Monday, November 1, 2010

The fails keep on mounting

Well the much anticipated Minecraft Halloween update came the other day, and I took my time to play around with it. I didn't venture too far to see some of the nearby Biomes, but I have noticed what seems like even more monsters around now. This was a blessing though, as it allowed me to hunt plenty of Creepers and gather a decent amount of gunpowder.

This brought me to one of the biggest frustrations I had, which was figuring out how to actually use the stuff. After trying combinations of all sorts, I was at my wits end. It was then that my friend who also plays Minecraft finally clued me in. Sand and gunpowder. That was NOT what I was expecting, so after a proper facepalm, I went ahead and crafted 3 TNT. Excitedly I went down to the Obsidian and placed my block.

This has to work...

Lighting the fuse I ran like the wind out of the way and heard the BOOM behind me. Turning around, I was greeted by this...

...Well that didn't work

After dealing with the immediate letdown, I told myself that maybe I just didn't use enough TNT to blow up the Obsidian. So, blocking off the lava, I placed my last two TNT blocks down. This was when things got a little hairy. One of the blocks caught fire on its own, and I was left burnt and scrambling to escape before the two blocks exploded. Luckily I got away in time, but unluckily the Obsidian was still standing.

Bankrupt of TNT, bankrupt of pride, I was left with the sinking realization that I was going to have to man up and find some Diamonds.

38 comments:

  1. Lol sounds like fun. I love some minecraft. Never made tnt though.

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  2. mine craft is going to get big i can already tell

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  3. everyone is talking aout minecraft and i have yet to check it out. i should prolly do that one of these days

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  4. Too addictive, ill not even start knowing me

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  5. I cant find any diamonds in that game

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  6. looks like a pretty sweet game

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  7. Love this pics, thanks for sharing!

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  8. sweet pics! @frankie: i dont know...

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  9. Yikes! Hope you figure it out!

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  10. Diamond pickaxes are the only things that break obsidian :[

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  11. great post , nice screenshots
    keep up the good work

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  12. Find them diamonds, get dat pickaxe.

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  13. Haha this game sounds funny. I still have no clue what it's about. Maybe ill wiki it.

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  14. <3 minecraft. If you haven't played you should.

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  15. Wasn't too impressed by the update, really want to play survival multiplayer :p

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  16. Oooohhh I haven't played the new update yet, I can't wait to give it a go!

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  17. Just played Minecraft, that's great!

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  18. So... Does anybody else here play MineCraft?

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  19. well let's see if I come up with the time for it

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  20. i dont understand why everybody is playing minecraft at the moment...

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