Well, I decided to stick to it, and not quit and delete my world after getting bored. I roamed around for a few in game days, and finally settled in a village. I built the house, along with a basement and a top floor with great views! I got my underground farms going: wheat, melon, pumpkin, sugar cane, netherwart. I have 2 nether portals in the overworld, one is in the middle of the ocean (I created a new nether portal in the nether after wandering for ages). I also camped a blaze spawner with an enchanted diamond sword for blaze rods to make Magma cream, then I started to make potions!

I surrounded my village with 3 block high cobblestone walls, and repopulated it after the villagers nearly all died. There were only two left, but luckily I managed to wall the village and repopulate. I have a full stack of diamonds, countless stacks of stone and redstone, etc. I have so much stuff it's crazy. I ventured to find a jungle to get jungle trees saplings, then planted them (as you see in the screeny! :) )

I've died a total of 4 or 5 times, and usually I would quit out and delete the world after that happens, but I had a change of heart lol.

A large adventure map I'm working on to practice and showcase some things. I host it on a local Bukkit server for now, but I plan on releasing it as a joinable server when I'm comfortable with its state of development. At this point, it's mostly just an art project...

So far I've done alot of work on Port Town, The Mountain Kingdom, and Winter Court, each of which has its own story I've been putting together.

PLACES:
- Port Town -
Built by bankers, adventurers, and merchants, Port Town is a hub for all sea trade in the known world. As a place of many diverse people, it is also where our adventure begins.

- Mountain Kingdom -
A range of mountains, filled with tunnels and caverns, ruled over by the ancient Mountain King. Born of scarce resources and harsh winds from the neighboring Winter Court, the people of the Mountain Kingdom are known for their toughness.

- Winter Court -
Cursed with Eternal Winter by the mad Ice King, the only major settlement is Fort Frostbite, built on a dormant volcano within a minimum safe distance of the Ice King's prison: the Ice Palace.

Hint: There's alot of stuff to explore, but my main suggestion is rathar than running out into the wilderness, go to the Ferry houses and push the buttons there to go to developed parts of the map.

MAJOR TODO:
- Finish Port Town (getting close!)
- Lots of work to do on Mountain Kingdom
- Finish Fort Frostbite
- Got a good deal more work needed on the Ice Palace and Old Temple(the MASSIVE dungeons I'm building for Winter Court and Mountain Kingdom).
- More roadwork.
- Build the Forest Haven
- Do something with that Eastern Desert: expand it. add mountains, build up the dungeon.
- Bring the map into some sort of editor and move some places around, because when I built this it was a dev-team application so I didn't think enough about it to make Large Biomes or to space things far enough apart, and now it's too close together for the massive-world feel I want it to have.