I love all the new additions, but the actual feel of the game is so repetitive. Block after block after block. I know the entire game is composed of blocks, but isn't this basically your daily schedule in minecraft:
Wake up.
Walk outside.
Tend to farm, animals, etc.
Walk around, hunt, kill.
Take Damage.
See sun set.
Go home. (Depending if you are weak or strong)
Sleep or wait it out by doing something.
Repeat.
It does vary a little (Like OH LET'S WALK A COUPLE PACES TO THE RIGHT. **** IT'S NIGHT.) , which is not my point. My point is that it is so repetitive.
Does anybody have an idea, which will ultimately change the entire world of minecraft for the greater good of all minecraft stevemanity?
(Please don't say mods, I know It's going for what i'm describing, but something that would be permanent in the minecraft game.)
(I'm not angry, and I'm not looking for a new game. I kinda want an idea to boost my morale in minecraft. I don't have the same sense of creativity I had when I first started minecraft.)
I'm probably dead now that i've just posted this. Please don't shove your hands right through the monitor and choke me to death.
You're only bored because you're not imaginative enough. Minecraft is limitless. You could make ever advancing redstone machinery, or design an Adventure map, or play PVP online, or build the next architectural masterpiece. But if you can only limit yourself to the bare bones survival gameplay, that's your own problem. I certainly don't have any issues with maintaining interest in Minecraft. I've been playing it ever since I bought it (and well before that, too...)
edit: You guys basically said what I was going to say, lol.
I tend to take a more progressive developmental approach to my world. Build roads/transportation systems and expand them, envision a large project or thing I want to do or feel my world needs and start planning and gathering resources to make it happen. Some things can happen incrementally.
For example I may decide I want to extend a road, first I might just go out and blaze the path by removing trees and placing torches to basically light it. Later I will come back and do some minor leveling of low spots and lowering high spots. Perhaps my road will hit a fairly vertical hill, then I will have a tunneling project or decide how I will build the road to climb the hill. Later I will decide on a surface for the road and pave the road with it. Later I might add some decorative or safety features to the road, for example a fence or wall to keep mobs from wandering onto the road so that safe travel is possible at night, or decorative archways or tree rows.
For me Minecraft is about creation and imagination. The more you can imagine and create, the busier you will be.
The game itself isn't repetitive and boring, the way you play it is. I found out that in order to have fun in Minecraft you need to have a set goal that you'll work for. For example, your initial goal when you start the game is to beat the dragon. After that, you can challenge yourself and set yourself a long term goal to strive to. Like, making a redstone powered farm for preety much anything you can farm (wheat, melons, reed, maybe even cows and such), or trying to collect every single block and item in the game, or just trying to make a great construction with the resources you get.
tl;dr: The game isn't repetitive nor boring if you vary the things you do in it and not follow the pre set template of wake up, farm and mine, sleep, repeat.
I tend to take a more progressive developmental approach to my world. Build roads/transportation systems and expand them, envision a large project or thing I want to do or feel my world needs and start planning and gathering resources to make it happen. Some things can happen incrementally.
For example I may decide I want to extend a road, first I might just go out and blaze the path by removing trees and placing torches to basically light it. Later I will come back and do some minor leveling of low spots and lowering high spots. Perhaps my road will hit a fairly vertical hill, then I will have a tunneling project or decide how I will build the road to climb the hill. Later I will decide on a surface for the road and pave the road with it. Later I might add some decorative or safety features to the road, for example a fence or wall to keep mobs from wandering onto the road so that safe travel is possible at night, or decorative archways or tree rows.
For me Minecraft is about creation and imagination. The more you can imagine and create, the busier you will be.
This is exactly what I do. I have a few big projects. I work on one until I'm bored with it, then I work on another.
It helps that some of these projects offer utility. There's an inherent cost and reward system built into so much of Minecraft. I have a road system radiating out from the center of the world. The more work I do on that road, the easier I can get out to my various locations. I've also been working on efficient farming, storage, tree farming, animal farming, dyed sheep, etc... at the center of my road system. Eventually, I'll be able to take a number of supplies, load them into carts, ship them to the location I want to build, and just start building. That the reward for the work of establishing a main base and a transportation network.
