@@luvstarkei You actually raise a good point with that. I tend to tame animals and then do nothing with them at all. I never take them with me, (mostly because I'm scared of them being killed off by creepers or what have you buuut), even when I'm doing mundane things like fishing or mining. Maybe I'll give that a try! I do however love modding my game to be more realistic with the vibes. Especially the rain. I don't like the rain going away when I decide to sleep so I don't let it! 😝
man i love minecraft roleplaying,, even in singleplayer worlds lol. i remember the days when i had no friends and i would use minecraft as an escape, pretending the villagers were my friends. now my fiance and i make custom modded worlds and roleplay with eachother, making up our own quests in our heads.
Two tips that helped me: One: Don't put all your builds in the same area. Two, and this goes hand in hand with the first: Think about your infrastructure. Stuff like paths, Nether tunnels, rail systems, accounting for horse travel. Maybe handle essentials like food supply differently in different areas. That helps your world feel more like, well, a world, and not just your base, and the variety helps to avoid boredom.
I've been doing this singleplayer let's play on my channel that just turned 1 year old, which is the longest a Minecraft series I have ever uploaded to TH-cam........Even though it's been 1 year, only 26 episodes are out, the key that has helped to carry on going in this long term world has been "treating the world like old school Minecraft" what I mean by that is, not doing all main objectives back to back and instead spacing them out with small but cute and fun side-quests in-between , building smaller houses and structures instead of huge ones, and most importantly not rushing to upload the videos, instead uploading when I am super motivated that way I don't feel forced to continue and I will still have several future tasks to not get bored.
Same here! Started my channel in august uploading my first three videos which blew up on the channel but after uploading episode 2 I got burned out and my friend wasn't invested in the series anymore so it was hard for me to find motivation to keep going. Uploading another episode tonight hoping that people come back after the channel basically died. I am pretty much just taking it slow and slowly learning the game and sticking to the theme like its "real life" in a sense.
@@RequiemL34 I played thaumcraft for the first time recently and it was so fun not rushing it. I was playing a fairly grindy expert pack that forced you through tons of mod progression throughout different stages of the pack. Thaumcraft happened to be about two thirds of the way through the chapters in the quest book so it had a ton of prerequisite materials from previous chapter crafting chains which made it a bit slower to progress (luckily i had decent automation to that point tho). But that gave me a bit more time to mess with some of the fun niche mechanics of the mod tbh. Best part was that the pack had thaumic energistics so automating essentia fully with ae2 was extremely satisfying.
@@timklafke4712 yup, It was also that I just did extensive mining , cleared a dungeon to use as base, made TiC tools, and straight to thaumcraft, thaumic tinkerer, forbidden magic, tainted magic, thaumic exploration, and witching gadgets. And I don't wish anybody to research the whole thaumonomicon straight to the end, and I hate to be burning 90 times more materials for essence than I use for the actual infusion.
the small side quests are like the best (and maybe even most important) part of a minecraft experience in my experience. i'm glad you found joy in doing them again!
I’ve never seen your channel. I clicked because 1, THE SCENE HAIR 😭😭❤️❤️👏 2, minecraft. Thank you for keeping the hairstyle alive. Scene culture when I was younger was HUGE.
I beat the Ender Dragon for the first time a few months ago on a world that I think about with an immense fondness. I had built my home into a sizeable cave with a single entrance and multiple chambers. Like a main hearth, farming, mine, the whole works, all in a hobbit hole, which meant good food, and all the comforts of home. I made the ceiling out of skulk because it reminded me of twinkling stars
same, I have been playing the Re-console mod (It recreates the legacy console edition on java, and it has controller support) and i have a lot more motivation to play that, then if i play vanilla Minecraft.
I started a single player world years ago. After a few years my sister joined to make it a 2 player world. And now years later we've each had kids who are old enough to play Mindcraft and have now joined our world. Sometimes single player worlds turn into multiplayer worlds 🥰
I find that not going too hard on building every single xp farm/exploit mechanic helps me not get burnt out. It makes me have to do certain things more naturally, which is more fun and organic than just having some overpowered thing designed to "save time". I namely do this with my normal crop farms. I dont try and make them all automatic, and I just build them for aesthetic above all else. Which is ultimately what I like about minecraft. Building things, gathering things, adventuring
An iron farm here and there for that big ass project that will require tons of iron stacks is fine, but building a farm for every damn thing in Minecraft? Lol nope. It takes away the fun of grinding.
My long-term vanilla survival world I have since Microsoft got in charge of Minecraft in 2018 has a guardian farm that I still have to decorate xD Like, the farm is Iskall85's design, simple and very effective for singleplayer, and I have a whole vision for the decoration inspired by Great Bay Temple from Majora's Mask, but I always do something else xD
I’ve had some big plans for Minecraft until I had a burntout. I just couldn’t even think about playing Minecraft. And it killed me mentally because all my plans went to waste. It got to the point where I started having breakdowns and blaming myself for throwing away all the ideas and effort. I know, sounds silly… but it was what it was. And besides all other mental stuff I struggled with, me blaming myself did not help the situation. Your video was like a blessing from God to me. Hearing your calm voice, and just the way you talk about it, lifted my motivation. I realized I don’t have to have everything figured out right away, and I should just slow down and ‘enjoy the moment’. I just wanted to say thank you so much. You probably don’t even realize how much your video means to me, and probably a whole lot of other people. Keep up the good work, and thank you! ❤
This is such a heartfelt message. Burnout can be so tough, but it sounds like you're taking some good steps to go forward. Wishing you all the best with your Minecraft ideas whenever you're ready to dive back in. Just remember Balance ❤
You should do a full Showcase of your old Minecraft worlds, i think it would be pretty interesting to see it's history, and also how it evolves as you grew up
Something else that definitely helped me was to make very clear to-do lists. A lot of ideas I get while I'm walking, driving, or about to fall asleep, and I would not remember them if I didn't write them down. Plus, I play many other games besides Minecraft, where I take 3-6 month breaks from time to time, so having a written list helps immensely for me getting adjusted to what plans I had pretty quickly.
As someone who LOVES Minecraft but suffer burnout and struggled with getting into the Minecraft worlds I've made This video popped up on my recommended and I swear this changed my life, I've always loved roleplaying (especially DnD style or story roleplay) and I never thought of playing Minecraft like that! I also struggle with going too fast, I almost never have to use stone tools since I end up getting iron within the first 10-20 minutes of playing but I'm trying to slow down and just enjoy the pace and scenery that Minecraft has to offer.
As a fellow DND player, you have to try Alex's caves, Born in Chaos and The Graveyard those are the mods I've been playing with in my current world and I don't get bored! well, I have also been taking things slowly like Luvstars says here in the video, building and adventuring, started this world months ago and I haven't even went to the nether yet.
@@Honeyduck_writesI think it's all about perspective. I dig straight down and get diamond tools by the first night, but I take my builds slow and methodical and get into the flow. It also helps that i eschew any auto-farms or the like. Everything I own, i earned myself.
I like playing on a server with my friends the most because it makes the world just feel more alive. Being able to go and travel places and find new things that other people built and trying to find my way through it and how their stuff works. It just makes the game less perfect and more unpredictable which is kinda important to me, being someone who obsessively knows way to much about the game and even coding mods myself, it just adds some needed chaos to a game with borderline nothing left unknown to me. On the current server I have with my friends, which we've had for probably almost a year now, when we started we set a couple rules: no fighting the dragon and no getting netherite until a time on which we all agree. We all agreed on these rules so that we all progress at roughly the same rate and nobody feels discouraged to play because everyone has better stuff and is having all the fun. And this especially opened up some things for me because I like to progress very fast so taking it slow made me have to take a whole new approach to playing. It got to a point where me and one of my friends started breeding horses to try and get really good ones to travel easier, which was nice because we all live, like, 500+ blocks away from each other. I even made a whole new sword just to get smite 5 and see how useful it was (it was very useful and I still actively use that same sword almost a year later lol). Now we all have all the late game stuff and we're kinda just doing our own things but sometimes we'll join a call together and just do our own stuff while chatting or we'll help each other on builds or we'll goof around and fun fight each other. One time on an older server, we had, like, 5+ of us all in a call goofing around and we were just beating each other in game with steak. We all had to take a long visit to the enderman farm after that. We absolutely shredded our armor but it was so worth it. I think my brothers NETHERITE helmet even broke from us smacking each other with meat. Fun times. Now I've been working on a huge project for a few months. I drained an ocean monument in it's entirety for the first time (I've tried before but never finished) and then I swapped out all the prismarine for sandstone and froglights and now I'm digging out a huge area underneath it to turn into some kind of facility which I'll probably make look like a crazy factory or something and I'll just live down there. It's 4x4 chunks I believe and I just hit Y = 0 today. Now idk if I should keep going farther down because I can't instamine deepslate but I kinda want the diamonds and other resources from it. Dang, that was a huge comment. Idk, I guess I just like to rant about minecraft stuff that I find fun. lol
7:09 This is so me! Doesn't matter if it's a crime show, a movie or something else, I will often even remember scenes I saw when I built a certain building! This really is awesome when playing in the same world for a long time.
