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[SpazCat]

It's true he did. All that. It's actually pretty neat.

I, while Tony was at work, stole control of his fancy new computer and played it myself! I still am playing it... I can't stop!!!

[toysintheattic]

My brother bought the game...I might buy it for myself or just play on his account. This game looks super interesting.

[toysintheattic]

...AND THEN IT WAS 3 IN THE MORNING.

This game is too fun. I made myself a little hideout away from the zombies and explody things, and that turned into a big cavern. Then I built a second tunnel to the surface and I hit a lake or something and that turned into a giant waterslide. Pretty magical. I also made myself some nifty armor and a sword!

[Vicious Parker]

So I've done regular survival a few times, but probably 95% of my game time has been on the peaceful setting. I am absolutely addicted to exploring and building... I have taken a mountain near my spawn point and turned it in to an awesome new home. At first it was just a cube-ish shape made at the top of the mountain, to which I added a few rooms. After I got in to crafting things like torches and tools, I just kept mining and adding and mining and adding... Now I have several rooms through the mountain (including a HUGE one that I'm working on right now), multiple paths leading from the bottom of the mountain going to the multiple entrances, and even its own cavern going deep underground to caves and.. more caves, where all sorts of minerals have been found (I dug my way to the caves, but they existed naturally).

I have built a compass so that I can explore to my heart's content, and always come back. I am also working on a treehouse not too terribly far away (I found a nice forest near the spawn point).

I will eventually give the actual survival mode a try, but for now... man, I'm just having a blast building and mining and crafting...

Seriously awesome game.

[Donkeymog]

Pics or it didn't happen.

Exploration is awesome, but I normally play with monsters on so it can be a little tricksy. For me, though, it's all about the mining. Every other player I've watched play so far has built incredibly crude ruins that simply follow the mineral veins. For some reason I prefer to construct intricate pre-planned tunnel systems that adhere to principles of rotational symmetry. I guess I'm just anal like that.

It does make me wonder what our creations on Minecraft say about us as players though.

[SpazCat]

So I turned the difficulty up to normal. I'm feeling more comfortable with the game now... or at least I was.

See, I also was playing with the sound off. Now every little thing scares me, because things are GROWLING at me, and I can't see them. And I just killed a zombie. And a skeleton was shooting at me with a bow.

Now i'm scared..

EDIT: P.S. This is Invince.

[Vicious Parker]

monsters have invaded my home :(

[Vicious Parker]

and now my home has been exploded twice :(

[Vicious Parker]

Screw it.

I'm abandoning my current world and starting over with the difficulty on normal. I've lost too much to go back...

[Donkeymog]

Sucks, man. You've got to watch out for those creepers. I think building things out of stone rather than wood or mud gives you the protection you need from their blasts.

I've been playing on a multiplayer server since they implemented health. I haven't had time to achieve anything spectacular but I have started construction on my tower, my tree farm and a couple of massive spiral staircases connecting the two. I find I build so many rooms that are just left empty. I wish there was more things to craft so each room could have a unique purpose.

[Vicious Parker]

I'm getting burned out...

Every time I feel like I'm discovering something awesome, or getting lots of minerals and jazz... the game finds some way to kill me. I've already come up with a few ways to be more careful, so that I lose less, but I just can't take it anymore...

I'm going back to peaceful mode for a little while. Then maybe I'll put the game on easy, and see how well that works out for me.

[Donkeymog]

I'm really surprised you're struggling so much. I've only died a handful of times on single-player. You do understand the necessity of torches in warding off monsters, right?

[Vicious Parker]

I go torch crazy, especially in caves. For some reason it just doesn't take much. It's usually the damn zombies. They get right up on me fast, and I die.

One time was because I found a dungeon with a monster spawner.

They also like to fall on my head when I'm digging upwards.

Those blasted zombies...

[Donkeymog]

I go torch crazy, especially in caves. For some reason it just doesn't take much. It's usually the damn zombies. They get right up on me fast, and I die.

One time was because I found a dungeon with a monster spawner.

They also like to fall on my head when I'm digging upwards.

Those blasted zombies...

Sounds a bit weird I don't really encounter those problems. Monster spawners are rare for me and I've never dug upwards into a zombie. Zombies are fairly easy to dispatch too, normally you can knock them back and they'll walk straight back into your flailing weapon. Are you playing with any mods on?

[BottomGuy]

I'm beginning to wonder if he even takes a sword with him. Might want to look into craft a bow and arrows if you haven't already. Give you some distance between the monsters, especially good for creepers since you can safely kill them without setting them off. And you know what that means (sometimes)...GUNPOWDER!

[Vicious Parker]

I'm just going to chalk it up to bad luck. See, my latest world seems to be working out pretty damn well for me. My spawn point was near a dungeon, and in exploring the cave that dungeon was in, I've found another. Conquered them both, mwahaha.

I'm in the more wetland/island-type biome, whatever that would be. I haven't even explored that much.. at least not above ground. My spawn point is on a tiny sandbar next to an island, and that island was where I spent most of my time until I started to.... build my tower. See, near that main island, and my spawn point, another island formed with a pit in the middle. So I just kinda stole the location and started building. Take a look (I'm not super duper creative, so bear with me):

(Serious work in progress here...)
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I've died a few times, but haven't had any major losses (even when that damn creeper snuck up on me...). I get it now. I'm having a blast.

Also, Bean, it occurs to me that there are elements to this game that are similar to some ideas you've had, if I'm remembering our old conversations correctly, such as the interactive environments. I specifically remember one time you mentioning lighting fire to a forest and having it actually effect an environment. I was wondering how Minecraft is fitting in with your video game ramblings these days.

[SpazCat]

Tony and I did multiplayer together. For the first time!!!

It was fun for about 5 minutes then we wanted to go do our own stuff again.

YAY for multiplayer cherry being popped!!

[Donkeymog]

Yeah, multiplayer is great fun. I run a server on my computer and play with some friends over LAN. I did look into setting it up as a server for us all to play on but I don't think I really gots the bandwidth to do it.

Also I do find a lot of multiplayer time is spent apart, but when you get to show the other players around after hours of work it can be really rewarding.

[SpazCat]

....so... I killed my world....

All I wanted to do was get rid of one tree....

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[SpazCat]

This is a picture of it at night... spreading...

I'm a monster. Who knows how many pigs, sheep, chickens, and cows I've killed. I can see a few jumping in flaming pain.

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