Without access to ESC (aka the kid key) the number of hours available for play each week is minimal, the time rarely occurs in blocks, and is often at peculiar hours (ping times to servers on other continents can be an issue)…
With the kid key available my available playtime goes up dramatically as there are large blocks where I need to be immediately available, but am rarely actually needed.
As much of my interest is exploring variations of builds and the [lower levels] of the technical side of the game, maintaining interest is not at issue.
(It also helps that – if one gets bored or stymied – one may leave a partly finished build for as long as one wishes without incurring complaints or requests to finish…)
So does anyone here actually play survival mode by themselves. If so, any reason why the preference or how you keep it interesting for yourself especially in the beginning?
This forum is full of people who play single-player survival. I've been playing SSP since 1.5 with only a brief stint into multi-player (over LAN) with a friend of mine back in 1.6. It was fun working together and fun slaying the dragon my first time ever. Other than that, I play only single-player survival or hardcore with no desire for SMP. I've been playing the same vanilla large-biome world since July 2, 2014.
I only play during the summer months because I'm outside almost all the time and thus sit at the computer only rarely. Quick Minecraft sessions here and there—such as on rainy days, before bed, or waiting on supper—work well for me in the summer. In the winter, I am inside and/or on the computer a lot more, so I do things on the computer that require larger blocks of time than quick Minecraft sessions, things like table top role playing. So, at no point would I be able to dedicate much time to an online acquaintanceship based on Minecraft, I'm afraid.
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I create worlds to check out seeds.
Most of the time I spend less than an hour in them and then delete them.
There are few worlds that I've put in weeks of effort into.
That being said, I have almost exactly 1000 world save folders all vanilla single player survival.
These worlds date back to 2012 when I had to buy a new computer as the previous machine fatally crashed.
There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous people. R.A. Heinlein
If you aren't part of the solution, then you obviously weren't properly dissolved.
I create worlds to check out seeds.
Most of the time I spend less than an hour in them and then delete them.
There are few worlds that I've put in weeks of effort into.
That being said, I have almost exactly 1000 world save folders all vanilla single player survival.
These worlds date back to 2012 when I had to buy a new computer as the previous machine fatally crashed.
I must be an outlier. I've liked the concept of having years-long singleplayer world, but despite truly wanting and trying to do so it simply has not worked out well. I'm at a loss for words as Murphy's law would have it but I'll try to detail part of why.
I try to keep going but eventually I run out of ideas of what to do. Instead of relaxing and doing whatever I want I end up feeling this push that I HAVE to do something. It only got worse as updates with more features and additions came along, adding more things that I would be a bad player for because I didn't pursue or have immediate access to.
It also happens to be that there's this thing with me where I cannot get much done. For example, I cannot remember the last time I did so much as break the single stack mark of diamonds, let alone even stay near it. My mob farms tended to be horrendous. Scratch that, any of my farms stunk. A lot outside of farms, even. For having the world(s) around so long, other people would have these amazing, awe-inspiring worlds. I meanwhile just have a house lodged into a mountain with a dead village and mob farm outside.
Any stuff I did get around to building felt like it was worthless to have around. I had no friends to show it to or use it to play with them. So I tend to prefer SMP servers with friends, but even then I don't do that much. Most SMP servers out there suck, especially if they have money. Then it becomes capitalist simulator instead of more friendly, laid back, co-op Minecraft.
I'm missing way more than this, but this gives a general idea. It doesn't feel fun to me. It feels self-abusive sometimes (wording is harsh but I can't think of any other way to describe it right now) as opposed to what a game should be: Fun. The only non-creative singleplayer I do nowadays is sometimes opening up one of Vechs' survival maps. I really wish I could enjoy a traditional singleplayer survival world and do great stuff with it, but that hasn't turned out well. Unfortunately. =/
That was some heavy stuff, Zaffre; a good read. But, I think the majority of Minecraft players align roughly with your sentiments. Years-old SSP worlds are pretty rare, though a number of people who posted on the first page of this thread have some pretty spectacular ones. I think the forum just draws the type of people, like me, who have old vanilla or semi-vanilla SSP worlds.
The main reason I think Minecraft is the #1 greatest video game ever made is because it appeals to such a wide audience. One can truly enjoy any number of countless aspects of Minecraft. For crying out loud, @BigAllenM just loves exploring seeds. Has 1000 world save folders all vanilla single player survival! That's crazy! Redstone, survival, creative, multi-player games, map or mod making . . . Minecraft is great because it really doesn't matter what one does with it. It's all about having fun.
