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I started playing Minecraft last week for the first time ever. I’m 43 years old. It’s fun. it’s a lot of damn fun. I can just do whatever, build whatever, farm, and I don’t have to interact with anyone if I don’t want to. I’m having a blast with it.
For years I just dismissed it as a little kids game and at this point I’m kicking myself for not trying it sooner.
It actually got me the job I have today, by learning to host a server and going down the road if learning how to use Linux etc when the company I work for acquired another company and we took over their production I was the only tech that new how to setup a small network and remote in to all the machines and test
Whatever you do don’t go looking for a similar game called Vintage Story /s
VS is like Minecraft but way more realistic. There’s actual metal forging, panning, true mining, farming crops takes a lot longer, weather is a lot harsher. It’s just a more survival-heavy experience.
I really want to like VS but the progression is painfully slow. I love the story, I’ve put literal hours into chisel art to the point that I got to mod just to make my own doors, and I love the concept of the progression, I just desperately need 4-6 other people so none of us have to do all of the damn work. I quit playing a while back when I’d spent 3 days logging on with the goal of exploring and ended up wasting all my game time doing chores before I could get out and about.
Luanti is a good one too, although it might be closer to a minecraft clone than what you’re describing. It’s open-source though, and supports a fairly large modding community. There are all sorts of user-created extras that you can download and enable/disable as you please, right in the launcher.
They even have user-created game modes, so you can play the more traditional minecraft-style sandbox/survival game, or do various puzzles/mazes/platformers that people designed.
Vintage Story is a lot like that too. The only thing is there’s no mod browser in the game, you have to open a separate window for it.
True mining? So you spend weeks looking for rich vains, then chissel them out over months, then process the ore etc. etc.
Maybe not quite “true” mining, but there’s definitely a prospecting aspect of finding a good vein. There is a mod for coring/quarrying too. There’s pretty much a mod to make any aspect of the game more/less hardcore.
Like Terrafirmacraft? (Is that still a thing?)
I think it spawned from that. Or one of those types of mods.
Basically they realized that what they wanted to do would basically make it a whole new game anyway, so they just went and made their own.
Never too late to get into Minecraft :-) I personally would recommend looking into Java Edition after you got your bearings and know what you are doing. There are awesome mod packs available - I started playing Minecraft decades ago, and about once a year i get the cravings for trying out a current modpack to see what people have been up to.
I just have to be “that guy” but Minecraft didn’t release a playable build until 2009, so that’s only 17 years. Not “decades.”
“only” 17… I remember buying it after playing the alpha in my browser, seemed longer than 17 years
Do you miss the simplicity of it back then?
I think I started playing it either in 2011 or 12
I recently replayed and beat it as I’d never killed the ender dragon before. I feel it’s too clunky with all the additions for my tastes, like pre-enchantment tables is my preference
Oh no, i am an absolute modpack fan - the more stuff and mechanics i can explore, the better.
I know it’s semantics and doesn’t really matter, but it just bugs the hell out of me when people use hyperbole like that.
Fair enough - wasn’t really reaching for hyperbole, it really was longer in my mind
You might also like terraria, which is ostensibly like 2D mine minecraft but has more focus on progression.
And if you like Terraria, Core Keeper and Necesse might be right down the alley for you too!
Necesse looks like it might have more base management than I usually want to deal with. Core Keeper looks pretty fun though
Yeah, you are right, base management is an integral part to Necesse.
Core Keeper is so cute!it changes the Foreground/Background recipe of Terraria to a 3d- Floor/Walls receipe, which works great in the way they have implemented it.
Make sure to grab T-mod loader too!
Terraria is an absolute blast. I have entire save that’s strictly for building. I can get so lost in the sauce playing that game.
It also gateway drug. Soon you’ll be designing vehicles, planes, spaceships, bases and factories in lego style block by block.
Only thing that can save you is a grown mans lack of time.
Create aeronautics be looking at me like heroin some days
If you like Minecraft checkout Luanti. Open source, extensible with Lua, has most Minecraft features, and a huge community of new kinda of games and addons. Really really cool.
If you enjoy legos and you enjoy computer games, then you can enjoy minecraft
You like Minecraft for all the reasons I don’t. I much prefer a game that is more like a cinematic experience, than a sandbox where you make your own story. I’m not that creative.