You never forget the first time you hollow out a mountain with TNT and then blow the top off of it.....ah, good times....

Tch, that's nothin'! today, i've RIPPED A CONTINENT IN HALF WITH TNT. And it was epic.

Beat this, RIPPING A HOLE IN THE SEA. The Too Many Items mod can be fun sometimes.

Not quite a mountain, more a hill with underlying caves. I set up a block duplicator to facilitate my TNT production, and started packing those caves full of TNT. Unfortunately, I set the duplicator up right on top of the hill to cut down on travel time, and as I was almost finished, I placed a TNT block against a wall that was receiving power. I still got my crater, though. - Classified

I was exploring his world after I had discovered maps. All I had brought with me was one bed and a map so I didn't lose my way like I always do whenever I explore. The bottom left corner had tal grass, and led to a grassland and flowers that I really needed. The bottom right corner was the beggining to a tundra biome which I was very pleased about, It did not have any resources, except for the pine trees, however. The top right corner provided a large amount of surface iron and coal as well as a small cavern and a dungeon holding a zombie spawner but ther was only one flaw,thedungeon did not have any chests. And last but not least, the top left corner contained a Vast desert biome and I saw my first desert shrub, I was excited to see it Because I live in a forest biome with a pack of wolfs and never went far from my house, Because I was too afraid I would get lost in it. When I returned to my small den of a house I had 2 stacks of clay, a few cacti, a full stack of coal and iron. First thing I did When I got back? Made a fire place in my den using the brick I had made from the coal, and started up a desert farm with the cacti, Which is also useful for killing any neutral mobs in the area. I also turned the Dungeon I had found into a monument.

While looking for coal on a brand new world I stumbled upon a pair of giant floating islands. I quickly set up shop up on one and made a bridge to the next. After exploring a few of the caves in the area I found a Skeleton spawner. Then I made a big ol' mineshaft down to bedrock, and as soon as I broke out of it I found 12 diamonds. After having branch mined every possible way in that area I decided to go check out near by islands. About a ten second boat trip away from my spawn there was a second island, this one also had two giant floating islands on them. After exploring the caves around this area I found a Spider spawner. Then while branch mining I broke into a big cavern, I found yet another dungeon in there, and after another minute found a second dungeon in the same cavern. I love this world so much. So freakin' much.

This Troper had the intelligent idea to make a portal. I leapt through and began building a house which was razed by a ghast. As was the next one and the next one. I survived by digging a hidey hole into the ground and hiding. After a while i was punted off a cliff and nearly died in lava. After fighting my way through Hell (im a Teutonic Knight btw) I finally manage to build a portal. I find myself underground. I dig for a few minutes untill i discover that I am UNDER THE SEA. I nearly drown as is swim to the surface. I am in the middle of a massive forrest at the moment with no clue as to where I am. Am i screwed or not?

While this troper was playing his first serious game of MineCraft, he found himself needing black wool for the floor in his house. For some weird reason, squids weren't spawning, nor were black sheep, so he couldn't get any black wool. He decided that he should instead focus on getting red flowers for decorating his walkway; again, none. Anywhere. He ventured into the mountains and into the sea, but couldn't find any of these supposedly common items. Then... He got lost. He tried for 3 in-game days to find his house again but to no avail. On the fourth day however; he found a small pool with 5 squids, at least 20 red flowers scattered around AND a few pumpkins! He knew he couldn't die now, so he turned it to peaceful mode, but that was unnecessary because he found his home again after only around a minute of exploring. Needless to say, someone around here was very happy.

Sounds like the great lord Notch had sent you on a journey to find the promised land. Thou are blessed.

This troper, after downloading the Mo' Creatures mod, fought an Ogre. With a stone sword. No armor. And won. Then he did it again, except with two ogres, an iron sword, and a half-broken set of armor. And won again...then tamed a unicorn.

This troper has had a lot of fun with TNT. I went to a huge mountain where I loaded it up with enough TNT to level Canada. After the huge explosion I found that there was not only a constant flow of lava, but water as well. Short story even shorter, I found a place to make easy Obsidian.

This troper's current Giant Castle map has many funny stories. First was, I found a nice cave after much lateral digging. I didn't know where I was after about 15 minutes. Dug out, and was barely able to scrape together the resources for a compass. Came out of that with much redstone dust and 2 units of diamond. Then, I found a MASSIVE cave complex (with TWO DUNGEONS) literally, about 6 squares from my castle door. First time I was looking for diamond, I got 2 units of diamond, gleefully headed towards the exit... and fell in lava. Losing everything I had, including all my iron. The very next moring, I got 2 more units of diamond, aaaand... Fell into the lava pit again. Third time, I covered up that pit and got more diamond. Then I started Obsidian farmind. There is a LOT less lava there now, but still much more gold, redstone, iron, coal, and diamond to be had (and possibly another dungeon). Fun tiems.

This troper remembers making a castle at the top of a mountain high above the clouds, with a long staircase connecting it to the spawn point. There was also another staircase leading to the bottom z level. Much exploration was had.

I found this cave in alpha. It was very large. My brother even named it The Labyrinth. But the odd thing was, I kept finding skeletons in it. So, I looked around and actually found a unexplored, blocked up part of the cave! I went in. The last thing I saw was a fire, and an arrow heading straight for my head. I flooded the cave, and blocked it off.

Sounds like you found a spawner. I still need to find the one in my cave >.>

This Troper feels rather lucky. Twice at two different maps, after about 1 minute of exploring, had she found dungeons sticking right out of the sand. The first time she was like, "What? Did someone build here before me?" And then she uncovered a chest from fallen sand and instantly knew what it was. She did a little dance, told everybody, and collected it all up.

Second time wasn't that much of a blast.

Reminds me of the time I found a Crafting Table in nowhere. I was like "Did someone get here?" I was on single player. But then I remembered I always forget to pick up work tables; I set it.

