Please help me not go batshit insane.

[taste_is_sweet]

My darling, wonderful child (whom I adore), is eight years old (as I've mentioned), and thinks that Minecraft is better than anything not made of chocolate and peanut butter. He's actually gotten really good at building himself houses and armor and such, but what he really, really wants in the whole wide world is some friends to come visit his world (and build a pirate ship with him).

Unfortunately, aside from one kid-friendly server that is currently not being terribly parent-friendly, the dizzying array of multi-player Minecraft servers out there seem to be all adult-oriented, which is fine as long as the adults in question aren't typing too fast in chat and/or mainly interested in murdering their fellow avatars.

So, in an optimistic attempt to not end up having to listen to my darling, wonderful child lament about how he doesn't have any Minecraft friends until the end of time (and/or high school), I turn to you, o, best-beloveds.

Do any of you either a) play Minecraft on a machine that can connect to the interweebs and wouldn't mind helping a kid build a pirate ship? Or, b) do any of you have/know children who would be interested in helping another child build a pirate ship?

Apparently I can make a multi-player server, but I need to have specific people to invite. Otherwise, I'd be happy to send Jav's avatar off to find a buddy if I knew which server they used and what their username was. Minecraft makes me seasick as hell, or I'd try it myself.

If you can and want to come play, or know someone who would, please PM me or feel free to leave a comment and I'd be very happy to PM you instead. :)

I thank you in advance, and so does my sanity.

Comments

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

My son is almost 11 (feb) and a HUGE minecraft player. HUGE. He would be happy to play with your son as soon as he updates his Java and can play with other players again. It should be soon, I think he is just waiting for Dad. As soon as he does/is ready to go, I'll send you his username and whatever other info you need? I don't even know, but he does LOL.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

OMG THAT WOULD BE THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER! Thank you!

Please email me at simple.carbohydrates AT gmail DOT com with his info (thank you!). If he goes to a particular multi-player server, it would be awesome to know which one, so we could arrange a time for the boys to meet up. And I'll let you know my son's info too.

:D He'll be so happy! And I'm already happy. Thank you. <3

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

I thought I hated the xbox before, but now I really do since it's so old it didn't just come with the online stuff. Feh. I'm sure my boy would've played with yours if he could.

Hopefully things will work out with Jr. Firesign! LOL!

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) I'm sure Jav would enjoy it too. Maybe one day...

[skinscript.livejournal.com]

I know David Hewlett and Bas play. Maybe he'd be up for it.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

LOL I wish! He's never responded to the (very) few tweets I've sent him, so I have a feeling a request to be Minecraft buddies wouldn't go over so well.