I've tooled around in Minecraft for around half a year or so, and this is the first time I'm making anything that I actually want to show off.

I basically got the idea from the Minecraft skeletons. They're cool, and really startling down in the depths of caves, but they just aren't big enough to fit the epic size of the Minecraft world. I decided to up the ante a lot and make a giant skeleton, spewing lava from its eyes and mouth, climbing out of a lava pit in a deep crater.

Using the default textures, I made the bones from sandstone blocks, with netherrack in between the vertebrae for that extra bit of nastiness. I used MCEdit to place tons of TNT and blasted the living daylights out of the environment until I got the kind of crater I wanted.

In addition to being semi-anatomically correct, I wanted it to actually look a bit scary and slightly inhuman. Hopefully it will turn out that way, but so far, so good.

If notch ever got around to making some sort of boss monster, this is kinda what I'd like to see.

World file is up. I used Minecraft Backup Assistant to create the .zip file, if that helps.