minecraft is amazing!! i love it too :]
good lord above. minecraft. i love it i love it i love it SO much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i accidentally corrupted my 9-month old forever world a few days ago, and have been forced to start a new world :-P but i am having so much fun with it already. god i love minecraft.
new years day of 2014, my papa bought minecraft for me. my sister and i were hooked. we played it most every evening after school on his clunky, slow computer, taking it in turns to build ugly diamond boxes on creative mode. i remember the smell of oranges being eaten, and the warm yellow light of the living room, and the big candle that was forever burning on the other end of the table. sweet and gentle memories. i had all four handbooks, the block-o-pedia, even the 2014 annual. in the photos my parents took of me after my bonegraft procedure that summer, you can see the annual resting on the side of my bed :-P
a lot of time has passed since then. i am sure that for many people who frequent this cyberpub, eleven years doesn't seem like much. but i am young and full of life, or so they say. i have changed so much. and minecraft is still here. and im sitting at my desk with a big glass of pepsi max. and i think i shall play minecraft after writing this :-]
Minecraft is great. A middle school friend of mine introduced me to the game back in 2012, and it was quite an experience. There was something profoundly captivating about it the first time I got to try it. I hadn't played a 3D sandbox type of game before, so it all came at once to me.
I played it a lot, on a bunch of computers. Including an old laptop that my brother tried claiming for himself. It couldn't quite run the game, and the computer itself melted some internal components after it overheated at one point. Lol. Years and many devices later, I still have it around.
I returned to the game the other day, feeling that two week phase coming over me once again. I always tell myself to do things differently to keep my engagement up, but then I still do the same things over and over again, starting over in new worlds every time. I dunno. I guess there's something I get out of the walking and collecting items that I don't get from building and mining, though those are nice too.
I'm building a cherry wood house and dappling it with some diorite and birchwood. We'll see how it turns out. I'm not much of a builder, making super basic houses, but sometimes they look pretty in the middle of everything. Diorite and granite are favourite materials of mine, my other super common build is a red and white lighthouse. That one I like to build on an island. I spawn a map with Large Biomes, and hope to find a singular island in the middle of nowhere to build a little village on, lighthouse included. But the worlds are always too crowded with habitable land. I don't like it, it doesn't fit the vibe of my build. The Single Biome option for ocean biomes has been stupid for years, since it just makes it pretend normal terrain is an ocean biome. And after Superflat changed years ago to no longer spawn any features even if you wanted it to, I feel like I get nothing I want out of the world generation in terms of a long term world to get invested in. There's too much land.
My ideal Minecraft world would be one where I could pick myself the biomes I wanted, and picking only all the deep oceans and one shallow one to get some land to stand on. And I'd like to disable all the ocean monuments. Make shipwrecks, mineshafts, villages and all that junk way, *way* more rare. And make caves *way* smaller. The huge cavernous caves are cool and all, but they feel like they're much too common for how big they are.
I guess I want a whole world of nothing, to eke out a meagre survival for myself instead. And I like islands. It reminds me of home, out in the archipelago.