Terrain3D For Godot Hits 1.0 Release / News / April 5, 2025 / The popular terrain and landscape system for the Godot game engine Terrain3D just hit a major milestone, the 1.0 release. Terrain3D for Godot is being created as a GDExtension primarily in C++ by the folks over at Tokisan Games. We first looked at this add-on back in 2023 and it has only improved since then. Terrain generation and interaction is one of the most glaringly missing features of the Godot Engine when compared to Unity, Unreal and other similar 3D engines making add-ons like Terrain3D essential to many developers.Key Features of Terrain3D for Godot include:Written in C++ as a GDExtension addon, which works with official builds of Godot EngineCan be accessed by GDScript, C#, and any language Godot supportsGeomorphing Geometric Clipmap Mesh Terrain, as used in The Witcher 3.Terrains as small as 64x64m up to 65.565.5km (4295km^2) in variable sized regionsUp to 32 texturesUp to 10 levels of detail for the terrain meshFoliage instancing, with up to 10 levels of detail, and a shadow impostorSculpting, holes, texture painting, texture detiling, painting colors and wetnessImports heightmaps fromHTerrain, Gaea, World Creator, World Machine, Unity, Unreal and any tool that can export a heightmap.Key LinksTerrain3D GitHubTerrain3D Homepage on TokisanDiscord ServerYou can learn more about the Terrain3D terrain generation add-on for the Godot game engine and see it in action in the video below.

Streaming has gone from being a cheaper alternative to cable, to an actually worse version of cable. The price of streaming services has skyrocketed since the early days, and content has been haphazardly strewn across different subscriptions. Not only that, each of the streaming services are continually raising prices on consumers. If you find yourself subscribed to Netflix, Max, Hulu, Paramount+, and Disney+ all at once you're probably paying way too much for streaming right now.Thankfully there are some options to cut down on your budget without just canceling your access to everything. There are ways to bundle services together, free trials, and streaming alternatives out there you can take advantage of. Below I've gathered a quick list of ways I've found to save money and still watch an endless stream of quality entertainment on the daily.Bundle Services Where You CanGet the Disney+, Hulu, Max Streaming Bundle$16.99/month with ads, $29.99/month ad-free.See it at Disney+The overall best way to save money on streaming is to take advantage of streaming bundle options. The first and most obvious bundle worth mentioning is the Disney+, Hulu, Max combo that puts all three of the popular streamers in a single monthly charge that is pretty good discount. This is the overall best deal in streaming right now and something I myself have taken advantage of. If you're currently paying for all three of those services separately, you are spending way too much money for no reason. Bundle it up while you still can.Outside of this bundle, there are also various live TV streaming services that bundle a cable-like experience with streaming. There's the Hulu + Live TV subscription that includes ESPN+ and Disney+ all in one bill. This is a great option if you want an all-in-one service that includes regular channels.Take Advantage of Free Trials7 Days FreeApple TV+ Free TrialSee it at AppleAnother great option for saving money is to utilize free trials. Although some a major streaming service like Netflix does not have a free trial, there are plenty of other options available. Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV+ all include a free streaming trial you can test drive for seven days or more. It's entirely possible to grab a free trial of Apple TV+ and binge both seasons of Severance within that seven-day period. You just need to remember to cancel the service before you start getting charged a monthly fee.Free trials can also be helpful if you're trying to catch a live sporting event. Many of the popular sports streaming services offer some sort of free trial for new subscribers that work in a pinch. Some of the best choices in this regard are the Hulu + Live TV free trial and the Fubo free trial, which get you access to a great variety of channels.Utilize Free Streaming SitesSling TV FreestreamSee it at Sling TVWith even some paid subscriptions now including ads, there are many free streaming sites out there that don't cost a penny. Sure, they have ads, but if you're already paying for the basic tier of a site like Hulu just so you can watch TV and movies that are available for free, you might as well not be paying at all. One great option I've used occasionally is Sling Freestream, which offers a ton of free channels and the option of free DVR when you create a free account. There's also Kanopy, which allows you to stream movies for free with the use of a library card.If you're