Minecraft: The Great Hole Dig Of 2011

Didn't exactly break the bank so what the hey!

I am an addict. Phew! There, I said it. I, like lots of other closet geeks, am hooked on Minecraft. Damn you notch!! I first heard about Minecraft on nice game where bajo told me of the joys of punching sheep, I was a small confused as to what this new game, that looked like an elderly game, was actually all about. Husband heard about it , & next thing you know, they bought it for something like 9 gbp or whatever.

Some people play it as a hunting game, waiting for the night to fall an the monsters to come out.

Minecraft is the hardest game to report, because it doesn't have a point. You do what you require to do with it.

Others build large structures, impressive , man built the starship enterprise for crying out loud!

& me? Well, I dug a hole.

So that was how I started the great hole dig of 2011!

At first I was all like "yay, breaking bricks & building homes, digging for iron, woot!" Then I was like "cool, I found a large cavern while digging a tunnel & it had zombies in it that killed me!" But also I was like "'now that i have re-spawned & killed all the zombies & shite & put up some torches & stuff, there is heaps of icy shizzit in here!" & then I was all "i'm so lost in this labyrinth of caverns! I wish it was large cavern!"

I downloaded (by i, I mean husband, he is smart like that) a map program so I can actually see what i am digging in to, & I began to look down through the layers of my world.

I discovered that all my caverns, were actually connected, & that in all the walls & floors separating the 'rooms', was a whole heap of icy shite!

I then connected the corners with a walkway.

So using the map, I marked out the corners of what would be the great hole, ensuring to not miss any ore deposits below the surface.

Filled in all the water, then dug out the dirt.

Encased the water spawn point in an orb of dirt.

Then began to systematically dig my way down.

& down.

& down!

The floor of the great hole covers 48 x 98 cubes.

That is two,704 cubes. Assuming a layer consists of entirely gravel bricks, & that a pick-axe destroys approx 130 gravel bricks before breaking, that is approx 36 pick-axes per layer. I am about 23 layers below sea level. To get there I would have needed to break approx 108,192 bricks. That is 832 pick-axes. I have spent a significant number of hours digging this hole.

& I am only about half way......

Such as soft & fluffy animals!

But Minecraft is not digging & building (or mining & crafting in the event you will), there is other thing in this game.

Killing a pig gives you a pork chop for health, you can then cook the pork chop for additional crispy health goodness.

Punching a sheep gives you wool, now obtainable in both the black & white varieties.

Killing a chicken gives you feathers for arrows.

Killing cows gives you leather for armour, it is week, but everyone looks nice in a leather suit.

You can also craft a saddle, allowing you to ride the pig..... I haven't done that yet.

But when the sun sets over the horizon, look out......

Because you are not alone......

Monsters will spawn in any dark place, which is why my great hole is covered in torches. Skeletons shoot arrows, which makes them difficult to kill unless you have crafted yourself a bow & some arrows. Every time you try to get close to hit them together with your sword, they shoot you! But you can listen to their bones ratting when they are close, giving you ample time to run away. Spiders are simple to kill, & necessary for obtaining string to craft your bow. And they make a squelchy squeeling sound so you can listen to them coming. Zombies moan of work, so they are simple to listen to coming. Not difficult to kill, a few jabs together with your sword & they are dead. Also, along with skeletons, zombies catch on fire when the sun comes up!

& then there is the creeper.

The creepers only aim in life, is to screw your shite up.

You cannot listen to the creeper coming.

He makes no footsteps.

The sssssssss tells you you have approx one seconds before that damn creeper blows up, destroying all of your hard work, & often killing you .

You'll be working away at mining some iron, when you listen to a sssssssss......Kaboom!

Beware the creeper.

The creeper is the most feared monster in Minecraft. The worst part is, when you die, you drop all of your property. You then re-spawn, at your original spawn point from when you first played the game. All of your property will be waiting for you for a limited amount of time, but they wait where you died. In the event you die at night, which is when most Minecraft deaths occur due to monster assaults, then you will re-spawn far away, with no property, no armour, no weapons, & must find your way back without dying again! I don't know what it is about Minecraft, but I like it. I am addicted & don't think that'll modify anytime soon. It is of those things where you try to report it to people & they look at you like you are eating your own earwax or something. You'll must try it out for yourselves.