When I first bought Minecraft, I was a complete noob. I ran around for the first ten minutes of day one breaking flowers. When night time fell I finally realized you have to hold the left mouse key in order to break blocks. I salvaged what I could from the Earth, and made a dirt house. I was one of THOSE players. It was a nice grassy valley, surrounded by a snowy mountain to the south, a ocean to the north, more grassland to the west and a forest to the east. I began to dig stairs downwards until I hit stone, worried of the monsters that I saw spawning. I waited for my demise. My fate seemed grim until hope lit up like the rising sun. I ran from the grave I had dug myself, and found a village. I boarded up the largest house I could find, egging the villager out. To my surprise, a baby chicken floated out from it's bounds, it's shell spilling over the floor. That chicken and I learned, with much trial and error, how to make wood tools. To my surprise, each tool's recipe was pretty similar. I mined down through the floor boards and found an air pocket, 2 by 4 by 8. I threw more eggs. These animals became my greatest friends. I made some stone tools, a crafting table, and even some torches, and by then I was pretty annoyed so I started Googling the recipes. I had a pretty great base. All was well until I found an abandoned mineshaft. I egged an approaching creeper, and made a small wall of cobblestone. I had soon ventured through the whole shaft, finding bonus chests and minerals. I soon became unafraid of the mysteries in Minecraft. I've gone on to become as experienced as I am now, modding and managing two servers.
That's my MC experience!
Please leave some stories of your own, I'd love to hear what you first did when you bought the game!
Whatever you did, it's most likely cooler than what I ended up doing.
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Here are mine (I'm very ashamed lol)
I didn't know I could craft 3x3 with crafting tables for the longest
time. I actually didn't know how to build a crafting table. The
instructions showed up, and I still didn't understand.
I made charcoal out of burnt wood and other wood.
I thought I would destroy furnaces if I picked at them, so I just left a ton of furnaces everywhere.
I didn't know I could craft a sword for the longest time, so I was
running around trying to defend myself with a pickaxe or an axe.
I didn't know shears could act like a gas-powered machete when they were
implemented, so I was just trying to clear brush (without starting
fires), with an axe, which took ungodly amounts of time.
Speaking of fire, I didn't know it would spread so quickly when I first used it, and I ruined a build and one of my worlds lol.
I didn't know water could break my fall if it was deep enough so I spent quite a longer time going into and out of caves.
Didn't know about water acting as an elevator/slower set of ladders.
Didn't know people were hacking the game, and was puzzled as to why I was
getting owned on multiplayer by players who had crafted level 127 swords
and such. ---stopped playing multiplayer after, haven't gone back
since.
Spent about ten minutes trying to break a block of obsidian once with an iron pick
Only thing I'm proud of was my pyramid (no one builds pyramids!) made out of glass and covered in lava. It was around 100x100 and I didn't know about MCEdit or creative mode then. It was all built using survival. Took about 11 days to build. I smelted all the glass with about a bajillion furnaces lol
Working on my first world! Survival map Secret World House![1.7.10]with a *close to* 1:1 (not really lol, after trying to make a computer keyboard look 1:1 in build, it's more like 0.88:1 scale of a giant house! (my house IRL). Still working on it solo, would like some help soon---it doesn't need to look like my house, framework of house still supports custom-size, shape, and layout of most rooms.
Changelog 9 May 2015:
-carved out more space from y=66/normal-y-height to y=20 to allow more room for 1st floor
-designing landscape outside of house on paper for now, will use WorldEdit to make large, smooth and life-size looking shrubberies and plants, working on a good landscape gradient from ~y=30 to y=bedrock for dirt, grass, stone, brick, etc. (walkways, driveway, greenbelt)
I stumbled across Minecraft while watching Paulsoaresjr. I watched his "Survive and Thrive" series for such a long time before I actually got the game. When I first started playing, I was a total noob; trying to copy his "Cozy Cottage" design turned out to be me building a wooden box with a window. I spent a long time attempting to learn all the interesting things about the game. After a while, I eventually got the hang of it quite quickly. For multiplayer, I didn't even know that was a thing. Before I actually bought an account, I just had a cracked account for almost half a year, and I couldn't figure out how to play on servers. Until I talked with my friend who explained it to me and I was finally able to play on 'cracked servers'. Eventually I just bought an account and have been playing both mulitplayer and SSP fluently for a long time now.
