Why Solo Minecraft Makes Us Miserable
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2023
- In this video, I discuss the struggles of playing Minecraft vanilla solo in singleplayer. Take a listen and if anything I say resonates with you or you disagree with me on some of these points or if i missed anything pleases leave them comments below, I truly wanna hear your thoughts!!
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My biggest struggle is getting bored collecting the resources to do what I want to do. On a server I can just...lightly persuade my friend into making farms and item organizers and then be on my merry way.
FR. I hate when I know what I want to do and then grind for hrs on end to get all my stuff back. AS I WAS MAKING THE VIDEO I GOT KILLED AND LOST MY LOYALTY, UNBREAKING 3 TRIDENT!!!! THE LEVELING TOOK SO LONG!
@@kingofspillsman a few days ago I went REALLY deep in my create mod world in search for oh so needed iron ore. Slowly but surely I've collected about three stacks. And... If I tell you that I didn't mistakenly awoken a warden and then couldn't find the exact place of my death, wouldn't that sound at least a little believable? Actually I adore the create mod just because of that. Once you have enough resources/knowledge/understanding, you can just let the machines do all the boring stuff (pun intended) for you.
Lightly persuade or...bribe?
Lol I'm the one in my group that makes all the farms. I also get all the elytra. My kid always makes me join with their friends to get them all set up.
Honestly, I'm one of those players that doesn't really get bored of playing single-player. My biggest struggle though is time for my projects these days. There are so many things I want to build, but I do not have the time to plan resource logistics and blue prints.
However, I have come to a recent philosophy. The word I play in is nearly 5 years old now. Originally, I lived by a strict survival rule. No cheats, not even the smallest. Eventually, I wanted to play with friends in this world so I could show it to them and they could build things for me to remember them by. Slowly and slowly, to help accommodate them and be a good host, I used things like commands to help make things more bearable for them (travelling between long distances mainly). I found myself switching between creative and survival constantly. Until one day I realized something about my group.
We loved playing survival, but a majority of us were builders. We wanted to make grand structures to impress each other. We already had our respective survival experiences, and it was time to make an adjustment for our busy lives. So, I welcomed the idea of allowing creative mode to work on giant structures. We had a lot of fun with that, we built castles, shrines, cathedrals, and even a reconstruction of Millineum Tower from Yakuza. Many of our builds were story based and some places we turned into dungeons.
Although we have our periods of taking a break from Minecraft, I think what we have is a good dynamic between creative and survival to accommodate for our busy lives.
But did you have an epic battle with each other at the top of Millennium Tower?
@@cleverman383 Not with each other, but there was an epic battle.
So, basically, I put one of my friends on trial for various crimes against the mobs he fought. I built an entire courthouse on top of the roof. The jury was made up of illagers, guardians, phantoms, piglins, and undead. His sentence? TRIAL BY COMBAT, and all hell broke loose as I opened the cages containing them all.
i feel like this video really encapsulates the overwhelming loneliness you’re left with on a minecraft solo world. i’m stuck on the point right now, i have a world i run with my sisters. i graduated school in january and i’m taking a gap year while they’re still in school. i’m the main one on the world and it is so lonely.
Take a break for a while then go back in after that your Minecraft experience will be fun again
@@simonmirelez1103 I've tried that, but the burnout returned quicker and I haven't played MC now in close to a year.
It has to be a LONG break, my guy. There have been multiple months where I haven't played Minecraft,@@frederickalberts
I think for me it's the loneliness too. After asking my friends time and time again to play with me, I decided to play in a small server. The same small group of people talking in the chat calms me. I don't feel so alone anymore playing it.
I actually still like solo survival but I make sure to put keep inventory on because me loosing my stuff usually ends with me quitting lol
I'm really glad I stumbled on this video, very well made and your points resonated with me a lot. You explained something I've been feeling but thought I was the only one struggling with.
I've been playing Minecraft for over 10 years. In the past few, I've sporadically tried to jump back into it. I can spend time in a world and enjoy the hours I spend sucked in, but I always come away feeling...frustrated, I guess. Part of it is the grind and overwhelm - there was a gap where I stopped playing for a few years and a BUNCH of new mechanics, blocks, npcs,, entire systems in the game were added in. When I started playing again, I felt like there was so much new stuff in it that I was overwhelmed. And while I'm fine with self-directed goals, gathering enough resources to accomplish any given task or progress is a slog, especially if you're playing Peaceful which is how I play.
I think...For me, I get frustrated with survival because there's too many elements involving combat or inconvenience. Those problems are solved by creative mode, but then I get frustrated with creative because it feels /too/ easy. I want to experience the world first-hand and get my resources that way, I just want to make parts of it easier (ability to fly, ability to avoid hostile mobs but still progress, etc). As it is, playing solo feels /slow/ and THAT is what kills the fun and motivation for me. Instead of adding new blocks or mobs or whatnot, I wish the devs would add more toggles and options to customize the play experience, something like Don't Starves options maybe.
Aah apologies for the essay, I didn't mean for that to get so long. But I wholeheartedly agree and enjoyed your video!! I love MC, I just wish I could get as much out of it now as I used to :')
It was an essay i loved reading. I actually was thinking about what your saying but didnt know how to put it into worlds. That is honestly what minecraft needs. Its one of the most customizable games on the planet, yet theres not many options for customizing the base game. Kinda like FNAF's ultimate custom night, i wish there were like dials on the difficulty for like how hard mobs hit, and how fast/ slow your player can move and stuff like that. Just ideas in the wind but yeah getting one-shot all the time is a little much for me haha.
I've had the lucky experience of starting a world with a noob 11-year old who's only been playing about a year now. She has realms on bedrock so we can play all the time. I helped her beat the ender dragon for the first time and I find myself having new experiences too, like building a super-smelter, because I never had the ambition to on my single-player world. I get super excited to log on each day, to figure out her new secret book she tries to hide while she tries to guess the combination lock to get into my base. I'm building an underwater tunnel with a glass roof for all my farms. It brings me back to the old days, as a noob 11-year old myself, though I had more experience, I always played on my PS3 with the 512x512 worlds with my friend in my neighborhood. Thank you for this nostalgic video :)
It was beyond my pleasure to make this video. I KNOW FOR A FACT that you are not alone with this type of thing. I had Minecraft for pc at that point and my friends who were like a year younger than me would get his younger cousin to play with me and i would have to go on xbox. Wow your unlocking the memory floodgates for me haha.
I like singleplayer because there I can feel that all the progress I've made is my progress. I did start playing singleplayer 'cause my friend couldn't play anymore though. Great video and I can relate to everything you say. The way I stay motivated is by challenging myself and taking on projects which I know are out of my comfort zone. I do struggle with anxiety of dying though since I died in my old hardcore world and starting my new world was so gut wrenching when I already had all the things in my old world.
YEAH if i die and lose all my stuff i usually just check out if my stuff burns or i lose it but i alwasy revisit it knowing there are more material out there, but i just wish at the time i didnt lose them in the first place haha.
My biggest struggle is finding my way back to something. I get lost so easily.
That's just not vanilla solo but any time I explore in any world.
Boy did i feel that. I think for me I cant remember long distances or how to get here. i get lost wayy to easily... i need a map and a hug on the road out there! XD Close to home tho or close to spawn piece o cake
Honestly, you said it. There are so many things that I want to share with other people or have others share things with me. Even if our bases are 1000 blocks away I still feel that the world is alive and it's incredibly motivating to know that, but on single player I just have no reason to make anything. Sure I'll become better at building or whatever else but if there is no one to see it other than me then what is the point?
EXACTLY!!! Singleplayer for me as of right now is literally training mode for when I play for multiplayer worlds. Gets the juices flowing and occasionally I can say hi to my old world haha.
