I bought the game on may 12th 2011.
Played a lot of single player until I decided to start playing online.
Googled noobs and minecraft and it came up with this server, it was nice, so I joined in.
At first I built a small house and started experimenting with smelting stone. Later on I built a templar tower with a large red templar cross from red wool and a white snow backgound on the front, which eventually became a large fortress. Some people liked it, others didn't, so I continually got griefed, almost every day. That is how I met most of the mods on the server
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I didn't like the concept of towns, because I like building big and towns restrict you to a small plot. I had a house in Flintwood for a while, but didn't get attached to it much, so I left it and came back to my fortress in the wilderness. A few people settled inside the fortress, all were welcome. I even had plans of turning it into a town in the future, although I eventually abandoned that idea.
You can find my fortress if you walk straight from the spawn, then when you reach the sea, turn right and follow the coast. Its not particularly impressive, just a big lump of stone bricks with a couple of large templar banners up front.
After I completed the fortress, my interest to the game slowly died out. It came back when 1.3 came around.
What attracted me the most was the fact that ores now gave exp, and the maximum enchantment level was restricted to 30, making things much simpler for me as I don't particularly enjoy the monotonic grinding of mobs and would much rather spend my time underground, mining for precious minerals.
In fact, at this stage I was enjoying the game so much, I decided to support the server, and since I had no need for anything from the VIP shop, I just got me the vip status, which was very helpful in my mining operations. I no longer needed someone to stay in my mine thanks to the /back command and this yielded great results.
After discovering the awesomeness that is a Fortune 3 pick combined with a silk touch pick my fortune grew rapidly. When the game gave me fortune and silk touch picks with unbreaking enchantments, I started mining other ores with them, not just diamond and emerald. Mining redstone ore with silk touch and later on placing it and breaking it with a normal pick produced commercial quantities of exp, which in turn fed the production of better, more expensive picks I could sell.
At this point I felt a little tiered of mining, so I talked to Kenny(emperorMyrf) and he allowed me to build in his town. He later on granted me TA powers so that I could build outside the maximum plot size. I began the construction of a large, Gothic style cathedral, inspired by a recent trip to Europe. Some of you have seen it, im quite proud of it actually as it is the coolest looking thing I ever made in minecraft. Its not far from Kenny's house in the Empire town, feel free to check it out.
My story has a sad ending though. The day before yesterday, I logged into the server, planning to go on my usual mining trip. The moment I logged in, my character was dead, and all my precious mining gear was missing. At first I was shocked and hoped this would get fixed soon. Sadly, it didn't.
When I lost my mining tools, I lost the will to play, because for me, the hunt for the diamond is more fun than the actual use of the diamonds. Don't know if it makes any sense to you guys, but I don't really value the ingame pixels as much as I value the thrill of hunting for them.
Feeling upset and down, I decided to let the dust settle and wait until the game gets fixed, as 1.3 is extremely buggy, both with redstone and now this. So I decided to give my valuables away, since I had no use for them. I laid aside a small stack of 44 diamonds for my future return and decided to give everything else away. Went to the main spawn and started to drop my stuff when Fatnoob messaged me. A second later, all my stuff disappeared from my inventory. Fatnoob explained this as a check for x-ray on my part. I found that accusation offensive, since ive been around from December and never even thought of using cheats, thats not my game.
Later on I got banned under the false accusation of mass x-ray use. Further attempts to explain myself were ignored and I am now labeled as a cheater, something that pains me more than anything.
The wheels of justice work in a very peculiar pattern on this server. I'm guessing ill get unbanned eventually, as I did absolutely nothing wrong, although, the will to play on the server is slowly fading away.
My only regret is that I couldn't complete my cathedral project.
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