When my old world becomes a chore or I start to feel burned out playing it—or more like my world's servant rather than master, as you described—I start a hardcore game.
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In my case, I just don't like multiplayer games that don't allow you to opt out of pvp. It's a full deal breaker for me, even in a game that I would otherwise be interested in.
In my case, I just don't like multiplayer games that don't allow you to opt out of pvp. It's a full deal breaker for me, even in a game that I would otherwise be interested in.
I'm also antisocial, too, so there's that.
same here, I'm antisocial, I do think my pets in single player are my friends. It's sad and funny at the same time. Sometimes I climb up a mountain then I scream in my room saying, THIS IS MY WORLD I WILL DOMINATE EVERYTHING, IM A GOD. same in Skyrim, I'm too godly for the game.
I play singleplayer like a creative world. It lets me practice for the vanilla servers i go on, and allows me to stuff around with making farms, while still understanding what it's like to do without any cheats.
Though, i will admit, It will 100% get boring quick, I don't last long on those worlds, because the lack of things to do after getting god gear and completing a few good new version farms is intense. Some other people have done it for years tho, and i applaud them fs.
Single player is my mode as I can make my world as I want without anybody changing it. No other inputs and only what I want in my world.
I do play other servers with pvp etc but always come back to my world to battle mobs. Love twotting creepers and letting them blow to see what hole they leave. Got some great craters in my lower battle area lol!
Single player is my mode as I can make my world as I want without anybody changing it. No other inputs and only what I want in my world.
I do play other servers with pvp etc but always come back to my world to battle mobs. Love twotting creepers and letting them blow to see what hole they leave. Got some great craters in my lower battle area lol!
You must be a hole lover. hahaha, a joke.
You actually got a point, I don't want anyone to play in my world either.
I try to keep going but eventually I run out of ideas of what to do. Instead of relaxing and doing whatever I want I end up feeling this push that I HAVE to do something. It only got worse as updates with more features and additions came along, adding more things that I would be a bad player for because I didn't pursue or have immediate access to.
It also happens to be that there's this thing with me where I cannot get much done. For example, I cannot remember the last time I did so much as break the single stack mark of diamonds, let alone even stay near it. My mob farms tended to be horrendous. Scratch that, any of my farms stunk. A lot outside of farms, even. For having the world(s) around so long, other people would have these amazing, awe-inspiring worlds. I meanwhile just have a house lodged into a mountain with a dead village and mob farm outside.
Absolutely understand this. I think that phase of doing the stuff you feel you have to do is part of what makes it survival mode and not creative - you have to do certain things in order to do the things that you want to do. In a way, I like that aspect because it mirrors the real world. There are things that we all want to do all the time, but there are other things that we have to do to get there. For example, I wish that I could live my life traveling 100% of the time. And though I am working towards that, it's a long winding journey that currently requires a traditional day job to pay the bills. I don't hate the job, but I certainly don't love it. The journey getting there is everything, though, and I'd argue there is no real destination because life continues to evolve. Making the most of what you have to do is essential, because those are the cards you're dealt. In reality, life is more like 20% what you make it, and 80% of how you take it. You don't choose the world you're born into, but you do choose how you live within it. Minecraft survival does a surprisingly good job of drawing a parallel to this reality.
Outside real life, I have surpassed that phase in survival in which I feel required to do anything at all, because I've had over six years now building a single world to that point. That's not to say there aren't still things I have to do, though - we still have to eat, mine mass amounts of resources to build things, deal with rain, etc. But there's a sense of accomplishment in that because you do all of that yourself. The hustling, the grinding, the patience, it's all part of the process. At the end of the day, you can look at what you've built and feel satisfied that you did that from the ground up - a mindset that I've found useful for living a productive and fulfilling life. Let what doesn't motivate you, motivate you.
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LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now in Season 4 of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
It is scary when you cannot even trust a known friend in the artificial world. I dumped friends years ago when they crossed me. Got a good family base and good friends in the real world, never invite real world friends to my artificial world. would rather keep a controlled part of my life to myself!!!
That was some heavy stuff, Zaffre; a good read. But, I think the majority of Minecraft players align roughly with your sentiments. Years-old SSP worlds are pretty rare, though a number of people who posted on the first page of this thread have some pretty spectacular ones. I think the forum just draws the type of people, like me, who have old vanilla or semi-vanilla SSP worlds.
