Yeah. Once I built a slimeball farm (taking forever with 2 people) I really didn't know what else to do. My wife would definitely play if there were more goals (she helped me with the slime farm after I taught her basic Minecraft controls and techniques. It would be cool if a story mode was built into it some how so you could occupy yourself longer. I don't know. Great game still! Love cave exploring!
Personally, I get a lot of inspiration from YouTubers. I'll see what they're building, think "Oh man that's cool", and start figuring out how to build something similar or put my own spin on their build. For example, I'm currently working on a "space base" area after watching a bunch of VintageBeef HermitCraft videos.
I also spend a lot of time in Creative Mode figuring out new redstone do-dad's and game mechanics to break up some of the monotony of Survival.
Set goals, and work twoard acheiving them. If your new to the game then start simple, like crafting a notch apple, or finding and conquering a dungeon. If your a little more advanced then set loftier goals, like acquiring a stack of diamond blocks, or a double chest of emeralds. If building is your thing then work twoard acquiring rare blocks to make your builds look better. If you like the technical side of the game then learn redstone and build contraptions, this is better to do in creative, there is much to learn and many mistakes will be made (speaking from experience here). I've been playing for two and a half years, and I've been working on my current survival world for over a year. When I started I picked a seed from the seeds section of the forum that had the things I wanted. My goals were to get better at building and make crazy fast farms and automate as much as possible. I'm still working on both of those goals. At this point I have or have had a farm for most renewable resources that is automated to some degree (updates have broken some farms, and I'm waiting for observers to rebuild them, as I still have many double chests of those resources), and my builds have become much better looking.
Youtube is a continuing source of inspiration for me. There are so many minecraft videos it's unreal. I, personally, am partial to the hermitcraft crew and the sci-craft server members, but there are so many other great content makers out there.
That being said, we all get tired of minecraft from time to time. If you truly like the game inspiration will hit again and you'll find another reason to invest your free time. There are so many facets to the game, and I've given only a few examples.
I got bored so i built an end ship after I found the end gateway- I mined every block of the ship in the end and rebuilt it in the over world using a blueprint I found.
Try building a rail line that connects all the interesting areas in your world. I did it in my first world by building a "monorail" at y=84 that circled the outer edge of my 1-map world. Another one-map world I made was based on the Southern map of Westeros. It just so happened that the 6 villages that generated were roughly near where major cities would be. I built walled cities, did some terraforming and so on. I made roads to match the Rose Road, Goldroad, River Road, etc then put rails down in a huge figure-8 style. It was a bit tricky to get them to work well going either direction, especially at the crossover point, but it was a fun way to see my whole world. I tried a 5x5 map world, but it's way too big for a completionist like me.
I have a nice 3x3 map world now, and I've been connecting the cool parts. I have three Ocean Monuments, which line up ~200 blocks away from each other. My rails go under water (enclosed in blue glass), then through the monuments (enclosed in cyan glass), then out and up through the lighted arches, then back up top. Very soon I'll have them connected to my pyramid, which is the single largest thing I've built so far.
Try building the Perfect Pyramid -- it's actually a diamond -- a pyramid built over an inverted pyramid.
Find a good spot to build it -- it's big. Partially over land and water works, even over deep ocean (sponges will help a lot). The base is at sea level (y=64) and is 123 blocks long. Map it out, find the center block and mine down. You want a "plug" at bedrock (y=3). Note that the base is not 64+64+center, it is 62+62+center, since we don't really go down to level 1.
At sea level, start excavating. Every time you clear a level, the next level is one block closer to the center. You can face the inside of the inverted pyramid with whatever you like. Sandstone steps look very cool when it's done. If I were building it in the ocean, I might use glass blocks. I took out any veins I found and filled in with stone. I also made a trench all the way to bedrock which radiated out from the center block to the edges of the base. Dump a bucket of water from a "dirt hole" to your bedrock hole to make up & down travel easier. Just take it out when you're done.
Once your inverted pyramid is finished, the worst is over. Start winding your way around the top pyramid laying blocks. Using steps is a little tedious, but worth it. Also, put a glowstone block in every corner as you build. In addition to lighting your pyramid within, some of the light will bleed out around the steps and make it look pretty ghostly from the outside at night. When you reach the very top, dump a bucket of lava down the hole and light the whole thing up.
I made access points at the top of the trenches, at the midpoints of the four bases, as well as at the center at the bottom of the trenches. Running around the inside is kind of an optical trip. It's huge and impressive and totally unnecessary -- what minecraft's all about.
Try building the Perfect Pyramid -- it's actually a diamond -- a pyramid built over an inverted pyramid.
Try building a rail line that connects all the interesting areas in your world.
Thanks for this! i might working on some of those but the bored part is getting the stuff u need for these! im currently sitting on an amplified world not a lot of terrain to build buildings in, got a lot of big projects back in the day sadly they were'nt done...
I've been finding seeds lately to start up a new world but i need that perfect seed like all of the biomes and an ocean monument, you're seed sound interesting 3 ocean monuments!? can i have the seed pls!
sorry for the late reply!
I got bored so i built an end ship after I found the end gateway- I mined every block of the ship in the end and rebuilt it in the over world using a blueprint I found.
title says it all...
haha thanks
Build mini games
yep that would be fun! ill try!
