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Thanks for the info, guys. I'd heard about regional difficulty, but I had no idea how easy it was going to make the game. I thought it was going to scale up from the way it was, not take a giant leap back and then scale up from there. I guess this makes the game more welcoming to newbies, but one of my favorite things about MC was the scary first night. Now you can run around with a stone sword and pwn everything.

This is the first change that Mojang has made to the game that I'm truly disappointed with. I hope they change it back so that when you set the game to hard, it actually offers the player a challenge again.

I haven't played Minecraft since 1.6 and have been feeling the itch lately, so I created a brand new survival world and messed around for a little bit. I got myself a set of stone tools, some food, and as night fell I decided to derp it up a bit and stay outside as long as I could... which was all night because everything was so incredibly easy to kill. Seriously, I could run right up to skeletons and kill them before they could even shoot me once. I killed many Endermen with only a stone sword and no armor! That would have been a very risky fight months ago.

It was really boring, so I logged out after only about 15 minutes. Is this what Mojang considers difficult now? What happened to this game? Guess I'll go look for that hardcore difficulty mod.

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Actually he technically doesn't have a job.

I don't see why you're so desperate to try and elevate him to some weird level. But he is not an 'experimentalist'.
Just like Wolfire isn't (even though they enter many of the same competitions and have a similar direction in their own game design methods), Notch isn't either.

And who cares about stats. They don't change the fact that Minecraft is a shoddy game. [emphasis added]

No point in arguing with someone who is immune to fact.

It wasn't that long ago that we were apes flinging our feces at each other. Just think of the Youtube comments section like a big glass cage full of cavemen each with his own bag of poop.

Some pretty big talk in this thread from a bunch of people who have never even designed one crappy game, let alone a wildly successful and awesome one.

Just mine a long tunnel at y=12 for about 100-200 blocks then mine over four blocks and mine your way back. This avoids most lava pools and increases your chances of finding low-lying caves and mineshafts which can lead to quick discovery of additional diamonds and ores.

Love the recreation of the outside world within your castle. It's an interesting concept that I explored on a smaller scale before. This gives a sense of the aesthetics, but can you discuss any technical builds that you did like mob grinders, automated farms, ect?

Not goin' there. Here's another one.

There are three types of people in this world. Those who can count and those who can't.

I was on board for helping you until you got all huffy about not getting an answer. Then my inclination to help dramatically waned. I'm sure that you're a lovely person, but your initial posts came across as impatient and entitled.

I hear ya, but this is the off-topic section so you might expect to see some non-game related posts here.

There are two kinds of people in this world:

Those who finish their sentences

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Put on your big boy pants and do a Google search. Or maybe post in the correct section at least.

Some Japanese gentlemen prefer the company of pillows to women.

Did you know that both chocolate and vanilla may improve your brain function? However, it seems that it's much more difficult to get pure vanilla, so unless you have a good source of vanilla beans that you trust, the safer bet is chocolate. Plus I like the taste of chocolate better.