I also enjoy hunting for materials, that's one of my favorite parts of the game. I have trouble building things on large scale, so I build all this small stuff and use hardly any material, lol. I love building houses all over, and connecting my world with roads all across the waters. I haven't figured out how to make a good railway yet though.
One thing my husband and I did, before we figured out how to play together...we had a single-player world file, that we copied back and forth. I would work on the world, save it, and send the file to him. Then he would do the same and send it back to me. We couldn't play at the same time, but we could work on the same world.
My husband said he will try to set it up properly for me, I'm really no good at anything involving ports, or networking or anything like that. LOL.
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AQ Score: 44/50 Aspie Quiz: 175/200-Aspie 31/200-NT
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