We tried, but...

The kids played side by side on our two computers tonight.  They were eager to try some new tricks their friend Evyn taught them this afternoon.

Hayden, downcast: "We tried to summon things, but it just didn't work."
Bryce: "Yeah.  We gotta go back to You Tube."

The Village People

Bryce, telling me about his house:  "The second room is the one with the most noise.  Do you know WHY it's noisy?  It's the one where I keep the villagers."

Me, in my head:  Is Minecraft also teaching human trafficking...?

Putting them in their place

Bryce: " Good boy, good boy"
Me:  "What are you doing?"
Bryce to me:  "I'm taming wolves."  To a wolf, "Hey, don't be a runaway.  Come back!  Did you fall in?"
Me:  "Fall in what?"
Bryce, to me:  "A hole to go in my animal place."  To a wolf, "Hello!"
Me:  "So you're trapping them?"
Bryce:  "Well, I'm spawning them and taming them and putting them in their place."  Pause.  "I heard a wolf yell out.  Well, one of my dogs.   He got hurt and I didn't do it.  Hello, chickens."
Me:  "Are you feeding the wolves chickens?!"
Bryce:  "No!  They are in my animals' place also."
Me:  "Okay..."

Not a moment to waste

Bryce:  Here's a fact about Minecraft days: They only last ten minutes.   That means there's not a moment to waste.

Me, in my head:  This, in a nutshell is parenthood.  Excuse me now while I go cry.

Sad news

Bryce:  "I have sad news for you."  Big sigh.  "In the game where I had the Nether reactor core and all the gold, I died."  Pauses, shakes head.  "I don’t even know how I died, the game just made me or something.  Nothing was hurting me...gravel wasn’t falling...I wasn’t in lava..."

Me:  "Then you just died?"

Bryce, frowning:  "Well, yeah."

Me, genuinely:  "Sorry."

All you need is gold

Bryce:  "I’ve finally made a Nether reactor core.  All I need is more gold."

Later on...

Bryce: "Today all I’m caring about is gold.  Oddly today I haven’t found any.  Maybe I already have tooken most of the gold in this area.  Hmm."

More good news and bad news

Bryce:  Good news—dungeon.  Bad news—spider monsters.  Guess how you tell there's a dungeon.

Me:  How do you tell?

Bryce:  If you see moss stone anywhere on the roof of an abandoned mineshaft.  Or you might just walk into a cave and find it.

 
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Then don't step on any butterflies

From Crystal K--

Evyn built a Tardis in Minecraft today because he wanted a time machine. He time traveled to the past in the 1700s. 

Evyn: "I don't want to mess with anything or I'll ruin the future!"
Me (thinking of that Ray Bradbury story): "Well, just make sure you don't step on any butterflies."
Evyn (totally missing the reference): "There's no butterflies in Minecraft. I'd have to get a mod for that."

Sigh. And yet another wasted bit of humor goes floating away above his 8-year-old head...

 
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Mine and Learn

Bryce:  I’m going to grow some saplings in my house.

Me:  But what if they grow through your roof?

Bryce:  Never mind that.  I’m mining a big hole for them.

Few minutes pass.

Bryce:  Darn it.  I have to make myself a new front door.  My sapling blocked my door!

Me:  Mine and learn.  

 

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