This video explains my love for the game, as well as how I believe you're gatekeeping your own enjoyment. As well as how I think you can circumvent that! I stream: / ludibri JJJreact
the person in this video literally said people need to play it as a role playing game to have fun so whats your point? because literally the only fun thing u could do in old minecraft was role play with your friends
@@verdox0 there's a big difference between roleplaying in a sandbox game and transforming a sandbox into a RPG. The first is a playstyle; the second is entirely changing the game to suit market standars
and its not like rpg isnt fun bro. the main issue is vanilla minecraft is just not good enough, it dont got enough stuff it doesnt have enough immersion in it like modpacks do. its still sandbox at the core, but i think more items, features, and everything will add overall much more things you could do in minecraft out of pure imagination alone. understand this
I know its ameme but *we live in a society* that wants you to fall in line and be just another cog in the machine that withers away like the rest because if you show individualism others might do the same and the machine will crumble away as the people become what they truly are, people
When the game first came out, my family had just moved to a new house in the middle of nowhere. My dad, a computer nerd, was interested in the possibilities of this game, so much so that he bought 4 copies, 1 for all of us so we could sit down and experience the magic of a lan party. Those are some of my best memories.
A huge piece of advice: don’t do things which are “trendy” if you don’t enjoy them. Play Minecraft how YOU want to. For example I’m currently going to be starting a 1.6.4 mod pack series because it reminds me of good old days, when I really wanted to play those mods but my laptop was too terrible, so now I can fully experience it, of course with friends
That's awesome! :) I personally play a Better Minecraft mod that adds so much that it becomes almost a new game. I'm happy for you that you're able to enjoy the game fully with friends! I hope it's all awesome and super fun! 💙
I loved Minecraft pre caves update, now it seems I can’t dig a mine without running into a humongous cave system….which I do not want. I liked the small caves. 🤷🏻♀️
The greatest story is that of infinite existence. Simply because there are no boundaries to it, aside from imagination. Minecraft is the greatest story.
Fun fact. Some SMP's intentionally delay that moment of killing of the ender dragon because, Minecraft without elytras and shulkers and Minecraft with elytras and shulkers are obsolutely different games.
That hit me. I was literally playing in my world while I was watching the video and started to read comments because I did feel like I was bored but didn't know why. Just got rid of my elytra and I just can say thank you.
I like this video. A core memory was going to my friend’s house, building a “gladiator arena” on their super-flat world, and fighting each other over and over again. They were the only ones who owned Minecraft at the time, and getting to play it was so much fun. Now we live several states away, and work too much to have those sessions anymore. But I will cherish those moments.
I’ve played Minecraft since the start. 7th grade til now. I’m 25 and graduated. I proudly and gladly still play. The game brings tears to my eyes. That’s how beautiful it still is to me. You’re totally right. We play for completion and get bored because of that. I’ve been trying to find the reason as to why I’m bored and I get burnt out of Minecraft for a year or more here and there. We play to have fun and use our imagination. And when I was a kid and I started Minecraft all I could use was my imagination because I didn’t know how to do anything the possibilities were limitless and the sense of wonder the game gave me was insane. Now I get all the best enchants and beat the ender dragon as well as get the best armor and tools and I feel empty. This is the exact reason I’m almost afraid of beating the ender dragon because I know what comes after. That emptiness. The empty feeling. I’m waiting for mojang to update the end with more biomes so my imagination and wonder can soar freely again. So I can explore new worlds. This is exactly why I should get a PC and play modded. I never have. But I need to.
almost the same as me, except i'm never getting bored with minecraft i've been playing the same world for 9 years still lots of things to do! what comes after enderdragon? are you kidding? You go for elytra of course! then you make some shulker boxes, then you go home and enchant that elytra. and then!!!! You go back yo your usual business, building and exploring. You can finally find those cursed blocks that you wanted to use cause now you have elytra. You can also rearrange everything cause you don't need stairs anymore.
What you said could be a metaphor for life. When we only want to ‘ beat the dragon ‘ for the perks, life loses its meaning. The beauty is in the surviving the day, creating memories, feeling the wonder. ‘The end’ is called the End for a reason. 👾😍
This video is like a metaphor for life. "It was never meant to be beaten, its a sandbox" resonates with me in the real world. So many people trying to "win" life and get all these stats, instead of being a kid and marveling at the world around us, instead of exploring and discovering new things. We lose sight of what fun we can have and become depressed because of it.
Yes!!! I'll be honest, Minecraft and the people that create stories within it have given me that same worldview as I've grown. It's been- oh gosh, 5 years now? Maybe even more, now that I think about it. But however long it's been, it's become more than a game, more than roleplays, more than just RU-vidrs. It's become a perfect looking glass to see the world in all its beauty, from the tiny flowers to the people that care for me. Minecraft's sandbox style just...fits so well.
Fun fact : I played Minecraft on my ps3 for 6 years and never beaten the ender dragon, I was just like chilling by creating some stuff like a city that I want to update every year (even if I don't play on ps3 so much ) and then just launching some fireworks... And I don't have it on my PS4 , it costs too much lol
As someone who lives for the grind, Minecraft was just a match made in heaven for me. I could literally go caving for like 12 hours and be just fine with it. Biggest part that stumped me was actually making my own builds. I dont mind grinding for the materials, but I always need inspiration for the builds. I enjoy the journey much more than the destination. I think the way you play Minecraft reflects a lot of who you are in life.
That's why I really want to find a probably nonexisting server where everyone's a worldbuilder, everyone's, working together to expand the world, make proper economics and production, fight in organized way (no fancy pvp arena, just pure "medieval warfare" for the ones who wants to protect their land and their homes (yeah i mean spawnpoints mostly)), and not run as far away from people as you can (bc everything will be destroyed, stolen, and you'll be mugged), but cluster, make even small but communities with specialisations... You know, I'm an artist. Most of my friends are those rare people who can't imagine their lives without bright imagination, without creation and fun, and most of players on servers are exact opposite of that. They want to become stronger, beat the game and everyone they show upon, destroy "hostile" creations and make everyone be afraid of them.. while I can't even leave a hole in the ground uncovered bc or looks bad.