That's just part of my experience. I could probably go on for ages talking about other stuff.
When I bought Minecraft I went right to trying to use TNT. I was trying to light TNT with a torch because I didn't know what flint and steel was at the time. The next thing I did was try to fight but that never did work... I guess you could call it fist fighting mobs. The last thing I did on my first day was fall off a high place...Just to say that happened more times than I can count.
My buddy Evan introduced me to Minecraft about a year and a half ago. I had never even heard about it until we met him, and he had happened to bring his copy of the game along with him when he came over that day. He taught me all the controls (The most I had played on our Xbox that required the controller was Lego Batman.) and then we started to play. I let him worry about having a safe place for us to stay, so I could go frolic and get the feel of the game. When it got dark, he called me inside the very small cobblestone hut he made with windows, and I ran inside. I was a super noob, so I just stared around and was in awe at the simple structure. He then asked me, "Hey, have you ever seen a creeper?" and I said, "A what?" He motioned out the window and I stood face to face with one. "Wow! Can I go look at it?" I asked with wonder, and Evan, sensing easy prey, replied, "Sure, go have a look." I walked outside after his assistance opening the door. He shut it behind me as I walked towards the creeper. "Hi there, are you friendly fella?" The last thing I heard was a loud explosion, and Evan's laughter ringing in the background.
I was not the first to play it. My sister and mom were messing around with the game.
When I finally had an opportunity to play it, I decided I didn't like the controls. Instead it "WASD" I used the arrow keys. Instead of shift i used right alt. Instead of "Q" it was Page Down. Instead of "E" it was Enter. Instead of slash it was back slash (before backslash it was F1; I kept complaining about a bug where my hotbar and hand would disappear; turns out that "bug" was an intentional feature)
When I actually started playing the game I was a creative junkie. My first house was a pit in the ground with wool floors, bookshelf walls, and a cobble ceiling. It had a single bedroom; outside that bedroom was a place where I could keep wolves. (My sister taught me about wolves) I eventually made an expansion that I called the dog house, named after Stampylonghead's dog house. When I eventually lost that house (I did not know that when you died you would respawn in a bed) I was a hobo for a while, blowing up the landscape and caving, I eventually made a new house. I was very proud of my house, it had a dog house, brewery, survivalist's food room, (I had to hand-fill each chest because I did not about the F-key/Shift-click tricks), an artificial ocelot biome (that is when I discovered that animals could despawn) and a dedication room. And it's piece de resistance was the attached theater; atop the theater was a mob arena. I was going to build a spleef arena, when I decided to visit the nether. I lost the house when I had no clue how the portal system worked and was unable to find the house)
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I finally deleted my first world. I was a hobo the first few days, again, blowing up landscape and this time murdering wildlife. I then settled myself in a ravine that I found whilst caving (during that trip I found a structure that I did not build, this structure happening to be a stronghold). That was probably the best first house I had, until my sister decided she needed to delete one of her worlds, but instead deleted mine. I never forgave her.
Cool story, eh?
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I swear, all of your stories have something I've done before in my early days of MC!
Once, I tried to copy a "Modern House" build, and let's just say it didn't look modern. Or, for that matter, like a house.
I've built huge pyramids and made mob arenas in survival. (Didn't know about creative then... :P)
I've tried to light TNT with a torch for at least 10 minutes, until I gave up.
I've been scared by a creeper that snuck up on me at night.
I once built a giant castle out of dirt in creative which, I have to admit, did look like a castle; however I ruined it by making a "Rollercoaster" and strange experimental builds around it. I also ended up making an awesome castle later, but my worlds all got erased. xD
Well my first experience was well THE FIRST EXPERIENCE.Started at the first offical version and it was good,but still only grass blocks and cobble stone but I still made a cool statue and a fortress.Then he evolved and was just getting better.
I went into Creative mode on a superflat and was *amazed* at all of the cool weapons the game had; then proceeded to find a village and burned it down, shooting all of the villagers with bows.
I went in Creative, build a house and was like "WHERE ARE THE ROOF BLOCKS? THE BLOCKS ARE GONNA FALL IN MY HOUSE" And then i realized it doesn't matter.
