III Taste

"Dig." Veteran players always start with this advice to the Minecraft newbie. "Dig." So the newbie clicks the mouse and digs. A hole. Then a deeper a hole. Then a deep, dark hole. "This is stupid," the newb invariably complains. "Dig stairs. Dig your way out." And by the time the fresh player has returned to the surface, they are hooked. You tell them about punching trees to harvest wood, finding coal, making torches. You explain they can wander forever in any single direction and never see the same thing twice. You point toward mountains or maybe an ocean, forests in the distance, and waterfalls pouring into massive crevices. "Oh, and look, there's a bunch of pigs. Did you know you can punch them into pork chops?"