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I remember my first day. I was actually going to get the game in the Mid-Alpha stage, but that was delayed to Beta 1.4. I was walking around wondering what the heck was I doing. I jumped into some water and, like a noob, didn't know how to swim. I drowned. Afterwards, I started walking through a forest, and that night I took shelter in a cave. Afterwards, I found the Minecraft Wiki and learnt everything I needed to know. It was fantastic.

First night.
Well, I joined in 0.0.11a, so when mob spawning and night was added instead of killing rana and eternal day, I ran. I ran out of the mossy cobblestone house that was pre generated, and I never read the changelog, so I went into a cave, expecting there to be a rana/steves flood, but, MOBS. Ran, hid in my moss house with some mushrooms and that's it.

Pretty nooby looking but when you see a creeper blow up on you and you haven't seen that since survival test, BRRGHAHHFGRTZZAHH!

Not very many crazy monsters when I started to play in 'alpha'.
The only thing I am confused if I go back to the alpha version, is no sprinting.

In alpha, minecraft was a quiet game.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

The game was something i saved up for. i cant remember how much it was but i got it twords the end of alpha. I was super exited and i started up the game. Knowing nothing i created a world titled "my 1st world". i went on and having watched a few tutorials i set off from my beach. i was near a pretty big mountain in a snow biome. I dug a little cave on the side of the mountain with a ladder going up to the cave and made all the necessities (Furnace, crafting table, chest, door, walls, torches, etc). it became night time and i was so ready to see what the night time held for me. it started snowing and it got dark. so i grabbed my wood sword and climbed down the ladder. All the sudden "hssssssssssssssssssssssssss....... BOOM!!!!". a creeper was right at the bottom of my ladder. i spent the rest of that evening replacing what had been broken. Also killed a zombie that night.

I guess this is technically my first Minecraft event.

The date was precisely January 27th 2012. My friend KiKi come over and finally convinced me to download Minecraft with his account and try it. For the longest time I was sworn to believe that CastleMiner-Z was the god of all blocky games. So there I was, sitting in front of my computer, looking at this low-grade home-screen. He had me open a new world, where I spawned in a forest, where he had me learn the basic controls. I walked around for a bit, and found a small lake, where he showed me how to break blocks. Of course, the common first mistake, not holding the punch, is a problem. Once he gets me around this, He asks me to try and build a house by right-clicking with a block. I start my house building in the 4 planks I had found, and try to build the rest in sand. As I started placing the first blocks, they start falling on me. Confused, I continued placing blocks overhead until I found myself suffocating.

KiKi gets me out of the situation just in time to see the sun going down. Excited, he told me to look out for mobs. He spotted a spider in the lake, but at the time, I had never seen a spider, so with my brightness minimal, I continued my walking leisurely. Little did I realize, my biggest enemy, the spider itself, was already behind me. The last thing Is aw before the death screen was a big black box...

I remember playing on Peaceful mode (yeah, wimpy, I don't care!) in the browser's tiny screen because F11 just messed with the resolution. It was really laggy, and I remember being really proud of my roofless, two-block high, five-block square wooden fort thing with a half cobblestone, half dirt floor. I remember urgently building it because night was coming, and I didn't know mobs didn't spawn in Peaceful.
Those were the days, huh?

Nice Blog <3

Lol, we all sound like old people 'Back in my day, we didn't have any of these gizmos you young people had. We had to fight for our food with our fists and it was rotten!'
Anyway, as i lived on the wiki and studied it like nothing i've ever studied before, i knew the basics and could make a pickaxe blindfolded before i had the game. So when i spawned in my first ever survival worldback in 1.2.5, it was a taiga biome and its was peaceful. I punched a few trees and jumped in the nearest hole which happened to be a decent cave system. I went exploring and came across an underground lake which had some sugar cane growing next to it (don't know why but i thought it was cool, shows how impressionable i was). I made my home there and, after doing the stuff you usually do in survival, i decided to recreate the map as a creative world (back before i knew about maps, i used creative and wrote down the coordinates). I found an awesome part mountain which had a ravine showing and an abandoned mineshaft in it.
Then of course later, i built a minecart system between to the two things and i was so proud of it. If i had a better computer, i would have played on easy and of course, die 100,000 times before i knew how to kill creepers.

