#minecraft house tutorial (survival)

[diorods]

Minecraft Small Oak House! A complete survival house made out of easy-ish blocks to get!

I wanted to make a house with mainly oak blocks, cause I feel like that's a block that I always find (almost) everywhere, so why not, right? And cobblestone, cause I always have loads of that. The whole interior of the build is quite cozy, imo, and it has always the features u might need on your base, from your personal mineshaft to an enchantment setup. Anyway, this was the result!! I hope this serves as inspiration 🙌 If u want u can find the tutorial on my channel here!

✨ Shaders: BSL Shaders 🕹 Game version: 1.21 🌹 Resource Packs: Jerm's Better Leaves

[fikiandbiki]

Modern Log Cabin & Interior | Minecraft

Tutorial is on our YouTube channel: Fiki & Biki 🐔

[fndmrt]

[mincrafttrends]

Instructions For Using Minecraft Survival Mode

Master Minecraft Survival Mode with essential tips on gathering resources, crafting tools, and surviving the unpredictable wilderness!

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[lillypad-monopoly]

Finding out Etho is a good builder as someone who mainly became aware of the guy through the Life Series is so bizarre to me. Generally the strong builders show that off in at least one of their bases over the series, but Etho's singular creations include the wool fort, the snow castle, the gravel shack, and a solid copper tower. Outside of maybe the tower because I've never been able to build a circle in Minecraft, I could have built any of those (in form, not necessarily with the same blocks) and everything I know about building in Minecraft I learned from looking at villager houses and one Grian tutorial I watched in like 2018.

Then I get into the fandom and I see stuff he's built on Hermitcraft or in his survival world and my first response is "you're telling me that's the same guy?"

Apparently he just logs onto the life series and decides he does not care what his base looks like and it's so funny honestly. I know the snow and soul sand at least had strategic justifications, as did the lava walls on his 3L base, but everything else just makes me go ???

[voonroo]

TWST Cast Playing Minecraft

⌐‣ All Dorms. headcanons.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE: I wrote this fighting sleep at 2 a.m. yearning for the mines…

Riddle Rosehearts

I could see him being a pretty good builder once he gets the controls down. His favorite wood is probably spruce or dark oak. Would be the type to re-create a village for villagers and completely re-build their homes bigger and better. Refuses to play survival btw.

Trey Clover

I actually think he would do a LOT of mining. Like if you haven't seen him for a few minutes he's probably down in the mines. Just give this man a pickaxe and he's set. Has a whole system and strip mines for fun.

Cater Diamond

He definitely knows how to play but has never even gone into the Nether unless in creative once when he was a kid before the Nether update. Definitely not an end-game player and probably only plays if he's with other people. Thus I’m saying he probably enjoys exploring a lot and probably has a wall of filled-in maps unironically.

Ace Trappola

D1 griefer right here. He will hold your dog hostage but wouldn't ACTUALLY do anything. The most damage he probably does is with just flint and steel in front of your face. Other than his arsonistic hobbies, another explorer. Though he never has a map on him and is always wearing random mismatched armor that he found in a shipwreck or something.

Deuce Spade

He also probably only plays with other people but is the first one to volunteer for any work that needs to be done. Oh, you need leather for books? He's on it. Won't come back for days but you’ll get that leather. Cannot build to save his life but will watch a simple tutorial so he has a somewhat decent base. Though he’s most likely living underground. He also has a chicken farm.

Leona Kingscholar

I deadass cannot picture this dude playing this game. You tell him to hop on and he just afks most of the time. If he's not afk-ing he's looking in people’s chests and lowkey judging houses. If you tell him to do something the most he will do is get a fishing rod and just fish.

Ruggie Bucchi

Actually snoops through people’s chests and steals. Has a secret underground base that's literally just a normal lit-up field but one of the torches is an indicator of where to dig. He's sly like that. On this note, I feel like he's also an explorer much like Ace in the sense of just going and looking around.

Jack Howl

Much like Deuce, I see him as an odd-job man. Would actively partake in deforestation for house materials if someone else is building it but always re-plants the trees afterward. He doesn't really get the appeal behind the game- (it's just a bunch of blocks to him) but if the first-year gang is all playing together and wants him to join that's like the only time he plays Minecraft.

Azul Ashengrotto

Now, this could go two ways. He builds an empire/trading post and upsells mending books to other players, OR it's a complete bust and he does all that villager work for nothing. Would kill a wandering trader if it doesn't have anything he wants and then keep the leads for himself. Probably has a pet cat though named Mittens or something.