When I bought MC. I went onto a Creative world for a few minutes and then went to technicpack.net and promptly installed Tekkit (Now Tekkit Classic).
Played Tekkit Classic on a server for a good year before it closed down. I was depressed and stopped playing MC for 1-4 months. Since them I play on alot of servers that are heavily plugined such as Hypixel or Potterworld and I do play on modded servers from time to time.
I was wondering, how would I move this? I want to move it to the "Survival" category, as it seems like it fits better there.
Thanks!
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When I bought Minecraft....
I was too scared to do survival, so I spawned in creative and found a single desert village house. I went inside and started experimenting with all the items. That was when i realized I could tame wolves. A few minutes later I had like 20 of them in a single village house. When I started using TNT I blew up the whole house. (Killing all the wolves inside and crashing my world.)
I joined in 1.2.5. I always did creative super flat, and I mean ALWAYS. I built a really bad gold square house, and blew up villages. I was always terrified of Herobrine. I tried survival once, but I got bored within the first 5 minutes and went back to creative super flat. xD I actually started to get mods, and I remember my first 5.
1. Minecraft Comes Alive
2. Doggy Talents
3. Too Many Items
4. Shapeshifter
5. Mo' Explosives (or something like that)
Once I got Mo' Explosives, my Minecraft started glitching. All the textures looked like the terrain.png wrapped around the model.
I joined in early Alpha, when it was a new game. It seemed nice and
fresh so I bought the account and started playing. I was amazed! I could
do a lot of stuff! I could mine, I could build (It was hard, tho. At
the time there were no creative mode :P)
Servers were rare, so
I could only play by myself (And my hamster XD). When beta come
out.....well that was amazing! The game features suddenly exploded! They added pets, first wolves and then ocelots. My first (In-game) pet was......a pig. And now when I think about those good old times I always feel heat around my heart, all the monsters I've killed, all the diamonds that I've found, all the times when I let my sister to play and she fell into the lava lake with my diamond gear.....ahhh, I will play some Alpha versions now, bye!
When I first bought Minecraft, I was a complete noob. I ran around for the first ten minutes of day one breaking flowers. When night time fell I finally realized you have to hold the left mouse key in order to break blocks. I salvaged what I could from the Earth, and made a dirt house. I was one of THOSE players. It was a nice grassy valley, surrounded by a snowy mountain to the south, a ocean to the north, more grassland to the west and a forest to the east. I began to dig stairs downwards until I hit stone, worried of the monsters that I saw spawning. I waited for my demise. My fate seemed grim until hope lit up like the rising sun. I ran from the grave I had dug myself, and found a village. I boarded up the largest house I could find, egging the villager out. To my surprise, a baby chicken floated out from it's bounds, it's shell spilling over the floor. That chicken and I learned, with much trial and error, how to make wood tools. To my surprise, each tool's recipe was pretty similar. I mined down through the floor boards and found an air pocket, 2 by 4 by 8. I threw more eggs. These animals became my greatest friends. I made some stone tools, a crafting table, and even some torches, and by then I was pretty annoyed so I started Googling the recipes. I had a pretty great base. All was well until I found an abandoned mineshaft. I egged an approaching creeper, and made a small wall of cobblestone. I had soon ventured through the whole shaft, finding bonus chests and minerals. I soon became unafraid of the mysteries in Minecraft. I've gone on to become as experienced as I am now, modding and managing two servers.
That's my MC experience!
Please leave some stories of your own, I'd love to hear what you first did when you bought the game!
Whatever you did, it's most likely cooler than what I ended up doing.
Be the change our world needs.
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Here are mine (I'm very ashamed lol)
I didn't know I could craft 3x3 with crafting tables for the longest
time. I actually didn't know how to build a crafting table. The
instructions showed up, and I still didn't understand.
I made charcoal out of burnt wood and other wood.
I thought I would destroy furnaces if I picked at them, so I just left a ton of furnaces everywhere.
I didn't know I could craft a sword for the longest time, so I was
running around trying to defend myself with a pickaxe or an axe.
I didn't know shears could act like a gas-powered machete when they were
implemented, so I was just trying to clear brush (without starting
fires), with an axe, which took ungodly amounts of time.
Speaking of fire, I didn't know it would spread so quickly when I first used it, and I ruined a build and one of my worlds lol.