From my personal point of view, not knocking anyone else's gameplay style, I think it's a good idea to stick to pure vanilla survival. Peaceful and creative is great for getting something done fast, but I think the reward of a finished build means less without the challenge. There are a lot of mods that I find really interesting, but I derive a lot of satisfaction from the carefully balanced cost reward system already set up.
Finally, I'd suggest trying out SMP. Look for a small survival server. If you can't find something you like, you can set one up from a variety of server providers for as cheap as $5 a month for a 5 slot server. If you get a few friends together, it can be extremely cheap. There's something really rewarding about being able to show your creation firsthand to someone, coming up with a useful build that other people can use, or working with a friend on something you'd never bother doing on your own.
well it depends i guess we all wish we had that noobish felling the first time we played and sometimes just start a brand new survival world and start fresh
You are wrong. Minecraft is not boring. You are bored because you are a boring person. Minecraft is popular, but that doesn't mean that everybody is able to enjoy it. I love Minecraft the same way I loved building Lego casttles when I was a kid. But most of my friends looked at me like if I was crazy when I told them that I spent the whole afternoon building a casttle instead of going outside to play football with them.
The same thing happens here. You are probably just one of the "football" guys who got caught by the fame of Minecraft, but you actually don't enjoy building. But that is your problem, and does not mean Minecraft is boring.
(Or maybe it is just that you are not playing well, and you are taking MC like a A-RPG, which it is not. It is a building game. Play as if it was a building game, and you won't be bored never again.)
He's not saying it's boring. He's saying HE finds it boring. There is a difference, you know.
Lots of good points in this thread. I sometimes get bored of Minecraft myself.
I've always loved starting a new world. There's a certain thrill of starting with nothing and then building your way up. But I will admit that I get bored once I have my base established with all the farming facilities and utility rooms.
Maybe once you get one base set up, you could work on a small village. This might maintain the excitement of building house after house for a while. Maybe get 10 bases fully operational with farms and furnace rooms and the like.
Minecraft is a sandbox game that combines the planning of SimCity with the construction of Legos with the eye of a 3D CGI artist with the role-playing of Diablo (or any other RPG) with the exploration of an MMO. This is, in my opinion, why Minecraft is one of the best games ever created.
I do somewhat agree, I do occasionally find MC boring, like when my internet was down for a week, I barely even got on MC. That was several months ago, and from when I first started playing minecraft(Beta 1.3) to now, I am become very dependent on the forums and servers. For example, I have played so long I now own a server and I participate in 3 other games, talk to several of my friends via skype, and do school stuff(lately) and I still build :DAnd can I kill you?
I do love minecraft, but I have to say I've lost something making me want to play. There used to be a feeling in minecraft that I can't describe, a "spark" that made you push further, that disappeared in one of the beta updates for me. I'm playing Minecraft less and less, but I still love it.
This daily schedule may be your daily schedule in minecraft, but it's sure as heck not our daily schedules. Your schedule seems boring and repetitive because the things you do ARE boring and repetitive. For me, it's more like this:
1. Wake up
2. Go outside, work on adding something new to my world (railroad tracks that lead to my mine, a forge, find some cows for a cow farm, etc.)
3. Explore and find caves in a plains biome
4. Gear up and explore caves in plains biome
5. Find tons of diamonds, iron, gold, lapis, coal, emeralds, and redstone
6. Go home
7. Accomplish anything else that needs to be done (Enchant a pickaxe, set up an xp grinder...)
Very few people would actually want to do you harm for getting bored out of you mind in a video game, and the few that do can't, because Internet does not allow you to strangle people from a distance, as much as I would like if it did whenever I come across the latest Essence of Stupidity comment on youtube or something, so relax. I think most of the responses you had so far are proof that we will not impale you on the front page of the forum.
I've been there before. Many times. When this happens I always proceed with the following procedure to reanimate my interest in Minecraft :
- Take a break from the game. No matter how you look at it, if the very act of placing and breaking blocks as becomed a chore everytime you do it, you sir have been playing too much Minecraft lately. Find another game(s) to play on for a while.
