Your Minecraft story

Let's see here...

Before Minecraft...

I was, at this time, an introverted boy. Didn't have friends, didn't wanna make friends. However, in time, I met someone from a previous school, so I made exceptions for him. One day I saw him playing minecraft on his phone, and at the time, I was looking for an online legos. I took interest in it and eventually bought it.

Before Touhou...

... I'll be completely honest, I have NO IDEA WHAT ANY OF THE TOUHOU GAMES ARE. I ONLY KNOW THE BASICS. The only reason I know it is because of Death Waltz. It's an impossible piano piece on synthesia and I found out it was Flandre's theme. I checked it out. Then I checked out the other soundtracks and I loved every one of them. Now you know my secret. I know a dukey's worth of info on Touhou.

Before YukkuriCraft...

I was derping on youtube, when suddenly in the suggestions tab I see the video. I ignored it a couple times until I eventually clicked on it. And I loved every second of it. I heard there was gonna be a second version and I asked Remi on the youtube accout if he could give me an estimate on when it was gonna be done. Bad idea. Once I realized that, I decided to join the forums. And here I am.

During the Dark Ages...

Soon enough, the house needed remodeling. The computer got moved to an area where there was no internet, and I was unable to go on the server. So I stuck around the forums. I bought my time with rp-ing. To be honest, every second I did, I always wondered that the rest of the forums looked down on us. Guess I got that cleared up this thread.

After the Dark Ages...

I just came back two days ago. But once I came back, I'll be blunt on it. I was shocked. The server became desolate. Everyone was fixated on their own antics. Why, When a new fella named Midnight_Sparkle came on today, no one AT ALL greeted him but me because I still had that little spark in me. So I need you to go to the thread I created and think about the proposition of an event I created. Like, really. Do it.

That's about it.

Your Minecraft story

Minecraft
I was very excited for minecraft when the first alpha was released.

Why?
Because my Sci-Tech Teacher told me about it and showed me the trailers an everything, he even studied in Sweden so he knew Notch, so I was so hyped, I bought it the first day it came out to the market. I remember it only was 5 USD or so, I'm an alpha player, I faced Herobrine when he did all the shit we know he did. I was the kind of people that mine until their arms break, so I got plenty of resources but I was like, I'm so alone in this cubic world and then I deleted the world and I stopped playing for a while.

Touhou
I had no idea of what Touhou was. I just went into the internet and searched for impossible songs (because I was mad at that time) and I saw Necrofantasia and I researched the song and all its origins and I knew TH after that. I remember that the first TH game I played was MoF. I got in love with TH.

YukkuriCraft
I first knew YC because I searched for Touhou Minecraft in YT and i went -O_O This is impossible- so I entered to check it and know I think everybody knows the rest of my story; for those who don't here it is:

Day 1
I was checking all the buildings and bla bla bla. Then a guy named skylord_salem warped me to the survival world, more specifically to his house.

Day 2
I got 20 mins of online activity.
I warped to Kagome and started my adventure, but I committed a little mistake, I broke a glass piece of Parsee's Bridge and I took some food to "survive". I think that Shangai_ joined at that time and saw the logs so I had no arguments to avoid the ban. I got banned for 3 days but I did not replied ( I didn't even know about the forums) so I got unbanned after the 3 days. I made my 'Shitty Shrine' and then I joined the Sakura City community and now I know all the people I do. THANKS YC.

Any other epic story?

O yes, I died 35 times in the first 20 mins when I first joined RTY😊

When I found out about Minecraft, I thought it was ridiculous. "It's basically a building blocks game for computers, with bad textures and physics." Hahaha, good one, past me. A year or two later I started screwing around on a "play for free site" just to see what minecraft was like. I might not have kept playing, until I discovered redstone and minecarts. Suddenly, there was more to do than just "break and build", and I came to like Minecraft.

The connection to touhou wasn't long in coming; as soon as I started sailing a boat, I got out an iron hoe and pretended to be Komachi.

As for how I wound up at YukkuriCraft, I think this walfas strip I made sums that up.

