Don't think I've ever seen Minecraft go on sale. It's amazing though, so worth the money.
I'm addicted to it again, thanks to a colleague getting the 360 version for Christmas. She's on creative mode and got some huge hotel complex going on already, whilst I'm still on survival and barely get anything done when I play but I don't care, I love my survival mode!
I now have on it:
My starting base - sandstone mansion/castle type thing complete with a lookout tower. It also has a bedrock-deep mine which needs lots more digging out, plus a higher mineshaft that connects to the coast a short distance away with a door to escape out of. From this door you can also get under the sea to my lighthouse - pic on this thread I think somewhere. Complete with boat and lots of fishing rods so I can fish for hours with no mobs spawning. Around the house is a little flower garden, a moat to enclose it (bridged by trapdoors so I can raise them to stop things getting in and which also has a creeper statue over it) and a wheat and cow farm.
Huge railway system - nowhere near completed but it is vaguely laid out. It will eventually be a fully powered, non-stop circuit that pauses at certain stations for you to get in the carts between my starting base and my current base, plus other places along the way. Right now it goes maybe a quarter of the distance then goes back, but it does at least pause at each end. I do have one nicely built tunnel so far too, all the rest are just 1 x 2 gaps through the mountains but one is a properly rounded tunnel with torches and wooden supports.
Second base - small house that needs rebuilding. It's set in a huge mountain range with virtually every biome type near it. Desert, swamp, taiga, jungle... I've got a small fairly flat valley which has a barn, an orchard, cow pens, sheep pens (with at least 1 of every colour sheep), pig pens, chicken pens, wheat/sugar cane/carrot/potato/pumpkin farms and last night made a nice little bridge over the nearby lake to make getting around easier. But the bit I'm really proud of is:
Huge hollow mountain - well ok it isn't completely hollow yet but goddamn I've dug out a lot. All hail enchanted diamond pickaxes with Efficiency IV! Dug out down to bedrock level and more to go, I've done maybe 1/4 of it so far. It has huge arched bridges (think mines of moria) for the rail system to run on and currently also has 2 floating lava lakes (digging round those without letting myself get scorched was fun and very close at times!), stairs down to the very bottom (where conveniently slimes spawn quite regularly), a zombie spawner which I've enclosed and made a giant zombie face on the front of (so I know what spawns in there, got a skele one somewhere in my mine complex, gotta find that again) and a resident bat. I do have some plans for when it's all hollowed out properly though, including a Thundercats style entrance, a snake hanging from the roof (possibly have the railway going through it somehow), lava columns/rivers all interconnected to help with the lighting, floating lakes and a floating, indoors forest. Oh, I also have a nether portal in the middle of one of the lava lakes at the moment.
There's also a really nice jungle mountain not far away but I'm resisting the lure of that until my previous plans are a bit more complete.
I want pics of your hollow supermountain!
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We're close to creating and closing a hollow supermountain, and from there we will have to see what we'll do. All praise goes to Derf though, for his tireless OCD work on putting the stone down. 