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Minecraft has been known to be addicting. Minecraft rewards block dexterity in the best ways. When playing Minecraft you have a feeling of living through an inhospitable land. You wind up not just surviving, but doing well and casting works of art. Minecraft possesses an uncommon type of built-in level progression that makes you feel accomplished. The more you mine the more resources you own and the better looking your creations.

The game’s in beta and still is not flawless yet. As of right now, there’s really no which can really kill the fun. And because there aren’t Non-Player Characters it can get very lame and make it clear how barren the Minecraft land is. Your sense of epicness in this grand and never-ending land dies when all the landscape starts to look repetitive.

Gaming within Minecraft servers do, however, cure most of these ailments. Goals are created by other Minecraft online players. Online gamers are a great source of endless content. You’ll now have people to show off your sculptures to, and the surrounding territory would be much more diverse because it’s 100% player created. You can come across unique towns, sculptures, and mazes in your expeditions.

But there are enormous setbacks with locating an online server that’s good for you. You maybe want PVP enabled, you maybe want a more creative world to game in. You maybe need a RP server, you maybe want to live in an anarchy with no laws or you might want civilization. If the rules aren’t tough enough you can wind up with unneeded griefers, murderers, and thieves. If the laws are too tough you might feel a loss of control, the inability to craft where you want, and it’s only fun for those with power.

There are many server websites online however the majority are not good enough, and don’t meet my needs. There’s a lot of voter based spamming, which turns the entire site into a popularity contest with no indication of if a server’s a good fit for YOU. I was looking in a server site recently which used the exact same description for each of their listings so they can reach #1 on search engines quickly by having many low content posts. A lot more of these directories are also biased, giving praise to only those websites who are willing and able to pay and no recognition to all else.

Pick your server with care, make sure it meets all of your wants, or else you’ll be forever doomed to server-hop, over time getting frustrated and forgetting about the awesome opportunities that multiplayer can bring you.

There are plenty of things to do within the vast, expansive (and technically infinite) world of Minecraft. While some may have set out and became veritable grand architects in their world, I wager there are plenty who ended up building their castle and spire out of their quarried stone, stared at it for a while, maybe fired a few arrows down onto the rampaging skeletons and zombies below, and got bored with it.

If you’re lacking ingenuity, you need not be ashamed. To follow will be a handy guide to help you through your next Minecraft project.

“What’s my next Minecraft project?” you’re surely asking. Well, it’s not just a simple game of virtual Legos. You’ll be engineering this bad boy, and I’m gonna guide you through how to do it.

The first thing you need is to find a decent body of water. If you built your humble abode somewhere near a lake or pond or ocean, and a number of anthropological studies would suggest that you’re quite likely to have done so, then you’re already well on your way. If you haven’t, find one. It needs to be deep and wide, and preferably with some sort of large mountain or hill beside it, so you can ascend it and gaze upon your beautiful creation.

The next thing you need to do is find some sand to quarry, because you’ll be needing it. Lots of it. Once you find the sand, you need to set up an array of smelters to accept the sand, because you’ll be making more glass than you’d ever thought you’d need. This glass will be the primary material when you construct your underwater tunnel.

At first consideration, you may be thinking that building an underwater tunnel should be relatively straightforward. However in Minecraft, there’s no way (yet) to remove a large body of water quickly and efficiently. You can only push it out of the way with other materials. As such, you will need a lot of dirt to be your water-pusher. You can use something else if you like, but dirt is the easiest and fastest thing to remove with a decent shovel. Consistency of material will also be helpful once you’re ready for the removal process.

Use your dirt like a sculptor. Imagine the dirt is the open cavity of the tunnel, and the glass is what will be encompassing it. For my own tunnel, I chose to make it a 3×3 shaft with a single layer of glass all around it that connected my castle’s basement to the other side of the lake. Later I attached a fork that made for a longer, more scenic stroll, and it filled out the remainder of my lake, so it looked far more impressive when I gazed upon my creation from above the surface. And yes, you can see the tunnel from above. Even better, you can put torches inside of it, which illuminates your lake in a pleasing, even impressive way.

Collecting the dirt and sand is not intended to be a one-time job. You’ll need a lot, hundreds and hundreds of units. I recommend quarrying dirt and smelting the sand during the night and constructing the tunnel by day to maximize your output.

When you get down to building, you really don’t need to be concerned about much of anything with your method except that you get ALL of the water out of your way, which means now allowing any gaps. Gaps can lead to pockets of water appearing inside of your tunnel, which can lead to flooding, and disaster. Once you have the dirt interior, coat your tunnel with a layer of glass.

When you’re through with that, which will take quite some time, tunnel to where the end of your glass masterpiece hits the earth, and get to digging. When finished, you should have an incredible transparent tunnel going straight through a lake. Amaze your friends, impress your significant other, and remind yourself that you choose to do this for leisure, and it’s nobody’s business how you spend your time.