I used to not get Minecraft. Like, I had no issues with it, completely respected people enjoying it and got its cultural impact, but i was puzzled at what was there to keep people engaged.

Then I had a kid, and it clicked for me: young people get into it because it fits the way young people engage in play. Young people do free form play, they act out scenarios, they like having a lot of things in the sandbox not because it’s a goal or because the game will give your a Game Completed screen for getting them, but because it gives them a lot to act out with. It made me realize that in a lot of ways what we had as “cut your teeth” games when I was young weren’t reflections of innate play or core gaming, but were more due to technological limitations and contexts of early games.

Notch is still a dick though.

modded minecraft is perfect

It's great. There are so many ways to get creative when playing. I get paralyzed with indecision trying to decide what to build.

I wish they had that stuff when I was a bit younger. The closest I had back then was the original Lego Creator.

I will not play the cubes game. I will not live in the pod.

I tried to get into minecraft ages ago but it wasn't easy. I had to learn that among the things you'll have to do, is craft two things that you'll then use to craft another (for example), or learning that there's lots of (gadgets? machines?) you'll be able and will need to build to make other stuff. Then night comes for the first time and you're wrecked by a monster because you have no idea what you're doing. My current save game has a long line of blocks going straight up, and then a giant landing atop it so I can just build up there instead and avoid the monsters.

I'm having trouble really sinking into the game as I'm having trouble really getting it, but I do feel like it's a great game if I can just learn how it's to be played.

I just play viking Minecraft. Valheim. It's fun too. Every game is Minecraft

I've been occasionally dipping into Minecraft since 2011 and it's the exploration that keeps me coming back. Despite essentially just being randomly generated noise, I find Minecraft's landscapes really pretty, especially with a nice shader installed and it's always a great feeling when you crest a hill to discover a unique canyon or valley on the other side.

I started a new world in September after not playing the game for at least a year and to keep exploration more interesting and fresh this time around I installed Alex's Mobs, Aquaculture, Exotic Birds and mods that add every losing mob vote mob as well as the mobs from Minecraft Earth to make the world feel more alive. The way Alex's Mobs distributes appropriate animal species to each biome makes a huge difference in immersion, even if I have some issues with some of its more unbalanced monster mobs.

I also installed a couple of mods that added more randomly generated structures and dungeons though I basically had to go in and reduce the rates in which they spawned when it felt like the same graveyard got generated multiple times in one square kilometer. If anyone has more suggestions for more dungeon/ruin/structure mods that aren't too crazy, I'd be happy to hear them

The only regret I have with my current world is that I discovered a mod that changes world generation into continents and islands separated by water as opposed to Minecraft's usual endlessly stretching patchy landmass when I had already played the world for over a month

i'm glad people enjoy different things and i don't mean this as an insult to anyone who likes minecraft but personally i really don't like crafting games in general and specifically minecraft needs to let me crouch to 1 block height so i can crawl in tunnels and it needs to let me climb ledges i can jump to so that movement is even slightly fun. i wouldn't even know what to do to the combat to make it enjoyable to me but i quite dislike how the enemies always get pushed back so far every time you attack them.

I enjoyed minecraft, but its not a game I feel like I want to return to. Like, I played hundreds of hours of it a decade ago in college, so I do like the game.

But my brother in law set up a server for us to play again during the pandemic, and despite all the new stuff, I just hate the feeling of doing the grind all over again, and just can't really get into it. I already spent a buncha effort building a buncha stuff, it just feels like work to do all that again. So I stick around to hang with people, but usually play other games.

its aight 👍

hardcore Minecraft is the best roguelike

I love my little server that I've been running for my friends since 2011. I keep literally every map we've ever had running on the multiverse, and it's very nostalgic to go exploring and look at what people built years ago. A very cozy little legacy. Every couple of years we'll get active again and work on some new project.

It's the best. I love pasting weird worldedit structures into things and making janky worldgen that creates biomes made out of Minefactoru reloaded pink slime blocks

I just discovered litematica this year for instance. Everything I thought would be the greatest moment of my minecraft career was just a stepping stone to a glorious future beyond imagination

i played over 1000h of minecraft in the last year alone. i could not love this game more