For me, I do have to say it's the loneliness I've been playing minecraft since I was in elementary and it is the game that I love it to bits. It was a place where I can go to escape from the bullying and stress of everything. But still it is mainly the loneliness the is hard to deal with in the game
I feel that and yeah it only suppresses those feelings for so long, but at least you are doing something to make you happier instead of just letting those feelings simmer. Keep on building and if the days are rough at school just feel better knowing there's still something to look forward to at the end of the day. Its hard to escape the loneliness in the game but do what you can to keep the game fresh and even try out multiplayer servers like mineplex. its a good alternative to Singleplayer.
I’d say the biggest struggle I experience when playing this game alone on survival is committing myself to long term projects. I’ve always been a bit of a perfectionist when playing any game, so whenever I get far in a game and realize all of the struggles and imperfection I experienced along the way, I wonder to myself how I could’ve done better, which tempts me into deleting my old save files and starting over; and yes, I’ve deleted files where I nearly beat the game in those.
I can definitely relate to many of your points. When you explore and play in a world that no longer feels fresh to you, it can be really hard to want to keep going. From my perspective however, Minecraft has always been one of those games where I never really felt like there was a clear cut goal. Sure, you could grind and eventually fight the ender dragon, but with so many things you could do and so many areas to explore and so many things you could interact with and experiment, the main objective tends to be overshadowed by all there is that you can do. To some players, perhaps beating Minecraft is defined by how many diamond blocks you can craft or building the perfect base or getting the elytra, etc. Minecraft has become such a sandbox of a game, that beating the game feels like a concept that no longer exists in the realm of Minecraft.
This is coming from someone who has mostly played just single player vanilla Minecraft(otherwise, I’d be playing with a close friend of mine on occasion). I’ve always enjoyed the idea of being kept to my own devices, which is why the multiplayer aspect hasn’t appealed to me nearly as much as most people. Despite how long I’ve played this game, I can’t help, but be intrigued by the beautiful, yet lonely and melancholic experiences I have with this game when playing it on my own. The peaceful and serene nature that surrounds you throughout your adventures reinforced by the ambience of an mysterious and empty setting has always appealed to me for some odd reason. The experience is never tampered by the people around you and you get to enjoy certain moments at your own pace. Needless to say, I feel differently for the single player experience in some sense.
However, even for someone who enjoys playing this game solo, I still can never wash away the feeling of boredom as it gets to me every once in a while. I couldn’t agree more with your phrasing of the experience of Minecraft being stale overtime.
Nowadays, I find myself only occasionally coming back to Minecraft to see all of the changes and updates that were made while I was gone. As a result, the experience manages to be at least somewhat fresh as there are new items to play around with and new biomes to explore. For instance, recently, I’ve been building a survival treehouse in a mangrove biome, which is a biome I haven’t seen until recently. I’ve been enjoying the beautiful, lush scenery as well as the soothing and melancholic themes played in that biome. For me, it’s always been the small things in Minecraft that count; even if it’s something so simple as building a cozy hut or enjoying fishing while watching the sunset.
Aaannnnddd I’m just realizing that I’m rambling in the comments. Hopefully this gave a little more perspective. Minecraft is a very strange game as much as I enjoy it.
I tend to get bored in solo vanilla. The first world in _years_ that has kept my attention has been my (Bedrock) Flat world.
The progression is very different on a Flat world, giving me something to constantly work towards, even months in (I think it’s about 9 months old now). And, even though it’s a solo world, my main drive to keep playing is that I want to make something really cool and impressive to show my friends. So really, even on my solo world multiplayer is the main incentive to keep playing.
Yeah. No matter how much time you spend on a world like that you certainly will be able to relish in your own achievements which you SHOULD if you are progressing. (i also never really tried flat unless in creative). But especially with this game, it hits different when your friends are playing alongside you and your growing and accomplishing together.
@@kingofspills for sure- most of my favorite moments from Minecraft came from multiplayer.
I really like vanilla survival single player. I’m intrinsically motivated by the projects I do, so much that I forget I’m even alone at all. It’s the feeling that nobody, out of the millions of active users, plays the exact same game.
could not agree more tbh. One of the few positives for sure
8:02 I love how the piglins just decided to take a nice dive into the lava... and we all just watched as your stuff went with them... 😁👍
As I was making this video the pain of losing all of those things was embedded into the footage. I was audibly freaking out when the thing i was describing in the video was unfolding before my very eyes and then i stopped and was like: "THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT THE VIDEO IS ABOUT THIS IS THE MOST PAINFULLY GOOD FOOTAGE EVER"
For years, I never really understood how I loved Minecraft so much despite hating to play it. I spent hours watching people play together on small servers or whole SMPs, but playing it myself never really kept my attention for long. But then I played on a Realm with a handful of friends last year and suddenly, it was like everything just... came to life. Anything I ever built in solo couldn't compare to the tiny, miserable base I dug out for me and my friend, because while it wasn't anything impressive, alot of the small details were fond memories of that interaction between me and my friend. From the axolotl item frames that I'd keep rotating to annoy them, to the shrine they'd built for our lore that I came up with, it all held memories that actually mattered to me.
That friendgroup moved on without me, and even though I've really tried playing solo the same way I played with them, it just isn't the same. So now I'm back to hardly playing.
Hi! I'm still playing singleplayer vanilla YEARS after first starting with 1.4 and I'm not really interested in mods or anything. Maybe eventually I'd like some decor mods but rn vanilla is well beyond enough for me.
I was like a lot of older players and pretty disillisioned with Minecraft for a good bit but after giving hardcore a genuine shot around when the first half of caves and cliffs dropped it's completely rejuvinated my ability to play this game and made me realize what I enjoy in Minecraft and why standard singleplayer just didn't hold me nearly as much as it once did.
Playing hardcore made me realize that the missing piece was a shelf life. Because my hardcore world will INEVITABLY end in my death it makes me wanna keep going. I often boot up the world because I think about it and ask myself "If my silly little character died tomorrow and I could NEVER play on this world again, would I be proud of it?" and the answer is no thus making me wanna get on and keep building, keep improving my world to make it something I can be proud of and share with my friends.
Your bit about being alone is something I USED to understand. Old minecraft was SO lonely and it'd usually get to me and I'd stop playing but in my current world I've slowly started building weird lore around it? as well as documenting as MUCH as I can about the world in sets of written books that I change every 500 minecraft days. Like, when I first created a wall around my base there was this pig and sheep inside the walls I forgot about when I was clearing out the area. I didn't kill them cos "oh whatever I have plenty of food maybe I can use them for breeding or something". The pig was always by the door to my home and the sheep was in the more extended "yard" bit of the wall and I slowly got attached to them and eventually the sheep somehow got into the inner walls and started also sticking around the enterance of my base beside the pig, making me grow more weirdly attached to them and eventually building them a small little home and an altar in my library and they've been happily married since day 200 of my world.
I have PLENTY of stories like this. Like, there was this zombie savanna villager I cured to add to my trading hall that eventually gave me trades I didn't want and rather than kill him I decided "fuck it, there is a savanna village along the river, I'll just drop him off there with his bed & workstation + a house" so I did. 2 nights later I find a random savanna villager in my hall (all of them are jungle villagers or plains), lo and behold he had WALKED BACK. I like to imagine he did it just to fuck with my character and I was so astonished by his persurverance that he has his own dedicated home with a small garden and pond out back. His name is Dave and I like to imagine we exchange middle fingers anytime we see each other.
There was also this one Enderman that got himself stuck up on top of my farm. They were holding a block of red sand and they were there for DAYS irl. I eventually just saw them as a part of my world, a consistent friend as I walked past my farms. One day I was showing one of my friends them and I accidently looked a bit too high using my spyglass... I had to kill them. I had no choice for my mistake. I built them a small grave site beside my farm and anytime I find red sand around my base (enderman LOVE that shit for some reason) I add it to the growing pile around the grave, symoblic of an apology.
