Am I the only one who DOESN'T like the direction Minecraft is heading?

archdeco · 6 months

I just want them to occasionally finish something they start.

"I made wolves!"

"Great! What do they do?"

"...I made Mooshrooms!"

DeadComma · 6 months

Although what you say is true, I don't think any of this has taken anything away from the game. All of the mechanical functions you mention are still there! This is just a case of more options for players.

I am a great believer in personal choice, so as long as features are not removed in favour of others, I don't see a problem :)

BYoNexus · 6 months

Redstone has been around for a long time, and the repeater was just a method to simplify some of the more complex mechanism people had already figured out using Rtorches.

The boosters were added so that the bugged booster system could be fixed without everyone freaking out about losing their railroads. TNT has also been around for a very long time, the only change was that you could actually pick it back up if you place it in the wrong place.

Although I agree the potions/enchant system was a bit unexpected dircetion-wise, but I never really saw the game moving into a mechanical direction either.

You can always try IndustrialCraft

Zilka · 6 months

My problem is with the new terrain generator. I absolutely love the randomness of surroundings in Minecraft. I think in the new generator they went a bit too far in defining the properties of biomes. What should have introduced more variety did the opposite. Because biome properties are so well defined every biome of the same type looks practically the same. One pine forest looks just like another pine forest. One swamp is just like the other swamp. Sure they are random. The tree position is random for example. The location of hills is random. But this randomness is not significant enough to make me care in which pine forest or swamp I want to live. They are the same to me. Of course this is not entirely true, and there are still some awe-inspiring landscapes out there, but they are substantially less likely to occur now. I would at least want mountain generation to be somewhat biome-independent. Mountains are probably the most fun part in minecraft landscape, but being limited to dark green grass, stone and no trees makes them really boring.

opterionianiaco · 6 months

I feel the OP's point is that rather than getting more Industrial, Minecraft has gotten more Magical. Rather than providing unique new creative items, Minecraft is giving us enhancements on the items we already have.

I like the way mods such as Industrial craft add to the game, and feel if the game had gone this way more people would be happy. Don't get me wrong, I love the enchantments and levels, but what I really want is new items to give me more ways to create things like Evil Genius style traps.

Edit: It's kind of like sci-fi vs fantasy.

Pappenheimer · 6 months

the official modding system

That we still don't have that is my biggest disappointment. Minecraft can be many different things to many different people, and if it had modding support, it could be so much bigger. I'd love to play with Better than wolves for instance, but there are so many other incredible mods I'd love to use and it's a huge pain in the ass to make them work together, also the next update will inevitably break everything.

I don't expect Mojang to include everything I think is awesome, I just want them to make it possible for me to choose what I find awesome. I don't think there is any other game that has spawned so many ideas and incredibly creative mods, it really is about time that gets honoured.

MylesMDT · 6 months

It just seems badly unfocused. I never cared for the mechanical side of crafting. But whether you like enchanting, alchemy, or mechanical, etc, nothing is finished or polished. It's as if someone kept going, "Okay, let's add this in, and then we can - Ooh, shiny!"

Mexxy · 6 months

Jeb said at Minecon that they're going to focus more on the creative side of the game now that they have finished the adventure update.

charliemeon · 6 months

I agree with this, quite a lot. I really dislike the direction the game took, my main gripe being that bloody dragon. I loved Minecraft with no goals, limited only by your imagination. It just soured the game for me.

ShadowRam · 6 months

I 100% agree. I really like the direction Better than Wolves took.

I like the idea of mechanical things helping with the whole mining aspect of the game.

Afterall, it IS Minecraft. Not AdventureCraft.

I wanted Pulley's, Rope, Pipes, Saws, etc.

thefourthhouse · 6 months

Game called minecraft. Has 6 types of ore.

What

The

Fuck.

nootron · 6 months

I agree 100%. Put simply: Minecraft needs more actuators and more creatures.

That's about it. Add more animals, monsters, animal monsters, pulleys, elevators, levers, gears, pumps, animal pulleys, monster elevators, animal pumps, animal monster gears, etc.

Echo1419 · 6 months

I feel the exact same. Minecraft has turned into the ordinary RPG. I hated when Endermen were added. It made the game less creative because they go and fucking destroy everything.

