Amazing video. I love what you said about Minecraft being a sandbox with RPG elements. It's so well put and explains a feeling I've had for a while that no one else has really touched on.
@@phils-a-mek6345 I want to have different poses of my little persona like how you, Saberspark, and others do it. I didn't want to ask you because I didn't want the art style to be super similar
I've played on the same world for several months (Friends occasionally join but I'm usually on my own) and I have over 14 days of playtime. I've taken breaks, but I've always had an idea and gone all out to reach my goal. I've even dug over 700k blocks in this world to make space for terraforming and more building. I want it all to look nice and have as much fun as I possibly can!
I have a world that I've managed to keep for about a year now, I believe, which for me basically unheard of. I realized a few months in that I was getting caught up in trying to make those efficient farms, and get the best gear, and make grand plans, and make builds to impress people, like the youtubers I watch instead of just having fun, so I ended up ditching my main base, went 10000 blocks away, and started over in the same world. And this time, I just allowed myself to do whatever I felt like without worrying about progression or efficiency. I built a few nice buildings, I started excavating a trail ruin, I'm currently working on a long, natural, winding road from my base to said trail ruins, I went and got all the new dogs, I explored the ancient city for the first time (and got frustrated enough that I explored it in peaceful mode, mainly so I could just laugh in the stupid warden's face), I'm in the process of making a long man-made cave all the way to the bottom of the world (that will act as my strip mine), and so on It's been so nice to just play the game instead of having my nose to my phone looking at an automated farm tutorial to copy. And guess what, I even tried making a new world today and realized that I actually now prefer going back to that old one now. I've broken the "2 week minecraft phase" cycle (I mean, that's still how long my motivation lasts at a time, but now I'm not making 500 new worlds and saying "this will be the one," because I actually have the one now).
There are so many things you can critique about minecraft, but I can't imagine it without any of the upgrades. I enjoy having good or decent gear, and I just build. I take the idea of building a village and then building by building i make something, and I'll never be finished because I haven't done everything yet and I make sure that I don't play too often for too long.
Seriously underrated video! You touch on exactly the right feelings of not just losing your desire to play Minecraft, but a desire to create. As an artist, I find it hard to motivate myself sometimes and end up doom scrolling for "inspiration" but after hearing you talk about playing without a tutorial, it makes me wonder. Awesome job man!
very good essay, one bit of constructive criticism would be to work on adjusting your audio levels. i will admit the music sorta started drowning your vocals out a bit midway through the video. otherwise really good vid!
@@phils-a-mek6345 what i'd try to do is make use of volume normalization for the music track you want to use. that and making sure its a healthy ratio quieter than the primary vocal track. me ive always had good luck around the 1/3 - 2/4 mark volumetrically in relation to the vocal track. its something thats entirely suggestive though, i'm sure youll find a spot thats comfortable for you. hope this was helpful! =)
I think people forget creative wasnt the priority, it came afterwards. Notch wasnt making a survival game it was a building game, he made survival afterwards
Yay I finally got a really cool high quality well edited video essay from a small creator recommended to me. Before, I'd see people commenting on several videos how they were surprised the uploader only had like 80 subs despite the video's quality, but by the time it's recommended to me, they already have like 12k. You only have 140 subscribers as I'm watching! You're like a rare pokemon to me!
"After all, isn't that what you did when you were little?" Hit so close. Goosebumps and a shiver sent down my spine. I was raised off the game, first playing it on pocket edition before getting it on the XBOX 360. This game has raised me and everyone else in my generation. I would always build dumb but fun builds in creative mode, I'd occasionally play in a survival world with my cousin and my brother. We just built things to have fun, we focused on that and not the progression aspect of it all. Even though our builds weren't the prettiest, they were still ours. We had fun doing it all. Thank you for this video, it really opened my eyes as to why I keep losing my interest in the game. The quality of the video and talking about everything is so deserving of my like and sub. Keep it up man, I'm going to go play minecraft again and actually enjoy it for once ❤🩹
Bro this is insane! Amazing storytelling and editing (comes from a person who made the exact same video lmao, you should come check it out. Anyways you’re extremely underrated, amazing YTer :))
lol my video, surprising to see it upon clicking on this 😂. I am planning on making a video similar to this and stumbled across this one in my research- I'll credit you! great vid btw (:
I'm so glad a lot of the sandbox players are beginning to push back against the RPG oriented players. This has to be done because the game is beginning to shift development into something like Terraria (Tricky Trials for example), and it's because the RPG players have gotten louder and comfortable speaking their minds without any criticism. I think some people just aren't going to enjoy Minecraft because let's face it, some people just aren't creative. Most players don't design their own builds, machines or farms. Most people just go onto a RUclips video showing them how to build it 1 for 1 and copy that. No experimentation, no creativity, no agency. These players need to come to terms with that and move on with their lives and play games that they will enjoy instead of staying here and whining about "progression" and "exploration", hoping Minecraft will become Terraria 3D. The appeal of Minecraft comes from the intrinsic motivation to do something because it is fun in of itself, not because of some extrinsic motivation that x will get you y and y advances the player to the ending of the game.