I didn't know water could break my fall if it was deep enough so I spent quite a longer time going into and out of caves.
Didn't know about water acting as an elevator/slower set of ladders.
Didn't know people were hacking the game, and was puzzled as to why I was
getting owned on multiplayer by players who had crafted level 127 swords
and such. ---stopped playing multiplayer after, haven't gone back
since.
Spent about ten minutes trying to break a block of obsidian once with an iron pick
Only thing I'm proud of was my pyramid (no one builds pyramids!) made out of glass and covered in lava. It was around 100x100 and I didn't know about MCEdit or creative mode then. It was all built using survival. Took about 11 days to build. I smelted all the glass with about a bajillion furnaces lol
Then my HDD broke.
Working on my first world! Survival map Secret World House![1.7.10]with a *close to* 1:1 (not really lol, after trying to make a computer keyboard look 1:1 in build, it's more like 0.88:1 scale of a giant house! (my house IRL). Still working on it solo, would like some help soon---it doesn't need to look like my house, framework of house still supports custom-size, shape, and layout of most rooms.
Changelog 9 May 2015:
-carved out more space from y=66/normal-y-height to y=20 to allow more room for 1st floor
-designing landscape outside of house on paper for now, will use WorldEdit to make large, smooth and life-size looking shrubberies and plants, working on a good landscape gradient from ~y=30 to y=bedrock for dirt, grass, stone, brick, etc. (walkways, driveway, greenbelt)
That's just part of my experience. I could probably go on for ages talking about other stuff.
When I bought Minecraft I went right to trying to use TNT. I was trying to light TNT with a torch because I didn't know what flint and steel was at the time. The next thing I did was try to fight but that never did work... I guess you could call it fist fighting mobs. The last thing I did on my first day was fall off a high place...Just to say that happened more times than I can count.
My buddy Evan introduced me to Minecraft about a year and a half ago. I had never even heard about it until we met him, and he had happened to bring his copy of the game along with him when he came over that day. He taught me all the controls (The most I had played on our Xbox that required the controller was Lego Batman.) and then we started to play. I let him worry about having a safe place for us to stay, so I could go frolic and get the feel of the game. When it got dark, he called me inside the very small cobblestone hut he made with windows, and I ran inside. I was a super noob, so I just stared around and was in awe at the simple structure. He then asked me, "Hey, have you ever seen a creeper?" and I said, "A what?" He motioned out the window and I stood face to face with one. "Wow! Can I go look at it?" I asked with wonder, and Evan, sensing easy prey, replied, "Sure, go have a look." I walked outside after his assistance opening the door. He shut it behind me as I walked towards the creeper. "Hi there, are you friendly fella?" The last thing I heard was a loud explosion, and Evan's laughter ringing in the background.
Haters gonna' hate, Potatoes gonna potate'
When I bought minecraft...
I was not the first to play it. My sister and mom were messing around with the game.
When I finally had an opportunity to play it, I decided I didn't like the controls. Instead it "WASD" I used the arrow keys. Instead of shift i used right alt. Instead of "Q" it was Page Down. Instead of "E" it was Enter. Instead of slash it was back slash (before backslash it was F1; I kept complaining about a bug where my hotbar and hand would disappear; turns out that "bug" was an intentional feature)
When I actually started playing the game I was a creative junkie. My first house was a pit in the ground with wool floors, bookshelf walls, and a cobble ceiling. It had a single bedroom; outside that bedroom was a place where I could keep wolves. (My sister taught me about wolves) I eventually made an expansion that I called the dog house, named after Stampylonghead's dog house. When I eventually lost that house (I did not know that when you died you would respawn in a bed) I was a hobo for a while, blowing up the landscape and caving, I eventually made a new house. I was very proud of my house, it had a dog house, brewery, survivalist's food room, (I had to hand-fill each chest because I did not about the F-key/Shift-click tricks), an artificial ocelot biome (that is when I discovered that animals could despawn) and a dedication room. And it's piece de resistance was the attached theater; atop the theater was a mob arena. I was going to build a spleef arena, when I decided to visit the nether. I lost the house when I had no clue how the portal system worked and was unable to find the house)
i
I finally deleted my first world. I was a hobo the first few days, again, blowing up landscape and this time murdering wildlife. I then settled myself in a ravine that I found whilst caving (during that trip I found a structure that I did not build, this structure happening to be a stronghold). That was probably the best first house I had, until my sister decided she needed to delete one of her worlds, but instead deleted mine. I never forgave her.
