Minecraft Episode 2

Where to begin this post, it was probably one of the most epic co-op sessions I've ever done! me and two friends for nearly eleven hours of Minecraft fun. The plan was to play on Easy mode and survive the monster attacks while building anything we want, we had already worked on the map before and built a small house on top of a mountain.

The idea was to build a giant tower with a platform on the top where we could build without fear of attack, so that's what we did! I spent most of the time working on the platform while my mate Mike made a huge ass mine and then my other friend Jay decided to build a giant bridge to our old house which happened to be on the other side of the map. Reason being if we died we would spawn back over there then it took nearly a day to travel back to where we was working.

It was a lot of fun and my god we had some strange things happening, Jay's bridge is crazily long and takes several minutes to cross. Think he was planning to add a rail way to it so it would take less time to cross but the lack of Iron ore got to him in the end so I'm guessing that will be for another night.

The Long Bridge

Mike's mine goes right down to the bed rock and expands out, includes plenty of lava pools too! To make it easier I built a huge wooden tunnel in the air that covers the entrance then connects to the roof of the house we was working from. That way we could travel at any time without attack and then since it worked so well I had a second tunnel built to connect the tower to the house. In fact I did start a third tunnel on the platform that travels to a nearby mountain and started working on a second mine, funny story I thought I had found a natural cavern so had the lads come back me up but turned out it was just a small cave with nothing to worry about. As we turned to leave two creepers appeared on the stairs, the words "Panic" came to mind lol.

The Platform, Mining Tunnel and House

As you can see in the picture above how it turned out,the lava came from under the platform is connects to Mike's lava tower house thingy (no idea what to call it) which I will put a picture below. You can see the mine tunnel on the left side in the air that connects to the mine. Oh yeah and that's Jay super tree on the top, a lot of threats where made when lava was mentioned with that tree lol.

This is the start of my Wizards tower which caused quite a few problems. Original the waterfalls where lava and yeah I set fire to most of the trees below. Then when I put water down it turned the lava into cobblestone so the water went over it and expanded so it flash flooded the area. Yeah I was not a good person for the environment, I really thought Mike would be the one to cause that much trouble.

Anyway the giant balcony is the future sight of my new greenhouse since the old was too small and not producing enough wheat, going to create some water tunnels inside using glass but that's for another night. Oh yeah just left of the picture is a water fountain that keeps getting squids spawning in, also had several mid air floating ones thanks to it as well. Thought the lava fumes where starting to get to me when one floated by.

That's is the lava tower thingy that Mike was making, as I said no idea what he was doing with it other then its cool looking and very close to the super tree. Also how the hell did a Sheep get up here! yeah we keep getting random spawns and we did get a few Creepers magically spawn as well, that was fun since the platform floor is very thin so it involved us running around shouting "don't let it blow up!".

Finally we have Jay's glass castle which is very impressive and think he will be adding water or lava in the top at a later date. It was one hell of a marathon and great fun, we did do a Nether portal in the end (reverted the save file back) but that ended up with fireball throwing ghosts and zombie pigmen trying to kill us with gold swords. Scratch that they did kill us and we put the save file back to before the portal was built, need to decide on what we doing with that.

So that was it folks, plenty of creeper attacks, thousands of blocks mined, random buildings, floods, fires and everything in between plus a sheep! cannot wait for the next co-op game now.

~Iznic