In my opinion i find all around survival to be...easy, practically routine, or past a point, a matter of how can i make this process more productive so that i have more reasources then i will ever need. Is it i am just suffering from playing the game for as long as i have and i am just used to the task of starting out mining, better resources, an hour later diamonds in hand. But more of late i find myself before ever doing any real mining, settling down right away, building me a decent wooden home i can call home, not just a square shack in the woods, this habit taking longer then any mining i would do and yet it feel more appealing.
well , what make the survival easy is because there no special event , that make your beautiful bunker outside,below,and above your house look useless in single player. but what i must say, this is minecraft, this is minecraft world , not real world .
add hunger overhaul, it makes the game more difficult and you can actually starve to death. Eating actually matters (basically the lower your hunger the slower you move), if you are bord with vanilla, try a modpack. or get 1 million potatoes (stretch goal?)
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My strategy is to always have a project you're working on, that way it can't get boring. This game is more about building than survival anyway. I'm never satisfied with my builds, so I am perpetually working on them and changing them.
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Vanilla is the best way to play Minecraft, In my opinion. Plugins suck.
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Have you tried ultrahardcore mode?
It can be quite difficult, especially when you can heal your health bars with golden apples and potions. To do this, you have to go to the nether and get the ingredients for the potions without being killed by mobs or falling down to the ground OR you can collect apples from oak trees.
You should try this! It's quite challenging!
When playing on Vanilla server or LAN server or single player mode: /gamerule naturalRegeneration false
When playing in multiplayer: Search up UHC servers, those ones similar to Minecrack
Since i was busy most of my day i didnt really reply to anyone in this forum post, and a lot more then i expected but this is the main provoking question, "Why not just install mods?" Well a few things, 1. Since the new .jar format and set up i haven't bother to learn how to install mods because i have college 2. i usually try to just goto multiplayer to get rid the easy boredom 3. I've played with over 110+ mods before and that doesn't always do the trick.
Vanilla minecraft is going to get easy after a while if you play it long enough. If you want a fresh new survival experience I recommend downloading one of 2 good survival mods:
1) Terrafirmacraft is an overhaul of the game, feels like a completely new survival game. This one is better if you prefer realism and a very difficult survival experience.
2) Magic Farm 2 mod pack (via FTB launcher), a compilation of mods that increase the challenge of survival in a different direction from Terrafirmacraft. This one is better if you prefer some fantasy, technology and tons of content.
I have used FTB a lot mixing my own mod packs, i have two laptops atm the one i do have minecraft on is like 4-5 years old and even with 2.1ghz and 4gb ram it doesnt like to run ftb, but my new one i can't play games on atm.
I second the TerraFirmaCraft suggestion. I will never play Vanilla again. When TFC stops being supported, that is when I stop playing Minecraft.
Vanilla survival is not just easy, it's trivial. Anybody with half a wit will master Vanilla survival in a day or two. You will eventually try it on Hardcore. But that doesn't make the game hard, it just makes you nervous while playing the same trivial game.
I don't know. Sometimes it feels a little easy, but - usually - then a lonely creeper comes to hug me and I get reimnded to keep my guard up. Sure, the first days are more challenging as you have to manage your food, protect yourself from mobs more etc. But then real uphill comes - make something in the world, that will make it different from all the others and somehow special. That's a true challenge to me.
Thats why when i was playing on a friends survival server i lined up path ways all around my area with redstone lamp paths wired from beneath the ground with a sensor on/off switch, cause before i put it in the first time a creeper blew up part of stair case i said NOPE.
I second the TerraFirmaCraft suggestion. I will never play Vanilla again. When TFC stops being supported, that is when I stop playing Minecraft.
Vanilla survival is not just easy, it's trivial. Anybody with half a wit will master Vanilla survival in a day or two. You will eventually try it on Hardcore. But that doesn't make the game hard, it just makes you nervous while playing the same trivial game.
I actually haven't heard of this mod till now when i went through my post, thats how much out of the mod game i am right now, before that specific update i never went into minecraft with a fresh jar, i even helped work on mods and skinning, but i just don't like the organization you have to do if you do it manually /:
Sometimes I think survival gets to easy, but I usually enjoy going cave mining and getting about 3-4 stacks of iron at a time, not to mention something around 10 stacks of coal ore It's always fun. It also keeps mobs from spawning in the caves underneath me.
Adding mods is easy enough now, I agree it was a bit confusing at first after the launcher change. It's usually just a case of installing forge (which does it automatically) making a forge profile with the new minecraft version forge created in the versions folder and then putting the .zip file in your mods folder, obviously with some variations to that depending on what mod you're installing.