When I play with mods, my rule-of-thumb to keep engaged with the world is: free use of creative for building a cool, thematic base and then focus on progressing through the mod (like Thaumcraft which is my favorite mod of all time, the grind is soooo real with that mod I don't think I could handle having to build a base AND grinding through the mod progression). If I had to play 100% survival my base would just be sccatered magic constructs with maybe a cobble wall around them, but allowing creative allows me to build a huge Wizard's tower to devote each floor to an aspect of the mod which keeps me soooo engaged since now I actually feel like a wizard studying thaumturgy and not just someone randonly progressing through a mod
Omg sameee I’m in love with that mod, I actually haven’t played the mod in its entirety but I want to, sadly it’s not for 1.20.1 :( cuz I wanted to pair it with other mods that I’m currently playing with
im so happy that i found ur channel, i love the scene vibe and the cute texture packs and omg the MERMAID SERIES????? i luv it all so much, u just became my favorite minecraft youtube, also i LOVE ur hair btw :3
I really like the advice and your attitude towards the game. Slowing down and just role-playing little moments to yourself. Reminds me of how I play Sky Children of the Light, which I've played almost every day for 4 years now. In the game you can fly but sometimes I just walk around the maps and take things in instead of flying and rushing through it.
I've spent a number of years playing Minecraft and had so much fun learning all its secrets. My hard drive crashed recently and I lost everything. I look back on all my adventures, builds, and inventions, and it's hard to feel ok about it. When I think about recreating some of my favorite builds, it sounds like too much work, and that's a shame. It was nice to hear your feelings on the game. It makes me believe I can get back into the excitement again. Thanks for this video.
I don't have any experience with this myself but aren't there services that do data recovery from failed storage media? I've recently succeeded at migrating from my old hard drive to an ssd and also I bought a portable hard drive to store a lot of my things in general and I luckily hadn't had the old drive fail, but still, I kinda feel you. I hardly play games anymore but I had a world in minecraft where I just built whatever I wanted and I also had some terraria worlds with some very nice buildings, I remember a very pretty wooden house I built for the merchant in the winter biome, but it's all lost to time somehow. Playing these alone doesn't excite me anymore, but I still wish I could revisit those worlds. Look around and see if someone can recover data from your hard drive, I'm sure it'll be worth it if it works out.
I adore Minecraft and totally love how you articulated being a long term player! I am a painter irl but Minecraft totally feels like a different canvas and it is like creating a master piece! I think one tip I would add to this perfect list is to play like friends might join! I’ve had so many worlds that I built a house with rooms for friends or decorated spawn or made fun social builds all on single player for it to randomly pay off for one random super fun play session with a friend! I’ve definitely had entire worlds that no one ever saw, but I’ve also had people in awe of my builds that I never thought they’d see 😂❤
Thank you for this video. I don't think I've ever seen a video of yours, and only minimally watched minecraft videos recently but somehow TH-cam just knew to recommend me this. For years now every time I try to play minecraft it has been very short-lived. I always long to have that feeling again of when I was a kid playing it and making my wacky homes but still really enjoying my time. I've been stuck in this pattern of trying to play, spending an unreasonable amount of time just walking around in the new world and looking for a place to live. I always struggle to choose "the spot" that I want, and then as soon as I do and I make my first house, all my motivation ends there and I stop playing again because I don't know what else to do by then. I think my biggest problem is that I love exploring the most, and if I settle down I don't know how to explore anymore because I'd always need to go back to my base. I can't just explore forever because then my inventory gets full... when I was a kid I played minecraft on xbox which had a limited world size, I think that helped force me to settle down
the taking breaks thing is so true like, i'm trying to get back into minecraft specifically so i have another thing to play so i don't burn out on stardew valley again, which i'm playing more recently because i'm very burnt out on genshin impact, the main thing i've been playing this year and i know i'd murderize myself if i could no longer bring myself to play because i adore the characters in that game. but like. i "Have" to play genshin once a day because of stupid daily and weekly things to do, it's just a whole different kind of game. so i stopped playing it all day, only hopping in to spend like 20 minutes doing these daily things before going off to play sandbox/repetetive games like terraria, stardew, or minecraft instead, which i've played collectively on and off for a decade now anyway so .... also i ADORE your hair so much!!
I have a forever world on realms. I built my castle i played back in the D&D days, I love being able to adventure in my castle even as the "DM". Since there are 3 worlds you can have on realms i even built the entire castle twice! I do play with other players. One of them keeps trying to convince me to start a new seed but i always tell them: I don't build to play Minecraft... I play Minecraft to adventure in my castle. I also built in an amplified world so sometimes i love just enjoying the views! 🥰
9:13 ive been playing beta 1.7 recently and noticed that the lack of sprinting was actually nice, it added a little bit of a challenge too. things seem farther away when you have to walk everywhere and its almost easier to enjoy the scenery in a way
The snow golem minions reminded me of when I built a prison in Minecraft, had one snow golem in there (probably for arson) and was so mad because enderman kept stealing the clay walls. They were trying to take my prisoner!!!
great video, so much of what you said really resonated with me. I'm very new to Minecraft, I'm a mom of two young kids and I have major depression. Minecraft has really been an escape for me. I'm still learning things and haven't done anything super cool yet. I'm glad I found your channel
Omg, i just found your vid on accident and how it helped me, talking about all that roleplaying and stories just clicked, i love roleplaying, (especially on wcue) so i had a clear idea of what you were conveying. Thanks so much! You just earned yourself a new subscriber!!
Because of you, I’ve started a forever world you made me realize that making connections with everything I do and everything I build, and no matter how long it takes to make something that it matters and I’m so excited to start this new world I even went back and did something that I did as a kid and every world I had when I was younger when I first cut the game I would get a dog and put an orange collar on it and name it biscuit and I’ve done that again and it’s because of you And your video and you just made me realize how important this is and that playing on the same world is gonna be fun even when I’m by myself!!
I have pretty much played Minecraft single player since it originally came out in like 2009 I have a massive love for game and that’s what keeps me going
I turned 50 this year, and Minecraft always helped me to get trough many hard times in life. Farming in Minecraft survival since almost 10 Years on the same Map 😎 If u are bored, just farm your gardens, feed your animals or refilling storage, making glass... Inspiration can hit everywhere 💪💪👍👍
11:59 i have such fond memories of roleplaying in mysims on wii as a kid. could do that for hours. i havent done that in so long i feel like it would be good for my creativity.
I often get motivation through recording my journey, though I can’t do it on my switch I often do it on my iPad, I just log in on my switch and leave it open and play on my iPad! It gives me so much motivation to play, and being able to switch devices as well helps a lot.
