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
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rozodru@piefed.world 12 hours ago
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.
xylol@leminal.space 12 hours ago
Zahille7@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
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.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 45 minutes ago
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.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
Like Terrafirmacraft? (Is that still a thing?)
Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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.
eodur@piefed.social 4 hours ago
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.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 11 hours ago
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.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.”
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 5 hours ago
“only” 17… I remember buying it after playing the alpha in my browser, seemed longer that 17 years
Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
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
random_character_a@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
klankin@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
Create aeronautics be looking at me like heroin some days
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
If you enjoy legos and you enjoy computer games, then you can enjoy minecraft