Hello, BCUK, I was just wondering if any of you play a computer game called Minecraft. It's a game I think would appeal to a lot of woodsmen and women. It's quite popular in the gaming world. I used to be what some would call a "hardcore" gamer, but that hobby fell by the wayside a few years ago. I have, however, continued to play a more casual game called Minecraft. It's casual in the sense that it's has pretty basic survival gameplay, but on the other there is the element of redstone mechanics and contraption building with logic gates. That's what I do on Minecraft, anyway. I've been playing since the Beta phase which started a few years ago. It's surprisingly Bushcraft related... If you play the default game, you'll be in "survival" mode, a game type in which you have to chop down trees in order to build a house so that, at night time, spiders, bats and other such creatures don't get you. You have to mine for different ores and you can craft items using crafting benches and furnaces. You can make whole automated farms. You can use flint and steel to make fire. The game does get a bit stale if you're just playing on survival mode, but there are literally thousands of modifications you can add to the game which make it interesting. It's quite a simple game at first when you're just dealing with the survival aspect, so children can ease into it. It's also got a light and cheerful aesthetic, at least if you don't opt for a darker, more realistic texture pack. I'm not much of a gamer anymore, but the ability to just roam around on a "creative" server and just build whatever I want is great.
This is me standing on a birch log block, and beside that is oak... It really is a nature enthusiast's game.
And it's beautiful in its own way. This is a jungle biome that is randomly generated, meaning the blocks are placed in random order so that whenever you load a "map" it will always look different.
This is me standing on a birch log block, and beside that is oak... It really is a nature enthusiast's game.
And it's beautiful in its own way. This is a jungle biome that is randomly generated, meaning the blocks are placed in random order so that whenever you load a "map" it will always look different.
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