Xylia
Terrarian
Terraria always keeps saying "Also try Minecraft!" and I've heard everybody talking about Minecraft, for years and I finally, within the past few months, decided to buy the game and give it a go.
I've put in maybe 20 or so hours into the game, and I've also browsed the wiki some, and honestly... I can't figure out what I'm actually expected to do.
I got to the point where I'm wearing full iron armor, using all iron tools, I have a base (however basic, but functional) built, I have a bed to sleep in, it's safe from monsters, etc. I have several stacks of coal, a couple stacks of iron bars, almost a full stack of gold, a few stacks of redstone powder, I even made a twice-zoomed out map, and....
I can't figure out what else I'm supposed to do.
I know about trading with villagers, but ooof. That seems like a grind that would take hundreds of hours to complete so I kinda gave up on that. I went to the wiki and looked up what seemed like the easiest, and the best I could find was using wheat or potatoes to get emeralds, but even if I did that... you gotta level the villagers up (some 16+ trades to get the first level!) to get anything decent.
I know that there's stuff having to do with enchanting, but IIRC that requires obsidian to make the table for that, and you can't mine obsidian without a diamond pickaxe.
I probably spent about 10+ hours trying to find diamonds, just tunnelling around in areas that give gold and redstone (and according to the wiki, Diamonds can theoretically spawn here too) and I've even went all the way down to the bedrock layer and only found a single vein of two diamonds, once.
So, I thought maybe I'd explore the world some.. after walking around in a featureless desert that had nothing but sand and sticks, after finding dozens of huge mountains that were similarly featureless, it leaves me to ask.... what am I missing here?
Is that all the game is?
I don't want to diss the game or anything, I mean, on a mechanical level, it's fun to play (though the arrow skeletons are way too annoying and you gotta turn destructive mob actions off to preserve your sanity, as well as keep inventory on death), but the huge swaths of featureless land makes the game seem so empty and bleak. I've found a couple villages, and those are neat... but you gotta be careful or the villagers get killed off (another reason I don't want to level them, it'd stink to put all that work and some zombie eats the villager without you knowing about it).
Or is it one of those games like Starbound where you absolutely must mod it to get any kind of decent experience out of it?
I've put in maybe 20 or so hours into the game, and I've also browsed the wiki some, and honestly... I can't figure out what I'm actually expected to do.
I got to the point where I'm wearing full iron armor, using all iron tools, I have a base (however basic, but functional) built, I have a bed to sleep in, it's safe from monsters, etc. I have several stacks of coal, a couple stacks of iron bars, almost a full stack of gold, a few stacks of redstone powder, I even made a twice-zoomed out map, and....
I can't figure out what else I'm supposed to do.
I know about trading with villagers, but ooof. That seems like a grind that would take hundreds of hours to complete so I kinda gave up on that. I went to the wiki and looked up what seemed like the easiest, and the best I could find was using wheat or potatoes to get emeralds, but even if I did that... you gotta level the villagers up (some 16+ trades to get the first level!) to get anything decent.
I know that there's stuff having to do with enchanting, but IIRC that requires obsidian to make the table for that, and you can't mine obsidian without a diamond pickaxe.
I probably spent about 10+ hours trying to find diamonds, just tunnelling around in areas that give gold and redstone (and according to the wiki, Diamonds can theoretically spawn here too) and I've even went all the way down to the bedrock layer and only found a single vein of two diamonds, once.
So, I thought maybe I'd explore the world some.. after walking around in a featureless desert that had nothing but sand and sticks, after finding dozens of huge mountains that were similarly featureless, it leaves me to ask.... what am I missing here?
Is that all the game is?
I don't want to diss the game or anything, I mean, on a mechanical level, it's fun to play (though the arrow skeletons are way too annoying and you gotta turn destructive mob actions off to preserve your sanity, as well as keep inventory on death), but the huge swaths of featureless land makes the game seem so empty and bleak. I've found a couple villages, and those are neat... but you gotta be careful or the villagers get killed off (another reason I don't want to level them, it'd stink to put all that work and some zombie eats the villager without you knowing about it).
Or is it one of those games like Starbound where you absolutely must mod it to get any kind of decent experience out of it?