I never understood for the life of me why so many people play minecraft in creative mode trying to imitate something they saw online. The joy for me isn't in designing a flawless building as fast as I can but in gathering the resources to build my own idea in a survival server where other friends also play so I can also share it. The more disconnected a game makes me feel the more at home I feel. If I didn't embrace this disconnection and went and built a perfect thing I saw online instead in creative mode, then I'd rather go learn to use an actual design software and become an architect, idk why you would use minecraft as the ultimate practical tool for that.
My friends and I have been playing on the same world on and off for around 7 years now. Still haven't been to the end on that world yet. We know where the portal is, we've just decided to not kill the Dragon yet. I think people don't realize that they can just choose to play the game any way they want to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
By all means do it when you feel like it, but all you really get is some storage upgrades so is it really that bad to get them early? I guess thats just me not seeing the dragon as anything special, just a roadblock to an upgrade that makes storage more comfortable. I wish you could separate the two so that those who think of the dragon fight as something special to be saved for the right time dont need to be forced to fight just to get a new tool that would help earlier rather than later. Some people just want the tools, some just want an epic battle. Shame you need to do one for the other.
@@michaelr3077 The adventuring aspect without an Elytra is always captivating to me. Ventured to an Ocean Monument by boat. There's a few other reasons why, mainly that my friend Logan is the one who runs the server and he wants to solo the Dragon himself. So it's up to him.
@@michaelr3077 As for shulker boxes, they are very helpful but I've been able to do some pretty huge builds without them. That being said I will greatly appreciate when we finally do go the end.
If i dont have the good gear i will never be able to get anything done in any efficient manner, or at all. I can only effectively build in my oceans because i have max gear and enchanted turtle helmet so that im not constantly having to gasp for air and wont be impaled to death every 30 seconds a drowned spawns. If i dont have silk touch i wont have the ability to collect ore blocks for decoration plus more. If i dont have protection i cant comfortably explore dangerous locations for a myriad of reasons. Some of us dont want or have time to chop down trees for a month just to have a small base and little building materials. I need the dragon killed so i can get those shulkers to make my storage cleaner, and make long trips more manegable so i dont have to make so many return trips to take everything i find. I dont want to spend a year digging out a hole under a woodland mansion to build a prison where i capture all the mobs inside (and im certainly not going to survive with starter gear) I have plenty of things i want to build, places i need to explore, mobs i need to fight. It does not take long to get all the good stuff, it makes things more efficent and lets you get to the good stuff. If you get bored after getting iron, you just arent motivated enough to build whatever you had in mind. If you cant survive the very small grind at the start of the game, how are you gonna handle the rest of what you planned? The problem is you either had no goals, or no motivation, or both. I do hate the early game, its the slowest and most boring part, but once you have that effciency 5, mending unbreaking etc it becomes a lot less painful when you need to get something done. I really think minecraft problem is that exploration and building require a lot of setup to be able to do things at a comfortable and decently fast pace. It takes a lot of time to just prepare for something than it is to just do it. You COULD build something amazing but stone tools will not get you far any time soon. You could explore with iron armor but you're still highly vulnerable to death. No matter how you put it, better gear is mandatory and theres few ways to get around that fact. If you dont want to spend years clearing out space and mining at a snails pace you need better gear. If you dont want to die all the time and back track every single death, you need better gear. If you dont do these thing you need to except the consequences of that decision. Its a lose lose situation, you skip progression and make very little progress over a long period of time and you get bored, or you grind it out and get bored by how repetetive and tedious it is. I believe the latter is the better choice to make. Once you get through that slog of getting gear the whole world is open to you and nothing can get in your way. Do people quit after getting the gear because they suddenly realize what they wanted to build isnt going to be fun, or are they the type of people who burn out before they even get started? I guarantee people who quit just after getting their gear would be the same people who would quit halfway through their build had they skipped progression just to start. But maybe the real issue is these people just have very small goals, only have the attention span to make a small thing and cant be bothered to do more. Of course progression would burn you out, you only have the drive to make a small shed and get bored. I feel like trying to get someone out of their comfort zone wont work because these people just dont have the drive to commit to anything bigger or different. I bet these same people start a new world every time they come back. If people just committed or