Minecraft is a creative sandbox game centered around exploration and survival; exploring and gathering resources allows you to protect yourself against a variety of monsters that hunt you down during the night. The creative sandbox elements of the game fuel your want to survive and gather, which in turn allows you to build many wonderful creations. Basic fluid physics also provide interesting means of creating basic machines.
The multiplayer is very similar to single-player, just with more people and chat.

List of Sites:
http://www.minecraft.net/

http://notch.tumblr.com/

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum

http://forums.bukkit.org/

http://feed-the-beast.com/ (Modpack collection, approved by included mod authors)
http://technicpack.net/ (Popular modpack, starting to regain favor of modders)

BGSFCraft Minecraft servers:

Vanilla:

[1.7.2] (1.7.4-6 clients will work, too) Third World Redux: tw.bgsfcraft.com (Greylist, everyone can join and see the breathtaking vistas, rank elevation needed to play the game proper)

Third World Redux DYNMAP: http://tw.bgsfcraft.com:8123/

'Global' Server Admins:
Bonemonster (MIA)
MrTankJump

'Third World Redux' Admins:
Mirglof
Athell
Mr_E

Email mrtankjump -at- gmail -dot- com ,message 'mrtankjump' on Steam, or simply send a PM to mrtankjump if you have any issues accessing the server.

We have a donation pool maintained by MrTankJump to help pay for the BGSFCraft Server's continued operation. You can donate using PayPal to provide server funding (account owned by MrTankJump) if you feel the desire, it isn't required.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GVVTYWM9ZDFEQ

Other Servers of Interest:

Drakortha's The Ancient World

http://www.drakortha.info/the-ancient-world/4561847648

This server has a long, storied history in its RP spanning 4 years of cataclysmic events, ranging from giant rifts from the Nether consuming entire player-built cities, to a zombie apocalypse no one could outrun.

TamrielCraft

Be sure to check out the amazing work from TamrielCraft, an ongoing recreation of Tamriel in Minecraft.
https://www.gamesas.com/topic/1470148-introducing-tamrielcraft-for-minecraft-162/

If you maintain a server with a theme surrounding a deep, interesting RP, or a Bethesda IP (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc.) feel free to let us know!

previous thread: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1503357-unofficial-minecraft-thread-120/page-7

as i mentioned before there was going to be a prize for the participant who one 1st, 2nd and 3rd place the most times, although at the moment i still need to do the tallying for that to determine who those people would be. not every one participated in every event.

but the prizes i will mention.

3rd gets a $25,000 server money prize.

2nd gets $25,000 server money prize in addition to a one time access to a special command block that will give them a small running speed boost for roughly a month.

1st gets the same prizes as 3rd and 2nd in addition they get a mob spawner of their choice.

the prizes for making a place in individual events were 1) 8 diamonds 2) 8 gold ingots 3) 8 iron ingots. also i forgot that i meant to give smaller cash prizes to the winners so when i go over the footage that i recorded of the events i will add that money to their accounts which goes in the order of 1: $5000 2: $2500 3: $1000

The next McMMO Olympics will be at the end of january during some day that i can get off from work."

Praise Google's DNS, I suppose. Router was acting odd the past few days, and right when we rebooted it was when Charter's system failed EVERYWHERE.

I had some well, tummy problems after the horse race. It was awful. So I missed out on the last events.