this video perfectly encapsulates what i experience when i play minecraft today. i really want to start a long-term world in minecraft ever since i had my first 2-week phase 3 years ago. i discovered so much and even beat the game for the first time despite playing minecraft ever since i was 6. though, when i discovered modding, i sort of felt like i was obligated to play with those enhanced vanilla mods you see across youtube today to make my minecraft experience 'even better'. after the creation of hundreds of survival worlds that last no longer than 3 days, i realize that this wasnt working and that i no longer felt that charm of minecraft speedrunning the game is awful and so is comparison to others. nowadays, in my opinion youtube is so bloated with junk mc content that makes casuals like myself feel that my builds suck or that im not enjoying minecraft to its fullest potential, such as those 'I SURVIVED 100 DAYS IN MINECRAFT HARDCORE'. ill admit, im guilty of attempting to make those videos because i wanted to land on the algorithm. after so many world creations however and through this inspirational video, i realize that the answer is quite literally in front of me: just play the damn game how you want. again, thanks so much for making this video it genuinely really helped me with breaking out of that confinement i experienced when playing minecraft
Wow, thank you for sharing! So happy that this video impacted you. I love your point about getting sucked into the rabbit hole of Vanilla+ mods that supposedly make the game better. I did the same thing and my friends always wondered why even though I said that I "didn't like modded Minecraft" my 'vanilla' installation looked so different from theirs.
@@MalcolmKeithGaming same! i really love vanilla minecraft and usually stay away from those mods that change the game drastically, and when i discovered the genre of enhanced vanilla it just sucked me in to download as many mods as i could. i remember having 50+ mods installed whether they be performance mods or slightly ‘enhancing’ the game such as built in zooms and what not. though with the amount of mods i had installed i noticed that i wasn’t focusing on enjoying the actual game but rather downloading as many mods as possible. that’s personally the main reason for what i think made me not enjoy minecraft as much as i did in the past, and while i still haven’t tried a play through without any mods and just going in barebones, i plan on doing so soon once again thanks for sharing this video, i definitely will come back for more!
started a new world 2 weeks ago after about 9 months of not playing and ive been playing at my own pace and somehow i have been playing the world for 60 hours already 😭
My biggest piece of advice is to focus more on making a cool, functional base. You don't need to progress much past stone tools to utilize nearly all the building blocks in the game. Make a big compound with a village that actually looks like something that could reasonably exist in real life. One I made recently, is I found a big u-shaped mountain range so I built a dam and flooded it, with water pouring through. Looks really neat, and it's nearly all stone bricks and deepslate for a bit of color. Also, if you want a great piece of advice for a humane villager trading hall, is villagers can't walk through a two-block high opening that has a carpet in it: you can use that to cordon them off from leaving or going into areas where they might get stuck or hurt, but it looks like they're perfectly free to leave and are staying of their own volition.
That's awesome! I think that's why redstone is one of the best features they've added to the game, making cool-looking things that are also functional.
Yes, the first server was Tax Fraud and Cow Theft SMP (TFaCT), then the Jiu-Jitsu Realm (JJR), and then Endersculk, and a bunch of others... I reset too many times lol