I had some bad encounters with a creeper

Two creepers were coming after Me in a cave, after killing the first one, I couldn't find the other one, Thinking it disappeared I proceeded on, the creeper was brilliance}} hiding in an alcove #QUOTE# *Ss-sssss* #QUOTE# Me: What the--- #QUOTE# *BOOM*

Even better! I was constructing a watch tower with no protection, I had gone back to get more cobblestone, I made the stupidest mistake of leaving the under construction rise un-lit, then... #QUOTE# *Ss-sssss* #QUOTE# Me: NONONONONONONOO #QUOTE# *Boom* #QUOTE# Me: AHHHHH *Splat*

I regained all of My items soon after, but My heart was beating after that

If You wan't a seed code for an easy world try "Dallenson" (Which I tried out of curiosity), I started on a plain with 2 caves nearby and a nice blue ocean in one direction. The world name is "Arcaria", You know, the {{Rule of Cool}}.

I have roamed the equivalent of 40 miles in one map that I have dedicated to exploration: Peaceful difficulty, seed set as "Thanatos" (for lots of waterfalls), a couple dozen boats, beds, ladders, and maps, and me against the world. To the Far Lands I go, regardless of if the map size has reached 30 MB!

Thanks to the inclusion of the compass this troper can now roam freely without worrying about directions, I found a beautiful island, loads of caves below, mountains and waterfalls above, all good, except that traversing the tops of the mountains is the most dangerous yet quick way back off the island, carrying a full stack and a bit of collected iron ore across perilous walkways and jumps, not wanting to just build around it for the challenge, it's the best island I've seen generated, not just that, it's the first time I've seen a game as art, or as something beautiful.

I once did overkill. Two TNT to kill a skeleton. It still lived. It wasn't laughing when I threw lava in its face. When neither TNT nor Lava are available, I pump it full of flint arrows

This troper plays on a multiplayer server with his friends. We've set up a sort of functioning economy; one of the players built/grew an enormous tree next to the spawn point, and placed lots of double chests at the base; we use it as a trading post. We also trade goods for labor; if you have more than one project you want done, you can negotiate a wage of materials with another player to do it for you. This troper sells towers; he has a specific design that can be built with ten stacks of stone (glass for the windows is extra). When he's not selling towers, this troper spends his time expanding his ElaborateUndergroundBase; last he checked, it's about four or five square miles if you add up the surface area of all the rooms.

I Recently had an epic WhatAnIdiot moment when trying to design a glass skydeck with lava flowing over it. Due to the odd and somewhat unpredictable nature of the game's fluid dynamics, my first attempt was a disaster, flooding more than half my base. Three in-game days and several death later, after a convoluted cleanup process involving tons of dirt, only then did I realize I could have painlessly tested the system using harmless, but behaviorally identical, water first. Cue epic FacePalm.

Well, water actually doesn't have the exact same physics as lava (it flows farther, creates infinite springs, and doesn't set stuff on fire), but I get the point.

I was just playing single player mode, harvesting wheat from the field I had connected to my base. The field was inside a fence, meant to keep monsters out while I was paying attention to farming. I turned around to go into my base, and there was a creeper sitting on the stair between me and the door out of the field. I could have tried to get to the door to my base, but that would have put me in the creeper's line of sight and I did not want to lead it into my base. I had to destroy one of my fences and start running downhill away from the base. It caught me and blew up, but my field and base were safe (and I had plenty of bread to heal up again).

This troper started his first world in this really snowy place. I headed up the side of a mountain and found a little tree growing near the side. I tunneled into the mountain so that the tree hung right over the entrance, effectively hiding me from monsters. Over the next couple days I did rather well, finding copious coal and expanding my underground cubbyhole. After awhile I started falling off things and losing health, so I headed out to start harvesting pigs and such. After amassing a sizable fortune in hog meat I quickly took stock of my surroundings and realized I didn't know where the fancy crap I was. After about a minute I decided I would just have to explore til I found my base. After four day/knight cycles of walking something happened: It was nighttime and I had managed to fall into a crevice in the ground, which I decided to take shelter in, placing torches around the entire perimeter. About two minutes later a creeper made its way past the perimeter and leaped into the hole, exploding. The explosion uncovered a deep pit, which I proceeded to fall down. Moments later I found myself trapped in a dark, dank grotto, critically wounded with no torches as I was slowly but steadily surrounded by the unmistakable slurping sound of several large spiders. Rather than respawn and keep going after having lost all of the items in my inventory I opted to delete the world and start over. Yes, in the end it was my greed for pork chops that did me in, and I'll never make that mistake again.

This troper has a special place in my heart for creepers after what happened. I for one suck at killing creepers at close range so they always leave these craters on the beach. After awhile I got tired of all the craters and said "screw, this hole's my new house!", so I built a house on one of the eyesores and, since I had no areas to mine due to my thing with caves at the moment, I dug a mineshaft to the center of the earth. guess what i found in the hole a creeper made.

This Troper found a replica of Gensokyo on Creative. It was AMAZING.

Tell us where. Please. Don't leave the rest of us hanging like that.

There's a server named "Touhou Gensokyo". The main map is a freebuild, but near spawn there are two teleporters. One goes to the Gensokyo map. It's not a ''complete'' replica, but it's really freaking cool.

Said server has since been moved to SMP, and a video of it (with the IP) can be found on this page.

This troper's first experience with Alpha was an interesting one. I started off in snowy mountains, but they were just too hard to get around. There wasn't nearly enough wood, or coal, no sand, no large caves, it was covered in steep drops, and it was impossible to see anything in the snow. So I climbed to the top of the highest peak, determined where to go next, and headed towards the ocean, intent on sailing to new, less white lands. It took me four in-game days, with only six torches, two stone picks, a stone shovel, a stone sword, a workbench, and three chunks of wood, making tiny shelters in mountainsides and defending myself from cheeky, shelter-invading spiders. Finally I make it to the ocean, set down my workbench, quickly fashion two boats from my last bits of wood, toss one out and hop in...and go nowhere. I climb out of the boat and discover that the ocean has frozen over. Determined to get my boat out to sea, I take my pick to the ice, break through, fall in, drown, restart itemless and homeless back at my spawn point four days away. I immediately started a new world and did it all again.

My main server in this game is awesome. My starting island currently includes: My tunnel-house (The House of Win), a big castle on the top of the hill (Fort Bataxia), a huge-ass tunnel cutting throught the hill with a helluva lotta torches (Tunnel of Promethia), A mine shaft that goes all the way to Bedrock (Morenci Mines), and a tall, lava-powered lighthouse on the shore closest to the mainland (Skyfire Lighthouse) BTW, with the mines, I know it's the name of a real mining site, but I had forgotten that it was real and I thought I was referencing a video game that I couldn't remember. Also, I will give you five points and a cookie if you can tell me what the lighthouse is referencing.