I remembered on the first night I played minecraft, it was 1.6.9? (I can't remember) and my computer was very laggy. I made a house out of wood that could only fit a bed and a door in it. Once at night, I was trying to find my house through a forest but it was the first night ever so I never knew about zombies and skeletons. I was so close to my house when I got hit by something. My brother said he saw something white (which I'm prettty sure was a skeleton) but I just said it was a player connected in my world trying to kill me XD

I first joined Minecraft sort of in the start, around the beginning of 2010. I first heard of the game, well it was more like I saw it from a friends computer screen. He told me that it was a game about building and survival. I was already drooling at how he was placing torches and fighting pigs. He told me the name of the game was Minecraft, he pointed me to the website and I joined instantly. Only joining however because I was interested in what it was and if I had reached the right website. I played the classic a bit to see what it was like. It was cool, and interesting. But nothing near as awesome and exciting as smashing pigs as I had seen. So I entered the BUY screen. A Welcoming PayPal came to my face, at first my mother asked if it was a scam. I told her it was not and she gave a little talk about "I don't trust PayPal" etc etc...

I downloaded the game, it only took seconds. Installed a skin because I always explore every feature first. So I knew I could add a skin when I looked at my profile on the website. I took to the game like wildfire. I found my first tools of Pickaxe, Sword, Spade. Never knew about the Hoe until I googled it >.>
I soon started smashing trees with my hand, then the Sword, Pickaxe, finally the Spade which I just knew would not work. Using the knowledge I had with building a sword and pickaxe and how they sorta looked like the real tools. I placed my sticks and added the wood. Not in planks at first. I was ready! Set! and Excited! I had my wood, and with my dreams fulfilled I created a Tree House as my first home. I had plans, big plans with defense using lava, arrows, and holes lots of holes.

Oh how little did I know about the physics of Minecraft. Out of all my exploration and understanding of how to build a chest, door, ladder, torch. I never thought of the consequence that wood + lava would make when touched. With the idea of a defense with lava running down the mountain I saw the hoard of Creepers and Zombies. Excited I got them to follow me, running to my house I placed the lava in the wood slot and hoped for the best.
I cried as my house in the tree burned to the ground. Then died from the zombie and surprisingly not the creeper. All that was left was the furnace and chest. I learned that day that Minecraft was a cruel world and would seek my revenge. From that day, I have always hated lava. Always.

Thats my story and I'm excited to go to 2013 Minecon and maybe see some of you!

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Back in 1.2.5, spawned and felt the fresh air, began walking aimlessly, i remember that i saw a Cow, and my first item was "Seeds", i knew a little about the game, that everyone punches trees in the start, so i did it, but i click spammed the tree, and nothing fell out, then i had the idea of keep the mouse in place and hold it, worked! I begangathering some rocks, well i tried, but i only broke my fingers trying to break pieces with my bare hands, and nothing was dropping too, got sick of that and looked at a Newbie Guide, learned how to make the main tools and a Crafting Table, now it was almost night, ran to a Mountain and made a house inside, got Coal on the process and my brother told me to try putting it in a stick, now i had torches! Then i made a Chest, Furnace, And broke two blocks for seeing the outside, saw Zombies and a sad creature, i though it was running from the zombies since it was coming to my house, i let him in and you know the rest, good bye entrance! Survived the blow, because i remembered hearing about "Exploding Monsters" and i understood i had met the Creeper! But in that time i called it Green Critter as i didn't knew its name... Ah man, i get good memories from that!
Another thing, after some days i found Diamonds, i thought they were useless so i left them there in the deep parts of my mine, when i read about it, then i rushed it down like a monster to get my shinies! But i closed that part because it was unnaturally dark (Much later i got acknowlede that it was called Void Fog), i also found a Cave, and was exploring it with much fear, when i heard a sound, one of those you hear inside a Cave, man i went out running in real life!!!

I started playing in Minecraft classic. I learnt pretty quickly how to break and place blocks. Then I got treehouses built on the trial worlds, as I didn't have premium.

