Minecrafting!

 Ahh, Minecraft. Why must you be so addictive.

So a friend of mine has got a server set up that a whole bunch of us have been playing around on. Though admittedly, while they have all been off replaying Dragon Age 2 and Total War: Shogun 2, I've been messing around in Minecraft between stints of writing out ideas for a game I'm working on.

There needs to be something said about Minecraft just being a fantastic creative outlet. I can take breaks from my writing and work on something visual that others can see and enjoy. I played Singleplayer a bit, but there is something about surviving as a group - the whole hunter/gatherer/creator dynamic that can spawn from a Minecraft server with friends. It's fascinating and fun, and I think that's why I find myself playing so much of late.

In any case, my group of friends have all gone out and gotten themselves their own places to work in. I found a mountain with quite a spectacular cave system running through it, and set myself up there. I built out the cave rather than removing it entirely, and turned it into a living space that I started to grow out from. And days later, this is where I've ended up.

Where the circular tower is, beneath that is where the cave system was that I started in. From there I dug down and expanded out - I even found a giant cave system beneath my base that stretches all the way back to the spawn (quite a ways away!)

If you have never played Minecraft in Survival mode on a server, I highly recommend you do. It's fantastic fun, and the addiction factor is multiplied by the multiplayer aspect.


 
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