The main reason I think Minecraft is the #1 greatest video game ever made is because it appeals to such a wide audience. One can truly enjoy any number of countless aspects of Minecraft. For crying out loud, @BigAllenM just loves exploring seeds. Has 1000 world save folders all vanilla single player survival! That's crazy! Redstone, survival, creative, multi-player games, map or mod making . . . Minecraft is great because it really doesn't matter what one does with it. It's all about having fun.
When my old world becomes a chore or I start to feel burned out playing it—or more like my world's servant rather than master, as you described—I start a hardcore game.
Minecraft is very special in that it had/had ability to have a wide appeal and function as a blank canvas for imagination, creativity, and customization has propelled it to where it is today. Sometimes I forget to simply go and goof off on a creative world.
In my case, I just don't like multiplayer games that don't allow you to opt out of pvp. It's a full deal breaker for me, even in a game that I would otherwise be interested in.
I'm also antisocial, too, so there's that.
Absolutely. It can take quite a bit of time to find a good SMP server that doesn't have an obsessive fixation on currency plugins, skyblock, or PvP. The fact they are a rarity grinds my gears to a pulp.
ScotsMiser is pointing out that in singleplayer, you can pause (with the Escape key) the game anytime, which is handy if you've got kids (or just a life, really). And you don't need to concern yourself with other players, so you can leave stuff half-done as long as you like while you're AFK.
I never got into multiplayer partly because I just don't want to deal with griefers and the like, but mostly because of the above -- I can pop into the world for a few minutes or hours at whim (without day/night cycling on me). If I get killed away from spawn I'm the only one loading chunks, so I can take all the time I like to reequip before I go back -- (though yes, I'm aware that a friend could also rescue my stuff). If I want to I can cheat, especially as an alternative to ragequitting. In general, I'm in complete control of the game.
I played vanilla early on (looking through my filesystem, I apparently have been doing this at least since version 1.2.2), probably went over to mods around 1.7.10 or 1.8.x. But what with the trouble Forge had catching up to 1.13, I wound up deciding to try vanilla again just to get the new versions. Of course, as soon as I picked a world (dang ocean spawns) and got settled in, Forge released 1.14 beta, but we'll see. Got a village near spawn -- and now in 1.14 you can always find a bed in a village, so I didn't need to run away to save the villagers! Been having fun....
I did some CraftTweaker scripts for Mystical Agriculture. They fill in a couple of small gaps in MA, and also let you make or duplicate not only vanilla plants, but the blocks, plants and wood from Quark and Biomes O'Plenty. Also spawn eggs for most vanilla mobs! The scripts are here on Github.
I usually play on servers, because having a world so big and alone kinda scares me. But I've been branching out into survival servers and have a Nintendo Switch world I started this morning, but I wanna play on my pc and have the same kind of experience so I downloaded Windows edition. I also have been playing since 2012 ( I thought it was 2011 but my mojang says otherwise.) And I started playing in a mix of creative mode and survival, until ultimately staying creative for 7 years up until recently. Mainly because I was scared of the caves being so dark and dangerous, but I'm slowly getting over it and I even went caving for the first time in years on a server and found 16 diamonds! So yeah, I'm trying to have one world specifically for survival but that's hard with how many versions of the game I own.
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i have watched my nephews play minecraft since it forst came out but never played myself. i just started playing a couple of practice single player worlds to get the feel of it just before the village and pillage update came out. once that happened, i made a single player, vanilla, no cheat, survival world and have been playing ever since. so i'm still kinda noobish, but it's the only thing i have in life where nobody messes with my stuff lol.
It's my now-high-school-aged nephew who got me into Minecraft as well. I saw him playing it and thought it looked ridiculous about six years ago. But, I gave it a chance and we've both been playing it ever since! Peaceful stress reliever I can fit into my daily schedule on rainy days and before bed and such.
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I can't understand any of this.
This forum is full of people who play single-player survival. I've been playing SSP since 1.5 with only a brief stint into multi-player (over LAN) with a friend of mine back in 1.6. It was fun working together and fun slaying the dragon my first time ever. Other than that, I play only single-player survival or hardcore with no desire for SMP. I've been playing the same vanilla large-biome world since July 2, 2014.
I only play during the summer months because I'm outside almost all the time and thus sit at the computer only rarely. Quick Minecraft sessions here and there—such as on rainy days, before bed, or waiting on supper—work well for me in the summer. In the winter, I am inside and/or on the computer a lot more, so I do things on the computer that require larger blocks of time than quick Minecraft sessions, things like table top role playing. So, at no point would I be able to dedicate much time to an online acquaintanceship based on Minecraft, I'm afraid.
