Minecraft Origins

I started my Minecraft adventure during Christmas time about 2 years ago (I was around 10 or 11 during that time. Yes, I'm that young.) when the game was still in Alpha. My brother had got me a sort of double gift. A really cool Mario statue with Yoshi, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Bowser, and of course, Mario. It was in a ? block box. When I opened the box there was the statue along with a note inside to visit a page on his website (everything on this site is custom-coded by him) where I would click a secret link which would then give me a gift code to redeem on the old minecraft.net! Whoopee! I had never played the game before, and was quite excited to try it out. Although I had a dilemma similar to pianoman91894. I didn't know how to break blocks. Whoopsy... I was discouraged to play for a good couple of months.

Right around Beta came out, I decided I would give it another shot, so I loaded it up, updated, and started playing. I had probably the best time that entire year playing that game. It was just so addicting. My friend, digthedag, later purchased Minecraft for himself about a month. We wanted to play Multiplayer but sadly we found no good servers. My brother then offered to host a server for my friend and I to play to our hearts content. Once again, we had a blast! Most fun I'd had all month. After about a month of fun, my brother had to close down his server. I was then determined to figure out how to set up my own server so I could play with all of my friends, who pretty much all had purchased Minecraft at that point. (digthedag was sort of the popular one in our group, I guess you could say.) I went ahead and visited the wiki page to find out how to set one up! I got my ports forwarded and downloaded the Minecraft_Server.exe to generate a nice world! Tehjakesor and I started building our houses (we used the /give command to give us diamond block houses ) and got ready to turn mobs on. Then after that we got a few of our friends to join in, including digthedag and some of his friends. digthedag ended up building a huge castle far away from everyone else (this sorta became a standard for him after that.) that we ended up helping him with. Then something terrible happened. We launched the server to find our houses were infested with monsters, apparently attracted by the NPCs we placed in our house. We had to relocate to digthedag's castle, now a full-scale kingdom, with villages and everything.

I honestly don't know why I didn't just remove the NPCs and and turned off monsters, then turned them back on. Although, you can't really blame me. I was 11 or so when this all happened. But after our relocation, things were starting to get out of hand. People were griefing each other out of anger and, after I upgraded to Bukkit, using everyone's favorite command, /strike, to kill each other. I ended up having to revoke OP powers from everyone. Things were just getting too out of hand. Fast forward 2 years, you don't need to know about all 6 or so of the servers I went through, perfecting my server creation skills. At this point I am 13 and it was around October last year. Oh man, was this a great month. I was talking to my mom almost non-stop about how I wanted to go to Minecon. I remember that one day I found I had aquired a cape and I was convinced it was an error on Mojang's part. A few days later, my brother had set up a cool little Creeper minigame that ran on a fake YouTube page where I had to find all the Creeper related easter eggs. He told me I would get a "great award" for finding all the Creeper easter eggs. I found all 8 of them and then a popup text window popped up saying "Congratulations! Your prize is 2 Minecon! One for mom and one for you." As I saw that text box, I was speechless. I was actually going to go to Minecon. Holy crap. I wanted to tell all my friends. But I was encouraged to keep it a secret as my mom wanted it to be an only-us trip and she would rather not have to bring any friends with is. I was happy to oblige.

I couldn't wait until that day where we drove from LA to Las Vegas. Then came the day. I was extremely excited. I was watching Minecraft videos on my Android phone on the car ride, when at about 11 PM we arrived at our hotel, The Excalibur. We got our card-keys and we sorta just crashed on the beds of our choice. Minecon was such an amazing experience. Got to watch Yogscast on the big screen. Hell yes. Anyway, back to the story. We're fast forwarding a bit again. You're probably tired of that by now. But if I didn't do that you would be tired of reading this story. It's about mid-April. My friends and I are playing a Minecraft inspired indie-game on Xbox Live called CastleMiner Z. Let's just say it got boring pretty fast. I asked my friends if it would be a good idea for me to try and start up a new Minecraft server using the Flatlands generator and Creative mode. They gave me the OK. So after 6 months of not doing anything server related, I started up the most recent Minecraft server. The one you all know as Yocraft. It was a very humble beginning. We started by building a nice town hall. It's one of the first things you see when you go into the Creative spawn. I got almost all of my friends I have met over the years who had Minecraft to join in and build stuff in that old server. Built the Homes district you can access by /warp houses in the server and made a small little brick house, which I eventually destroyed and turned into a giant sky mansion, then back to brick house, then I moved and made a wood house, then I made another sky house which is my current house.

