Moar Minecraft Griefing

It was either Mel Brooks or Abraham Lincoln who said “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” Either way, that’s my mindset when it comes to griefing in video games. These Minecraft videos Team Avolition are uploading to YouTube are the perfect example of […]

February 17th, 2011 | Category: Minecraft | 20 comments

Seriously, this Etrian Odyssey project is gigantic.

I took a trip out to the site of the Etrian excavation on our Minecraft server, just to get a sense of how immense the project actually was. Step one is digging all the material out of the boundaries of the maze using picks, TNT and huge amounts of manpower. I got up on a […]

February 9th, 2011 | Category: Minecraft | 6 comments

Minecraft Server

People are going pretty nuts with the Minecraft server we set up, as you can plainly see. My own meager constructions pale in comparison to some of the incredible stuff people have developed, which include:

a subway system, complete with working ticket counter, a giant industrial-strength mob grinder that continuously spits out materials, an enormous […]

February 8th, 2011 | Category: Minecraft | 3 comments

Minecraft Griefing is Really Funny

As much as I hate pawning off the task of entertaining you people onto someone else, I don’t actually hate that so I’m going to do it today. Primarily because I’ve been awake for 27 hours, the past eleven of which have been spent going crazy in Castlevania, but also because these cats on YouTube […]

January 27th, 2011 | Category: Minecraft | 4 comments

Missing Chunks in Minecraft

This happens relatively often in Survival Multiplayer, and it’s awesome when it does:

That bottom one reveals at least two gold deposits. Can you spot them?

January 8th, 2011 | Category: Minecraft | 2 comments

Minecraft Beta

Since Minecraft is the only game that matters, I thought I’d share some of what I’ve been working on this past week.

This is the heart of my operations: the workshop. It’s a small room with a workbench surrounded by chests full of everything I own, sorted by material. There’s a chest for wood, […]

December 22nd, 2010 | Category: Minecraft | 2 comments