I completed the absolute nightmare that is setting up a server to play with a friend yesterday. I had never played Minecraft with someone else and she had barely ever played it at all before.
We got spawned into an AWESOME area. Little peninsula, lakes and oceans all over, a swamp nearby, a couple big mountains to dig around in, and a friggin village!! And the way the village spawned in was crazy too, a huge house right in the middle of a lake, one sticking out of the side of a hill, and that weird stone "church" thing on the highest point of the peninsula (which we claimed as our first fortress). Right next to it is a little chunk of plains that will be perfect for farming, and there are already pigs, sheep, and cows in the area PLUS the village had not just wheat growing but carrots and potatoes as well.
Major score IMO, can't wait to play around and explore more with her! :3
Minecraft, the game that just keeps giving.