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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

MINECRAFT!!!!!!!

Yesh, it be Minecraft!!!
Before I write anything else, here's the link to the site.
Minecraft is basically a game with two modes at the moment, Creative and Survival.
In Creative mode, you go around with unlimited bricks and no health to worry about and all you do is build, build, build.
Kind of boring, but in Survival mode, you start out in a random spot and you have about ten minutes on daytime to build yourself some sort of shelter for the night, as when it gets dark zombies and skeletons and spiders and creepers come out and try to hunt you down and eat you. You don't want that to happen.
In this mode, you actually have health, so you have to be careful to keep that up. The only way to regain health at the moment is to eat, and to gather food you have to kill pigs or make bread or other stuff.
The creatures that come out during the night can and will hurt you if you get too close, but not all of them remain during the day. Since zombies and skeletons are technically undead, they burn up in the sunlight, but spiders and creepers will not die in the sunlight, and so they remain on the map during the day. Spiders will become neutral in the sunlight and will only attack you if you first attack them, but if you meet a creeper it will chase you and blow up in your face.
You can also make things to help you in you new life by doing something called crafting. To craft, you first open you inventory by pressing the "i" key. Once you've done that, you will see everything in your inventory and a small, 2 by 2 crafting area. To get a larger crafting area, you have to make a crafting table, but I'm not going to spoil it by telling you how to make it. You can also make a furnace, which will allow you to make stuff like glass and cook food.
Another thing you can do in Survival mode is mine. As you must earn every single brick you place, this is an ideal way to collect things like cobblestone and more. You can also find useful things like diamonds and iron ore underground, and that is the only place you'll find them. Never on the surface. Only underground.
Mining also finds you neat things like natural caverns, lava and collectible water sources. You can also find dungeons, special rooms with mossy cobblestone floors and monster generators in the middle of them. If you don't feel up for a fight, avoid these areas, but you will be missing out on the contents of the chests inside. To defeat a dungeon, you must carefully kill all the monsters inside and then get in there fast and neutralize the generator by putting up torches, which will light up the area and make it impossible for anything to spawn, and voila! You now have a monster free area and one or more chests with treasure and stuff inside them, waiting to be looted. After you get the stuff, you can either destroy the generator or leave it. if you leave it, you can use it to make traps and stuff to get the items that the monsters drop.
There is also this place called the Nether, but I will write more about it on a later date.
Minecraft is still in development, but you can buy it anyway and just get the updates, but in a matter of months, there might be changes in the game that aren't covered in here, so keep that in mind and look at the post date to check how long ago this was posted. You just never know...

I plan to buy Minecraft soon, but first I must memorize some math by February 21, so I will know some more math and I will be able to play Minecraft.

Bye for now, and happy crafting!

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