I hope you are all having fun in the lead up to Christmas!
Since Christmas is creeping ever so slowly towards us I thought I would tell you about my favourite thing about gaming at this time of year...Christmas Themed Minecraft!
The thing I love most about Minecraft is the endless creative possibilities, you can pretty much create anything you want by fashioning it out of the many different materials you find throughout the game. I pretty much think of it as lego for grown-ups! Though I am not talking about the lego kits you get these days where you are given pieces to make a particular fancy model of a star wars ship or a ferris wheel. I mean back in the days of my childhood when I had a huge blue box filled with random pieces of lego that would put Lego Land to shame.
Since Minecraft was released back in 2009 its many players have made some completely amazing creations from Disney Castle replicas to huge PvP maps. One of my personal favourite places to find awesome Minecraft creations is Yogscast Sjin's youtube channel particularly his Let's Build A Kingdom series. He has so far built the Kingdom's main city, a village, a huge dragon head shaped mountain and is currently working on an evil fortress for the Kingdom's rivals. He is very talented and has made some absolutely beautiful buildings using this simple game. I highly recommend you check out his channel (which I will post a link to at the end).
Christmas themed Minecraft creations get bigger and better every year! People make giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, candy canes, christmas trees and of course Christmas themed adventure maps where its all down to you to save Christmas! Over the last couple of weeks a few friends of mine and myself have been making our own little Christmas Village which is starting to look quite adorable if I do say so myself. Our little village centres a giant Christmas tree which, with the introduction of different coloured lamps and redstone repeaters looks absolutely amazing at night! Dotted all around the village our cute little red and white candy canes and small little reindeer. My personal favourite is one of my own of creations, my Christmas Bakery filled to the brim with cake! I also fashioned a little Christmas pudding to keep with the theme. What I also love is that snow golems finally look normal in our Christmasy snow biome! Snow Golems are bros I love having an excuse to make them by the dozen :D
Christmas also brings out the good in people and this is no different in the land of youtube. The yogscast are once again opening their minds and their wallets and raising money for charity by donating bees for bee keeping It may sound odd but honey is a great way for under privileged communities to make money for themselves so it is really a great cause! They are doing Christmas Livestreams help get donations where they play all sorts of games including Minecraft! If you are interested in donating I will leave a link at the end!
So now to you! What have you been playing over Christmas? Hoping Santa brings you any particular game?If you too are playing Minecraft have you made anything Christmasy? I'd love to hear your thoughts and see your creations!
Well that's all for now!
Merry Christmas!
-BGG
Yogscast Sjin;s channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/yogscastsjin
Yogscast Honeydew's Honey Drive: http://www.justgiving.com/yogscast
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