DeadLocked7 · 6 months

I just want zombie onslaught fort building mode.

MBSquared · 6 months

I absolutely agree. A big reason I don't play anymore is the amount of random nonsense that has been added that doesn't really add anything to the game. I think they should have listened to the fans more. There have been so many great suggestions over the past year or so, and instead of going with those they jumped from random idea to random idea.

airencracken · 6 months

I feel like all of the RPG elements that have been added really detract from the sandbox nature of the game. I'm finding myself less and less interested in Minecraft.

tehKrakken · 6 months

The main reason I don't like the end boss idea is because there are no other bosses. Or mini bosses. Or anything like slightly harder mobs. You've got your run-of-the-mill monsters, some new Nether stuff, and then a 15 minute fight in a another dimension. That's a really steep jump. honestly I'd be fine with some rarely spawning huge/super mobs. (Giants anyone?)

what disappoints even more is that there's one kind of dragon, in one place, that you fight one time. Maybe it';s the little kid in me that read fantasy books constantly, but if we're gonna have dragons they should all kinds of sizes and colors. Heck just blatantly rip off D&D and have basic colors, and then the ores. good luck fighting an Obsidian Dragon.

Fishbone95 · 6 months

I am totally your opinion. But now that 1.0 is out, i kinda like the enchantements and potions and stuff. But i hope there wont be more... I'm afraid some day Minecaft will be like a MMORPG or something :P

counters14 · 6 months

The Nether..

NPC Villages..

Strongholds..

NPCS..

Potions..

Enchantment..

Experience.. Really.....?

I don't see how any of these things make any sense at all to a game whose community largely revolves around all of the cool stuff you can do with very basic game mechanics.

They saw the release date upcoming, slapped a whole bunch of shit in to the game to make it marketable, and now they're laughing all the way to the bank with it.

I'm pretty disgusted with the entire direction Minecraft is taking. I don't think I've played much more than a few hours since 1.8 was released.

PancakePirate · 6 months

I always liked how Minecraft had a medieval feel and that apart from the skeletons, zombies and giant spiders there wasn't an overtly fantasy feel to the game. This was great because you could choose whether or not your world was one of fantasy, magic and dragons or not.

I also feel it should have gone towards the mechanical side of things. Redstone and pistons have exponentially increased the amount that can be done in Minecraft, and there is so much more potential along that route. The mechanical route (pistons in particular, red stone not so much) also fits in well with the medieval feel of the game.

sirms · 6 months

Notch said from the very start that the game would be fantasy based.

Captain_Porque · 6 months

I was hoping for a very large and diverse amount of blocks. After a while it feels like I'm just building the same shit. I really have no desire to use potions or enchantments, I just really want to build cities and mine and craft. Am I alone in this?

fte · 6 months

I want to build. I want to experiment. I want to build traps and machines. I want animals and airplanes. Airships and gliders. Mods are awesome, as I can customize the game to work the way I want.

I don't like adventure update one bit. First, I was excited. I thought we were getting npc's and quests. Useful leveling and grindy unlockables. Reality was some weird squidwards here and there, going swimming. Levels that disappear when you die, whereas leveling itself is almost completely useless too.

It's not even hard for me to say I'm slightly disappointed about the direction minecraft took, as I was expecting a totally different direction (more machines, exploration, BUILDING?!?). But I thank the mods and their creators, that still keeps me playing this game. Vanilla wouldn't.

guavaman202 · 6 months

I felt exactly like you for a period of time. I really didn't want to see Minecraft just turn into another fantasy RPG. But then I realized that I didn't have to take part in any potions or enchanting. I could still enjoy the game however I wanted to, and not interact with the stuff that didn't interest me. There's just more options.

Kazzx · 6 months

I just want to build epic stuff, and then have some opposing force to play against. give me the merchants and raids from dwarf fortress. give me some NPCs to recruit as defenders, or some turrets to build.

I don't play for adventure. I play to build.

Stormwatch36 · 6 months

There's still a huge section of the userbase that barely even touches redstone or pistons.

FlippyDog · 6 months

i know what you mean i thing the same i think more blocks would be better than Potions, enchantments, an end-game boss and XP-points hope notch reading this and change the game direction

jaxnos · 6 months

You see a limit in potential.

