

Rumors of Herobrine, strange houses, glitched giant slimes, UFOs removed mobs like the monster, or the enigmatic Farlands, along with the ability to obtain strange, normally unobtainable blocks like the Sponge in creative mode only served to reinforce the idea of Minecraft's world being an unpredictable, untamed frontier to be explored, hiding all sorts of poorly-documented secrets and curiosities ripe for discovery. Who knew what was out there to be discovered? Who knew what sort of strange structures and creatures lay just beyond the render fog? Certainly not me. There was always a mysterious, lonely atmosphere serving as a backdrop to industrious building and goofy antics of Minecraft. Watching now-obscure, non-Minecraft, or abandoned channels like SkyDoesMinecraft or iancoullahan1 doing letsplays of maps, reviewing mods, or messing with their friends while exploring this vast and endless game. When I first picked up Minecraft 1.5.2, some 7 years ago now, it was really magical to play, in a way that's quite unreplicable today. I used to love Minecraft, I'd play it almost every day. as well as just supporting a server you like), and it really got me thinking.

I was voting the other day, you can use some websites to vote for certain servers and get your vote total in that server increased (giving you special ranks, gifts, etc. I've played plenty of Multiplayer, to be sure, but the game has sort of gotten. It'd been a few years, I think, since I really sat down and played Minecraft single player.