This Troper's fondest memory of In(f)dev/Alpha is a save I've had for a long time. I began off on a small island chain, making a house, a big bridge, and began to mine. But the cave was ceiling'd by sand, and I accidentaly caused the sand to fall. I made it out alive, but for some strange reason, my bridge had broken in the middle while I was gone. Deeming the place cursed, I grabbed a sword and began to travel. After a series of misadventures, such as finding an underwater cavern system, and finding two neighboring falls (one water, one lava), I eventually happened upon a giant, naturally-spawned floating island, with a waterfall reaching down the ground. You might have seen the occasional floating dirt block/clump before, but this was a literal floating island, and of course I immediately swam up the waterfall and made my base there. I've lived there ever since.

This was my first sight when I started a new world. Guess where I went!

This Troper has combatted the terrain generator often, but has usually just dealt with it until the addition of Biomes. My world is rather mountainous many in regions which, while beautiful to look at and good for keeping me safe from mobs, make it harder to travel around or escape from any mobs that find me. Cue the Boo! update and biomes, and I went to explore an ungenerated Western edge of my world, which happens to be one of the more mountainous regions. I fell to my death after not watching my step: the terrain and biome generators literally bisected the mountain range in half, creating a massive, 50-block tall natural stone wall/mountain barrier between the already-generated mountain range and a vast frozen-over (tundra biome) island chain. The barrier extends all the way from north to south boundaries of my generated world, and makes it difficult to traverse the two. I plan to make a base atop one of the towers and name it Briggs Fortress.

This troper was trying to make a glass-over-lava floor for his fort, but found himself having to travel quite far for a cave as he had used up the only source of collectable lava within reasonable distance of his base. So he goes into the cave, eventually finds a source of still lava through a hole, and digs under himself to safely descend down. Well much to my dismay, as I dug down, I found myself digging through the last layer of stone hanging over the lava. I didn't play again for the rest of the day.

Never dig straight down!

I was doing the usual rounds of resource gathering but decided to expand my mundane route. I had a lot of goodies in my inventory to take back home, but unfortunately I went a bit too far and got hopelessly lost. After aimlessly wandering for two days and nights, fending off monsters and getting that feeling of rising anxiety when you're lost, I got overwhelmed and killed by spiders and a skeleton archer. I was not amused. After cooling down for a few hours I started the game again, found the highest hill and built a huge lighthouse tower that reached the vertical limit so I won't make the same mistake again. I also plan to build murder holes into the tower so I can stay up all night shooting any skeletons and creepers that come near.

This Troper had a really bad experiance with Minecraft. I started in World 2 and wandered around trying to find iron. after several days, I found a really cool formation, but there was no iron there, so I resovled to go back there and build a huge castle. Then I found a Cavern with Iron, but was killed by a creeper. I could not find the place again so depressed I decided to settle in a small crack in the ground. After making it reachable I found iron. Quickly building a base around the iron for the sun was setting I enjoyed myself, mining and found a considerable amount of iron. I slowly expanded until I closed off the tunnel. I then decided I should build a boat and explore. Unfortunatly I got lost, and for several days I explored until I found the coast OF HE FIRST CAVE! I soon realized that it was only over a hill from my base. After a while I refound the formation, and discover a HUGE cavern. And after mining some diamond in it, I was killed by a spider. I instantly turned off my computer only to find doing so WIPED MY FILE!!!! Now in my new World 2 I have built a gate for my Cacti Fence so i can get over it in a boat, and I am planing to build a Clock tower, Fort Briggs, Ishbal, a fort on the bottom of the ocean, and finish my "Bay Area" which will have a Tower built against where the Generator cut it off for the Halloween updates, to monuments for my rabbits, a Lighthouse, the cacti fence, and a castle which I am curently working out of.

This Troper has so far been having an absolute blast. On the second day of playing, she found three dungeons in a row (though sadly no great treasures there), and on day three, right after spending the day building a tower, she found a vein of 6 diamonds, right beneath her newly constructed tower, and then 10 minutes later, had used her diamond pick to obtain obsidian and build a portal to the Nether. Happy times. She also managed to save an old base from Creative and place it as a floating island base made entirely of obsidian, for decoration mostly.

Built a portal and found a disappointingly puny Nether. A couple of minutes walk in empty caverns with only the occasional spawned pigmen and one tiny stalactite of lightstone. Finally got tired of it, dug downward at an angle, and slipped off the edge and fell waaaay down, barely surviving the fall and fleeing in panic from a huge roomful of ghasts. Dug an L shaped tunnel to get out of their line of sight... and now I'm completely lost. Can't see in the darkness above where the hole I fell down is... spent a couple of hours and a dozen stone picks digging in all directions... finally managed to build another portal; now I'm in a hole in the 'real' world, ghod knows where compared to my base...

The cool part about that is finding your way back! I hope you brought a compass...

The even cooler part is that a compass will do jack-shit to help you. Ain't the Nether great?

On a SMP server, a floating city had problems with mass creepers gathering under its shadow. A player was sent out to lure the creepers away so torches could be placed under the city. While this was happening, I was mining some coal out of a small hole in the ground. The player who was luring the creepers jumped over the hole without seeing me, and the mass of creepers all fell into the hole next to me.

Minecraft has properly enriched my life in the first few hours of playing it. I made a small base near my spawn, then explored. I got lost. I was DISTRAUGHT, because it meant I had lost my base. So, I made a new one. A better one. One with a huge tower to show off where it was, and a TrailOfBreadcrumbs made of torches to guide my way back. Fast forward a few hours, and I made a compass that pointed back to my original spawn point. I followed it and got back to my base...which, when I got back, i took one look and said "...I was upset over this?" ...Minecraft taught me both the importance of letting go of old byegones, and had shown the GrassIsGreener theory in in a strange backwards way.

This troper was once in a forest as it got dark and was ambushed by a spider. Said spider got stuck on a tree. So, what does he decide to do? Pull out his flint and steel and set the tree on fire. It worked and the spider died. And... so did everything else. I think it might still be spreading...