I see the beginnings of a war between magic and machine.

darkplumb90 · 6 months

I think the hunger bar/starving mechanic took it too far. Too much focus on food and not enough on actual mining.

Rosethorns · 6 months

and what most people fail to remember is that months ago people were complaining about there being nothing to do adventure wise.

People were bored of playing house. So Notch said "I'll Make the Adventure Update!" to satisfy everyone.

Well woe unto notch for thinking that would do the trick because low and behold people seem to have a memory of a gold fish as to why notch does the things he does, and BAM "WE WANT MORE LEGOS"

Do you know what Notch has planned for the future? perhaps he anticipated that people would complain because they can't remember why he did the Adventure update to begin with.

Oh well, never mind, keep on you crazy diamond.

Mordy2011 · 6 months

Nope. I am dissapoint at the lack of management features required for teh safe stable and secure operation of a minecraft server. Mojang does not have any proper or PROFESSIONAL grade features for its server operators community. Thus we are forced to use freeware made by strangers that for all we know could be malware.

TheDodoBird · 6 months

Mojang has always intended to make the game RPG based. I do not understand why everyone always complains about this. Like a previous poster mentioned, try industrialcraft. That should be everything you would want out of minecraft. It is pretty cool.

CelticRocker92 · 6 months

I think its just trying to hit a bigger audience the best thing about mine craft is you don't have to take that path of the game but you always have the option too if you ever want.

Also yeah I would love more mechanics thats probably my favorite part of the game.

8Dface · 6 months

At first it seemed like Minecraft was going towards you can do anything you want to, sort of game, now it seems to have more specific goals. Even thought the adventure update added lots of new features and exciting options, they still have the same thing in mind. Build a big house, with lots of resources. I think using different methods, should yield different results. I'm sure whatever Notch has planned will be good, but I think he needs to listen to the community on what people actually want.

sunofsomething · 6 months

Other than the experience system and enchantments, I have no urge to fulfill any goals or achievements in minecraft. I know there are a lot of people like me, who'll take the game as it was before and just build for the sake of building, or mine for the sake of mining. I thoroughly enjoy digging down to the bedrock, clearing out that big patch of dirt to see what's behind, or cross that lava lake to see about finding diamonds.

Now, of course there will be people who's goal will be to meet the enderdragon and to kill it. And that's all their choice. In fact, I think the choice is adding so many more dimensions to the game. There are people who spend all of their time building insane circuitry and machines. CNBminecraft, for example, seems as if he spends his time dreaming up cool machinery and piston oriented doorways and elevators.

There are so many aspects of the game that I haven't accessed yet. Before hardcore mode was introduced, I spent my time on peaceful, digging into caves, building fantastic structures in survival single player. But now I'm hooked on hardcore, and I started delving into features I'd never bothered with: farming, breeding, enchanting. All just to survive. So, to me, it's just a matter of choice, and there's a lot to choose from. For everything else? Well we have mods for that, and looks as if they're going to make minecraft all the more mod friendly next update.

GexGecko · 6 months

Get IndustrialCraft/BuildCraft, perhaps someday vanilla will catch up, but the introduction of new kinds of power/applications is probably a long way off.

grottohopper · 6 months

end-game boss? ಠ_ಠ

Wise_Guy_57 · 6 months

First off, 'small majority' implies an actual majority.

Second, no, you are not alone. Of course you are not alone. You are an upset person on the internet. You will never be alone about anything.

Third, what kind's of features do you have in mind? Seems like there is a ton of crap you can do with what's already there.

cbellanger · 6 months

None of those new features are obvious. It's quite easy to build log cabins and fight zombies and never craft a piston or potion. Because they're not forced upon the player, there's choice in the game's tone.

ZeSeb · 6 months

I agree to a certain extend. I always thought, some new system like redstone would be great. Something that would give more mobility to the game (building engines with coal and pistons and a new component???) However, I quite like the mysterical and fantasy touch. I merely think, Minecraft, in its basic and generic appearance can have many "directions" and therefore appeal to many. And that is also a good thing. Because when I'm fed up with building up my base I can build something with redstone und after this go exploring. And when I'm done with that too, I still can beat the dragon. Hooray for Minecraft diversity!

maschwa · 6 months

The only part about minecraft that i dont like is that there are absolutely 0 in game intructions, or quests or anything. Someone can't just expect to buy the game, figure it out and then beat it. You have to spend hours of time actuallu figuring out the game from other places online. If I didnt have internet access, i would be completely lost during singleplayer survival.

dotdoubledot · 6 months

I'm with you... I was happy with 1.7 beta.

