Just a thought here, but most of these issues could be solved by mojang just nerfing the loot spawns for common structures, like making it so shipwrecks and villages can't spawn ore or so each structure has one main thing that it spawns and everything else is in much lower quantities. Oh also they should make structures themselves less common, I hate wandering around to look for a building spot and running across 3 villages 5 towers and god knows what else on the way just so I can get a little room.
Minecraft's problem is that its community is too big. It's reached the point where it's impossible for the game to please everyone, so it's not going to try to. My solution? If you don't enjoy playing minecraft, stop playing minecraft. Go try some new games. Do you want a game with more boss fights and progression? Try Terraria. Do you want a game that lets you automate everything? Try factorio. There's undoubtedly a game that fits what each player wants, but that game is different for each player. It's okay to stop liking a game, people change. Do you only like minecraft with mods? Only play with mods then. Do you think mods ruin the fun of minecraft? Don't play with mods then. It's such a simple solution, but people feel the need to stick to the game they used to like, instead of accepting that people change, minecraft has changed, and neither of those things are necessarily bad. And this isn't limited to minecraft. If you're looking at a game or franchise and thinking "I don't like the newer stuff in this game/franchise", consider whether or not you actually want to stick with that game/franchise.
Man, this really struck a chord with me. Especially the part about peoples obsession with efficiency, I feel really called out in the best way possible lol. Not just in Minecraft, but in other creative projects and even my work. I've always justified it by saying "I enjoy being efficient" which is true, but I've been at a point for some time where I'm stunting my projects based on if I can do them, and how perfect they will be, even in a game like Minecraft. I love the new Minecraft, but the old Minecraft was great because it was a place that my ugly builds fit right in. Thank you for the awesome video and generally wise words
I liked it when people played Minecraft to have fun instead of such a lazy and pointless progression. If you want good progression play Terreria, Minecraft is meant to be infinite and is powered from your creativity.
Yesterday last night, I watched this video and it reformed my view on minecraft yet again ever since, I have started a new world, and also build an underground base and turned on keep inventory for the little funzies and overall, I actually find it a bit more fun then just dilly dallying around and finding villages, etc. Inspiring. 10/10
Oh youre so totally good!!!! Its really sweet of you to say so many nice things, it means so much to me!!!! I think attention spans are totally a big part of it and i want to find more opportunities to talk about that in the future! And YESSS old wheat is just SUCH a GOOD texture!!!!!
I’ve also asked myself why Minecraft has felt so different lately-more specifically the updates. The changes that have come to Minecraft in the past 5 years reflect how our attention spans are changing as a whole. I really hope we can build up our “internal motivation”, like you said. Great video!
i made a modpack about exagerating the « shortcuts » thing, but adding a new kind of challenge to it while making the difficulty scale like crazy so it forces the player to go out of the situations with more and more creatives strategies like in an mmo, and made another about the exact opposite… both are good in their own way, i feel like minecraft can’t make a choice 😅
If there is one thing i can change about Minecraft forever, it has to be the structure generation rate, i would tone it down massivly to the point where every biom will have a 50% canse of having just 1 structure.
People need to actually shut up. Ppl will be like "wahhh mc is boring" while they proceed to minmax villagers and get full netherite within 2 hours. No shit u think the game is boring you dont interact with most of minecrafts mechanics...like honestly when 1.20 came out I thought it was so lame but months ago on a friend's realm, we all decided to find a trail ruin and excavate it and during that I realized something; minecraft CAN be fun if you let it by using "unless" features to be creative like pottery sherds for example. Use your imagination that's ALL you have to do. Instead of crying about every single fucking update because it didn't add 50 new bosses or whatever.
Please remember to not use a lava bucket as a weapon. The lava bucket is the single most powerful weapon against mobs in the game and it is not close. Many ignore it but is genuinely broken when you think about it. It completely shuts down any and all combat encounters except for skeletons and the flying thing. It is like the shield in how it completely nullifies a mechanic, but it is way more overkill. - never breaks - does insane damage - practically stops an entity in its place - 20 zombies following you? dig a 1 block wide tunnel, place lava in the entrance. - AI is helpless against it if you can time it - extremely easy to obtain - why make armor and weapons when lava is the perfect offense AND defense
Minecraft started as a very simple game that promoted creativity. now there are too many features, there is no challange, there is no creativity. and these features that were added, they doesnt make any sense. Modern minecraft feels like a modpack without any balancing.
How can u say there is "too many features" and "no creativity in the same sentence"???? It's your job to be creative with the features and engage with them instead of crying about how it can be better. Minecraft feels like a modoack to you because you PLAY it like a modpack; grinding everything and getting op stuff instantly. Mc was never that type of game.
