damnit...after seeing one of the videos posted here, and after months of relentless updates from a good friend of mine, i relented and purchased it last night. looking forward to defending myself from zombies, spiders, and other hideous creatures of the night...
The halloween update came out last night. Wow, it is so fun! Make a portal and go to the "nether" (hell) it's pretty awesome. To make a portal, make a frame of obsidian 4 blocks wide and 5 blocks high (14 pieces of obsidian) and then light the middle on fire with flint.
i've been working on digging out a long,dark mineshaft, and it's finally become quite interesting. there are lava flows, obsidian, redstone...and plenty of monsters.
haven't been online with the computer that has minecraft installed, so i don't have the halloween update. but it's plenty thrilling already. looking forward to finally acquiring the most recent version.
...and what's this about a jukebox that plays records?!?! i saw it as a recipe on minepedia, and that's goofy.