continued where they left off they could actually experiment and do different things. Why do people contantly restart their games instead of just continuing? Do they not realize they are setting themselves up for failure? The game isnt going to become fun again because you start a new journey and recapture the adventure you had in the past, no you are just repeating the early game grind and tedium. I think people have the false hope that starting over and over will one day generate a structure witha magic fairy that will restore their lost motivation for what they used to enjoy. As if starting over is going to make them find something they are looking for that will change how they see the game. Unfortunately sometimes we do plan to commit but we decide we need a better seed, but that just means we're forced to deal with all the problems of early game minecraft again... the truth of it all, is you need to mentally prepare for the time investment in what you want to do in minecraft. Have a plan, have a goal (and smaller goals along the way), be prepared to commit and understand what that work requires and if you can actually handle that. Think of the time, what you need to get it done, and how much you are willing to put in. If you dont consider these things you will just get overwhelemed by task or lose your sense of purpose. If you dont set a goal for yourself you will lose your sense of direction and lose the motivation to get anything done because you feel like theres nothing to do or you dont know what to do. If the task becomes too much to handle (such as you underestimated how long it would actually take) then either take a break from the game and finish it when you're mentally relieved, or start a different project but stay in the same world. [Tangent: I could never understand why people are so opposed to max gear as if the process of obtaining it all is some final end goal that suddenly means the rest of the game has no purpose because you did the unofficial final goal of the game. NO, thats just wrong. Gear is the end of minecraft, thats just the key to maximum effcicency. Why are peopel so opposed to going to the end? I find it baffling some people are hard wired to believe that when credits roll your purpose is comepletely invalidated and teh journey is over. The only thing the dragon is, is a barrier to shulker boxes. You people need to stop viewing the end as, the end. Its just a glorified structure with exclusive loot. The game doesnt stop because you have all this gear or these amazing storage tools. They dont stop your world from progressing, if anything they only add to the experience. Perhaps people just cant set goals for themselves so they need to have developers artifically create a end goal as to keep people brains beleieving they have some sort of goal to work towards so that they dont feel the game has finished and they can keep moving forward. I suppose some people just cant motivate themselves to do anything unless they trick themselves into beleiving the game isnt over until they complete a tangible progression point that exists in game, and the game ends when no tangible progression can be made. Thats a very silly way to look at things. Theres nothing wrong living the life of a farmer, but getting a few storage chests doesnt impact your game in the slightest, so i dont see the argument, 'beat dragon early is bad', nothing changes. Actually i lied, something does change, you can store more potatoes in a single chest with multi colored storage... it doesnt even take long comparably to the rest of what you're doing.... why are people opposed to universally beneficial upgrades and why shame anyone that wants to get them early to make life easier?]
I think you are totally valid with the way you play the game, one of the things I didn't mention as much as I should have is people (like you) enjoy the game more with max gear. You are correct that is makes things more efficient, but for me personally, and I feel a lot of people would benefit from this view, I recommend 'stopping and smelling the roses' so to speak. Exploring with iron makes the game more interesting for me because there is more risk, and more reward. And I also believe that creativity can shine brightest when you work through limitations like early game tools. None of this to bash or invalidate your comment, I believe you are 100% correct for the play style you have, but it isn't the only viable one, you know? Thank you for the comment though! I really want to encourage you to make a video essay on this because you have some really amazing thoughts!!!!
I started playing Minecraft again like 2 months ago on this server with just my cousin. He took a break in the middle for about a month, while I've been having fun just staying at iron gear and making builds and exploring for months without progressing to the End. I've been having so much fun exploring shipwrecks, making castles, exploring biomes for armour trims, raiding piglin bastions, making massive walls around my nether base, recently discovering lavacasting like 2 days ago and making cool towers, staircases and soon castles with it. It's just fun taking your time and thinking of it as a real world progression thing where you set a goal and try to take your time with it for most of the day or whatever lol. RANDOMLY FINDING OUT THE MINECRAFT MOVIE TRAILER GOT RELEASED WHILE BUILDING AND DYING FROM FALL DAMAGE AFTER BEING IN SHOCK?
@@phils-a-mek6345 It's cool though, I made 2 massive twin towers in front of his base to block the view when he opens his front door, as revenge for him trying to kill me with his dogs (and further revenge for him killing my three of my friendly iron golems and loudly cheering during the one minute silence and memorial).
