Minecraft

The Life-long Constant

I've been playing minecraft for an obscenely long time. I'm struggling- really struggling- to pinpoint a start year, but I think 2013 is probably close to accurate. Maybe 2012? Regardless, it was pocket edition, and an old version at that. I was either in 3rd grade, and I had a kindle tablet. I did not watch youtube- wasn't allowed, nor was I a particuarly tech-savvy child ( I only knew how to get to google images by searching up killer whale and clicking the images pop-up from there. But two important factors opened me up to the wonderful world of no-double-chest early pocket edition.

• 1. Me and a browser game on the living room desktop went way back
• 2. Back in my day *hobbling old woman voice* , Pocket ed. was free
• 3. I had an older sister! Score!

So I was set. I cannot find it for the life of me, but there was some princess-y dress up game I had on the archaic slab of a tablet. The 3d wowed me, what can I say. These characters lived in the houses ¹ I build in minecraft, barbie to barbie-dreamhouse style. Millions of cats were spawned. Bedrooms far more akin to barracks constructed. Nether cores made and the item spawns gazed upon. My sister beside me was far more adept at gaming, building what I may even call structures, yet still mostly engaging in my creative-mode playing-dolls antics. ^{1. Caves with Beds}

Big changes were bound to happen, however, with the advent of a child brave enough to both 1.) try survival and 2.) ask my mother to buy something. On my beloved Wii-U. Not to mention something looming in the distance, 3.) ask my mother to watch a minecraft youtube video. From year, things are accelerated. Complicated. I make the family computer combust into real flames. Below is a list of nonsense, likely a familiar story for those who #craft themselves

Notable events

• Me and my sister try our first survival world. Yet arachnaphobia leaves me in the horrible, roofless, sand house alone on the first night.
• Multi-floor creative tower I spend hours making on the WiiU gets deleted by my sister. Waterworks! But I am pushed to give survival another go.
• Ender Dragon defeated via mass amounts of cheating. Yet, a world is played in pseudo-survival.
• World file with my sister in pure survival that lasts ages. Baby's first real multiplayer.
• Minecraft is now on the family desktop. So is the twilight forest mod pack. Surely it can handle this
• A scorch mark is forever on the tower case
• Wii U minecraft hunger games and spllef are abandoned for Mineplex and Hypixel
• Server(s!) with online friends.
• Recorded hardcore world footage? on youtube???
• bed wars. by god high school me played bedwars

And this continues for many, many years. Like a decade. It's my favorite video game. It's probably why I know how computers work at all. It gave me some great friends. I barely played it in the first two years of college. Obviously as a result of not minecrafting, my life was tanking (and of course this causality is not flipped! Don't be silly.) But over the summer, doing a fellowship at my college, me and a friend started a LAN world. And now my life is back on the up-and-up. It's great. It's called BigDickDaddy27. You should look at it.