Minecraft is always there
Date: 2025-01-12 | 2 min read | 227 words
Minecraft is always there for me.
Even if I haven't played it for a year, I can open it back up, update it and yet again, I am off to punch trees and run from Creepers.
From the first time I ever opened up this game, I fell madly in love with it. From then on, many nights after work were spent on voice chat with newly-made friends as we set out into unknown lands, searching for the best place to set up a base.
Over the years and many servers I've played on, we've had:
- An in-game life-sized representation of Yggdrasil
- Extensive rail and road networks from one end of the map to the other
- Recreations of IRL locations
- Entire cities built
- Yearly New Years' celebrations complete with in-game fireworks and countdown timers
- Massive excavation projects
- A guy that built an entire mountain range by hand complete with Meiji-period Japanese temples and villages
- Entire economies built
- So. Many. Laughs.
- So many funny deaths
- Intense arguments and drama
Through all of this, and well over a decade going strong, and my friends and I still come back to this game on a yearly basis.
Even with some of the bloat and useless things that have been added, it's still a game that I'm very grateful for.