Acknowledgments

If you’ll take a look a few pages back, you’ll see the list of Que staff who were responsible for making this book a reality. I’d like to thank each and every one of them for doing such a great job in making this book shine.

I’d like to call out one particular person for being this book’s champion and pushing it along so readers would have access to some of the fun and unusual things I do with Minecraft. That person is Executive Editor Rick Kughen. Rick is always enthusiastic about my book proposals, and this one just seemed to grab his attention and required very little persuasion to get approval to start writing. If you like this book, drop Rick an email and tell him thank you for making it happen.

My wife, Ashley, will always have my thanks for any book I write—but this time I have two very young people to also thank: my boys, Decker and Sawyer. They discovered Minecraft and dragged me along for the ride. As I discovered their fascination and enjoyment with the game, I jumped in to see what the fuss was all about…and I’m glad I did! I continue to enjoy exploring worlds with them, and many of the projects in this book came about because of something they asked for or observed or wanted, but couldn’t quite figure out how to make it happen. I put on the Dad-hat and figured out some things so they could extend their fun, never knowing a book would come out of the experience. So, thank you boys!