Minecraft, awesome one man game project

[PowerCreep]

I noticed today that my son has been playing minecraft on the PC. So, I look on the desktop and he's been playing a cracked version. I had a little chat with him about what 'cracked' means and piracy. So, went to minecraft's site, logged him in and purchased the game with my credit card and he slid me $28 cash to cover it. I made him pay for it

Good teaching moment.

My son is wanting to get into this. He's been watching videos of it on YouTube for the last several days. I guess I'm going to let him get it. Maybe he can put his imagination to work a bit.
Is it pretty easy to get on a server? Is there one that's recommended for younger folks?

[Astros Fan]

I don't know..he's just been playing on some server with two of his schoolmates. It is very creative and I would recommend it. He's already come up with some neat creations and listening to him talk about the process of creating this to have more of this so he can make more of that to build this and that is pretty cool.

[James]

Good teaching moment.

My son is wanting to get into this. He's been watching videos of it on YouTube for the last several days. I guess I'm going to let him get it. Maybe he can put his imagination to work a bit.
Is it pretty easy to get on a server? Is there one that's recommended for younger folks?

I don't know..he's just been playing on some server with two of his schoolmates. It is very creative and I would recommend it. He's already come up with some neat creations and listening to him talk about the process of creating this to have more of this so he can make more of that to build this and that is pretty cool.

Local is a good place to start playing around. If you want to go to a public server, do some reconnaissance first, make sure it's safe for the kids, then add it to the server list in their client. I would totally recommend our Sharky's server, except our map is glitching with the new update. Once it's fixed, you are more than welcome to have them join the server. (Let me know their usernames, we run a whitelist to keep out the griefers).

[Astros Fan]

i'll send you a pm. I'll have to have a talk with him about griefing though...otherwise he might just go Godzilla and destroy everything LOL.