Jade Leech

Does not play like at all. Has little to no interest in the game itself but lowkey loves to watch the fear on people's faces when a creeper creeps up on them. He would lead a mob to you and watch you speedrun the five stages of grief as it blows up your dog. If you tell him to actually go do something he just fishes like Leona.

Floyd Leech

So you know how I said Ace was a D1 griefer? I'm passing that title to Floyd. He WOULD blow up your home. Zero hesitation too. Right before your very eyes. Is the type to place down the tnt and then immediately light it up with a smile on his face as you scream in horror.

Kalim Al-Asim

Flower picker. You knew this was coming. He has a humane animal farm or one big pasture on a fenced-in island. Has a tree-house in a jungle biome and has every parrot variation tamed. Was so hyped for the release of the axolotls. Would play in his spare time and was probably introduced to the game through his little siblings before heading off to NRC.

Jamil Viper

#1 provider right here. Bro would be sleeping in a bed on the first night and has stone tools 2 minutes into the game. I actually feel like he would enjoy messing around in the nether collecting blaze rods and trading with piglins. Lowkey doesn't interact with other players besides out of necessity.

Vil Schoenheit

Could also be a good builder, and has an eye for detail like that. Like bro does NOT need any tutorial whatsoever. Doesn't like playing survival nearly as much as creative but does enjoy the occasional challenge of having to obtain his building materials the hard way. Would maybe actually play in his spare time, he has his own supperflat creative word that he builds on.

Rook Hunt

Stalks other players for the fun of the game. This shouldn't surprise anyone. “I see you” being sent in the chat by Rook Hunt is like a fork being spotted in the kitchen except you cannot find the fork and you're suddenly being shot at from an unknown direction. Carries a bow and never has more than 10 arrows at a time but really, he doesn't even need the 10 with how he DOES NOT MISS.

Epel Felmier

Started a farm for the bit but now has a giant wheat field that takes 3 in game days to harvest and single-handedly feeds like half of the server. Would be the most builder-inclined out of the first years but still lowkey digs into the side of a mountain and calls it a day. Has the dumbest skin imaginable tho trust.

Idia Shroud

Speedrunner. He is probably the only person to actually kill the ender dragon. He doesn't even get suited up either and does the good old bed strat. Outside of that, he would be a grinder for materials and has the most complex builds that he made on a whim at 2 AM when he had classes the next day. Your average hermitcraft builder.

Ortho Shroud

Lowkey is a cheater. Would use spawn eggs in a realm with the other characters and spawn a warden on Ace after he shoved Trey’s hard-earned diamonds up his ass and thought he got away scot-free. Ortho is like the server’s karma, he maintains a healthy balance! I say as he /kills the entire first-year gang for “collective punishment.”

Malleus Draconia

We all know how bad he is at technology and is the only other person in the realm to have perms so he can play in creative. (The only other one is Ortho.) Idia took pity on him so whenever Malleus DOES play, which is like, never, he doesn't have to worry about dying like everyone else. He has the reaction time of a newborn when it comes to Minecraft I’m telling you. He finds a railroad system someone made and just cruises around in the minecart until he logs off.

Lilia Vanrouge

Another explorer but he lowkey likes to subtly fuck with people. Would be the type to pull silly pranks like digging down in front of your door so you fall into a hole whenever you enter/exit. Stuff like that. I feel like he's another person who likes the nether and the end. If Idia doesn't speedrun on the realm then he would be the only other person to go defeat the ender dragon besides maybe Silver if he gets dragged along.

Silver Vanrouge

Is the number one person you want to take with you when cave exploring. His reaction time is lowkey insane. He's actually pretty good at PVP and has only ever lost to maybe Rook and Idia. He would only play with someone else though. But I also feel like he would log on for the new updates to check them out. Was lowkey hyped for the dog armor and camels.

Sebek Zigvolt

God, he's such a loser/aff. He does not know what he is doing but if you give him a sword he will protect you with his life. Dies to zombies on a regular basis and has some of the shittiest in-game reaction time. Rage quits when he dies and loses his stuff but also refuses to turn on keep inventory so it's literally just a never-ending cycle.