WillBlaze · 6 months

I'm very happy they haven't went the way you are talking about, because honestly I hardly ever use redstone, carts, or pistons. I would rather have personal character growth of some sort, a level up stat system, more enchantments, and better npcs. My favorite mod I have ever played (and I think it died off a while ago, I don't see a updated version anywhere) is Humans+.

As a person that plays Skyrim a lot, this is just the type of thing I like. Different strokes for different folks.

ElijahiscoolOfMC · 6 months

Yea I miss the good ole days of Minecraft. When it wasn't an RPG And just a peaceful mining and building game, with a taste of adventure. Now it's just turning into something like Runescape :( I'm not saying Minecraft is bad, it's just it was better before 1.8. That's just my thought No karma plz.

novadies · 6 months

I DISLIKE THIS IDEA OF POTIONS AND ENCHANTMENTS. I HAVE SKYRIM FOR THAT, AND WOW, AND EVERY RPG EVER MADE.

Skywalka95 · 6 months

Finally I see someone else thinking this. It's not the same as it used to be.

JAG171 · 6 months

I find it funny that people are pissed off at notch. This game started as just a hobby project that wasn't going anywhere. He made it because he felt like it, not because he wanted you to yell at him for doing something he wanted

MightySwift · 6 months

I don't get why do everybody rage about enchantment, potions etc. NOBODY forces you to do them, you can still do redstone engineering or building or whatever you want to. The thing I REALLY dislike is hunger. Really, what's the point of that? The only sense I see in it is annoying people.

bodaciousbilly · 6 months

Everyone always says "try this mod" whenever there is a suggestion or complaint, but everyone knows about mods already. They suggest/complain because a lot of awesome mods either don't exist in SMP or are a pain in the ass to install and manage. Thus they suggest/complain that these things should be in the vanilla game.

tl;dr we all already know there are mods for these things. Shut up.

joealarson · 6 months

"I know I'm in a small majority...."

"...small majority..."

"...small..." "...majority..."

Do you mean "vocal minority" or "part of a silent minority"?

Kinda detracts from your point.

luizmanzato · 6 months

More energy things can make the game even more awesome!

Andyd4 · 6 months

Its called MINEcraft why are there so little ores.

somatherapy · 6 months

There's actually a built-in quickfix for the issues you've been experiencing. To access it, don't make potions, enchant things, or fight the bosses.

Goofybud16 · 6 months

Yeah, minecraft HAS lost some of it's touch... Wolfs, villagers, ores to common and easy to find anymore, and both kinds of strongholds. Alot of these are making the game like an RPG... Don't like it.

Mastadge · 6 months

I agree with you, but I think Notch and Mojang didn't want it to become a game with all kinds of machinery, and technology. I think the idea of it is that the tech is basic, and you have to see what you can do with that yourself. Then they added the 1.8 and 1.9 stuff, which i think went for a more adventurous style, not so technology drive.

oh, also the cog was an early design for redstone.

[deleted] · 6 months

You make a good point. I would rather have seen more emphasis on what made me love the game to begin with (Mechanics and aesthetics), and not this haphazard adventure stuff. Although i appriciate them wanting to make exploring more fun, and have the game feel more like a game; it just seems that it could have gone far beyond what anyone could ever have imagined, had they stuck to the mechanics and aesthetics part.

But i suppose we'll have to see what the future has to offer. They're going to have to do a lot of polishing on the current mechanics, so i doubt we'll see anything significant any time soon. But you'll never know.

TheCodexx · 6 months

I just want Dwarf Fortress/Dungeon Keeper/Rollercoaster Tycoon with mechanical building elements. And perhaps some more monsters and minerals (limited, not more than a couple new ultra-rare ones at most) to make building the really complex stuff harder and rarer in a survival game.

