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I'll say it again. Never joke about Minecraft. It'll eat your soul. I ditched all my other gaming plans and played it with my friend Mark all day today and didn't want to stop even after all that time. All the details are described below. 

Mark and I started a new world and built a house right away to protect against night creatures. A lot has changed since I played this game last. I don't remember Creepers banging on your doors. That's frickin' scary! 

Then I got blown up by Creepers a few times, eaten by Spiders, shot up with arrows from Skeletons, and, oh yeah, I drowned several times. I didn't know you have to hold down the "A" button to swim and not mash it. Finally I got my footing and then didn't know what to do. What do you do in a game like this? I guess do crazy stuff. So I built this really high stairway, which ended in a platform, which became a diving platform above a pit, which I then diverted a stream into to make into a pool. Then I jumped. It worked great! I built a ladder to get out of it and ringed it with cobblestone fencing so I wouldn't fall in (I had to dig it deep to get to the water).

Then Mark came over and showed me the flint and steel by lighting a tree on fire. I had forgotten about that thing, so I quickly ran off and made one and added to the fun by lighting nearly a whole forest on fire. I joked that the save screen text said, "you've been kicked from the server for crimes against nature". Then I myself caught on fire and didn't know what to do, so I ran into the pool I'd made. That worked. This happened several times before I got tired of lighting things on fire.

Finally I got around to mining. I dug all over the place and collected the various matterials you need to improve tools and make a whole bunch of things I'm sure weren't in the game a year or two ago. Then I saw the lava and got caught up in the same obsession I got into last time: the mastery and control of lava flows. I dug all around the lava and let it expand as far as I could. I used its light instead of torches as I mined around it. I brought up some lava in a bucket and built a holding tub for it in the house. I walked to the other side of the house to look at something, and when I turned back, the house was on fire. I guess there was some wooden objects too close to it. I laughed so hard at that. Mark was. . .um. . . not amused.

I found lot of good ores around the lava like gold and diamond. I made a diamond pick axe and shovel to dig quicker and longer. I'd be right along the edge of the lava flow all the time. Then I broke through to water and it streamed out over the lava making a nice vein of obsidian. I tried to mine it in the water, but the water was strangely swift running and pushed me right into the pool of lava. Dead! And all my matterials gone up in flames. I made a note to store my stuff in a chest while I mined next time. Then I went right back to digging around the lava flows and letting them expand into the ever larger cavern. After a long time of that, I realized I was dying from starvation and had to come back to the surface to til my field of wheat so I could make bread to take with me. Phew! Dodged a bullet there.

My friend Mark was mining away too and eventaully connected our two areas underground. He's played the game a lot more than me and was way ahead on building tools and expanding the house we'd built at the beginning with glass windows and trap doors. Me, I was fascinated by the lava. I wanted to see it flow and see how far it went by digging around it. I did that for a very long time. You could say, I was falling in lova with Minecraft. 

And with the sound of a drummer's rimshot. I leave you.