I can also understand that bit about wanting to share your world. This is why I make sure to take frequent screenshots and update my friends on my world's progress and tell whatever little stories happened most recently. I've find that is usually plenty for me. This is also the purpose of the books I write in my world so that whenever I die in the game I can share my world with my friends or whoever really and they can read the updates I made to the world AS I made them right down to whatever weird/misc. thing happened on days I felt were important enough to write down.
I never really had that in standard survival. This feeling of exclusivity, that my world is finite makes every little bit so much more special to me. It really makes my world feel like my own special canvas in that eventually I'll have to put down the brush so I might as well make this piece as beautiful as I can make it before I can't anymore. I'm a very creative person so being able to have an outlet like this that also can serve as self motivation is VERY useful to me. This is something that is lost whenever I play standard survival minecraft because I never HAVE to stop, there is not reason to put down the brush and that kinda makes the experience less special since I can ALWAYS come back to it regardless of what happens, like a never ending painting and mix that with my perfectionism aaaaand it can be a pretty defeating feeling. I also don't have to hold myself to any standard other than my own. I compare my builds to my other builds and my progress against myself rather than get caught up constantly comparing it to other peoples work.
I just wish they added something like Minecraft comes alive in the actual game so villagers looked like players and we could at least pretend there were others.
Honestly that is a great idea, but we gettin the armadillo instead XD
Try minecolonies mod
I do love a good Minecraft sunset. I used to screenshot them to show to others. Minecraft truly is best when shared.
Preaaach 🙏
I completly agree with your points other than the Nether Stuff
Made that world feel more alive and like, you not suppose to fight it
And with my consern about loosing my stuff, i just Pillar up 2 blocks, never worth fighting somthing with a chance of loosing a few hours
I don't even enchant my gear somtimes, Even just staying with stone tools because it works
Good point... haha Ill have to use your tip the next time I dive into Minecraft. The nether stuff is mostly a skill issue on my part but have heard the cries of others saying how much they hate piglins and hoglins and so i really vented out my frustrations there. As you saw i died to them still LOL. lost a Loyalty and unbreaking 3 trident trying to fight them off.
Honestly i feel the opposite, i cant be asked to build cool stuff in multiplayer and be motivated to play with other for longer than 2 weeks since eventually multiplayer worlds will die at some point. However ive been playing on a beta 1.6.6 world for 2 years now (which might i add is even more lonely than the modern game) its an over 12 year old version with no villagers, barely any mobs, no structures aside from dungeons.
Tried starting several "long term" worlds in different versions that never got played longer than 2 weeks, then one day i started up a world in beta 1.6.6 and played it ever since (though i played very on and off in the beginning) but eventually several months in i started playing a whole lot more, building up a massive base that im still working on.
My motivation to play probably comes from:
1. Absolutely loving beta 1.6.6 and old mc in general. I genuinely cant get enough of the aesthetic and old build style which inspires so much creativity in me, way more than modern minecraft.
2. The start i had, which was simple and super memorable, with also some crazy stuff happening like discovering cool worldgen and finding a gapple 1 month exactly after starting the world. (Gapples are stupid rare in old mc)
3. Being super inspired by probably my favorite youtuber Zylenox who got me into beta 1.6.6
Because of these, my world feels super special to me and i want the world to go on for as long as it can.
I may get burned out from time to time, but thatll happen with anything that goes on long enough.
Despite that ill always keep coming back to my world no matter what, it means too much to me to just simply quit.
That's what I like to hear!!! If you can keep your world constantly entertaining and if you hold onto precious memories and worlds like the one you have, the game will never get to the point of really wanting to quit. Also everything in moderation right? haha. Definitely space out playtime to extend the lifespan of the world and keep that motivation train going!
Side note: Didn't realize what gapples were but i just looked them up and now i feel dumb. LOOOLLLLL
Why beta 1.6.6 in particular? What is it that Beta 1.7 changed which made you choose Beta 1.6.6 instead?
@@cleverman383 The main reason is simply because of Zylenox, who played a beta 1.6.6 world a while back, around when I was getting into old mc. Watching the videos he made on that world really inspired me to play that specific version and stick to it. But aside from personal reasons there's also the sheep punch shear mechanic that I really like and plan to take advantage of for a farm.
@@GoryOregon26390 Ah ok, nice! How did you deal with the glitch that makes clay extremely rare?
@@cleverman383 I started the world in Beta 1.5_01 to get a bunch of clay, then like 9 months later updated to 1.6.6.
Whatever natural clay I get is stored away like valuables either from 1.5 or 1.6 chunks. For actual clay/bricks to build with ill dupe clay blocks with the portal glitch. It's kinda cheaty but atleast I don't have to expand my world size tenfold for clay + I still gotta break the blocks down and spend an ungodly amount of fuel to smelt it lol.
It's the only thing I'll ever dupe tho since it's glitched
I like the solo experience not as much as with others, but I often have no choice as my friends are often busy anyhow. I like playing on servers, but appreciate the personal pride I have in a world of my own. I keep a long list of fun projects, and when I get bored I do different worlds or other games, then come back feeling refreshed. It’s impressive to see how far I’ve come and the memories I’ve made in my solo survival worlds on Bedrock, Legacy, and Java.
Im a solo Minecraft player (on bedrock don't hate) i play on the same world since 1.17 (also that's when i started playing) and i find it enjoyable but without inspiration and friends it can be hard to keep going, but it's so amazing seeing the process you can make alone. It really depends on the person you are but for many being alone is amazing.
What annoys me about Minecraft multiplayer is tied together with the way my friendgroup plays.
Once a year or so, we (about 5 to 6 people) load up a new modpack with 50 to 100 mods or so and start playing. That is all fun and so but not everyone of us has the same ammount of time to spend on the game. We ususally start on the same evening. On the next day, some are still collecting basic materials while others have almost copleted a quite impressive house. About a week after starting the project, those who have responsibilities, school, a girlfriend or whatever are still working on their small, first house with maby diamond tools while others have build half a megastructure, automated every single item, have endgame gear that grants them wild magic, teleportation and invincibility and have explored half a dozen dimensions like the twilight forest, aether, ratlantis etc.
The bad thing about that is that everybody who can't play that much instantly looses any motivation to play further. They get spoilered about the other content, there is less to explore anymore since everything in a remotely accessible proximity is already looted and bosses are slain. And it is also just demotivating when other players are just out of reach further than others, in a game that was meant to be played together. It is like someone was using cheats. You can't really play together in a fun way like that. You can't help them achieve anything because they are so much more powerful than you and have basically infinite ressources. Some know all the mods in and out while others have no clue about anything. Some also just want to build, which is sadly hindered witth so many crazy mods that often make the game harder.
Because everyone is kind of playing for themselv on a multiplayer world, there is no actual reason to play on that multiplayer world anymore, espeicially considering that the project will end and all progress is lost anyways. In contrast to a vanilla singleplayer or even vanilla multiplayer world, which will always exist in future updates.
The most fun we had was a few years ago, where we just played vanilla multiplayer on our own server. We started with about 5 people, at the end there were about 25 on the server, about 8 playing at the same time. Friends of friends and working colleagues were joining all the time. It was mainly survival, but those who wanted could access creative mode for building, as long as they promised to not abuse it. It lasted for a few months. It was a blast and it felt like actually playing together. Noone was overpowered in a way that they were like a god / cheater. All were on the same plane, could healp each other.
And then there was last year, where we just played with the create mod (and twilight forest). It wasn't for everybody but for those few who played, it was really fun. Especially because noone knew the create modpack. But it lastes for only about a week because the host didn't want to loosen the rules. Survival only, which was fine but it is simply too exhausting to play survival only with modpacks where you have to learn a lot, if you also have a full time job, go to school and have responsibilities.
right. Once the responsibilities kick in its all over as well as other obligations. I used to meet up with my friends once a week and just play so that everyone is on the same page and we aren't straying too far from each other. I get the meme of the 2-week Minecraft binge fixation, but like once a week with people on an equal playing field is where its at.