looking for a place to more specifically stream anime for free, there are actually quite a few places with episodes available for free. Though the overall best option is the Crunchyroll free tier. You can also upgrade to premium with a free trial of the paid tiers if you want to test a full subscription.Get Yourself an HD TV AntennaOur Top PickMohu Leaf Supreme ProEnjoy long-range and solid, consistent reception with this amplified HDTV antenna that offers an easy setup and a 12-foot power cable.See it at AmazonThe last suggestion I have for anyone who specifically wants to watch live channels without having to log in somewhere online is to get yourself a good TV antenna. Some TVs come with a way to access live TV channels, but if yours doesn't then you just need to pick up an antenna and plug it in for free channels straight from the air. This will automatically get you access to major networks as well as local channels. I have one myself that I've used to watch live sporting events like the Super Bowl and the Olympics last year. It's also great for shows like The Bachelor, which tend to air live before they hit streaming anyway.A good indoor TV antenna costs around $50 or more, but it's a one time purchase you shouldn't need to make again. There's no recurring monthly payment involved, you just get some good old-fashioned live TV with ads.Find Free Movies on YouTubeYouTube YouTube Premium StudentStudents can save by signing up for YouTube Premium with their student email.See it at YouTubeSimilar to the free streaming sites we've mentioned above, YouTube offers quite a few free movies you can stream at any given time. There are literally hundreds of movies you can watch for free at any given time. In addition to those, there's also seemingly endless videos about every other topic available on YouTube. There are usually a lot of ads on videos if you don't have a premium subscription, but if you can get past that it's a pretty good free alternative to major streamers.For students who want to avoid the ads altogether, there's also a discount available that makes the service pretty cheap.Jacob Kienlen is a Senior SEO Strategist and Writer for IGN. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, he has considered the Northwest his home for his entire life. With a bachelor's degree in communication and over 8 years of professional writing experience, his expertise is spread across a variety of different topics -- from TV series to indie games and popular book series.

Shinichir Watanabe is a true anime auteur who is responsible for some of the most celebrated titles to come out of the late 90s and 2000s, such as Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy, and Carole & Tuesday. Watanabes series cover incredibly diverse material, but all his anime successfully connect with audiences because of the meticulous work that Watanabe channels into their characters, universe, and the music that brings them all together. Any new Watanabe project is cause for celebration, but his upcoming Adult Swim project Lazarus is particularly exciting.Lazarus tells an action-packed sci-fi parable in which an elite team of agents are assembled to locate a reclusive scientist, Dr. Skinner, who is responsible for the creation of Hapna, a miracle cure-all drug that was initially viewed as the worlds miracle, but is now killing all of its users three years later. The Lazarus teams mission to locate Dr. Skinner and create a Hapna vaccine is Earths best chance against mass extinction. Lazarus is rich in contemplative questions, compelling characters, and subversive storytelling. Its also a masterpiece when it comes to its action sequences and choreography, which benefit from having John Wicks Chad Stahelski on staff as action supervisor. The show has the potential to be one of the biggest anime of 2025, but also one of the most popular animated series to ever air on Adult Swim and Max.In honor of Lazarus premiere, Shinichir Watanabe goes deep on world-building, the importance of music as a storytelling tool, if Lazarus is set in the same universe as Cowboy Bebop, and whether audiences will ever see more Space Dandy.DEN OF GEEK: Theres such a distinct look to this futuristic world, its architecture, technology, and vehicles. Can you talk a little on developing the design of this futuristic society and if there were any influences there?SHINICHIR WATANABE: The big decision in terms of design was who are we gonna ask to design this for us? We asked the French designer, Stanislas Brunet, to join us for this. Hes part of a team called Studio No Border. French artists have a very different, distinct style from Japanese designers. Thats also why we asked him to join us for our previous project, Carole & Tuesday.They begin their design by thinking about how the buildings should be constructed. Should they be 3D-printed or not, for example? Im a big fan of their