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I've been seeing these fun/not fun posts a lot recently. I agree with both sides here's why..
3 days ago I created a new world. But this time I didn't build ianxofour's day one iron farm. I didn't kidnap villagers and immediately started a breeder for my trading hall. Didn't even build a base. This time I wanted to explore. I made a stone axe and a pickaxe, cooked a stack of steak, made a bed and hit the road.
I didn't look for anything specific, I just took in the scenery and appreciated the beauty of this game. I got couple of saplings from each type of tree but that was it. I saw villages with messed up houses where villagers were trapped inside, I helped them out, I built them bridges and filled in the dangerous holes they could fall into.
I wrote my own story, and this time the story was a lot different. I realized in all my previous stories I was playing the same role. A greedy antagonist who wants to have everything and wants it now. But this time I was in the world. I cared about its trees, its villages, villagers, cats, dogs and everything. And after years of playing this game, I just realized what Minecraft is about. For me at least.
With this enlightenment in mind, I set myself some rules.
Minecraft is what you make of it. It's not a sandbox, it's a shovel and a bucket that you can make your own sand castles, cities, small cabins or anything you want with. It is a tool for you to write your own story.
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3 days ago I created a new world. But this time I didn't build ianxofour's day one iron farm. I didn't kidnap villagers and immediately started a breeder for my trading hall. Didn't even build a base. This time I wanted to explore. I made a stone axe and a pickaxe, cooked a stack of steak, made a bed and hit the road.
I didn't look for anything specific, I just took in the scenery and appreciated the beauty of this game. I got couple of saplings from each type of tree but that was it. I saw villages with messed up houses where villagers were trapped inside, I helped them out, I built them bridges and filled in the dangerous holes they could fall into.
I wrote my own story, and this time the story was a lot different. I realized in all my previous stories I was playing the same role. A greedy antagonist who wants to have everything and wants it now. But this time I was in the world. I cared about its trees, its villages, villagers, cats, dogs and everything. And after years of playing this game, I just realized what Minecraft is about. For me at least.
With this enlightenment in mind, I set myself some rules.
- I will not watch a tutorial. Whether it's about a building, or a farm. I will make things my own way. It doesn't mean I won't have any farms or anything, I'll just have to make my own. With my own knowledge and experiments.
- I will not make a trading hall. However I do think I will make a trading city. I remember watching Geminitay's hardcore series. She had built a city where villagers had their own separate houses and their workplaces. Some of them were married, some of them were coworkers. I like the idea of making something like that. I also won't reroll for any particular trades, I'll let them choose their own jobs. I will give each of them a story and a name, because otherwise they're not different than a cow you kill for it's meat. And this is the whole point of my new approach to the game (and of this post).
- I suck at surviving, but that's okay. I will have keepinventory set to "on" for this world. Because I tend to die in stupidest ways and I don't like losing my items and my levels. This is how I will "enjoy" this game, and this is how I will play it. I don't care if it's cheating or not.
- I will do what I enjoy. This is the hardest one to explain but it's the most important one. I don't want to offend any great redstone geniuses like ilmango and ianxofour and many others, but you don't have to build all those maximum efficiency OP farms to enjoy the game. I understand and appreciate the work these people put into those inventions and I watch their videos in awe. But most if not all of those contraptions have one thing in common, they are there to make you "play the game" less and get more items. Do you see the irony here? This time I'm choosing to play the game.
Minecraft is what you make of it. It's not a sandbox, it's a shovel and a bucket that you can make your own sand castles, cities, small cabins or anything you want with. It is a tool for you to write your own story.
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