I'm now playing in my Singleplayer world for 4 years. The thing is Minecraft is a game that mostly demands creativity. No person has infinite creativity and thats absolutely fine. In my opinion Singleplayer has a big advantage in comparison to Multiplayer. You can always come back to Singleplayer. Your world isn't running out or getting griefed or something like a server.
I also never had a problem with the early or midgame. Minecraft is really not a game that is too hard. It's actually the opposite. The game is much more easy now. How boring would the game be if nothing would attack you? For example in the Nether. The Nether is literally supposed to reflect hell, it would be weird if there are no enemies attacking you. It is also not unrealistic to maximize your equipment in the first hours of playing.
The biggest things that are holding you back are your own creativity and motivation. Also many people consider the feeling of being alone a good thing.
Mine is staying committed. I start a world, get resources, build a house, start a farm, and once I have what I need, I just lose interest.
I used to play Minecraft daily with my friends, but as we all grew up, that magic went away. I'd pick up the game sometimes but it just felt so boring and soulless with no-one to play it with. We never had the time to get together anymore. Our Realms subscriptions expired, our worlds were abandoned, we all moved on. I want to love Minecraft... but without friends to play it with me, that love just will never come back.
I had the same struggle, until I discovered the golden age minecraft community and started to play beta 1.7.3. Solo vanilla minecraft has never been more fun.
Yeeaaaaayuhhhh
my main issue is finding people who want to play minecraft with others. a lot of my friends play, but none of them care to join my server
Thats lame and im sorry that they wont join you. Im assuming they are the types to play on servers like mineplex or hypixel?
Now I want to make a "lets play" but instead of doing commentary I talk to myself using signs to highlight how lonely I truly am.
I got this in my recommended and was super surprised to see you only have 50 subscribers. This is a super good video!
Thank you so much!!! I really wanted to get all this off my chest too since I do play solo sometimes and find myself raging profusely or feeling the emptiness I mentioned.
Dude the quality of this video and commentary made me think you had thousands of subs already and I was shocked when I saw you dont even have 200. Yay, now I get to witness your channel blow up! 😄
☺☺☺ This comment made me feel all warm. Thank you! This means im doing something right! haha
My main grive with solo survival is knowing nobody will ever see the cool stuff I built in a solo world without having to go through the effort of having to livestream or record and edit a video or having to get my mom which probably has like no interest in a block game
aww just share it on social media and get some hits! do like an MTV cribs episode
I think my biggest struggle when it comes to single player is story. I've played on minecraft servers with my friends before where we develop and write entire stories to build characters around. that adds so much to my gameplay experience, and its part of why minecraft is great because its a sandbox, where you write your own story. however, the problem with my in single player is that I eventually run out of story to write. I try to make the world around me mysterious and full of stories, but it can only go so far when you're the only sentient player who can write and tell these stories. I will still play survival single player, but it feels like something is off when I'm not partaking in some tale of friends fight wars against each other, or towns uniting against an undead or nether invasion. i think all I can do is try to make the story of my own world be something I have to uncover myself, and put the pieces together. minecraft is a game of story that isn't set, but you can set it yourself.
Awesome video!
That "Ok now what?" Is something that really hurts me, Like there is so much I want to do but I never got around to it. Why? I don't have the motivation to get this plan done. No one is gonna see it and who am I gonna show? No one because who's gonna care about a build which took forever in a solo world?
Exactly! I always felt like my creativity is pointless if no one was sharing it with me. The main thing that demotivates me to play single player minecraft is just constantly needing to gather food or resources and also the amount of time it takes to go exploring and then going all the way back home. At that point you'd say to go into creative mode, but it just doesn't feel right to have all the resources at hand either. It would be like working on some awesome art on photoshop but then having no one truly see it. That's just how I personally view it.
RIGHT!!! EXACTLY!!!
I enjoy solo gameplay, I have my builders blocks now and then but in the end I still enjoy single player, been playing in the same SSP since 2015. Maybe the reason I grew up in the 90's without multiplayer games all around is also a reason? Age of Empires and Simcity where great playing 'solo' as well. I tried SMP's but with all the drama and resets I rather spend my time in single player having full control over gameplay.
I guess we're just old now. Excellent video though. I absolutely loved how you explained this. It applies to so much stuff in life.
it really does. Minecraft is a very colorful version of real life to me, though theres things about Mc i love more than IRL, and things irl i wouldnt trade for the world.
It's pretty nice that someone else knows the plans of singleplayer becuase my account isn't signed in so I can't join any multiplayer servers so I'm pretty lonely in minecraft
Aw man. I'm sorry that is beyond unfortunate. Remember despite what i said it can be fun alone. I must admit tho, playing with friends was the game changer for me. Last time i really deep dove into a solo world for more than like 5 hours was on a very long trip. Played at the airport and on the plane. couldn't' find a stronghold sadly but thats the point i ended on.
I've been playing minecraft since i was a teenager, but now, i can't play it anymore. There's nothing that motivates me to keep playing the game. I think i just grew up.
Especially with all the pressures of a job and less time spent with friends i certainly dont blame you. Life gets real busy and it catches up quick. Just keep striving to have fun whether its Minecraft or not
maybe you already knew that, but hoglins are scared of blue mushrooms. If you have one in your hotbar at all times when in a crimson forest, the hoglins are no problem at all. Just place it when you're attacked and you will be fine
I actually had no idea ab this. You have saved me many Minecraft deaths this day!
My biggest struggle is that I like to build farms. I'm a technical player. Wtf am I going to do with a shulker full of beacons by myself though? I think it's because I'm an old lady mom, I like to set things up so that everyone can have unlimited diamond armor and tools and beacons and blocks, and when there's no one to share with, it's lonely and sad.
In a sense, I play minecraft solo, but also not.
Im a duels player, and the fun I have in minrcraft is improving my pvp. I dont play with friends. Although other players are around me, it still feels lonely. Also, because I primarily play on spanish servers where there is a language barrier, idk what anyone is saying, so in a sense, it's solo.
My enjoyment comes from improving my skills to their absolute limits, and from just playing the game itself. So there really is no end to the fun!
That being said, however you play the game, have fun in PLAYING the game! Enjoy the small things, like harvisting wood, mining, farming, and whatever else you might do. Chill out and listen to the soundtrack while you do it. There is no winning or losing minecraft. You just play.
Anyways, cool video. I enjoyed. 👍
I agree with your points, don't stress yourself out from thinking about not "progressing" fast enough as some ytbers. Just chill and play the game slowly if that's what's for you
@@TypicalXDYT factual
I've always (for 10 years I've been into the game) played Minecraft solo as I don't have any friends to play the game with and playing on a server actually frustrates me with overwhelming amount of people with everything that's going on and the internal feeling that you're always kinda behind a schedule that doesn't really exist but you still see it as a virtual threat of being left behind the players. The latter thing is more of an adult isssue though when you just don't have as much time as kids (like an hour a day at best) and can't enjoy the game to the fullest due to your schedule being too tight. And it just ruins the fun so so much. That's why I would prefer to play Minecraft in a more cooperative way on a local server with just like up to 5-6 people at a time at best where you just enjoy conquering the world together, but I just don't have any.
So yeah, I'm kinda just... used to being solo and I don't really care anymore.