aesthetics, which is why I relied on them again. They use a 3D program called SketchUp Terra and a big benefit of this is that they make very detailed 3D models of the buildings. Were able to take those and then use them for our actual art designs.Another rule or policy for design in Lazarus is that while we are in a futuristic city, I wanted to add some contrast and disparity between the richer and the poorer areas. So, its very futuristic and clean in the areas that have a lot of money. However, the poor areas are like slums and very dirty. Another reason why I went this way is that it adds more reality. If everything is very futuristic and very clean then it doesnt seem as grounded in reality.Thats super interesting. I also love how the action and chase sequences have such kinetic movement. The fight choreography is so impressive, too. I know that Chad Stahelski is the series Action Supervisor. Can you talk about his role in Lazarus and what that relationship was like?When we first reached out to Chads team, they were still recording John Wick 4. So, it was a bit difficult at the time. It seemed like they werent going to be able to fully participate, so we were completely fine with just getting some advice from them. However, upon speaking to them, they were very much on board for joining the project and doing as much as possible. They used their stunt team to record some live-action previews, which they sent to us and then we used as the inspiration for the animation. Their participation, since theyre very busy, became dependent on the episode. Chad worked on some episodes and then the animation staff from our end worked on some episodes.It may be a fun challenge for the viewer to figure out which is which. Try to figure out which episodes are Chads and which is our animation staff. Then, you can check your answers by watching the end credits, since Chads name will be there for the episodes that he participated in.Your series do such a great job when it comes to using music as a universal language and a tool to develop themes and characters. How did you figure out Lazarus sound? And can you just expand a little more on whats going on with the series music and sound?Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!This time, unlike previous projects, theres a more electronic, dance music, and EDM-driven sound. Theres also a very jazz musician style, too. Theres another artist, Kamasi Washington, his music is more jazz. So he fills that role for us. The use of jazz music has led to a lot of other people bringing up that this might be similar to a previous project that Ive worked on [Cowboy Bebop]. But lets forget about that series for a little bit and just focus on enjoying this one.I understand those comparisons, but its a totally different sound. Youre doing such different stuff. What you did with the music in Terror in Resonance the whole Norwegian sound is one of my favorite things that youve done. You always put so much thought into what the soundtrack should represent. You can really feel that in Lazarus. Its super cool.Thank you!You create a lived-in universe with Lazarus. Do you see other stories being told in this universe? Once the Dr. Skinner adventure is over, could there be future stories, or even a movie thats with these characters or in this world?Of course, thats a possibility if this is a big hit. We wont know until Lazarus is released. Until then, we just have to keep our fingers crossed.It seems like a lot of your series kind of exist in the same universe. There are subtle references between them, even if its just like the Woolong currency. Are there any Easter eggs like this in Lazarus that fans should maybe look out for? Or something they should pay attention towards?Not so much this time, no. But they do take place in the same universe. So they are connected somewhere.I really loved your work on the Blade Runner Black Out 2022 anime and The Animatrix. Are there any other American properties that you would like to transform into an anime and explore their worlds through that context? You can choose anything here! No restrictions!Im trying to think, but Blade Runner would really be my favorite thing to dream about working on. Ive already been there and done that. I think Im satisfied there.Finally, Im such a huge Space Dandy fan. Its maybe my favorite anime of all time. Im always hoping that a movie might happen one day. Is there one Space Dandy story or detail that nobody knows about that you could share?Youve got some good taste if you like Space Dandy! The secret is, Im always ready to make more seasons of Space Dandy. The same goes for the staff that worked on it as well. However, it wasnt a huge success, so its hard to find financing for it. So maybe some rich oil money will fall our way and it can finally happen.Lazarus premieres April 5 at midnight on Adult Swim, with next-day-streaming on Max.