@@phils-a-mek6345 it gets worse. We made a prison next to our bases containing evil villagers who one time ate their own child after giving birth (the child was literally never found even though the family had the particle effects and uh… did stuff) so we gave them all life imprisonment for premeditating this evil act lmao. There are even more evil things my cousin just did for his sick, twisted amusement lol
this has nothing to do with the bars you be spitting but I can't stop seeing the transparent blue game play footage as if it's a highlighted element in a browser that I can't un-highlight 😭
honestly i feel like u shud just realize wut u want to do and solidify that and focus on it. if u dont know wut U want to do then u wont feel like playing after 10 mins. for example, im a builder and i want to make tons of cool stuff in survival, not just creative. for that i obv need tons of resources and maxed out gear, and so in my survival world im just focusing on getting that gear maxed and making very efficient farms for resources and its working out perfectly fine. im almost maxed out in gear and have multiple farms and my motivation never goes down because i have a clear path to follow, even if its not crazy unique.
I'm glad you're enjoying the game that way! I believe I may have failed to convey that that method of play is valid for some, but I was mainly trying to address how I felt about the game. Definitely though I'll work on better conveying myself in future videos! But for sure a goal can help, thank you for your comment!
Thank you man! I use the "Yeti X." I got it off amazon a while ago when it was on sale. If you catch it around cyber Monday it was only $60. hope this helps, and best of luck to you!
Great video but I just wanted to let you know that the music overwhelmed your voice quite a bit. Turning the music down would make it better. Otherwise great video, even though I don't fully agree.
I stumbled upon peak while you're still at 152 subs and 2.3k views ... I have an inkling this might reach out further in the future. My only critique is that the background music overwhelms over your commentary sometimes and it can be a bit hard for me to hear.
you didn't balance the music with the audio too well, your voice gets kinda hard to hear at around 3:00. anyways, yep. use minecraft as a canvas. doesn't matter if your pikachu pixelart is using sand, gravel and dirt, just doodle. Make a house with what you have and don't stress about how much bigger you could build or how efficient you could be in building it. I don't have that many hours, just 3 days of playtime in a survival world I started at the start of the year. But it's been a really fun time. Believe it or not, but over 70 hours in, I still haven't decided to get wood tools. I don't have that many items I can collect, but because of that, I decide what I want to do based on what I have, instead of some grandiose goal that would have naturally been beyond my ability to motivate myself. It is not a smart way to play. Yet, to me, that's what makes it fun.
hey man great video but next time pls tone down on the bg music. its nice to have it and gives the tinge of nostalgia, but its too loud and makes you hard to hear without subtitles. the auto generated ones are not that good so clarity of your voice would be preferred
why did this video get 2.9k views yet the subscribers still remained low never the less this was a moneth ago and the 100 subscriber mark was not to long ago this marks postitive results as the subscriber count is allready about to be doubled lets celebrate at 500 subscribers
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It sucks to be the last playing after the others are done with their phase
Holy real
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Amazing video. I love what you said about Minecraft being a sandbox with RPG elements. It's so well put and explains a feeling I've had for a while that no one else has really touched on.
I'm glad you loved it!
This is why I don't really play competitive or try to speedrun. Stampy was a big insparation for me to even start RUclips in the first place.
I'm hoping this video will inspire you to make some video essays 👀👀👀👀👀
@@phils-a-mek6345 I want to have different poses of my little persona like how you, Saberspark, and others do it. I didn't want to ask you because I didn't want the art style to be super similar
I've played on the same world for several months (Friends occasionally join but I'm usually on my own) and I have over 14 days of playtime. I've taken breaks, but I've always had an idea and gone all out to reach my goal. I've even dug over 700k blocks in this world to make space for terraforming and more building. I want it all to look nice and have as much fun as I possibly can!
Dude that sounds sick!
Very good video essay, brought back a lot of good memories
I'm glad!
I have a world that I've managed to keep for about a year now, I believe, which for me basically unheard of. I realized a few months in that I was getting caught up in trying to make those efficient farms, and get the best gear, and make grand plans, and make builds to impress people, like the youtubers I watch instead of just having fun, so I ended up ditching my main base, went 10000 blocks away, and started over in the same world.