True, i feel so awkward when something new comes out and i have to ask for help. The time does wear thin as we grow up but it makes us appreciate that 1 hour even more than we did before. My friends and I occasionally play and he has farms galore and im just over here building my 5x5 cobble house. LOL
@@kingofspills well yeah, I agree on that :) Especially considering I'm the one who tends to build autofarms for the whole server so that no one needs to worry about essential resources :)
playing minecraft by myself has always been lacking a lot of interest from me, i say minecraft i mean both vanilla and modded nowadays it's gotten so bad i can't touch vanilla anymore i just play modded and the problem i run into is the lack of things i have to do outside of it, minecraft itself just does not have enough by itself to keep me satisfied when it's just me, i don't have many who enjoy the game the same way i do and my only options outside of minecraft is to sit around or draw, you've really hit me hard with this video and well i consider that a good thing, i see someone who has the same problem as me wich really makes me feel reassured to know I'm not the only one.
This is what vanilla Minecraft is all about. It’s fun to gather the resources while listening to the nostalgic soundtrack of Minecraft. On servers, you can ask your friends for recourses or just buy them in economy servers. And also, it is hard to play with other human players. You have to worry about many things like being griefed, being betrayed, getting banned, etc. You also have to worry about moderators watching your every move. It’s way easier to just play regular solo survival Minecraft on your own having less worries and problems.
I'm playing a hardcore single world rn, and the thing that helps me a lot being alone is making my own story, having lore to my world, even if I don't show anyone, also just slowing down. Like get diamond armor before going to the nether. But that's just me
Awesome video! I thought of an idea, maybe make a video on things we all used to build as kids playing minecraft? I personally vividly remember building barely functioning waterslides, crappy pixel art, houses made of lapis, gold, etc.
THAT IS AN AMAZING IDEA AND I WILL REMEMBER THIS COMMENT WHEN I MAKE THAT VIDEO. THATS NOT AN IF THATS A WHEN. I will certainly do my best to give it justice.
The water slides sent me. I wish we could build water slides that worked. I mean in Minecraft XBOX 360 I used to build, a whole futuristic city solo and then a suburban town with a pizza parlor, arcade, movie theater! All the good stuff. Man those were great times! I loved grinding!
@@victory_concepts i mean, with boats we kind of can right? But I remember back in Pocket Edition there were no boats and id just make it for the player lol. Also i remember when they finally added rails and minecarts to PE, i was building rollercoasters right away lol
Yes. Your right! I think roller coasters are way more effecient you go down at really high speeds the only down side is, water destroys your momentum and your railroads. So yes have fun with it :)@@Joelija
Am I bored of Minecraft as someone who's only a solo vanilla survival player? No. Not at all. I recently created a new survival world since my old one was being held together by toothpicks, duct tape, and prayers. (The End dimension had gotten completely deleted and it was raining in the Nether at one point. Yes actual rain. It wasn't that visual loading glitch. It was genuinely raining).
And now my motivation to play is pretty high right now. Of course I'll get burnt out eventually. However, that's natural and I'll take a break and then I'll come back. Vanilla solo survival is a marathon not a sprint. You're in it for the long term. I'm here to see my world grow over the next 1, 5, and 10 plus years. I don't need to be constantly playing Minecraft when I give myself a timeframe that's that long.
You my good sir have the exact right mindset to keep solo playing fun. That's the spirit and keep making the game fun as much as you can! I know im always ready to change the way i play when i need to
great vid! even if I have only watched the first part I know you will be able to grow to be a great content creator
also congrats on 70 subs!
Thank you and that means the world to me!!
For me personally, I feel that what I really miss out on are the plugins and other mods, and just the way minecraft operates in a single player world vs how a multiplayer world operates. I got very used to a map that always is running, that I can leave things going on and logoff. Tbh most the time I am playing alone either on 1.20.1 private hybrid forge plugin server or the purpur plugin only server that I also switch too to avoid burnout. the latter server I keep up to date, the other hybrid arclight server is gonna stay as is for the most part unless I get ambisious. I do have friends seldomly who come on to play, but I consider it to be single-multi-player servers. I miss the community, but I feel like its died off over the years as I get older and others get into other games and I just play MC. Its sad kinda sometimes, but its a game I just cant give up. I used to run public stuff but with all the red tape and hacks and suff going around, I dont wanna deal with the hassle of trying to stop that. So just private servers and maybe the occasional visitor for now.
Yeah i hear ya, I wouldn't risk those servers dying cuz of those dangers. Nothing wrong with playing Singleplayer and keeping it fresh either. Even if the server you play on is a single- multiplayer server its still nice when your friends are there with you thats for sure
"Are you still having fun in MC as a solo vanila player?"
Yes.
"MC makes me feel like I'm alone on a deserted island" - that's the point! Feeling that you're all alone in this world and you'll be the first human that descovers all the temples and dungeons - that's the real feel of exploration and adventure. And then you'll rebuild the world as you want!
I played on servers in the past and hated it more often then enjoyed. Like.. I found this anciend jungle temple! Gonna avoid the traps and solve the puzzle... ah, no, someone alredy broke the wall... Oh, look, the village! I'm gonna rebuild it and protect from raids... oh, somebudy killed everyone and exploded half of the houses... Wow, beautiful mountain, I'll build a nice castle there! oh.. it's full of random pillars and dirt shacks that ruin the view.
Maybe I would love to play MP if I found some nice wholesome community like Hermitcraft, but open servers - nope. Those random players just ruin my game expirience.
The thing is - MC is not Call of Duty, or God of War, or the Witcher - it's not the game that has strict goals that you need to beat. You have to find you own goals, it's all about your imagination, like playing in your room as a kid, with all your toy soldiers, cars and Lego - you can make your own stories with them.
I guess I'm just a loner, I enjoy being alone both in the games and IRL. That's why one of my favourite games of all time is the first Tomb Raider (the one from 1996) - it's famous for its sence of isolation.
It's purpose.
The biggest struggle in Minecraft is the struggle with purpose. All the worlds are different, yet the same. So why explore? Why are you doing anything in Minecraft?
I had a world that I only played once every 1 or 2 months in, and I had diamond armor, had fought the wither, and... I didn't know what I wanted to do. I tried to challenge myself to collect all ores to set up a giant vault. Never got around to the vault, but almost got all ores. I was mining out an small river biome in my mushroom island to stop spawns. I was on an island and I struggled to figure out what I wanted to do all the time. Decision paralysis: I had so much I could do, I didn't even know where to start.
This is why people do challenges. Have you watched ibxtoycat? Over the years, he's come up with countless wacky ideas to attempt in survival, and plenty of them are interesting enough to keep one engaged, so it's inspired me often to just try some wacky concept or idea of a build or playstyle.
As for loneliness, I used to hate that. I always sought out people to play because I never got to play socially. Eventually I got used to playing alone. I now prefer it, except for horror game, it's fun to watch reactions. I've only gotten used to interacting with people other than family in the last few years, so social stuff in games feels tense and kind of awkward to me. Games feel most fun when I'm figuring out stuff.
Also YES, BACKUPS. I lost my first world on my ipad when that broke. Same for my iphone. I had a 2-3 year old survival world on my laptop... and that ended up having a hard drive malfuntion that deleted everything. So I'm starting anew. I've made a new world only days ago.
Inspired by challenges of all kinds, I'm trying to play in a very specific way, with a strict ruleset I came up with and tested bit by bit in my old world and on a server. I want to feel myself progress, to chip my way towards a goal, in a silly progression system of my own making(but entirely in vanilla). Because that's my definition of fun. I just twisted minecraft into becoming a game I wanted to play. So, my system runs on a few things:
-Gamerule playerssleepingpercentage at 101%, meaning I cannot skip the night.
-On each "tier", I cannot collect items of further tiers.
-No optimized farms.
-Death to all villagers
-I play at least 1 day(20 minutes) everyday.
That's the core of it.
The tiers, however, have a bit more to them.
To fill a tier, I need to get a stack of all items of the tier(with exceptions for excessively rare items). Once the tier is complete, I make a build to commemorate its completion and move on to the next, having new options for crafting and mining.
