Come, fellow adventurers, and let me tell you the tale of one man's attempt to re-create a place of power elsewhere, and end with a journey into madness and the beginning of Armageddon itself.
I love my house. It is my fortress, it is my safe place, it is a three bedroom paradise that I share with my cats. I had decided that I would immortalize it in everyone's favorite world, the Minecraft plane. I would make a safe place free from zombies, creepers, Endermen, and skeletons. I hate those guys.
So I began to build. I started with the foundation, a brick foundation built with love and care. The ground inside was made up of pure Mycelium, as all my water pipes are down there and water collects there, and since there's low light, it's a perfect spot. And yes, I do find mushrooms down there when i'm fixing a leak.
Next up was the stairs. Since this world does not possess concrete, I had to use Quartz to get the color slightly right. I have stairs on my front and back doors, as my house is roughly eight feet off the ground. This took some scaling.
I followed this with the "ground" floor, covered in tacky brown carpeting because my house was renovated in the 60's and since there is no damage to the wood underneath I had no reason to pull it all up. The floor is a dark oak. I painstakingly created each room according to the closest specifications I could, including the cubby hole where my water heater is stored next to my refrigerator.
What followed were the walls, oak and lovely. Then the ceiling, which was composed of quartz as well. The roof was hardened black clay. I put redstone lamps in the ceiling to simulate lights. The doors, one was the standard wood, and one was an iron door. (My front door is actually made of steel with a fake wood look to it.) The inside doors were all standard, as well.
Next up, the furniture. I looked up guides on how to make modern furniture and recreated it as painstakingly as I could. Some things were not to scale, but I did my best.
Finally, came the outside fence. I used iron gates, which is the closest thing to my actual fence, which is chain link. I wish they had put in an iron gate. I even put in a garden where I usually plant tomatoes. I put potatoes there instead.
All in all, this took about six real hours of work, sweat and tears to put together. I was proud of what i'd built. I finally had a decent home to call my own! So I set my spawn point to the front room of the house, walked out my front gate, and went on an adventure! I spent about thirty minutes doing some rural exploration, admiring the world.
Then I made the grievous mistake of attempting to return to spawn.
Despite the fact this was a world of my own creation in Single Player, I had forgotten how to return to spawn. I tried looking in the Help files, to no avail. I tried multiple iterations of /tp and /spawn, until I typed the worst thing I could've typed.
/setspawnpoint.
I had reset my spawn to goodness knows where, in the middle of absolutely nothing. No big deal, i'll just consult my...
Trusty...
Map...
That I never bothered to check until now, and is currently only showing my present location.
Okay, so i'm an idiot, no big deal. I'll just backtrack and find my way home myself!
So I traveled, looking for landmarks I could identify, only i'm terrible with landmarks. I ended up going in random directions, asking nearby sheep for help. I even found a village and asked them for help in return for turning their gravel walkways into stone brick. They were not helpful. So I would continue to wander, looking for the Mycelium-covered forest that bordered my home.
I was slowly but surely going mad, and delirious from my travels, until the unthinkable happened.
I went too far.
I came over a mountain top...and the entire world crashed.
All of Minecraft crashed.
The save file would automatically crash upon opening, thus crashing the game.
In trying to return home, I had destroyed an entire world.
So now I sit, without any screenshots of my beautiful creation, no clue where it is, and no way to go back in to find it.
I hope you folks enjoyed this cautionary tale, as a reminder that no matter how prepared you think you are, do not wander too far without writing down your coordinates or you're in deep trouble.
Thank you for listening to my tale. Now let's go back inside before the campfire draws skeletons. Seriously, fuck those guys.
Submitted February 13, 2015 at 01:11PM by GSilvermane http://ift.tt/1KSnyvi Minecraft
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