I introduced myself quite a bit ago, but I feel like doing it again properly. Not sure why, I just want to. Going back to when I first got Minecraft, about a year ago now, all I did was build (and die) on single player. This was about 1.8.1, and I never switched off peaceful. A month or two in, and I got a private server for me, my family and my friends to play on. It was a small server, but things were fun - I still remember my invisible TNT explosions... Jump to about 7 months ago, and I finally decided to join the Minecraft community fully. I made a Minecraft Forum account and started my community adventures. I only ever made one thread, and that was to showcase my Minecraft Chrome themes. I met a few artists of sorts there, they joined up with me, and I got to use their amazing art on them. I feel that this was one of the biggest parts of my Minecraft life, and to this day, over 35000 people use them. Even at 2500 downloads, I felt immensely proud that I'd created something that other's liked and used. But still, I'd never played on a public server. I'd always wanted to, but I just wasn't sure I'd like how it was. After all, I didn't want my stuff to be destroyed, or to be killed every minute of the day. I'd been a user of the Minecraft Achievement Generator for quite a while, and the EMC banner at the top caught my eye. I decided that I'd take a look at what it was, it looked pretty good, so I signed up. I didn't really intend to stay long, in fact I didn't even think I'd claim a res. I felt like I was just another guest, and that I should just look around. However, from the start I loved it here. I got my brother to join too, who happened to claim a res next to Twitch1's (sadly, neither of those reses are still there). I still remember being scared of dieing in the lava there - I thought that only fall damage was disabled. So, I browsed some shops, and met the owner of one. The owner was called ftyvdryhc, but I'm sure that many more of you know him as Happyshopper. I spent the majority of my first days buying and selling from there, and things were bliss. I never really got on well with the wild after almost being killed by a spider in my first minute there, but I still occasionally ventured out. I'm pretty much a town dweller now, as yeah... I still don't really do mobs... I also met someone called superrace, who I bought most of the cobblestone for my original res from. The rest I bought from Ssparten117 - they were some of the first people I met here. Time passed, I joined together with Drogba921 to make the wiki. He was banned long ago, leaving me with all the weight on my back (-.-), but I survived, and it worked. I don't really know how I got to the point I am now... I just... did. I'm still in awe when people recognise me on a server other than SMP1 - I logged into SMP9 the other day, and was recognised by some people who I'd never met in-game. I was honestly in amazement. I owe so much to AsscreamCow and Justin for creating EMC, for creating so many fun times for me, and for creating such an amazing community. I owe each and every supporter for helping keep EMC online. I owe the mods for somehow doing an amazingly hard job - I could never do it, and you have so much respect from me. Max, your shoes and madness are just amazing - I still remember when I met you after someone got griefed in town on SMP1, and Eyecar, whatever coding you're doing, just remember to disable the Wither in town. Shaun - ban appeals, grief investigations and other stuff you've done for me is appreciated so much, just, thank you! And last but not anywhere least, I owe each and every single community member here for making EMC what it is. My fun times couldn't have happened without that - so just thank you so much! This is long, I'm bound to hit the character limit soon.... just... thank you everyone!
Cool story, bro. lawl Nah jk. It is a nice story. Now to go look up these Google Chrome themes you made. Hopefully they are still there. EDIT: Did I read that right? Minecraft Chrome? Is that not Google Chrome?
Lol. Same with me. But hi Jack! And if you were bothered to read the guide and need more help read the wiki.
It would have been humanly impossible for me to list everyone I've met here, and I'd be bound to miss it out. Because of that, I decided to name the first few people I met and the senior staff. No one else.
I think you will find the character limit is something like 10,000 because I have written 3 times this before and it didn't say no ;p
Don't even tempt me to write 10000 characters, because I promise you, I could write that much about pretty much everything (including the internal biology of IcecreamCows)...
I've forgotten quite a lot of stuff. :-P I'll be sticking it on my personal MC blog when it's ready, so that anyone who wishes to read it can.
