…or Look at my fucking mine! …or Blocks! They’re everywhere!

Minecraft… Let that sink in for a second… OK, done? How should I explain what Minecraft is and why it’s a productivity killer? I have no idea other than to show you what I’m currently doing in my minecraft save. This post will be long and picture-tastic one, hopefully.

Minecraft, as far as I know, is the only good thing to come out of Sweden. It’s a sandbox game written in Java. The older one is playable online for free, but I paid for the alpha which makes the game more RPG-y. It adds crafting, monsters and an unlimited map size. When I mean unlimited, I mean UNLIMITED. Here’s a video from the developer from a year ago showing the map rendering in all it’s glory.

Now on to my current save. This is the first thing I see when I load it.

If you’re wondering what it is, I have not got a clue. I just blocked off a bit of land and I was planing to mine it. This is the basic reason I love this game. It reminds of Lego. Every child has played with Lego once in their lives. Minecraft incases the magic of building something random or something planned. People have shown how to built traps for monsters and airlocks for an underwater lair.

I finished my hole thing and I moved on to bigger and better things. I found a cave containing a brook. I decided to build down into cavern and have a waterfall.

I only finished diverting the river and Notch, the developer, released the first public multi-player server. Well, that ruined my single-player experience. The first thing I did was skin my block character as Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama and then I joined the most popular server. I spent about 3 hours in this server. We made a underground castle with a huge entrance. I was having so much fun I forgot to take screenshots of it… Shit! Before I left the server I notice some other players a bit away from the castle. I found them building a calculator in the game. I was surprised it worked and again… I didn’t take a screenshot.

I probably won’t play the single as much now that the multi-player is just as good, maybe even better. For €10 it’s worth the purchase if you ever played with Lego as a small child.

Punching a sheep in the face,
-Michael