- While doing RL stuff and playing other games, try to actually envision new building projects. Building projects, usually of the massive scale and ambitious variety, are what keeps me from moving away from Minecraft forever. This may take time if you are surffering from a lack of ideas. This happens to everyone. Writers get their Blank page syndromes, we Minecraft builders are no different. Look at other people's creations for inspiration, pay attention to RL buildings and cities, how are they built, where's the logic, what looks really cool? How would that look in the Minecraft world?
- Once an idea has resparked your interest and you cannot wait to return from school or work today to log in the game and start building, you are set to go. Welcome back to Minecraft, Enjoy.
- Optionnal step, but a very handy one, if you have friends who play Minecraft, talk about what you guys could do together. Exchanging ideas is one of the best source of inspiration there is in this world, and if both of you are set on a project and do it together, it will advance more much quickly and the result might be exponnentially better than if you were to do it all alone.
WUT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH U?!?!?!
your a goldminer class on the minecraft forum, yet here you are talking smak about minecraft??!??!?!
y dont u try:
-beating the game without crafting tables
-beating the game without a permanent shelter (that means no chest)
-try downloading an adventure map
-getting to the nether without a pickaxe
-in creative, build a village that villagers will breed in (not some crummy mechanism)
-try "finishing" a village in survival, or connect all the roads, and fill in the empty spaces wit more buildings.
-take your completed village and create "highways" to other villages
There is so much more than walking and waiting in minecraft! APPRECIATE IT
WUT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH U?!?!?!
your a goldminer class on the minecraft forum, yet here you are talking smak about minecraft??!??!?!
y dont u try:
-beating the game without crafting tables
-beating the game without a permanent shelter (that means no chest)
-try downloading an adventure map
-getting to the nether without a pickaxe
-in creative, build a village that villagers will breed in (not some crummy mechanism)
-try "finishing" a village in survival, or connect all the roads, and fill in the empty spaces wit more buildings.
-take your completed village and create "highways" to other villages
There is so much more than walking and waiting in minecraft! APPRECIATE IT
also, multiplayer servers!
-survival games
-hardcore pvp
-creative free build (use your surprisingly small brain and make some epicness!)
Wake up.
Walk outside.
Tend to farm, animals, etc.
Walk around, hunt, kill.
Take Damage.
See sun set.
Go home. (Depending if you are weak or strong)
Sleep or wait it out by doing something.
Repeat.
It does vary a little (Like OH LET'S WALK A COUPLE PACES TO THE RIGHT. **** IT'S NIGHT.) , which is not my point. My point is that it is so repetitive.
Does anybody have an idea, which will ultimately change the entire world of minecraft for the greater good of all minecraft stevemanity?
(Please don't say mods, I know It's going for what i'm describing, but something that would be permanent in the minecraft game.)
(I'm not angry, and I'm not looking for a new game. I kinda want an idea to boost my morale in minecraft.
I don't have the same sense of creativity I had when I first started minecraft.)
I'm probably dead now that i've just posted this. Please don't shove your hands right through the monitor and choke me to death.
Check out my youtube channel!
http://www.youtube.com/user/YellowChannelGaming?feature=watch
edit: You guys basically said what I was going to say, lol.
For example I may decide I want to extend a road, first I might just go out and blaze the path by removing trees and placing torches to basically light it. Later I will come back and do some minor leveling of low spots and lowering high spots. Perhaps my road will hit a fairly vertical hill, then I will have a tunneling project or decide how I will build the road to climb the hill. Later I will decide on a surface for the road and pave the road with it. Later I might add some decorative or safety features to the road, for example a fence or wall to keep mobs from wandering onto the road so that safe travel is possible at night, or decorative archways or tree rows.
For me Minecraft is about creation and imagination. The more you can imagine and create, the busier you will be.
by c0yote
I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..
tl;dr: The game isn't repetitive nor boring if you vary the things you do in it and not follow the pre set template of wake up, farm and mine, sleep, repeat.
This is exactly what I do. I have a few big projects. I work on one until I'm bored with it, then I work on another.
