I was in my mid to early teens and Minecraft wasn’t out fully yet. It was a holiday season get together with family, my family flew across the country to spend time with them. My cousin, my older brother, and myself were all playing together when I accidentally broke a block underneath an anvil for the first time and learned they could fall. This was on a platform pretty high in the sky so I assumed it would be no big deal. I let out a muted “oh.” of mild surprise at my discovery, then a few seconds later heard my cousin the the other room roar “WHAAAAAT?!”.
A small message popped up on my screen: “James was squashed by a falling anvil.”
Funny to think so such a small thing ended up becoming the inspiration for my go to username from then on.
Started when it was in Alpha because my brother in law said it was awesome. No one told me you could build tools and such, so I dug out (by hand) a fortress out the side of a mountain that was 7 floors where each floor was 3 blocks tall (technically 5 of you count the ceiling and floor). I showed him my achievement, both proud and frustrated. He asked how many pickaxes and shovels I went through, my response was something around “…what?”
Playing in a world created by my boyfriend and his sons. We made a huge mine. I remember a cobblestone tower. Just in front of this was a small pool of water where I once died because of the bug that didn’t allow you to swim up while taking damage. We started with a small wood house and eventually made a castle out of smooth stone. It had a library and a kitchen and 4 beds - One for each player. I didn’t have an Xbox live account so when we played I was always logged in as a guest. Before leaving the game I’d remove all my armor and empty my inventory into a chest for the next time I joined.
Minecraft before Microsoft bought it out and forced me to make a Microsoft account just to play it.
At some point, I had stopped playing Minecraft and I had an account since alpha but because of their account migrations where I hadn’t created a new username on the 2nd sign on system and the fact that so no longer had a receipt, I wasn’t able to recover my account. It was quite disappointing.
But I bought an account to play on Windows in bedrock because my son started playing and he wanted to play together with me. We still play and we could play for hours, just exploring and mining for stuff.
First time I ever played minecraft it was in 1.2 and I spawned in on a spruce beach, I had a crappy 3x2 sand hut with a dirt roof and a tower sticking out the side that went way up into the air. I wish I still had that world but I haven’t even been able to find the seed again let alone a 12 year old save. It was my first time playing anything on PC too so I had no idea how to move and started trying to move using the arrow keys and I thought I had a broken copy of the game.
