The Jungle Temple Oracle: The Mystery of Herobrine Book Two
Viii MARk chEVERTon I’ve included an image of something Gameknight and I built using the amplified terrain setting a creeper prison You can see some of them escaped and are now swimming with their guards The creative opportunity this program offers users is incredible with people building entire cit ies cliff hanging civilizations and even cities in the clouds the real game however is played in Sur vival mode In this setting users are dropped into a blocky world with nothing but the clothes on their backs Knowing that night is fast approaching users must gather resources wood stone iron etc to craft tools and weapons so they can protect themselves when the monsters come nighttime is monster time To find resources the player must create mines digging deep into the flesh of Minecraft in hopes of finding coal and iron both necessities for making the metal weapons and armor essential to survival As they dig the users will encounter caverns lava filled chambers and possibly the rare abandoned mine or dungeon where treasures wait to be
ThE JUnGlE TEMPlE oRAclE ix discovered but with passageways and chambers patrolled by monsters zombies skeletons and spiders waiting to snare the unwary Though the land is filled with monsters the user is not alone Vast servers exist online where hun dreds or even thousands of users play the game all sharing space and resources along with other creatures in Minecraft These servers host many types of gameplay from minigames to spleefing my favorite to PvP I’m terrible at Player-vs-Player battles to fractions to Survival to Creative It’s amazing what people have created with Minecraft and these many many servers are evidence of the creative potential Minecraft offers those with imag inative minds This game is an incredible platform for creative individuals who love to build and create but they are not just limited to constructing buildings With a feature called redstone users can create electrical circuits within the game using redstone circuits to power pistons and other devices so that complex machines can be created People in the past have created music players fully operational 8-bit com puters and sophisticated minigames within Mine craft all powered by redstone With the introduction of command blocks in version 1 4 2 command scripts could be used to control game mechanics This opened a new creative avenue to Minecraft programs all over the world allowing them to make even more sophisticated mechanisms in the game The beauty and brilliance of Minecraft is that it’s not just a game but an operating system that allows users to create their own games and express themselves in ways that were not available prior to Minecraft With the many updates constantly flowing
x MARk chEVERTon from Mojang the game is continuing to evolve and get better The creative programmers at Mojang have been expanding the instructions available for command blocks allowing games to be con structed like Missile Wars one of my favorites and of course the classic Cake Defense another of my favorites If you haven’t tried these you should they are a lot of fun when played with friends The newest update called the Bountiful Update has added some really cool features My favorites are the Ocean Monument the Guardians and of course the rabbits Did you notice the last line in the update description Interesting Maybe he was there all along Maybe he’s still there Minecraft isn’t just a game an operating system or a computer programming environment it is something more It’s like a blank canvas that extends in all directions forever and is filled with unlimited possibilities What can you create
We have not passed that subtle line between child hood and adulthood until we move from the pas sive voice to the active voice that is until we have stopped saying It got lost and say I lost it Sydney J Harris
