If you're not familiar with it, think of Minecraft as a proper Lego-themed game. You collect pieces and build with them in an enormous sandbox world. It's an incredibly basic premise, but it works so well that you will lose hours mining and building and mining and building and planning megaprojects and mining materials for those megaprojects and building and on and on and on. Oh, and bad things spawn at night to eat your face (hardly seemed worth mentioning).
If that sounds enjoyable to you, the game is available at www.minecraft.net. The older, 'Classic' version is free, or you can buy into the Alpha version (and access to all subsequent updates, as they are released) for ten Euros (about thirteen US dollars, depending on how the exchange rate swings in any given day).
On the subject of big projects, though, I just finished one of my own:
Having decided that fighting Creepers was the work of plebians, I elected to elevate myself above such crass duties, literally. Now, travelling from the house at my spawn point to either of my mines is a simple matter of hopping on the elevated railway and enjoying a scenic trip above the hills and woods. ... Rather, it would be, if I had enough iron to build the minecarts that travel on the rails. I had to burn through about one hundred ingots to make the railway, so right now, travel is less of a scenic trip and more of a high-wire act.
Where's the undo button?
