You see, I have this computer... And it's so terrible it's painful. It run's Minecraft at an average of 5FPS to 10FPS. Sometimes non-lag spikes of 20FPS. Don't even get me started on the list of settings, programs, and other stuff I've tried. But the point is, I have trouble with Survival. I usualy play it on Peaceful, just because I know that I can't defend myself against the monsters. Too slow. Can't even build a proper shelter in time. I'm wondering if there's a guide for playing Survival with a computer as bad as mine, while still having a great experience, because I just don't enjoy Survival.
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I used to have a similar problem before when I played minecraft on my 1gb ram netbook a couple of years ago. There's really no guide to playing better on a worse computer, just make sure you stop all processes that are not important and that all your settings are on the bare minimum. Pretty much any computer made in the last 5 years should be able to run minecraft to a playable level if you take all the necessary precautions.
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Are you playing on a personal world, or a server?
For a while, I was spending the first three days in peaceful mode, then switching to survival.
On a server, I would spend the first few days messing around, not bothering to eat or do anything productive until I knew where I wanted to make my first dirt house... first dirt house being I find a good bit of riverbank and cut a 1x2 by however in tunnel to get to get away from the door, then maybe spend the night gathering cobble.
I'm a bit of a coward, possibly because I see armor as a waste of resources. Fence off your surface area, branch-mine instead of spelunk, learn how to farm instead of adventure. (Heck, I liked the manual farming bits for a while.)
At one point, had a personal world where I did mobspawning off. That made all hostiles come only from spawners. Then I ran MCdungeon, and that made it so I could still have withers and creepers, but only in controlled spaces. (The programmers of MCdungeon loved silverfish stone.)
This has happened with me. If you turn the render distance way down, you can probably get a good 15-30 FPS. Maybe you can download a texture pack, and that sometimes helps. Avoid multiplayer at all costs. Save up your money for a new hard drive, or a new computer.
I had to play on a pretty crappy laptop this week, but if I played with a render distance of two chunks, I got 15-20 fps. I suggest you play on skyblock until you're board of it, and hopefully you'll get less lag because there are hardly any blocks.
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I have some of the same problems from time. At first, I considered playing on Peaceful, but it isn't nearly as exciting and you are unable to get lots of useful mob drops. A good solution that I found was to enable cheats and use the command "/gamerule keepInventory true." After doing this, you can still sometimes be killed by hostile mobs due to horrible lag spikes, but you will not drop your inventory upon death, making laggy demises far less frustrating (the only penalties being a return to your spawn point and (I think) a loss of xp). If you enjoy building impenetrable fortresses, then you can probably just leave it at that, but if you prefer making fragile, aesthetically-focused builds or delicate redstone circuitry, then you may wish to use a second command: "/gamerule mobGriefing false." This prevents mobs from doing any damage to the environment, saving you from lagging while fighting a creeper and having it blow up all of your stuff.
P.S. If you want to play the game without any commands whatsoever, then cobblestone barriers are your friend. Whenever you are attacked, just put cobblestone all around you and then dig for the surface/wait for sunrise.
Had the same trouble here, but when I plays the sky map (it means its on the sky like skyblock and sky conqueror map) the lags were decreased many numbers such from 4 FPS to 13 FPS, so the answer is to play on sky maps
If you don't know what makes it lags, it is the terrain, structures and moving particles like lava, flowing water, etc
I have the same problem but not as bad, and my solution is to turn everything down to lower settings.
Try letting chunks load before playing by pausing the game and watching the chunk updates on the debug screen. It works for me in the Nether.
First off, thank you all for giving me stugestions to removing lag and all. But I've tried all of those. Mainly, playing on lower settings and clearing up my computer. Also, you all seem to be mistaken about what I said. I want a guide to playing WITH terrible Minecraft lag, not fixing it. Because nothing I'll ever do will free lag. The lag is burned to my computer. My parents say that when we sell the house (cramped as heck) and get a new house, we'll hopefully get new computers for everyone (that's four computers). Buuut... I think that'll be a while...
I used to have a similar problem before when I played minecraft on my 1gb ram netbook a couple of years ago. There's really no guide to playing better on a worse computer, just make sure you stop all processes that are not important and that all your settings are on the bare minimum. Pretty much any computer made in the last 5 years should be able to run minecraft to a playable level if you take all the necessary precautions.
For a while, I was spending the first three days in peaceful mode, then switching to survival.
On a server, I would spend the first few days messing around, not bothering to eat or do anything productive until I knew where I wanted to make my first dirt house... first dirt house being I find a good bit of riverbank and cut a 1x2 by however in tunnel to get to get away from the door, then maybe spend the night gathering cobble.
I'm a bit of a coward, possibly because I see armor as a waste of resources. Fence off your surface area, branch-mine instead of spelunk, learn how to farm instead of adventure. (Heck, I liked the manual farming bits for a while.)
At one point, had a personal world where I did mobspawning off. That made all hostiles come only from spawners. Then I ran MCdungeon, and that made it so I could still have withers and creepers, but only in controlled spaces. (The programmers of MCdungeon loved silverfish stone.)
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P.S. If you want to play the game without any commands whatsoever, then cobblestone barriers are your friend. Whenever you are attacked, just put cobblestone all around you and then dig for the surface/wait for sunrise.
If you don't know what makes it lags, it is the terrain, structures and moving particles like lava, flowing water, etc
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Try letting chunks load before playing by pausing the game and watching the chunk updates on the debug screen. It works for me in the Nether.