Working as Intended

Final Fantasy VIII, as full of snark-fodder as it is, can't compare to the addictiveness of Minecraft! For a game even as of a few weeks ago I didn't find interesting enough to try out in the slightest, it's doing a darn fine job of ripping away my free time. Curse you, gameplay!

Anyway, I technically played this section directly after the last post, but I decided to split it up into two entries so there'd be a touch more content over time. Normally I wouldn't care, but apparently Minecraft players, friends and random passing by people alike, seem to really enjoy watching someone make an idiot of themselves in the game.


Yay!

So despite an entry's worth of digging and nigh-death by self-stupidity caused flooding, I still have an ocean between me and home.

Sigh.



Blbbrrrbrbrbrrrrlllrbrbrrbrrblllbbbrrrrr!



I'm not sure I mentioned it in the last entry, but I'll say it anyway. After a while I stopped digging a 2x3 tunnel, because it was burning through my pickaxes something fierce, and the apparently incredible distance between me and my spawn point meant building anything wider than necessary was just wasting more precious time.



Land-ho!

Of course it could be a completely different island between me and the spawn point, but that'd mean I'd have to start screaming and cry blood.



Argh! Stop trying to drown yourself, moron!



This seems like it could be possibly familiar.

Time to do a good high-ground trick that a friend showed me a while ago.



The trick is to jump and place a block of whatever underneath you, and then repeat until you reach a height you find useful. Gravel and dirt are best, but cobblestone is also fine. As long as you can reliably get down, there isn't a problem.



Nothing familiar, but this looks kinda funky!



Oh wells, back to digging!



GOD DAMN IT!



After plugging up the 3,483,482th tunnel flooding, I decided to dig up again.



This seems vaguely familiar.

And quite frankly, I'm sick of looking at nothing but brown and gray tunnels all the time!



I leave some torches, so I can find the where my tunnel currently ends, and pushed onwards.



Dum-dee-dum~



Shit! I've been in mostly well-lit tunnels for so long I forgot all about the night and monsters.



This is the tiny hole I spent most of the night in. I barricaded the roof and stayed inside, to make sure a skeleton or Creeper didn't leap down, go, "o hi" and leave everything in a nice little crater.



This place seems sort of familiar...



Hey! This is where I went to mine coal way back when I first started playing!



Yup, this is the place! Which means...



There's my spawn point!

Now I just need to find my base. I never had a compass before I got horribly lost on another island, so I have no idea exactly what direction Gubelbig Base is in..



Not this way...



There is it! Yay!



Man, I'm surprised how good it feels to be back in my original, silly, little blocky fort.














Some friends said that if  (thanks for the vote of confidence, guys) I ever managed to make it back to Gubelbig from Donk Base in one piece, I should download a program called Cartographer and see just how far away I was. Well, I did!

Here's how far I've explored/traveled in the Minecraft world.