This troper had a crowning moment of reflex save success. After finding diamond and making a pick, I was working around lava. Now, I had scouted out the area before and while I was mining straight down, I was reasonably sure that there was one more layer of floor. You can see where this is going. Broke right through but, somehow, managed to angle my fall so I landed on a one-block outcropping over the lava. Took about 5 seconds for my heart to start beating again. Lesson learned.

The first time this troper played Minecraft he made a small wooden house with a small wooden door and a glass ceiling mine shaft that went all the way down to the bedrock. He was lucky to find tons of redstone he didn't know how to use over the first few trips down and some iron and diamond. His luck ran out though while he was carrying about ten diamond and other stuff like gold and iron and he broke into a ginourmous cave which lagged his computer into oblivion. When he re-entered the game it was pitch dark and when he placed some torches he found out that he was still in the same spot but the game had forgotten all the digging and torch-placing that brought him there. In short after running out of torches and pick-axes but still progressing horizontally towards where he believed to have came from (underground) by using buckets of lava for light, the game lagged him out again and then when he re-entered spawned him inside a wall. That was his first tragic though full of courageously digging stone by hand and swapping lava around... death. Later on he found out that he had been only about 20 blocks away from breaking out. Now he's learned to save his game regularly and he's slowly lining the inner walls in his house with solid blocks of lapis-lazuli :P.

One of the players on my friend's SMP server would compulsively plant saplings, leaving our town densely covered in trees after a while. In response, someone put up a sign reading "Only you can prevent forests," and someone else put a crate containing axes behind a glass wall with another sign next to it reading "In case of forest, break glass." Eventually I (accidentally but probably unavoidably) set it all on fire.

On the same server, someone filled a dispenser with cooked pig meat, hooked it up to a button, and put a sign next to it reading: "Push Button, Receive Bacon."

Two words: IP address

This troper encountered his first-ever Spider Jockey in his last play session. While the information initially terrified this troper upon hearing of such a mob, the fight was entirely exhilarating. Strafing was had, arrows were exchanged, and the spider's pounce was parried many times by a deft switch between the Bow and the Sword. The skeleton died first to an arrow, leaving the already badly-injured spider to attempt to avenge its rider with one last pounce. To no avail, the fight was ended as the spider's last pounce ended in an arrow through its body. Also, some zombies were watching in the distance, no doubt betting on the outcome. They were then slain next, after a battlecry of victory over a worthy foe. Then the player was mobbed by creepers and forced to retreat. Enough combat for one night? I think so.

This troper is a first time player and loves the game, having started his first night in a cave mining for more materials and trying to live the first night. Hearing the loud bumps, groans and growls of lord only knows, he had gotten enough material to at LEAST start something small, something better than a cave to live in. Sun rose and this troper set out to make his fortress. Wondered what that SSSSSSS sound was coming from. Died. And that's how this troper met his first Creeper.

This troper was playing around in his base, working on my giant underground farm. After a while, I got a little bored and started to explore. I dug a staircase and eventually came across some Obsidian. I start to mine it out, only for lava to flow in through the gap. While I closed off the gap, I made a critical error - I forgot to refill my buckets with water, and I was dead. Along with all of my gear, including my only Diamond Pick, one of my bows and all of the arrows I had spent the last day making. Naturally, I haven't touched this save since.

I had heard of Minecraft from a few sources, but the recent PC Gamer article/tutorial inspired me to finally buy the game. My tale thus far:

On my first save, I didn't really know what I was doing and screwed around too much during the day without making enough to build a house of any kind. I had an Oh Crap moment when the sun started going down, and managed to seal myself into a shallow cave with some dirt. The next day I thought I'd try to build a treehouse but that wasn't really working out so I went back to the cave. However, I didn't think to collect the resources to make torches, and as I sat in the dark a zombie ''actually spawned inside my shelter'' I died before I realized what was going on, and then a skeleton was waiting at the spawn point. So I scrapped that save.

On my second save, I dug out a better (and properly lit) cave shelter. I started digging down but quickly ran into a lot of large, irregular caverns which were filled with hostile critters trying to eat my face. Up top, creepers blew up the front of my shelter several times, leaving an ever-widening hole in the ground. Despite all that, I dug further down, only to meet my end in a pool of lava and losing all my items in the process. So I began once more.

My third save put me on a pretty small desert island with only a small hill and a handful of trees on it. Still, I was determined to make a go of it. Gradually the hill turned into a stone fort with a lava beacon on the roof for when I start exploring the surface. I have a tree farm and a wheat farm going, and mined all the way down to the bedrock, although I've only found one freaking diamond deposit so far. I also managed to build a couple of mob traps in the more dangerous caverns.

This troper's friend decided to make a cloth tower. Then burn it down. ''From the inside''. Also there was TNT on top of the tower. *slow clap* #QUOTE# "This tower-burning experiment did not end well. That is all." ''(respawns)'' "And everything's back to normal; it never happened. Bye bye."

In my extremely well developed SMP server, me and some other veteran players decided to have a bit of fun. We build an enormous series of tunnels and caverns in the distant area off to the west where nobody had build yet, placed chests full of valuable stuff everywhere, rigged the place with all manner of traps, then removed every single non-redstone torch in the caves. There was a small lit observation room over one of the biggest caverns (that we told nobody about), and challenged new players to try to get through to the treasure (no digging though). So far, only 2 out of the eight chests have been looted, though we're considering decommissioning the dungeon since nearly all of the TNT traps have been set off, many other traps have been disarmed or otherwise stopped working, not every torch placed by former players is accessible (less mobs are spawning), and finally because creeper explosions have severely damaged the structure, making some areas inaccessible without digging, and others, originally secure areas laughably easy to get into.

Despite having never been killed by a Creeper, and only rarely suffering deaths by the hands of mobs (generally I end up dying by falling off stuff, or setting myself on fire by accident when working with lava, then fumbling the water bucket I carry as a precaution.), I had a downright terrifying experience with one. I was building an exploratory mine, and was somewhere around bedrock, and found a large cave. I noticed a gold mine in the ceiling, and went to try and mine it, after making the obligatory "mob check" and placing a few torches. I felt a bit uneasy, and looked to my right, only to see a creeper coming towards me out of the darkness. Cue the OhCrap, and I tried to dash back into my tunnel to block it off. Unfortunately, the tunnel was blocked off with stone. The creeper caught up, and BOOOM! Fortunately I lived, but that damn creeper blew up the gold node, and broke my iron armor.

