Robinson Crusoe: Minecraft’s literary predecessor

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Friday, April 27, 2012
EDITOR'S NOTEfrom Sam Barsanti

I've never read Robinson Crusoe, but now I can use my vast Minecraft knowledge to make it seem like I have. Do you remember the part where he made a sword out of diamonds and used it to kill a zombie? That was my favorite.

“My next work was to view the country, and seek a proper place for my habituation, and where to stow my goods to secure them from whatever might happen.”

“As well as I could, I barricaded myself round with the chests and boards that I had brought on shore, and made a kind of hut for that night’s lodging.”

“I went to bed for the first time, and slept very quietly all night, for I was very weary and heavy.”

“I had no room to turn myself; so I set my self to enlarge my cave and work farther into the earth, for it was a loose sandy rock, which yielded easily to the labor I bestowed on it.”

“This gave me not only egress and regress...but gave me room to stow my goods.”

“So that had my cave been to be seen, it looked like a general magazine of all necessary things, and I had everything so ready at my hand, that it was a great pleasure to me to see all my goods in such order, and especially to find my stock of all necessaries so great.”

Ah, such pleasures.

 
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April 30, 2012

This is exactly what came to mind my first couple sessions with minecraft. I wish there was a proper campaign/ story mode that mirrored robinson crusoe!!

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