Poll: Do you give yourself infinate materials in Minecraft?

[Scabadus]

Edit: My poll ran away, please PM me if you find it. Answers to the name of Tiddles.

In case you didn't know, it's possible to use console commands and hacks to give yourself (near) infinate amounts of most blocks in Minecraft (all blocks if you run a plugin that allows you to assing damage values to spawned blocks). My question, out of simple curiosity, is this: do you?

I do, almost exclusivly. I never really got into playing Minecraft "properly" with monsters turned on and being scared of nights, but me and a friend run a server just to build cool stuff and we have some fairly fantastic creations in there. But one day I was thinking: would this not be more satisfying if I had to mine the materials? So I ran a quick calculation and discovered that for one wall of one single room of my huge military base connected by railways I would need over 10,000 iron ingots. So yes, spawning it is!

 

[Kapol]

Honestly, I never have done it because of the simple fact that, for me at least, the fun is in getting the minerals. I've never really figured out anything interesting to make, and the things I do make usually seem better because I actually worked to make them. That said, I do understand why people do it. The spawn rates of some things is just stupid.

 

[LadyMint]

I don't see a poll... But I'll answer your question anyway.

I just started playing the beta version. Been playing the free version for a while. Having infinite but limited (in variety) resources was boring to me. It was like I didn't really have to work for what I wanted to achieve. Now that I'm playing the Beta, I feel a sense of accomplishment by spending one day harvesting and the next expanding my farmland.

So, nah. No infinite materials for me right now. I'm sure that will change when my ideas become more elaborate, but I'm still in the "thrill of discovery" phase.

 

[Fayathon]

The only thing I ever spawn for myself is lava, and that's because I typically can't safely remove enough lava for what I want to do without loosing all of my buckets. Libraries need lava lighting, and I love lava moats around my bases. Doing that usually requires me to spend an unholy amount of time in the Nether to collect, and I'm not so fond of spending excess time in the Nether.

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

It depends on how I am feeling. If I want to build something huge and don't have a whole lot of time to do so, I'd use a specific world and go crazy with the items.

If I do have the time though I'll usually mine stuff out, and then craft.

 

[William MacKay]

only hard-to-get stuff like diamond. i nearly quit because i got trapped with no picks/shovels/way to die looking for diamond. then i got lost.
also, railway tracks and cobblestone (for my massive railways).

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

My imagination often exceeds my patience.... so yes, yes I do.

 

[Woodsey]

Nope, I like exploring and mining.

 

[Klarinette]

Nah... it makes things less fun; there's no challenge after that. Maybe if I have really big ideas that would probably take me forever if I had to find everything, but not every time. Same goes for other games like Empire Earth (setting up your own scenarios where you have an unbelievable advantage over the computer is pretty hilarious, but it loses its zeal after a while), Sim City... any game where you have to earn/find money or materials in real time.

 

[Alexnader]

Nup, removes the sense of achievement really.

 

[drizztmainsword]

I don't, and I like that. It provides a welcome change of pace. Sometimes, I just get tired of building things; I run out of inspiration. Then I go and get a huge amount of resources, and at that point, I usually have my inspiration back.

I have resisted the urge to spawn items, as I don't want to get hooked on doing so. What's the point of a castle made of diamond if it took no effort to find. A resource is only as precious as its scarcity.

 

[Toar]

For some reason I haven't been able to play it always says that it FAILED TO LAUNCH. I don't get it. It asks if I want to update and then... bam... failure. I can't play the game if I can't play the game...

 

[OreoDoublestuff]

For the most part, I only use inventory hacking to prototype ideas in a separate file so I can experiment without wasting resources.

 

[linwolf]

Exploring and mining are the two thing that I keep coming back to, it's fun to build but I get tired of it way before my resource runs out.

 

[manythings]

What would that achieve? I built my fortress stone by stone, hardwood flooring, a solarium, turrets and a moat. If I just got infinite materials why bother at all?

 

[TheEverix]

I like to collect my materials. I find it more fulfilling because you have to work for it, and I find something almost therapeutic about mining.

That said, I have no problem with anyone who does. Each to their own and stuff.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I don't get any satisfaction from just hacking stuff into the game. It feels like I'm defeating the point of the whole game. I mean, if I'm just going to give myself everything instantly, why bother playing survival? Besides, creativity comes from limitation. I've come up with a lot of ideas about how to use certain blocks because I lacked another one.

 

[Tharwen]

I generally decide before I start a new world whether or not I'll be cheating in it. If I'm playing properly, I use no glitches, no third-party programs and no savescumming, and sometimes I'll even try a bit of roleplaying.

Other times, though, I want nothing more than to blow a massive crater down to the bottom of the Earth, or to flatten a mountain or two.

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

...What's the bloody point then

you might as well just play with lego

 

[Quantom Quak]

Only if I'm building something huge. Other than that, I have a LAN server with my friends where we play Apocalypse-Craft, where there are no rules. And it's all in a desert. And on hard.