Cool story, eh?
I post pretty rarely nowadays. Gosh, I wish this place weren't so... empty...
I swear, all of your stories have something I've done before in my early days of MC!
Once, I tried to copy a "Modern House" build, and let's just say it didn't look modern. Or, for that matter, like a house.
I've built huge pyramids and made mob arenas in survival. (Didn't know about creative then... :P)
I've tried to light TNT with a torch for at least 10 minutes, until I gave up.
I've been scared by a creeper that snuck up on me at night.
I once built a giant castle out of dirt in creative which, I have to admit, did look like a castle; however I ruined it by making a "Rollercoaster" and strange experimental builds around it. I also ended up making an awesome castle later, but my worlds all got erased. xD
Be the change our world needs.
Project Realism - A Charity Network
Well my first experience was well THE FIRST EXPERIENCE.Started at the first offical version and it was good,but still only grass blocks and cobble stone but I still made a cool statue and a fortress.Then he evolved and was just getting better.
check this out!
I was playing 1.4, saw a zombie, freaked out and logged off. Good times...
Badprenup said:
"Ignore the people saying that [x] will be the end of Minecraft and that [developer] is basically Satan + Hitler."
I went into Creative mode on a superflat and was *amazed* at all of the cool weapons the game had; then proceeded to find a village and burned it down, shooting all of the villagers with bows.
I went in Creative, build a house and was like "WHERE ARE THE ROOF BLOCKS? THE BLOCKS ARE GONNA FALL IN MY HOUSE" And then i realized it doesn't matter.
lol, these are great, I could just say I watched minecraft for sooooooooo long before I finally bought it, so I had no problem
I was wondering, how would I move this? I want to move it to the "Survival" category, as it seems like it fits better there.
Thanks!
Be the change our world needs.
Project Realism - A Charity Network
When I bought MC. I went onto a Creative world for a few minutes and then went to technicpack.net and promptly installed Tekkit (Now Tekkit Classic).
Played Tekkit Classic on a server for a good year before it closed down. I was depressed and stopped playing MC for 1-4 months. Since them I play on alot of servers that are heavily plugined such as Hypixel or Potterworld and I do play on modded servers from time to time.
- C.C.
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When I bought minecraft, I was so excited to mine but there were so many mobs I got scared and logged off and decided to play multiplayer.
When I bought Minecraft....
When I made a new world...
I AM WAS HAVED SKIN OF THE GIRL! (Alex)
I am not wanted to me looks as a transexual, and I after changed the skin. True nooby story!
When I bought Minecraft....
I was too scared to do survival, so I spawned in creative and found a single desert village house. I went inside and started experimenting with all the items. That was when i realized I could tame wolves. A few minutes later I had like 20 of them in a single village house. When I started using TNT I blew up the whole house. (Killing all the wolves inside and crashing my world.)
I joined in 1.2.5. I always did creative super flat, and I mean ALWAYS. I built a really bad gold square house, and blew up villages. I was always terrified of Herobrine. I tried survival once, but I got bored within the first 5 minutes and went back to creative super flat. xD I actually started to get mods, and I remember my first 5.
1. Minecraft Comes Alive
2. Doggy Talents
3. Too Many Items
4. Shapeshifter
5. Mo' Explosives (or something like that)
Once I got Mo' Explosives, my Minecraft started glitching. All the textures looked like the terrain.png wrapped around the model.
Ah, those where the good ol' times.
I joined in early Alpha, when it was a new game. It seemed nice and
fresh so I bought the account and started playing. I was amazed! I could
do a lot of stuff! I could mine, I could build (It was hard, tho. At
the time there were no creative mode :P)
Servers were rare, so
I could only play by myself (And my hamster XD). When beta come
out.....well that was amazing! The game features suddenly exploded! They added pets, first wolves and then ocelots. My first (In-game) pet was......a pig. And now when I think about those good old times I always feel heat around my heart, all the monsters I've killed, all the diamonds that I've found, all the times when I let my sister to play and she fell into the lava lake with my diamond gear.....ahhh, I will play some Alpha versions now, bye!
And that's it!
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