This Troper is working on a base inside of some weird dirt formation. It is FULL of Dirt and Cobblestone. I doubt I'll run out. He's clearing it out; currently, he has a couple of torches and two doors. He put two torches next to each door outside to make them easier to find...because I have no sense of direction. Anyways, I put a crafting table over some normal-level land. What's buried a couple layers under the table is what I call the "Emergancy Chest", items that could help if I'm killed (IE large amounts of dirt and raw meat). I haven't planned to do a cave dive because I'm afraid it'll get out of hand, but I'm working on it.

Also, he remembered why he keeps a crafting table handy because he was roaming. He was kinda lost, looking for home. Plenty of time until night. He had enough leather to make pants armor. At first he thought he would have to wait, he remembered he had a spare Crafting Table he accidentally crafted.

This Troper had several mods on, and went to the Nether. He found somebody oddly like him. Since he had a diamond sword, he decided the best idea was to stab it. The text "Herobrine has disconnected". Appeared. This Troper killed Herobrine without him even noticing said troper.

This troper bought the game less than a day ago. On digging out what he intended to be a temporary shelter, he immediately encountered both coal and iron. Twenty-four hours of IRL-time and some planning later and he's about to try building a lighthouse and tunneling into a nearby mountain just because it's there, starting from the safety of his labyrinthine underground base (and hopefully remembering to fill in the undersea tunnel he accidentally dug, since it's exactly one block from breaking through into open water at the end).

On This Troper's first game, he spawned on an island and made a fort inside of a cave, at nightfall, he sealed up the cave but made the grave mistake of not making any torches, so in the dark he blindly dug until he realized he managed to get some coal and made some torches. Somehow he had dug his way directly down to a diamond level cave. The next 30 or so minutes were dedicated to finding a way out. After a while, he came upon sand and dug up, water sprouted out, but he decided to swim directly upwards, he had come out of the ocean not too far away from the island he spawned on, and even managed to see the sun rise. Not too long after he left to make a big house on the main land, but not before making a 124 block high tower to know where his first home was.

This troper has a lava fountain in a castle on an SMP server. While he was working around it on the outside of the castle it one day, he accidentally breached a wall leading to the outside world. Que him scrambling to both contain the resulting forest fire and to erect a moat around his neighbor's log cabin.

This troper once had an experience with 3 creepers. He was waiting in his house for night to pass, when he saw a creeper outside. He stupidly decided to go out to kill it. Needless to say, it exploded, and the troper was blown so high that he actually ''took fall damage''. He then got ambushed by two more creepers while trying to gather the stuff the creeper had mined out for him.

Let this troper explain a cave dive he once did with a friend. When I had died in lava early into the dive, I wanted to give up. But when my friend handed me my Iron Pick, I decided to go on. I'm glad I did. We worked through it. We died multiple times, but we were able to get our stuff back because the server allowed a mod so you could set a house and you and people you invite could teleport to it and I was constantly setting places inside the cave to my house. We found lots of Redstone, Coal, Gold and Iron, I even made a Clock. The best part was we found not 3, not 5, not 10, but '''14''' Diamond. Unfortunatly, I had to leave before we finished, but I gave him my Iron Sword, Diamond Pick, nearly-broken Stone Shovel, Diamond, Torches, Water Bucket and Bread.

This Troper has a massive castle and courtyard surrounded by a cobblestone wall seven or eight blocks high. There are two entrances/exits, a door and a line of slabs that goes up one side of the wall and down the other. One day, he was attempting to make a creeper bounce up the slabs. At this point he had no idea that they were indeed capable of doing just that. After five minuted of unsuccessfulness, he went away to do something else. Later, he was about to go outside the wall to finish another structure when Mr. Creeper had found his merry way up the slab-stairs, but not high enough to be seen before it was too late. Cue F-bomb and broken wall. Protip: Editing a creeper's texture so instead of a constant D: it has awesome face only makes it worse.

This troper found a small cave full of iron and coal. It was shallow and had two entrances, one at either end, so he set up shop there. After getting everything all set up, he decided to dig down. That hole eventually become a replica of OoT's Shadow Temple. To commemorate the occasion, he built a villa above the cave and temple and downloaded the Kakariko Village texture pack. Then, down in the cave he'd start hearing zombies that were very close. So, he went upstairs, with the intent of getting rid of them and lighting the villa better. He opened the door and about crapped himself when he found three ReDeads on the other side. Thank you, texture packs.

This troper built a three-story house with a four story tower, In the tower I've been attacked by three creepers, two in the tower and one somewhere on the second floor balcony. The first time was kind of unlucky, but somewhat amusing, the second time was kind of annoying, and the third one just outright infuriated me, all times will lethal. When I died the third time, I went back to my house to grab my things and do repairs on my house, and out of a cave came ANOTHER creeper, making me realize what the problem was. So after slaying that creeper, I continued repairing the house, another creeper came out of the cave to greet me while I was finishing up, but luckily it wasn't able to get to me, so I just finished the repairs and kept a close hand on my sword. When I completed the repairs, I fought the creeper and killed it and went to the cave to light it up, being attacked by yet another creeper, which I fought and won. The last three creepers were all slain, they didn't get the chance to explode.

I was introducing my brother to Minecraft, and while I'd played it I hadn't dared to explore the Nether yet, so neither of us knew what was in there. After a few minutes of horrified silence and cautious exploration (and trying to figure out what all those gurgling kittenish noises were), he said, #QUOTE# '''Brother''': Are they saying "help me"? #QUOTE# '''This troper''': OH GOD WHY WOULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT.

We also didn't know that portals could get generated on the map at random, so when we found another one a few days later, we jumped to the most obvious conclusion: That he'd opened the way for evil hellbeasts to leak into the world and set up shop. I told him to destroy it immediately; he said something to the effect of "don't worry, it's a convenient teleport back to base" and hopped through... to find that a mysterious forest fire had devastated half the countryside. OhCrap.