This video was so helpful! I had the issue of planning out these colossal building ideas but that just ended up burning me out when i realised how long it would take, sometimes a cozy cottage is more than enough XD
I remember years ago I was probably like 8 in my moms world, she let me spawn a bunch of baby villagers to take care of and I remember giving one a bunch of carrots and telling him to share with the others, and then he did! He threw the others some carrots! I was so happy :)
i think taking breaks is a huge piece of avoiding burnout. instead of playing 2 hour sessions, doing something like 30 minutes a day can really make a difference in wanting to continue on ur world
I know this video is like 4. months old but you really have motivated me and made Minecraft more fun for me to play. I came here from the why should start a forever world video, and I would say your my inspiration
I first played minecraft in I think 2014 on xbox. I did the standard "spam for 2 weeks, not play for months/years" thing. Around 2016 I bought java edition, then did the same thing. Until mid 2020. Right about when the nether update released, I decided to overhaul my playstyle. I had been watching speedrun and combat minecraft stuff for a few months before that point, and I determined I wanted to develop more general skill and efficiency in playing because one of the things that really limited my ability to enjoy minecraft was how clunky I was at actually playing it. I made a plan. I turned scroll sensitivity way down and set up hotbar keybinds, and set a goal of beating the dragon in hardcore. No base or anything, just the bare minimum gathering some gear and food: it was somewhere between casual play and speedrunning. It took 33 attempts, but I did it. I did my first raid on that attempt too. Beat the dragon, returned to the overworld, then died to digging into lava 2 minutes later. Through that, I gradually learned how to avoid dying and I got to where I was able to do things without stumbling over controls. At that point I didn't know what to do in a solo world, so I turned to SMPs. Joined one, had a bunch of fun for a few months, left due to an issue with one of the members, then found another one that I've been in since April of 2021. I've played minecraft in one form or another pretty much every day with the occasional 1-2 month long break. A certain irony is that what got me motivated to play more was kind of the opposite of what was brought up around 11:00; it was learning fast inventory management and being able to play efficiently that made me able to enjoy it. From an outside perspective, my gameplay looks like I'm in a really big hurry but it's honestly just how I like to play lol I have taken to slowing down a bit on getting maxed out gear. I've been trying to appreciate the smaller steps between iron and fully enchanted netherite. I've been eating baked potatoes and bread instead of golden carrots all the time. I also can't kill animals, it makes me feel too bad. After learning better controls, the next thing that helps me stay motivated the most is staying organized. I don't find having to look through all my chests when I need anything very engaging.
hey i love that! just goes to show everyone enjoys the game and finds fulfillment playing in different ways. thats great, and im glad you found a way to enjoy minecraft your own way :)
I've been finally playing in only a single world for a couple months now, have advanced greatly. Your video is pretty cool and cozy! Will check out more of ur content.
I love the way you think about Minecraft and your advices, I’ve been trying to change how I play Minecraft and games in general and this helps a lot. Thank you, take care ⭐️
you give me MAJOR 2016-2017 minecraft vibes and i love it, those were the best escapist years ive ever had. your hair is also so pretty! also i got this at a great time in my recommended because ive been playing it more but get burnt out so fast (like every game)
Im getting into minecraft again in my adulthood after being a fan as a kid and rlly disconnecting from anythin related to it past two years but i rlly like you and ur video, I felt so comforted and calm by your approaches n all, not only in minecraft but everythin else
really love that video and i now have to follow you. i fell in love with minecraft late. I'm playing it for about 3 years now (i´m 42) and i totally love it. I try to open a community server once a year limited for 100 days to get the "short time" motivated people into it put i´m also playing solo on my own and love to have a grown world over time
Its been 3 days since I've started my forever world and it has been fun until now, i planned every day hiding signs in random places telling a bit of how the day was being, i watched your other videos and i really like them! Keep going
Revisiting your old saves help a lot too, if you can still access them. I found myself building like I'd never built before when returning to my MCPE 0.11 world, totally rewinding and enjoying it.
for me i enjoy the basic stuff when playing minecraft like gathering stuff, making a house, chestroom, decorating it, making farms. then i play for a week and lose interest so this helps a lot thank you
9:44 omg I thought the same thing. I was looking at auto farm ideas and then I realized that thatd just get really boring, I think it’s more fun to have pens for your livestock instead of ugly machines imo
Sad thing about auto-farms, they need to be emptied constantly when there run. I use a few to get bone meal, but I always keep manual farms even if just for aesthetic reasons. I love seeing them in my worlds.
....I just love everything about this video and your message, I've always valued having a main world for as long as possible and making your world feel like home and being as creative as possible.
This video has helped me out a lot. I just played Minecraft for the first time. I had lots of fun but was worried about if the game was enough to keep me interested. What had me was when you said role-playing. Also the added keeping a diary or journal.
I completely agree with creating a narrative for your world. I have been playing Minecraft with my friends for a long time on a server and we built a city together. One day one of them asked what the backstory of our city actually is and so I had to make one up. It got me absolutely hooked on the game. It can also make you much more creative with what you can or want to build for your base or city and it can give your base a lot of identity.
I really love your health/hunger UI it's so cute ^_^ I'm glad i'm not the only person that feels this deeply about their minecraft worlds/pets. Great video!
I grinded 12hr/day for the 1st month of my current survival world getting all the gear, farms i'd need to make big projects come to life. That much time helped me to come up with a lot of projects. Currently im working on 3 big builds, and jumping between them whenever i start to feel burnout really helps to not burn out because im not doing the same thing. All other 15 projects i have written down really helps with motivation because i dont want those ideas go to waste.
I'm building a city in my world since 2012, but what makes it so special is that I made a lot of important things for me in this world like... my real life house, school, buildings from movies and series I like, etc...everything I like is in this world ,traveling around this world is like traveling in my head...I even made my own texture pack to make it even more unique. this is what makes me wanna still play Minecraft 💜
the thing that helped me the most was just setting goals to achieve. this is how i achieved a late game hardcore world. and it will turn 3 years old upcoming december 17th :D
My long term world is turning 2 years old next March! I loved your video, I could relate a lot to what you said. Especially the roleplaying part, I could entertain myself as a kid for hours on end in singleplayer. I'd like to add a few thoughts, though. I found it very liberating not to try to make everything beautiful. I could never keep up with new building styles, so it's the most natural for me to still build like I did in release 1.5. Sincere builds rarely look bad, even if they're amateurish, in my opinion. Sometimes it also helps to make monuments for real life events. One time I passed a very difficult exam, and the next day I've built a giant golden statue. Farming the gold helped relax my mind and any time I look at the statue I remember this one personal achievement. If I find a nice effect, like the way some shaders make colored rays of light when the sun shines through stained glass, I like to make a build centered around that. I have a chapel that is completely flooded by colorful light every runrise, and it's one of my bests.
I once had a world with 5 black adorable dogs whose names were Night Fang (He was my first), Bloodlust (because she was attacking a fox when I found her), Moonlight, Blueburst, and Whitehowl (the three children of Night Fang and Bloodlust). I mistakenly, regrettedly, and dumbfoundedly deleted my world due to the fact that when I stumbled upon a Trial Chamber, the skeletons annoying as always shot me dead and whenever I tried to retrieve my stuff, they kept at it to the point where I straight up deleted my world in rage, all while losing my dogs in the process. On the plus side, I still got a screenshot of my dogs to remember them by and hopefully one day, I will have my pack back.
one thing thats really helped me reacently is play it like animal crossing. i found a mod that makes the day cycles 1-1 to your real life time, so if its 4:05 PM where you are. its 4:05 PM in minecraft. i wish there was one that made it reflect your IRL weather aswell, but i have yet to see one be made (Edit: APARENTLY THERE IS A MOD THAT CHANGES THE WEATHER TO YOUR REAL LIFE LOCATION!!!! too bad i live in cali where we havent gotten a single drop of rain in 8 months)
Your world is awesome! Everything looks like it's telling a story and it makes me kinda curious. This underlines your ramble, especially about having a main world which i absolutely second. Everything you build developes organically over the years and it forms a neat story. Love it
I am a Skyrim prisoner that stepped through a weird portal, and now I am in a blocky world. All my designs are midevil aesthetics because that is all I know from my home world. I found a recent portal and it odly looks the same as the one that brought me here from Skyrim. Atm I'm trying to learn the local tribes dialect, but if that fails, I will try the portal and see if I get back home to Skyrim. Would be cool if I could jump through worlds whenever one world gets to much for me. This is my narritive and my way of not burning out on MC or Skyrim 😅
This video is what I've been looking for exactly and I feel like most people relate as well. I went from having many 2 week Minecraft phases every few months to having literal 2 day phases and it sucks so bad because I've always just wanted to enjoy the game because I know how much I like it but how hard it is to not be bored after playing Minecraft for 2 weeks straight. I'm going to get on Minecraft tmr and not rush things because I really believe that Minecraft has a lot to offer that we dont see while trying to loot everything to beat the game as fast as possible. I rlly appreciate this vid !!