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle,the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost.Request your EXTENDED TRIALtoday and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple.Apples enterprise business is doing incredible, but not because of subscriptions or recurring revenue. The bulk of Apples enterprise comes from hardware sales, with Macs, iPhones, and iPads that are powering businesses worldwide. While Apple does offer services like AppleCare and Apple Business Essentials, their impact on recurring revenue is a rounding error. At Apples scale, it needs massive revenue to drive growth. If Apple wants to drive revenue growth in the enterprise, something has to change.About Apple @ Work:Bradley Chambers managed an enterprise IT network from 2009 to 2021. Through his experience deploying and managing firewalls, switches, a mobile device management system, enterprise grade Wi-Fi, 1000s of Macs, and 1000s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple IT managers deploy Apple devices, build networks to support them, train users, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for IT departments.Evolve its hardware sales model Apple already has the iPhone Upgrade Program and Apple Business Essentials, but it hasnt gone all-in on making a true subscription in the enterprise. Businesses buy or finance Apple devices outright (Apple even offers financing), but there is no actual subscription hardware model. Imagine an Apple One for Business, where companies pay a monthly fee per user for a bundled packageMac, AppleCare, and managed services, all rolled into one recurring cost. Its a model that works for Dell with DaaS (Device-as-a-Service), so why not Apple?If Apple wants to drive real ARR growth in the enterprise, it needs to solve a problem IT actually has. Right now, IT teams manage Apple devices using third-party toolsMosyle, Jamf, Addigy, Fleet, JumpCloud Kandji, Microsoft Intune, and othersbecause Apples own device management tools arent designed for large enterprises.I dont think Apple has to compete with its own partners here, but I think its worth taking a step back and asking: What problems do IT and security teams have today that Apple can solve? Is it something with compliance? Is it a full-feature endpoint detection and response tool? IT teams arent looking to buy things but to solve problems. This is where Apple could start.Acquire a SaaS companyIf Apple is serious about growing ARR in the enterprise, the fastest way is through acquisition. One area where Apple is noticeably absent that I see as a growing revenue segment is identity and access management. Microsoft has Azure AD. Google has its own Workspace identity solutions. Okta is considered to be the backbone of many modern enterprises. Apple? Nothing that scales for enterprise IT.A logical move would be acquiring a company in the identity management space to create a streamlined, Apple-native authentication and security platform for businesses. With macOS and iOS already leading in enterprise security, adding a Zero Trust identity layer would strengthen Apples position while also driving consistent subscription revenue. Wrap upApple has historically been hesitant to make big SaaS acquisitions, but if it wants a real growth path in enterprise IT revenue (beyond selling more hardware), a move into IAM would make sense to me. Another option might be someone in the password ecosystem like 1Password as well. If Apple wants to grow its enterprise footprint and show investors it has more revenue growth coming in the enterprise, it needs to rethink its approachwhether through hardware-as-a-service, SaaS tools for IT, or a strategic acquisition in identity management.Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle,the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. 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In the deserts of Africa and the Middle East, scientists have discovered tiny tubes that appear to have been made by something alive.In a press release, researchers from Germany's Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz described their surprise upon finding these bizarre tubular tunnels in marble and limestone."We were surprised," explained Cees Passchier, who first found the tunnels in Namibia 15 years ago, "because these tubes are clearly not the result of a geological process."In a new paper published in theGeomicrobiology Journal, Passchier and his colleagues described the bizarre physical properties of the weird tubes they found, first in Namibia and then in Saudi Arabia and Oman, both located thousands of miles to the east.These micro-burrows, as they're called, are generally about an inch long and about half a millimeter wide. Cutting down into rocks that scientists like Passchier have long studied, clusters of these tiny tunnels have been exposed by erosion. When analyzed, the tubes revealed a fine calcium carbonate powder, which may have been left over from microorganisms that burrowed into the marble to access its nutrients.While the current hypothesis suggests thatsomething living made these weird little tubes in desert marble, researchers are baffled as to what kind of tiny organism it may have been."We dont currently know whether this is a life form that has become extinct," Passchier said in the press release, "or is still alive somewhere."Given that these mysterious structures are estimated to be about one or two million years old, it's possible that whichever microorganisms made them are not alive today.Though traces of calcium carbonate powder were found in these microburrows, no DNA or proteins were left behind. Without more biological evidence, scientists won't be able to say definitively what type of critter carved them out though to Passchier, that's what makes the discovery "so exciting.""Is it a known form of life," the German scientist pondered, "or a completely unknown organism?""This form of life, of which we do not know whether it still exists, could be important for the global carbon cycle," he continued. "It is therefore essential that the scientific community becomes aware of it."More on weird life: Scientists Puzzled by Giant Ancient Life FormsShare This Article

