had a ton of fun last night. got spawned in the water, and had to swim out to land and get my bearings. i was surrounded by massive towers made by people who had been playing on the server for a while. i decided to just set off in a random direction until i found a mountain for myself, which I did. i set to work digging a mining shaft all the way to the bottom of the platform. once that was done, i put up a few walls, and then decided to go exploring. I found a small cave nearby, and started digging, armed with 12 pickaxes. i dug, and i dug, and i dug, finding branch after branch, huge cavern after huge cavern. i lit the entire way with torches so i'd know the way back up. after maybe 10 minutes of digging, i started to hear the sound of water, so I dug towards it. i broke through a wall into a very, very depe underground cavern...the bottom of it was pitch black from lack of light. and just at my level, was a gigantic underground waterfall, descending into the darkness. I knew i had to find a way down there.
so, i carefully dug a ledge around and down the waterfall, making sure to leave single height jumps so I could get back up. it was probably 150-200 blocks to the bottom. when I reached the bottom, i saw the water flowing into a pool of lava, and knew i'd reached the bottom of the map. I proceeded to dig around for minerals, and found a ton of redstone, iron, and 5 blocks of diamond. after exploring a bit, i decided to find my way back up.
when I reached the top of the waterfall, i wanted to mark my spot, and the route back to the waterfall. So, i pulled out my workbench ( i carry one with me everywhere) and made several signs, which which I marked the route to take to the waterfall, as I made my way back to the surface. I also marked the entrance to the cave with a bunch of signs, torches, and a tall lit tower .
After that, I decided to head back towards the starting area to find some other players. there were two guys, poopsmcgee and the amazing bic who i'd been chatting with, and who apparently had a sweet fort. i'd been unable to find it though. eventually, i found the entrance to an underwater glass tunnel they had built, and followed it way, way out into the ocean to the island where they built their fort. it took around 3 minutes to get there. once there, i helped poopsmcgee finish a giant wall he was building (apparently the amazing bic is going to paint an 8bit mural on it).
then I watched lessthandan dive off the top of his building at sunlight, which was anticlimactic.
after that I headed down to explore their fort's main mining area, which was HUGE. mcgee said it took 3 guys 3 days to clear it out. the main room is larger than the draw distance (i couldn't see the opposite wall)
needless to say, this game is AWESOME.
Yep, still the same. Whenever I reboot my router, Qwest changes it, but I keep updating the DynDNS information. Going to look into getting a static IP this week sometime.
i believe dyndns has a tray app that will auto update it for you