I have a map.

That’s a map of the multiplayer sever on which I’m playing Minecraft. My castle and garden is just above the centre of the image there. It’s not the whole map – that’s far too large to upload – but this map shows the vast majority of the building work. (You may have to download the full image to view it properly.)

Our server crashed over the weekend and chunks of the landscape reverted to an older version.

My clawing demon was missing half his face and most of his right hand.

Most of one room of my castle was gone.

I rebuilt the room of my castle that was half missing and gave it a better roof, then recreated the clawing demon. A huge tower I’d built that had completely disappeared I think I’ll give up for lost.

It's coming for you...

My latest creation, a great horned beast clawing its way out of the molten depths.

Or half a rubbish space invader with hands. You decide.

My wife asked for a picture when I told her about him, so here he is.

Is this image NSFW? You decide!

A work of art to rival Michelangelo’s David and the Venus de Milo, I’m sure you’ll agree.

All its glory.

I’m quite pleased with it, but not jumping around with delight. I think I should have built it higher, for one thing.

From the outside... ugh.

The interior is nice, though.

Shame it looks so dull from the outside, but I do like how it looks from the inside.

The statue that previously overlooked my castle is now part of it.

At least I didn’t flood my castle with lava today. I managed to do that twice yesterday. It’s not destructive, but it’s a pain to clean up.

My nose is stone, it shall not rust.

I also added a prison cell to my Secret Shrine of Evil, too. That might be a slightly worrying, too, now I come to think about it.

There’s a new section below the Secret Shrine.

There are new towers over the throne room.

The graveyard walls are now covered in moss.

It's not as awesomely impressive as other buildings on the server, but it's mine.

I’ve even got a couple of waterfalls. (And, yes, there is a secret passage linking them.)

Mostly, though, I’ve been exploring a massive cave system I discovered under the hills near my castle where I’d been mining. I found a couple of (non-working) monster generators and some empty chests. (Apparently you get stuff if you destroy the chests, but I didn’t know that at the time and have never been able to find them again.) I did, however, get enough gold to top my throne and enough diamonds to make a wall of jukeboxes in my guard house.

Quack.

This lunchtime I spent a very therapeutic forty-five minutes or so constructing a wine cellar.

Wine racks.

Okay, so the new fences don’t make very good wine racks, but I can’t think of anything better right now.