site I mentioned earlier, www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/, has instructions on hosting a multiplayer game. It didn't sound like it would cost anything, but I don't remember all the details.

As I recall, if you can host it yourself there's no cost, but you need a really good PC for that and no one can play when the host isn't on.

Otherwise, you have to rent a server and for that you need a certain type of account and to pay a monthly fee.

If we're all game, we can rent a server on someone's account and all can pitch in.

Rereading last week's post, I realize I should have included Billy and Marty as possibly interested. Very unkind of me!

This week while mining I found 10 more diamonds! All within about 20 blocks of each other. Previously I'd made a diamond sword and chestplate. Now I have diamond leggings, too! All three items are enchanted.

I did get enough rail system complete to get the achievement of travelling one kilometer by rail. Now I am not so interested in building more railroad. It IS pretty convenient for getting places in a hurry, though.