I don't get it. What is fun about that game? Can someone please explain it to me. I know you can build stuff in minecraft but is it just about building stuff that looks pretty. I don't understand minecraft.

OP here. What I mean is, is there some mechanic in the game itself that makes building stuff in the game meaningful?

I don't know either. Every time I have played Minecraft, I just farmed diamonds and other resources for like two weeks, eight hours a day, to be able to build something big. But in the end, I neither had an idea of what to build, nor did I have any skill to build anything, nor did I really see any point in doing so, and just quit again. A bit similar to working and earning money for me, now that I think about it.

Minecraft isn't a good game, what it is is about five mediocre games in one package:
-A sandbox building game
-A survival game
-A platform for multiplayer minigames on servers like hypixel
-A technical automation game like factorio
-A social hangout space like secondlife
It's not the best at any of these things, but it's the only game that has all of them in one place, which everyone is already familiar with.

what's fun about a box of legos? they are just plastic blocks that can stick together...

i can't tell what you're expecting from minecraft on account of me not being you (the plight of our kind) but since you don't seem to be finding it there i think you should try vintage story. it leans more into the survival and crafting aspects and it does so competently while still providing a sandbox building experience, one with obstacles and consequences. something about limitations and creativity... it has a mid-res pastel artstyle, detailed and soft on the eyes.
are you looking for a stronger sense of direction? you're a cute little puppy.
vs directs the player towards building a safe environment by having violent wildlife coupled with dark and dangerous nights (which come with beautifully lit skies full of shiny stars). the dangers around you will beat into submission in the beginning. nature is a rigid and unjust system. you'd better learn to play by its rules. hunger plays a bigger role; you'll go hungry quickly (adjustable, like most world rules) and food is scarce. while hunger is harsher, you're rewarded for eating well with bonus max health. the climate that you are forced to or choose to live in will dictate the kind of crops that you can grow as well as the flora and fauna that you will find. you'll find obstacles to overcome everywhere. you're constantly encouraged to want to do new things and obtain new tech.
are you looking for more ways to express yourself by modifying the world?
vs allows you to carve symbols and patterns into surfaces or mark them with charcoal. you're given way more ways to decorate rooms. you can place items on shelves, on floors or on tables, tools into tool racks or against walls, precious minerals into display cases, books into bookshelves. you can write into books. you can bake pies which you can stuff with (almost) any 4x2 edible thing. stew cooking works similarly but you can go up to 4x6. you can build beautiful and useful structures like longhouses, mud huts, cellars (for keeping all the good food you're gonna be cooking!) ramparts, moats, watchtowers, light fixtures with waterproof lanterns that house candles (since torches burn out), functional windmills (for grinding grain or stones), barns, artificial bodies of water... you get the idea. you could also build useless things; flower gardens, massive idols, small wooden, stone or glass statues, huge shapes carved into cliffs, holy temples or sacrificial altars. there's a tailor class, fully dedicated to providing functional fashion for its partners and itself at the cost of living in a frail frame.
are you looking for a much slower ascent to the status of apex predator?
vs provides a long and difficult technological ladder for you to climb. you'll start out in a "post-great-times" stone age, a dangerous world governed by the system of nature, littered with the remnants of past civilisations. decrepit stone structures can be found on the surface, some better-preserved structures can be found down below. you could figure out clay moulds and start a farm, become sedentary and stagnate. you could make your way up the metal ages, from copper to bronze to iron to steel, unlocking the benefits of metal tools, like being able to use a saw to make planks which can then be used to build tables for advanced cooking and barrels for aging and dyeing. the peak of technology doesn't provide total automation so you'll never run out of chores. or you could do none of that and struggle as a nomadic hunter-gatherer-scavenger. "if you only do what is easy, your life will be hard."
are you looking for more involved, almost tactile mechanics?
vs's stone-chipping, clay-shaping, blacksmithing and block-carving are based on voxel building, you have to chip away at the dots or stack the dots up or hammer the dots into place until you have the shape of your desires in front of you. it's pretty epic and autistic. like shiina mayuri but without the big boobs. i hope the devs update the tailoring to be like that too instead of having it use the crafting ui.
it might not be what you're looking for, if you don't like survival elements and a rigid gameplay routine you probably won't have fun with it. there's a creative mode if you just want to build but it kinda defeats the purpose of building since resource acquisition is a major part of what makes building fun. where's the fun in building a castle if you don't have to suffer through it?

CHICKEN JOCKEY

one time i was super sad and i couldn't do anything, but in that emptiness of an existence there's a light at the end of the tunnel and that light was my minecraft horse

>>4
Honestly the reason Minecraft got so big is that is because of it's survival single player, pure sandbox doesn't really appeal to normies that much imo.

ROBLOX managed to surpass Minecraft's popularity by having popular MC youtubers introduce it to a wider audience while dumbing it down to ipad baby shit.