A likely lone wolf actor behind the EncryptHub persona was acknowledged by Microsoft for discovering and reporting two security flaws in Windows last month, painting a picture of a "conflicted" individual straddling a legitimate career in cybersecurity and pursuing cybercrime.In a new extensive analysis published by Outpost24 KrakenLabs, the Swedish security company unmasked the up-and-coming cybercriminal, who, about 10 years ago, fled his hometown in Kharkov, Ukraine, to a new place somewhere near the Romanian coast.The vulnerabilities were credited by Microsoft to a party named "SkorikARI with SkorikARI," which has been assessed to be another username used by EncryptHub. The flaws in question, both of which were fixed by Redmond as part of its Patch Tuesday update last month, are below -CVE-2025-24061 (CVSS score: 7.8) - Microsoft Windows Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) Security Feature Bypass VulnerabilityCVE-2025-24071 (CVSS score: 6.5) - Microsoft Windows File Explorer Spoofing VulnerabilityEncryptHub, also tracked under the monikers LARVA-208 and Water Gamayun, was spotlighted in mid-2024 as part of a campaign that leveraged a bogus WinRAR site to distribute various kinds of malware hosted on a GitHub repository named "encrypthub."In recent weeks, the threat actor has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of another security flaw in Microsoft Management Console (CVE-2025-26633, CVSS score: 7.0, aka MSC EvilTwin) to deliver information stealers and previously undocumented backdoors named SilentPrism and DarkWisp.According to PRODAFT, EncryptHub is estimated to have compromised over 618 high-value targets across multiple industries in the last nine months of its operation."All data analyzed throughout our investigation points to the actions of a single individual," Lidia Lopez, Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at Outpost24, told The Hacker News."However, we cannot rule out the possibility of collaboration with other threat actors. In one of the Telegram channels used to monitor infection statistics, there was another Telegram user with administrative privileges, suggesting potential cooperation or assistance from others without a clear group affiliation."Outpost24 said it was able to piece together EncryptHub's online footprint from the "actor's self-infections due to poor operational security practices," uncovering new aspects of their infrastructure and tooling in the process.The individual is believed to have kept a low profile after moving to an unspecified place near Romania, studying computer science on their own by enrolling for online courses, while seeking computer-related jobs on the side.All of the threat actor's activity, however, abruptly ceased in early 2022 coinciding with the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war. That said, Outpost24 said it has found evidence to suggest that he was jailed around the same time. "Once released, he resumed his job search, this time offering freelance web and app development services, which gained some traction," the company said in the report. "But the pay likely wasn't enough, and after briefly trying bug bounty programs with little success, we believe he pivoted to cybercrime in the first half of 2024."One of EncryptHub's earliest ventures in the cybercrime landscape is Fickle Stealer, which was first documented by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs in June 2024 as a Rust-based information stealer malware that's distributed via multiple channels.In a recent interview with security researcher g0njxa, the threat actor claimed that Fickle "delivers results on systems where StealC or Rhadamantys (sic) would never work" and that it "passes high-quality corporate antivirus systems." They also stated that the stealer is not only being shared privately, it's also "integral" to another product of theirs dubbed EncryptRAT."We were able to associate Fickle Stealer with an alias previously tied to EncryptHub," Lopez said. "Additionally, one of the domains linked to that campaign matches infrastructure connected to his legitimate freelance work. From our analysis, we estimate EncryptHub's cybercriminal activity began around March 2024. Fortinet's reporting in June likely marks the first public documentation of these actions." EncryptHub is also said to have relied extensively on OpenAI's ChatGPT to assist with malware development, even going to the extent of using it to aid in translating emails and messages and as a confessional tool."EncryptHub's case highlights how poor operational security remains one of the most critical weaknesses for cybercriminals," Lopez pointed out. "Despite technical sophistication, basic mistakes like password reuse, exposed infrastructure, and mixing personal with criminal activity ultimately led to his exposure."Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.

