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Dec. 18th, 2010 04:51 pmNow that I'm experiencing it firsthand, I believe the reason Minecraft is so addictive is that there's always some inconvenience about the general day-to-day routine in that game that you actually have the power to change if you work at it.
It occurred to me that wood was becoming annoyingly scarce for being a common renewable resource, because the only trees out there were an inconveniently far walk away from my mine. Plus, you know, the whole "can't be out at night, monsters will eat you" thing. Then it occurred to me that, oh, wait, I can have trees wherever I want them. Too far away from the base? I can plant some closer. Or hell, why not make a tree room inside the mine? That way I can farm it whenever I want without having to wait for it to be safe to go outside! I even have an empty room just sitting there after I took all the ore out of it, all I'd have to do is even and level it out (so that, rather than being a weird random natural cavern shape, it's actually a regular cube inside) and lay some dirt on the floor, maybe make a pillar in the middle to hang some torches off of it, and... oh shoot, why is it five in the morning already :(
Last night, I hit across a small underground lake while remodeling one of the rooms in my mine (in the form of "let just clear out this patch of dirt in the wall here WAAAAAGH WHY IS THERE NOW WATER FLOODING MY ROOM" but... I eventually got it under control!) This morning, I realized I could set up a small wheat farm if I just expand the back of the lake room a little and lay some dirt down there. This will be yet another "now I don't have to go outside" deal if I can get a reliable food source from it. And don't get me started on the ridiculous dirt/grass fuse I have from the entrance all the way down to the tree room and how awesome it will be if that actually works and I can get livestock to spawn down there someday.
It's not like I started the game with any of these as my goals! In fact, I still maintain and insist that my eventual goal is to build up in the form of an awesome castle or something rather than live in Moria, and this mine is just because I need to get the materials and such to actually be able to do that. It's just... there's always something to do, whether it's exploring more of a natural cavern I accidentally hit across or just every time I realize "man this danger/walk back and forth/whatever inconvenience every time I want to do X is cumbersome, oh wait, I can fix this."
It occurred to me that wood was becoming annoyingly scarce for being a common renewable resource, because the only trees out there were an inconveniently far walk away from my mine. Plus, you know, the whole "can't be out at night, monsters will eat you" thing. Then it occurred to me that, oh, wait, I can have trees wherever I want them. Too far away from the base? I can plant some closer. Or hell, why not make a tree room inside the mine? That way I can farm it whenever I want without having to wait for it to be safe to go outside! I even have an empty room just sitting there after I took all the ore out of it, all I'd have to do is even and level it out (so that, rather than being a weird random natural cavern shape, it's actually a regular cube inside) and lay some dirt on the floor, maybe make a pillar in the middle to hang some torches off of it, and... oh shoot, why is it five in the morning already :(
Last night, I hit across a small underground lake while remodeling one of the rooms in my mine (in the form of "let just clear out this patch of dirt in the wall here WAAAAAGH WHY IS THERE NOW WATER FLOODING MY ROOM" but... I eventually got it under control!) This morning, I realized I could set up a small wheat farm if I just expand the back of the lake room a little and lay some dirt down there. This will be yet another "now I don't have to go outside" deal if I can get a reliable food source from it. And don't get me started on the ridiculous dirt/grass fuse I have from the entrance all the way down to the tree room and how awesome it will be if that actually works and I can get livestock to spawn down there someday.
It's not like I started the game with any of these as my goals! In fact, I still maintain and insist that my eventual goal is to build up in the form of an awesome castle or something rather than live in Moria, and this mine is just because I need to get the materials and such to actually be able to do that. It's just... there's always something to do, whether it's exploring more of a natural cavern I accidentally hit across or just every time I realize "man this danger/walk back and forth/whatever inconvenience every time I want to do X is cumbersome, oh wait, I can fix this."