This troper's first experience with Minecraft was... interesting. For some reason, I decided to dig a base out of an island a very long way from my spawn point. After a few ingame days of good stuff, I decide to save and quit and go back later. When I load it back up, I'm stuck in a wall and constantly taking damage. So I am now stuck in a place that I don't even remember with none of my items. But that didn't stop me, I decided to try to find my old base, but I apparently went the wrong way and ended up getting even more lost, so I decided that I'll just build a new base in an odd overhang. I ended up building a huge mine shaft that went all the way down to bedrock and then back up, and everything seemed to be going well... until one time I missed every single foothold on the way down and died. Back at the spawn point, with two bases seemingly out of reach and thinking of giving up, I trek on in search of anything. Eventually I find a torch, and I'm saved! I follow the nearby beach and what do I find, but my first base. I'm currently building a skyway that will reach to every landmass in search of my long lost second base.

This troper's first world spawned me a short distance from a lavafall, only 20-30 steps away. I've since had to block it off, though. I've also yet to find a cavern any bigger than enough to accommodate the small lava lake I found underneath the mountain I built my House on. However, this troper is BlessedWithSuck in the form of more coal then I can use - I just found a seam of 22 coal, shortly before discovering a seam of 48. Relatively short on Iron, unfortunately.I've only found around 50 total, compared to 200+ coal.

This Troper remembers his first experience with lava. I had created a 3*3 hole going straight downwards, and eventually I struck Redstone. Gleeful as could be, I mined away, until I struck lava. Fortunately, I blocked it off before it spread. Relieved, and with a fresh burst of confidence, I dug down to the next layer... And fell into a huge LavaPit. Accepting that this was the end, I sank to the bottom. At the very bottom, with less than a second left of life, I saw my first diamond. After 10 minutes of searching for my base, I deleted the save. Even so, it was totally worth it.

This troper hollowed out a mountain, made a giant base in it, and then when I came back the next day there was a bottomless pit in the middle of it. Like a chunk error. Except in singleplayer. Cue "Nooooooooooooooo!"

This troper was on a multiplayer server, and agreed with a friend that, if I was given 9 coal, 3 iron ingots, and some redstone (I built my house out of wood and hadn't had a need to go underground or mine yet) so that I could build torches and such, I would help him clear out and get the valuable resources out of a "pretty small cave, from what I can tell." I grabbed my pickaxe and sword, and ran to my friends mine. We started digging into some iron, when the wall fell away, and we were in a massive cave. We explored around and found about 20 blocks of iron, 2 diamond, a bit of redstone, and some lapiz. We continued to dig, and broke through another wall. This happened again and again, finding massive caves and a giant lava field (that we decided would be good for obsidian mining later, so we could make a bomb proof panic room incase of attacks from fellow players,) until we were a good 3 miles away from our ladder to the mine hub. My friend said he needed to go, so I decided to run back to my house and finish the work on my second floor. My jumping and skipping back to the ladder sent me straight into the lava pit that I was so excited, losing me everything that I had traded for. My friend reimbursed me for what I had lost like an idiot, but he laughs every time we pass by the lava field, mostly because it's almost completely covered up by my fences and signs, warning people away from falling into it again.

I have two interesting stories.

First, I was in my house one night when I heard a Spider hissing. I looked out all of my windows, and assumed it's probably on my roof. Come the morning, I dash out of my door and quickly turn around. Sure enough, a Spider falls off of my roof and attacks me. I kill it, then turn to a pig standing next to me and jokingly say "Oh yeah! Who's da man? I da man!" The pig then shakes it's head as if it was saying "No, you are not 'da man'". It then walked away, when all of a sudden "SSSSSSSSSS" "Oh fu-" *BOOM* I turned around to see the damage the Creeper did, and promptly laughed as I realized the pig was right, and I was not da man at all.

Second, I was in a new world just having come out of a cave, when I saw a burning tree. Confused as to what started the fire, I walked up to it and saw a flaming pig standing next to it that burned to death. I then saw a bit of lava. I thought that the pig caught on fire from the lava, and then caught the tree on fire. I didn't think that much of it at first, but then I saw that the fire was spreading. And spreading. And spreading. Soon, there was nothing left of the forest. Not even the sheep were safe. When the flames died down, I blocked off the lava and planted a sole tree where it was, in memory of who I shall forevermore call "Pyro the Pig".

This troper spent a long time exploring the underground caves before noticing I was down to my last pickax and decided to head back, unfortunately I had gotten lost so I chose a random direction to dig and made a tedious trip back up to the surface. Breaking through to the top layer was a relief but seeing that I had ended up less than 7 squares from my house made me laugh at my luck.

I was walking along the castle walls a little low on health when I saw a creeper. Then I pulled off what I like to call the creeper run in which you turn around frantically looking for a safe place. I ended up leaping over the side.

I just finished making a portal for the first time ever. Once I used the flint and tinder to make the purple gate appear, cue the screaming noises that echo from it, and by sheer coincidence, rain and snow start pouring down like no tomorrow at that exact moment. For a second I thought I had accidentally brought forth the apocalypse or something.

This troper just killed a ghast. With a wooden sword needless to say, I feel a little badass.

This troper wants to tell the tale of two mines he and his friend found; they were called "Supermine" (the one I found) and "Supermine Jr." (the one my friend found) I found supermine when I was branch mining. After reaching bedrock, literally after I dug ''two blocks to the right'' I hit the mine. It had 50+ gold, over 4 stacks of Iron, over 9 stacks of Redstone and over 20 diamonds. Supermine Jr. was found deep in a giant pool of water, that goes down to the bedrock, with a glass room over the void, and if you don't bring along armor or food, you won't live long enough to get into Jr. Jr. had over 40 gold, over 50 Iron and 12 diamonds. We split it three-way with another friend of ours after I had retrieved all of the stuff. Humorously, when me and my friend reached the 'end' of the cave, we decided to branch out, he went left, I went right. I only dug a few blocks, and bam, I hit a vein of diamonds. His overeagerness got the better of him, and he hopped into lava that the diamonds were over.

So I was mining one day. I didn't find much, just a whole bunch of cobblestone. After a few minutes, I stumbled upon a bunch of gravel. So, I mined through it and found more cobblestone. Mined through that. Next thing I knew, water flooded in while a Scare Chord played. I was frantically swimming upwards, and ran towards the mine exit as fast as I could. Luckily, the flood stopped at the stairway I had dug out. Of course, I was too spooked to mine further, and a good part of it was flooded, so I made my way out, picking up the torches I had gathered. When I got to land, it was dark out. Then I realized that at any moment, mobs could spawn in the pitch-black tunnel I had just dug out at any moment. Cue frantic running back to my cave home, iron sword in hand. The next day, I found a cow standing on a couple of dirt blocks floating in midair.

