I know we're just getting started with the new forum but I'll leave this thread here for future use. Anyone else here spend countless hours of their life mining, building, farming, and otherwise adventuring in Minecraft? If so, cool. Let's talk about it. I've been dabbling in and out of it a bit for the past couple of years.
I typically play with no mods in survival mode and almost inevitably end up building an obsidian tower on top of a mountain somewhere (I use the trick with redstone adjacent to water with a single lava bucket to farm obsidian otherwise it would take forever... actually it still takes forever, but whatever). I also really like building with sandstone, but I can't stand deserts. As a result, pretty much any desert near where I set up shop ends up as a giant strip mine until I decide it's too ugly and use my mining waste to fill it back in. This is a bigger problem for me that I really like to admit.
Anyway, please use this thread to talk about all things Minecraft. Mods, texture packs, mining strategies, awesome maps or geographic formations, good building techniques, etc, etc, etc. All is welcome.