This video helped me out so much I've been trying to build a city from scratch so I can do a role play but I get bored easy and just playing normal Minecraft does the same so thank you xxxxx
its mnore like you have a dream world that u want to escape from reality for a min and just do whatever u want go around even treat your pets in the game like a real pets its just feels that this game is more then a game to you and i can see that
Your advice is really great, thank you! Your world is also super inspiring. I started my currently longest attempt at a permanent world half a year ago. I thought that maybe the overabundance of things to do in newer versions of the game stressed me out, so my plan was to start my world in version 1.0.0 and do everything I could in that version and then go to the next, and and so on until I eventually reach the latest version. For now this world has been really enjoyable, I'm still in 1.0.0 and now the biggest problem I have is I don't know when to update my world since I can still do tons of things in this version. This is also the first time I beat the ender dragon alone in the many years I've played Minecraft.
bruh your hair taking me back to 2008, I love it, and that hatsune miku poster is awesome too, also this showed up when I got back into minecraft, they truly are listening
A lot of this is the advice I needed, but never wanted to hear lol. I'm so prone to the two week minecraft phase, and I really do end up playing excessively. I've accidentally pulled all nighters because I got so distracted I didn't notice how late it was until the sun came up. I guess I shouldn't be surprised I get burnt out. I also definitely need to learn to keep my projects more managable
I often play with my best friend but we’re very different when it comes to how we want to play Minecraft. I‘ve always wondered why I disliked when he wanted to enter the nether before we had built our house or created a NON automates farm or decorated our house. I‘ve always preferred your type of playing but I had never realized. You just put it into words perfectly and something in me just relaxed. Thank you.
Great tips! I'm one of those people who will go all in on this game for a week or so, quickly getting bored in the process and taking like a year until I get the itch to play it again... been getting that itch again, and this popped up on my recommended with great timing! I'll definitely try to take things slowly this time, really taking in the atmosphere
I had this experience in Minecraft where I found this awesome spot and made a house. At some point, I decided to make a map of the area I was in so I wouldn't get lost and went exploring. Unfortunately, I ended up going too far, and the map stopped tracking me, and I got stranded in the middle of nowhere, and the only thing keeping me connected to my home was that one map. I ended up spending the next couple of days creating map after map to get a better feel of where I was at, and I eventually found my home. Ended up dying (it was in hardcore), but man, that was some of the most fun I've had playing the game.
taking breaks is so true. i have a multiple year old minecraft world, and it wouldn't have lasted as long if i didn't occasionally take a month or 2 to take focus off of it. i actually had almost abandoned the world early on, but then the Nether Update came around and i decided, "Why not continue on this world. i've had it for a while, and this new stuff seems reasonable to play around with on an existing world. yeah, i'll pick this world back up again and make it my long term world." and sometimes taking a break can also tell you if you should leave the world. maybe when you come back, you'll see that even though you love your world, it's just not befitting of your current mind, and maybe starting up a new world with new memories is the best way forward. (obviously that's not something that _has_ to happen, but it's happened to me)
This speaks to me on a very personal level. I'm the type of player who gets attached to almost every single place I go to. I name the regions and the bases I make, write down their histories and sometimes even write poetry. One of the differences in our playstyles is that I play on my friend's server, but I'm still the only one going there semi-regularly. On the roleplay aspect, the narrative is that I/we are fighting the "forces of darkness"... literally :D
If I get bored I usually work on a small project. I make videos, so I don't get bored often because there is always something new to do! and I love your hair colour btw.
Thank you for talking about that roleplaying part ! I’ve been dreaming of developing my Minecraft roleplay lore as a single player. My Minecraft skin is a handmade version of one I made on Bedrock, I was going for a deathly pale miner with a cool mechanic prosthetic. Their lore was that different populations ended up growing in villages really attached to their place of work. The economy worked well since every town specialized in a specific ressource making branch, and made money by selling it to other civilizations specializing in other stuffs. My OC is part of the miner population, and their village used to be underground. They had their own technologies, not advanced enough to prevent some mining accidents, but enough to build complex prosthetics that allowed them to work normally again, with even better grips and strength. Which is what happened to my OC’s arm. But one day, the outside world became silent. There was no more letters or supplies coming in the mines, and it seemed like the stones and minerals sent never arrived at their destination. As the miners tried to figure it out while still surviving with their mediocre food rationing skills, the amount of survivors started to lower, until my OC was the only survivor. Determined to not let themselves die like the others, they went on a journey to find their way to the surface. They had a hard time finding humans, but seeing the outside gave them the motivation to keep living in this world, and so they slowly learn to adapt to the life in fresh air, and to build themselves the comfort they couldn’t have in the mines. It’s been really hard to start a new world ever since my longest one got strangely corrupted and all mobs vanished from it. But your channel is getting my motivation hyped up again, thank you so much ! ❤ I may not have access to my imagination right now, which makes me sad because it means that I can’t really develop my Minecraft OC much, but I now really want to give the game a try again ! ❤
Man when you were talking about the way you played as a kid that took me back i played the same way i always created these intricate and long hours of lore and roleplay just talking to myself in my head
cool Minecraft world. i have a world that has been in the works for years. my daughters used to play with me but the caves and cliffs update made their devices to weak for the game so we haven't played since. i dropped it for a long time since I missed them every time i played alone, but have picked it back up and continued on my own. I would add two tips to your list how to not get board with Minecraft. Know how you play, or your favorite style of play. Also, most people that take long breaks and come back, get discouraged because the inventory is a mess and you cant find what your looking for inside the chest monster. Keep this organized and it wont be such an overwhelming thing. When i dropped my world for a long time i tried to come back to it multiple times but didn't know where to start. I spent 3 days straight organizing and cleaning all the chest monsters and now im playing again!
Thank you so much!!:3 I dont rlly play minecraft often cause of exams so idk if i would be able to play everyday or not but i feel like some of these will help me enjoy it just a little more when i do play. I want to start a forever world
I used to get burned out and quit for like a year. But I would still keep up with the development. And would come back each big update. Now, starting with 1.17, I've kept a long-term single-player world. Taking breaks and immersion into one's own world is very important.
man hearing you talk about being attached to your pets like this and fishing with them, going on walks, you seem like a really lovely and nice person
aww thank u :3
@@luvstarkei You actually raise a good point with that. I tend to tame animals and then do nothing with them at all. I never take them with me, (mostly because I'm scared of them being killed off by creepers or what have you buuut), even when I'm doing mundane things like fishing or mining. Maybe I'll give that a try!
I do however love modding my game to be more realistic with the vibes. Especially the rain. I don't like the rain going away when I decide to sleep so I don't let it! 😝
I agree
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@@mr.pothosswag8396”simp” in the big 2024 💔
man i love minecraft roleplaying,, even in singleplayer worlds lol. i remember the days when i had no friends and i would use minecraft as an escape, pretending the villagers were my friends. now my fiance and i make custom modded worlds and roleplay with eachother, making up our own quests in our heads.
I play alone and I love role-playing as a mayor! Any ideas for quests?
@@mellowdramaticc9950create a court
@@mellowdramaticc9950one idea is create trade unions that connect to other villages so they can make a small economy for the villagers :D
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Two tips that helped me: One: Don't put all your builds in the same area. Two, and this goes hand in hand with the first: Think about your infrastructure. Stuff like paths, Nether tunnels, rail systems, accounting for horse travel. Maybe handle essentials like food supply differently in different areas. That helps your world feel more like, well, a world, and not just your base, and the variety helps to avoid boredom.
Ur right about things in different parts/areas of ur world to avoid boredom :)
I've been doing this singleplayer let's play on my channel that just turned 1 year old, which is the longest a Minecraft series I have ever uploaded to TH-cam........Even though it's been 1 year, only 26 episodes are out, the key that has helped to carry on going in this long term world has been "treating the world like old school Minecraft" what I mean by that is, not doing all main objectives back to back and instead spacing them out with small but cute and fun side-quests in-between , building smaller houses and structures instead of huge ones, and most importantly not rushing to upload the videos, instead uploading when I am super motivated that way I don't feel forced to continue and I will still have several future tasks to not get bored.
Same here! Started my channel in august uploading my first three videos which blew up on the channel but after uploading episode 2 I got burned out and my friend wasn't invested in the series anymore so it was hard for me to find motivation to keep going. Uploading another episode tonight hoping that people come back after the channel basically died. I am pretty much just taking it slow and slowly learning the game and sticking to the theme like its "real life" in a sense.
