Realistic Minecraft
June 6, 2016 5:43 PM   Subscribe

 
H'mmm!
posted by Construction Concern at 5:49 PM on June 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


Very cool!

With his first gasp, I expected dozens of eggs and doll heads to suddenly come flying into shot and smash against the rocks.
posted by turbid dahlia at 5:50 PM on June 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


It always depresses me to do yard work and then think, "I could have done that in ten seconds in Minecraft, and it took me three hours in real life." But at least I don't have to worry about Herobrine.
posted by rikschell at 5:53 PM on June 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


It's okay, I hear Herobrine's been removed.
posted by curious nu at 5:56 PM on June 6, 2016 [3 favorites]


Also surprisingly close to Realistic Rust (replace the zombies with other people and bears).
posted by sparklemotion at 5:58 PM on June 6, 2016


See, I thought this was going to be a double of this post, which is more like why Creative s so unnerving to me.
posted by Sequence at 6:03 PM on June 6, 2016


No kidding - just check out the HD texture packs.
posted by GuyZero at 6:07 PM on June 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


Minecraft gives me that that back of the neck tingly feeling you get turning your back on a forest at dusk.
posted by Mister Cheese at 6:20 PM on June 6, 2016 [4 favorites]


Continuity problem: he actually died when the creeper exploded and he wasn't wearing armor.
posted by bricoleur at 6:43 PM on June 6, 2016


He arrowed that guy right in the face twice times.
posted by 4ster at 6:47 PM on June 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


Finding diamonds at Y=0? Totally unrealistic.
posted by neckro23 at 6:48 PM on June 6, 2016 [18 favorites]


Here is your dog.
posted by boilermonster at 6:54 PM on June 6, 2016 [7 favorites]


This is why I live my life in creative mode.
posted by emjaybee at 7:24 PM on June 6, 2016 [4 favorites]


Every time my now 12 year old asks me why I don't play Minecraft, it comes down to not losing my job.
posted by mollweide at 8:01 PM on June 6, 2016 [4 favorites]


Very impressive production!
posted by painquale at 8:26 PM on June 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


That Creeper was the stuff of nightmares. =(
posted by sharp pointy objects at 9:10 PM on June 6, 2016


Finding diamonds at Y=0? Totally unrealistic.

Uh, sea level is y=64.
posted by yeolcoatl at 10:02 PM on June 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


But, but, but--- the tree fell down. My four year old would call bullshit.
posted by robotmachine at 6:06 AM on June 7, 2016


Yeah, really, punching that tree should have resulted in a stump, a gap, and the rest of the tree hanging in midair.
posted by rlk at 6:17 AM on June 7, 2016 [6 favorites]


For jump scares, Minecraft is unbeatable. I've been playing since beta and I still have to peel myself off the ceiling after a spider suicide leaps onto my head while I'm mining down at Y=10 in relative peace and quiet. So I totally knew what was next after he scooped up the shinies on the wall.
posted by xyzzy at 6:32 AM on June 7, 2016 [4 favorites]


If this were my Minecraft experience it would include the scenes where I painstakingly gear up with good armor, then put 40 torches all over the cave to make sure no monsters spawn, then mine the diamonds, and then carelessly walk off a cliff into a lava pit and lose everything.
posted by Wretch729 at 6:37 AM on June 7, 2016 [8 favorites]


The trunk of the tree should have exploded into wood. That would leave the canopy of leaves hanging in mid air. Then he should have lit it. Floating fires at dusk are so soothing.
posted by Splunge at 6:58 AM on June 7, 2016


Uh, sea level is y=64.

Crap. Where do I turn in my Minecraft license?
posted by neckro23 at 9:25 AM on June 7, 2016 [1 favorite]


Nice! I got twitchy as soon as he began approaching the diamond ore without placing any torches.
posted by usonian at 9:48 AM on June 7, 2016


Minecraft spooks me on its own, in the same way the Sims did.

So I'm thrust in a world, with no real objective or purpose? And once I learn to survive, I have to make my own purpose? And once I have the house, and the food, and the diamond armor, it ultimately means I can just subsist more efficiently?

Basically, I guess I play games to pretend I have a purpose when I'm low on one in real life, and the Sims and Minecraft's open-endedness show me the absurdity of life in fast-forward.

Now Kerbal Space Simulator, that's a game. I earn money and learn technologies, for the noble goal of entering the void.
posted by mccarty.tim at 10:23 AM on June 7, 2016 [3 favorites]


I thought the noble goal in KSP was finding new and more exciting ways of exploding your rockets and blowing up Kerbals.
posted by Wretch729 at 12:54 PM on June 7, 2016


I consider Minecraft a very lonely game. You're just in this middle of this procedurally generated world with no purpose. There is no one around, except maybe some traders, but they don't care about you. No one is going to pat you on the back for building a big tower or reaching bedrock or anything. Also, it's very easy to get lost out in the massive world if you don't have a way of finding your way back home.

I think of KSP as a similar game. Sure, you get science and fulfill contracts for completing certain tasks, but the people in the control room aren't cheering you on when you come back from landing on the Mun. I love both the games, but that sense of loneliness sticks out to me about both of them.
posted by A Bad Catholic at 7:55 PM on June 7, 2016


Also, I might just be bitter because I wandered too far from home with all this gear and ingots and couldn't find my way back and got blown up in a desert temple.
posted by A Bad Catholic at 7:56 PM on June 7, 2016


I consider Minecraft a very lonely game.

Hence the popularity of Realms and private multiplayer servers.

If only the other players I knew weren't 11 years old...
posted by beerbudget at 5:20 AM on June 9, 2016


If only the other players I knew weren't 11 years old...
I don't dare to try logging in right now because I'm supposed to be working, but MeFi's own Aporkalypse multiplayer Minecraft server was back online earlier this year. If it's still up there's probably not much activity, but multiplayer servers can be really wondrous; as much time as I spent wandering around the older Aporkalypse, I only saw a fraction of the amazing things people built there. It was admittedly a little bit daunting and frustrating, too; I spent waayyyy too much time working on my own build there, but never felt like I could hold a candle to what some of the really hardcore people were doing or had already done. The scale of some projects was staggering.
posted by usonian at 6:48 AM on June 9, 2016


So I'm thrust in a world, with no real objective or purpose? And once I learn to survive, I have to make my own purpose? And once I have the house, and the food, and the diamond armor, it ultimately means I can just subsist more efficiently?


Hey thats my my life you're slagging on.
posted by boilermonster at 9:04 PM on June 11, 2016


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