*Claps* What an epic story


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Originally posted by BenjiPM
As for how I wound up at YukkuriCraft, I think this walfas strip I made sums that up.

Rather charming that I was included in that comic strip. And I'm presuming that the Parsee is SuperTouhou64 (even if I'd have rather thought of Bebatch as the Parsee). For most people's stories on finding Yukkuricraft, it's usually either finding a place to go after one's previous servers weren't that good, watching Remi's video, and/or knowing a member of Yukkuricraft. Myself included.

I found a Gensokyo in Minecraft video in my suggestions. Watched it, and felt like joining. I joined at the same time as PhantomNerfies. Did the quiz, and forgot what happened. My joining though was in one of the YC shenanigans though, if I recall.

Then after a while I slowly leaking into the community, into some other games. I totally didn't have a crush on Tenko either. I have no idea where this is going. I then got 30 days of total ontime on YC, and then got Elder the day after. And then I am here, doing... what am I doing... WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE? my memory sucks

I remember some friends at my school were playing it back in infdev times and i was like "the fuck is this shit" and didn't give it much though. Soon, a lot of my friends were playing it and i, being like some dumb kid, labeled it as "too mainstream" for me. Soon after, my closest friend, Alex (yes, our Alex) convinced me to try it out. I played the shitty game on my netbook (single core processor, 2gb ram, etc etc) on peaceful, lowest settings and still got like 10fps. I enjoyed the game though and made random shit in creative for about a month on single player.

Then, soon we entered the Beta phase of mc with 1.1_01 or whatever the hell the version was (edit: it was 1.2) and Alex said he wanted to see if he could bring up a server for some friends to play on. I followed Alex's instructions and logged onto his server he had hosted. I promptly blew up, freaked the fuck out and closed the game. Do note, I'd been playing on creative and peaceful my entire play of the game up to that point so I had NO idea what a creeper was or even that there was TNT. Alex told me to log back in and he explained some basic stuff like the mobs and whatnot. Turned out that I was just dumb and didn't know what the difficulty setting did.

That same night after Alex had logged off, I was still struggling to remember all these goddamn recipes and digging a quarry into a mountain for our collective base, I had my first experience with an actual creeper. Now mind you, up until this point Alex had simply told me "there are mobs that explode" but not really what they LOOKED like. I had a staircase going down the walls of the quarry and at the top, my eyes came into contact with the walking green phallic symbol. I to this day don't know why, but I again freaked the FUCK out, like major FLIPPED MY SHIT cuz I had NO idea wtf it was or what it would do. I just knew it had a hella scary face and i dug myself into the wall and literally sat at my computer scared shitless for, I kid you not, over half an hour. Eventually I had the courage to dig myself out to find no creeper present. Later that same night, I also found out that spiders can in fact climb over walls like nothing and I think i screamed like a little girl more times than I'd like to admit that night.


Needless to say, my first few days of SMP was full of excitement and horrors. I think the reason I kept playing was honestly the number and frequency of updates. They were coming out like every two weeks to a month back then so there was always something new to try out. Soon, I had a small server going for all of my friends with the help of Alex. This was back in late 2010/early 2011 and that's just about when i first started considering myself a minecraft admin.

Eventually, I wandered onto Touhoucraft back when peak times had maybe 3 or 4 people online at once. This was about late 2011. Survival was still tiny and there was actually some SPACE to build stuff. The old survival on thc last i checked is now the creative world though, unfortunately. Anyway, the first night I joined was dark and stormy (in-game) and I remember getting really f'in lost. Soon, I wandered into an abandoned building (yes, they actually had one) and i realized nobody had typed into chat for the entire time. I asked if anyone was on and yuyuko-sama responded. Turned out it was just her and me on at the time (this was before tablists, kids) as time progressed and i searched for a place to call home, a mod, sleepymeiling, logged on and found me wandering around. I was promptly set ablaze and died. Ah, fun times. I miss Meiling.

