I really feel like I can't play Survival mode anymore, Most of the time I think I'm gonna build something massive, but I just give up right when creating the world. Or sometimes I will just (Open To LAN>Cheats Allowed: On> Start). And then I /gamemode 1, and spawn full diamond armour and tools.
So, I was wondering if any of you guys have had the same thing happen to you, and you found a way to fix it, or maybe if this happens to you too.
And please don't say: Install mods, they make survival better! Granted I can install mods, I think mods make the experience worse after you decide to quit mods and play regular Vanilla Minecraft.
The fun (and challenge) is in the journey, not the destination
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"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
If you don't have enough self control not to cheat, there is no amount of external inspiration that is going to help you.
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"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
I prefer the survival aspect. Try not dieing for a while, and use hard mode. Play with others, no plugins just vanilla. Get some friends together, have them help support you.
First focus on resource collection for a while, and once you have a lot, get with some friends and build like a mini city. Kind of like the Mindcrack or Mianite servers. This is what I did and we've had tons of fun.
Why not start by playing with friends and then focus on resource collection? That way you'll be on the same grounds as your friends instead of waiting for them to catch up.
Promise yourself you will delete the world or something if you cheat, that can give a motivation not too. And like drewajp said, focus on resource collection in the beginning. Once you amass lots of resources you won't even have to cheat.
For example, after about 3 days of caving, I had a full chest of coal, enough diamonds for a tool set and then some, plenty of redstone, and plenty of iron. It doesn't really take long to get a lot if you really put your mind to it.
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Vanilla is the best way to play Minecraft, In my opinion. Plugins suck.
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I used to do this waaaaay back in ß1.3 and ß1.4 when I first played. I would either switch to peaceful at the slightest hints of hostile mobs, or go on my server and /give myself tons of stuff.
If you don't have the self control to play legit, play on someone else's survival server if you can find one; you won't be able to cheat. If you enjoy playing the game the way you do, though, how is it a problem? And if you want to build something massive, consider Creative instead.
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Did something happen to you in your childhood to give you this unreasonable fear of rutabaga?
Maybe you could play on a server which doesn't allow cheats. That would include having a friend with more self-control LAN host the world. If you play without cheats for a while (as in days) it will probably be easier to resist.
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Geographicraft (formerly Climate Control) - Control climate, ocean, and land sizes; stop chunk walls; put modded biomes into Default worlds, and more!
RTG plus - All the beautiful terrain of RTG, plus varied and beautiful trees and forests.
For example, after about 3 days of caving, I had a full chest of coal, enough diamonds for a tool set and then some, plenty of redstone, and plenty of iron. It doesn't really take long to get a lot if you really put your mind to it.
I could tell you all you want to know about how easy it is to get resources while caving... for example, I regularly mine more than a chest of coal in a few hours long play session - day after day (my current stats show I've mined nearly 200,000 coal ore...) of course, this is exploring the ridiculously huge cave systems that existed before 1.7; since then vanilla is unplayable for me not so much because it is harder to get resources (the majority of which I don't even use, I just fill up double chests with blocks of coal, iron, etc) but because caving is pretty much the fun in the game for me (I wouldn't even call using a mod to revert the changes back a "mod" if it just brings back something that used to be in vanilla; they should have added in cave size/frequency sliders to the customized world type; never mind you can make the ground generate as mostly ore...).
Multiplayer solved this for me. I had horrible self control when it came to being able to do this, however with a help of a few friends able to keep me in check on multiplayer I have been able to successfully break this habit.
Some good suggestions here. Although, sometimes it's just time to take a break from the game. I was away from Minecraft for about a year - now I'm back into it again.
There's also a chance you haven't tried everything. Some of the adventure maps on this site are incredible.
I really feel like I can't play Survival mode anymore, Most of the time I think I'm gonna build something massive, but I just give up right when creating the world. Or sometimes I will just (Open To LAN>Cheats Allowed: On> Start). And then I /gamemode 1, and spawn full diamond armour and tools.
So, I was wondering if any of you guys have had the same thing happen to you, and you found a way to fix it, or maybe if this happens to you too.
And please don't say: Install mods, they make survival better! Granted I can install mods, I think mods make the experience worse after you decide to quit mods and play regular Vanilla Minecraft.