@@KageToHikari_CG My friend and I usually spitball base ideas then work together to make it. In my solo worlds, I never rush to the dragon fight. I tend to have a full base with a lot of terraforming and several farm builds done before then. I go into the dragon fight with fully enchanted diamond gear. Most people who complain about there being nothing to do miss the point and grind for the dragon immediately. Even though I need inspiration, I will have a base idea in mind. Since my ideas arent many, I try to just pour a lot of time into one world. Ive only had 2 solo worlds that I put a lot of time into. I usually take big breaks and wait for a few major updates to release
Part of what changed my Minecraft experience was the sense of discovery you get when you play the game for the first time and everything is still unknown. I have a fond memory of 13 year old me finding an exposed iron ore back in 2012 and trying to mine it by hand because my pickaxe had just broken and I didn't want to bother going home to get another one (which wasn't even far from where I was, to begin with). I was there for a while trying to mine it by hand, thinking "I'm taking this thing with me, I don't care", and was actually so confused when it didn't drop. It's a simple memory, but I miss that exact feeling of not knowing the game, the feeling that made me try to mine iron with my bare hands. It's my favorite game, it's still a lot of fun, but I miss leaving home and not even knowing what I COULD find, like stumbling upon a jungle or a village for the first time. And that specific feeling made Minecraft the very root of all the nostalgic memories we all so closely cherish nowadays.
me telling my friends exactly that as we've started a Minecraft server "your friend has made the advancement [The Next Generation]" my friend: "huh, what'd ya say?"
One of the things I realized I had stopped doing in terms of using my imagination was coming up with names for cool areas and landmarks. Like in my first worlds, my mine would be called "Bedrock Mineshaft" and the nearby forest biome was called the "Lumberwood Forest." I realized about a year and a half ago that I had stopped doing that for some reason, so I started doing it again. Now the landmarks and areas are more personal and I feel a lot more attachment to my worlds.
Reminds me of Keystone Keep, A castle I built with my friend. It's the highest artificial structure in the world, and protects the entrance to our mountain base.
I'm in my 50's and I still play Minecraft almost daily. Survival mode and Hardcore are such a thrill still. I use creative mode to explore ideas and then go build them in my survival worlds. The challenge is exciting and frustrating but the satisfaction of completing a goal is totally worth it.
Randomly had this pop into my feed. I haven’t seriously played Minecraft in almost 4 years. I stopped for a time and I tried to get back into it around 1.20 but it just didn’t fill me with wonder and excitement like it used to when I was younger. I found myself dreading my next play session and the grind that I had decided I would do. I loved the part of the video where you mention hotels and charging people to live in them because it brought back some fun memories of playing with my siblings and cousins and building hotels and charging carrots to stay “a night” Building rail tracks around our ransom builds and flying around with an elytra for the first time. Or when we would blow up the tutorial map castles. I don’t know if I’ll return to Minecraft just yet, (honestly probably will, but play on those older versions. (1.14 was my probably my favorite but I did enjoy my time with 1.16) All in all, I did appreciate the video and the memories from years ago that I brought back.
I think this is the kind of player Mojang was trying to cater to with 1.20, which is why it ended up being a miss with so many people since people seem to focus on "beating" the game so much. So many features of the update were about using your imagination, like the archeology structures where you imagine who used to live there, or the pottery sherds where you use environmental storytelling, same with the armor trims. I think a lot of people missed the point with that update.
@@littlemoth4956 I suppose, but they did specifically mention the update was for this kind of person. They mentioned storytelling and self expression like a billion times in all the marketing material
Yeah The whiny majority of people that only cared about beating the game, over imagining "Hey, I wonder how they came to be or I wonder how this thing suddenly went extinct" is what killed thst type of imagination
@@littlemoth4956 See, that's your problem. You think it's an argument. It's an opinion. When's the last time you just had an opinion in a comment thread instead of an argument?
honestly, one of the most beautiful videos. There is no "winning" Minecraft, and that's just the truth. In my personal opinion its the people you play with that makes it fun. its the mindless adventures, burning buildings, and killing each other that adds a joy like no other. roleplaying is fantastic, and even better with friends! bust as said in the video, it all boils down to imagination, and how far your willing to take it
@@jackatkthen go mod the game (assuming you’ve got Java edition). Just one mod can make the game feel brand new (like Terralith or Create) there’s so much extra content you can get from a mod pack
@@computethis1533I'm surprised a few mentioned about Terralith, it has so much potential and it's so good, it gives a new atmosphere. The fact that it managed to not add any new blocks amazes me. Also, I'd recommend Tectonic mod 'cause it's compatible with Terralith if you want smooth terrain generation. And yes, please do add mods as well. The fun is limitless and gives Terraria-like feel. Though, not too much mods otherwise it'll lag hellalot.
@@nogiogo3106 ikr, it’s very underrated. But I assume that’s because it’s on newer versions, and most people mod the game with 1.12-1.16, and Terralith is only on 1.18 and up, since most people’s first mod packs will be on 1.12-1.16, they’ll only know about Biomes O’ Plenty, and Oh The Biomes You’ll Go, since most wouldn’t look for something new, when they know the one they already have works well.
I started playing minecraft in 2011, and the way you describe your experience with the game really reminds of when I first started playing it. the idea of "hiding from someone trying to kill you" isnt weird, its just making your own fun. and minecraft is perfect for that sort of fun. this video is a good reminder that games like these are about finding your own fun, whatever it is.
Couldn't agree more. "Just be a kid again" has driven a hundred SMPs and worlds, and there's something really valuable about just letting your creativity turn the game into something it otherwise wouldn't be. This video is really well made, and I hope to see more from you in my subscription feed!
I think as we've gotten older, a lot of us have gotten out of touch with what Minecraft was meant to be. We focus on a "goal" we're supposed to complete, but that was never what the game was supposed to be about. Minecraft is about the journey, not the destination. I have been so caught up in my frustration with some of Mojang's decisions lately that I forgot what made Minecraft fun in the first place. No game has ever given me quite the same feeling I had when I first played Minecraft as a kid. Thank you so much for making this video. Seeing the old Minecraft website and trailer launched me on such a high nostalgia wave.