If you mean when I bought premium back when Minecraft Alpha just came out, I just built myself a home out of dirt and wooden logs (after I figured out it wasn't insta-break blocks and you needed to hold down the block-breaking button!). I can't remember the rest. Still, I liked those days...

Anyone else bought premium before/during when alpha was out?

Ahh my first night!! I bought the game in early Alpha.

The major things I remember was the mega differences between what we experienced at this moment and today.

1: The implimentation of the half slab: We were so RELIEVED that the half slab was "invented". Before that we were always jumping around like gazelles to get up on any hill or block. Today this block is almost never used by the community. But at this moment it was the most praised one!! lol

2: The lava bucket bug: There was a time where the lava bucket was terribly dangerous because of a bug. If a chest was opened with a lava bucket in the hand, the lava was putted on the ground, destroyed the chest and it's content, burned us and sometimes killed us!!

3: The bed: What a relief it was!!! skipping the night by sleeping! And no more bed represented by wool blocks or half slabs. There was even entire blogs about how to create beds in Minecraft with blocks! lol

4: The leaf decaying bug: There was a time when leaves did not decay like today because of a bug. We had to break every leaf block to get rid of a tree. It was so long! I was creating a forest at this moment, a forest like those today that have a lot of big trees, and I finally gived up on that hehe!

My first night was fairly similar. I was determined to not "cheat" by watching how to videos and read the wiki.

Once I loaded my first world I started wandering around and had found a nice little mountain ocean side to which I quickly took to carving out a flat piece of ground part way up the mountain for my very first masterpiece.....a dirt house. I had at least known enough on how to make wood tools and to gather wood. It was then that I quickly learned how to make stone tools and I decided I was ready for my first adventure.

Journey to the center of the earth

I started digging down at an angle like all new adventurers as I saw this to be the most efficient way to get down. I then figured out how to make stairs to make the descent and ascent quicker. Like all adventures there has to be a crux and defining moment to really make you reflect on all that you had accomplished (about 40 levels).

Tragedy

This moment arrived for me as I had stumbled into a cave. Fortunately I had a hand stone sword so the moment was not when I encountered my first "mob" but rather when I suddenly started taking damage. I quickly spun around looking in every directly to find my attacker but there was no one there. In an effect to flee my invisible attacker I ran back up the steps but to no avail.....the attack continued even while I was safe inside my dirt house.

It was hear the onslaught continued, my health drained and my panic grew but there was nothing I could do. My first character passed on with only this note


As I reflected on my oh so short first day in Minecraft, I decided I should probably watch some How to play videos and read the wiki because clearly I would not be able to survive another day without doing so.

My first night was spent in a village with no golem during a Zombie Siege.
I ended up in a hole with some bread for half of it.

I started playing around 1.4 and I have to say even as a only playing for around a year the game has come a long way just from then. I always loved watching mod reviews and I had seen the game on certain YT channels but I knew nothing of the world around me. I automatically knew to start punching trees and I went from there. Made an average home, log corners, plank walls and a made a staircase mine. I have to say my biggest moment though was far from that day when I found my first diamonds. (or maybe it was when I found israphel in the yogbox) there were five exactly, enough for an enchanting table and a diamond pick. I made both of these and then went to the nether. And that's when things got "Very Scary!" (If you know 1.4 well you will get that joke.) So yeah, my minecraft experience wasn't too awesome, but I have played a couple intense games of Ghast Ball. However my computer is not working and just now I feel like playing the PC version, but who knows that could've messed up my computer. (though it was probably Portal 2.) Anyway, I just wanna hope that other new MC players have a better first night.

this version was the Create World Button then it creates a world for you without naming it, Me and my bro were trying to learn the game, i made a dirt stairs torwards the tree, got some wood then i have some planks, i didnt know how to create tools but after surviving my first peaceful night (yeah, i was scared from playing with monsters which i call in my first night) i was punching stone with my bare hands, after breaking it cobble didnt come out, i was wondering if the game was broken, but no, all i need is a tool to break it, after making a T shaped crafting of planks nothing came out, i stored everything until a pressure plate appeared, i made it and placed it, i stepped on it and it mad a click sound, and i slowly make my treehouse using dirt, planks, and sand, thats all i can remember