Did anyone's spawn point happened to be inside a cavern? Where the only light was about 20-30 blocks up and far away? Mine was, and it was a hell to get to that light source. The only thing I could use for digging was a dirt block, and took me 10 minutes to reach it. After that, everything was pretty much standard: punch trees, mine underground, build a house(made of stone), build another house with a floating farm and an artificial waterfall beside it. Then build a nether portal behind the waterfall. First trip to the nether was eventful, what with all the running away from ghast's, then falling off a cliff and surviving with only half a heart left, only to realize that the ghast's are coming and the only place to move into is a lake of lava. Ahh, good times. Also, tried to sleep on my bed at night, was woken up by a zombie. Happened 3 times until I moved the bed.

I think that you might have been using a seed called "Gargamel". It spawns you underground.

Did a rage quit 'cause I fell into lava while mining some obsidian. With all my diamond tools. And Diamond suit. A few minutes into the new world, fell victim to an unexpected lava flow with no way out 'cause of poor judgement and breaking the cobblestone that was holding the lava in place. Rage quit that world too.

This troper had just started playing Minecraft, and I was trying to punch some wood down. The game wouldn't let me. Cracks would appear in the block, and then disappear. I tried this on the ground, and even leaves, only to yield the same results. I started walking around, before I ran into a tree and the game sorta froze up. It started zooming in on Steve?'s head, before the screen went blank. I was mildly pissed, and about to close out, when the character's face appeared on screen, just staring at me. It looked as if I was ''inside'' the character's head. It must have been a graphical error, but still.

This troper's friend found a place on a server called "Ore Heaven"--a shaft with a ladder going down that leads down into a cave loaded with ore. was actually a trap--the ladders at some point stop and then there is a long fall into a pit to death.

This troper has a few amusing stories:

On an early playthrough, this troper was trying to explore. (She had turned the game to Peaceful Mode to do so.) One sunrise, however, saw her swimming along a channel of water and seeing some large black legs sticking out of the water a little ways forward. Utterly alarmed at the 'swimming spider' she jumped out of the water and ran in another direction. It wasn't until she had found her spawn point, deleted the world, and started a new one that she learned it had actually been a squid she'd seen. (This troper had been expecting the squids to look like Ikachan and promptly began looking for a texture pack to make them do so.)

While on a SMP server with friends, I decided to go exploring. I found a snowy biome the first night and sat on an ice floe to wait for morning, hoping not to die. Took a few arrows, but that was about it. The next morning I swam out again, where I found a new continent. There was some clay there, but I didn't want to mine it because by that point I had no idea how to get back to my base and was pretty much counting on something killing me to get back. That night I found a beach and sat there until I saw an island with another snowy biome attached. I saw mobs there, figured 'If I survive I survive, if not I don't.' I got Creeper'd, but later my friend running the server (and a mapping program) asked if I went exploring super-far and died. When shown the map, it turned out I'd almost doubled the length of the revealed map. I think I'll make a house there.

This Troper went for a long trip from the base camp off to the "second camp" made, and from there, into an incredibly ridiculous mountain range that never ends. It takes three days worth of travel to reach the new location on foot, at a mountain lodge. Before I had memorized the way back (there are no roads or beacons, instead, I memorize distinguishing landmarks, and there are two that I normally follow by). Well, one morning, something possessed me to take a different route home. I knew it was in the "south west" area, just not the exact location. Packing up my belongings, I set off. After 4 days of travel, I lose my way-- I end up in a desert, find 2 open-air dungeons including one literally on a tiny island shaped like an almost-building, and then after leaving that, find more mountains. I decide I'll scale that mountain, build a shack, take account of my surroundings, and try to find the way home from there. A cabin was built with a small farm... in my eagerness to "settle down", I give up any hope of finding my way back home. Now, unbeknownst to me, this mountain, at the base of it, is where my first portal "exit" was, which has a stone shelter... when I peered down over the edge of the mountain, Captain Goldfish here SCREAMED out loud in horror, because she had COMPLETELY FORGOTTON about having a nether portal she only used once with a shelter! It was almost Herobrine/Israphel moment, until realization set in, and now knowing where I was, ran all the way home in 5 minutes and never left the first base for a week.

This troper had the same thing happen, with one difference: I know, for a fact, that I did not build the portal. Imagine my relief a day or so later, when I found out that portals can spawn randomly.

But what if it didn't?

This troper practically lives in Shards Of Protectorate, a Minecraft server with some odd laws but a fun backstory. Anyway, he set out on his first day with his friend to build a secret base underwater. Said base grew from a one room box to a cave system of rooms, with 6 residents. Then the server crashed, destroying the binds for going home. The house is now lost in the wilderness, and I die every time I look for it. As a Retaliation to the Gods, this Troper started a floating/underwater city to serve as a base of Operations while he searches for his old home. On another note, the Abandoned City of Mirage has become his new playground.

This troper had an...interesting first server experience. Having spawned on a beach, I walked over to the mainland and started making some tools. Nothing bad so far. Unfortunatly, I hadn't collected any coal during the day, so I was without light when night came. I first thought to dig a little hole to hide in, but I realized I wouldn't be able to see and I couldn't see when it was day. So I hurried over to the beach and crouched in the water. After I few minutes of this I grew bored and climbed out of the water and wandered around a bit. I soon ran smack into a skeleton, turned around and guess wait I ran directly in front of next? I'll give you a hint: "Pck-SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" (BOOM!) Yeah. Fortunately, I respawned and managed to recollect my items and built a little house. Moral of the story: COLLECT COAL THE FIRST CHANCE YOU GET.

This troper wanted a better view of his mansion from the ocean, so he leveled a couple of mountains. (Naturally, with the difficulty on hard, gunpowder was abundant.)

This troper had the best Minecraft experience ever. While listening to Bohemian Rhapsody while exploring a cave, I found a vein of SIX diamonds RIGHT AS THE GUITAR PART STARTED. It was glorious.

I used an "ant tunneling" technique to mine for ores and within one hour, I manage to find a total of 40 diamonds. 40 diamonds. That's as much as 4 tens!

