So I've been playing Minecraft for about 2 hours now, and I'm not sure what to do. I've built different things in single player and walked around in multiplayer (not sure what you're supose to do in multiplayer too).
Someone want to explain Minecraft to me?
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It's Lego with grinding. So much better than it sounds, once you get into it. It does sorely need a tutorial, though.
Collect wood from trees. Craft that into lumber. Craft the lumber into sticks. Use sticks with lumber to make a pickaxe. Use the pickaxe to get stone and coal. Use the stone to build a shelter and combine the coal with sticks to make torches to keep it light at night. That's usually how I start out a game. I would highly recommend popping on to Minepedia for crafting recipes and help.
Erm, think of a dream home or ridiculous non-practical building.
Now go build it.
...That's it.
Now, go build me an upside-down greenhouse hanging from the underside of a cliff.
Now go build it.
...That's it.
Now, go build me an upside-down greenhouse hanging from the underside of a cliff.
You really have to set out to do your own objectives. Some common ones are: making your shelter bigger, finding diamond, mining, going cave exploring, venturing out to see what the world has to offer...it truly is the definition of a sandbox game.
Unfortunately, at this point the game is extremely user-unfriendly at first, and you really need to use Minepedia/watch let's play's before you have a chance at understanding what you can do.
Unfortunately, at this point the game is extremely user-unfriendly at first, and you really need to use Minepedia/watch let's play's before you have a chance at understanding what you can do.
Find a tutorial online. You NEED to know how to craft all the different things, which is kinda complicated, unfortunately. Give it a go.
I would recommend watching a Let's Play or two on Youtube. It's hard to know what you can do, and thus decide what you want to do, without someone telling you or just randomly discovering it yourself. Also, http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki is your friend.
There's no real goal to Minecraft, other than what the title implies. Mining and crafting.
If you're lost as to crafting recipes and the like, try the Minecraft Wiki. [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki]
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If you're lost as to crafting recipes and the like, try the Minecraft Wiki. [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki]
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It's an entirely open world sand box game. Within the constraints of the game, you can do whatever you want. That said, those constraints are fairly noticeable.triggrhappy94 said:
Akin to real life, it is exactly that which you make of it.
This picture sums it up.
http://i.imgur.com/K9DNF.jpg
You wake up, punch trees, make stuff, build stuff, mine stuff, make more stuff, build more stuff. It's insanely addictive, but it quite frankly has no real point yet. But that's the fun, and the essence, you have to make your own fun. If you decide to build a giant castle, you can do that. If you decide to go adventuring on the high seas, you can do that. If you decide to build an underwater house made of glass, you can do that. If you decide to build an underground canal system to harvest gun powder from creepers, then use it to craft dynamite so you can blow up the side of a hill, you can do that. It's almost like zombo.com.
http://i.imgur.com/K9DNF.jpg
You wake up, punch trees, make stuff, build stuff, mine stuff, make more stuff, build more stuff. It's insanely addictive, but it quite frankly has no real point yet. But that's the fun, and the essence, you have to make your own fun. If you decide to build a giant castle, you can do that. If you decide to go adventuring on the high seas, you can do that. If you decide to build an underwater house made of glass, you can do that. If you decide to build an underground canal system to harvest gun powder from creepers, then use it to craft dynamite so you can blow up the side of a hill, you can do that. It's almost like zombo.com.