Example: the "IT'S F***ING RAW(MATERIALS)" tier. I need to collect all the soil blocks: dirt, gravel, sand, red sand, clay balls, rooted dirt, moss, mud, muddy mangrove root, 1 grass block, 1 podzol, 1 mycellium. as well as all basic hostile and passive mob drops in the overworld(guardians and warden excluded). aka, all the raw materials
The final twist? Crafting is not permitted, as access to crafting is the reward of this tier's completion. All of that, I have to do without tools, without armor. And night is unskippable.
Currently, I'm still on that tier, but in just a few days, I've made a lot of progress: I found the best strat for this tier: wolves. It makes getting 64 bones and 64 arrows a lot easier. Helps tremendously in fighting endermen too. Also I no longer need to consume most of my hunger hunting a few cows or pigs only to temporarily regain it, 1 hit will sick the dogs onto my targets! It's this kind of troubleshooting that I look forwards to figuring out. I've also come up with a strat to kill creepers.
It's fun, in a way minecraft has not been in a long time. I think I like the aspect of self-determination: that this is my idea, that I developed, that I'm figuring out how to accomplish.
You said what's on the mind of almost every singleplayer folk. I used to play a lot with my friends, until college came and it became very difficult to find free time or simply be willing to spend time ingame. After a while I tried to create a map just me, and... basically what you pointed out happened, all the fatigue of having the weight of the entire world on you made the game very mechanical. Lately I've been trying to play the game driven by silly interests, like an army of bees or just spreading cherry trees and pathways around, and this has helped me a lot to enjoy the solitude, I hope it stays like this for a long time, or until a friend has a more flexible schedule. (ps: playing while listening to music or a podcast is wonderful, I recommend it)
I usually listen to a playlist of like background music, no lyrics or anything but podcasts I would be sure to give a try. Good to hear that im not alone in this massive boat of Singleplayer loneliness. Interest in the funny stuff, new exploration/ content and practice for multiplayer drives to Singleplayer as of now. But other than that im hoppin on with the bois.
the thing I hate about solo minecraft is your work means nothing since only you can see it so I get no motivation to do anything so I either start a youtube channel or play with friends so I just dream of playing minecraft instead
This actually teaches you a lesson about life. If you have everything that you want in your hands, or if you stay at your comfort zone, you just get stuck. Not being able to do anything because you are too bored. Life is Minecraft
I have no motivation to play on my own. When i play with my friends every once and a while i get way more done. I have never had a good survival world on my own. I played with my uncle. He was the first world i played survival in. I actually introduced him to the game but for a while he knew more then I did. He then got promoted at his job and became very busy and then had 3 kids we have only played like 2-3 times in the past 4 years.
These things always happen, which is why i wish i know the good times at the moment and i don't have to realize them when its too late
loneliness or drama. Started playing on an Android tablet because of long overseas flights and boredom. Also loved Lego! Still have all my sets even though I haven't played much with them. Joined a few realms over the years but it always ends the same with people griefing or getting in pointless arguments over stupid things.
Yeah and that usually ruins those realms experiences. Thats why some definitely prefer solo or stop playing the game
I started playing back in alpha, 13 years ago before the Nether and sprinting was a thing, I never really enjoyed playing on servers. And now that I am in my 30s I doubt I could relate to the other players who are probably a good generation or two younger than me. I still play fairly regularly with short breaks occasionally and when it ever feels stale there is nothing wrong with finding a modpack to mess around with for a bit but I always find myself coming back to my vanilla worlds.
There is something so rewarding about having a world that you have been slowly working on for years even if the progress is slow as it is yours where as on servers they will reset the world/builds atleast once a year for performance and resource reasons as eventually a world will become too large or if it has a border too cramped.
Maybe it is different if you have a group of friends and play on a dedicated server with just yourselves, but playing on public servers was never really enjoyable for me.
I feel this is more an issue of extroversion vs introversion. For me mining in my world, or just sitting on my house starring at the minecraft sunset listening to that nostalgic as fuck music feels cozy and relaxing to me not lonely. Then again I am the kind of guy that will go out for a walk in the bush alone, find a log and just sit there listening to the nature around me, being still and fading into the environment until the animals start getting confident enough to come out of where they were hiding. It's very much a personality thing rather than a game issue.
I have to say, I love solo playing and just pottering about my world exploring and building but there are times when I find the most amazing area, quirky villages or something like a diamond vein and I have no one to share that with!
YES EXACTLY. I have honestly been taking to the internet for that kind of stuff if i can't show anyone. just like goin tor/minecraft and posting has been somethingi have been recommended to do recently
That tone of voice that you descended to when you were talking about dealing with *certain mobs*... that's such a mood lol
And overall I definitely agree with you about the loneliness part. Minecraft is best experienced when you have some sort of community around you to make the world a truly living one - one that requires fellow sapience.
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dude I relate to this SO HARD!
Yeah, solo Minecraft is kinda boring nowadays. I'll start a new world and ill have an idea for a base. run around getting recourses while building my base, and when I'm done ill just log off because I don't know what else to do. Not only that I'll get a full set of iron armor in like 15-25 minutes. It's just pretty boring playing by yourself. When you're with friends you have suggestions and directions on where to go, but because Minecraft doesn't have a "real" ending you have to keep creating goals for yourself. Once you run out of things to pursue you just quit. In order for me and my friends to have fun on Minecraft again and play a world for more than an hour we had to add 4 different mod packs to keep the game different. I kinda wrote the bible out but that was just a thought that I had in my head. Have a great day/night
My opinion regarding this situation has been:
1)When there is enough new content to explore, playing solo is a lot more fulfilling for me. Most of my mc friends have sorta short attention spans and so keep deviating (and only one that doesn't is just a beach lol *lighthearted*) which keeps throwing me off.
I would say around to the point where I could pretty easily beat the ender dragon,had knowledge about all good farms and got into ocean temple decoration, i enjoyed playing solo. Afterwards, i got into modpacks and even those, atleast the good ones, i played solo and enjoyed.
But you definitely do burnout on solo play.
2)Multiplayer on the other hand is much harder for me to burnout from. As long as there are friends online playing, you feel like keep pushing further too. There's a lot of somewhat boring stuff like mining in mc which becomes easier to do when someone helps and building stuff together is fun too as you all throw different ideas on the wall.
It might just be that I am burnt out on mc in general. I have played A LOT of it now in and after covid. Playing NMS right now.
Will get back to it if I see enough content. Preferably with my friends lol.
My biggest struggle is I'm not as creative and carefree as I was years ago. I remember I used to built random junk on my old creative world just because my kid brain thought of doing it. Now, my rapidly aged brain can't come up an idea of anything to build just for the sake of building something out of a spontaneous idea
While it's true, that single player vanilla feels lonely, it made me able to grasp the extent of my chronical depressions irl.
Day after day i get up, alone, unable to get out due to my autoimmune disease, with no friends visiting, because i never had any, while being disconnected from my abusive family.
Every day i do feel the numbness of continuous death, yet at the end of the day, i keep waking up in my bed, exhausted, grieving, without seeing any reason to get up, because i know I'll keep dying again and loose all my hard work done.
Then there's the nether, the outside hell, where people haunt me, because being trans is apparently a deadly ideology that must be getting rid off, comparable to the piglins and zombie piglins hunting you, you escape through the portal into the safety zone, with colorful flowers in your own castle of solitude, waiting for the day the world will turn into hardcore, you die, and then the world will forever be forgotten..
For me, single-player vanilla is less of a representation but rather manifestation of my circumstances. I just am.
Empty, lonely, alone, weak, dead.
What gives all the resources if there's no one to share with? No goal to aim for? No one to have fun with?
