Playing Minecraft for days on end brings out a childlike joy for them, reminding them of their lives at a much simpler and brighter time. While some of us have our next steps lined up, just as many are bleakly staring into an unplanned future, one without structure that holds a terrifying amount of possibilities. It’s better, but also exactly how they remember it being.Īs we sit on the precipice of leaving college for jobs or graduate school, Minecraft could be their way of coping. The various quality of life improvements minimize the game’s earlier flaws and affirm the nostalgic fantasy that it’s always played this well. The game is largely the same as it was when it launched, making it easy to hop back into after time away. Even with all these changes, the heart of Minecraft has not necessarily grown over time.
#DREAM MINECRAFT UPDATE#
Recently, the developers at Mojang have been adding more to the experience than ever the Nether Update and Minecraft Dungeons both arrived in 2020. Minecraft is getting on in years, its 13th birthday merely a few months out.
There’s the large possibility that they play the game out of a deep sense of nostalgia.
The end goal of killing the Ender Dragon seems like an afterthought they would much rather spend days molding the world into their favor just for kicks. Trips to the Nether are akin to grocery runs: explore while grabbing what you need and get out. They often spend hours in-game making little progress, instead focusing on harvesting and replotting their crops while making banal small talk together. Starting from nothing, it only takes a few hours for the group tower to be erected, followed soon after by massive farms, villager corrals, water elevators-if there’s a way to manipulate the game, they’re doing it.Įvery year, I wrack my brain for an explanation most of my housemates would rarely call themselves “gamers,” so how do they get enveloped in Minecraft so frequently? One housemate posits that it’s relaxing, that the game is so ingrained in their memories the act of playing becomes leisure. They play like seasoned veterans as their 13-year old muscle memory kicks in, and the internet informs them of any updated content that may have cropped up in their absence. I’ve never been a particular fan of Minecraft the game felt a bit like building LEGO without a guide to me, so I often get lost when trying to follow what they’re doing.
#DREAM MINECRAFT MOVIE#
Classwork, group movie nights, even sports all get put on the backburner during their quest to not only completely dominate the Ender Dragon but also break the game while getting there. For about a month, this collection of college students revert back to middle schoolers as the game becomes their raison d’être. My housemates have begun their newest Minecraft phase.Īlthough it was the recent “Caves and Cliffs” update that attracted them this year, a return to Minecraft has been an annual occurrence in my house. Locked away from the clicking and clacking in my room, I hear a subdued “goddamn creeper!” and groan. It pairs nicely with the endless babbling of five keyboards that permeates through our shoddy, thin walls and floors, the echoes looping through the Discord call connecting people only a floor apart. His excuse is common within my house lately. “I would’ve let them in, but I was ripping Minecraft, so…” “Some girls came by to check out the house,” my housemate tells me.
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