I went out a-walking and, this being Minecraft, saw the following: Surreal, ain’t it? Oh, I forgot: I made this cave house and lined it with Andesite. I tamed a horse and dressed it in some diamond armor I found in a cavern. What should…

I had a treehouse in a prior Minecraft life, but I tried to make a fireplace in it with lava (I know, but how cool would that have been, eh?) and I burned the damn thing down. So this time, I made the fireplace outside.…

And they delivered. They let me pick a “seed” for a new world, and I picked Ice Spikes, and I got the weirdest, wonderfullest world ever! Ice and snow bang up against a Meadow of Flowers. I get snow, walk a few steps, get a…