I'm a begginer at this game, and these creepers always come around my house. Anyone have a better idea, other than killing them? Also, I'v been digging for ever and have never found a cave! Post your answers and ideas for other things here.

To defend yourself against creepers, you should look at the minecraft wiki and search for appropriate traps. As for the caves, just keep on digging in various areas, or go and explore untill you find a natural cave inside a mountain or so. If you do the last, I recommend placing pillars with torches on them along the way, so that you can always find your way back home.

I found that you can grow cactuses? How? Also, when roleplay comes, you were saying we could only cut down trees in tree farms? Well don't you have to cut one down to get some seeds? Should I build a new house on a island or mountain? I'm going with island. Minecraft is an awesome game! I almost forgot, where do you find bamboo?

To grow a cactus, find one in a desert first, take some sand, and place the cactus on a patch of sand wherever you want.

The saplings will be provided by the OPs, but I also think the rules will be slightly changed: Cutting down trees near villages and such still won't be allowed, but I think that digging for resources and cutting down trees far from villages will be allowed.

Hey guys, I found a pit of lava on the surface! I drowned it with water and I got a lot of Obsidian. On beta, do you think there will be any cannons? That would be awesome. I found some bamboo finnaly and I am making this weird log cabin. Don't farm animals always fall in the ocean? The only bad thing is that I can't find any coal here. i searched for some time and have found only trees and snow. Also, my guy will probably be the same because the skinner dosn't work on my computer. One last thing: On beta,do you think we could make floating objects? (skyships)

I'm building a supply basement next to my hous, which is right next to th ocean. How many blocks down should it go? Also, if I find a skin, dos it work if you download it and do the thing on Minecraft.net? It would be cool if we could make defence cannons on beta, like harpoon cannons for skycraft and cannonball cannons for water ships and a ground infrantry. Bye.

We're most likely not going to implement any skycraft or waterships..
I've got some new ideas for the MC RP.

Anyone read the Edge Chronicles? You know how there is the buoyant rocks, then they made the little sumpwood skycraft, and then they built ships powered by phrax? I think it would be awesome if you could get your own Sumpwood Skycraft, and each team gets 1 Buoyant Rock ship, and 1 Phrax Flight. That would be pretty cool, you know.