playing the fun minecraft game with the boys of "i made a secret lair around the home base" and upping the ante with "I'm making a secret build project far from the base to the east. It is hidden in plain sight. Will you find it?"
Tangentially related at best but this reminds me of one of the funniest things that ever happened to my roommate Max and I in our TF2 clan's minecraft server. (Trying not to think about the fact this story is from 2011 but here we are)
He asked me to source a bunch of TNT for him and didn't mention why. I was building a weird sun god in the middle of nowhere in the desert so I had no idea what he needed it for. Finally he called me over to where he'd been building and unveiled his creation: a house in the shape of a head of a creeper. The inside was spacious and had his usual eye for neat design, and the outside was delightfully accurate at scale.
The thing that stick out was the glass window in the back of the interior.
It looked in on a redstone switch, with a sign that said something the line of "Do Not Touch" and he said now I should understand what he needed all that TNT for. He showed me screenshots of a layer of it 5 blocks deep beneath the foundation. He said he wanted the authentic creeper experience. We had a chuckle about it, and left to go get some dinner.
Our room in the dorms was 2 floors above the dining hall. We were down and back fully fed within 20 minutes or so.
We logged back into the server to find a massive crater. No one in the clan would own up to it but we nearly died laughing. Suffice to say no one touched anything Max built for the rest of the time we had the server.
we once had a realm and my friend Jake built a house that backed onto a cliff, so he had a small recess behind his walls that he blocked off.
so, naturally, i dug through the wall when nobody was looking, built my own rooms and tunnels there, and lived inside Jake's walls for a bit. i named it "the penis rooms"
we were streaming when he discovered it so i managed to capture the moment:
https://www.twitch.tv/slimelia/v/1162910539?sr=a&t=1s
one of my long-running gags I like to do on servers with friends is to:
- make my base underground in an inconvenient to reach location
- expand it in the form of labyrinthine tunnels that have a wide variety of architectural styles
- connect these tunnels to secret passages i hide in everyone else's bases
I deliberately make the tunnels as confusing and difficult to navigate as I can, and try to fit the secret passages into the design of the builds they connect to. sometimes they go unnoticed for months, or only get noticed when i open them from the other side while being watched
it's very funny how this base style is basically just like, tiny little basic base with a few rooms and then 20 miles of tunnels
edit with another funny I like doing with this:
so, the friends I play minecraft with, we pretty much only play modded, right. when i started doing The Tunnels, we added the chalk mod. so what i did was i took random corners at intersections in the tunnels and added a bunch of random arrows in different colors of chalk - a few colors having actual meaning, like pointing the way to a particular person's base (or the parts of mine that i actually use), but others would just lead you to dead ends or in big circles
you know i think if i ever do the tunnels again i'm going to hide little rooms in amongst them that will sometimes have hints for navigation and/or goodies
like a locked map you can pick up that shows a small section (deliberately very vague and somewhat outdated), or having items connected to another player and a "home" chalk drawing on the wall to show that that color of chalk arrow points to their base, or a thief's loot stash (with decorative skeleton of the thief in question) etc
also probably ones that are just Weird. random shrine to a strange, unnerving statue in the center of the chamber. room that looks like you plucked an ikea showroom out of the store and just dropped it in there. unnaturally dark area of the tunnels that you can't even place light sources in. certain spots in the tunnels where you can hear... something unnatural behind the walls. areas where certain paths just... close, sometimes, as if they never were.
paths approaching the Junction (my actual base, where all tunnels converge) steadily appearing more warped and distorted, strange growths like if architecture could get tumours sprouting from the walls...