I'm going to take a little turn backwards, towards last Christmas time. I was at a log cabin camping with my friend travador, who owns a mansion you can see to the side of the Creative spawn and designer of the Capture the Flag arena. I was on my phone doing stuff like browsing deviantArt. I decided "How about I search up something Let's Player related?" I did just that, and it just so happens that I stumbled upon the colab between AnnabethRide and AnimeExpertGirl, MitM: A Splintered Memory which I thought was a really good story. I still need to finish reading it :V but anyway, I started watching Aly a while after that (I'm not sure why I didn't watch AnnabethRide, too though :U) and actually started to comment on her work a bit more. Let's fast forward a bit to around March or so? I ended up getting Aly's Skype and we started talking a bit. Not to often, which was sort of a shame. Fast forwarding a bit back to mid-April. I found out Aly started playing Minecraft and so I invited her to play on my server. She didn't go on very much. (I think that's how it went. The memory is so distant that I can't remember much.) That all changed about May, when AttackingTucans had a wonderful Minecraft stream. He needed a server to play on so I jumped to the occasion and gave him the IP, totally unprepared for everything that was about to happen. He had sent me the world file for a parkour course he started working on (Guess which one that was! ) and I loaded it up onto the server. We both started building right away. And that's where things started to get insane.

After building about 3 stages, we had everyone do a test run of it. We noticed one person who was especially good at the course, KoreanWonderBoy. In all of our test races he seemed to come out on top. It was tons of fun. A couple of days later, he had proposed a stage to us. The stage you all know as Tetris I. Tyler and I agreed that the idea was really REALLY cool and we implemented it into the Tucan parkour course. Stage 7 out of 30. By that point we had put Hank in our call to be able to talk to us about Parkour ideas. He ended up building almost all of the course alongside Tyler and I after he made Tetris. He was a huge help. He was one of the first to become an Admin on the server. A couple of weeks after that, I thought it would be cool to collect the Skype usernames of some of the members of the server (pianoman91894, Ganon432, Squillistipated, KoreanWonderBoy, TripleB944, travador, and Tehjakesor even though I had Trav and Jake's skypes before.) and invited them to a Skype group where we could all mingle and chat and just converse about life in general. Everyone seemed to click with each other in the group and we all became great friends relatively fast. Then came our first Skype call. Oh boy, what a Skype call that was. Which is right here for your viewing pleasure. After that we all seemed to talk to each other every day. We all developed an unbreakable bond. Then came summer. Probably the best summer of my life. We were talking all day almost non-stop to each other and playing games which improved our already unbreakable bond. Then came that day. That fateful day when Tyler bought the server a VPS to host Yocraft on. We could now host a server with 800 people on at once. Jesus christ that's a big amount.

Setting up the server again was sort of a pain, but once we had everything just how it was before it was amazing. It was up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and would not be taxing on my computer at all. Flipping sweet. Now I could play games.
Except I couldn't. I used to have a crappy computer. Anyway, this seems to all lead up to the now, after countless streams from Tyler and one from YoshiToMario AND Tyler, the server now has many games to play and has 30 people on it at the peak of the day. Which is pretty mindblowing. I'd gone from a crappy server where we used /give all the time to a huge server that is pretty much a monument to how even younger people can start something big if you've got the right mindset. This concludes MY LIFE STORY! Thanks for reading!

I found about MC when sceptile12345 was watching videos. I did not watch them at first, but when I did, I found out it was awesome! He got the full version and I started playing the Classic Version. Fastforward now. I downloaded the Pocket Version but it was kind of boring. Fastforward again. It was the 5 of June and I was playing Classic. My mum forget to get me a present on the 4 of June so she bought MC for me! I made a bunch of Creative Worlds. I was a scaredy cat to play on Survival Worlds. A few months later, I finally made a Survival World! No cheats, and no mods. I built a big house and made a to do list. Few weeks into the future, I got the Technic Mod! I copied my survival world and pasted it on my Technic Worlds! Success! Next month, I found out about Yocraft and New Liberty. I played on Yocraft first and it was awesome! I got a room at the Guild then it was stolen . I had to have a room with sceptile12345 and he made some chests. He locked his Potion Chest for only him . Few weeks later, the Dorms were built! I moved out of sceptile12345's room and got one in the Dorms. Next month, 1.4.2 cabe out and Yocraft was not updated. Then I found New Liberty which was updated and I played there. I went into this faction called FTW but then I was kicked out so I made my own faction. Next month, Yocraft was updated and I started playing on it. I played CTF and everything was new and awesome! I played with my friends including Yalorda!