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I joined Minecraft Wiki back in July of 2011, mostly making a few edits here and there, and occasionally some big edits. I later began editing frequently - copy editing and improving descriptions in articles, fixing and adding links, adding a History section to most articles for recording the topic's update history and changes, as well as doing technical edits that few do, such as signing unsigned signatures, creating templates, moving/renaming articles, etc. I've slowed my editing in anticipation of a permanent break from editing, which is hard to do since I'm pretty much addicted, but I think I'll leave this wiki to the many other dedicated editors and helpers who will continue improving the Minecraft wiki. - Asterick6

My Minecraft experience
I think it was around late 2010 that I stumbled across the Minecraft site and a few videos of the gameplay some months before I heard about it from my friends. At that time, I didn't know much about Minecraft, but when I revisited the site a few months later, I remembered that I had thought it was interesting, but didn't try it out. It was around April or May 2011 that I heard classmates talking about Minecraft, and I initially felt reluctant to try it out in person after watching them play around a bit. A few days later, I gave in and downloaded the launcher by AnjoCaido to try it out, wondering if it would even work on my no-video-card computer.The version at that time was Beta 1.3, when beds (I learned a few months later on the wiki) were conveniently added, which probably helped me stay interested in the game by passing night faster. I spawned in a forest biome and roamed about wondering at the landscape and wide oceans. Nighttime caught me by surprise, and as the sun slowly disappeared over the horizon, I walked about, wondering what would happen, and I quickly learned that monsters spawn at night in Minecraft. I ran from the monsters after attacking back with futile attempts, and ended up spending that night in a small underground pit, waiting out the monsters. I did not know when morning would come, so I stayed in that pit until I could no longer hear the monsters making noise and being mysteriously hurt, which I would later learn was the effect of the sun on the zombies and skeletons.

As for videos, I remember one of the first videos was the old Minecraft trailer and the Portal mod trailer as well as other Minecraft gameplay videos and trailers. I gradually began to watch more gameplay videos, especially ones such as regular Let's Plays, or involving exploration and nomadic adventuring. I watched many mod reviews, and after watching a review on Mo' Creatures mod, I searched about it on the wiki and encountered a strange description about Mo' Creatures mod on the wiki page. So I rewrote that description, which became the first wiki edit that I made on an article.

I entered the Mod scene with Zombe's mod, naturally because of my desire to fly in the game and make the gameplay more interesting and prevent myself from falling to my death ever again. I later tried the Portal mod, as well as Millenaire, and experimented with the features and game.

I first encountered texture packs with the 1n5aN1aCPack texture pack that was bundled with my download of the AnjoCaido launcher, but I never used it (although I still have it). After playing with a couple of new friends I met on SMP and asking them which texture pack they used, as well as watching some videos using custom texture packs, I decided to try out the Painterly Pack that my friend was using. It was a beautiful and well-drawn texture pack, which I used for the remainder of my gameplay experience (until Beta 1.8, from which I didn't update due to the frequent releases and my gameplay inactivity).

Gradually, I became bored of Minecraft due to the repetition and patience required for crafting structures or new homes or the repetitiveness of mining, or dying and having to re-obtain my items again or build a new home from losing my way to my existing home. In that first world, I had pillar-jumped to a large tree and set up my home on the leaves, placing torches all over it back in 1.3 or 1.4 when torches could still be placed on trees in Fast graphics. I set up the area, improving my home into a sort of treehouse, but still without walls or roofs, and built a one-way mob pen using pressure plates and doors to keeping cows, sheep, and chickens from escaping while still letting them inside. After mining down to bedrock and expanding to nearby tree tops with sky walkways of dirt, I grew bored one day, and torched the area, setting my flint and steel all over the area and wandering into a new snow biome (thankfully I still have backups of my world saves). During that time of boredom, I read the wiki and learned about some of the aspects of Minecraft - some blocks, mobs, biomes.

In the summer, I played with my cousin and experimented with the Portal mod again, this time being serious about completing the portal levels. Later, we attempted to destroy bedrock by clearing a cube of blocks to bedrock with MCEdit and constructing a 5x5 tower of TNT, which we then activated and escaped to safety using a portal from the Portal mod that I had previously applied to a tower a safe distance from the blast radius. We teleported through it and viewed the TNT explosion from the far-away distance, the TNT tower exploding and disappearing in the jerky, slowly-updated render frames that occur when viewing huge explosions from a distance. At that time, I thought the TNT tower really had destroyed the bedrock, and updated the bedrock article with an entry of our accomplishment, adding details about the 5x5 tower all the way to bedrock, and thinking that it had actually destroyed the bedrock either due to an actual destruction from all the explosions, or data chunk errors in the game. (I later read in the Talk page that the bedrock had probably disappeared because we had inadvertently replaced the bedrock with TNT when we created the tower with MCEdit, thus causing the 5x5 hole; this made more sense).

I later received a nice gift from him - a Minecraft gift code. Now, I finally had a premium, legal account to call my own, and I could finally join vanilla servers and abandon Hamachi. I played periodically and experimented with things, attempting to create redstone structures I saw on videos or traps I thought were clever, and joined servers where I started a new experience from scratch, building, obtaining items/ores/gems, making structures, and improving my home.

Between Beta 1.9 to 1.2.4, I rarely played Minecraft, except to test out the many new features which Mojang added (Endermen, Villages, Snow Golems, Strongholds, the End, Ender Dragon) that kept me interested in Minecraft up to now. I began to increase my activity on the wiki, accumulating 100s of edits per day at a time, and actively read the wealth of information while improving the descriptions, phrasing, grammar, or other small issues. I went to MinecraftForum a few times every day at the peak of my activity on Minecraft topics online, while rarely opening a world to play. Now I've slowed down in editing, but still check the forums for updates and news. I only opened one of my first worlds in late 1.2.5 release and played for a significant more amount of time and finally found my way out of a cave system that I had wandered into in the beginning, inventory stocked full of ores and gems. I've been pretty addicted to Minecraft and the experience, and I expect I'll still be visiting periodically. - Asterick6

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" ! My notes and info

Links
My image gallery

My Uploads (if an upload isn't in my gallery, please add them for me, thanks!)


 * The Nomadic Experience - a exhilarating style of gameplay if you are up for the challenge.

Saved pages:
 * Notch Time saved here and also here - the different times and releases that Notch has said and done (similar to Valve Time)
 * Fireplace saved here and also here- possible upcoming item/block that has been noted by Jeb.
 * Lantern saved here - I'm hoping it can be added as an additional item for people to use if they wish, such as for visual purposes or in case the player is out of coal, without removing any existing functionality to torches or any other light source.
 * Spike Block saved here
 * Minecraft Wiki:Sandbox - saved here.


 * My User watchlist


 * Vandalism watch


 * Category:Maintenance - watched
 * Category:Pending merge - watched
 * Category:Pending move - watched
 * Category:Pending deletion - watched


 * HexZyle's Projects page with style guide in progress.
 * User talk:HexZyle/Projects/Damage Update and User talk:Asterick6/Projects/Damage Update


 * Template:ItemSprite reference page for icon linking.
 * Item ID reference page.


 * Sidebar removal info: User:Kaydeethree/Sidebar removal
 * /vector.css configuration for visual appearance.
 * /vector.js configuration for scripts.
 * /Sandbox


 * WikiBreak code for enforcing break: WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak Enforcer
 * /WikiBreak

Wiki code/Notes
Moved to sub-page. If there have been updates/changes, please update the codes for me, thanks.