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
I create worlds to check out seeds.
Most of the time I spend less than an hour in them and then delete them.
There are few worlds that I've put in weeks of effort into.
That being said, I have almost exactly 1000 world save folders all vanilla single player survival.
These worlds date back to 2012 when I had to buy a new computer as the previous machine fatally crashed.
There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous people. R.A. Heinlein
If you aren't part of the solution, then you obviously weren't properly dissolved.
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that's what do except I don't have 100 worlds.
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I must be an outlier. I've liked the concept of having years-long singleplayer world, but despite truly wanting and trying to do so it simply has not worked out well. I'm at a loss for words as Murphy's law would have it but I'll try to detail part of why.
I try to keep going but eventually I run out of ideas of what to do. Instead of relaxing and doing whatever I want I end up feeling this push that I HAVE to do something. It only got worse as updates with more features and additions came along, adding more things that I would be a bad player for because I didn't pursue or have immediate access to.
It also happens to be that there's this thing with me where I cannot get much done. For example, I cannot remember the last time I did so much as break the single stack mark of diamonds, let alone even stay near it. My mob farms tended to be horrendous. Scratch that, any of my farms stunk. A lot outside of farms, even. For having the world(s) around so long, other people would have these amazing, awe-inspiring worlds. I meanwhile just have a house lodged into a mountain with a dead village and mob farm outside.
Any stuff I did get around to building felt like it was worthless to have around. I had no friends to show it to or use it to play with them. So I tend to prefer SMP servers with friends, but even then I don't do that much. Most SMP servers out there suck, especially if they have money. Then it becomes capitalist simulator instead of more friendly, laid back, co-op Minecraft.
I'm missing way more than this, but this gives a general idea. It doesn't feel fun to me. It feels self-abusive sometimes (wording is harsh but I can't think of any other way to describe it right now) as opposed to what a game should be: Fun. The only non-creative singleplayer I do nowadays is sometimes opening up one of Vechs' survival maps. I really wish I could enjoy a traditional singleplayer survival world and do great stuff with it, but that hasn't turned out well. Unfortunately. =/
Figured it was time for a change.
That was some heavy stuff, Zaffre; a good read. But, I think the majority of Minecraft players align roughly with your sentiments. Years-old SSP worlds are pretty rare, though a number of people who posted on the first page of this thread have some pretty spectacular ones. I think the forum just draws the type of people, like me, who have old vanilla or semi-vanilla SSP worlds.
The main reason I think Minecraft is the #1 greatest video game ever made is because it appeals to such a wide audience. One can truly enjoy any number of countless aspects of Minecraft. For crying out loud, @BigAllenM just loves exploring seeds. Has 1000 world save folders all vanilla single player survival! That's crazy! Redstone, survival, creative, multi-player games, map or mod making . . . Minecraft is great because it really doesn't matter what one does with it. It's all about having fun.
When my old world becomes a chore or I start to feel burned out playing it—or more like my world's servant rather than master, as you described—I start a hardcore game.
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
In my case, I just don't like multiplayer games that don't allow you to opt out of pvp. It's a full deal breaker for me, even in a game that I would otherwise be interested in.
I'm also antisocial, too, so there's that.
same here, I'm antisocial, I do think my pets in single player are my friends. It's sad and funny at the same time. Sometimes I climb up a mountain then I scream in my room saying, THIS IS MY WORLD I WILL DOMINATE EVERYTHING, IM A GOD. same in Skyrim, I'm too godly for the game.
I play singleplayer like a creative world. It lets me practice for the vanilla servers i go on, and allows me to stuff around with making farms, while still understanding what it's like to do without any cheats.
Though, i will admit, It will 100% get boring quick, I don't last long on those worlds, because the lack of things to do after getting god gear and completing a few good new version farms is intense. Some other people have done it for years tho, and i applaud them fs.
Single player is my mode as I can make my world as I want without anybody changing it. No other inputs and only what I want in my world.
I do play other servers with pvp etc but always come back to my world to battle mobs. Love twotting creepers and letting them blow to see what hole they leave. Got some great craters in my lower battle area lol!
You must be a hole lover. hahaha, a joke.
You actually got a point, I don't want anyone to play in my world either.
Love a good hole! lol!!
Yep ones world is ones world. Escape the BS from the real world, find your place in your own place with no other input apart from devs....
