In A Land Before Time - An Old Minecraft-Thread

I had to catch up with my Google Reader today because I didn't have time for it on sunday and yesterday. I HAVE to cut down on my feeds but I also don't want to miss all those interesting posts. At the moment I'm getting 200 - 300 posts a day. 1/3 of them I want to read.

Well, anyhow, that was the reason that I just now stumbled upon an amazing post on Kotaku that shared a link to an ancient Minecraft thread. To read this warms my heart. It was started on May 17th, 2009.

I myself obviously was kind of a late adopter. I searched my inbox for "minecraft" just now and I built the first thing in the free Creative Mode in my Browser on October 25th, 2010. I know that because I proudly built my brothers name with coloured wool blocks and then tried to show it to him. On November 2nd, 2010 I bought my first copy of the game (I proceeded to buy copies for both of my brothers later on). I don't want to know how much time I've spent with it since then, but it certainly is a huge amount.

I've played countless hours of singleplayer and multiplayer. I've replaced the top of a mountain with glass, so that my roof still has the shape of the mountain (Probably my most mind-numbing project in singleplayer, but I absolutely wanted to see what it would look like. At the moment, it looks like this).

I've built huge underwater-tunnels with my brothers, gone treasure hunting with them, built villages with friends, built a colloseum and vast tunnel systems. And much more.

I've also spent much time watching videos of people playing minecraft. For a period of time I've enjoyed this even more than playing the game. Minecraft probably was my substitute drug after quitting World of Warcraft. And there couldn't have been a better one.

Minecraft allowed me to create something, instead of doing daily quest after daily quest. It allowed me to set my own goals, write my own story, instead of following a prescribed line. It allowed me to be active, to completely design my experience of the game in a way that I liked. I also have quite a lot of fond memories of my time playing World of Warcraft, but I think Minecraft was a healthy way to go.

Because it also showed me what one man (and a pretty nice man, too!) with a vision can do. Now I just have to put that knowledge into action...