And this time, I just allowed myself to do whatever I felt like without worrying about progression or efficiency. I built a few nice buildings, I started excavating a trail ruin, I'm currently working on a long, natural, winding road from my base to said trail ruins, I went and got all the new dogs, I explored the ancient city for the first time (and got frustrated enough that I explored it in peaceful mode, mainly so I could just laugh in the stupid warden's face), I'm in the process of making a long man-made cave all the way to the bottom of the world (that will act as my strip mine), and so on
It's been so nice to just play the game instead of having my nose to my phone looking at an automated farm tutorial to copy. And guess what, I even tried making a new world today and realized that I actually now prefer going back to that old one now. I've broken the "2 week minecraft phase" cycle (I mean, that's still how long my motivation lasts at a time, but now I'm not making 500 new worlds and saying "this will be the one," because I actually have the one now).
So happy for you man!
Honestly, there's nothing to say but: you understand, you get it
Thank you sm!
Under fucking rated
Thank you!
There are so many things you can critique about minecraft, but I can't imagine it without any of the upgrades.
I enjoy having good or decent gear, and I just build. I take the idea of building a village and then building by building i make something, and I'll never be finished because I haven't done everything yet and I make sure that I don't play too often for too long.
Seriously underrated video! You touch on exactly the right feelings of not just losing your desire to play Minecraft, but a desire to create. As an artist, I find it hard to motivate myself sometimes and end up doom scrolling for "inspiration" but after hearing you talk about playing without a tutorial, it makes me wonder. Awesome job man!
I'm glad you liked it! I also love your artstyle and thumbnails
@@phils-a-mek6345 Hey thanks! Your black and white + blue combo is so cool
how is bro going to end on that crazy of a one-liner and then hit me with the OG music? im crying at my sales job right now
My fault
very good essay, one bit of constructive criticism would be to work on adjusting your audio levels. i will admit the music sorta started drowning your vocals out a bit midway through the video. otherwise really good vid!
I will work on that! Thank you very much for letting me know. I feel like I can be deaf to it after fiddling with the audio levels a lot
@@phils-a-mek6345 what i'd try to do is make use of volume normalization for the music track you want to use. that and making sure its a healthy ratio quieter than the primary vocal track. me ive always had good luck around the 1/3 - 2/4 mark volumetrically in relation to the vocal track. its something thats entirely suggestive though, i'm sure youll find a spot thats comfortable for you. hope this was helpful! =)
Bro you are so underrated the quality of this video is amazing. I see channels with hundreds of thousands of subs and they have worse vids than you.
Bro thank you so much! It means the world!!!!
Thank you so much for making an actually productive video instead of just complaining about the state of the game like every other RUclipsr does.
Thank you for leaving such a wonderful comment!!!!!!!!
I think people forget creative wasnt the priority, it came afterwards.
Notch wasnt making a survival game it was a building game, he made survival afterwards
Very true
This is such a good video and really gets at the heart of most of the problems with people playing modern minecraft. This deserves to go viral
Thank you so much!
The quality of this video is insane you deserve more views :D
Thank you very much!
actually had me thinking, subscriptioned.
Thank you man! Also nice pfp
Yay I finally got a really cool high quality well edited video essay from a small creator recommended to me.
Before, I'd see people commenting on several videos how they were surprised the uploader only had like 80 subs despite the video's quality, but by the time it's recommended to me, they already have like 12k. You only have 140 subscribers as I'm watching! You're like a rare pokemon to me!
Glad you found me when you did man! Hope you will stick around to see other stuff I make, Thank you!!!!
"After all, isn't that what you did when you were little?" Hit so close. Goosebumps and a shiver sent down my spine.
I was raised off the game, first playing it on pocket edition before getting it on the XBOX 360. This game has raised me and everyone else in my generation. I would always build dumb but fun builds in creative mode, I'd occasionally play in a survival world with my cousin and my brother. We just built things to have fun, we focused on that and not the progression aspect of it all.
Even though our builds weren't the prettiest, they were still ours. We had fun doing it all. Thank you for this video, it really opened my eyes as to why I keep losing my interest in the game. The quality of the video and talking about everything is so deserving of my like and sub. Keep it up man, I'm going to go play minecraft again and actually enjoy it for once
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Dude this means the world! Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!
Bro this is insane! Amazing storytelling and editing (comes from a person who made the exact same video lmao, you should come check it out. Anyways you’re extremely underrated, amazing YTer :))
Thank you so much brother! I'll absolutely check out your video!
lol my video, surprising to see it upon clicking on this 😂. I am planning on making a video similar to this and stumbled across this one in my research- I'll credit you! great vid btw (:
Thank you man, let me know when you finish yours and I'll check it out!
