What would any gaming blog be without a Minecraft post?
Allow me to (re)introduce myself. I’m Krutoypotsan (Dan’s note: I still have trouble pronouncing that), friend of BehemothDan in real life. I often find myself at the mercy of his latest Magic: the Gathering strategies, or going against him in various other nerdy games. This is no easy feat.
I played WoW for a few years, and was a founding member of Throwdown with Bobby Flay. Time constraints don’t allow me to play that like I’d want to, but I’m still involved in the gaming world, mainly in Starcraft and Minecraft (So pretty much anything with “craft” in the title). I’ve posted a few times on Less QQ, More PewPew, but I always felt like I was intruding on the Hunter community.
Now, at Behemoth Gaming, I feel like I’ve got more flexibility. I’ve got some ideas for Starcraft posts in the works, but for now I wanted to focus on a game that I’ve been playing at least once a week since. . . . well before it went into beta.
If you haven’t heard of Minecraft, then you should check it out. If you have heard of it and haven’t played it, now is as good as time as any.
I spent hours upon hours as a kid playing with Erector sets, Legos, K’nex, Tinkertoys, and making caves in my sandbox. Minecraft gives me the same sort of high, but on a much more massive and creative scale.
In Minecraft, you can do anything. The limits are your creativity and engineering skills.
Want to build a giant creeper head with booby trapped floors? Do it.
How about a Greek temple? Go for it.
Or maybe just a huge hole? What are you waiting for?
Fight zombies? Nothing quite like it.
Or how about some digital logic gates? (This is the track switcher for my rail system, using vertical RS NOR latches.)
If you’re not into building, you can explore. One day, I decided I wanted to see a mountain with all the dirt removed. So I did. Then I built a fort on top and a cavern inside.
The server software comes free with purchase, so I’ve been running a private server from home. There’s only a couple of us on it, but we’ve already created a world that would take a good fifteen minutes to walk across. Once the nether (a kind of hell world that lets you travel large distances very quickly: think waygates from Wheel of Time) gets implemented in multiplayer, I’m sure we’ll expand even more.
I’ve left a lot of things out. My pool and my hot tub, our TIE fighter, tons of tunnels and mines, castles, cathedrals, treehouses, mansion where I create diabolical plans, anything you can think of. My server is pretty podunk compared to the big servers, yet I’ve already had hours of fun with friends and family. Not to mention PvP. We have an entire area on our server that has been constructed purely for hidey-holes while ambushing each other.
Minecraft is updated on a regular basis, and we can expect more treats in the future. It still has some bugs, especially in multiplayer. Considering it’s run by Mojang, a very small company, I think they’ve done a fantastic job, and I think this is a game that I’ll be playing for years to come.