My biggest struggle with singleplayer Minecraft is an extreme lack of motivation and reason. Like why should I bother creating huge things if I'm going to be the only seeing what I've built. I definitely agree with you though the intense loneliness of Singleplayer Minecraft is unbelievably strong. I'm hoping Hytale comes out soon and creates a new fun experience like Minecraft that I can enjoy with friends. As of now Minecraft is almost unplayable without mods for me.
Yeah. Like i said in the vid, if you thoroughly enjoy minecraft, absolutley keep optimizing ways to enjoy the game. A weird recommendation i have for you is hop on a trend/ a trending server that isnt pay to win ofc. You culd also join small servers that will give you a strong sense of community which also makes the game fun.
I’ve mostly played solo vanilla at least once a week since 2011. And honestly I’ve never gotten tired of it. Not sure why but it’s honestly more fun to me playing solo than with others.
my personal issue with solo survival is that well, I just don't have the time, motivation and attention span for it anymore. When I do get that rare motivation and attention for it my brain simply gets overwhelmed with everything that it thinks of, coming up with grand future plans for my world to the point I end up deciding to start a whole new world in order to stop those overwhelming plans...then the cycle continues. So after getting a new laptop I decided "Aight, I'm gonna have 1 survival world and that's it, see how far I actually get" to try and break that cycle but I haven't touched it since the second day of playing on it.
Then when an update comes out I hop on to yet another new world see everything first hand only to feel very overwhelmed yet underwhelmed at the same time, overwhelmed at the possibilities, but underwhelmed due to there not being a lot to actually explore or do once the excitement dies down which tends to happen within an hour... kinda makes me wish they gave more time between updates to let us breath with the update for longer, which also allows them to make bigger updates that will keep our attention for longer.
I actually like solo survival... When it's constantly forcing me to keep playing through the game.
Mainly with mods like the temperature mod mixed with seasons. Getting a little home with some farm and a bed is not cutting it anymore, now I gotta also prepare for winter, after that I gotta prepare for summer.
Things like that make the game more fun imo, that drive to just secure your survival is what got me interested at first but mobs became so easy to avoid it kind of loses that charm quick.
Great video
Who plays vanilla, more than a few worlds? Modded is where it's at, especially with questing and/or a story line.
Regarding old worlds: I don't know how Bedrock works, but Java keeps all your worlds unless you intentionally delete them. You have to name each when you create it, and you can keep as many as you have hard drive for. When you move to a new computer, you can take those files with you. You can still play them, because you can always get the old versions in Java.
My biggest struggle:
Finding a reason to stay on a new world I loaded op recently just to try the new stuff...
The true vanilla experience is the bane of my existence, I hate the feeling of having to either be careful all the time or risk dying, I think I'd be almost better off playing hardcore because the result is the same almost every time, I literally just quit. Playing with friends I don't get that tho, even if I do lose my precious stuff, I can just, get it again, because the feeling of playing with someone and being able to share experiences with them is far too good to just give up because of some items I can quickly re-attain
heres how it always goes with singleplay
-start
-build house
-get iron
-get diamonds
-die
-cry
99% Of my time playing Minecraft was small survival servers with a handful of friends. So I'm currently enjoying single player right now. Only issue is now I have to be the one to build my villagers a proper hall, they're all just lined up on my front lawn currently
One of the major differences in playstyle for me is just keeping up with others. I always just do whatever I naturally need, but when I'm playing on a server it usually inspires me to build way bigger bases and hoard excessive amounts of minerals. On single player I still do those things, but I never bite off more than I can chew or becoming boringly rich.
Sometimes I'll find my world to be too ugly and practical, but I don't have the motivation to be creative with a renovation project. So I just let it be ugly while I grind for materials, but then eventually the motivation hits and I end up wasting a few hours on a project. I think there's definitely something to be said about playing on your own without needing to impress anyone, It doesn't feel lonely when it stays fulfilling. I have a whole list of stuff I want to do, I'm putting too much time into this game and yet I don't have enough of it!
Also on a server with a handful of people, those people will often have multiple farms and/or projects they share, essentially removing a lot of tasks which otherwise you have to do yourself, which I found definitely lowered my motivation pretty quick on some servers. The last couple servers I was part of, we would stop playing after like 2 weeks, so I feel like the grass is always greener
I played on my solo smp for 2 years man it felt so lonely
I play with my nephew now and its so much better
Oh im sure, always better playing with someone you care about. It makes the world a difference when you have all that land established and its just you vs others that can actually appreciate it.
I played with my uncle. He was the first world i played survival in. I actually introduced him to the game but for a while he knew more then I did. He then got promoted at his job and became very busy and then had 3 kids we have only played like 2-3 times in the past 4 years.
As a solo player, losing your stuff in lava is nothing compared to planning to log in one day and be unable to enter your world that you spent so long in. I really enjoy this game solo but the burnout of just losing everything in an instant...It isn't fun. Even backing up the world can cause the game to crash. Isn't fun spending months on building your home, exploring the Nether, exploring Ancient Cities and grinding out for God armour to face the dragon only to lose it all.
Yep and thats why I have a way smaller drive to play solo. I usually take my longest breaks when I lose all of my stuff but if my whole world is gone? sheesh Im hoppin back on the next time i get that random once a year Minecraft rush. I hope you are able to still at least have fun with the game
@@kingofspills Having fun after losing three worlds to similar fates is probably the hardest thing. And that's compared to other games that aren't fun! First world just randomly vanished back on the PS3 days overnight. Second was when PS4 was converted to Bedrock and then the recent being unable to even load into the world. Find peace in being alone and Minecraft helps with feeling more at peace but losing everything shatters that in an instant.
@@Fenyxclips yeah. i usually keep my Singleplayer adventures to a minimum nowadays unless im practicing for something i wanna build or do. I save all the challenges nowadays for the multiplayer world im in. I am also sorry to hear of the PS3 and 4 tragedy. For me that woulda been it unless someone forcefully dragged me back to play haha
@@kingofspills Thinking of moving to java one day in hopes of no longer suffering world losses. Plus the mods. Swear there's a pattern even. Recent was also on the PS5 system. Always play Survival as the challenge is nice and always somehow manage to survive the impossible. Then die to my own stupidity.
Ngl i'm kind of on the other end of the fence here. It's still lots of fun for me.
I think this is more that you're a very socially minded person is all, which is totally cool and valid but some people aren't.
I think the way you said "All alone!" at 6:22 exemplifies the difference.
Yes, I will be doing that, and I will be super alone, but that doesn't really bother me as much as it seems it does you.
Again i don't think that's super a bad thing, on either part. I just think that's a source of a lot of the feeling you're getting here.
I hope you have lots of fun on servers and in modded! :D (Ik I do lol when i'm in the mood for it.)
Pre-essay: This is coming from someone who has solely played Single Player Vanilla Survival for over 10 years and still to this day.
Eversince I picked up Minecraft as a kid, I was mainly a Single Player Vanilla Survival player. Sometimes I would be on with friends playing on highschool LAN, busted laptops with cracked versions of Minecraft, but majority of the time, I stayed on Single Player Vanilla Survival. I just found it peaceful as a place to collect and build, like a room where I can be alone with my thoughts.
The biggest challenge was definitely time. As a kid, I did not have a lot of time for video games, the small times that I did have, I would much rather spend it alone because I would be so devoid of energy to deal with anything but Vanilla Minecraft. Plus, seeing all the great builds people were doing on the internet was great, but it pushed me away from the game due to imposter syndrome and knowing I could not invest that much time for builds like that. Which is why I would always be on Survival Worlds for about a year before burning out and moving on to other games or hobbies.
Fast forward to today, I started a new Single Player Survival world in January 2022 when 1.18 first came out. Almost two years later and after starting a UA-cam channel, I am still on that same world, continuing to build, learn and having more fun than ever. I've enjoyed Single Player Minecraft for over 10 years and that hasn't stopped, and there are three points to this.