Those were my early days oh thc and i soon came to love everyone on there and as time passed, i even became an "old timer". The longer I stayed, the more engrained into the community that had developed I became and the further out from just minecraft we became. Eventually, there came a time where I had to take a bit of leave cuzof work and other interests and i slowly became inactive over maybe half a year and flatout went MIA for about another half year. I remember clearly that it was during the summer and i was attending university classes for high schoolers at my current university, Carnegie Mellon, that I suddenly realized i hadn't talked to a lot of my friends from thc and suddenly had a sharp pang of loneliness. I seeked out one of my closest friends at the time, Youmu or potu, and asked how things were going and where everyone was cuz the skype group we had made had been quiet for a while. Turned out, stuff happened in my absence and a new group had been made and people had assumed I was gone for good so I hadn't been added. I was soon added and suddenly a ton of familiar names I hadn't seen in almost a year were suddenly talking again. I had an emotional breakdown at that point and openly cried over the mic (we were in a skype call) with everyone welcoming me back.

I think that was just about my high point on thc.

I was surrounded by my friends again that I had neglected for so long and they were all so welcoming to me. Soon, I became extremely active again on thc. Not long after, I was promoted to builder and I soon embarked on the lunar capital project by myself.

One day while coming back from school, I got a text from someone who had become an extremely close friend of mine, Shiteyanyo (our Shite), and she told me that malik (another builder) was going in taking down my entire lunar capital build claiming "it was his project". Now he technically wasn't wrong. He had started the project a long time ago (like, before i went inactive) and it had been completely abandoned for an extremely long time. Suddenly, when I started working on it and put in almost a hundred hours and had built an entire palace with intricate redstone and entire underground labrynths powered by redstone devices, this guy popped out of nowhere and started destroying everything.

Soon thereafter, a LOT of things happened REALLY fast. Some of these things, I remember as clearly as day and others happened so quickly it's all a blur to me. By the end of it though, there were about a dozen people who sat in a new and private skype group. This was the group that would soon become the founders of Yukkuricraft. Honestly, I still don't think i should have been in that group. Their ideals and mine were similar in direction, but entirely different in principle and idea. However, at the time I was the only person in that group that had hardware to host a server 24/7 for a full small sized server.

Soon I took on the responsibility and position of owner of Yukkuricraft.

What happened after that is a whole 'nother story and not appropriate for this thread, I feel. Needless to say though, a lot has happened since even the beginning of Yukkuricraft. I've met some of my best online friends since then, met some of my most personally challenging people, tested my wits and patience yet granted me some of the greatest moments of my online life. I've made both friends and foes from this server, been able to help a ton of people but at the same time messed up and unnecessarily caused people grief. I've done great things but have done just as many bad.

All in all, Yukkuricraft has been one HELL of a ride and being terribly honest, if I were offered a chance to go back and choose differently when people asked me to start this sever, I might say I would. However, seeing as how that isn't possible and the today I get is the only today I'll have, I can guaran-fuckin'-tee you that if you asked "do you regret that fateful night of deciding?" My answer is hell no. Life's full of ups and downs. For every good, there is a bad. You can't have shadows and darkness if not for light and brightness.

This went a hell of a lot longer than I expected and touched on things I hadn't planned on talking about, but whatever. Minecraft's been an integral part of my life for the past 4 years or so and it's done some of the best and worst things for me that I've ever experienced. It's taught me so many things like software skills, programming, general computer skills as well as human skills like understanding and handling people, management, planning and policy. Honestly, I'm honored and humbled by the fact that by pure luck, I was able to take up this opportunity and run with it. It's been one hell of a ride so far and i don't see it stopping anytime soon.

This is what minecraft is for me. This is what minecraft will be for me.

This is my minecraft story.


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Wow this thread blew up a second time.

@Remi

Interesting story. There are a few things I'm a bit confused about tough. The first thing to confuse me is that you say that you considered yourself and Admin by 2009. Wasn't minecraft still in classic by that point?

Next is the fact that you saw climbing spiders on your first day. Last I cheked, climbing spiders were first added in Beta 1.2, while you were playing 1.0_1

Also, you said that Minecraft have influenced the last 6 years of you life. Minecraft have only been around for 5. Even if you go back to the first version you don't hit 6 years.

Conclusion: Remi is a time traveler.