TFC might still work, I have a friend who has a laptop less powerful than your PC, absolutely refuses to run FTB but will still run TFC at a choppy but playable framerate. It almost defies possibilities because theoretically speaking his available RAM should be in the negative when running TFC, but somehow it keeps chugging along without crashing.
Sadly these things do happen though, my laptop before the 4-5yr old one was 6gb ram and only a 1.55ghz and i could run a 20 person server and play or play with 100+ mods on it through ftb /: so i dont know, i get decent frames with vanilla but i guess just some mods mess with the graphics cards or certain drivers for the laptop to not handle it well which is weird cause i can play rust i just bought just fine. I tried the forge method when it first was put out and i did everything the same as i was told and it never seemed to work for me T:< but i guess its been improved since then and should be easier. but i noticed you are allowed to use the old launcher still and if that would technically change the format around and you wouldnt have different versions and profiles. i don't know im just rambling now ];
...but i just don't like the organization you have to do if you do it manually /:
It seems daunting, but it's not if you just follow the directions. The folks at TFC put together a good guide here: http://terrafirmacra...ki/Installation
The only thing that "installs" is Forge. You download forge, execute the file, and it creates a "Forge" profile on your Minecraft launcher. After that, all you have to do to run Forge mods is drop them in your minecraft mods folder. I have that folder favorited in Windows Explorer.
Just remember, TFC is an overhaul. You get the latest version of TFC, which tells you which Forge it was built from. You install THAT version of Forge (not the newest). That version of Forge was based off some version of Minecraft. THAT is the minecraft version you have to run in your profile.
TFC is compatible with other mods, but I don't recommend anything not specifically made for TFC. There is a directory that tells you what is kosher. Optifine is good so long as you get the right version for the Minecraft version you use. Some other aesthetic mods are fine too, just don't rock the boat too much. TFC is good in its own right.
If you do decide to give TFC a shot, also remember that it is hard. It is not unforgivably hard, but you will have many false starts. All your Vanilla instincts will kick in and get you killed many times over. It's almost a completely different game. Refer to the Wiki often.
add hunger overhaul, it makes the game more difficult and you can actually starve to death. Eating actually matters (basically the lower your hunger the slower you move), if you are bord with vanilla, try a modpack. or get 1 million potatoes (stretch goal?)
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It can be quite difficult, especially when you can heal your health bars with golden apples and potions. To do this, you have to go to the nether and get the ingredients for the potions without being killed by mobs or falling down to the ground OR you can collect apples from oak trees.
You should try this! It's quite challenging!
When playing on Vanilla server or LAN server or single player mode: /gamerule naturalRegeneration false
When playing in multiplayer: Search up UHC servers, those ones similar to Minecrack
I have used FTB a lot mixing my own mod packs, i have two laptops atm the one i do have minecraft on is like 4-5 years old and even with 2.1ghz and 4gb ram it doesnt like to run ftb, but my new one i can't play games on atm. Oh trust me i build enough stuff, just you slowly run out of ideas or with all the buildings and structures you push towards esc>quit>multiplayer (:
Vanilla survival is not just easy, it's trivial. Anybody with half a wit will master Vanilla survival in a day or two. You will eventually try it on Hardcore. But that doesn't make the game hard, it just makes you nervous while playing the same trivial game.
It seems daunting, but it's not if you just follow the directions. The folks at TFC put together a good guide here: http://terrafirmacra...ki/Installation
The only thing that "installs" is Forge. You download forge, execute the file, and it creates a "Forge" profile on your Minecraft launcher. After that, all you have to do to run Forge mods is drop them in your minecraft mods folder. I have that folder favorited in Windows Explorer.
Just remember, TFC is an overhaul. You get the latest version of TFC, which tells you which Forge it was built from. You install THAT version of Forge (not the newest). That version of Forge was based off some version of Minecraft. THAT is the minecraft version you have to run in your profile.
TFC is compatible with other mods, but I don't recommend anything not specifically made for TFC. There is a directory that tells you what is kosher. Optifine is good so long as you get the right version for the Minecraft version you use. Some other aesthetic mods are fine too, just don't rock the boat too much. TFC is good in its own right.
If you do decide to give TFC a shot, also remember that it is hard. It is not unforgivably hard, but you will have many false starts. All your Vanilla instincts will kick in and get you killed many times over. It's almost a completely different game. Refer to the Wiki often.
You CAN starve to death on Hard mode.