Absolutely understand this. I think that phase of doing the stuff you feel you have to do is part of what makes it survival mode and not creative - you have to do certain things in order to do the things that you want to do. In a way, I like that aspect because it mirrors the real world. There are things that we all want to do all the time, but there are other things that we have to do to get there. For example, I wish that I could live my life traveling 100% of the time. And though I am working towards that, it's a long winding journey that currently requires a traditional day job to pay the bills. I don't hate the job, but I certainly don't love it. The journey getting there is everything, though, and I'd argue there is no real destination because life continues to evolve. Making the most of what you have to do is essential, because those are the cards you're dealt. In reality, life is more like 20% what you make it, and 80% of how you take it. You don't choose the world you're born into, but you do choose how you live within it. Minecraft survival does a surprisingly good job of drawing a parallel to this reality.
Outside real life, I have surpassed that phase in survival in which I feel required to do anything at all, because I've had over six years now building a single world to that point. That's not to say there aren't still things I have to do, though - we still have to eat, mine mass amounts of resources to build things, deal with rain, etc. But there's a sense of accomplishment in that because you do all of that yourself. The hustling, the grinding, the patience, it's all part of the process. At the end of the day, you can look at what you've built and feel satisfied that you did that from the ground up - a mindset that I've found useful for living a productive and fulfilling life. Let what doesn't motivate you, motivate you.
LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now in Season 4 of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
I invited a friend to play with me back in 2013, all he does is to kill me and destroy my house...
now I will never ever trust a stranger or a friend.
It is scary when you cannot even trust a known friend in the artificial world. I dumped friends years ago when they crossed me. Got a good family base and good friends in the real world, never invite real world friends to my artificial world. would rather keep a controlled part of my life to myself!!!
Minecraft is very special in that it had/had ability to have a wide appeal and function as a blank canvas for imagination, creativity, and customization has propelled it to where it is today. Sometimes I forget to simply go and goof off on a creative world.
Absolutely. It can take quite a bit of time to find a good SMP server that doesn't have an obsessive fixation on currency plugins, skyblock, or PvP. The fact they are a rarity grinds my gears to a pulp.
Figured it was time for a change.
ScotsMiser is pointing out that in singleplayer, you can pause (with the Escape key) the game anytime, which is handy if you've got kids (or just a life, really). And you don't need to concern yourself with other players, so you can leave stuff half-done as long as you like while you're AFK.
I never got into multiplayer partly because I just don't want to deal with griefers and the like, but mostly because of the above -- I can pop into the world for a few minutes or hours at whim (without day/night cycling on me). If I get killed away from spawn I'm the only one loading chunks, so I can take all the time I like to reequip before I go back -- (though yes, I'm aware that a friend could also rescue my stuff). If I want to I can cheat, especially as an alternative to ragequitting. In general, I'm in complete control of the game.
I played vanilla early on (looking through my filesystem, I apparently have been doing this at least since version 1.2.2), probably went over to mods around 1.7.10 or 1.8.x. But what with the trouble Forge had catching up to 1.13, I wound up deciding to try vanilla again just to get the new versions. Of course, as soon as I picked a world (dang ocean spawns) and got settled in, Forge released 1.14 beta, but we'll see. Got a village near spawn -- and now in 1.14 you can always find a bed in a village, so I didn't need to run away to save the villagers! Been having fun....
I usually play on servers, because having a world so big and alone kinda scares me. But I've been branching out into survival servers and have a Nintendo Switch world I started this morning, but I wanna play on my pc and have the same kind of experience so I downloaded Windows edition. I also have been playing since 2012 ( I thought it was 2011 but my mojang says otherwise.) And I started playing in a mix of creative mode and survival, until ultimately staying creative for 7 years up until recently. Mainly because I was scared of the caves being so dark and dangerous, but I'm slowly getting over it and I even went caving for the first time in years on a server and found 16 diamonds! So yeah, I'm trying to have one world specifically for survival but that's hard with how many versions of the game I own.
i have watched my nephews play minecraft since it forst came out but never played myself. i just started playing a couple of practice single player worlds to get the feel of it just before the village and pillage update came out. once that happened, i made a single player, vanilla, no cheat, survival world and have been playing ever since. so i'm still kinda noobish, but it's the only thing i have in life where nobody messes with my stuff lol.
It's my now-high-school-aged nephew who got me into Minecraft as well. I saw him playing it and thought it looked ridiculous about six years ago. But, I gave it a chance and we've both been playing it ever since! Peaceful stress reliever I can fit into my daily schedule on rainy days and before bed and such.
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures