I love Minecraft.  It is my favorite video game of all time.  I have only had a few consoles, such as the Wii, PS2, and PSP.  I also have the iPod which I play some games on, but Minecraft on the PC is definitely the best. I will start with how I started Minecraft, and then finish with why I keep playing it.

How I Started?

I started back in the early part of 2010.  I have this club at school called FIRST, which if you clicked the link, you probably saw that it was a smart persons club.  So here, I saw people playing Minecraft for the first (pun intended) time.  The first thing I remember seeing in Minecraft was a castle my friend built in single player, and since the castle was on a hill, below the hill there was some sort of light.  Be it torch, glowstone, or lava, I do not know because I did not know what any of those were at the time.

I remember as I watched my friend play minecraft telling him to “Kill that monster” and “place that torch”.  I remember his answer to both of those was “no”, and at the time I had no idea why.

I think this was back in Minecraft Alpha, because I remember later that year, people were talking about how it had just gotten out of Alpha and was now more expensive.  I had gone home after the first few times I saw it, and had looked on MinecraftWiki a little bit, so I knew more about the game at this time.  I wanted to start playing the game about now, so, I got a “trial” copy from my friend.

It was really fun.  It took me forever to find coal, and I just had to suffer through the nights without any light in the small shelter I made in a mountain.  I started playing a lot, and building cool stuff.  I wanted to build cool things, but always found I didn’t have enough materials, or I didn’t have the right materials.  I think the main reason I got invedit was that I needed diamonds.  I started with cheat engine and changed the amount of stuff I had, but I did not have any diamonds to do that with, so I got invedit.

With invedit, I started building my massive mansion and rail system.  This was before power rails, so I had a gigantic booster rail system, that stretched from  my first house, to my mansion that I was building, and even to my mine and my above ground dungeon (which was the first one I had ever found).  It was a nice track system, with my new mansion, my world and Minecraft experience was coming along nicely.

I was following the updates and had read MinecraftWiki about five times over.  I was pretty excited for all the new updates, and everything that was added to the game.  I was told by some people in my club that I should buy the full game, so I could play multiplayer.  They had said once you fight a horde of zombies with other people, you would never go back to singleplayer.  I believed him, as I saw his logic, but at the time, I did not have the money to buy the game.  I found some offline mode servers and tried those out.

I tried many servers, but the one I played the most on at first was blockface.  That was not the name when I started, but the name escapes me now and I do not know where to find it.  It was a great offline mode server, the best that I had found, that used towny and virtualshop to make a great combination.  I played through three maps on that server.

During this time, I was getting my own friends into Minecraft.  This consisted of Jeremy1080 and DrLoussin.  This was about the time EverythingEris came into existence.  Jeremy1080 started a server for just us three to start.  Jeremy1080 and I went off to a summer camp sometime after this.  Here, we talked about and planned how to get our server out to the public and how to make it big.  We both still had the “trial” version at the time, so for about 3 months, we ran an offline mode server.

At about 1.7, I decided that I wanted a skin.  I also wanted to go on other servers, but the main reason was I wanted a skin on my server.  It was getting bigger, and I did not want the default Steve skin.  I bought the game in October, and I got the skin of Bob Marley.  I still have that skin today.

Today, EverythingEris has an average of 20 people on during the weekday days, 30 at weekday nights, and 30-60 on the weekends.  It went from three friends using the “trial” version of the game to those same three friends make a big server, almost breaking into the first page of minestatus, the most popular server list on the internet today.

Minecraft has a lot of features that keeps me playing for this long.  The main reason is multiplayer.  My friend was right, there is no coming back from multiplayer.  Even with PvP or mobs off, multiplayer trumps singleplayer.  I like how often Minecraft implemented new blocks and features into the game.  It is a building game, which allows me to do anything I want.  I can build houses, art, or the 7 World Wonders.  I can farm (which I like a lot), and I can fight mobs (monsters).  I can do anything I want in this game, which with all the other games out there, is saying a lot.

I will stay will Minecraft for a very long time in the future.

Thank you for reading how I started playing this awesome game and what keeps me playing!  Hope you either play Minecraft or will start playing.  It is worth it for sure.