"We focus on a "goal" we're supposed to complete, but that was never what the game was supposed to be about. Minecraft is about the journey, not the destination." Holy crap you are right about that.
I sometimes get it in my head that I need to play the older versions to get the same feeling. But what you're saying is the missing piece. It doesn't matter what version I play, it's how I play it. Everything used to be new and unexplored, no real guides. Now it's "gotta make sure I remember to build that automated poop farm so I have my shite" There was a charm to slowing down, breaking everything down by block, placing it back up as a journey, rather than as a goal
Out of all the videos I’ve seen of trying to find you passion for games again this has to be the best, it’s about the completion I’ve found myself only playing story based games lately because I sense I need to follow a mission but just having fun. It’s perfect
This video was beautiful just beautiful. Sometimes I do get a bored feeling after getting to a certain point but then I think of things I could build, places I could go. Minecraft nostalgia is something noone can hate on. Thank you
Its so hard when it feel like you have no imagination left. Everytime i get on the game, i get exhausted with having to think of a new unique idea for a build. I so miss this game, but it seems like all my mind ever craves anymore is progression. And that unfortunately is the same with every playthrough.
its about mindset, idk but i think progression and creativity come from different parts. creativity comes from a part of the brain that doesn't want to go anywhere and progression needs something you don't have
A trick that's working for me right now is playing in Floating Worlds. I had this simple idea of using RfTools Dimensions to "escape it" but even finding a damn bunch of clay and sand is near impossible. It's making travelling and building roads to find my way back actually interesting and fun! The worst thing you can do is set yourself "standard" objectives like build shelter and stock up on food, those will give you a mindset related to safety and you could be safe forever by being in a hole in the ground with water and carrots.
@@DUDYDUDE05 tried doing this and it didnt work for me, i literally just walked till i found a village, got a shitton of wheat and went "alright i guess that'll feed me for like 100 hours, so i'm at no risk of starving myself" then just quit the game because i technically won at surviving
Having to? You donť have to. In Minecraft you can do everything, if you can't come up with build idea, just go mining or exploring the world. And if you want to build something that much, explore the world or watch youtube videos and get inspiration. Just as I said, Minecraf isn't about having to, it's about wanting to.
Something i’ll admit is i’ve never ONCE between the Ender Dragon by myself in survival. I’ve always been happy building this amazing worlds with town names and books with lore in it etc. I love loading into a new world and exploring until i see something that sparks an idea and i just build. Why i love playing to this day
@@notzaldysame I’ve only beat it legit once with my friends i fee like I should do it once on my own just to say that I have but that’s for another day because I’m typing this at 2 am and I’m tired
Pulsoarsjr mentioned, hell yea!! I’m definitely guilty of not using my imagination much when playing. Every Survival I start ends up going the same: Find spruce wood, make a small house, use the original cave you hid in on the first night as a mineshaft down to Y-56, then apart from a couple farms, that’d be all I build.
In one of my worlds recently, I got really into fishing. I was sitting there like, "Why doesn't anybody enjoy fishing in this game?". It's genuinely so fun and calming. And I got a really good fishing rod and a lot of other loot. I get so caught up in how "bad" I am at the game--I've never beaten it, and I have a hard time in The Nether. But sometimes it's better to just sit and fish.
This is true. Farming and Fishing have been the calmest thing to do for me. I kinda wish that me and my friends would hop on a server one day and just have fun.
I remember several years ago in a server with all my friends, for whatever reason we did not have access to mending books. It was a problem bc obviously mending is just so amazing to have. Anyway, around that time I had read on the wiki about fishing and all the loot you could get for it, including enchanted books. I was ecstatic bc I thought "finally, we have a way to get mending books!" So, I got the best fishing rod I could, and just started fishing. It was basically all I did whenever I played, and we played a lot. I would sit there for hours just pressing the right mouse button and talking to my friends through discord, and I loved it. Of course the chances of getting even an enchanted book were low, and one that had mending was close to zero, but I didn't care. I ended up getting so many enchanted fishing rods that I just combined them all to get the best one I possible could, with all the fishing enchantments, and even mending so that it would never break. After weeks of doing it I had dozens upon dozens of enchanted books, fishing rods, bows, armour, etc, and a whole load of everything else, and I actually ended up getting one book with mending. I was so happy, and I just kept fishing.
Dude this has like lifted a weight off my shoulders I didn't know was there. It has been so long since I thought about making something as silly as a McDonald's in Minecraft like I used to as a kid. It makes me want to play the game like I used to. Thanks for this, I really needed to hear it.
I had to hold back tears because I was with my family, but this video hit so hard on my experience in Minecraft. The feeling of being raised by a community in a game made of blocks as pretty much your only source of socializing, pretending to work on school while really playing Minecraft, being a mod and making sure people followed rules. That's my exact experience. I originally watched Batclone's Minecraft With Mods series which kind of had a story to it and was just about playing the game for fun. Eventually it became speed running getting the best gear and building a bigger better base. I don't know where playing the sandbox game just for the sandbox part went, but I want to get it back.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the game design philosophy behind Minecraft's development has changed quite a bit since the earlier days. Since then, there's been lots of features added that encourage this type of linear play where you just want to "finish" the game. There will always be people who enjoy building and doing other things, but the core audience has definitely changed
That's true. I think the YT MC community have driven that mindset. Like, I LOVE 100 days vida but they definitely promote a sort of "goal" driven mindset I think. But when I play, I just build and enjoy. Though, I sometimes get bored with that. I do like having objectives to chase whenever I want to.
it's a kinda stupid thing to argue about since Minecraft lets you *both* beat it (by killing the female Ender Dragon named Jean) and build to your heart's content before, during, AND afterwards. beating the game just takes you back to your savepoint
Imo, this is the best "current state of Minecraft" video out there, by far. Nobody talks about this! All the questions about the game being too easy or Mojang being lazy or whatever just fall away into irrelevance when you look at it from this perspective.
