Minecraft Episode One

Afternoon all,
Instead of gaming just before work I thought it was about time to try and catch up with some posting. One thing I been wanting to do all week is chat with you about Minecraft which is my latest addiction, I really never thought I would get into it this much. I remember seeing things for the PC version think that's cool but not so keen on the graphics and now I just know it gives that awesome old style touch. Reminds me a lot of Dungeon Keeper 2 which I spent hours on building huge dungeons then would explore using the possession spell.

Only problem I've got with this game is the fact there is too much I want to do with it, I have several projects on the go and plenty I want to do. I've been exploring google and youtube checking out the amazing projects people have done on the PC and it's given me so many ideas, it's unreal whats been made.

Anyway I want to talk about what I done so far then chat about my future projects and I will be doing a post series on the blog keeping you guys up to date with everything. Of course if you are on my friends list the worlds will be open so you can always come have a look and explore.


My first world is where I spent most of my time and got most of my achievements, I nicknamed it the learning world since everything I built there was to see how things worked. Got a huge mining network on the beach and a giant tower that splits off into smaller one that kind float.

It was also where I found out about Creepers for the first time, at the time I was running on easy difficulty since I never realised there was a peaceful setting (without monsters). Unfortunately one morning I stepped out to find a Creeper below my house, so I quickly ran back inside but the bugger gave chase and waited outside my door and would not move.

So in the end I realised I would have to fight it and of course I did not know they exploded! it was good thing I jumped back when I heard the hissing noise but I did lose the entire front of my house.

Creeper Attack

Since then I have learnt they disappear at noon so next time I will wait to then or create a back door to escape. After my experience I decided that I would attempt a second world and was very lucky to get a great mountain range. I wanted to build a giant keep on the top then a wizards tower on the large pillar of rock (See the picture below). But I don't know what happened really since in the end all I did was make the base floor and deleted the save. Think I had too many ideas and just gave up on that one, also I was starting my third world which I was going to make into my main world.

World Two - Wanted the tower on the left and keep on the right

World Three was going to be it for me, I wanted to do the hardest achievement in the game and that's the 500 block railway. So I spent an evening reading up on how the rails worked and watched several youtube tutorials. The day before I attempted this world I went on a friends house which I got to say was amazing, he had this giant tree house with a great looking home with a proper huge mining network system that was done up. So with some of his ideas I got to work on my third world, my plan was to make a giant two floor house with a balcony. It would have a fenced garden so I could grow food so I can switch the difficulty up later.

Also planned to make a giant rail network around the world so I could explore the place quickly, this idea then turned into having a train station with several levels. Finally the last plan was to attempt building a Saurens Tower from lord of the rings using glass and lava for the eye.

As I said this world would be my main one so I was going to have several projects being build on it but in the end it did not go to plan.

I built the house and a giant watch tower so I could see across the land, I did quite a large mining network but the problem was the resources did not appear. To make the rail way for the achievement I needed around 190 Iron Ore, 18 Gold and plenty of Red Stone. So in the end I did a massive open mine in the mountains which turned out to be lucky since I stumbled across the biggest natural cavern I've seen to date which gave me plenty of resources.

So the track was made and I even got it to loop back to the house so I was chuffed about that and I learnt a lot on how it worked. I did start to make the train station but I gave up since I found something else I wanted to make, few days after finishing the track I saw a great Minecraft Castle picture. It was a dark looking castle that was floating in the air with waterfalls coming off it, of course I wanted to give it a go. World four was born and with it my plans to make a giant floating keep, but I did not delete world three since I can let friends login into it to ride the rail way for the achievement and I can dig up the tracks to use in different experiments.

Anyway back to World Four, I spent way too long building a giant house to work from and began construction on the castle. I wanted to start from the top down so I started with the throne room, plan was to have the throne room in a glass dome on the top so the king/queen could see the world.

All the time was spent having to put cobble stone and sand in the furnace so it turned back to stone instead of cobblestone since it looked better and of course glass. Took hours but I did get it done in the end as you can see in the picture below.

But I hit a dead end when I started digging out underneath which would be the Royal Chambers, it was too small! then when I started to think what else rooms I wanted I realised I should had started from the bottom up. So World Four is now currently sitting in my save files untouched for the time being and World Five was born, this time around all I built was a bed (so I can get the day faster), two furnaces and a work bench. Right now it's going well with the grand entrance stair case done and the kitchen made, the upstairs banquet room is currently being worked on plus the entrance hall.

Early Picture, most of the back is done now

And that's what I've been up to so far in Minecraft, I do have a co-op save which I'm working on with two friends. Got a nice medium size house on a mountain but nothing major to speak of, I do have a plan I want to run past them but I have been thinking about doing it solo as well since the results will be different. So stay tuned for another episode very soon if I can pry myself from playing long enough.
~Iznic

P.S. Would love to see anything you guys been working on if you have Minecraft, both xbox and PC