@@cringecande_9352 that is true, i play it that way because minecraft literally wants me to play it this way. Why would i go mine emeralds when i can just buy them in stacks from healed zombies for few sticks. And to proof that limitations build up your creativity, about 2 years ago i started playing beta 1.2 of minecraft. and although i started playing this game way after beta phase, (about 1.8) I immediately saw that this version of minecraft is far, FAR better. because of its simplicity it didnt have any goals, so player had to create them himself using creativity. and because of lack of ores, and sprint, this was actually a survival mode. you were encouraged by the game to create railsways, making farms, build bases to protect from monsters. not like now when you dont have to make wheat farm, because you can go to a random village and collect 3 stacks of hay blocks. Beta minecraft doesnt even have end game, when you are impossible to kill by monsters. it didnt have overpowered enchantments, food was always a problem because it wasnt stackable. armor was greatly balanced compared to newer versions. I agree with you that minecraft never was a type of game to grind op stuff instantly, thats why i dont want to play modern minecraft. I know that this comment is long but i hope you will read it, and we'll discuss more, im really curious of other opinions backed by some arguments.
I started a Minecraft world a few days ago, and it's been so much better. I didn't look for a village so I had to survive the first night without wool and it was so fun. I didn't bother mining straight away. I no longer care about animal farms and will just kill whatever animals I find. When I do start other farms I will no longer care about efficiency. My first build wasn't anything which would be good by most people's standards but just a giant dirt penis to surprise my girlfriend when she comes on the world. I'm not gonna care about building the nicest looking things and will just live in a hole in the ground for a while until I feel like it. I haven't even gone mining yet but when I do I know it will be fun. Friends I've played with in the past have been so obsessed with making the most efficient strip mines so I've felt pressure to do that, but strip mining is so boring and since the cave update I've found exploring caves and fighting off mobs to be the most fun part of the game so I'm looking forward to thag. I'm also looking forward to when my girlfriend comes off holiday so that I can play with her because I find the fun of playing Minecraft to be playing with other people, but the people I played with before were always on the grind like they were playing Hermitcraft or something. My girlfriend has never played survival mode before so we're just gonna fuck about and have fun.
Now thinking about it the risk vs reward is a massive key for most of the structures. Most of the time its either to risky for poor rewards or the exact opposite. A rework of the loot tables would be nice but would take a while since there's a lot of them. Along with more structure like the trial chambers and a transportation rework and everything is good
I feel another thing Minecraft is missing is mundane structures. Every new structure we get lately is something that's supposed to be super exciting and filled with features, even the ruins they added into the game have special stuff buried in it. I think that stuff like ruined portals, sunken ships, etc, that carry loads of good loot should be rare to find, whereas just, abandoned houses, weird rock formations, fallen trees, etc are more common, but have absolutely no loot to be extracted from them. Basically, replace many of the structures that carry good loot with structures that switch up the landscape still but don't carry loot. The game will still feel alive and varied, without the extremely easy to find treasure troves at every corner. I think that making some areas more natural than others would also help, so if there are structures in an area, it's likely for there to be some other structures nearby, like an abandoned village having a well and a witch hut a few chunks away, tucked deep in a forest surrounded by an area that's devoid of structures. It would make the structures that do exist in the game feel more deliberate and natural, like the villagers that spawn in villages actually have lived there. I think also just a slight thing, naturally spawning trees should spawn with rooted dirt underneath, I think it would be a cool detail, and it would allow you to have stumps near villages that don't appear to be just randomly placed blocks of wood. Not that any of this is a "THIS MUST BE IN THE GAME" kind of thing, but that they're things that I think personally would make the game feel better tbh Edit: Overall I think the vibe I get from this video is something like "Playthrough hygiene", choosing not to do things in the most 100% speedrunner approved efficient and fast way as to have a healthier and more enjoyable time playing the game.
8:05 Honestly, wanting Minecraft to be more like Terraria seems like a weird thing to me, as is comparing them at all. Minecraft is a survival game, Terraria is an RPG, they're completely different, the only sort of similarity is both being sandbox games
One other thing is DON'T plan everything in advance you know why? The pressure will burn you out before you started instead make your buildings one by one they don't need to be big & super detailed to be proud of. You also don't need to build it in one go. Leave your build if you feel like you've stucked & doesn't know what to do. Don't panic just leave the project & continue working on it later. One additional thing to point out. Building big projects feels intimidating but instead of seeing it as one massive structure you can split it into multiple smaller floors or rooms it will help tremendously.