Yeah. Once I built a slimeball farm (taking forever with 2 people) I really didn't know what else to do. My wife would definitely play if there were more goals (she helped me with the slime farm after I taught her basic Minecraft controls and techniques. It would be cool if a story mode was built into it some how so you could occupy yourself longer. I don't know. Great game still! Love cave exploring!
Personally, I get a lot of inspiration from YouTubers. I'll see what they're building, think "Oh man that's cool", and start figuring out how to build something similar or put my own spin on their build. For example, I'm currently working on a "space base" area after watching a bunch of VintageBeef HermitCraft videos.
I also spend a lot of time in Creative Mode figuring out new redstone do-dad's and game mechanics to break up some of the monotony of Survival.
Set goals, and work twoard acheiving them. If your new to the game then start simple, like crafting a notch apple, or finding and conquering a dungeon. If your a little more advanced then set loftier goals, like acquiring a stack of diamond blocks, or a double chest of emeralds. If building is your thing then work twoard acquiring rare blocks to make your builds look better. If you like the technical side of the game then learn redstone and build contraptions, this is better to do in creative, there is much to learn and many mistakes will be made (speaking from experience here). I've been playing for two and a half years, and I've been working on my current survival world for over a year. When I started I picked a seed from the seeds section of the forum that had the things I wanted. My goals were to get better at building and make crazy fast farms and automate as much as possible. I'm still working on both of those goals. At this point I have or have had a farm for most renewable resources that is automated to some degree (updates have broken some farms, and I'm waiting for observers to rebuild them, as I still have many double chests of those resources), and my builds have become much better looking.
Youtube is a continuing source of inspiration for me. There are so many minecraft videos it's unreal. I, personally, am partial to the hermitcraft crew and the sci-craft server members, but there are so many other great content makers out there.
That being said, we all get tired of minecraft from time to time. If you truly like the game inspiration will hit again and you'll find another reason to invest your free time. There are so many facets to the game, and I've given only a few examples.
I got bored so i built an end ship after I found the end gateway- I mined every block of the ship in the end and rebuilt it in the over world using a blueprint I found.
Maybe try something you've never done before, like redstone
Try building a rail line that connects all the interesting areas in your world. I did it in my first world by building a "monorail" at y=84 that circled the outer edge of my 1-map world. Another one-map world I made was based on the Southern map of Westeros. It just so happened that the 6 villages that generated were roughly near where major cities would be. I built walled cities, did some terraforming and so on. I made roads to match the Rose Road, Goldroad, River Road, etc then put rails down in a huge figure-8 style. It was a bit tricky to get them to work well going either direction, especially at the crossover point, but it was a fun way to see my whole world. I tried a 5x5 map world, but it's way too big for a completionist like me.
I have a nice 3x3 map world now, and I've been connecting the cool parts. I have three Ocean Monuments, which line up ~200 blocks away from each other. My rails go under water (enclosed in blue glass), then through the monuments (enclosed in cyan glass), then out and up through the lighted arches, then back up top. Very soon I'll have them connected to my pyramid, which is the single largest thing I've built so far.
Try building the Perfect Pyramid -- it's actually a diamond -- a pyramid built over an inverted pyramid.
Find a good spot to build it -- it's big. Partially over land and water works, even over deep ocean (sponges will help a lot). The base is at sea level (y=64) and is 123 blocks long. Map it out, find the center block and mine down. You want a "plug" at bedrock (y=3). Note that the base is not 64+64+center, it is 62+62+center, since we don't really go down to level 1.
At sea level, start excavating. Every time you clear a level, the next level is one block closer to the center. You can face the inside of the inverted pyramid with whatever you like. Sandstone steps look very cool when it's done. If I were building it in the ocean, I might use glass blocks. I took out any veins I found and filled in with stone. I also made a trench all the way to bedrock which radiated out from the center block to the edges of the base. Dump a bucket of water from a "dirt hole" to your bedrock hole to make up & down travel easier. Just take it out when you're done.
Once your inverted pyramid is finished, the worst is over. Start winding your way around the top pyramid laying blocks. Using steps is a little tedious, but worth it. Also, put a glowstone block in every corner as you build. In addition to lighting your pyramid within, some of the light will bleed out around the steps and make it look pretty ghostly from the outside at night. When you reach the very top, dump a bucket of lava down the hole and light the whole thing up.
I made access points at the top of the trenches, at the midpoints of the four bases, as well as at the center at the bottom of the trenches. Running around the inside is kind of an optical trip. It's huge and impressive and totally unnecessary -- what minecraft's all about.
Thanks for this! i might working on some of those but the bored part is getting the stuff u need for these! im currently sitting on an amplified world not a lot of terrain to build buildings in, got a lot of big projects back in the day sadly they were'nt done...
I've been finding seeds lately to start up a new world but i need that perfect seed like all of the biomes and an ocean monument, you're seed sound interesting 3 ocean monuments!? can i have the seed pls!
sorry for the late reply!
i might do something like this, thanks for the reply!
interesting... can i have the blueprint aswell?
No Prob man!
maybe try pixel art and showing the community, if you do good luck 'cause I am bad with pixels.