She was literally hyperventilating while I started trying to find a solution to the problem, sitting next to me in front of the computer, clutching her two favorite stuffed animals for support.īecause she had just installed a new mod, that’s where we started, thinking that was the cause. It’s all messed up!” I calmed her down and stepped in to try to troubleshoot. “Mom, the grass looks weird and the wood looks rotten. Through tears, she showed me what was wrong. She deleted the mod, restarted Minecraft, and it still looked awful.
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While I was walking the dog, my daughter had decided to install a new mod and thought that the new mod had corrupted all of her precious worlds she had so carefully crafted. Her experience of this prank turned out to be extra bad timing. (No parent should have to receive a message like that because of a juvenile prank.) I also had gotten this Skype message from her. I came back to a child curled up under her covers on her bed sobbing. My daughter had recently installed a few new mods and spent hours over the past week building some exciting new worlds that she was incredibly proud of (and rightfully so - they are amazing). One of the things in her Easter basket was a pair of Minecraft wolf earrings this is how much she loves Minecraft.Ī lazy holiday Sunday means some Minecraft time. We had just had a lovely Easter morning - egg hunt around the house, happy child and mom. I’m also enraged because I just lost 2 hours of my busy, single-mom life to trying to troubleshoot what was wrong - 2 hours I will never get back. I’m livid, truly livid, at Mojang’s decision to launch a cruel April Fool’s prank that had my 9-year-old Minecraft super-fan daughter in hysterical tears and hyperventilating from anxiety for nearly 2 hours - on Easter no less. Mojang’s Cruel Minecraft April Fool’s Prank or Why We Need More Moms in Tech