Minecraft:The Debuggers

They say that everything has to be endless.

They say that everything has to be pure.

Well, I don't like it. I don't agree with it.

People will continue to say that "the past is over, it is time to move on and be who you are."

Sure, you can say that, but I have seen things. Things that no one else was meant to see, and I still don't know why I had to see them, of all people.

I guess I'll start with when I started to play the game in the beginning - all that time ago.

It went something like this...

Chapter I: No Surprises

Something that should be noted, first of all, is that I really only knew two people out of the few friends I had who played Minecraft. They were junkies on it and pressured me into joining it. The more they talked about it, the more I became interested. I wasn't really an avid gamer since I gave up on it a while ago to try and better my drawing skills. Eventually, my Christmas vacation had arrived, and I had nothing better to do. One of my friends, named Garth, gifted me Minecraft and told me to try and make my own world before going online.

The interesting thing I noticed at first was the interaction with nature. With my art, I often would just draw whatever came to mind and somehow blend it in with nature and stuff. You know, like trees and fields. The animals in the area added to the immersion (sort of) and I felt I wouldn't be disappointed after all this time. I began to go through what my friends told me to do, and soon I had my own little dirt hut.

Over the break, I began to expand my home. It started going towards the underground where, for some unknown reason, I trapped a ton of animals there, particularly pigs. Eventually, I began to start building upwards until I gave up out of sheer boredom and began to develop some convoluted device to kill the pigs and then store the pork chops in chests that I stacked up. Sound impossible? Oh, trust me. It was.

On the last day of my Christmas break, I had begun to craft the device, which I dubbed The Pork Paladin, with the redstone that I had spent the previous two days mining. The device started at a large 10x10 pen full of pigs. There was a door that I would use redstone to open and close. The pigs would then travel through said door into another pen where they would be killed by traps. The pork chops would then be stored in the chests that I placed beside the pen.

It sounds fantastic on paper, but it failed completely.

It was late at night as I was deconstructing the device and trying to decide what I wanted to do next.

After the failed Pig Paladin was done, I began to lead the pigs to the surface. It was much more difficult than I had expected, so I decided that the best solution would be to dig a new tunnel outwards. The pigs, though disobedient most of the time, stayed with me in the general area of the tunnel. I had to take down some of the torches that I placed in my upper house in order to see in the tunnel.

It was then that I realized I had no idea where the hell I was going.

I had to dig up, or I would only make getting these stupid pigs out more difficult. I did the usual stairs and began to think that killing the stupid animals would make things a hell of a lot easier. The stairs were moving along smoothly, though, so I wasn't to that point of rage quite yet.

As I was almost to the top - as I was mining that one last row of dirt blocks - a great wave flowed over me. I was sent backwards in a rush of water. I remembered clearly gasping for air. I would repeatedly push my body against the dirt stairs to try and stop, but the dirt only gave way as I kept tumbling downwards. I even remember hitting the freaking pigs, their annoying little "oinks" as they began to drown in the flood.