alt Hacker NewsMinecraft's early game is relatively boring. Empty busywork like punching trees, village raids and strip mining are vestigial gameplay loops that neither Mojang nor Microsoft had the confidence to fix.
I'd agree that they're a bad comparison though. Despite Notch's inspiration from DF, Minecraft has worse bosses, biomes, trading, mining, diplomacy, cooking, innkeeping and NPCs.
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solenoid0937 • yesterday at 9:21 PM
It depends what you mean by "early game." The first night cycle happens within minutes of starting and it's very interesting.
pavel_lishin • yesterday at 8:39 PM
It also has effectively zero physics. I still remember being annoyed at how water worked in Minecraft when playing with my kid, and the fact that trees don't collapse if you cut 'em down.
(Yes, yes, mods exist.)
Back in my day, villages weren't even in the game. My highschool classmates and I still found something compelling about it.