Last Stand on the Ocean Shore: The Mystery of Herobrine Book Three
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I d like to thank my family and friends who have been so supportive during this journey through Minecraft I’d especially like to thank my nieces and nephews Breanna Samantha Lacy Brennan Cheyenne Devin Grant Kyle Kim Jared Austin Courtney and Danielle for all their support and excitement A special thank-you goes out to my wife’s minions Thank you everyone
WHAT IS MINECRAFT M inecraft is an unbelievably creative game that has changed the face of the computer gaming industry It can be played online with people from all over the world played with friends across a local area network LAN or played alone It’s one of the most creative things I’ve seen come to computer gaming in a long time Referred to as a sandbox game it gives the player the ability to build anything his or her mind can imagine using textured cubes as building material Of course most players first build a castle which was the first thing I built it looked terrible but it was my creation so I loved it For some reason because you build with blocks all buildings seem to gravitate toward castle-like It seems like a rite of passage in Minecraft you have to build a castle sometime But as I built things with my son I quickly real ized that the rules of physics don’t apply to this digital landscape In Creative mode you can build floating cities in the sky or a bridge to nowhere or an underwater village of glass which was one of the things that was destroyed on my son’s server when it was griefed I’ve seen people build
LAST STAND ON THE OCEAN SHORE VII massive ornately decorated spiral staircases that extend from deep down at the bedrock level all the way up to the build limit layer 255 and others build massive space stations that float in the sky and span hundreds of blocks in all directions Any thing is possible as long as you follow two import ant rules 1 everything is made of blocks and 2 you can build anything Below is something that Gameknight999 and I built with a few visitors in the picture Sadly it was griefed within hours of this screenshot being taken when will people learn If you haven’t seen some of the creations made by the master builders on HermitCraft you’re miss ing out Go look for some videos Their creations will spark your imagination and make you want to create something of your own The creative opportunity that this program offers users is incredible with people building rep licas of cities such as London or Paris or creating maps of entire countries or creating pixel art that is incredible to behold the real game however is
VIII MARK CHEVERTON played in Survival 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 and so forth in order to craft tools and weapons so that 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 the hopes of finding coal and iron both necessities in order to make the metal weapons tools and armor that are essential to survival As users dig they will encoun ter caverns lava-filled chambers and possibly the rare abandoned dungeon or mine where treasures wait to be discovered but with passageways and chambers patrolled by monsters zombies skele tons spiders and the ever-present creepers wait ing 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 that Minecraft offers those with imaginative minds I’ve recently come across some servers that are so incredible that they deserve mention These servers have multiple minigames that are incredibly complex to construct game play-like factions prisons spleef arenas PvP are nas Hunger Games anything you could ever