I'm just really let down it's turned into a procedurally generated RPG with simplistic graphics. I felt it had real potential as Dungeon Tycoon Fortress.

pointsandlaughs · 6 months

I started hating it when magic and potions and dragons and experience points were added. After two years of loving the game, 1.0 is out, and I can't stand it any more.

Notch just wants to make Skyrim.

starmartyr · 6 months

I like the mechanical stuff too but there was enough of it in there for the release version so they put it aside to work on things that needed more like combat. Now that it's out I'm sure we'll get more mechanical stuff in a future update.

sgt_hatred · 6 months

Well while they did make a stronger push for the adventure aspect towards the end of beta i don't think minecraft actually has a "direction". If they make a push in the mechanical aspects, which i would also love, the adventure element can remain un-altered. I think when development on minecraft is finished it will be like 10 games in one depending on what aspect you enjoy.

MrJelle · 6 months

I consider it more... Padding, but in a not necessarily bad way. The game had a lot of creative and sandboxy elements to it before, Notch wanted to give it a bit of an actual game feel as well by throwing in potions and enchantments and giving it a bit more of an RPG feel. It's a little more well-rounded than it was before, without taking away from what was already there.

Minecraft is what you make of it, you can focus on the mechanical side of things solely if that's what you want. Some people just wander around the worlds, taking screenshots of interesting scenery!

Adamski42 · 6 months

I agree, to a degree, though I just play with Better than Wolves mod and that keeps me more than satisfied.

Ohsin · 6 months

I can relate .I would have loved some steampunkish/mechanical style but i think it would be one hell of job to actually implement.I just hope modders salvage it for those with different taste :)

StoreClock · 6 months

It's not a new direction. They just focused on one aspect of the game for this update. I would rather have nice, complete updates on one part of the game, than updates that sort of add some incomplete stuff to every part.

w00z · 6 months

They should just add EVERYTHING to the game and let people deal with it and decide about what they want to do with it themselves.

Dioxy · 6 months

I completely disagree. Minecraft was awesome, but it was missing a feeling of adventure. I'm loving the new minecraft.

RagingPygmy · 6 months

To be fair there have been some game-changing additions to mechanics since Spring of this year such as being able to use a pressure plate on top of a fence post.

[deleted] · 6 months

I'd just be happy if a single feature in the past year was implemented correctly and with care.

The only one implemented well has been pistons… made outside of Mojang.

August_ · 6 months

Just give us a funnel block and I'm content.

OmegaMilkShake · 6 months

This is just to reach a wider range of players. Not everyone wants to spend days building something.

EgXPlayer · 6 months

Majority? Everyone thinks so..

Exenti · 6 months

All these RPG elements are silly.

GerriKo · 6 months

I really agree with you, though I still really love the game. I wrote about that issue on reddit when potions and enchantments were first mentioned, but my submission was torn apart :(

adnan252 · 6 months

Notch did say it was going to be the adventure update... hence adventury things

blightning65 · 6 months

I think the better than wolfs mod really adds to the mechanical side.

kierenj · 6 months

A decent point, but it looks like you're saying you don't like any direction it could take other than "mechanical". It's an interesting quirk to the universe created in Minecraft, but it's just an accent, and the more limited you are in that, I think the more creative you have to get. A block that you can program to run around your base collecting slimes and depositing slime balls would be great I guess but a very small proportion of players would want to get that technical, I think.

Paumanok · 6 months

I agree with you. I haven't played in a month because of the way it has turned. I don't like the hunger system or the xp system. I miss the first beta version when I first started playing because it was so simple and fun. That's what I liked about minecraft. Now it's just too much.

Tokimobile · 6 months

It went downhill after the halloween update for me, but I'm not the kind of guy that will build huge machines, that might explain...

piggybankcowboy · 6 months

I don't mind. I love the mechanical aspect of the game, but the fact of the matter is I am not very mechanically inclined, myself. From my perspective, my satisfaction from that aspect of the game comes from seeing what you guys create and post on here.

My play style focuses more on building aesthetics and exploring, so the potion and enchantment adds were right up my alley. That's the thing about Minecraft; there are so many different "types" of players, and I applaud Mojoang's efforts to try and give each one of them something that is geared toward them.

Leezus · 6 months

This might help.

WillMcB · 6 months

I bet notch read this and mumbled "fuck you man, seriously."