No wonder why I burned out with thaumcraft ( 4.2) I ripped straight through the whole thaumonomicon until reaching and completing TTKami 💀💀💀
@@RequiemL34 I played thaumcraft for the first time recently and it was so fun not rushing it. I was playing a fairly grindy expert pack that forced you through tons of mod progression throughout different stages of the pack. Thaumcraft happened to be about two thirds of the way through the chapters in the quest book so it had a ton of prerequisite materials from previous chapter crafting chains which made it a bit slower to progress (luckily i had decent automation to that point tho). But that gave me a bit more time to mess with some of the fun niche mechanics of the mod tbh. Best part was that the pack had thaumic energistics so automating essentia fully with ae2 was extremely satisfying.
@@timklafke4712 yup, It was also that I just did extensive mining , cleared a dungeon to use as base, made TiC tools, and straight to thaumcraft, thaumic tinkerer, forbidden magic, tainted magic, thaumic exploration, and witching gadgets.
And I don't wish anybody to research the whole thaumonomicon straight to the end, and I hate to be burning 90 times more materials for essence than I use for the actual infusion.
the small side quests are like the best (and maybe even most important) part of a minecraft experience in my experience. i'm glad you found joy in doing them again!
I’ve never seen your channel. I clicked because 1, THE SCENE HAIR 😭😭❤️❤️👏 2, minecraft.
Thank you for keeping the hairstyle alive. Scene culture when I was younger was HUGE.
Clicked for Minecraft, stayed for their hair AND VOICE
@@defokochuan RIGHT their voice is so nice
3:10 The nice thing about having a forever world is that it allows you to procrastinate half built projects and come back to them waaaay later.
thats what i like about singleplayer worlds. they dont get rusty or old, you can take a break for however long you wanna
I beat the Ender Dragon for the first time a few months ago on a world that I think about with an immense fondness. I had built my home into a sizeable cave with a single entrance and multiple chambers. Like a main hearth, farming, mine, the whole works, all in a hobbit hole, which meant good food, and all the comforts of home. I made the ceiling out of skulk because it reminded me of twinkling stars
I like your very classic-minecraft-esque building style.
thank you! im glad you like it :3 in survival, i prefer building in a more simple style.
I started a 4 player server with friends about a year ago, and I love how it's become a "living" world with a history, memories and lore.
I am in love with the classic texture pack. It reminds me of my childhood and immediately gives me motivation to create ❤
same, I have been playing the Re-console mod (It recreates the legacy console edition on java, and it has controller support) and i have a lot more motivation to play that, then if i play vanilla Minecraft.
Yes! Totally agree, I play Minecraft music whenever I play as well, super nostalgic!
I started a single player world years ago. After a few years my sister joined to make it a 2 player world. And now years later we've each had kids who are old enough to play Mindcraft and have now joined our world. Sometimes single player worlds turn into multiplayer worlds 🥰
I find that not going too hard on building every single xp farm/exploit mechanic helps me not get burnt out. It makes me have to do certain things more naturally, which is more fun and organic than just having some overpowered thing designed to "save time". I namely do this with my normal crop farms. I dont try and make them all automatic, and I just build them for aesthetic above all else. Which is ultimately what I like about minecraft. Building things, gathering things, adventuring
thats what i do too! ive completely eliminated auto farming from my playstyle, its so much more enjoyable that way!
An iron farm here and there for that big ass project that will require tons of iron stacks is fine, but building a farm for every damn thing in Minecraft? Lol nope. It takes away the fun of grinding.
Shut up stop gaslighting I still think gaming is fun who cares what you think😂
Bruh stop gaslighting I still think gaming is fun and are you a organ doner😂
My long-term vanilla survival world I have since Microsoft got in charge of Minecraft in 2018 has a guardian farm that I still have to decorate xD
Like, the farm is Iskall85's design, simple and very effective for singleplayer, and I have a whole vision for the decoration inspired by Great Bay Temple from Majora's Mask, but I always do something else xD
You know, a lot of this is pretty good life advice as well. I wonder if that partially explains why Minecraft is so meaningful to so many people.
Minecraft is basically a simulation of life... but in super speed
I’ve had some big plans for Minecraft until I had a burntout. I just couldn’t even think about playing Minecraft. And it killed me mentally because all my plans went to waste. It got to the point where I started having breakdowns and blaming myself for throwing away all the ideas and effort. I know, sounds silly… but it was what it was. And besides all other mental stuff I struggled with, me blaming myself did not help the situation.
Your video was like a blessing from God to me. Hearing your calm voice, and just the way you talk about it, lifted my motivation. I realized I don’t have to have everything figured out right away, and I should just slow down and ‘enjoy the moment’. I just wanted to say thank you so much. You probably don’t even realize how much your video means to me, and probably a whole lot of other people. Keep up the good work, and thank you! ❤
This is such a heartfelt message. Burnout can be so tough, but it sounds like you're taking some good steps to go forward. Wishing you all the best with your Minecraft ideas whenever you're ready to dive back in. Just remember Balance ❤
i looove roleplaying in single player minecraft!!
i like talking to my pets in my head and taking them on walks
Plane crash rp, is so nostalgic, ur making me remember my childhood self, maybe that’s what I’m missing
You should do a full Showcase of your old Minecraft worlds, i think it would be pretty interesting to see it's history, and also how it evolves as you grew up
ive lost a lot of those old worlds :( i might show the ones i still have, but its not a lot >_
Something else that definitely helped me was to make very clear to-do lists. A lot of ideas I get while I'm walking, driving, or about to fall asleep, and I would not remember them if I didn't write them down. Plus, I play many other games besides Minecraft, where I take 3-6 month breaks from time to time, so having a written list helps immensely for me getting adjusted to what plans I had pretty quickly.
you're straight out of the 2000s and I'm lovin it
As someone who LOVES Minecraft but suffer burnout and struggled with getting into the Minecraft worlds I've made
This video popped up on my recommended and I swear this changed my life, I've always loved roleplaying (especially DnD style or story roleplay) and I never thought of playing Minecraft like that! I also struggle with going too fast, I almost never have to use stone tools since I end up getting iron within the first 10-20 minutes of playing but I'm trying to slow down and just enjoy the pace and scenery that Minecraft has to offer.
If u wanna slow down, I recommend making a stone axe and cutting trees and building a nice house
As a fellow DND player, you have to try Alex's caves, Born in Chaos and The Graveyard
those are the mods I've been playing with in my current world and I don't get bored!
well, I have also been taking things slowly like Luvstars says here in the video, building and adventuring, started this world months ago and I haven't even went to the nether yet.
@@Honeyduck_writesI think it's all about perspective. I dig straight down and get diamond tools by the first night, but I take my builds slow and methodical and get into the flow. It also helps that i eschew any auto-farms or the like. Everything I own, i earned myself.
I like playing on a server with my friends the most because it makes the world just feel more alive. Being able to go and travel places and find new things that other people built and trying to find my way through it and how their stuff works. It just makes the game less perfect and more unpredictable which is kinda important to me, being someone who obsessively knows way to much about the game and even coding mods myself, it just adds some needed chaos to a game with borderline nothing left unknown to me.
On the current server I have with my friends, which we've had for probably almost a year now, when we started we set a couple rules: no fighting the dragon and no getting netherite until a time on which we all agree. We all agreed on these rules so that we all progress at roughly the same rate and nobody feels discouraged to play because everyone has better stuff and is having all the fun. And this especially opened up some things for me because I like to progress very fast so taking it slow made me have to take a whole new approach to playing. It got to a point where me and one of my friends started breeding horses to try and get really good ones to travel easier, which was nice because we all live, like, 500+ blocks away from each other. I even made a whole new sword just to get smite 5 and see how useful it was (it was very useful and I still actively use that same sword almost a year later lol). Now we all have all the late game stuff and we're kinda just doing our own things but sometimes we'll join a call together and just do our own stuff while chatting or we'll help each other on builds or we'll goof around and fun fight each other. One time on an older server, we had, like, 5+ of us all in a call goofing around and we were just beating each other in game with steak. We all had to take a long visit to the enderman farm after that. We absolutely shredded our armor but it was so worth it. I think my brothers NETHERITE helmet even broke from us smacking each other with meat. Fun times. Now I've been working on a huge project for a few months. I drained an ocean monument in it's entirety for the first time (I've tried before but never finished) and then I swapped out all the prismarine for sandstone and froglights and now I'm digging out a huge area underneath it to turn into some kind of facility which I'll probably make look like a crazy factory or something and I'll just live down there. It's 4x4 chunks I believe and I just hit Y = 0 today. Now idk if I should keep going farther down because I can't instamine deepslate but I kinda want the diamonds and other resources from it.