Thanks for reading this, and have a great day!
I used to do the same thing. I quit minecraft for a few months and came back. Something else that helped was actually playing with mods and then coming back to survival.
I'm kinda the opposite. I just don't find any satisfaction playing in creative mode. It's great for testing stuff out -say for example, you want to work out how to build a mob farm- it's much easier to work out the details in creative, then go back to your "real" world to put it together with materials you've actually had to gather while staying alive in a hostile environment. It's just more satisfying.
I suppose, if you find just the building all by itself to be fun, then creative is all you need, but if like me, the fun is in all of the aspects of building something, including earning the things you need to build it with, then survival is is the way to go. Maybe I'm just out of touch, but I just don't get the whole "not able to stop myself from cheating" thing. Just don't do it. You're only cheating yourself. If it just gets to be too much for you, instead of cheating in survival, try quitting out of it for a while and play creative on a DIFFERENT world. When you get bored with that, go back to your survival world.
Simple, just play in multiplayer. It seems to make the game more fun when you are playing with others. Also, they will stop you from cheating if you get tempted.
My answer was to get some mods! Better Than Wolves, OreSpawn, TerraFirma Craft, Thaumcraft, Divine RPG, Metallurgy, Tinkers' Construct, anything that piques your interest, just get it, load it, and go!
Been playing Minecraft four years, and between mods and multiplayer, I'm still as into it now as I was all that time ago.
So, I was wondering if any of you guys have had the same thing happen to you, and you found a way to fix it, or maybe if this happens to you too.
And please don't say: Install mods, they make survival better! Granted I can install mods, I think mods make the experience worse after you decide to quit mods and play regular Vanilla Minecraft.
Thanks for reading this, and have a great day!
The fun (and challenge) is in the journey, not the destination
"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
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"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
Why not start by playing with friends and then focus on resource collection? That way you'll be on the same grounds as your friends instead of waiting for them to catch up.
For example, after about 3 days of caving, I had a full chest of coal, enough diamonds for a tool set and then some, plenty of redstone, and plenty of iron. It doesn't really take long to get a lot if you really put your mind to it.
If you don't have the self control to play legit, play on someone else's survival server if you can find one; you won't be able to cheat. If you enjoy playing the game the way you do, though, how is it a problem? And if you want to build something massive, consider Creative instead.
Geographicraft (formerly Climate Control) - Control climate, ocean, and land sizes; stop chunk walls; put modded biomes into Default worlds, and more!
RTG plus - All the beautiful terrain of RTG, plus varied and beautiful trees and forests.
I could tell you all you want to know about how easy it is to get resources while caving... for example, I regularly mine more than a chest of coal in a few hours long play session - day after day (my current stats show I've mined nearly 200,000 coal ore...) of course, this is exploring the ridiculously huge cave systems that existed before 1.7; since then vanilla is unplayable for me not so much because it is harder to get resources (the majority of which I don't even use, I just fill up double chests with blocks of coal, iron, etc) but because caving is pretty much the fun in the game for me (I wouldn't even call using a mod to revert the changes back a "mod" if it just brings back something that used to be in vanilla; they should have added in cave size/frequency sliders to the customized world type; never mind you can make the ground generate as mostly ore...).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
There's also a chance you haven't tried everything. Some of the adventure maps on this site are incredible.
I used to do the same thing. I quit minecraft for a few months and came back. Something else that helped was actually playing with mods and then coming back to survival.
I suppose, if you find just the building all by itself to be fun, then creative is all you need, but if like me, the fun is in all of the aspects of building something, including earning the things you need to build it with, then survival is is the way to go. Maybe I'm just out of touch, but I just don't get the whole "not able to stop myself from cheating" thing. Just don't do it. You're only cheating yourself. If it just gets to be too much for you, instead of cheating in survival, try quitting out of it for a while and play creative on a DIFFERENT world. When you get bored with that, go back to your survival world.
Try to build something(In creative) then post screenshots on the forums
I am eager to see how well you can build
If you clicked on the link above, you will die in seven days.
Been playing Minecraft four years, and between mods and multiplayer, I'm still as into it now as I was all that time ago.