Pony, Ive did a bit of research on Wikapedia in regards to Minecraft and it looks interesting. I'm going to start looking into it a bit further and do what I have to do to get involved in playing this game. Looks very interesting.
I run a private server for my son and his friends, and I've played it a bit. Haven't really gotten much done in it yet, but have enjoyed my time with my son.
I started a new Minecraft world today and I thought I'd make sort of a build thread for it. I'm using a large biomes map and the seed is 6477712093925276512.
On starting the map you get dropped off in a Taiga.
But very close to spawn is a nice area of several lakes and a huge extreme hills biome which will be great for mining.
You can have pets in Minecraft, either cats or dogs, that follow you around. (You can also breed animals.) Dogs will follow you fairly closely and will attack anything you attack and anything that attacks you with the exception of creepers. Cats don't follow closely nor do they do much.