BetYouCanNotTellMe · 6 months

Don't worry - the official mod API will allow you to change what you don't like.

JediXenu · 6 months

The beauty of minecraft is that it has no real storyline or quests to follow.

I agree that over the past few months and after 1.0 the game does feel a bit less open ended, but i think thats because now yo know theres an end goal and achievements give you a path to take.

That being said you don't have to do any of that. If you want to just dig and build you can. If you want to build a hut and hunt go for it. The reason for all the updates was to appeal to a wide audience. People who like killing mobs needed better combat and the game had to eventually have a master goal or final surprise, hence the end and dragons.

selectrix · 6 months

The structure of the game is a low-resolution world where everything is mutable.

That structure, in itself, dictates how such a game will never be able to compete as an RPG with a hi-res, limited-interaction-world based game. There simply isn't enough room for detail to make monsters/fights/npcs compelling, and RPGs rely on players being constrained to certain courses of action which, while possible with a sandbox game, is much harder when every bit of the world is able to be altered.

So aside from an attempt to capitalize on a popular genre, one of which Notch is definitely a fan himself, there's really not much reason to add standard RPG elements to Minecraft. A Dwarf Fortress approach- mob waves of ever-increasing strength, with procedurally generated boss monsters and friendly npcs limited in function to trading- seems to be the best way to inject adventure into a sandbox game so far. But that approach took a lot of work, and magnificent though Notch is, he's no Toady when it comes to sheer creative drive.

But that's tangential. The strength of a voxel-world game lies in its potential for building- no other type of game offers anything like it. (Which is why I was disappointed to see Mojang speak unfavorably of grinders on several occasions- they made a game where you can "level" by building structures and they wanted to take away that ability.) The first game to really embrace these building incentives will definitely be getting my money.

For now, I've been playing a bit with Industrialcraft/Buildcraft/Redpower, and they're pretty darn close to the game I think Minecraft should have been. Finite fluids would still be nice.

brock_h · 6 months

Machinery is great, but in the end it will still be Minecraft. You will mine, and you will craft - it will not be automated. Besides, with IndustrialCraft and BuildCraft there's really little reason to add anything into the game vanilla: the mechanics of the gameplay are too complicated for the average user. There's plenty of reasons to be unhappy with Minecraft's development, but I'm going to have to disagree here and say, this is not one of them.

muoncat · 6 months

I don't mind the direction Minecraft is heading, but I do think the release was very rushed.

atomfullerene · 6 months

I really like the enchantments and experience. They give me a reason to actually fight mobs, instead of just ignoring them like I used to do.

GenuigrDE · 6 months

Felling the same <3 thanx

Bloq · 6 months

I think he's just balancing the game more. i didn't like it at first, but now I approve.

For example, redstone is practicaly limitless. There's so much you can do with redstone, RS torches, pistons, repeaters, rails, TNT.. the list goes one.

But there wasn't much combat or exploration at all. Now combat is fun with XP, hard mobs, sprint-hits and crits. The end-game boss isn't really an end but just an achievement (he always planned to win the game btw) and doesn't make a difference, only applies to people that want an overall goal in the game.

Vectoor · 6 months

They said that they wanted to focus more on the adventure side for a while, I have no problem with that. Potions are awesome! I think they could focus even more on that for a while, I know that npc's are getting an overhaul with the new AI guy. I'm sure they will go back to more types of blocks and such in a while.

doobry · 6 months

Yeah, who cares about retarded water physics, pigs must have snouts!

seffignoz · 6 months

No, you're not.

[deleted] · 6 months

Does anyone mind if I upvote every comment in this thread? I can't humanly agree more.

wingie · 6 months

I actually really love the adventure parts. I thought I wouldn't. Personally I love building crazy things, but only in survival, and the piston update was amazing for me. But now I have things like enchantments to help me build/mine faster---as well as new types of mob traps that I need to engineer to farm XP and food and such. Same with potion ingredients. Now I actually want to explore the Nether and the first time I fought a horde of Blazes, oh man, that felt great. And then I got to figure out how to build a Blaze farm/grinder while I survive standing next to the spawner. And then I get to use potions to help me do more effecient mob farming so I can get myself awesome pickaxes to build more crap.

