Well, back before the creative update swung around, I had a hell of a lot of drive and ideas on creating things. Let me tell you a little story about my first world. I so happened to find an island in the middle of a lake, and figured this would be the perfect place to hole up for the night. So I built myself a little dirt house and slept the night away. Then I had an idea. Why not make a fort around the perimeter of the island? So I started a cobble mine not too far away and the walls took shape, and the fort was created. But then, another idea struck me. I should build something to spot the fort from far away. So, close to the middle of the fort, I built some stone pillars, up as high as I could, an placed lava at the top. And so my lava fountain was born. Oh I could see the fort from far away that was for sure, but a lava fountain going all the way up to the ceiling barrier with nothing around it looked off to me, so I began work on making a frame high up, and filling it in with floors as I climbed higher and higher. And so, the tower took shape. I harvested sand from the desert not far away, and glassed the whole thing up. It truly looked wonderful when it was finished. But, I wasn't done yet. I apparently got a reasonably good world seed on my first go, but the only downside was the fact that there were literally no pigs whatsoever to find food off of, so I relied on wheat. The base of the tower had a large wheat farm on one side, a tree garden on the other, and an expanded section to fit my growing shop's needs for producing things. It was relatively quiet for a time, but then another idea struck me. The tower's got a lava fountain going for it, so why not add a waterfall to it? And so, the spiral gardens were built. The waterfall started at the top, and traveled in a spiral downwards through gardens built on each level. And then, I have to say, my worst and best idea ever struck me. I was sitting around admiring my work, when I said, geeze, I'd like to build something underwater. And then it hit me. Bomb the lake out, and extend the tower to the bedrock, and flood it afterwards. And so my month and a half long campaign started. I figured out quickly that this wouldn't work without any light, so I had to do something about it. I harvested sand for a few days, and removed all water from the lake by glassing it up entirely. From there, I blasted downwards, and thanks to the glass, was able to see as I got deeper and deeper. Thankfully, at the time, the cloning glitch was still around, and I created stacks of TNT for the job. But, it still wasn't easy. I blasted my way into caves and lava patches, spawning rooms, and lakes. But after a month of nothing but careful blasting, I had hit the bedrock, and blasted the entire lake out around my tower. There was even some nice areas down there. One section of lava I couldn't ever truly clear was the 14 block tall monstrosity that spread around an entire corner. I figured I'd leave it there for the water to deal with. So I painstakingly built my tower downwards, glassed it up like before, and let the lava fountain travel all the way down it as well. But I had one last idea before I finally let the floodgates open. Using the last of my glass, I built a dome at the very bottom, and filled it with the various biodomes at the time. Then, after a month and a half, I bombed the glass over the lake, let the water flow in, and did the rest with buckets. Then a patch hit, and the tower looked truly magnificent under the water with it's lava fountain. Other small projects happened, such as a bridge over the water, another pit nearby that turned into a cobble factory, a slime harvesting pit I was lucky enough to be close by, and the original pit that I dug to to the bedrock for cobble for the tower turned into my nether temple. These were all connected by railways up near the ceiling barrier, that used water for a soft landing. All was good, and then the other patches showed up. Nether mist flooded the bottom sections of the tower and my underwater dome, rendering the place horrible to be down in. The water in the garden's up above froze, as well as on the sky rail landing pads. At some point in time a creeper exploded down in the lower levels and flooded the tower, and there was no way to repair it as the force of the water traveling down the stairs was too much to climb up. The lava fountain was broken as well, also blocking a portion of the stairs. And then, for no particular reason, my wheat farms died. Every last one. The hunger update dropped. I starved to death over and over again as I tried to solve the growing number of problems that plagued my tower. And eventually, I was beaten. I gave up, and left my decaying world to whatever hellish updates were to come. It still sits in my saves, and I visit it from time to time, just to see what horrors the updates have inflicted upon it. That was, basically, the end of my creative streak in Minecraft. Ever since anything I've created was a pale shadow to what I built in the first world.