Dang, that was a huge comment. Idk, I guess I just like to rant about minecraft stuff that I find fun. lol
7:09 This is so me! Doesn't matter if it's a crime show, a movie or something else, I will often even remember scenes I saw when I built a certain building! This really is awesome when playing in the same world for a long time.
When I play with mods, my rule-of-thumb to keep engaged with the world is: free use of creative for building a cool, thematic base and then focus on progressing through the mod (like Thaumcraft which is my favorite mod of all time, the grind is soooo real with that mod I don't think I could handle having to build a base AND grinding through the mod progression). If I had to play 100% survival my base would just be sccatered magic constructs with maybe a cobble wall around them, but allowing creative allows me to build a huge Wizard's tower to devote each floor to an aspect of the mod which keeps me soooo engaged since now I actually feel like a wizard studying thaumturgy and not just someone randonly progressing through a mod
Omg sameee I’m in love with that mod, I actually haven’t played the mod in its entirety but I want to, sadly it’s not for 1.20.1 :( cuz I wanted to pair it with other mods that I’m currently playing with
im so happy that i found ur channel, i love the scene vibe and the cute texture packs and omg the MERMAID SERIES????? i luv it all so much, u just became my favorite minecraft youtube, also i LOVE ur hair btw :3
aww thank you so much!!! btw ur profile pic with the domo is one of my all time favorite images hehe!!
I really like the advice and your attitude towards the game. Slowing down and just role-playing little moments to yourself. Reminds me of how I play Sky Children of the Light, which I've played almost every day for 4 years now. In the game you can fly but sometimes I just walk around the maps and take things in instead of flying and rushing through it.
I've spent a number of years playing Minecraft and had so much fun learning all its secrets. My hard drive crashed recently and I lost everything. I look back on all my adventures, builds, and inventions, and it's hard to feel ok about it. When I think about recreating some of my favorite builds, it sounds like too much work, and that's a shame.
It was nice to hear your feelings on the game. It makes me believe I can get back into the excitement again. Thanks for this video.
I don't have any experience with this myself but aren't there services that do data recovery from failed storage media? I've recently succeeded at migrating from my old hard drive to an ssd and also I bought a portable hard drive to store a lot of my things in general and I luckily hadn't had the old drive fail, but still, I kinda feel you.
I hardly play games anymore but I had a world in minecraft where I just built whatever I wanted and I also had some terraria worlds with some very nice buildings, I remember a very pretty wooden house I built for the merchant in the winter biome, but it's all lost to time somehow. Playing these alone doesn't excite me anymore, but I still wish I could revisit those worlds. Look around and see if someone can recover data from your hard drive, I'm sure it'll be worth it if it works out.
i really love the way you see minecraft, like as a place to cherish and hold memories
I adore Minecraft and totally love how you articulated being a long term player! I am a painter irl but Minecraft totally feels like a different canvas and it is like creating a master piece! I think one tip I would add to this perfect list is to play like friends might join! I’ve had so many worlds that I built a house with rooms for friends or decorated spawn or made fun social builds all on single player for it to randomly pay off for one random super fun play session with a friend! I’ve definitely had entire worlds that no one ever saw, but I’ve also had people in awe of my builds that I never thought they’d see 😂❤
Maybe turn one into a small server and invite a few people
Thank you for this video. I don't think I've ever seen a video of yours, and only minimally watched minecraft videos recently but somehow TH-cam just knew to recommend me this.
For years now every time I try to play minecraft it has been very short-lived. I always long to have that feeling again of when I was a kid playing it and making my wacky homes but still really enjoying my time.
I've been stuck in this pattern of trying to play, spending an unreasonable amount of time just walking around in the new world and looking for a place to live. I always struggle to choose "the spot" that I want, and then as soon as I do and I make my first house, all my motivation ends there and I stop playing again because I don't know what else to do by then.
I think my biggest problem is that I love exploring the most, and if I settle down I don't know how to explore anymore because I'd always need to go back to my base. I can't just explore forever because then my inventory gets full... when I was a kid I played minecraft on xbox which had a limited world size, I think that helped force me to settle down
the taking breaks thing is so true
like, i'm trying to get back into minecraft specifically so i have another thing to play so i don't burn out on stardew valley again, which i'm playing more recently because i'm very burnt out on genshin impact, the main thing i've been playing this year and i know i'd murderize myself if i could no longer bring myself to play because i adore the characters in that game. but like. i "Have" to play genshin once a day because of stupid daily and weekly things to do, it's just a whole different kind of game. so i stopped playing it all day, only hopping in to spend like 20 minutes doing these daily things before going off to play sandbox/repetetive games like terraria, stardew, or minecraft instead, which i've played collectively on and off for a decade now anyway so ....
also i ADORE your hair so much!!
I have a forever world on realms.
I built my castle i played back in the D&D days,
I love being able to adventure in my castle even as the "DM".
Since there are 3 worlds you can have on realms i even built the entire castle twice!
I do play with other players.
One of them keeps trying to convince me to start a new seed but i always tell them:
I don't build to play Minecraft...
I play Minecraft to adventure in my castle.
I also built in an amplified world so sometimes i love just enjoying the views! 🥰
9:13 ive been playing beta 1.7 recently and noticed that the lack of sprinting was actually nice, it added a little bit of a challenge too. things seem farther away when you have to walk everywhere and its almost easier to enjoy the scenery in a way
No-sprint core is where it's at fr I also never have to worry about food because I only need like a single cooked cod every 2 days lmfao
The snow golem minions reminded me of when I built a prison in Minecraft, had one snow golem in there (probably for arson) and was so mad because enderman kept stealing the clay walls. They were trying to take my prisoner!!!
great video, so much of what you said really resonated with me. I'm very new to Minecraft, I'm a mom of two young kids and I have major depression. Minecraft has really been an escape for me. I'm still learning things and haven't done anything super cool yet. I'm glad I found your channel
your voice is so calming and I really love your hair !! I liked listening to you and I think this kind of motivated me !
Omg, i just found your vid on accident and how it helped me, talking about all that roleplaying and stories just clicked, i love roleplaying, (especially on wcue) so i had a clear idea of what you were conveying. Thanks so much! You just earned yourself a new subscriber!!
My routine is to commit to a Hardcore world... die in 5 seconds... commit to a new hardcore world. Works for me...
Because of you, I’ve started a forever world you made me realize that making connections with everything I do and everything I build, and no matter how long it takes to make something that it matters and I’m so excited to start this new world I even went back and did something that I did as a kid and every world I had when I was younger when I first cut the game I would get a dog and put an orange collar on it and name it biscuit and I’ve done that again and it’s because of you And your video and you just made me realize how important this is and that playing on the same world is gonna be fun even when I’m by myself!!
these videos are so calming but informative just love them
It helps to have a creative personality.
I have to tell you that I absolutely LOVE your hair! Looks amazing!
I have pretty much played Minecraft single player since it originally came out in like 2009 I have a massive love for game and that’s what keeps me going
I turned 50 this year, and Minecraft always helped me to get trough many hard times in life.
Farming in Minecraft survival since almost 10 Years on the same Map 😎
If u are bored, just farm your gardens, feed your animals or refilling storage, making glass...
Inspiration can hit everywhere 💪💪👍👍
Nice
11:59 i have such fond memories of roleplaying in mysims on wii as a kid. could do that for hours. i havent done that in so long i feel like it would be good for my creativity.
this was so cute, nice hear people talking about what they love, especially a beautiful one
I often get motivation through recording my journey, though I can’t do it on my switch I often do it on my iPad, I just log in on my switch and leave it open and play on my iPad! It gives me so much motivation to play, and being able to switch devices as well helps a lot.
