Arteveld: Reminds me of [see attached] ;P

Zeewolf: The Legendary Lost City of the Soviets?

Zeewolf: Anyway, I disagree with Navagon's hint about starting in peaceful-mode. I loved my first time in Minecraft, and the zombies were the reason I started building stuff in the first place.

Drat: A craftable one-shot item that sets a new spawn point. It'd have to require lots of stuff to make though.

Weclock: the compass, you take four iron and one redstone and bam, you got yourself a compass.

Navagon: Start out on peaceful. You want to limit the number of problems you have to contend with.

Remember that you have to hold down the mouse button to hack away at things.

You need wood first. But only build one wood pickaxe. That will be enough to chop away at enough stone to get you a stone pickaxe (which actually isn't all that bad, really).

Caves are your best source of rarer block types. Take a lot of mud with you to build mud staircases and dam annoying rivers.

Build a compass as soon as you can. It will tell you where your spawn point is.

Keep in mind that some blocks fall down. Mining the block directly above you can be fatal. Same goes for mining the block at your feet.

Equally, you want to be aware of other potentially problematic adjacent blocks. So sometimes it's wise to clear adjacent blocks before going after the one you want. Generally you've got a better chance of grabbing a block as it falls if it is at head height when you're mining it.

If you're mining a block you want (particularly obsidian), make sure there are no lava pits or chasms behind it for it to fly off into. Again, mud is good for this. You can use mud to dam lava too.

Start a new game several times first. Get one you like the look of. Personally I like mountainous ones as I can carve my towers into them and clifftop mud shacks make good initial lookout points on less peaceful modes.

If you block the entry point to rivers you kill them entirely. This might not be desirable in some circumstances.

Visit the wiki. Navagon: Yeah, maybe the trees have to go. Which is a shame as the area is quite pretty at the moment (see attached).

Well some people are managing to import objects into the game. Such as that scale Enterprise model. So some kind of official editor surely should be possible.

Zeewolf: The Legendary Lost City of the Soviets?

Anyway, I disagree with Navagon's hint about starting in peaceful-mode. I loved my first time in Minecraft, and the zombies were the reason I started building stuff in the first place.

prakaa: Ok guys this is the GoG Minecraft Server

78.240.217.126:25565

The one already in the Steam group

If you walk past the sweet castle and up onto the bridge, keep walking until the bridge is a single walkway. Keep walking until you see the sign for our Black Hole Cave. Once you do, drop down and follow the directions.. look for the area with 4 torches.

Go inside the cave, and down the stairs, and further down. We mined near the rockebed and found a "black hole". If you fall down, you're suspended in the night sky...

michaelleung: That was ridiculous, bro.

Tyler62092: What's that like? Are you joining together in multiplayer and doing stuff like building houses and crops or are there specific challenges?

prakaa: Yes basically. There are two versions, creative and survival. Creative is survival without monsters. That server I gave you is creative. Survival coop would be sweet too..., but I guess you need to be on together at most points...

Andy_Panthro: A GOG server?

Hmm... I guess I know where I'm spending this weekend!

VirtualPenguin: Google cartographer for a map making program, I recommend oblique-angled mode for ease of identifying stuff.
and someone talked about an editor earlier, MCedit is my favorite by far.

Also do not get too attached to your world unless you often take a backup of it, because if the game or the computer crashes while playing it will often corrupt the file :(