Why is Minecraft so Addictive?

[MMMowman]

Check out what someone made in Minecraft. It's a cart-rail which goes on forever.

http://kotaku.com/5661579/this-is-why-people-play-minecraft?skyline=true&s=i

I dont want to know how long it took to make. The biggest thing I've made was a bridge 200 blocks by 5 blocks by 5 blocks which only took me a day to make. What have you made in minecraft and how long did it take to build?

 

[ConnorCool]

I keep dying in lava and loosing the scant amount of iron that I have managed to find. So I ragequit and come back sheepishly after a few hours. I am working on an upside down structure, hanging from the underside of a cliff, made of glass at the moment though.
On topic: that is damn awesome!

 

[Angerwing]

I encircled a giant mountain valley/bowl with a Great Wall, to ensure no zombies could get in. I built a fairly elaborate catacomb system underneath, mostly just expanding pre-existing caves. But there are plenty of waterfalls, trees and cliffs in my own private and secure Garden of Eden.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

So far, I have built two simple forts: a three level fort made of wood (w/ each level being three blocks high), with the roof of the first level able to support the growth of trees, cacti, and wheat, and the top level being capped by a beacon (of sorts). My other fort is a three level stone castle (each level being four blocks high), complete with crenelations on each level, a stone floor on the ground level (which used to be sand), a tower that serves as a beacon on top of my third level treasury/armory, and a second access to my mine under the first floor. In addition, I also have two mines: One is by my first fort, and is nothing special. The second, however, has two branches: one extends for probably about a mile (or maybe a mile and a half) on one direction, with a small cavern usually every 100 feet or so, and one cavern having "access" to the sea above it; the other branch is a more vertical branch, angling downward in one direction and going straight downward through a hole in the floor in another section (in which I have found both an underground source of lava AND water).

So far, everything has taken me about thirty-five (+/- ten) hours to make, and I'm still not done digging. The forts are more or less completed, though.

 

[Dana22]

But it gets boring after a while. Im waiting for survival in multi.