This video was so helpful! I had the issue of planning out these colossal building ideas but that just ended up burning me out when i realised how long it would take, sometimes a cozy cottage is more than enough XD
your videos makes me fall in love with minecraft all over again
I remember years ago I was probably like 8 in my moms world, she let me spawn a bunch of baby villagers to take care of and I remember giving one a bunch of carrots and telling him to share with the others, and then he did! He threw the others some carrots! I was so happy :)
i used to roleplay all the time when i played minecraft when i was young. thank you for reminding me of all of those great memories
i think taking breaks is a huge piece of avoiding burnout. instead of playing 2 hour sessions, doing something like 30 minutes a day can really make a difference in wanting to continue on ur world
Idk who u are but you're one of the only Minecraft TH-camrs that I actually enjoyed watching and enjoyed taking tips. Keep up the videos fr
I know this video is like 4. months old but you really have motivated me and made Minecraft more fun for me to play. I came here from the why should start a forever world video, and I would say your my inspiration
I first played minecraft in I think 2014 on xbox. I did the standard "spam for 2 weeks, not play for months/years" thing. Around 2016 I bought java edition, then did the same thing.
Until mid 2020. Right about when the nether update released, I decided to overhaul my playstyle. I had been watching speedrun and combat minecraft stuff for a few months before that point, and I determined I wanted to develop more general skill and efficiency in playing because one of the things that really limited my ability to enjoy minecraft was how clunky I was at actually playing it.
I made a plan. I turned scroll sensitivity way down and set up hotbar keybinds, and set a goal of beating the dragon in hardcore. No base or anything, just the bare minimum gathering some gear and food: it was somewhere between casual play and speedrunning.
It took 33 attempts, but I did it. I did my first raid on that attempt too. Beat the dragon, returned to the overworld, then died to digging into lava 2 minutes later.
Through that, I gradually learned how to avoid dying and I got to where I was able to do things without stumbling over controls. At that point I didn't know what to do in a solo world, so I turned to SMPs. Joined one, had a bunch of fun for a few months, left due to an issue with one of the members, then found another one that I've been in since April of 2021. I've played minecraft in one form or another pretty much every day with the occasional 1-2 month long break.
A certain irony is that what got me motivated to play more was kind of the opposite of what was brought up around 11:00; it was learning fast inventory management and being able to play efficiently that made me able to enjoy it.
From an outside perspective, my gameplay looks like I'm in a really big hurry but it's honestly just how I like to play lol
I have taken to slowing down a bit on getting maxed out gear. I've been trying to appreciate the smaller steps between iron and fully enchanted netherite. I've been eating baked potatoes and bread instead of golden carrots all the time. I also can't kill animals, it makes me feel too bad.
After learning better controls, the next thing that helps me stay motivated the most is staying organized. I don't find having to look through all my chests when I need anything very engaging.
hey i love that! just goes to show everyone enjoys the game and finds fulfillment playing in different ways. thats great, and im glad you found a way to enjoy minecraft your own way :)
I've been finally playing in only a single world for a couple months now, have advanced greatly. Your video is pretty cool and cozy! Will check out more of ur content.
Hands down best video ive watched in my life, thank youu for making this amazing piece of content and ptting it out on the internet☺
aww thank you so much! glad you enjoyed it :)
@@luvstarkei I really did and I’m gonna use all these tips to finally have a world I can stay on, I can’t thank you enough
Okay I’m subscribing. This creator is so sweet, compassionate, and incredibly unique. I can tell I’m going to be watching her for a very long time 💜
I love the way you think about Minecraft and your advices, I’ve been trying to change how I play Minecraft and games in general and this helps a lot.
Thank you, take care ⭐️
you give me MAJOR 2016-2017 minecraft vibes and i love it, those were the best escapist years ive ever had. your hair is also so pretty! also i got this at a great time in my recommended because ive been playing it more but get burnt out so fast (like every game)
Im getting into minecraft again in my adulthood after being a fan as a kid and rlly disconnecting from anythin related to it past two years but i rlly like you and ur video, I felt so comforted and calm by your approaches n all, not only in minecraft but everythin else
really love that video and i now have to follow you. i fell in love with minecraft late. I'm playing it for about 3 years now (i´m 42) and i totally love it. I try to open a community server once a year limited for 100 days to get the "short time" motivated people into it put i´m also playing solo on my own and love to have a grown world over time
i love your hair and the purple stripes on the side, the colours are so vibrant and pretty!! :)
Its been 3 days since I've started my forever world and it has been fun until now, i planned every day hiding signs in random places telling a bit of how the day was being, i watched your other videos and i really like them! Keep going
Revisiting your old saves help a lot too, if you can still access them. I found myself building like I'd never built before when returning to my MCPE 0.11 world, totally rewinding and enjoying it.
for me i enjoy the basic stuff when playing minecraft like gathering stuff, making a house, chestroom, decorating it, making farms. then i play for a week and lose interest so this helps a lot thank you
9:44 omg I thought the same thing. I was looking at auto farm ideas and then I realized that thatd just get really boring, I think it’s more fun to have pens for your livestock instead of ugly machines imo
Sad thing about auto-farms, they need to be emptied constantly when there run. I use a few to get bone meal, but I always keep manual farms even if just for aesthetic reasons. I love seeing them in my worlds.
....I just love everything about this video and your message, I've always valued having a main world for as long as possible and making your world feel like home and being as creative as possible.
im so glad u liked the vid :3 a world feeling like home, what a wonderful way to put it!
@luvstarkei hell yeah, we all want our own kind of Stampys lovely world lol
This video has helped me out a lot. I just played Minecraft for the first time. I had lots of fun but was worried about if the game was enough to keep me interested. What had me was when you said role-playing. Also the added keeping a diary or journal.
I completely agree with creating a narrative for your world. I have been playing Minecraft with my friends for a long time on a server and we built a city together. One day one of them asked what the backstory of our city actually is and so I had to make one up. It got me absolutely hooked on the game. It can also make you much more creative with what you can or want to build for your base or city and it can give your base a lot of identity.
I really love your health/hunger UI it's so cute ^_^ I'm glad i'm not the only person that feels this deeply about their minecraft worlds/pets. Great video!
I grinded 12hr/day for the 1st month of my current survival world getting all the gear, farms i'd need to make big projects come to life. That much time helped me to come up with a lot of projects. Currently im working on 3 big builds, and jumping between them whenever i start to feel burnout really helps to not burn out because im not doing the same thing. All other 15 projects i have written down really helps with motivation because i dont want those ideas go to waste.
you have too much free time im unreasonably jealous
12 hours a day.. wenn did you work?
@@Mr450pro Didnt, had a broken leg.
I'm building a city in my world since 2012, but what makes it so special is that I made a lot of important things for me in this world like... my real life house, school, buildings from movies and series I like, etc...everything I like is in this world ,traveling around this world is like traveling in my head...I even made my own texture pack to make it even more unique. this is what makes me wanna still play Minecraft 💜
the thing that helped me the most was just setting goals to achieve. this is how i achieved a late game hardcore world. and it will turn 3 years old upcoming december 17th :D
Honestly, super nice vid. I have made a new world after years of break from minecraft and I could't be more excited to play.
My long term world is turning 2 years old next March! I loved your video, I could relate a lot to what you said. Especially the roleplaying part, I could entertain myself as a kid for hours on end in singleplayer. I'd like to add a few thoughts, though.
I found it very liberating not to try to make everything beautiful. I could never keep up with new building styles, so it's the most natural for me to still build like I did in release 1.5. Sincere builds rarely look bad, even if they're amateurish, in my opinion.
Sometimes it also helps to make monuments for real life events. One time I passed a very difficult exam, and the next day I've built a giant golden statue. Farming the gold helped relax my mind and any time I look at the statue I remember this one personal achievement.
If I find a nice effect, like the way some shaders make colored rays of light when the sun shines through stained glass, I like to make a build centered around that. I have a chapel that is completely flooded by colorful light every runrise, and it's one of my bests.
