Meanwhile, on the other side of the water...

...a new fort has sprung up!

Fort on the left.

The perimeter wall.

The current front entrance.

Not sure what will go in this one quite yet, but the protective outer wall is now in place.

The currently empty courtyard.

And finally, I thought I'd annotate the most recent map of the world.

Click for a bigger version!

The Observatory

Just built an observatory to go with my growing town.

And of course the all-important latest map view.

Minecraft Beta 1,2

A new version is live!

So what's new? From Notch:
New features:

• Note blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)
• 15 wool dyesA new water dwelling mob
• New tree types
• Reeds magically turned into sugar canes. They still make paper.
• A bunch of new crafting recipes
• One secret useful block
• One secret pretty block
• Cake
• AND MOAR, probably. I forget!

 So what do these things look like?

New tree types. Left to right: normal, light (birch), dark (pine).

Cake!

Sandstone.

Orange Sheep! (I dyed it haha!)

Hmm, this probably shouldn't have happened...

 I will add more pictures as I come across them!

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Patch notes: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/2730532961/minecraft-beta-1-2

Welcome to World 1

A tour of my built world - World 1.

First, the map!
(Click the pic to see the bigger version - especialy useful for the maps).

World 1

World 1 at night!

                               


And now a quick photo tour:

My first building!

 

My first mine!

I thought this was a big mine at the time... not so anymore!

The view towards the tower. Crops growing down below, probably being eaten by that sheep.

A boat! The little square of sand is my respawn point, don't want to come back in the water now do I?

A bridge support near my respawn point.

Floating Islands - A work in progress.

Underwater Glass Tunnel - Another work in progress.

The view back to the first set of buildings.

The adventure begins!

Welcome to the ongoing adventures of Tj in Minecraft!

Where best to start? An avatar would be a good idea.

Christmas was recent, I can still wear the hat!

Worlds next. Here are some of the world's I've generated (just the starting areas):

 
So what world did I settle on in the end? Ironically, when I first started playing, I just went ahead and just build in the first world I generated. Only later have I found that it's actually one of the more boring worlds I've been to! I also have another world purely for exploring, just to see what I will come across.

Next time... I'll show you my worlds!

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Christmas hat from Snowman : http://snowman.quatroworld.org/
See my current skin: http://www.minecraft.net/skin/skin.jsp?user=cncplyr 
Map view generated using mcmap by Zahl: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=40327