I’m definitely hooked. Minecraft is the perfect casual sandbox game. I say casual because you can play 5 minutes easily and quit at any time while saving your progress either single player or multiplayer. You can also waste a weekend playing it and wonder what happened. The reddit community is very active on the game. Check it out.

For the time being I’m keeping my own server running that you are welcome to. It’s at minecraft.hasslehaas.com. I’ve even rendered a map of it for you that I’ll try to keep updated here.