I'm so glad a lot of the sandbox players are beginning to push back against the RPG oriented players. This has to be done because the game is beginning to shift development into something like Terraria (Tricky Trials for example), and it's because the RPG players have gotten louder and comfortable speaking their minds without any criticism.
I think some people just aren't going to enjoy Minecraft because let's face it, some people just aren't creative. Most players don't design their own builds, machines or farms. Most people just go onto a RUclips video showing them how to build it 1 for 1 and copy that. No experimentation, no creativity, no agency. These players need to come to terms with that and move on with their lives and play games that they will enjoy instead of staying here and whining about "progression" and "exploration", hoping Minecraft will become Terraria 3D.
The appeal of Minecraft comes from the intrinsic motivation to do something because it is fun in of itself, not because of some extrinsic motivation that x will get you y and y advances the player to the ending of the game.
Couldn't agree more brother
this is a great video i just subscribed!
Thank you so very much!!!!
I never understood for the life of me why so many people play minecraft in creative mode trying to imitate something they saw online. The joy for me isn't in designing a flawless building as fast as I can but in gathering the resources to build my own idea in a survival server where other friends also play so I can also share it. The more disconnected a game makes me feel the more at home I feel. If I didn't embrace this disconnection and went and built a perfect thing I saw online instead in creative mode, then I'd rather go learn to use an actual design software and become an architect, idk why you would use minecraft as the ultimate practical tool for that.
Very real statement
Dont forget nuke the notable
My friends and I have been playing on the same world on and off for around 7 years now. Still haven't been to the end on that world yet. We know where the portal is, we've just decided to not kill the Dragon yet. I think people don't realize that they can just choose to play the game any way they want to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Very real statement
By all means do it when you feel like it, but all you really get is some storage upgrades so is it really that bad to get them early? I guess thats just me not seeing the dragon as anything special, just a roadblock to an upgrade that makes storage more comfortable. I wish you could separate the two so that those who think of the dragon fight as something special to be saved for the right time dont need to be forced to fight just to get a new tool that would help earlier rather than later. Some people just want the tools, some just want an epic battle. Shame you need to do one for the other.
@@michaelr3077 The adventuring aspect without an Elytra is always captivating to me. Ventured to an Ocean Monument by boat. There's a few other reasons why, mainly that my friend Logan is the one who runs the server and he wants to solo the Dragon himself. So it's up to him.
@@michaelr3077 As for shulker boxes, they are very helpful but I've been able to do some pretty huge builds without them. That being said I will greatly appreciate when we finally do go the end.
If i dont have the good gear i will never be able to get anything done in any efficient manner, or at all. I can only effectively build in my oceans because i have max gear and enchanted turtle helmet so that im not constantly having to gasp for air and wont be impaled to death every 30 seconds a drowned spawns. If i dont have silk touch i wont have the ability to collect ore blocks for decoration plus more. If i dont have protection i cant comfortably explore dangerous locations for a myriad of reasons. Some of us dont want or have time to chop down trees for a month just to have a small base and little building materials. I need the dragon killed so i can get those shulkers to make my storage cleaner, and make long trips more manegable so i dont have to make so many return trips to take everything i find. I dont want to spend a year digging out a hole under a woodland mansion to build a prison where i capture all the mobs inside (and im certainly not going to survive with starter gear)
I have plenty of things i want to build, places i need to explore, mobs i need to fight. It does not take long to get all the good stuff, it makes things more efficent and lets you get to the good stuff. If you get bored after getting iron, you just arent motivated enough to build whatever you had in mind. If you cant survive the very small grind at the start of the game, how are you gonna handle the rest of what you planned? The problem is you either had no goals, or no motivation, or both.
I do hate the early game, its the slowest and most boring part, but once you have that effciency 5, mending unbreaking etc it becomes a lot less painful when you need to get something done. I really think minecraft problem is that exploration and building require a lot of setup to be able to do things at a comfortable and decently fast pace. It takes a lot of time to just prepare for something than it is to just do it. You COULD build something amazing but stone tools will not get you far any time soon. You could explore with iron armor but you're still highly vulnerable to death.
No matter how you put it, better gear is mandatory and theres few ways to get around that fact. If you dont want to spend years clearing out space and mining at a snails pace you need better gear. If you dont want to die all the time and back track every single death, you need better gear. If you dont do these thing you need to except the consequences of that decision. Its a lose lose situation, you skip progression and make very little progress over a long period of time and you get bored, or you grind it out and get bored by how repetetive and tedious it is.