It helps that some of these projects offer utility. There's an inherent cost and reward system built into so much of Minecraft. I have a road system radiating out from the center of the world. The more work I do on that road, the easier I can get out to my various locations. I've also been working on efficient farming, storage, tree farming, animal farming, dyed sheep, etc... at the center of my road system. Eventually, I'll be able to take a number of supplies, load them into carts, ship them to the location I want to build, and just start building. That the reward for the work of establishing a main base and a transportation network.
From my personal point of view, not knocking anyone else's gameplay style, I think it's a good idea to stick to pure vanilla survival. Peaceful and creative is great for getting something done fast, but I think the reward of a finished build means less without the challenge. There are a lot of mods that I find really interesting, but I derive a lot of satisfaction from the carefully balanced cost reward system already set up.
Finally, I'd suggest trying out SMP. Look for a small survival server. If you can't find something you like, you can set one up from a variety of server providers for as cheap as $5 a month for a 5 slot server. If you get a few friends together, it can be extremely cheap. There's something really rewarding about being able to show your creation firsthand to someone, coming up with a useful build that other people can use, or working with a friend on something you'd never bother doing on your own.
If you're bored but want to play vanilla survival, listen to the other guys.
If you're bored and want Jeb to pander to you then just use mods, because he's not going to pander to you or anyone else specifically.
If you're bored of Minecraft and don't like any of these suggestions, go play something else.
If I say that minecraft is boring, wouldn't that be the same as 'I find it boring'?
Rules --
I've always loved starting a new world. There's a certain thrill of starting with nothing and then building your way up. But I will admit that I get bored once I have my base established with all the farming facilities and utility rooms.
Maybe once you get one base set up, you could work on a small village. This might maintain the excitement of building house after house for a while. Maybe get 10 bases fully operational with farms and furnace rooms and the like.
Minecraft is a sandbox game that combines the planning of SimCity with the construction of Legos with the eye of a 3D CGI artist with the role-playing of Diablo (or any other RPG) with the exploration of an MMO. This is, in my opinion, why Minecraft is one of the best games ever created.
1. Wake up
2. Go outside, work on adding something new to my world (railroad tracks that lead to my mine, a forge, find some cows for a cow farm, etc.)
3. Explore and find caves in a plains biome
4. Gear up and explore caves in plains biome
5. Find tons of diamonds, iron, gold, lapis, coal, emeralds, and redstone
6. Go home
7. Accomplish anything else that needs to be done (Enchant a pickaxe, set up an xp grinder...)
I've been there before. Many times. When this happens I always proceed with the following procedure to reanimate my interest in Minecraft :
- Take a break from the game. No matter how you look at it, if the very act of placing and breaking blocks as becomed a chore everytime you do it, you sir have been playing too much Minecraft lately. Find another game(s) to play on for a while.
- While doing RL stuff and playing other games, try to actually envision new building projects. Building projects, usually of the massive scale and ambitious variety, are what keeps me from moving away from Minecraft forever. This may take time if you are surffering from a lack of ideas. This happens to everyone. Writers get their Blank page syndromes, we Minecraft builders are no different. Look at other people's creations for inspiration, pay attention to RL buildings and cities, how are they built, where's the logic, what looks really cool? How would that look in the Minecraft world?
- Once an idea has resparked your interest and you cannot wait to return from school or work today to log in the game and start building, you are set to go. Welcome back to Minecraft, Enjoy.
- Optionnal step, but a very handy one, if you have friends who play Minecraft, talk about what you guys could do together. Exchanging ideas is one of the best source of inspiration there is in this world, and if both of you are set on a project and do it together, it will advance more much quickly and the result might be exponnentially better than if you were to do it all alone.
your a goldminer class on the minecraft forum, yet here you are talking smak about minecraft??!??!?!
y dont u try:
-beating the game without crafting tables
-beating the game without a permanent shelter (that means no chest)
-try downloading an adventure map
-getting to the nether without a pickaxe
-in creative, build a village that villagers will breed in (not some crummy mechanism)
-try "finishing" a village in survival, or connect all the roads, and fill in the empty spaces wit more buildings.
-take your completed village and create "highways" to other villages
There is so much more than walking and waiting in minecraft! APPRECIATE IT
also, multiplayer servers!
-survival games
-hardcore pvp
-creative free build (use your surprisingly small brain and make some epicness!)
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