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Minecraft is a game about expressing your creativity in a world of blocks! A barebones game released in 2011, it has since been updated throughout the years, expanding into the lively world it is today with millions of loving fans worldwide.
I don't quite remember when I started played, but I do know I played it on an old iPad for a while, until eventually buying the game on PC for the first time after watching videos of PopularMMOs' lucky block mod showcases.
As of the moment I don't have any screenshots to share, however I'll try adding some later where applicable (sadly I don't have pictures of my first Minecraft builds...)
TODO: move categories to seperate page
Ye Olde Days
My first creative world and first builds were on Pocket Edition. I recall one of my first builds was a wooden roller coaster. There were a couple of them but I mainly remember one which was just a giant ramp. It was pretty funny because I found out minecarts could sit on top of each other, and it was pretty fun just making a pile of them. There was also a "hub" that centralized the starting points of each roller coaster, it was just a glass dome with some wooden fence gates, but I do remember really liking it. Maybe I'll put some sort of recreation picture somewhere.
The other old build was the great house of riches - the true rite of passage for all Minecrafters. The house was a big box (and no ceiling) with each layer of the wall being a different valuable; gold, diamond, nether reactor core (lol), all that good stuff. I specifically remember a dining room, which was another tiny box made of lapis blocks, a 2x2 square table (also made of lapis) with cakes on it. There was a staircase leading to the next "floor," though in reality it was just another floating box connected via stairway. There were definitely several of these floors, one was restaurant themed, one was like a lab, a chest room, a pool - anything I could think of! Also the restuarant had a parkour course for some reason. There was also this little "secret" entrance I had on the pool floor, which involved throwing an ender pearl through some cobwebs or something like that. I don't really remember what was in the secret place though.
Lastly, I remember making a giant treehouse. It was a huge handmade tree, with a 5x5 trunk and probably something like a 100 block ladder to reach the top, lol. I painstakingly pillared up the trunk and then made another giant rectangle box made of leaves to make the head of the tree. Funny, because after all that I couldn't think of what to put in there so it was a lot of empty space besides the ladder stem in the middle, the classic wall of workstation blocks on one side and a wall of chests on another. I also realized I couldn't place torches on the walls, though I think I just gave up on lighting and constantly splashed myself with nigh vision potions. One wall was used as an exit to a balcony, which was a wooden walkway around the outside of the tree. On that very balcony, I also found out about named entities for the first time, and thought it was absolutely hilarious that you could rename spawn eggs to change the name of the creature. A witch spawn egg that named them "Spawn Witchy" was my absolute favourite.
Gensokyo Reimagined
Gensokyo Reimagined is a Minecraft server that is still in development. It aims to recreate the fantasy land of Touhou Project within Minecraft as well as providing a compelling MMORPG experience. I've been around here for a quite while now and served as a novice builder in its early stages, nowadays I'm mostly just an active member of its community. You can check out the website here and the public Discord server here!
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