This video had me in tears. It made me remember the gold in simplicity, the good old times where I built random things and I called it a crazy city. I really enjoyed watching this and I think it woke up something in me that was sleeping since the early 2014s, that something is my childhood. Thank you.
Recently came across this video now, and when you mentioned the whole imagination and roleplaying thing, i can remember all the old creative worlds back when i was young and use to roleplay lots of minecraft fnaf stuff with people i use to be with, only one of them now i still have contact with.
Man, I've been struggling with this, not just in Minecraft, but in just about every game I play. I think I've started to get too caught up on doing things the "best" way, progressing "the fastest," worrying about completion - and it's ruined gaming for me a lot. My best experiences have not been when I'm min-maxing things or looking up a million things on the wiki - it's been when I've just allowed myself to have fun without worrying about if I'm best utilizing my time and doing things the correct way. Once I start building auto farms in Minecraft or massive villager trading halls, the game just dies for me. I've been trying to get back into playing games more like I did as a kid, but it's not easy
I think social media gaming and speed running are what has created that mindset within our culture. There’s millions of hardcore RU-vidrs whose entire video idea is based around the goal itself being impressive somehow, and speed running is a very specific way of playing the game that has an objective measurement of performance and a ton of different strategies and techniques associated with it meant for playing efficiently. They are why people feel the need to accomplish goals that are above their skill level or just really grindy, rather than engage with the game in the way they find most fun.
Is it weird that this kind of resonates with me in regards to Bendy and the Ink Machine of all things? When I was 9 and Bendy was new, I enjoyed the game a lot because although yes, the game was great, whenever I played Bendy and the Ink Machine, I always had theories, songs, and other Bendy fan content going through my head at all times. I think that's why chapter 5 was so memorabe for me. Chapter 5 inspired most of this creativity. Fast forward 5 years later, and although I still have a special place in my heart for Bendy, it just doesn't have the same magic that it used to. Nowadays when I play Bendy, there are no more songs, theories, or any real activity of any kind other than nostalgia and a longing for things to go back how they used to. This loss of imagination is also likely why I didn't enjoy Bendy and the Dark Revival very much either. But after this video, I wanna try something new... or rather, something old: I wanna use my imagination again. So, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play Bendy!
I have a set of rules for myself when it comes to Minecraft in particular: No automatic farms No cruelty to the life in the world No outright destruction of the world(like digging out massive chunks down to bedrock) No bug/glitch abuse And lastly, take my time with it. Build something every now and then. Terraform a bit. Even focusing on going after the Ender Dragon, the Elytra, that prot 4 netherite, and shulker boxes, it makes the game more *fun*. One example of these rules being applied is improving a village rather than locking the villagers away in 1x1x2 boxes. It makes the villager breeding more annoying, but making sure the houses had all the beds required, I had doubled the villager population in one fell swoop. One of the first things I do in a village is clean up the paths.
@@mdbgamer556 Ive gotta ask, to make sure, have you always played under those restrictions? Or have you also given yourself the chance to automate the hell out of anything and everything, slaughter animals and villagers with gusto, gouge out the land with cruelty, abuse glitches like there is no tomorrow and speedrun like Cthulhu is hot on your tail? I mean, that's kinda the point of the video. Try it all.
This honestly made me feel so much better about how I've done stuff like "never beating the ender dragon legitimately" or "chickening out from the nether because ghasts are scary." Maybe I should just return to when I was younger, when I would build 256 block tall diving boards into a tiny pool on flat worlds. That was fun, it was dumb, but fun. Thank you : )
Respect to you because it’s not worth beating the ender dragon The first time I beat it I got killed like 7 times and the enderman where annoying 🥲✋ But yeah them elytra do be flying 🤞
Yeah, anything I feel you can easily grind out with time, I just switch to creative and knock it out quickly. Screw digging out, crafting and transporting 100 stacks of cobblestone wall/stairs, im just gonna build the damn bridge I want. Because cobblestone is a renewable resource, your time is not.
This reminded me of that feeling that I had when I first played the game: that unadulterated child-like wonder, freedom, and creativity. Needless to say, I got a bit emotional. I've been trying to rekindle my love for the game, without lasting success, and I see why now. Thank you so much for making this video!
My suggestion: Take progression slowly. Intentionally limit what gear you can get or what dimensions you can go to for some amount of days, or until you complete a specific goal. Me and some friends have created a world where we did just that, and it's been pretty fun so far.
I like that idea, but I'd rather have a mod that does that. And now that I'm typing that I realize that I'm a semester through my CS course and can actually just try and make that for real.
Yes this is what I been telling people to do play the game more fun not speed run the game by going to the end fast as possible and getting maxed gear play the game in a actual fun and challenging way why not stop enchanting and get your books from all the cool structures. W
I think that’s why the 100/1000 day videos have blown up. I love watching people explore their worlds and build it out. I have a hard time sticking to things but with this game it always feels like I can come back no matter how long has passed
It might be that many do it on Hardcore so it means something surviving 100 days. You're not forced to explore the world for 100 days, if you get into a building project that time will fly past and you never really have to do much.
@@doodlebro. You're not alone. Recently I had this feeling as a thirty-something year old that my future is over, since I'm not a young guy anymore there isn't an audience for me, but that's the fear and concern talking but the truth is quite the opposite. Live your life to the fullest you can desire.
@@wallamazoo01 im disappointed in myself that these "you're not alone" responses i've gotten a few times, well, don't motivate me like i'd expect? i think i should jump straight into clip studio paint or something and in a few days boom i permanently got hooked and for certain know i HAVE potential maybe after the next summer i'll finally get a proper urge on art, animation, music, and such, i don't have that productive desire yet
@@doodlebro. I think it has a lot to do with screen addiction, and how we are less accustomed to patience and now innately desire instant gratification. The first time for anything will never be easy, or turn out the way we expect. But the next time, it's a little better. Sleep on it, take a break from screens, read a book, doze off. Try again. Now you've had rest, there is a possibility you're closer to meeting expectations, or you discover an alternative to what you desired that changes everything.
