Nearly 20 million people play Minecraft on PC alone, to say nothing of the millions that enjoy it on consoles and handhelds. That's a lot of people, and it got me to thinking about something: how do we play Minecraft? As an example, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of Minecraft servers out there, each with their own community, themes, plugins, rules, and ideas. Even counting the literal legion of players that make up these servers, how many people play the game solo more than not?
There are some clear advantages to playing either way. On a small server, you likely have friends to share the fun with, build with, or play your own games with ("Chase the Sheep" is a game, I swear...). There is the joy of sharing the environment and any builds that are made with people who can appreciate it, as well as mutual safety in numbers from the seemingly endless legion of monsters that patrol the world. On a large server, the intimacy is lost somewhat, but depending on what the server specializes in (mini-games, PvP, etc), there is rarely a shortage of people to engage in these communities.
On the other hand, running solo has its upsides as well: never having to share resources, never having to worry if your friend (or random stranger) decides that your home would be better suited at the bottom of the worldmap in the form of a crater, never being on a schedule that you have to follow, and so on. In many ways, solo is not much different from a wide-open RPG, in that you create your own story, your own environment, without outside interference, and the "story" exists both entirely for, and entirely because of, the player alone.
This brings us to an interesting question: how do you play Minecraft? Do you play on a server, small or large? Do you strike out on your own - either in Creative or Survival - modded or unmodded? Minecraft is fun for everyone in a different way, how do you make it fun your way?
I play modded creative,just wandering around the vast space of minecraft,the possibilities and all.
Yes i think i could do something but i never actualy do it.
Multiplayer, on small, friendly servers. Large scale servers are not my kind of thing. Too many people running around there, whilst what I want is a small band of friends to play with.
I like to take on huge builds in modded survival. When you take the time to gather materials, it's very satisfying when a project gets finished.
solo creative until survival stops being boring (cmon 1.9 dont let me down)
I play singleplayer, large minigame servers and small servers with friends.
However, those small servers are my favorite.
Unfortunately my friends don't play minecraft very much anymore, so 'small servers' these days are mostly small LAN worlds that we make a few times a year for a weekend or so.
In singleplayer I play both creative and survival, modded and unmodded. Depending on what I like most at the moment.
I prefer playing alone. Too many places in servers that I can't go to because they are claimed or my place gets griefed (even in white-listed servers!). Also, I am a resource hog and like modifying the terrain to a massive degree.
I play survival mode with friends on my Minecraft Realm. We're a small community, and we have fun building and just hanging out.
Same only no Realms.
Nice! Very nice.
I play survival. Modded survival in my modpack.
I play everything.
Ordered after playing time:
1. singleplayer survival
(shortly followed by)
2. multiplayer survival with friends
(bigger gap)
3. multiplayer mini-games and pvp on servers
4. modded singleplayer
(5. modded multiplayer, but not really)
Ok, I just realised that I never actually play creative mode of any form (except for trying out redstone circuits for my survival worlds sometimes).
But the thing I had most fun with is definitely survival with my friends. It's the things you mentioned: Creating a story and a world together, which everyone can relate to, experiencing great adventures such as exploring huge caves or fighting the nastiest monsters together, is just sooo much fun!
I go through phases. Currently I'm into playing my singleplayer world, but I've on a wide variety of servers, both small and large.
I mostly play as an adventurer. Fighting mobs, exploring the world for all of its interesting sights and treasures, having epic adventures either alone or with friends. Actually, I usually prefer playing with friends so adventuring with a small group is something I really enjoy
Wow, that sounds like a super awesome project. Do you plan to release your work some time in the future?
I see. The way is the goal in Minecraft anyway, isn't it?
I like singleplayer survival as it has been useful in school projects like a zombie apocalypse analysis and masses, however, I do enjoy settling down on low populated servers and minigame servers to wind down, or play singleplayer modded.
For survival I usually play singleplayer survival, but I really enjoy playing minigames on multiplayer.
I like to play multiplayer minigames and other gamemodes (like prison, kit pvp, etc.), but to survivor I prefer small servers or private servers (just for friends
). I also enjoy small servers, because they are, usually, more friendly than normal servers.
I also enjoy creative mode, I have a private server with worldedit and other plugins that makes my buildings easier to make
Normally, I play without mods, but sometimes I like to make or download a modpack and play survivor with my brother via Lan world.
My favorite server its a medium/big server, normally it has about 60-90 players online at the same time.
My favorite thing to do in Minecraft is build
This is my style
I play on a multiplayer survival server with several local creative worlds.
Thanks to Curse voice I am playing with mods for once in my life and probably still will for years to come.