Thank you so much luvstar I am really motivated with these spectacular tips thank you so much love you your biggest fan ❤
I once had a world with 5 black adorable dogs whose names were Night Fang (He was my first), Bloodlust (because she was attacking a fox when I found her), Moonlight, Blueburst, and Whitehowl (the three children of Night Fang and Bloodlust). I mistakenly, regrettedly, and dumbfoundedly deleted my world due to the fact that when I stumbled upon a Trial Chamber, the skeletons annoying as always shot me dead and whenever I tried to retrieve my stuff, they kept at it to the point where I straight up deleted my world in rage, all while losing my dogs in the process. On the plus side, I still got a screenshot of my dogs to remember them by and hopefully one day, I will have my pack back.
one thing thats really helped me reacently is play it like animal crossing. i found a mod that makes the day cycles 1-1 to your real life time, so if its 4:05 PM where you are. its 4:05 PM in minecraft. i wish there was one that made it reflect your IRL weather aswell, but i have yet to see one be made
(Edit: APARENTLY THERE IS A MOD THAT CHANGES THE WEATHER TO YOUR REAL LIFE LOCATION!!!! too bad i live in cali where we havent gotten a single drop of rain in 8 months)
Your world is awesome! Everything looks like it's telling a story and it makes me kinda curious. This underlines your ramble, especially about having a main world which i absolutely second. Everything you build developes organically over the years and it forms a neat story. Love it
Mods keep me playing this game
I am a Skyrim prisoner that stepped through a weird portal, and now I am in a blocky world. All my designs are midevil aesthetics because that is all I know from my home world. I found a recent portal and it odly looks the same as the one that brought me here from Skyrim. Atm I'm trying to learn the local tribes dialect, but if that fails, I will try the portal and see if I get back home to Skyrim. Would be cool if I could jump through worlds whenever one world gets to much for me.
This is my narritive and my way of not burning out on MC or Skyrim 😅
This video is what I've been looking for exactly and I feel like most people relate as well. I went from having many 2 week Minecraft phases every few months to having literal 2 day phases and it sucks so bad because I've always just wanted to enjoy the game because I know how much I like it but how hard it is to not be bored after playing Minecraft for 2 weeks straight. I'm going to get on Minecraft tmr and not rush things because I really believe that Minecraft has a lot to offer that we dont see while trying to loot everything to beat the game as fast as possible. I rlly appreciate this vid !!
This video helped me out so much I've been trying to build a city from scratch so I can do a role play but I get bored easy and just playing normal Minecraft does the same so thank you xxxxx
its mnore like you have a dream world that u want to escape from reality for a min and just do whatever u want go around even treat your pets in the game like a real pets its just feels that this game is more then a game to you and i can see that
Your advice is really great, thank you! Your world is also super inspiring.
I started my currently longest attempt at a permanent world half a year ago. I thought that maybe the overabundance of things to do in newer versions of the game stressed me out, so my plan was to start my world in version 1.0.0 and do everything I could in that version and then go to the next, and and so on until I eventually reach the latest version.
For now this world has been really enjoyable, I'm still in 1.0.0 and now the biggest problem I have is I don't know when to update my world since I can still do tons of things in this version.
This is also the first time I beat the ender dragon alone in the many years I've played Minecraft.
bruh your hair taking me back to 2008, I love it, and that hatsune miku poster is awesome too, also this showed up when I got back into minecraft, they truly are listening
This literally happens to me in every game...Like i want the games so bad, but then once i get it, i dont play it and leave it sitting there forever.
A lot of this is the advice I needed, but never wanted to hear lol. I'm so prone to the two week minecraft phase, and I really do end up playing excessively. I've accidentally pulled all nighters because I got so distracted I didn't notice how late it was until the sun came up. I guess I shouldn't be surprised I get burnt out. I also definitely need to learn to keep my projects more managable
I often play with my best friend but we’re very different when it comes to how we want to play Minecraft. I‘ve always wondered why I disliked when he wanted to enter the nether before we had built our house or created a NON automates farm or decorated our house. I‘ve always preferred your type of playing but I had never realized. You just put it into words perfectly and something in me just relaxed. Thank you.
Great tips! I'm one of those people who will go all in on this game for a week or so, quickly getting bored in the process and taking like a year until I get the itch to play it again... been getting that itch again, and this popped up on my recommended with great timing! I'll definitely try to take things slowly this time, really taking in the atmosphere
I had this experience in Minecraft where I found this awesome spot and made a house. At some point, I decided to make a map of the area I was in so I wouldn't get lost and went exploring. Unfortunately, I ended up going too far, and the map stopped tracking me, and I got stranded in the middle of nowhere, and the only thing keeping me connected to my home was that one map. I ended up spending the next couple of days creating map after map to get a better feel of where I was at, and I eventually found my home. Ended up dying (it was in hardcore), but man, that was some of the most fun I've had playing the game.
taking breaks is so true. i have a multiple year old minecraft world, and it wouldn't have lasted as long if i didn't occasionally take a month or 2 to take focus off of it.
i actually had almost abandoned the world early on, but then the Nether Update came around and i decided, "Why not continue on this world. i've had it for a while, and this new stuff seems reasonable to play around with on an existing world. yeah, i'll pick this world back up again and make it my long term world."
and sometimes taking a break can also tell you if you should leave the world. maybe when you come back, you'll see that even though you love your world, it's just not befitting of your current mind, and maybe starting up a new world with new memories is the best way forward. (obviously that's not something that _has_ to happen, but it's happened to me)
This speaks to me on a very personal level.
I'm the type of player who gets attached to almost every single place I go to.
I name the regions and the bases I make, write down their histories and sometimes even write poetry.
One of the differences in our playstyles is that I play on my friend's server, but I'm still the only one going there semi-regularly.
On the roleplay aspect, the narrative is that I/we are fighting the "forces of darkness"... literally :D
If I get bored I usually work on a small project. I make videos, so I don't get bored often because there is always something new to do! and I love your hair colour btw.
Thank you for talking about that roleplaying part ! I’ve been dreaming of developing my Minecraft roleplay lore as a single player. My Minecraft skin is a handmade version of one I made on Bedrock, I was going for a deathly pale miner with a cool mechanic prosthetic.
Their lore was that different populations ended up growing in villages really attached to their place of work. The economy worked well since every town specialized in a specific ressource making branch, and made money by selling it to other civilizations specializing in other stuffs. My OC is part of the miner population, and their village used to be underground. They had their own technologies, not advanced enough to prevent some mining accidents, but enough to build complex prosthetics that allowed them to work normally again, with even better grips and strength. Which is what happened to my OC’s arm. But one day, the outside world became silent. There was no more letters or supplies coming in the mines, and it seemed like the stones and minerals sent never arrived at their destination. As the miners tried to figure it out while still surviving with their mediocre food rationing skills, the amount of survivors started to lower, until my OC was the only survivor. Determined to not let themselves die like the others, they went on a journey to find their way to the surface. They had a hard time finding humans, but seeing the outside gave them the motivation to keep living in this world, and so they slowly learn to adapt to the life in fresh air, and to build themselves the comfort they couldn’t have in the mines.
It’s been really hard to start a new world ever since my longest one got strangely corrupted and all mobs vanished from it. But your channel is getting my motivation hyped up again, thank you so much ! ❤ I may not have access to my imagination right now, which makes me sad because it means that I can’t really develop my Minecraft OC much, but I now really want to give the game a try again ! ❤
I didn't really roleplay myself, but I did come up with a whole story for my village. It was fantastic!
Man when you were talking about the way you played as a kid that took me back i played the same way i always created these intricate and long hours of lore and roleplay just talking to myself in my head
cool Minecraft world. i have a world that has been in the works for years. my daughters used to play with me but the caves and cliffs update made their devices to weak for the game so we haven't played since. i dropped it for a long time since I missed them every time i played alone, but have picked it back up and continued on my own. I would add two tips to your list how to not get board with Minecraft. Know how you play, or your favorite style of play. Also, most people that take long breaks and come back, get discouraged because the inventory is a mess and you cant find what your looking for inside the chest monster. Keep this organized and it wont be such an overwhelming thing. When i dropped my world for a long time i tried to come back to it multiple times but didn't know where to start. I spent 3 days straight organizing and cleaning all the chest monsters and now im playing again!
Thank you so much!!:3 I dont rlly play minecraft often cause of exams so idk if i would be able to play everyday or not but i feel like some of these will help me enjoy it just a little more when i do play. I want to start a forever world
I used to get burned out and quit for like a year. But I would still keep up with the development. And would come back each big update.
Now, starting with 1.17, I've kept a long-term single-player world. Taking breaks and immersion into one's own world is very important.