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Anyone know how to play Minecraft?

I just bought it for my phone but I don't know what I'm doing. I'm wondering around then it go's dark and then these creepy monsters come out and throw things at me

I thought this was a kids game and meant to be easy

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DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

Minecraft is a sandbox game, which means it has no general purpose, no clear objective you need to discover everything yourself. My opinion is that it's crap when you play it alone, but with a friend or two it's a fun factory. The game isn't about being hard or easy, it has unlimited potential that is limited ONLY by your creativity and imagination, you can build all kinds of things there, I personally like building myself Castle/house hybrids with big rooms and several floors. Darkness is something you need to watch out for, at night skeleton archers, zombies and creepers (green things that explode when they come to you) will spawn and most of them will be burned by sunlight. What you can do against them is mine for iron and chop wood for trees, with enough iron you can make armor, weapons and a shield.

IndigoSavage · 22-25, F

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic did you build those?

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@IndigoSavage yep

Elessar · 26-30, M

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic SW needs a MC server.. Although you may get your stuff destroyed when you argue with someone about politics on here 😬 lol

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@Elessar nah I only play with friends

Elessar · 26-30, M

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic Same, or better I used to.

IndigoSavage · 22-25, F

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic how long did it take??

adorbz · 26-30, F

@Elessar omg we do need this 👀

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@IndigoSavage It depends, if you're using creative mode where you dont need to worry about resources and you know what you're doing about 20-30 minutes for me, if you're testing stuff out and making the design as you go it takes longer depending on how experienced you are, if you're in survival mode and you have to procure those blocks you place it will take hours. Also I play that on a computer, don't know how you'd manage on a phone

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@IndigoSavage

Mooncalf · 100+, M

@Elessar A SW MC server would be awesome.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic Meanwhile in my old server..

Elessar · 26-30, M

@Mooncalf Just mentally prepare to a lot of "MAGA" and pro-Trump builds lol

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@Elessar is that the original resource pack? I personally love the Dokucraft one, show me more things if you have shots of em

Elessar · 26-30, M

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic Yeah. Here we had a custom-built one when we played with shaders, because it added fancy stuff like depth and reflections. But otherwise we always played on vanilla textures. Unfortunately I don't remember where I've saved pics of our builds, that server was glorious.

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@Elessar finding screens is tricky, you need to dig in the AppData folders till you find the minecraft subfolders

Elessar · 26-30, M

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic I went in there, but apparently I've emptied that directory / backed up somewhere else that stuff last time I reinstalled Windows

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@Elessar That's a pity, I always enjoy seeing what others build, the person's style is like a fingerprint, almost in all cases it's unique for each one

Elessar · 26-30, M

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic Here you go:

(yep, this was both a pain to build and a pain to go get to the exit lol)

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@Elessar ooooooh daaaaaaamn thats niiice and the shaders are fancy as f*ck

IndigoSavage · 22-25, F

@Elessar wow, that's amazing!!!! I've able to build a itty bitty hut and I dont feel safe there because at night I can hear the monsters outside 😧

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@Elessar I have many others but unfortunately i didn't screen them

Elessar · 26-30, M

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic Ah we have built a throne room too somewhere, but didn't take pics lol

Elessar · 26-30, M

@IndigoSavage It takes time and practice. We all went through that, lol, I used to live in a 2x4 hole for quite a while

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@Elessar @IndigoSavage Yep, we all built wooden boxes with doors and called them houses. You'll need to practice a lot and eventually you'll discover your style and how to combine different blocks and how to create unique shapes. That's the beauty of minecraft, there is no table there you can make so you use a wooden fence and a wooden pressure plate to make it look like one.