On minecraft based entertainment -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8c0pfCLBFAAnd In boring news - :V
Died on my game the other day, and lost where my base was. So built all over again from scratch, but couldnt find coal anywhere, and most of the materials were all sand, so I've ended up heading down a sandstone route. wonderful for small quick constructions and looks great. (bit far for perspective on next picture, but you can see the fence and little tree farm)

However if you start building anything big it starts running out real fast. Like as in, sand. I destroyed an entire islands worth to turn my spawn point into this-

Its a huge spiral staircase in a circular structure with the core of it hollow. Not really tried making anything like it in beta so was an interesting experience. Just wish I started with something that wasn't sandstone, because it took far far too much just to make a ruin instead of a full tower out of it.
In the distance from the tower you can see a cross - thats my old base. Found it once I used a compass and found out my spawn point wasn't where I thought it was. Somehow missed that when I respawned the first time and therefore ended up going somewhere else. derp. :derp: (still, I prefer what this outcome was anyway)