User blog:FuryOmega/My goals

When I spawned into the latest version of the map, I set sail away from the spawn point asap, trying to find a slice of wilderness away from the hustle and bustle I expected to explode in the center of the world. I was maybe 1500 blocks away from 0,0 when I saw a tall, steep tor looming over the coast, and I just knew I had to put a tower on top of it. I set to work and quickly had a cozy little house on the heights, with a long series of ladders drilling down through the peak, all the way to the bedrock.

When the neighbots eventually started to show up, and excitedly asked (in my noobish naivetée) "Did you see my tower on your way in?"

They responded, "Tower? All I saw was a little 3 or 4 storey house.  Did you turn it into a real tower?"

Needless to say, my expectations of what were possibly in Minecraft underwent a swift recalibration.

Since then, my main home hasn't grown much, but I've constructed some small "guest cabins", and with the aid of my trusty golden shovel and the truly wonderful Anti-Griefing plugin, expanded my demesne to what I think it a respectable chunk over acreage. I don't really plan to DO much with all the land, but I sure like knowing it's mine.

So where do I go from here? I hope to get more familiar with the Nether in the coming weeks, but for whatever reason — maybe all the fire? — it lags the hell out of my moderately-old laptop. I've also considered deconstructing my tower back down to the level of the hilltop, and rebuilding it with a more fanciful design, possibly brick with vertical stripes of obsidian, lozenge-shaped windows, glowstone interiors and flaming netherrack gargoyles, turrets, buttresses... you name it. It will never be very large, just due to the dimensions of the hilltop I know think of as home, but I can certainly dress the place up.

So! Let's get digging. :)