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Nvidias own disclosures about the customs classifications of its products paint a similar picture. Of the over 1,300 items the company lists on its website, less than one-fifth appear to be exempt from Trumps new tariffs, according to their correspondent HTS codes. Nvidia declined to comment to WIRED on which of its products it believes the new import duties apply to or not.Bad News for US AI FirmsIf a wide range of GPUs and other electronic components are subject to the highest country-specific tariffs, which are scheduled to kick in next week, US chipmakers and AI firms could be facing a significant increase in costs. That could potentially hamper efforts to build more data centers and train the worlds most cutting-edge artificial intelligence models in the US.That's why Nvidias stock price is currently getting killed, Rasgon says, having shed roughly one-third of its value since the start of 2025.AI hardware, particularly high-end GPUs from Nvidia, will see rising costs, potentially stalling AI infrastructure development in the US, says Wei from Eurasia Group. Cloud computing, quantum computing, and military-grade semiconductor applications could also be impacted due to higher costs and supply uncertainties.Mark Wu, a professor at Harvard Law School who specializes in international trade, says the looming possibility that other countries embedded in the semiconductor supply chain could impose retaliatory tariffs on the US is creating a very unpredictable environment for businesses. Trump may also soon announce more tariffs specifically targeting chips, something he alluded to at a press briefing on Thursday. There's so many different scenarios, Wu says. Its almost futile to sort of speculate without knowing what's under consideration.More Challenges to ReshoringTrump has said that his trade policies are intended to bring more manufacturing to the US, but they threaten to reverse what had been a bumper period for US chipmaking. The Semiconductor Industry Association recently released figures showing that sales grew 48.4 percent in the Americas between February 2023 and 2024, far above rates in China, where sales only increased 5.6 percent, and Europe, which saw sales decrease 8.1 percent.The US has a relatively small share of the global chipmaking market as a whole, however, due to decades of offshoring. Fabrication plants located in the country account for just 12 percent of worldwide capacity, down from 37 percent in 1990. The CHIPS Act, introduced under the Biden administration, sought to reverse the trend by appropriating $52 billion for investment in chip manufacturing, training, and research. Trump called the law a horrible thing and recently set up a new office to manage its investments.A glaring omission in the list of HTS code exempt from Trumps tariffs are those that correspond to lithography machines, a highly sophisticated category of equipment central to chipmaking. Most of the worlds advanced lithography machines are made today in countries like the Netherlands (subject to a 20 percent tariff) and Japan (a 24 percent tariff). If these devices become significantly more costly to import, it could get in the way of bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the US.

Tenacious DiamondsThis isn't A Minecraft Movie, this is just a tributeHavent seen the actual Minecraft movie in the world, no. This is just a tribute.Image credit: Universal Pictures/Mojang Article by Mark Warren Senior Staff Writer Published on April 5, 2025 This is it, buddy.This is the awesome video game in which were gonna write our movie?Its a video game. It says it on the store page, its an official video game.This is one of those lame kids games.Ok. You wanna bail? Go ahead. You wanna walk away from your dreams, or do you want to come in here with me - like the hardcore Minecrafter I know - and change video game adaptation history?Ok.See, man, theyve got redstone and everything.Oh, wow, cool. No, look dude, youve gotta watch other peoples Minecraft movies.Well, thats where a little worldspace engineering comes in handy, my hard-crafting amigo.This is the greatest and best Minecraft movie in the worldtribute.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. A short time ago, me and this Creeper here. We was hitchhiking through a long and lonesome biome. All of a sudden, there shined a shiny Ender Dragon, in the middle of the biome.AND HE SAID: Write the best Minecraft movie in the world, or I'll eat your soul (soul).Well, me and this creeper, we looked at each other, and we each said: Okay. And we wrote the first thing that came to our heads. It just so happened to be the best Minecraft movie in the world. It was the best Minecraft movie in the world!It began with a hill. One from which me and the Creeper could look out across all of the blocky world. Thisll do, we both said. I started punching the ground, and soon atop the hill stood a hollow dirt block foot.As the sun went down to end the first day of our Minecraft movie, I added a door to this low hangin fruit, so that it could