I spent some time this weekend playing Minecraft with my first born. He’s quite the youtube junkie and the ‘craft has come back around to being cool on certain channels, so he and the littles are once again interested. I’m a builder by nature. I build structures and walls and cities and try to create massive weapons rooms full of all the treasure one can imagine. He is about the exploration and the destruction of key Mobs. Our weekend was about taking down the Ender Dragon using strategies gleaned from hours of youtube.
It didn’t work. I mean we killed the thing, but we died multiple times in the process and lost all sorts of XP. Oh, and all our hard fought gear. Still, it was good to accomplish something with my son, and that was the goal from the start.
Some Thoughts:
- The lack of sleep has not lessened.
- I am truly getting old. As a kid I could avoid sleep for a couple of days and be fine. As a grown man it is not the case.
- I think that the tower is on hold for a bit. I mean to finish it, but I do not know what to put in the darn thing. What I do want/need in this world is my own place. The others who join into the world spawn quite close to the tower, so that is less private. What I want is a sprawling location just far enough off the grid that they won’t come looking. I’m thinking back to the batcave motif where I put a house on the edge of a small village I’ve perhaps walled off to look like a keep (I do that quite a bit). Once I have the populace set up as I want (for trading) I can start digging below the earth and creating a massive open mining space where I can test out new and borrowed inventions.
- Maybe I’ll make it a wizard tower and merely fence off the town to keep the people safe.