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I wish there other aspects to social than shouting out your status "Just mining away in my tunnel! I love the smell of bedrock in the morning =]". In general I like tasks you need to complete together or something different. The whole share your status thing is old.

A friend and I used to try to make the grandest structures possible together, on servers that had monsters/death (ie, not creative mode), including a hardcore pvp server (12 hour ban on death) where we were the only ones to attempt to build beautiful things.

With fear of death, and materials running, and the needed exploration to get some things it became extremely more fun than playing alone. We'd also discuss and argue about building dimensions, often resorting to meeting in person and doing some things over on graph paper.

Surprisingly, on the hardcore pvp server, everyone either left us alone or protected us after a short while. I had to die maybe 20 times for everyone to more or less agree that we was nonviolent and had little worth taking, and that the thing we were building was pleasing. Some people even donated materials.

I wish I took more pictures. Here's the start of Sophia[1] and the start of a library on the Hardcore server[2]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/NYFSi.jpg

[2] http://i.imgur.com/fMdcx.jpg

Wow, Sophia is stunning! Especially with your texture pack.

I seem to get stuck in a functional mode. I rarely build anything more than a box to keep me safe.

Surely you had to do a lot of planning for Sophia... Did you just use graph paper (which seems particularly suited to minecraft) or is there some software to help?

If the creator is reading this, a word of warning: Although I know of no instance where Mojang have pursued anyone for it, the Minecraft brand guidelines state:

    We are less relaxed about commercial things. You may not 
    therefore use the Minecraft Name in or as the main name 
    or title of commercial things.

You may wish to reconsider your name choice, although it's unlikely that anything will come of it they are in a position where you're violating their requirements.

https://minecraft.net/brand

Thanks for the comment. Monjang is fully aware of this product and has given a thumbs up on both the branding and commercial approach.

That's awesome! I've signed up to the launch list, I can forward it to our content team (I manage minecraftforum.net) at launch and they may be able to do an article on it.

Way to name drop, squiddles.

I was being nice :( Saying "I can forward it to our content team" and not explaining why that has any value to him is silly

No worries squid... happy to chat... will reach out to you soon.

Pardon my ignorance with Minecraft but a family members plays it constantly with friends. Their birthday is coming up and I wondered if Minecraft sells things within the game I could buy them for as a gift?

I am aware its a MMORPG, but don't know too much more about it.

There are individual servers that sell things, but Minecraft as a game has no purchasable content.

Have you considered Minecraft merchandise? There's a ton: http://www.jinx.com/shop/coll/minecraft/

I don't think it's set up like that. The functionality was intended to be single player from the get go (with MMO functionality tacked on), but I haven't played it much since it's official release.

Vanilla minecraft does not have in app purchases.

Some privately run servers do have perks you can buy.

Your family members might enjoy some merch like a creeper mug or a diamond mug.

Minecraft is not a MMORPG. People either play locally, with the possibility to invite people on the local network to one's own game, or on servers that are run by third parties (the Minecraft makers don't run any). Some servers may have extensions installed that allow trading, but they are not part of the game itself.

Check your fonts on Windows. With Chrome the rendering is terrible, and with Firefox the wrong font is used (looks like Times New Roman).

Ugh.... Thanks for pointing this out. Very much appreciated. Will fix ASAP.

Looks neat.

Any chance you could add optional X, Y, Z co-ordinates?

Thanks for the comment Dan... Yes, X,Y,Z coordinates are a key part of establishing cool places and finding nearby friends, images, etc. Love to hear of any specific ideas you care to share.

There are at least 3 prominent buttons rigged up to the "WE ARE SORRY!" modal. If all you can actually do on the site is leave an email, make that more clear and try to be less deceiving.

Furthermore, in its current state, this product is not considered a beta; rather an alpha.

Nevertheless, I wish you all the best and indeed hope you are successful; especially given Mojang's complete lack of interest to fill these voids :)

Point taken... Thanks for the feedback.

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