ObsessionSo…Minecraft has officially taken over my life. I think about playing it, I dream about it, and last night at the softball park I saw a pile of metal fence posts in blocks of concrete and my first thought was, “Sweet! Iron and Cobblestone!”

On the first world I played when I got the game (that I put SEVERAL hours into) I had a mishap with some lava. I lost all my diamond tools and I hadn’t saved in a couple hours. When I reloaded my last save and realized how much time and effort I had lost, I decided to step away from that world for a while and start a new one. But even though I did that, I wasn’t really too upset about it. I think that is just a testament to how much I enjoy th...

ObsessionSo…Minecraft has officially taken over my life. I think about playing it, I dream about it, and last night at the softball park I saw a pile of metal fence posts in blocks of concrete and my first thought was, “Sweet! Iron and Cobblestone!”

On the first world I played when I got the game (that I put SEVERAL hours into) I had a mishap with some lava. I lost all my diamond tools and I hadn’t saved in a couple hours. When I reloaded my last save and realized how much time and effort I had lost, I decided to step away from that world for a while and start a new one. But even though I did that, I wasn’t really too upset about it. I think that is just a testament to how much I enjoy this game. It sucks that I have to rediscover the good spots I found, but it’s almost like that’s a part of what makes the game fun. I’m kinda looking forward to returning to that world. It’s almost like I’d be starting a new world that already has a home in a cliff face, a Nether portal, and a partially-built railway system.

The world that I started after the mishap is great so far. I used the seed ‘Diamonds, diamonds everywhere!’, and I spawned near a floating island. I have since built a home on top of the island. It’s relatively small (only about 13 x 5 on the inside), but it’s two stories with wrap-around balconies, has a large basement that I might turn into a work area or a dungeon, and I have a staircase from the ground up to the house, which is over 30 blocks from the ground. The nearby cave has an enormous amount of minerals. I’ve found a lot of coal, iron, gold, redstone, and diamonds. I think I also found a spot where there should be some obsidian.

I can’t wait until the workday is done so I can get back to work.