[2021] Tweets by Orteil42 on 06 Nov

regarding my recent "Minecraft is starved for content" comment: this is of course subjective but allow me to expand on what i meant. a little bit cliche but i'm going to use Terraria for comparison here - only distantly related but both games i immensely respect and love

Terraria has had an incredibly healthy update cycle, at times more than doubling the amount of content. nearly every major patch justifies starting a new world. with Minecraft i'll log in for 5 mins, go "oh neat. sea cucumbers huh", maybe cook some seaweed and that's about it

my personal experience is that i can have fun doing a full unmodded Terraria playthrough every time i dive back into it, whereas i simply cannot stand vanilla Minecraft for more than a few hours

my statement was not an absolute judgment and every player is different and gets different things out of different games. i'm just personally inclined to view most Minecraft updates as kind of... badly underwhelming, esp considering all the budget and dev time put into it

my favorite memories of Minecraft are modded - exploring new biomes, building factories, discovering magic systems etc. on its own it just doesn't feel like much to chew on. meanwhile i've only just recently gotten into Terraria mods and it's like cherries on top of a full cake

anyway Pam's Harvestcraft should be baseline as far as i'm concerned. end of statement

nice https://twitter.com/Toadsanime/status/1449050962149187584