Don't know if it beats your mushroom Mac, but here's my hotel built by me and my friend.

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/r...-11_132215.png

Built without any mods whatsoever, only thing we used was the multiplayer /give command so it's semi-legit. Oh and you can see my horse in the background, I have Mo' creatures installed.

That hotel does beat mine! xD It looks really cool, actually. Mind if I "steal" the design for my own?

I don't mind if you use the design. Also here is some more of my art. The only 3D thing I built :D

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/r...-09_163141.png
In the background is a Zora Fish from the early Legend of Zelda's that I didn't make.

A fun fact about that TNT is that it's also a house on a server.

Wow Swash that's awesome the hotel and the TNT!



EDIT: I have just purchased the game.. really not sure how to start so any advice would be much appreciated. =D

Dog, look for the Minecraft wiki. It is really helpful to beginners. It has a lot of tutorials from surviving day 1 all the way to building automatic farms and mob killers.

My advice for anyone new that wants to experience the Adventure Update(1.8) on their first world is, don't travel far. You should be able to find a good amount of diamonds if you just dig deep under ground. I've stuck to my main spawn for a while and I've already found about 80 diamonds(I had more but made tools with them).

I traveled a bit too far out searching for clay and cacti so my massive highway of cobblestone bridges and roads is going to have to get gigantic if I want to get back to my original spawn area.

found some tutorial vids on youtube the guy is kinda quirky but pretty smart and very helpful. he's made a whole series ranging from making a "hidey hole" on day one to finding a Zombie generator in a deep deep cave. I have some basic Idea's of my own of things I want to try. we'll see how it goes but the best I've been able to do so far is two nights (been figuring out certain mechanics and such.. just learning how everything works) I'll get on my feet eventually and start having some fun building stuff and fighting them Zombies Skellies and those nasty Creepers. /shudder

X's Adventures in Minecraft? He's awesome. I stole the X-Light 9000 from him, though. XD

Also, anyone else ever build a "Tractor Beam"? To connect my original fort to a more luxurious home on a mountain, I built a replica Starship Enterprise with a source block of water in a hole near the middle that flows into a 3x3 shack with a door in the front. To get around, I merely swim up and down. And for good measure, I put a sign reading "Beam me up, Scotty" above the door. XD

You guys asked for 1 pirate ship.... I give you an entire Fleet! Again I can't take full credit for the ships, my friend camel_killer helped me with them. Also they weren't built recently, we built them 2 months ago.

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/r...-11_132607.png

I have minecraft My name is Apide

Anyone heard of the Yogscast? They're hilarious! And what exactly is the 1.8 update like? Are NPC villages still included with that?

The Yogcast is actually the reason I started playing Minecraft. Also here is the list of feature planned to come with the 1.8 Adventure Update:

1. Adventure update, to flesh out the game a bit and make exploration and combat more rewarding. Note that this is not Adventure Mode.

2. New features in the terrain generator; things which will only appear in new worlds/new generated areas.

3. Underground Ravines including canyons on the surface and ledges to walk on.

4. Ruins, consisting of 4 new blocks: Stone Brick, Mossy Stone Brick, Cracked Stone Brick, and Iron Bars. (names unconfirmed)

5. Strongholds, which might be an expansion, improvement, or continuation of ruins and could be underground.

6. New Mushroom biome which will include Huge Mushrooms, both brown and red.

7. Larger Biomes

8. Shift+Click on items will work correctly.

9. Labels for items will be added

10. Multiplayer server list.

11. Improved server join screen: The server join screen will feature a list of servers

12. Spike blocks, Jeb initially considered Spike Pistons, but then decided to make a Spike block that can be pushed by the Sticky Piston

13. Player List - Press tab in multiplayer and player list comes up

14. At least one new mob.

15. New improved lighting — day/night cycles will not require chunk updates. Lighting will be updated via a texture, whose coordinates are the block's sky light and block light levels.

16. Warmer light from torches.

17. Possibly Experience Orbs. Has not yet been confirmed by Notch, but is a possible explanation for the Twitter clues he's been leaving.

18. Redstone circuits not working after time set (x) glitch going to be fixed in SMP.

19. NPC Villages with farms.

20. New combat Mechanics

21. New texture for Moss Stone[

22. New and more farming options/items.[26][27] This could be the Cocoa Bean tree Jeb was talking about

23. Possibly farming animals and baby animals

24. Different game modes.

25. Limited flying in Creative mode

26. The ability to allow moderators to enter creative mode in SMP.

27. The ability to store multiple food items more efficiently in inventory.

28. Sliders for field of view, gamma and brightness in video options.
29. New launcher (Possibly).

30. User placed leaf blocks won't decay.

31. A lot of new sounds and some changes, such as minecart sounds and shear sounds, also a change in the sound of rain.

32. New bow sounds (including hits), new door sounds, big slimes sound, and walking skeletons sound more skeletony.

33. Sprinting: By double pressing the forward button, the player will move faster.

34. Critical hits

35. Hold-to-charge bows

36. Animal breeding

37. Player blocking attack animation and hostile mob attack animations, possibly more player animations

38. Modding Support

39. Other secret projects.

Found the list from the minecraft wiki
So far over 30 new features coming with 1.8, so the release date of the update is expected to be somewhere in late August or September.

Sounds good. I guess I picked a good time to get into the game, huh?

I'll try to post some pics of my stuff... not that good though.

For some reason my Minecraft didn't properly update for 1.7, I tried cutting down some trees, but no leaf blocks fell down....

Leaf "blocks". Blocks can only be acquired through shears.

Or are you talking about them disappearing? Do they continue to float in the air without any wood?