Today’s game is some Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition. I haven’t been in my world for a while so i decided to hop in and relax. I’ve noticed i don’t really have a drive to beat the Ender Dragon, so i think that’s really dampened a bit of my attention too it. I still enjoy sinking some time into it though.
I stopped to get some fish to tame the cat above, and while i was doing so it started to set and the game’s soothing soundtrack started playing. I ended up putting the rod away and just watching. Maybe it’s just nostalgia but watching that sent shivers down my spine, in like a good way. I felt all the stress of the day just kind of leave my body and i felt a lot lighter.
It brought back vivid memories of my childhood, sat around the Entertainment Center with my sister. We’d spend hours in Minecraft (creative mode specifically because we were afraid of survival) and just build the most mundane things with our creativity. It always felt so amazing even when the builds were so poor in quality.
I remember the very first world i built, i built this giant wooden house in a dessert, then built a cafeteria on top of it out of iron blocks. and finally on top of that I built a Travel Agency that specialized in trips to the nether (complete with a nether rail and everything). I decided i wanted a moat so i used TNT. Then i built a bridge out of emerald blocks. Finally i had a farm i put in the basement along with a room for my cats. I wanted to be able to see them so i put a glass sun roof in the floor of my bedroom.
Another memory I remember was when i couldn’t figure out how to make a furnace (because of how the Console Edition’s UI was). I tried everything, and my last ditch effort was too build a cobblestone U shape with a Dandelion in the center (for fire). Looking back I’m not sure why i thought that would work. But it’s still a really fond memory. I’m starting to ramble a bit here about my childhood, but basically, watching this was nostalgic.
I went to check in on the village and i think their population went down, I’m not sure though. I’m thinking of building some sort of defensive barrier around the village to help keep them safe. I don’t really do villager trading, but also I’d feel bad not trying to help out, so it’s something on my list someday.
My final act for today was to check on Matheson (who is a black sheep i named after Richard Matheson, author of I Am Legend, one of my favorite books growing up and what i just so happened to have on my shelf when i looked at it for a name). I fed him some wheat before shutting it off. I figured i should feed the guy.
Nelots@piefed.zip 1 hour ago
I feel this. Nowadays I don’t enjoy building anymore, because I have too high a standard for block palettes and shapes and where things should go and stuff like that. No more square houses built entirely out of diamond blocks and obsidian. No more random japanese pagodas in the middle of my base. No more bulbasaur pixel art. Now it’s way more stressful and less fun I guess. And I even if I can have fun building a single base, I never have the motivation to build anything beyond that, because there’s just too much effort, motivation, and planning required.
I remember one day watching a small youtuber, who I can’t remember right now unfortunately, building a river that passed through a giant rainbow out of wool smack dab in the middle of their base. They talked about how they intentionally stopped trying to build pretty and logical things and just decided to have fun. It was really inspiring and nostalgic to see. So I do that too when I play now, and honestly, it’s actually harder than building “good” looking things. But it’s fun.