#whattheminecraft

After a year-long hiatus, we’re finally back.

It’s been a while since we’ve touched Minecraft, but here we are again. We may have a new look, but it’s still the same Minecraft goodness delivered straight to your dashboard.

Lots of interesting new features!

Now uses Bootstrap 3!

Special New Year's Edition header!

Much cleaner design!

I just bought Starbound!

Exclamation marks!

So here I was, around 2+ years ago, on a forum I used to be active on, where people suddenly started talking about this new video game called Minecraft. At first, I don't really gave much attention to it, but as more and more people get involved in it, I finally decided to give in and find out what the heck was it all about.

So I rummaged around YouTube, trying to find a decent Minecraft gameplay video, and I came across this. It's pretty much the first ever Minecraft gameplay video I've ever watched, and after watching some more videos, I started to fall in love.

To my surprise, I also found a few of my classmates who play Minecraft as well. So we got in touch, and soon after, we were playing on local white-listed servers with cracked Minecraft launchers.

I grew attached to Minecraft, to the point which I could loudly proclaim, "I NEED to buy this game!", despite the fact that it seems 'overpriced' for us Indonesians with low buying power. So I saved up as much as I can, and once I got enough to buy it, I gave them to my friend and was all like, "Just take my money and buy me that goddamned game!"

And so:

Yep. Pretty much this was the day that my productivity started dying.

Exactly two years ago today.

In the early days I was still pretty much a 'nomad', moving from one server to another, in a quest to find the server where I most feel like home. There's quite a short period of being in the Diamond Mine server, as my first 'home' in Minecraft, but eventually I left when I find the community to be less friendly over time.

In which I was glad to find my second (and hopefully my final) home, The Daily Block. Right now it's pretty much the only server where I felt at home, and I have to say, I'm proud to be a member of it.

As Minecraft gets tons of updates over time, I remembered lots of good features come and go (remember booster carts?). Some I liked, some I didn't like, and some are just plain stupid in general. But looking back the day I first I played Minecraft, I can only say:

I can't believe how far we've come.

This blog now has more followers than my personal blog!

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I'd be glad if you guys also follow my personal blog over here, if you like a bit of randomness in your dash, also go check out my crappy music taste. It might be good for your ears.