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[mercymermaid]

in the beginnings of the loops, minecraft is a bonding experience for the three. heart has the eye of an artist, and the shit he builds looks straight out of a fairytale, especially if you have shaders on (which he always does, a million of them). he prefers creative, because it gives him access to blocks that would take far too long to get enough of in survival, and because after a few times of dying after falling off your 100-block wall and having to climb all the way back up, you get tired. he's a little slow at it, but not because of lack of experience, but because he needs to make sure every single block is perfect.

mind is the redstone guy, and has almost half of the minecraft wiki memorized by heart (ha). he really likes those brutal building aesthetics, so it's all stone and some blue thrown in. however, he is a god at redstone. it's not even funny at this point - you could ask him to build a working calculator and he'd do it. he doesn't look at youtube or sites while doing his builds, unless it's am extremely rudimentary tutorial on how something works so he can utilize it. after his builds, though, he'll scroll through hours of videos, fascinated and taking mental notes to use later. he has locked soul in a pandora's vault-esque (dsmp reference i'm so sorry) before, and would do it a million times over. he also plays in creative, but only because it gives him more space to be methodical. not because he's too focused on logic to try and deal with the twenty zombies and two skeletons on his tail. totally. (/s)

soul is the little warrior, constantly in survival and terrorizing their worlds. his bases are lacking, dirt houses and holes in the grounds, but they do their job, and he's constantly on the move. while heart and mind build, he's out there grinding, getting stacks of netherite and an insane amount of pet chickens. once heart is done with a build he likes, he'll invade it and dump some of his supplies before moving on.

heart and mind, though their building styles are opposite, would sometimes work together and create castles that were beautiful and detailed enough to satiate heart's taste, and stoney and mechanical enough to satiate mind's. they would also hunt down soul for fun, obviously, despite the promise that soul will grief their builds afterwards. heart gets immediately attached to every single animal he sees, whether it be a horse or a sheep, and pulls out nametags to give them all names. he begs mind to move his pets into his one specific world where he keeps all of them, and while at first mind is insistent that that's not possible, he eventually manages to figure it out, somehow. he claims it's so heart stops pestering him, but we all know how true that is.

then comes cacophony. the little block game goes dim, their builds and experiences rot and fester, forgotten. at first, they were even used as leverage, though as time went on, even that stopped. mind is too busy playing king to bother touching his computer, soul is tired and lacks motivation, and heart is quite literally blind.

then comes concord. soul, desperate for a break from the two after a loop of no motivation, boots up minecraft. mind, bored, does the same. they join each other, and it quickly spirals back into what it was pre-cacophony; stupid antics and detailed builds.

heart feels excluded, since he can't play anymore, especially not in his way of creative building. he can still visualize his castles and everything he used to make, he can still make up new ones on the spot with intricate detail, and he itches to build them, to bring them to the world.

one shy request later, he sits at mind's side, dictating, block by block, how to build his newest idea, thankful for mind's logicality and ability to follow directions for once. that becomes the new norm - if mind is in a good mood and not busy, heart will flop into his room, drape himself across the bed, dictate a build, then bring himself right up to the screen to see (through what he can) if it at least looks right enough. and, because deep down, mind isn't a monster, he follows the instructions as best he can, not daring to change a block unless told to, trusting of his third's artistic genius. as they play, mind will mention when a stray animal wanders by, and more often than not, heart will immediately demand that mind get a nametag, and mind begrudgingly obliges.

they're so stupid

[the-s1lly-corner]

Flufftober prompt 24: Game night (Ben Drowned)

list here god i missed listening to nightcore, playing some songs while i write this ueueueu take me back to middle school plsplsplspls i want to go back to being whimsical and making edgy ocs plot: you and ben play some games together and try to have fun! notes: platonic post, heavy on the hcs for the admin, ben is physically inside the console for most of the fic, reader is gn, you guys are playing minecraft because the admin doesnt have much gaming experience LMAO word count: 752 cws: none

"Did you raid my house?" You asked out loud as you looked through the chests in your house. They were all empty, picked through clean. Not a single item was left. You'd be less annoyed if some dirt or cobblestone were left behind, but Ben was thorough. A static cackle pulls itself from your computer speakers.

You don't respond. This was one of the more tame things he's done in the world, at least it didn't destroy anything. You were wise to start a new world instead of opening one of your older ones, you were sure if you had your work would be left in ruins. You were tempted to join a server with him to play games...

What all would he have been capable of there?

In a single player world he's already proven to be able to build anything he wanted- and destroy anything. Large craters and random block placements from him trying to spawn and contain something, or to try to bug you as you tried to run away.