I believe the latter is the better choice to make. Once you get through that slog of getting gear the whole world is open to you and nothing can get in your way. Do people quit after getting the gear because they suddenly realize what they wanted to build isnt going to be fun, or are they the type of people who burn out before they even get started? I guarantee people who quit just after getting their gear would be the same people who would quit halfway through their build had they skipped progression just to start. But maybe the real issue is these people just have very small goals, only have the attention span to make a small thing and cant be bothered to do more. Of course progression would burn you out, you only have the drive to make a small shed and get bored. I feel like trying to get someone out of their comfort zone wont work because these people just dont have the drive to commit to anything bigger or different.
I bet these same people start a new world every time they come back. If people just committed or continued where they left off they could actually experiment and do different things. Why do people contantly restart their games instead of just continuing? Do they not realize they are setting themselves up for failure? The game isnt going to become fun again because you start a new journey and recapture the adventure you had in the past, no you are just repeating the early game grind and tedium. I think people have the false hope that starting over and over will one day generate a structure witha magic fairy that will restore their lost motivation for what they used to enjoy. As if starting over is going to make them find something they are looking for that will change how they see the game.
Unfortunately sometimes we do plan to commit but we decide we need a better seed, but that just means we're forced to deal with all the problems of early game minecraft again...
the truth of it all, is you need to mentally prepare for the time investment in what you want to do in minecraft. Have a plan, have a goal (and smaller goals along the way), be prepared to commit and understand what that work requires and if you can actually handle that. Think of the time, what you need to get it done, and how much you are willing to put in. If you dont consider these things you will just get overwhelemed by task or lose your sense of purpose. If you dont set a goal for yourself you will lose your sense of direction and lose the motivation to get anything done because you feel like theres nothing to do or you dont know what to do. If the task becomes too much to handle (such as you underestimated how long it would actually take) then either take a break from the game and finish it when you're mentally relieved, or start a different project but stay in the same world.
[Tangent: I could never understand why people are so opposed to max gear as if the process of obtaining it all is some final end goal that suddenly means the rest of the game has no purpose because you did the unofficial final goal of the game. NO, thats just wrong. Gear is the end of minecraft, thats just the key to maximum effcicency. Why are peopel so opposed to going to the end? I find it baffling some people are hard wired to believe that when credits roll your purpose is comepletely invalidated and teh journey is over. The only thing the dragon is, is a barrier to shulker boxes. You people need to stop viewing the end as, the end. Its just a glorified structure with exclusive loot. The game doesnt stop because you have all this gear or these amazing storage tools. They dont stop your world from progressing, if anything they only add to the experience. Perhaps people just cant set goals for themselves so they need to have developers artifically create a end goal as to keep people brains beleieving they have some sort of goal to work towards so that they dont feel the game has finished and they can keep moving forward. I suppose some people just cant motivate themselves to do anything unless they trick themselves into beleiving the game isnt over until they complete a tangible progression point that exists in game, and the game ends when no tangible progression can be made. Thats a very silly way to look at things. Theres nothing wrong living the life of a farmer, but getting a few storage chests doesnt impact your game in the slightest, so i dont see the argument, 'beat dragon early is bad', nothing changes. Actually i lied, something does change, you can store more potatoes in a single chest with multi colored storage...
it doesnt even take long comparably to the rest of what you're doing.... why are people opposed to universally beneficial upgrades and why shame anyone that wants to get them early to make life easier?]
I think you are totally valid with the way you play the game, one of the things I didn't mention as much as I should have is people (like you) enjoy the game more with max gear. You are correct that is makes things more efficient, but for me personally, and I feel a lot of people would benefit from this view, I recommend 'stopping and smelling the roses' so to speak. Exploring with iron makes the game more interesting for me because there is more risk, and more reward. And I also believe that creativity can shine brightest when you work through limitations like early game tools.
None of this to bash or invalidate your comment, I believe you are 100% correct for the play style you have, but it isn't the only viable one, you know?
Thank you for the comment though! I really want to encourage you to make a video essay on this because you have some really amazing thoughts!!!!
I started playing Minecraft again like 2 months ago on this server with just my cousin. He took a break in the middle for about a month, while I've been having fun just staying at iron gear and making builds and exploring for months without progressing to the End. I've been having so much fun exploring shipwrecks, making castles, exploring biomes for armour trims, raiding piglin bastions, making massive walls around my nether base, recently discovering lavacasting like 2 days ago and making cool towers, staircases and soon castles with it. It's just fun taking your time and thinking of it as a real world progression thing where you set a goal and try to take your time with it for most of the day or whatever lol. RANDOMLY FINDING OUT THE MINECRAFT MOVIE TRAILER GOT RELEASED WHILE BUILDING AND DYING FROM FALL DAMAGE AFTER BEING IN SHOCK?