>>9
Maybe that's why minecraft classic is quite forgotten

>>1
minecraft is as good as the ideas you have for building something, if you don't have any plans or ideas for building you will not have fun and quit within a week, because the combat is simple, the tool progression is simple, and the exploration gets boring quickly
I have the most fun in minecraft when I have ideas to build stuff

Minecraft is the best with multiplayer

>>12
seconding this, but there really aren't many good minecraft servers. factions/towny are the best . Minecraft is the perfect game for larping starting a country and having wars

>>12
That was actually Notch's original vision. That is due to Minecraft being inspired by Infiniminer, an online only game.

c418

to enjoy Minecraft you have to be highly intrinsically motivated to play it, its the ultimate sandbox, there are some goals like killing the ender-dragon or reaching the nether its very lightly telegraphed to the player, apart from the advancements screen (witch doesn't give you the full details to certain stuff) its very much to the player on how to approach the game, build a dirt house or a gigantic mansion? sure you can do it, min-max the fuck how of the game with farms to make survival trivial, sure you can do it, go to creative and scorch the earth till you're satisfied? sure you can do it, or maybe you rather build a gigantic fully functioning calculator or just enjoy a leisured walk in the woods and collect flowers, there's no penalties, moral systems or whatever to impede your way, the only thing stopping you from creating what you want (either in survival or creative) is your own knowledge of the game (which also feels pretty fulfilling following the games development over the years, learning what tools and items you can use to do what you want) honestly most of the interesting stuff that mojang adds to the game is the back-end stuff that makes the game easier to modify to your hearts content and create your own experiences like custom maps or modding. The beauty of this game is that most people can find something to do with the game, either just enjoying survival or going deeper and use minecraft as an engine to create your own works of art (like using the building system to the limit to create huge scale pieces of art, or use it to create movies, music videos or outside of that create servers and gather a community, playing online is very fun with friends just dicking around for a week or participate in full roleplay server) IDK, this is very badly written, i'm not sure if I even explained it well to someone who doesn't get it but its a very special kind of game that im super autistic about :+

did you fap to square boobs?

i think the appeal just came from having a simple game that ran on nearly every platform available to anyone with fairly low requirements anyone could become friends on public servers like hypixel and alike even back in 2010 all the big vloging youtube stars played the game it was so widely accessible there was really nothing like it at the time all other survival games focused on realism and horror way too much so you couldnt play it on your parents laptop and the crafting mechanics didnt have the same simple charm even with the original very narrow choice of blocks it still made massive waves in being alot of kids creative outlet and if survival got boring you hopped on some hungergames or bedwars its basically the predecessor to what roblox became a master at just creating tons and tons of gamemodes while being highly customizble and gmod did exist but it had a much more mature image than the innocent cover with a yellow happy face of roblox or steves lowpoly beard ever did i think thats why alot of newgens are nostalgic more so for roblox than minecraft it kinda over took it in its own game yes there is still millions of players on minecraft but it will never beat roblox since it doesnt have a item market even though minecraft also has a dedicated community of modders and creators the engine of roblox is vastly supperior and you can easly go from a light hearted game of obby to horror games like doors minecraft needs to be manually moded to enjoy those types of experiences so i think it died because of that i dont think anyone who plays minecraft nowdays really gets on to play survival mostly just big youtubers paytowin servers that give little kids gambling addictions i dont really think theres much appeal anymore it was a product of its time and now its dead really gen z is growing up and so the player count is falling and i dont think that new s&box game will be accessible enough to even dent the roblox playerbase its perfectly accessible monitizable and game modes are easier than plug n play you just fucking tap the screen and boom new graphics and game mechanics plus it runs perfectly on an ipad i dont think ipad kids want to go through the trouble of having to mod their minecraft pocket edition manually with their short attention spans and inability to follow youtube tutorials

Autism soother

I liked to mess around in 2b2t sometimes, it's a pain to get any decent items but the rare times you find someones base is like gambling. When I was younger I watched a ton of MC ytbers and downloaded the mods they played and messed around with them. I remember finding random servers with cool builds and chatting with people on them. I don't play it anymore but that's what I remember mostly doing.

honestly fucking hated that game always got greifed or just friends would play when i was offline and id come back just to be given full gear that i didnt have to work for so damn boring i remember actually beating the game when i was like 12 with my big brother that was actually really cool but it just kinda got ruined when i got into highschool and nobody played the game the same way i did

i enjoy it as an art tool. its like diorama building, but you have infinite resources and the world you make is alive and inhabitable. i also get a lot out of finding picturesque scenery. it may be procgen, but the game can create some beautiful views

While I enjoy playing with friends, I have recently had the idea of playing on the Alpha version as that is the first experience I had with it.
I was talking to Mint about this the other day, might post my play sessions on my channel and do my usual rambling over it

Brown bricks in Mineycrafta