You've sworn off playing alone with him when it's dark due to him playing a well placed noise while you were focused on exploring a cave. Something Ben still holds over your head, and pouts over when you refuse to play with him in the middle of the night.

A finger taps on the keyboard as you think over your options, you could go mine for the materials again if Ben doesn't give them back. Which he probably won't, he may have full access to the creative menu- something you had tried to prevent so the both of you could work together in survival, but trying to prevent a ghost hacking your game was virtually impossible.

You couldn't kick him, either, the game didn't register him as a second player. He was simply there.

Leaning back in your chair you look up at the ceiling.

"You make playing games with you difficult, man... you know that, right?" You glance at the screen as it flickers. The graphics warp and glitch, before flickering into a solid color as a pair of hands reach forward. They feel blindly in the air in front of you, before coming down to the edge of the desk and settling, soon a head peers out.

Ben doesn't pull himself entirely out of your computer, instead remaining in the current position he was in. One that did not look at all comfortable.

Static and crackling filled the air as he remained, his eyes narrowed.

Not angry, more so annoyed.

"It's not my fault you're boring, it's a sandbox game- you can do anything and you just follow building tutorials and mine," He frowns, sticking out his tongue at you.

"It's a sandbox game meaning I'm allowed to do whatever I want," You shoot back. He hisses in response.

"We can try to find something that's more your taste, there's got to be something..." You tap your foot on the ground. You'd have to wait until he retreats back into the computer or exits it. Assuming he would let you run it properly if he returns into it.

"Minecraft's nice, maybe you could put in some mods? Like the ones the people you watch have,"

You ponder for a moment.

"Like the horror ones?"

"Yeah like the horror ones, those ones!" He grins, fingers curling tighter around your desk.

You purse your lips, and stare at him. "Only if you play survival with me, no cheating. It's not fun if I'm the only one getting chased."

"For you, but I think it's funny."

You glare at him, and reach for your mouse. "Whatever... can you move out of the way so I can look for a couple to install?"

He nods, before backing into the screen. Suddenly, he pauses and looks at you intensely, red pupils staring right into your own eyes.

"Don't add too many dweller mods, I can't stand most of those." He hisses.

You nod, knowing full well that he would take control of the computer if he saw you installing a mod he didn't like the looks of... You make a vague mental note to get a better protections on your computer, Ben clicks on just about anything that catches his eye.

He finally fully returns to the screen, leaving you in silence in a now empty world. The sound of your player picking up multiple stacks of items at the same time makes you jolt.

Ben had given you back your things.

[eclipseohno]

i'm gonna say it:

ugly sonic is better than the minecraft movie

i cannot stress enough how fucking angry the trailers make me. the only enjoyment i get from watching them is gawking at how insanely awful the whole thing is. it's uncanny, it's gross, it feel disrespectful to the entire spirit of what minecraft is supposed to be. "flint and steel" was the only thing that got a laugh out of me, not because it was genuinely funny, but more of like a "what the fuck lmao" type of moment.

every trailer has chipped away my already incredibly low faith more and more, to the point that i'm actually offended that they're pushing out into theaters.

ugly sonic may have put me into disbelief, but everything related to the minecraft movie has upset me so much. like. it's not hard to make a good movie for minecraft. even parkour civilization, as overstimulating and cheesy and ridiculous as it is, is so much better. because it embraces how cheesy it is and does it well enough. and i've yet to watch the whole thing because, as i've said, i find it slightly overstimulating. and there are so many series and videos and genuine works of art related to minecraft already out there and it baffles me that a multi BILLION dollar game has a movie that looks this bad.

hermitcraft, life series, stampy's lovely world, white pine, parkour civ, the librarian's from the fog, artimator, 100 days challenges, horror mod series, garfilled, zeemyth, horror args from andrewgaming to the one with the noodle moon anomalies to oldroot, mcc, the fallen kingdoms saga, fucking mincraft story mode. all of these and more embody the actual nature of mincraft so much better because even if modded or altered it's still minecraft. it still has that minecraft vibe that none of the trailers have been able to provide. i can't tell you what exactly the vibe is, but it's there. the movie just feels like those shitty clickbait videos that prey on children for views and money. there's none of the heart, the serenity, the feeling of possibility and beauty that this 15 year old game about building blocks has given so many people.