And Thats Awesome.

I was playing on a mulitplayer server with plenty of plug-in programs to help run it ,I've played on it for a while, but with the new map-update, the server was outdated. I wasn't able to get online there for at least a week. When I came back the plug-in program had made one of our towns into a ghost-town. I was forced to get out of there. I was able to save my stuff, and my dogs. I was sad, but it's alright! For I got to a new town, and most of my friends on the server lives there! Now one of my goals is to get back to the old town to properly say goodbye.

This Troper just had about the unluckiest death ever. After digging around for days (literal days, not in-game), I finally found some still lava, which I made into obsidian, and carried some away in a bucket for a trap in my enourmous castle. After I read about the Nether again, I thought about building a portal to it for the first time. I used the economy portal, since I had only 11 Obsidian blocks, and found myself in the Nether. I took with me my prized possessions because I was an Idiot, 3 diamond Pickaxes, 2 brand new, the other half used, a compass, several tools, and about 100 Torches. After lighting my gatepoint out with the torches, I decided to mine some netherrack for use in traps and as firedecoration, since it burns indefinately. I then decided to mine some Glowstone, and made a staircase to it. I ran around in the formation and mined it, fallind down and died. After that shock, I went back fast and found all my items on the floor, picked them up again and decided to be more careful next time. So I build a Tower with a platform to mine the Glowstone, and this time, it worked perfectly. After decending back to ground level, I found a flow of lava, which I wanted to try to turn into Obsidian as well, but one cannot place water in the Nether. So I crouched and approached the Lava, but it was on the same level, so I fell in, burned to death and lost everything that was valuable to me...After that happened, I turned the game off, and came here to preserve it. Up until this point I managed to avoid lava-related death. Luckily I still have 6 Diamonds up in my shack, so I can at least make some pickaxes to mine for more...

I had the greatest Minecraft experience ever a few days ago. I was on a server with my friend, and we found a surface dungeon. The surface dungeon was attached to a cave, which we explored...and found ''another'' dungeon. That dungeon also had a path, which led to a ''third'' dungeon. ''And that one was actually a double-chest dungeon, and led to a cave full of gold and diamond.'' That led to...a dead end. Still, three dungeons (four dungeon chests), 15 diamond gems, 10 gold ore, and more moss stone than we can count, in ''under three minutes.'' Too bad my friend died from a Creeper attack. (I had all the good stuff though.)

I'm in the middle of building a massive compound next to the sea named Fort Hopeless, with a naval area, runway complete with a rusty B-52 (My story takes place in 2113, during the Human-Creeper Wars), a massive underground barracks, and a massive munitions hangar. Then I'm going to spawn lots of mobs and hold Fort Hopeless from them.

My old house was in a good place, but my mine, I would be lucky to find coal. So I decided to pack up my things and go somewhere else. Two in-game days later I found a nice place with a moat. I settled down there. When I went to mine, some of the first things I saw were iron ore blocks. After digging down, I found a mini-cave. I dug through that and I come to a place with water, LAVA, DIAMONDS, redstone, Lapiz lazuli, gold and OBSIDIAN. So I made my diamond pickaxe and I am making an obsidian farm!

This troper, having died, respawned. At night. With no weapons. His response? Punch out 3 spiders and 2 zombies. Good times.

I had a string of bad luck a few days ago, wherein I got ambushed by creepers right outside my house multiple times. One of the craters opened onto a pocket of lava, just three or four blocks below the surface, and not more than twenty steps away from the house. After the depths I had to go to to find lava in the caves, it's a little upsetting. On the other hand, if I'd found the near-surface lava pocket, I wouldn't have found the veins of diamond ore (only two blocks in the first one; delayed my getting a diamond pickax). - Classified

Hey, Classified again, with more bad luck. I just got back from my first trip to the Nether. The gate on the Nether side was under an overhang, with a lava waterfall right next to it. I saw a glowstone stalactite in a position where I could mine it from the ground, so I did, and when I came back, I was just in time to see the lavafall overflow and spill out onto the portal, extinguishing it. I wasn't carrying any obsidian, so I two choices: #1) dam the lava and reactivate the portal; and #2) get killed and respawn in the normal world. I chose option #1, but nearly had option #2 chosen for me when a Ghast interrupted my wall-building efforts. After leading it away, I came back to my portal to find the lava had finally drained, so I got out my flint & steel and returned to the normal world with half a heart left.

The two highlights of this troper's world are based in the vertical and the horizontal: a tower/mineshaft/base that goes from bedrock to the top of the sky; and a linear cart tunnel so long, I built a new base halfway down it because I wanted to explore. Anyways, I'd found a new cave at the latest end of this tunnel, and blew through almost 3 iron pickaxes mining it. I had 60+ redstone, 12+ lapis, 40ish iron ore, about 20 gold ore, and 6 diamonds. So naturally I fell through the floor while trying to mine COAL after all this and landed in lava. And of course, I had my clock, compass, half-completed map and twenty Powered Rails on my person as well. I really wish there was a way to copy your map...

Back in 1.6.6 I accidently put a nuke (With a mod) in my base. THEN a creeper walks in and detonates it. BOOM goes nuke, BOOM goes base, I RageQuit, But there IS a good part, When I made a portal to the Nether, I came out of my old, UNTOUCHED portal and using the minimap mod, marked where my base was and looked around. Then I saw a half blown up surface dungeon with Zombie spawner and 2 chests. What do I FIND in the chests, A GOLDEN APPLE.

This troper had just obtained a map, and thus decided to go around filling it out. I set out with very few supplies (just some tools, the map, a clock, and a compass). I was rather far from my base and in the taiga biome, collecting snowballs, when I look up to see a creeper coming down the hill towards me. Boom. I had to work my way back to base on half a heart, no armor, and no food, being very careful not to fall off of ledges. Needless to say I took plenty of food and extra armor on subsequent mapping expeditions.

This troper has just finished harvesting a tree. From it, he got ''35'' saplings, and '''38''' wood.

This Troper, after running out of things to do in single player, started experimenting with the possibility of growing taller trees. The result? This. In case you're wondering, level the leaves on top so the wood is exposed, plonk some dirt down, sapling, bonemeal if you're impatient, remove the dirt, replace with wood and repeat until awesome.