another one i have to add to the list is my first map in minecraft, it wasn't because i died and lost diamonds or anything. when i first downloaded minecraft i did no research on the game so i had no idea how it worked or what i was suppose to do. i also had no idea there was a spawn point for your character and that you would respawn there every time you died, so i walked around just looking at stuff. after i found out how to make stuff after several hours of walking around, i found a moutian i liked and built my first house, back then i played on peaceful and only wanted to build things.
after several months of mining and gathering hundreds of items in almost every type, i started to build a large structure based off my apartment complex in my story. i burned alot of my resources building this thing from the ground up, back then i didn't know programs like invedit and mapping programs existed. so i built this thing in alpha 1.2_01, and i had yet to make a compass. the structure and my house where 100% ligit and took months to farm the mats and build.
the complex was actually smaller then it should have been, because of the height limit and not knowing about building up from the bedrock. anyway one day after putting countless hours of work into this structure i was climbing the left pillar and fell. i died on impact, i didn't think much of it until i hit respawn, at that point i learned about the spawn point. i looked around but couldn't see anything even that tall structure was nowhere in sight. at first i was in shock and i thought my heart had stopped for a second. after that i started walking around aimlessly i forgotten what the place i spawned in even looked like or the path i took. so i ran around in a panic as everything i came across started looking like the last 100 other things i already went past 100 times already. after wandering around for what felt like hours, the only thing that gave me comfort is i read somewhere that everything you build is saved even if you are a long ways from it.
knowing my house was out there somewhere pushed me to not give up, after wandering around for all that time i started to pray for the first time in years, then i remembered my house was on the ocean so i followed the shoreline and as i was coming around a corner i saw a large square shape pointing up, at first i thought no way that can't be it, i came across other mountains that from a distance looked like my structure many times. so once i got close enough to see it really was my structure, i ran to it as a fast as my minecraft dude could.
and yes i cried for a long damn time.
after a few more months after making a path back to my spawn to pervent getting lost and i wasted no time building a compass. a few months later i made another map to play the game with monsters. during this time i found cartographer, and got curious and decided to generate my first map just to see what it looked like, it was 65 mbs. after a while cartographer finished rendering the map, and looked at it, the pic was huge and i could not see my home and that huge structure i built. i zoomed in on the image and found the trail of torches i set up between my spawn and my home, i wondered how i did what i did after seeing how much distance was between my spawn and my home.\
i still say it was nothing short of a miracle that i got back to my home unaided, i didn't even know about f3. and when i made my trail it took a long damn time to finish it.
and when i got back to my home i didn't care about the items i lost when i died, i was just happy to even see it again.
27 Jul 2011, 3:36 pm