No way 💀💀💀💀
@@phils-a-mek6345 It's cool though, I made 2 massive twin towers in front of his base to block the view when he opens his front door, as revenge for him trying to kill me with his dogs (and further revenge for him killing my three of my friendly iron golems and loudly cheering during the one minute silence and memorial).
@@sonicgamer178 💀💀💀💀BROTHER THERE IS NO WAY
@@phils-a-mek6345 it gets worse. We made a prison next to our bases containing evil villagers who one time ate their own child after giving birth (the child was literally never found even though the family had the particle effects and uh… did stuff) so we gave them all life imprisonment for premeditating this evil act lmao. There are even more evil things my cousin just did for his sick, twisted amusement lol
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Great video music's a bit loud though XD
Thank you!
this has nothing to do with the bars you be spitting but I can't stop seeing the transparent blue game play footage as if it's a highlighted element in a browser that I can't
un-highlight 😭
I'm SORRYYYYYYYY
agreed
Yay!
I’m not even gonna lie I have NEVER actually defeated the ender dragon lmao
(I haven't either don't tell anyone)
I did once, but only after cheating in a stronghold and flying into it in creative mode 😅
honestly i feel like u shud just realize wut u want to do and solidify that and focus on it. if u dont know wut U want to do then u wont feel like playing after 10 mins. for example, im a builder and i want to make tons of cool stuff in survival, not just creative. for that i obv need tons of resources and maxed out gear, and so in my survival world im just focusing on getting that gear maxed and making very efficient farms for resources and its working out perfectly fine. im almost maxed out in gear and have multiple farms and my motivation never goes down because i have a clear path to follow, even if its not crazy unique.
I'm glad you're enjoying the game that way! I believe I may have failed to convey that that method of play is valid for some, but I was mainly trying to address how I felt about the game. Definitely though I'll work on better conveying myself in future videos! But for sure a goal can help, thank you for your comment!
Great video! Do you mind me asking what mic you use? I’m curious because I need a mic and our channels are about the same size.
Thank you man! I use the "Yeti X." I got it off amazon a while ago when it was on sale. If you catch it around cyber Monday it was only $60. hope this helps, and best of luck to you!
Basically. DO WHAT DANTDM IS DOING CURRENTLY!!
Great video but I just wanted to let you know that the music overwhelmed your voice quite a bit. Turning the music down would make it better. Otherwise great video, even though I don't fully agree.
Thank you very much, I'll keep an ear out in future videos!
I stumbled upon peak while you're still at 152 subs and 2.3k views ... I have an inkling this might reach out further in the future.
My only critique is that the background music overwhelms over your commentary sometimes and it can be a bit hard for me to hear.
Thank you for the positivity and input. I'll do my best to fix it in future videos!
Good video :)
Thank you very much!
holy peak
Thank you sm!!!
good video essay, but i suggest turning down the music next time 😅
Duley noted, thank you very much for the feedback
you didn't balance the music with the audio too well, your voice gets kinda hard to hear at around 3:00.
anyways, yep. use minecraft as a canvas. doesn't matter if your pikachu pixelart is using sand, gravel and dirt, just doodle. Make a house with what you have and don't stress about how much bigger you could build or how efficient you could be in building it.
I don't have that many hours, just 3 days of playtime in a survival world I started at the start of the year. But it's been a really fun time. Believe it or not, but over 70 hours in, I still haven't decided to get wood tools. I don't have that many items I can collect, but because of that, I decide what I want to do based on what I have, instead of some grandiose goal that would have naturally been beyond my ability to motivate myself.
It is not a smart way to play. Yet, to me, that's what makes it fun.
hey man great video but next time pls tone down on the bg music. its nice to have it and gives the tinge of nostalgia, but its too loud and makes you hard to hear without subtitles. the auto generated ones are not that good so clarity of your voice would be preferred
I'll fix that in future videos, thank you for making me aware!
you should lower the volume in your background music brotha
Duly noted, I'll make sure to do that in future videos!
why did this video get 2.9k views yet the subscribers still remained low never the less this was a moneth ago and the 100 subscriber mark was not to long ago this marks postitive results as the subscriber count is allready about to be doubled lets celebrate at 500 subscribers
8:14 or just be bad at the game like me
Why is that so me coded?????