Not sleeping is also an interesting way to play. Like the no rest mod. You can still set spawn with the overworld anchor, but you have to refuel it and can't just skip the night like a coward
Honestly, how I've been playing my Minecraft world, is I'm not going around and looting random structures until I already have diamond armour.. it's so much more fun, really. I have over 200 in game days in the world and i may have 11 eyes of ender... but I haven't even looked for a stronghold now. All I have done with structures is write down their coordinates, maybe loot some of the ones that are only for looting- but I already have plenty of stuff, the only one I have thoroughly looted was the ancient city right under my spawn, and I was afraid of it until I got almost full diamonds, and guess what! I'm planning on refurbishing it! I'm making it it's own thing!! The only reason why I'm looting it is because of the regen potions! It's much more fun, really. Of course, I did turn on keep inventory, but that just made my experience better. It's a sandbox game, you experience it how you like; it's your world. Nobody else's. That's what I like, but who am I to say, I'm just some random guy on the internet that doesn't know any one of you, so take my word with a grain of salt :]
Commenting for the algorithm! Great video, I think it might be one of the few to actually be useful to the discussion of why Minecraft can feel boring now. A lot of those kinds of videos end up suggesting changes Mojang should make to the game, which just feels like abdicating control of your own experience. I will say one of the biggest things that's helped me stay invested in the game over the last 15 years has been actually learning how to build. Grian's build school series here on yt was a literal game-changer for me since it taught me how to utilize all the game's different block types to create exactly what I want, as opposed to struggling for 2 hours trying to figure out how to make these cubes look even just a little bit like what I envisioned in my head. I'll spend my first 100 days in a world just meticulously building a house until I've achieved whatever kind of Peak Coziness and Functionality I want. And then another 100 making pretty farms around it. The game really does feel a lot more impactful when you slow down and just focus on one tiny step at a time.
Oh my gosh YES. I CAN NOT get enough small details in my minecraft worlds!! I need MORE small details!!!! And Grian is such a great resource. Its so nice of you to comment to give me a boost!! Thank you so much :)
I gotta be honest I don’t like modern minecraft beacuse it’s changed too fast 1.15 was the last good update beacuse they didn’t dump a bunch of shit onto you and it’s gotten more punishing beacuse of that. We went from easily finding dimonds at y 12 to having to find a specific biome or something just to get them not to mention beacuse if the reworked nether and caves it’s 100x more easy to die and lose all your stuff. And they added all this crap that doesn’t feel like minecraft the way the textures look and how the mobs move is super inconsistent. Just look at the sniffer then look at say a sheep or a horse they look animateted from different games
I came into this video expecting a rant about how we need more progression like terraria and I was pleasantly surprised. Also i love that you pronounce elytra correctly
I guess this isn't targetted at me, since I don't really have a major problem with the game. Sure there are some nit-picks, but those aren't too important to me. I don't really see this impression that there is a problem.
well for me i find the fun of minecraft in other people. but sad thing is people are shit so i might have had fun for a bit but now servers are terrible. I use minehut to find other servers to play and they are all crappy lifesteal ripoffs or the same old box servers. And when i do find a good server something has to ruin it wether it be a tryhard thats unfathomably good at pvp or just a shit playerbase that does things like doxx and talk shit.
1) needs to add in game ways to allow everything out of game sources are mandatory for that should not be 2) should not punish players for wanting turn on keep inventory or off mob griefing 3)more immersion, ambient sounds, more biome differences like mob variants, ambient sound variations depending on biome (coming back to that in a min) 4) a rare safe nighttime cycle where mobs don't spawn 5) longer day/night cycles time passes too fast 6)better combat gameplay 7)slower and better progression you skip 3 tiers of equipment going straight to iron just to use it for a single day or 2 then Instantly replace it with diamond nether portals are a joke if you know what your doing you can have a portal within like 10 minutes or casually playing the game not even speed running for casuals there is no real incentives to compleate the game or even enter the end at all and even the people who are intised by shulkers and elytra hate the end and the Dragon fight and there's like 2 bosses in the whole game the joke Dragon fight and the very cheeeseable wither 8) loot rework for all structures and chests as well as more structure specific loot maybe even a complete structures overhaul and variations 9)more mobs both ambient and hostile and variations of existing ones 10) minecraft feels like a early access game that promised the world but got canceled before most of it could ever be added though this isn't the case it feels that way and alot of it is things the devs have gone on record saying they won't ever add no matter how much players want it
that's why i completely avoid rushing the game, i don't like rushing elytras nor rushing netherite, cuz in my opinion the best part of the game is when you don't have these, i just love building and mining, no crazy game breaking farms, no early protection IV netherite, i just love to take my time building my base and becoming slowly more stronger, but one thing at a time
the progression isn't bad. that's the point, terraria progression feels earned, while minecraft progression feels cheap. i think that's what the guy wanted to say.
