Trust me… I’ve wasting hours sitting on a boat floating around the map wandering around to gather the diamonds needed to craft an Enchantment Table. It’ll work, but it will take forever in human years.
I’ve been there and I know that much.
What if I told you that you can spend minimal time searching for the materials you need, finding exactly what you’re looking for when you need it, and will double or even triple the amount of progress you go through in the same amount of time it would usually take?
I’ve been there and I know that much.
What if I told you that you can spend minimal time searching for the materials you need, finding exactly what you’re looking for when you need it, and will double or even triple the amount of progress you go through in the same amount of time it would usually take?
I’m about to tell you the story which changed the way I’ve viewed Minecraft forever…
I started of Minecraft as a simple person. I knew what it was about, and I had my very own game plan when I first spawned on the beaches of the world I generated.
I learned everything the hard way, tapping left click repeatedly to punch trees down, when I was supposed to be holding down the left click instead. That sort of thing…
And it was fun for awhile ya’know. I had all the freedom to create anything I wanted. So I started building a home for my lil’ avatar. I wanted him to be welcome in this new world that was provided to him.
I went big. I wanted my first home to be something epic. So I decided to build myself…. A Hotel. I wanted to make it about 10 floors or so, with the top floor being a wide open space for a suite. As real as possible as far as cheap hotels go.
I didn’t know better at the time, so I went with whatever I had available, and that was wood. I could upgrade it later when I had more time, so I went about my way building the ground floor to live in at night and collecting wood in the day to build my dream hotel. Everything was made from scratch by the way. Furnishings and such like tables and chairs were all made and placed in every room, three per level of the hotel which was about 27 or so. I’ll put in paintings and such later to make each room look awesome.
About a week into it, real time, not game time, I decided to spruce up the ground floor, having a reception table, a lounge for myself to hang out in. Yeah, impractical but I wanted to make it a Hotel I could live in right?
And here’s where everything turned for the worst. I had the bright idea to build a fireplace because I wanted more light in the night and torches just didn’t cut it. I went out and got some stone up to 3 layers thick and I thought that would be fine.
Nope. I heard a crackling sound coming from the fireplace and assumed that was normal, realistic even. The crackling sound was from the wood from the floors above. “Oh, no problem, I’ll just head up the stairs and put it out”. That didn’t work out. The fire spread so quickly, so absurdly fast that I couldn’t do anything. We were talking about 10 floors of fire spreading on the outside of the wall and there was just no way I could go out there to punch the fires out.
Worst. Day. Ever.
Everything I built from the day I started Minecraft.
Gone.
If you’ve lost something you’ve worked hard on creating, you can probably tell how I felt at the time.
I didn’t know how materials reacted, and I paid the price.
It was terrible. And I know for a fact that there really wasn’t much I could have done to avoid it.
Truly not a fair price to pay for the tiny lesson of “Wood burns in Minecraft” isn’t it?
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