Bro you just brought back all the good feelings about minecraft... talk about inspiration...i used to love the game so much, play for hours on end, and one day, my love for the game started dying... but I've recently started playing again and everything you just said is what its about... instead of trying to beat the ender dragon, just have fun... thanks for this bro... the video i didn't know i needed
This just brought a tear to my eye... I started a realm about a month ago because I missed playing Minecraft with friends. We were having fun, dying to creepers and exploring the nether together like we used to. Now most of them don't play anymore out of boredom and the ones that do want to kill the dragon so they can move on to other games.Thank you for such a heartfelt message. I shall continue on my own and see where these in game adventures lead me because deep down in my heart there is no moving on from Minecraft
Yes. Exactly. My friends and I in college tried making a server multiple times. It was always really fun the first few days. But everyone (except me) always quit in like two weeks cause they got bored. It's fine tho, I love playing singleplayer anyways.
I feel. Me and my family always sort of take long breaks from minecraft (we seem to cycle games so, it's not JUST minecraft) but lately I've come back to our realm and I've been binge gaming it 😂 I'm updating our home base and then I'm gonna go re build my castle and finish my village I'm making in the canyon below my village 🎉
this is such a good video, it's short, to the point and very lighthearted, felt like if an older brother was giving you a friendly punch to the shoulder and going "yeah no, DUH" and it's really sweet, I don't have minecraft yet, but this video is so encouraging to me, I hope i get the game soon so i can mess around and make up stuff and have fun, thank you for this video
I really liked your video, and I wanna make one similar to yours talking about Minecraft’s timelessness and why it’s such a great game. But I figured I should let you know first that I plan to do so and thank you for the inspiration!
As someone who has lost ALL interest in playing Minecraft after playing it for 9 years, somehow, someway, you've convinced me to play it again. I really appreciate the message in the video. Genuinely, I think that is what I was missing.
I'm an extremely goal-oriented person when it comes to videogames, so trying to get all the achievements on a survival world or maximizing the drops out of a farm was always fun to me. But the things I was always the most proud of and had the most fun with were the random structures I designed and built myself, even though I'm generally not a very creative person. Even with the farms I built, it was the extra time I put into making it look cool that made me proud of it.
I was creative at first in minecraft doing random stuff, but as i got older, I got hooked on the ftb modpacks like skyfactory3 and other goal type experiences.
this video is so right recently every time I played Minecraft with friends I always tried to speed run the vanilla and i get sick of it immediately but this playthrough I'm taking it so much slower building and having so much finding my love for the game once again.
It helps to watch this. I’ve been enjoying Minecraft more than I ever have. Obviously the nostalgic memories always call me back to the game, but in order to keep playing, you have to make it a priority to make new memories
i genuinely felt a weight lifted off my shoulders watching this. I stopped playing a couple years ago because i didn’t think i was good enough and because i felt like i had to try and beat the game. i forgot why i loved it as a child thank you for reminding me :)
What even give You idea to "have to beat" the sandbox game in the first place? I mean of all the things in the community "beating Minecraft" always seems to as the most blatantly stupid idea without any real basis. And contradictory to it's genre.
As long as you're having fun, you should play as you want. Only thing beating the Ender Dragon does for you is access to the End islands and a decorative egg. On my private server we had people who had never even been to the End, let alone beat the dragon before.
It's been 10 years since I last played Minecraft. Currently I'm playing it to experience all the new stuff they added. So far the Warden and Deep Dark are my favorites.
As a person who has been playing regularly for about 12 years now, effectively having the game raise me, I cheer you on. And I'm sure everyoneelse does too.
started a new world with friends after a couple year. finding it hard to enjoy it, was thinking wtf why did I like minecraft SO MUCH back then. It was this, imagining things that were fun in minecraft thats what I loved hehe
This video is like a breath of fresh air compared to everything else that's going on in the world. Hope I find that childish wonder I had when I first played Minecraft back in 2012. 5 year old me was filled with the feeling of accomplishment after completing my first "house" in creative mode. It was a 3 block thick by 12 blocks long and 11 blocks tall and all made out of gold, a door off center by the left, a bed, torches filling every single possible block on the inside. I remember spawning a ghast inside and since it was so cramped in there, it started suffocating and that scared me so much that I never went back to that world. Too bad my grandma sold her router for some reason (which means I couldn't connect to Minecraft). She sold that computer a few months ago. First computer I ever touched, then again it was a Windows Vista but I didn't care about that. I just cared that I could play Minecraft on it.
My first survival house had the exact same dimensions but was made out of oak planks. I built it on the old in-browser version and it ended up looking like a cereal box with windows. I lost it when trying to burn some nearby trees to make room and ended up catching the house on fire.
I also think it's absolutely fine to have keep inventory on and it's not fake minecraft or cheating. Sometimes you just want to go exploring without the stress of losing everything when you die
Well play the game however you want to, but leaving it off can lead to some intense moments which could make the gameplay more interesting (but that's just my opinion)
@@1stgenIbishupessima So real! I think it's fine to keep it on but at the same time it kills any actual danger, getting chased by the warden wouldn't be nearly as scary and exciting if dying meant nothing. It's the fact that you can have the best gear in the game and still get 2-Tapped by him and losing everything that makes it so fun to go there, the screams that come out of my friends and i while raiding the ancient cities are worth keeping inventory off alone!
@@akithefullThis is why I'm glad it's an option to keep it on or off. Personally the danger is not what appeals to me. I just like building, exploring and gathering resources. Combat and falling stupidly into lava isn't what I'm in it for, and creative feels a little empty to me because now, my challenge is just to get the stuff I need to actually build things.
omg this video unlocked old Minecraft memories of when i used to play on creative plot servers all the time... i'd get a whole bunch of random people who were on the server at the time to come build on my plot with me and we'd build something that we considered super ambitious at the time. i distinctly remember one where we were trying to collectively build a city on a massive plot and it was probably one of the most fun times i've ever had in that game. most of us were building a hospital and a ridiculously tall and skinny hotel for a long time, and some other people were building the streets out for future building placements. one guy kept building subways (the restaurant not a subway train lol) and at some point that same guy decided to rebrand them all to "Zombway" and thus the nonexistant citizens of our city were now zombies lmaooo. god, that was so fun
I Love this message of this video. I love playing minecraft but all my friends are always focused on getting netherite, having the best villager trades, making MASSIVE auto farms. It really ruins the magic of the game. A long time ago, before they did all these auto farms, some of my best memories of the game were made when we decided to make a little town. We had a town hall with mailboxes to send each other messages, we all had our own houses, I had a little restaurant where my friends would trade me resources for a ton of food. It really was what made the game so damn fun.
My sentiments exactly. Here's a real interaction between my friends and I: "Hey guys, would you all want to play Minecraft together if I hosted a server for it?" "Yeah sure, sounds fun!" 3 days in some dudes made an industrial area, made everything common and everyone stopped playing auto farms killed the game. that is my hottest take.
@@rocketpg_9532duping almost every item has been in the game forever, me and my brother would dupe stuff all the time and it was still so much fun. It’s the player not the game
I genuinely feel depressed when I play multiplayer. I'm the only one I know who stopped playing when 1.8 came out, and the 'classic' era *completely* ended. Nobody takes it slow and I know that it isn't healthy for me to waste my time learning years of virtual information about automated super-farming villager-tradeamajig 3000 the sequel electric boogaloo machine.@@rocketpg_9532
This is exactly how I feel. Especially during the pandemic, Minecraft was a great way to hang out with your friends. That's all I wanted it to be, just a sandbox where we could shoot the shit, play pranks on each other, go on fun adventures, and build cool houses together. I didn't want to spend ten hours grinding out the best gear. But most of the other people did, and cared more about minmaxing their gear and farms than hanging out with friends.
I have played minecraft for over 10 years, and i think i havent beaten the dragon in survival not a single time, because i fear i lose the point of playing in that world... Man, this game will keep me a kid forever
Exploring the unknown with my friends in our first ever server was the best experience that I've ever had in any video game. Timeless masterpiece, bravo Notch.
I’m greatful to find videos like this more often. Two of the biggest games I play are Animal Crossing and Minecraft, and so many people forget that both games are sandbox like in structure. Whilst in both there are objectives you can wrk towards finishing, no one says you have to do it as fast as humanly possible and constantly one up what you did prior. In ACNH it took me well over a year to stop playing every single day, and even longer to have month long periods where I no longer play, and that primarily due to me not time skipping or using things like Nookazon until I had already finished the final objective on my own time and started getting a finalized idea of what I wanted for my island, and my island is better for it. Even in Minecraft only really have bouts of not wanting to play it, and that’s primarily cause I play with my friends and on solo mode I play peaceful, because when I’m playing by myself Beating the dragon isn’t my goal, it’s to explore and build as much as I want when I want to ( it’s also why playing it on my switch differs from playing it on my iPad cause my iPad is purely creative mode antics). To this day I’ve yet to beat the ender dragon or the wither for that matter, but that’s ok, I can do it when I’m ready to.
i personally do enjoy the grinding and collection aspect of the game most, but building and creativity absolutely goes a long way. just building things to build things and seeing your imagination become a virtual reality is very neat
I saw a video a week or so ago talking about why minecraft isn't fun anymore, and that's because it doesn't have the progression that games like Terraria does, with higher levels meaning higher level bosses. but it's just not that kind of game, it's one where exploration and building and using your imagination are the important parts, not trying to constantly grind to defeat the next boss. felt like that person just missed the forest for the trees, missed the bigger picture of what minecraft is supposed to be about--and I think you got it in one
Progression has been slowly integrated over the years, just not to the satisfaction of some. I remember when there was almost zero progression, now there's Elytra, shulker boxes, guardians, raids, beacons, armor trims, the warden (I built a warden farm to kill him over and over again, which was quite satisfying), nether bastions, etc. etc. But yeah, the structured progression isn't present so you have to form your own checklists to add that value to it. I have a minecraft progress checklist that I drafted up and after several months on a server I'm still no where near to completing my checklist. My checklist revolves around base building, map art creation, redstone contraptions, automated farms, finding every rare item, armor trim collection, etc. So right now I'm in my "end game" which funnily enough is LONG after I've gone to The End. The End was actually part of my early game. Killing the Ender Dragon was like my Act 1 boss level. Currently, I'm progressing through my third nether run, building gold farms, bartering farms, wither skeleton skull farms, and collecting all the armor trims. I'm kind of annoyed because I've raided 8 bastions but I've only found 1 nether fortress and it didn't have Rib so I'm just flying around looking for another fortress. (I can't use chunk base because our server's seed is hidden, which adds so much more mystery and excitement to the game tbh.)
@@fartkerson I have my own checklist as well, and I procrastinated on a wither skeleton farm for a long time. Ianxofour’s design was actually quite easy to make, and for a simple guy like myself, is more than capable. Combined with his wither rose farm, it makes a great pairing
@@fartkerson I usually like just exploring as well, but occasionally I’ll use the seed, just to find that one elusive biome, just for the achievement. Sure, it’s cheating, but I could spend stacks upon stacks upon stacks of rockets searching for just one island, and it’s not worth the time to me
@@samschellhase8831 Like I said, it's not that I haven't used chunk base for simplicity, but the server I play in hides its seed. I just play on servers for the challenge. Simply playing on an anarchy no hacks server itself adds extra time to everything you do. Spawn is a nightmare for thousands of blocks, so the first couple hours are a challenging parkour journey filled with withers and players hunting you down as you enter spawn. There's also nothing of use in sight, so you are basically running naked with no tools until you get to safety. It's a different experience. Not for everyone. It's just what I've found is fun after having done everything. I find it gratifying to have escaped the spawn and then traveled out half a million blocks to create a kingdom on a server filled with griefers.
This is such a well made video. My love of Minecraft has never died. It even lead me down the road to start working on my own resource pack for Java Edition. The possibilities to do in Minecraft are truly endless. You sir have just earned yourself a new subscriber 😁
Whenever I play Minecraft, I usually do something related to geopolitics. It's always a fun experience to join an Earth server or something similar just to build a nation from the ground up and engage in diplomacy with other players. The main problem is that nowadays you never really get to enjoy any genuine geopolitics. When I try doing things with any sense of formality, people just look at me funny and think that I'm taking everything too seriously. Most of the people I see in these kinds of servers are always obsessed with grinding for netherite or building massive farms that will make everything they need for them. More often than not, I look at the dynmap and I see full netherite players with little more than a row of chests and furnaces that they call home. Meanwhile I spend my time vibing, building up my town day by day, and doing everything (ranging from farming to fishing) manually. I never really strive to make things like villager halls or mob grinders, and I often find it more fun to enable mob spawns in the towns I make so I can hold off a horde of zombies at my front door every night. If I ever do get villagers, my first thought is to always build up a village for them and treat them like any other citizen. I find it bizarre that people are genuinely surprised by the fact that I don't use mods like Fullbright, or that I advocate for villager rights, or that I prefer minecarts and boats over elytra and ice highways. I actually try to use my imagination for something, and I'm treated like I belong in a mental facility. I'm not kidding when I say that every single geopolitical server I've played has been plagued with a variety of pvp sweats that do nothing except grind just so they can start killing people. All it ever takes is one slip of the tongue or a generally insignificant action for their egos to shatter, and when that happens my gameplay turns from farming and fishing to building pillboxes around my town and dreading every moment that I spend outside of my town's claims. They never leave you alone, and most staff teams tend to write it off as "just geopolitics" and then pat themselves on the back as the server burns around them. When the dust settles, I'm always one of the last people to still be active. Then my experience comes to an end because there's simply nobody else I get to spend it with.
You sound like an awesome person to play with, those people that grind and then think you're nuts for trying to do actual geopolitics don't deserve you. I hope there's a server/group out there that'll appreciate your work and interests more!
Man, i just agree with you, SMPS just have been leaning into being, really sweaty grindy which i just don’t really enjoy, and the worse problem is that its not just smps/survival is the only thing suffering from this issue i used to play on a server called hive (the bedrock version of it) two years ago, it was fun and i grinded some games for fun (mainly skywars and survival games) i met a lot of kool people there and such 2 years later, nothing has been changed for much but man, the players reallllyyy did, all i see on skywars lobbies these days are egotistical sweats with the most tryhard skin ever who have the best ping and knows how to drag (also a leaderboard grinder), and when you kill em they will find the most dumb excuse like, ever, it doesn’t even have to make sense, which is just really annoying and frustrating for me, like, do they even enjoy what they are doing, do they even have a life to worry about? Overall, just, bring back the genuine fun that we all used to have, theres a lot of stuff that caused this issue to happen most notably leaderboards or leveling and such, thanks for joining my little chat here :D
So wait you're mad that people don't like the way you play, but spend the entire comment hating on how other people play, specifically because they don't cater to your playing style, then when they all leave, you can't even have fun by yourself. Charming.
@@littlemoth4956 Because geopolitics means actual diplomacy and tactics, not grinding for 3 days to get netherite then robbing and killing and griefing everyone
My friends and I were just recently returning to Minecraft. That stuff about imagination is really true cuz once we started our SMP server, we began making flags and full blown towns and cities and elaborate bases. What a beautiful and powerful game I must say.
ya know what, i might be 9 months late for watching this but still im gonna play mc this guy, he inspires me and not just me but ppl around the world, go play minecraft, "be a kid again" -Ludibri
This actually hits home, very hard. I suddenly decided that i wanna be a mage and play the game 100% magic only, downloaded a shit ton of random stuff and only use the spellbook from Ars Nouveau... sucks major ass at the beginning but its quite fun after you get going lmao
I've never had a video resonate with me that much. I felt burned out I love minecraft but I just stopped playing and I play with friends from time to time. It's not that I have no time as I get older. I just lost the part when I had fun, felt like a kid and really used my imagination. Thank you for making this video.
@@sendycatthekiller6483 Sure, but you're just reliving old memories you can't make again. CS2 won't recapture that magic of you playing CS for the first time, like nothing will recapture the magic of carefree responsibility free you playing Minecraft back in the day. Especially when you say you lost the part where you felt like a kid, it's cause you stopped being a kid.
@@PistenDeerShut up man, let him give an invisible welcome, he simply decided to stop playing, it has nothing to do with whether he is an adult or not, your problem is that you justify your lack of desire to do things with being an adult, when that is a more personal problem
thank you so much bro, im struggling to play the game myself because im losing the spark i did before, and this just reminded me of that feeling i had when playing the game, thanks
If you've played this game, you HAVE 100% ran around pretending there's someone chasing you for no reason. If you haven't done that then you haven't lived.
This is a very good summary. Now that i think about it personally i think i lost that ability to just use my imagination when i got to the point in school that they started graded us. Suddenly i went from a little kid who was a little above average good at multiplication tables to someone who was expected to achieve things at every corner and be judged by a letter that will supposedly define your entire future. I think the pressure really shifted my entire mindset, i suddenly had to be good at things instead of just having fun, i needed to complete everything i did, and complete it efficiently and well. Nowadays i feel guilty playing games if i don't somehow "make progress", which is stupid since i'm supposed to be relaxing. Society and school in particular has somehow drilled this idea of needing to be productive and achieving something constantly so deep into my mind i cant escape it anymore. I wish i could play Minecraft again like i used to, playing pretend with my friends, not worrying about finishing a build or getting an item fast enough that i have time to sleep 6 hours before school and work the day after.
