When did YOU join?
All this hype about 1.8 coming out made me realize that this will actually be the second time I get to experience it because I joined Minecraft right as Beta 1.8 a.k.a. "The Adventure Update" was released! It's been such a wild ride since then and I still love the game to death.
So what about you? Were you there since Classic? How about Alpha? Did you just start playing Minecraft yesterday? What was your favorite/least favorite addition to the game?
My first day of minecraft was my first day on Uncovery. I heard about the game and the server from a friend and have been here ever since. In between I have tried a few other servers but never stayed more than a few days.
Started playing the n00b edition around beta 1.2 I believe. Played a lot with friends back then, till I got the full game(maybe beta 1.3 or 1.4, can't remember). I started playing on servers, where I played a few days, got bored and never came back. After a while I found Uncovery, started playing and kept on playing :D. Still love this server as much as when I joined.
I've always hated the enchanting system and villager trading, it ruined a lot of the fun for me(you'll probably never find a villager on one of my lots) as it is too easy to get good/overkill enchantments pretty soon (in my opinion).
My favourite additions are probably pistons, hoppers and the flowers, new tree types and biomes from the 1.7 update.
I think I started right before the Halloween update, though all I did was mine dirt and build 1x1 towers out of it. Didn't get into the game until after the update happened.
I began playing Minecraft in Beta 1.8.1. I just looked at my Mojang account, and it tells me that I have owned Minecraft since September 30th, 2011. So nearly two years. Back then, I had an awful computer that could barely get you 2 FPS, but I still played as much as I could. I learned a lot about the game and became engrossed in the farming and survival aspects. Eventually I upgraded my computer, probably around Minecraft 1.2. From then on I researched the game more and more, becoming more involved and interested by the day. Sometime around July 2013 I joined Uncovery, and you all have been able to see my journey since then :)
As for my favorite addition, I would say allowing sheep to regrow their wool. I love all the new features (Even though I haven't really been keeping up with the crazy ones for 1.8), but that one was huge for me. Before that, you may as well shear a sheep and then kill it. After, I had so much fun making sheep farms with rainbows of sheep. Not a big change, but huge for me :D
I don't even remember what version I started playing with :) I checked and bought a copy of minecraft on 1st of October 2010... That's one month before I started the blog and when version Alpha 1.2.0, the halloween update, was released.
Beta 1.2 right before wolves were added.
I think I got a copy around early alpha or late indev. June or July 2010 I believe... Least favourite addition was mobs to multiplayer ;) . Just kidding of course. Honestly, it would probably be the hunger bar. My favourite addition would be the increase in the height limit.
I played Beta 1.8, hated it, didn't play it again until I discovered a modpack which I can't remember the name of (I think it may have been similar to Tekkit). I was back into playing Vanilla by around 1.2. I've loved all the additions I can think of but my favorite addition was hoppers and my least favorite was horses.
I started playnig minecraft in 1.6 beta, and been on and off it since, mostly on though :)
Official Release 1.2 or 1.3? I think I like the 1.7 Update with all the new biomes. My favorite new biome has to be the Roofed Forest
I came in around Beta 1.3 with wolves still not being in the game. I remember full block chests and how ironic it is that I swore I wouldn't play after Beta 1.7.3 because I thought 1.8 would "ruin" the game. Now I use potions with reckless abandon :3 My favorite things that have been added are pretty much everything that was in a mod before becoming official. ex: Pistons, Hoppers, Horses, etc. I never really liked Vanilla until I came to Uncovery and fell in love with all that could be done. Still play modded every now and then, but there's nothing like figuring out skyscrapers from dust.