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[Thanks for 20 subs!] My First Minecraft Experience

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First of all, thanks for 20 subs! I really wanted to get some blogs out, but I was too addicted to a game involving arrows and knees.

So my first experiences...

I got minecraft about 3 years ago, one week before the 1.6 beta update. Unlike most gamers, I didn't really do my research on the game beforehand, and didn't have any knowledge of the game's existence until about a week before I played. All that I knew was some misinformation my brother gave me. From what I managed to understand, minecraft was a survival game where you must defend yourself from monsters who will break into your house, kill you and steal your stuff.

I had some pretty high expectations for the game. I expected mobs to be smart in attacking you, for example, creepers purposely blowing down walls to allow zombies to get in.

So what did I do? Did I build some nice looking house? Did I make a heavily guarded bunker? Nah, I just dug a small hole into the side of a hill and set up my base in a very cramped area, with less than a 5x5x5 cube of space to arrange my stuff: Bed, chests, furnace, crafting bench and mineshaft. It was pretty claustrophobic.

Mining didnt go much better. I strip mined at random levels, going up and down, and generally not getting many valuable resources. I only found maybe 6 diamonds in total of the whole time I spent on my first world.

Building didnt go much better. Once I got more of a feel for the game, I made a strange staircase with an airlock leading up the hill for no reason. I also made a "house", which was a giant stone block on top of the hill. One of the greatest things I made was probably a train station that led into the mineshaft, but even that went wrong. I ended up using a furnace minecart instead of powered rails, as I had no gold. Moral of the story: DONT USE FURNACE MINECARTS.

Yeah, my first world was not the best, but I managed to get better when I played on my first server

Knowing that the minecraft world wasn't as dangerous as I thought, I was able to build much more freely. Playing multiplayer, however, meant we needed to protect our stuff, build more inventively. We we're proposed with a challenge we had to overcome as a group. Our little group had a high security underground base. It was there where I first picked up redstone. I made a door that locks itself in a very crude manner, but nonetheless, it worked.

Eventually, we gave up on that server, but I certainly learned a lot.

I finally was able to call myself a "pro" at minecraft on the second server I played. I learned to become a great community member, I learnt several techniques, I was pretty much honing my skills.

I finally became good with redstone, building all sorts of contraptions, and had it not been for that server, I probably would have never been on PMC, and would have dropped the game long ago.

So thats my story! Once again thanks for 20 subs, it means a lot to me, specifically that people actually see this stuff!

Ill try to get another blog up today
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01/26/2014 5:01 pm
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It was once foretold in the stars that a great man would rise among the ranks of the PMC community. That man... was Paril. But hey! Congragulations on a well deserved milestone!
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02/04/2014 5:45 pm
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Dreams have been crushed right there, Pac XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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