I got bored and created a few ways to get that spark of inspiration back again!
I've been playing Minecraft for about 10 years, so it's only natural that I would get bored at some point. To combat this boredom and reinvigorate my enjoyment of the game, I've created a list with a couple of 'rules' to abide by to make things more interesting. I find that giving myself limitations brings out my creative spirit. These ideas are a combination of things I found on other forums/websites and things I've thought of myself.
Just pick whatever you feel excited about, I did the same thing with the lists I came across to create this list of things to do.
Since they've helped me get inspiration to log in to Minecraft again, I hope these ideas will help some of you as well!
CITY CONSTRUCTION
Seek out randomly generated villages in your world and upgrade their houses, one by one, into a bustling Minecraft city.
The inhabitants of your next town are already there! Time to give their environment an upgrade.
You can choose to upgrade the church into a cathedral, or change the buildings and their functions altogether.
Since these villages spawn in different biomes, you can give each town a different theme.
Vikings in the snow, Ancient Egyptians in the desert, Riders of Rohan on the plains?
Go ham!
QUESTING
Grab a vanilla book and quill (that's 50 pages) and fill each page with one single quest.
You can think of anything. From killing 10 zombies to building a custom tree.
If you play it wisely, your quests will contribute to the beauty of your world.
A book full of quests with things like adding decoration near already existing long empty roads.
You can also add lore this way; make a quest where the quester needs to write a bestiary entry about any Minecraft mob.
What a way to fill your world's libraries!
Choose an interval, like every new (Minecraft) day when that good ol' square sun is rising, and force yourself to go on a quest.
Make it interesting by using Google to get a random number between 1 and 50 and go do the thing written on the corresponding page.
No excuses, just go do it! Once you're done you may resume whatever else you were doing.
Save your quests books in a central "Questing Hub"
It is more fun with friends: Make quest books for each other and watch them do your quests.
Give your friend a cool named/lored item or some kind of reward for when they complete all the quests you've created!
ZONES
Instead of gathering everything in close proximity to your house/base, create zones where things happen.
Fish in the fishing zone, mine in the mining zone, hunt in the hunting zone, chop wood in the forest zone, etc. (#RuneScape)
Create structures that relate to the zone they're in, like a woodcutter's cabin in the woods, to make it feel more realistic.
Optionally connect these buildings with pathways to create a landscape alive with lore.
Perhaps buildings or markets will spring up at the crossroads of these paths.
Try not to use Elytra, but travel from place to place (by horse if you need to), and enjoy the moment!
TRAPPING
Use Redstone to create traps for animals, mobs, or even players.
It is really easy to get the stuff you need once you've got a farm going.
Stop hunting and farming animals. Instead, get creative with traps.
Make new designs, scatter them around your base, and be careful not to fall into your own trap.
Then, reap the rewards!
COLONIZATION (my favorite)
Your aim is to lay claim to as many islands as possible.
Before setting out, you can choose what to bring along. The less you bring, the bigger the challenge.
There is a catch though: You can not leave the island you're on until you've created a proper colony there.
How do you create a proper colony? Build at least one of each of the buildings on the list.
You could even modify the list to add your own buildings or remove the ones you don't like.
Have you checked off all the buildings on the list?
Then it's time to embark on a trip across the ocean until you find a fresh new island!
If you're playing on a server with other people, it might be cool to think of your nation's colors and design a banner.
Then all your colonies will be instantly recognizable!
Since you'll be building the same buildings on different islands, get creative and give each new island its own distinctive theme.
Base it on the biome or whatever other unique property of your island.
Is the island in the shape of a crescent moon?
That's Nightshire Colony with its star-shaped buildings! (good luck with that lol)
To make it even more interesting, you can give yourself some more limitations.
Use a tier list and only create buildings of the tier you're on, not moving to the next tier until all buildings of your current tier are built.
These tiers could make sense, like first needing wood before you can build a house, etc.
Is that a bit too much? Then just build your buildings in whatever order you might like!
(ANY MATERIAL)
Lighthouse, Church, Tavern, Monument or Statue, Ship(s) to sail away on
Tier IV:
(OPTIONAL)
Build all or none of these if you like. Or pick the ones that fit your island's theme.
Fortifications/Castle, Barracks, Armoury, Brewery, Vineyard, Granary, Weapon Workshop, Apothecary, More Statues, Embassies, Museum, Park, Sawmill, Water/Wind mill, Stonemasonry, Petshop, etc.
CONCLUSION
These are the ideas I've had and that I've been using to spice up my own gameplay when I just don't know what to do anymore.
I'm sharing them for you to use, not saying you should do them exactly as I've described them, or at all.
I've been experiencing FPS lag, while the F3 screen showed I have 238/104 FPS. So, that's weird to start with. I tried updating my drivers, optifine, using special GPU, etc. All the usual stuff and nothing worked.
Then I thought: Hey, I'm playing Minecraft on my laptop, but with an external monitor, let's try and play it on my laptop screen instead.
So I went to [settings] -> [display] -> [Extend these displays] to turn on my laptop screen, because I was playing on my big screen with the laptop screen off. And POOF! It starts running smoothly again.
I'm not even playing it on my smaller laptop screen, still on the same monitor. Just changing the display settings from only showing my monitor to showing both the monitor and the laptop fixed the problem. It's a waste of energy to have two screens on, but that's how it is now...
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Some examples from the quest book:
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Shelter, Woodcutter Cabin, Storage Facility, Fishing Hut.
Stone/Ore Quarry('s), Farm, Docks/Harbor, Shipwright (where they build ships), Marketplace
Tier III:
Lighthouse, Church, Tavern, Monument or Statue, Ship(s) to sail away on
Fortifications/Castle, Barracks, Armoury, Brewery, Vineyard, Granary, Weapon Workshop, Apothecary, More Statues, Embassies, Museum, Park, Sawmill, Water/Wind mill, Stonemasonry, Petshop, etc.
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Hi and welcome to this lag mystery!
I've been experiencing FPS lag, while the F3 screen showed I have 238/104 FPS. So, that's weird to start with. I tried updating my drivers, optifine, using special GPU, etc. All the usual stuff and nothing worked.
Then I thought: Hey, I'm playing Minecraft on my laptop, but with an external monitor, let's try and play it on my laptop screen instead.
So I went to [settings] -> [display] -> [Extend these displays] to turn on my laptop screen, because I was playing on my big screen with the laptop screen off. And POOF! It starts running smoothly again.
I'm not even playing it on my smaller laptop screen, still on the same monitor. Just changing the display settings from only showing my monitor to showing both the monitor and the laptop fixed the problem. It's a waste of energy to have two screens on, but that's how it is now...
Why does this solve the lag?