this game means so much to me. and this movie clearly doesn't care about anyone but the most impressionable, gullible of children. this movie isn't minecraft. it doesnt even look anything like the game.

minecraft is about surviving. struggling. spawning into a world for the first time and being scared of creepers and skeletons. it's running from ghasts, raiding mineshafts, building bigger and better houses. getting spooked by cave noises, swearing up and down to your friends that no, herobrine is real, i saw him and he killed my dog. spawning the wither for the first time, failing to kill it, and running away from everything you had ever known to escape it. discovering the world borders, building an army of dogs, sneaking the tablet late at night to follow a build tutorial. creating a world just to blow it up and cover it with lava. build a hotel out of colorful wool. typeing "deez nuts" into the seed generator to see what happens. typing your name to see what happens. running from the warden, fighting the warden, flying with an elytra for the first time, getting swarmed by phantoms because you've been sucked into a project for several hours. sitting in your room while it rains outside, panicking with your friends because your all backed into a cave, running out of torches and food while mobs close in on all sides. those 2 week long hyperfixation sessions. learning better build techniques. trying out mods for the first time, playing on public servers.

that's minecraft. not... whatever the movie has going on. like i don't even like piglins that much and i feel bad for them getting the short end of the stick in the movie like that.

and don't even get me started on the villagers. dear god.

at least they cared enough to fix sonic. minecraft couldn't give less of a fuck, and it shows.

[kisses4mizu]

BES characters in minecraft

Mizu

- goes ALL out, does whatever it takes to go into the end portal to kill the dragon

- ragequits and throws the controller to the wall

- “taigen will pay for the damage..” || “WHAT THE HELL DID I DO???”

- will kill whoever changes the survival mode to creative mode which disrupts the features

Akemi

- busy planting flowers, using tutorials to make cute houses and finding animals to take in as pets (especially horses!!)

- unsure abt how the game works and watches minecraft streams to improve

- if she could, forever peaceful mode 🙏 but has a WHOLE personality change in survival

- “oh, cute cow!” to “censored shouting”

Taigen

- will spent 20 minutes trying out every skin

- sets up bombs in forests and lights villages on fire ^_^

- bro sacrifices the villagers to the zombies and pillagers

- guards his house like crazy

- he’ll disturb the others like secretly killing akemi’s cows or making sure mizu doesn’t get to the end portal

- “zombie, OH ZOMBIE, OH CRAP, GO AWAY, SHIT SHIT, GO AWAY” voice goes higher and higher as he shouts lmao

Ringo

- would never die for some reason??

- cutie goes to sleep at appointed time

- rlly likes the orange and green beds!!

- fascinated by everything in the game be it the sakura flowers or the cats giving birth to a million kittens

- finds the craziest shit like woodland mansions or mushroom field biomes

- helps round up more animals for akemi or following taigen and mizu around the game

[wwaddless]

hello! this is a custom cherry blossom island that i made!

originally i started this in survival, every single piece of grass/sand that is there was originally stone. i hand-mined and replaced all of it, though in some layers if you dig you'll just immediately see stone lol. a couple of the buildings were also done in survival, namely the tree house, lighthouse, house, docks, bridge to the lighthouse, and the enchanting area. this also includes all the glass and concrete for the stars and moon. eventually i got sick of doing it all in survival and switched to creative, cause it was faster and got me more excited on the project lmao

i used 4 tutorials for this, and i'll put them under the cut. some other things i looked at pinterest for inspo so if anyone is curious i can send a pinterest board or specific pins.

overall was a fun learning experience! i love terraforming in minecraft lmao, but building is super hard for me, so it was fun to learn different things through tutorials and just trying shit out. :3

tutorials!

Cherry Blossom Starter House // Croissant Cat

Cherry Blossom Treehouse // Cortezerino

How to Build a Lighthouse // ThisIsDoomGaming

Cherry Blossom Greenhouse // Polar Cat

:3

[diorods]

Minecraft Starter House! A Cozy Cherry Blossom Cottage Base!

A simple and yet complete starter house / base for any survival game in the new Cherry Grove Biome! I hope this serves as inspiration for the start of your own base in Minecraft! I had a ton of fun trying the new blocks! Hope you like it 🙌 Tutorial here :))

✨ Shaders: Bsl Shaders 🕹 Game version: 1.20.1 🌹 Resource Packs: Jerm's Better Leaves ps: I freaking looove the vibes, ahhhhh 🌸

[paikothecateater]

Types of houses they'd make on minecraft?

I get the feeling I may have answered this one before. Welp, there's more than one type of house for each.

Denmark: the cube

Small

Flat and uninteresting

Utilitarian

You get a bed, chest, crafting table and furnace and you will be happy for it, peasant!

Sweden: the 'there's no way you didn't watch a tutorial'

Unnecessarily huge and detailed

Cool rooms, but also completely useless

Still refuses to let anyone come over to his Minecraft house

'why is there a fucking sauna!? This is a survival world! We're trying to kill the dragon, not speedrun HGTV!'

Finland: the struggle hole

Stayed in a hole on the first night because he didn't have enough wool for a bed

Decided to live in the hole

Like the cube, but infinitely worse

Mm, dirt, very wall

Watched a creeper blow itself up and went 'mm, house'

Norway: the 'I'm just a girl'

Did not build it by himself

Sweden felt bad because he absolutely sucks at building and made him a basic, but still pretty nice house

He proceeds to cover the entire wall in item frame J-pegs of Iceland

Responded with 'tee hee' in chat when Iceland asked him why he did that

Iceland: the 'the children yearn for the mines'

'lol what's sleep?'

Only surfaced once during the entire game, only to kill Norway with raw beef because weapons are for the weak and Norway has interesting home decor tastes

Would probably go 'damn, you live like this?' to the others, but the asshole lives in a strip mine

'ICELAND! PUT DOWN A FUCKING BED AND SLEEP! WE'RE ALL IN BED!'

Thank you and I hope you enjoyed.

[todays-an-adventure]

Modded Minecraft Server

I've been running a Minecraft Server for about a year now with my group of friends, unfortunately the server's time is coming to an end due to inactivity, but I did want to show off the builds I made for me and my friends! Disclaimer: Some builds were inspired by YouTube tutorials or online images.

All of these were built in survival.

Server Spawn:

Potion Shop:

Bookstore:

Card Shop:

Hot Chocolate Stand:

Bank:

Courthouse:

Christmas Tree (Last time played was December):

Spawn Waystone:

Market:

My House:

The Farm's House:

Storage Shed at the Farm:

The Stable (My biggest project with about 45 horse stalls):

Secret Underground Bar:

Another Friend's House:

[piratesexmachine420]

One Last Minecraft Post, I Swear

I've hit the wall again. Right where I remembered it being. This is what I want to avoid with Invox. (I was playing for research this whole time, I promise!)

Killing the dragon, looting the End and getting an elytra is not the end of the game. I agree with this position. But it's one of the last rewarding things to do in the game. Beyond exploits, there are no more mechanical shackles to remove.

I've made a bed. I've gone caving. I've explored a couple structures and dungeons*. I've built a house and tamed my immediate surroundings. I've acquired a couple vanity items (two musics discs, some armor trims and banner patterns). I tamed some animals. I've crafted some ender chests and shulker boxes. I've won, both by literally getting to the end credits and by advancing to a game state where the only barrier between me and my creative vision is the time sink.

I've been playing on that upgraded-from-20100415 world, and I was considering trying to turn those spawn chunks into like a national park type deal. Y'know, put hiking trails, information boards, and railings everywhere. Build a visitors center, add benches and overlooks, porta-potties, etc.

But I just get exhausted thinking about how long it would take. If I wanted to disable hostile mob spawning, for example, I would either have to mine a couple hundred stacks of coal, exploit the game to construct an automated torch farm (which I would have to copy verbatim from some else's tutorial), or exploit the game even harder and construct a "mob switch".

If the only meaningful difference between building in late-game survival mode and building in creative is that survival mode takes 100x longer, why would I want to build in survival mode? Clout? That's a terrible reason.

I could try to get better gear, but that's even more tedious. I've got plenty of netherite upgrades lying around, but you couldn't pay me to actually mine ancient debris. Something something "when Destiny Minecraft players say something is hard they mean it has a really big health bar requires holding down left click for a really long time."

My other option, enchanting, isn't that appealing either. Because of how enchanting is structured, it mostly involves running around in the Nether (one of the least interesting and most annoying places to mine long-term) digging up quartz for XP, popping back into the Overworld once I hit level 30, clicking the third option in the enchantment table, then grinding off my failure and rinse-repeating fro a couple hours. Is that fun? It doesn't really feel fun.

Besides, what am I even gonna use that gear for, anyway? More dungeons? Netherite is overkill for all of 'em. So is decently-enchanted diamond. Moreover, even if they did require better gear they wouldn't really be worth it. They're obnoxious to locate without external tools (no village nearby = no access to cartographers without a ten minute trek!) provide very little in the way of novelty in their format, and 97% of the rewards are stuff I already have or more high-level gear I don't actually need for anything (sponges, maces, etc.).

There is nothing left to mine, craft, build, or kill that I have not mined, crafted, built or killed before.

There are two solutions to this problem, as I see it. We can take the approach of large-scale content mods like Advent of Ascension (picked because it's a personal favorite) or the Aether and massively increase the number of explicit progression tiers; or we can take a leaf from the 20w14∞ book and adopt a position of radical simplicity: when the player has reached the final progression tier, drop the timesinks. Want diamonds? Just find a diamond block dimension!

Both have merits. I would like Invox to play like the former in its early game before transitioning into the latter as the player progresses. The general gameplay loop I have planned is for players to enter a random (finite) level, progress in tool tiers and home base functionality until they can assault the dungeon at the bottom of the level, then rinse-repeat with increasingly difficult levels (at the player's discretion) until the player gets the option to travel to specific levels. At that point we can start giving them the really overpowered stuff -- not just for combat, but building and mining too! Tools for instantly constructing walls, digging 16x16x16 holes with a single strike, etc. After all, they won! They did everything I asked of them! Why continue to test them? Test what, even? Their patience? No thank you.

*That's "Dungeon" in the sense of "procedurally generated structure designed to be explored, looted and defeated"; not just the vestigial little cobblestone boxes from Infedv.

[thekingdomofran]

Life needs mystery

Something I've been thinking about recently, is how following our curiosity and finding things out changes our lives forever. Like, for ages you drive by a long driveway and wonder who or what is down there, but then by some strange circumstance you end up there for an event or something and that mystery is gone. You know what's there now. And it could be a really fun place to be, but is it more fun than the mystery and speculation when you didn't know? And I never got to watch CaptainSparklez growing up because of my limited/restricted access to the internet. But, I would read the Minecraft handbooks and read about him and he was always this mysterious Minecraft legend. But, now that I watch some of his videos, I know who he is, and some of that mystery is gone. (Due to trying to keep up with Hermitcraft/life series and trying to live my own life I haven't actually watched a majority Jardon's videos yet, so a lot of that mystery is still there.) Same with Paulsoares jr. I watched I think it was his first video, but never continued. I would like to at some point though.

This also ties in to why I don't like Solo a star wars story. Yes, we were curious about Han's past, but he was supposed to be a man of mystery, with a questionable background. And now we know what his past was like, and he's not so mysterious anymore. It's also why I am extremely glad with, albeit infuriated by, the fact that no one will reveal Yoda's species. No one knows what to call his species, but it perfectly fits the "mysterious swamp wizard" thing he's got going. Like, in universe, no one knows what to call him. They wonder what species he is, so us not knowing adds an immersive aspect to it.

So, in exploring and following our curiosity, we lose a lot of mysteries. When you know every little thing about something it stops being fun. It's why the best shows often don't answer all the questions and leave room for speculation. It's also why cliffhangers are so annoying. Because the big obvious suspenseful question isn't getting answered, there's no resolution, and we don't see the little questions as much because we are so focused on the big question. Also, cliffhangers feel like betrayal but that's a different issue. The little questions are more wonderment and fascination where as cliffhangers are eternal suspense and frustration.

Life needs mysteries in order to be fun. Sometimes it's finding our own mysteries, other times creating mysteries for other people. Like, finding and exploring the secret garden and then keeping it a secret so it's a mystery for others.

My advice for this post is enjoy life's mysteries, stay curious, don't be afraid to learn something new, and also don't be afraid to be ok with not knowing everything.

Short story: the first Minecraft youtuber I ever watched was Thinknoodles, starting with old diversity episodes then Noodle Planet both of them being on the minecraft channel on Pluto tv on the roku. His tree house on the Noodle Planet inspired me to build above ground for once. Then when I wanted to improve my building skills I looked up tutorials on youtube and found Grian's build school. I remember him saying he was going to be joining hermitcraft and how he would have to get used to playing in survival. Then I followed him to hermitcraft and that remains my favorite server to this day. At some point I went and found his evo series and I haven't finished that either... (I'm really good at starting things, I'm not so good at fini