There's an enderdragon somewhere, and I do want to see it. And I hope that more mechanical stuff gets added. And considering that I'm on vacation I will probably get to kill it at some point next week and be bored of MC again. But that's okay, because the Terraria "redstone" update is coming in a couple weeks. =)

A_User · 6 months

I don't think it's 'taking away' from the game. It's merely broadening the game. There's no reason to do all that adventuring stuff if you don't want to.

belonii · 6 months

i agree with op

MightySwift · 6 months

I'm ok with everything new except hunger bar. It really just makes the game more annoying and nothing esle than that.

nicknack3000 · 6 months

no you are not

tsts · 6 months

I would love more mechanical things in minecraft and if it dosent happen I think most of the redstone people will leave but I think/hope he will add more in the future.

heytoast · 6 months

I would really like them to go further in the mechanical aspects of the game as you say. At the same time I don't really mind the XP and enchantment stuff.

Because currently, if you choose to not partake in those aspects you don't have to. As long as I am not penalized for not taking part in some additional feature I'm not that concerned. :D

DoctorRabbit · 6 months

I'm not too keen on the level system, potions or enchantments, I would much have a fully-featured mechanical sandbox game rather than half-RPG.

RahvinDragand · 6 months

I just don't use the potions and enchanting aspects. I like to mine and build. If I want an adventure, I play Skyrim.

penguished · 6 months

To be honest I'll never use any of the mechanical stuff. It was there as a sort of easter egg to those who did, I took it. Nice for you guys, but no, I never expected that was going to take over MC.

WalrusFist · 6 months

I have no problem with the things that have been added to the game, the more stuff the better BUT ONLY if they are done well, otherwise it's pointless clutter that makes the game look bad. Right now there is much improvement to be done in many areas. I just hope that development continues to flesh out what is already there before introducing any large new elements.

ZettaSlow · 6 months

Personally I'd just like to see more ore in the game.

Copper, bronze, steel, titanium.

Hell even random gems would be nice.

The game is called MINECRAFT yet it feels more like DECORATECRAFT.

Paradox · 6 months

I feel that the game has been marked by important progress (pistons) and silly useless progress (wolves). I wish there was more to the important progress.

Ideally, I would like to see the merging of more mods into the codebase. Pistons were a mod, and there are several other, very good mods, such as industrial/buildcraft, redpowder, finite liquids, etc. If these were merged into the codebase, that would be awesome

bikefaster · 6 months

BURN ALL THE NOTCHES

Rurikar · 6 months

A year ago it become clear that if Minecraft focused on helping the modding community and making mods be more accessible the game would have become something insanely different. 99% of the suggestions I see on this forum already exist in a mod. If in your client you could browse mods and with the click of the button install them, boy oh boy would we have a different game today.

Instead we got wolves. :)

sculptedpixels · 6 months

I still would like cog-blocks, axles, and other mechanical devices as well (Water wheel mob grinders!) - that said, I don't mind the potion and enchantments because I don't pursue them. They don't exist in my games for all intents and purposes.

What I'd really like Mojang to do is focus every effort on modding and customization - a fully fledged mod api / un-obfuscated codebase, and, include some kind of customization controls in game for skinning your character, paintings, etc...

coke125 · 6 months

You are not alone, my friend. When I first started playing Minecraft (during the Alpha stages), I was slightly disturbed even by the introduction of the Nether. It is an interesting concept and a great addition to the game, but to me, it seemed a bit too unrealistic. But i shrugged it off and went on wasting my life on this game. A while after, when the repeaters, pistons, various types of rails were introduced, i was excited because, like you, i loved the idea of minecraft becoming more technology-driven. But when they included the XP system and enchantment system, I, too, was disappointed.

TL;DR: Even though minecraft is still a fantastic game, I also share your disappointment in where Minecraft is heading.

If you're looking for a mod to make the game a bit more "machine-driven", i recommend IndustrialCraft. I've using it and it's fantastic. However, I don't think it's updated for 1.0.0 yet.

A little suggestion for Mojang: implement a system in which you can create a world without all the "magic" of Minecraft. To me, the ability to enchant your armor for blast protection or other things is "cheating".

tregregins · 6 months

I'd like to see more classic minecraft block's being added; ore's and such...

ajleece · 6 months

This thread makes me sad..

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