But I'm terrified of the natural world, and on some level I expect it to kill me. Walking through cities, driving down freeways, I imagine the way the world used to be, before human structures fundamentally changed it. On the one hand, I'm constantly pining for nature lost. Living during a time of manmade climate change is to live in a paradox. Together, they changed the world I generated into an overgrown apocalypse, and I went about the work of getting lost. I downloaded a pair of them: one called Lost Cities, and another called Biomes o' Plenty. I found a whole set of mods that build on the game's single-player Adventure mode to create new types of game experiences inside Minecraft, from dungeon crawlers to roguelikes. I downloaded the Java version of Minecraft on PC, the version best suited to player-centric mods, and I went hunting for ways to make my worlds even more surprising. When I get bored of other games, the allure of that wild lonely wilderness calls out.
