To build a city in Minecraft, or not (yet).

 Double-click Minecraft's dirty little desktop icon, login, and select a new - empty - world.

Load-bars flow by (wherein I imagine the sound of popcorn popping), disappearing to let a new world scroll on out past the draw distance.

Square stars spin past the horizon while you build your first castle.  Stone after stone is placed according to your plan.  Play every point in the supply and demand cycle of building.  Finish, take a month break, to let your dreams stop being pixelated.

Accidentally dream up a world instead, with cities.  Resolve to map out and build one of the cities in Minecraft.  Login, select a new - empty - world.  Stare at the expanse that a city would cover, exit, and delete that world.

Click back into the previous world, with the castle.  Dig down below it, hollow out an echoing vault, and begin to sculpt a hundred-foot tall replica of Michelangelo's "David".

Baby. Steps.  Projects are fun.

In other news, I'm almost done producing my own ambient soundtrack to Minecraft.  It will be 10 songs long, and generally try to enhance the atmosphere of building stuff from scratch.  I'll post it up when I'm done along with a tutorial about how to insert your own songs into Minecraft in my next post.  Thanks for reading!