act as a shelter from the hostile mobs the darkness would bring. I made the Creeper stand outside. It was a tough decision, he was my best friend, after all, and he hadnt really done anything wrong. However, if we were going to have a Minecraft movie, I felt his presence in my dirt hovel was just too much of a risk. Getting this far was no miner feat. | Image credit: Mojang/VG247It was a tough choice that blindsided me, but I was thinking of the children, what the Minecrafting public might think, and also a bit about my career as a would-be Minecraft movie maker. I didnt have enough wool to build a bed that first night, so me and the Creeper just stood and stared at each other through the door.When the sun rose once more, we got back to work. It was tough going, and by day six, wed gathered enough dirt and cobblestone to build two feet, a pair of legs, and the bottom of a shirt. I looked into the Creepers eyes and it was easy to see: one and one makes two, two and one makes three, it was destiny. This was something that only happens once every hundred-thousand years or so, when the sun doth shine, and the moon doth glow, and the grass doth grow-ho.Our creation had started to tower above the landscape, like the majestic monument to Minecrafting it would become. This meant I was beginning to risk falling to my death every time I ascended its form to place yet more blocks stretching skywards, with only spare dirt blocks, steps, and ladders standing between me and exploding into a pile of stuff. I was under a lot of stress, ok?Then, it happened. Boom. A blast that could only have come from a Creeper destroyed half of one of the feet. I didnt even see it happen, I only heard the noise and saw the aftermath. There was no evidence that my buddy was responsible - he was still there by my side - but I couldnt be sure.I dont feel its appropriate for you to continue helping me with my Minecraft movie when you could blow everything up at any time", I said, trying to screw him over gently.Hiss, he replied.Dont push it, I responded, in my best Ned Schneebly voice. Sorry, buddy. | Image credit: Mojang/VG247So, away he wandered, down the hill. I rebuilt the foot and pressed on. By day eight most of the cobblestone torso was built. While placing more blocks atop it and trying to work out how I would construct the arms, I spotted my buddy near the bottom of the hill. Momentarily distracted, I narrowly avoided falling to my death via some botched ladder parkour. I decided that I needed to be further off the ground, where all the Creepers lived, so by day 10 Id moved my home into my heartless creations chest.By day 15, Id felled a bunch of trees and built both arms. The head was also beginning to take shape. We were getting there. This would be the best Minecraft movie in the world, one that could set the world alight like the proverbial flint and steel. That was, until I felt like Id spoken too soon. On day 17, the feet were obliterated by several Creeper explosions. They couldnt have been my buddy - he was still keeping his distance. As I rebuilt, and crafted some iron armour because nothing could kill the metal, I felt guilty. I love that Creeper, I thought to myself, We had to take a block from crafting, but I love his explodey green butt. Everybody takes a block sometimes.By day 20, I had adorned the head with torch and wool eyeballs, before turning my focus to the hair and bushy beard. Looking out at my buddy from atop the nearly-complete Mineument, I mouthed: Well be back.Day 24 was the final day of our Minecraft movie. I put the final touches onto the statue, and retreated to a safe distance so I could drink in what Id built. A huge statue of Jack Black in Minecraft. My own Minecraft interpretation of Jack Blacks interpretation of Minecraft Steve. Like Lady Liberty, but greeting the hordes of eager new crafters my Minecraft movie would bring to every biome, immigrants seeking a new life among the blocks. In a place where you can do anything, provided you have the grit, determination, and also the ability to deliberately rig the entire situation in your favour whenever things get even slightly too tough.It brought a tear to my eye. The Creeper joined me, as if wed nether had any problems. We told everyone we were still roadies, but I could sense that he thought Id been a bit of a prick of destiny. Image credit: Mojang/VG247Needless to say, the dragon was stunned. Whip-crack went his whippy tail, and the beast was done. He asked us (snort) Be you angels?, and we said, Nay, we are but miners! Rock. Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah, ohhh, whoah, ah-whoah-oh. Goo-guh fli-goo gee-goo."Guh fli-goo, ga-goo-buh-dee. Ooh, guh-goo-bee, ooh-guh-guh-bee-guh-guh-bee. Fli-goo gee-goo, a-fliguh woo-wa mama Herobrine!And the peculiar thing is this, my friends. The Minecraft movie we wrote in those fateful days. It didn't actually revolve around building a slightly crap statue of Jack Black.This is just a tribute, you've gotta believe me, and I wish you were there. It's just a matter of opinion. Alright. Alright! Image credit: Mojang/VG247