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4. Ridiculous engineering
Building is simple and unrealistically easy. As my friend put it, "It's like playing with legos but with deadly wildlife."
You simply need some sort of building material, be it wood, dirt, stone, or what have you, and start stacking. Only sand and gravel obey gravity, so you can easily construct square homesteads, towers that serve no purpose but to conquer the landscape, and entire port cities complete with docks and boats.
Exploiting the lack of gravity further leads to more possibilities. Literal hanging gardens, waterfalls suspended in midair, improvised chandeliers. It's almost as if the lack of physics has unintentionally created a physics engine unto itself.
5. Explosions!
Every monster has their own way of annoying you. Skeletons shoot arrows, spiders run faster than you, and zombies simply groan constantly in an attempt you creep you out. Speaking of creeping, creepers are by far the most iconic monsters you'll soon grow accustomed to.
One day you'll be minding your own business, chopping down a tree growing outside you house, when the next thing you know you hear the unmistakenable sound of a fuse burning. "Sssssssssssshhhh!"
Blammo! Not only have you lost a chunk of you health, but the creeper's explosion has also taken out a chunk of your home!
While most monsters don't pose a threat during day hours (zombies and skeletons burn in the sun. Spiders are passive in daylight as well), creepers continue to be a nuisance at all hours, looking for an excuse to blow up and leave behind an ugly crater on your property.
6. Looting and plundering
Somewhere out there is a stash of loot just waiting to be claimed by you. As you explore the land, you'll find all sorts of interesting land formations that are just begging to be explored in depth for you to plunder. Suspicious sea caves, walls of gravel, the sound of running water behind a wall of stone. There are treasure chests out there, somewhere, spawned by the game, holding rare items such a pig saddles and musical records, usually guarded by a mob spawner: a glass cube with a flame inside continually spawning some sort of monster.
Even upon returning to the pit I died in, now dubbed the Gravel Pit, I discovered several walls of gravel throughout the cave that I had missed the first time through. Even though I had collected a lot of iron on my first trip, I soon found out that the gravel was hiding so much from me. From iron deposits to entire unexplored rooms with more darkness to purge with my torches.
There so much more the try and explore in this expansive, blocky game. I haven't even touched multiplayer yet. There are entire mole cities constructed with the help of four or five people on a server, toiling away for days and even years to construct lavish castles and dungeons. There are still many things I have yet to try like crafting TNT crates, creating logic traps with red dust, and so much more. Minecraft will hold my attention for a while longer, and I'll want to write about it more in the future in my travelogue.
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