Is it me or do the steps kind of look like...veins? 
Shouldn't I be the one building massive monuments to Penii?
What was once this:
Has now become this:
To put that into scale, The first castle was the size of ONE floor of this new tower! If you notice, you'll see the entire structure built into the base of the new tower!
This ONE tower will be part of a bigger, four tower complex, which you can see the foundations for here:
...Here is Ghost, chilling on my bed in the tower. He is depressed because I scolded him for bringing a Creeper into the tower and blowing a hole in the floor. BAD DOGGIE!
That is awesome
. I can't defend my poor tower from Creepers.Burning wood in your furnace makes charcoal which can also be used for torches!
You don't have to light torches. Once you make them and place them, they light!
Tip for pet owners: If you are going to get one, you might as well get two so the one won't be lonely!
It works IRL too.
Explore. If you look hard enough, I believe every world has all of it's core components somewhere. I've even found greenery, flowers, mushroom, birch trees and *squee!* WOLVES in my snowy wasteland.
BTW, do you guys know who creepers are afraid of?
A photographer I met on Friday introduced me to the concept of Mine Shafting. I thanked him by introducing him to My Shaft.
He got his reward on Friday. Today, I was rewarded with a crap ton of Red Stone Ore and Dust, lots of Iron and even a few Diamonds!
I checked all of your progress too today. C'mon slackers! I was away all weekend and I'm still leaps and bounds ahead of you for traveling, mining, building and killing creatures!! Has the intrigue worn off already?!
I was told how much of the game we are missing on 360 over the weekend. Apparently, the PC has adventure mode where you can build an Enchanting Table where you can enchant weapons and armor. There are experience points and you must eat. There's also an End Boss! There are some new monsters, you can encounter villages with villagers, and a bunch of other items like hanging vines, etc... Can't wait for that to go live!
I built a portal to the nether regions (no, not those), it was awesome to find netherracks which burn forever and also those small shining things that you can use to make light blocks. It's an ugly, dark place and I don't want to be back there unless I need to find more building stuff.
Started construction of an ambitious project, I will share pics of it once it starts to take shape.
I'm also intrigued by what will come with the first update, if I recall correctly, it seems Mojang has leeway for 3 free updates, so I'd say they'll try to make them as beefy as possible.
Straight up!