1) I went into that world with zero expectations. No pre-planned builds, no existing ideas, nothing, just wanting to enjoy all of Minecraft. I've been taking things rather slow that to this day, there are still tonnes of ideas and houses to build, farms and mechanics to test, biomes and landscapes to explore. Even with a "Megabase", I still have plans to expand upon that. Your point of "It is just you and only you to build the world." inspires me to learn new build ideas, inspiration, redstone mechanics. Sure it would be nice if you could have a friend explain and do it for you, but wouldn't it be more fun if you learnt it and expand upon it yourself?
2) I want to focus of your point of "Losing all your items and starting again all alone sucks.". I did exactly that when I started my Survival Series of UA-cam. I rtelinquished all my previous gear, head out into the unknown with nothing, and started back from the beginning. It gave me a new perspective in the world, fresh ideas flowing with new landscapes to explore, also helped at a time when burnout was starting to creep in, just send it straight out of the comfort zone. Yes it does suck to lose all your items to lava, but that's inheritly Minecraft, just because it is easier to regather your items in an SMP, does not immediately deem Single Player Vanilla Survival awful. Challenging? Yes. Impossible? No.
3) I joined my first SMP this summer, which was also my first dive into modded Minecraft. I had a blast meeting new friends/creators and being able to share experiences together is amazing, the sense of community in an SMP is definitely a valid upside to playing Single Player, but there are some caveats. Firsty, due to my location, the only time when majority of my friends on the SMP would be online or down for collabs would be 3 in the morning, so if you are on SMPs, you're dammed if you aren't in EU or NA, which I like to call the PearlescentMoon experience.
Secondly and most importantly, now as a creator, I feel as though current day SMPs are trying way to hard to be the next HermitCraft or QSMP, and setting expectations unreasonably high kills many SMPs after a few months of trying too hard to be something. Fortunately, all the SMPs I've been a part of to this day have been amazing and I have made good friends after some of the SMPs properly ended. Ultimately, we aren't established creators, so we realistically cannot commit ourselves to reach for HermitCraft-esc levels without major time investment. SMPs in general are all about the relationships and memories we make with friends, the fame and recognition is nice, but we are all just here to have fun playing our favorite game.
SMPs for me are a good pairing with Single Player Survival. Because while I enjoy playing with friends, it gets exhausting to always be on, sometimes you need that alone time in a room, and that's Single Player Vanilla Survival for me. If I'm ever experiencing burnout from either one, I can go with the other.
To wrap things up, it was good to see the perspective on those who don't enjoy Single Player Vanilla Survival as someone who has only played exactly that for 10 plus years, and it was a really well put video with valid points.
For me, I still have many adventures to go on, more ideas to build, much to learn of Minecraft, I'm happy that even without an always active SMP, I can find comfort in Single Player Vanilla Survival.
It's like my own meditation.
THIS WAS AN AMAZING READ! and I am glad my perspectives were able to reach a hardcore single-player survivalist!! (not the gamemode, your dedication!!) this is why I want to follow this video up with reasons why it is amazing playing in survival solo (or creative/ modded/ etc.) Prob go with the vanilla theme first tho. I know theres people who have a server they spent years on and its important to talk about that too since im learning that theres way more single player(s) than i could have possibly imagined! I would like to say in your case though that I dont want you to be dissuaded from continuing your solo experience with these points. This is very much food for thought and i encourage you to continue on doing what makes you happy and enjoy minecraft the most! 😄
*has a minecraft hyperfixation* my goals are beyond your understanding
To be honest the only reason I play Vanilla is for nostalgia. If I add mods, that feeling goes away
Ive played solo vinila scince 2015 and i have enjoyed building a city, I never get bored because i always make goals for myselg
yeah and once the goals get to be too much its all over from there. what i like to do is make goals and complete them and then enjoy the fruits of the labor, then make more!
I have a world with artifacts, weapons and books of every map, mod pack and server I ever played.
It has lasted for 5 years It's my treasure and I wouldn't have it any other way
Amen.
What I like to do is set up a blaze farm, and then farm Chorus Fruits, so I can create end rods. End rods are such cool blocks.
I also play with Better End. Because I like to mod my Minecraft into Oblivion.
Oh yeah? hows your cpu feeling?
Side note I agree w/ you though haha, The end rods are a dope block. Im glad you are enjoying the mod
@@kingofspills My "Blaze Farm" is literally just me wearing diamond armor and murdering the Blazes to death manually lol.
I simply made it so that the blazes that spawn around the spawner come to me. It's not as efficient as other designs, but it's doing the job for me.
this might be more of an individual person-to-person thing but for me multiplayer is better because different people have different skills and things they like to do. for example one person can be really into mining while another person loves building, its nice to have someone that could fill in for you like that ig? as well as the sharing of knowledge! of course, you could just google "at what level does redstone show up?" but its probably faster easier and generally better to be able to ask someone else about it with the in-game chat or something :) hope that paragraph was understandable lol
My biggest struggle in Minecraft is lag playing on mobile btw
Nice job!
Thank You!!!
The struggle I have is lonliness too.
Yeah it really is just empty after all the hustle and bustle, cuz like you wanna share what you built with people but its just hard sometimes
Finally someone said it
I have this problem with basically any game, but its really hard for me to progress through a game as I get bored and decide "hey lets restart" and then get bored again so its just a endless cycle. like i really want to have a long term world but idk why but i just cant. A other game i want to progress through is disney dreamlight valley but after losing my progress, I just end up restarting and never reach where i was
I do that 24/7 and im sure so do others
My hardest struggles is keeping up with the FPS. Sometime when the game lags hard, that's what kills the game motivation to keep playing and then i end up playing another game
Yep, on my first cpu/ laptop i played minecraft on, aint no way the game was going to be salvagable haha. I was playing frame by frame but my pea brain didnt mind because i was like "ooh place block here" XD
@@kingofspills damn, this is remind me of the Nintendo switch version of Minecraft
I only ever play solo Vanilla, the challenge of being by yourself, finding diamonds, getting a house built and not dying, farming, dogs, golems etc is great. Not a big fan of mods as imo it takes away from the authenticity of it all
Yeah, that's really nothing to do in single player when you're done with your ideas You defeat every boss and You got everything but now what?
solo isn't the issue for me, it's my lack of understanding of how to build. I try to build but it starts to scare me when I start. Only building I like is ones that don't use structures.
Also been on same world for over 4-5 years, but not much to show for it (played few times a week). I not stopping, or lonely, just don't know what/how to build. I started on Wii U, now on xbox with same world thanks to bedrock. (also losing stuff/dying feels like a skill issue, no offense)
(Building is real way to have long-term joy in minecraft)
0:10 Yes, I definitely do! More than I could possibly have in any other way of playing it. Well I once played on my friends (kinda) RPG server, but... well if not for the story it has I wouldn't really enjoy it so much. And yet it still has some annoying features(or rather: annoying apriori limiting of basic vanilla functions). So in the end solo Minecraft is the most enjoyable.
Though I admit that it isn't an absolutely "pure vanilla", as I did add some tweak to it (though without any mods, and just my own simple datapack - which I don't even use long now... actually I'm still testing it) to make more enjoyable. But it doesn't really change gameplay.
And actually an adventure, parkour or scary/horror map (especially the latter) would definitely be worse. And speedrunnig would be even worse. That's outright killing the fun of the game (not to mention how ridiculous is the very idea of "beating Minecraft". And absolutely less worth my time.
I think the only reason i can play minecraft solo is because ive gotten used to never being able to play with my friends because they typically dont like the same things or games i like so i just learned to do things like play games on my own
playing with keep inventory is okay, at least you kind of value your time that way.
I honestly see no shame in being a time saver so hellll yeah its worth turning it on.
At some point i just know it's time to wait for the next big update and it's fine, i don't wish to play the same game all year long.
I’m the same way, I really only play if the new update comes out.