just play beamng slowly build your way back up to a sandbox survival game, its hard to jump into something like that unless you can naturally give yourself direction
This is why I hate schools, they expect you to understand every single thing that they teach you yet it's completely irrelevant and doesn't even help you do things in the real world when you're 18. Seriously no one's going to remember algebra when they're getting coffee at McDonald's
Honestly, I think that what we are suppose to do with our lives is to have fun with everything we *want* to do, but ppl aren't just thinking properly or enough. See, I have this disease called Sickle Cell, type ss and I learned that stress or anything negative really will put me in the hospital, so I'm trying to tone it down as much as possible by doing what I want and trying my hardest to ignore ppl but they just keep hounding on me not realizing that I know what I'm doing even though it LOOKS like I'm not doing a thing. Sure I don't actually want to play games my whole life, but ppl can make tons of money just by doing that. The only reason I want to do more than just play games is because I'm an artist and an animal lover and also, God already has a job for me waiting for me to be ready for it. Unfortunately, nobody listens to me, especially since I'm (probably) the only one actually doing research and experiments on literally everything I encounter >:( Idk how I'm gonna get them to stop hounding on me about things, but it's not like I can run away either. Not yet at least. If I am going to do anything more than just play games, I have to get rid of this disease first. It's more damaging to me than anybody else I know with it so far and nobody else realizes it. I mean like, everybody that knows, knows the disease or even the trait knows can kill the ppl that have it, they just don't know that it is literally blocking me from doing much of anything and God blocking me from some things as well makes it a lot worse. They just want me to cope with something I know I can't cope with because of the Gods controlling my *almost* every move not to mention this weird random forgetfulness I have doesn't help anything one bit🙄 I forget random things at random times and it is the worst. What makes me even more mad than that is that I can't even think about love when in a school and/or church area but I can feel it, so everything anybody says about love goes over my head >:( I can't even tell anybody that unless we see each other outside of said area and I remember to say it. I'm a lot more stuck than ppl realize and also I just happen to be the Chosen One, the most important person just because I know better than everyone else meaning only I can save y'all stupid @ssess from destroying yourselves even more than you guys already have... Once I find out how to get everyone to listen to me... I hate my life. I wish I could die ;-;
@@Lonkshi21 You say this but I wanted to figure out how big a pyramid I could build with some leftover blocks and realised I need to figure out the sequence using a set - maths is cool we just need to give people more opportunities to use it
this is such a well-made video... correctly worded, with total emotions and emphases on words that needed to be spread, bringing back all the nostalgia of when I was a little kid, scares by the caves soundtrack but yet again blessed with all the music for the game, revisiting childhood memories of roleplay and minigames where me and my friends and brother just had fun. I miss those times and i'm so heartbroken knowing I might not get those memories back. That's why I applaud servers/people like the Dream SMP or those "I tried to make a civilization with 100 people" videos that just brings a smile across my face. Thank you for this once again... i hope the future generations will find minecraft to be just as fun as our generation did.
thank you so mutch for making this im gonna play how i want to play, not just in minecraft but also in real life. So from the bottom of my heart thanks for making this video:)
As someone who loves Minecraft but is conventionally bad at the game, I was never able to beat the dragon or get netherite, so making my own little stories is all I've ever been able to do. And when it's been with friends, it's been some of the best gaming experiences of my life.
Well actually I Beat Enderdragon just 1 time I always get diamond armor I'm scared of nether but still I found fortress like 5 times (some are with cheats) but I made houses castles from RU-vid I love building but I suck at it also still I feel like I'm doing something that no one can do
I like how Notch didn't settle literal piracy of his game with legal action. No, he settled it by beating someone in Quake. I don't care what people think about Notch, he is a good guy and a good game dev, if I was to see him, I would run up to him and ask for an autograph like a Beatles fangirl in the 1960s
I remember the first time i could play it. This feeling when walking to the tree you spawned next to, for the first time. Breaking the leaves for the first time. And eventually, bare knuckled hitting that lock. The sounds. It was a surreal feeling, one of a kind you dont feel a second time
This is quite the video. i remember how i would too imagine myself in different scenarios, like being chased and stuff like that. you are a great person :D
This made me cry. As a brazilian that grew up seeing minecraft grow with me, i could't hold back the tears of joy. I love this video. I love this game.
I don't think it's because it's like that, it's because it's inspiring, inspiring to do more with a game that you consider nostalgic. I think this is very inspiring like.. who cares if the new updates just play the game and have fun! Or if not make your own fun!
ive got this big dumb grin on my face, especially when you mentioned running away from the dude out to get you. you seem really positive and i love your vibe. thanks for making this, i think i needed to hear it
For my most recent world I've downgraded the game back to Beta 1.7.3 and have just been chillin. There's no End, Elytra, or anything like that so I can just build without feeling like I need to go "grind for the best gear." I've just been working on building a little village and its all very relaxing and peaceful!😌
Paul was so amazing, I sometimes go back and watch those videos. Those were the good days. I loved building netherworld train stations and hubs. For a long time i did not correctly mine and just built stuff out of dirt.
amazingly crafted video, this channel deserves way more attention. It also finally isnt another repeat of every other "why minecraft is boring now" it has a fantastic conclusion.
I really don't like those videos, and I'm glad this vid was different, only complaint about this vid was I would've liked more footage of modern minecraft.
Dude, I just found you, and already you're already one of my favorite youtubers. You brought a lot of Nostalgia back from when I was first playing Minecraft, in my little super flat creative world, just building my diamond house lol. I got sucked into trying to beat the game, but now, I think I'm finally gonna go back to just playing like I did when I was in 3rd grade. Messing around, building stupid stuff, and all in all, playing with the people I love. Thank you so, so much for being such an amazing person.
I remember in 2016, me, my friend and my cousin roleplaying in a large town we built, we had our houses, our workplaces, the world full of different places and easter eggs, I came back this year and the nostalgia hit me soooo hard, there was everything there, we sure weren't great builders as kids but it's still more beautiful than any other world. Minecraft is truly the greatest game of all time
honestly i feel like i needed this when you compared the fun of the older days to "playing to completion" it hit me when i try coding datapacks or mods they add more steps in completion, but maybe i should code things that are just... fun i needed this a lot. thank you.
Love the video, I was losing intrest myself after I had the best enchanted netherite armor, tools, and everything and anything I could get, but after watching this video I decided to make my hardcore world a true experienced world.
