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Went Down in a Fiery Minecraft


On 05/19/2015 at 01:49 AM by KnightDriver

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I'll say it again. Never joke about Minecraft. It'll eat your soul. I ditched all my other gaming plans and played it with my friend Mark all day today and didn't want to stop even after all that time. All the details are described below. 

Mark and I started a new world and built a house right away to protect against night creatures. A lot has changed since I played this game last. I don't remember Creepers banging on your doors. That's frickin' scary! 

Then I got blown up by Creepers a few times, eaten by Spiders, shot up with arrows from Skeletons, and, oh yeah, I drowned several times. I didn't know you have to hold down the "A" button to swim and not mash it. Finally I got my footing and then didn't know what to do. What do you do in a game like this? I guess do crazy stuff. So I built this really high stairway, which ended in a platform, which became a diving platform above a pit, which I then diverted a stream into to make into a pool. Then I jumped. It worked great! I built a ladder to get out of it and ringed it with cobblestone fencing so I wouldn't fall in (I had to dig it deep to get to the water).

Then Mark came over and showed me the flint and steel by lighting a tree on fire. I had forgotten about that thing, so I quickly ran off and made one and added to the fun by lighting nearly a whole forest on fire. I joked that the save screen text said, "you've been kicked from the server for crimes against nature". Then I myself caught on fire and didn't know what to do, so I ran into the pool I'd made. That worked. This happened several times before I got tired of lighting things on fire.

Finally I got around to mining. I dug all over the place and collected the various matterials you need to improve tools and make a whole bunch of things I'm sure weren't in the game a year or two ago. Then I saw the lava and got caught up in the same obsession I got into last time: the mastery and control of lava flows. I dug all around the lava and let it expand as far as I could. I used its light instead of torches as I mined around it. I brought up some lava in a bucket and built a holding tub for it in the house. I walked to the other side of the house to look at something, and when I turned back, the house was on fire. I guess there was some wooden objects too close to it. I laughed so hard at that. Mark was. . .um. . . not amused.

I found lot of good ores around the lava like gold and diamond. I made a diamond pick axe and shovel to dig quicker and longer. I'd be right along the edge of the lava flow all the time. Then I broke through to water and it streamed out over the lava making a nice vein of obsidian. I tried to mine it in the water, but the water was strangely swift running and pushed me right into the pool of lava. Dead! And all my matterials gone up in flames. I made a note to store my stuff in a chest while I mined next time. Then I went right back to digging around the lava flows and letting them expand into the ever larger cavern. After a long time of that, I realized I was dying from starvation and had to come back to the surface to til my field of wheat so I could make bread to take with me. Phew! Dodged a bullet there.

My friend Mark was mining away too and eventaully connected our two areas underground. He's played the game a lot more than me and was way ahead on building tools and expanding the house we'd built at the beginning with glass windows and trap doors. Me, I was fascinated by the lava. I wanted to see it flow and see how far it went by digging around it. I did that for a very long time. You could say, I was falling in lova with Minecraft. 

And with the sound of a drummer's rimshot. I leave you.


 

Comments

Cary Woodham

05/19/2015 at 07:47 AM

Come back before it's too late!  :)

KnightDriver

05/19/2015 at 04:05 PM

Mentally, I'm trying. I'm thinking of doing what I did last time and making it into a kind of RPG. Last time, I looked at the achievement list and used that as a kind of quest map. With the new additions to the game, and a full 1000 gamer score (up from 400), I think I can do that again and make it more focused and less time consuming. I'm not really into building giant structures because I know how long it takes to make them. Maybe it's shorter in creative mode where you have all the resources, but it's not fun to me without the dangers of the mobs.

goaztecs

05/19/2015 at 11:15 AM

Hahaha, I've been banned by my younger cousins from playing in their Minecraft World. One of them thought it would be funny to chase my character around trying to kill it, but when I took out one of their pigs I was the monster. 

I'm currently staying away from the Playstation versions of the game, but at some point I'd pick up a Minecraft Lego set. 

KnightDriver

05/19/2015 at 04:20 PM

I noticed there are some new things you can do as a host to control what players do in your world. I'm not sure what because I didn't look into it. My nephew plays it on 360 and next time I see him, I'll ask him for his gamertag. I think he does a lot of creative mode though.

Mark and I get along in Minecraft for the most part. It's weird because usually he's the destructive one, but in Minecraft, he's the creator and I'm the loose cannon. Maybe it's all that time cackling with demonic laughter around my pools of lava.

goaztecs

05/20/2015 at 10:33 AM

It's amazing on how younger folks get into this game. My youngest cousin when not playing it, is watching videos on how to play it. 

KnightDriver

05/23/2015 at 03:58 PM

Every year my nephew gets more Minecraft related stuff for Christmas. I think he got a book on it this year.

Super Step Contributing Writer

05/19/2015 at 01:00 PM

Lova it.

KnightDriver

05/19/2015 at 04:28 PM

Minecraft has a whole lotta lova.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

05/19/2015 at 07:11 PM

I tried to get into this but... the lova just wasn't there.  

KnightDriver

05/22/2015 at 04:38 PM

I love the first hour of the game in survival mode where you have to madly dash to build a house so you don't get caught outside at night with all the skeletons, creepers, and zombies. I could just replay that part over an over. It's a great little survival horror game in the first hour.

jgusw

05/21/2015 at 05:53 PM

My daughter loves Minecraft.  She plays, watches videos, and talks about it all the time.  She relates almost everything to it.  It scares me sometimes. 

KnightDriver

05/23/2015 at 04:15 PM

Me too. Every kid I see with a phone or tablet (or in the library on computers) is playing Minecraft. It's incredible. 

xDarthKiLLx

05/22/2015 at 06:00 PM

I think I may give my PS4 version of Minecraft a whirl now.

KnightDriver

05/23/2015 at 04:35 PM

It seems like nothing at all at first and then you start making things and exploring and, darn, you get hooked quickly.

NSonic79

07/10/2015 at 01:45 PM

Still never got into it and I'm still not interested in it. Not even with the RvB PSA about Halo minecraft or the hololens thing. =(

KnightDriver

07/11/2015 at 02:26 AM

What I don't get about Minecraft is the creative mode, or casual mode, or peaceful, or whatever they call it. What's the point of playing this survival game without the threat of being attacked by zombies and skeletons? Build yourself a castle for absolutely nothing that's takes you several weeks to finish? Not me. I like fighting off the badies and trying to survive. I crank it up to Very Hard and see what crazy stuff happens like zombies breaking down your doors and turning villagers. Oh yeah! Now things are fun!

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