Notch Announces Minecraft 'Adventure Update'

jjp9999 writes "Notch announced that Minecraft 1.7 will include the long-awaited 'Adventure Update.' In an E3 roundup on his blog, Notch wrote, 'The idea with this update is to flesh out the game a bit, making it reward exploration and combat more.' Although he added, 'We're keeping the details secret so people can get surprises,' Notch wrote back on July 7, 2010 that Adventure Mode would be one of the three game modes in Minecraft (the other two being Survival and Creative), and would include a health bar and an inventory, but would remove the player's ability to place or destroy blocks. He said the value of this is that 'people can design "challenge maps" in creative or survival mode, then share them with people so that they can try to beat them in Adventure mode.' Interestingly, Notch also announced the release of the Minecraft source code to a small group of mod developers, in his latest blog post."

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Terraria

[cgeys]

Personally I've lost interested to Minecraft long time ago. It was fun back then, but meh now. But I tried Terraria with a friend and it's a similar game, but more stuff to do and some point in it. It's worth a look.

Re:Terraria

[Daetrin]

I knew when I decided not to buy it that it would get boring fast. I've watched a few people play it and all I ever see them do is start fresh, start a "home base", get to the point that they can hide in base during the night and explore during the day, and then close it to play a different game.

I can only think of two possibilities, either the people you watched are completely uncreative, or they've already got some other area of their life in which they are creative so they don't feel the need for another one.

Personally i started the game and built a "home base" and did a bit of exploring, but i didn't like the snowy terrain i'd started in. So i started a new world. Then i built a "home base" in that one. Then i built a fountain. Then i built a farm around the fountain. Then i dug down to the bottom of the world so i could mine cool stuff. Then i saw a giant plateau and wanted to get to the top and spent awhile digging my way up there. Then i built a castle on top of the plateau. Then i dug an underground tunnel to connect the castle with my first home base. Then i dug an underground farm. Then i started crafting decorative items. Then i built a large lava pool.

And then i got distracted watching the Yogscast Minecraft videos on YouTube, and then i decided to try out the Survival Island challenge myself. Then that inspired me to start a new world and build a new type of home base. Then i built a portal to the Netherworld and started collecting stuff there.

Then i got distracted by Gemcraft Labyrinth for awhile, and then got distracted from that by Terraria. However i fully plan to go back to Minecraft and build more cool stuff, especially when the next updates happen. (I haven't even played around with minecarts or redstone at all yet!)

And i am by far not the most creative person out there. You can go on YouTube and find thousands of videos from people a million times more creative than me.

So Minecraft only gets boring fast if you have no interest in building stuff. Perhaps you meant to say "I have no interest in being creative in a building game so i knew it would get boring for me fast"? Because as originally stated your blanket statement is manifestly untrue.

Re:Terraria

[Cimexus]

It depends what kind of game you prefer:

Minecraft concentrates on the creationism/building. There's no end-game goals, there's not much in the way of RPG/adventure elements (yet) - it's basically virtual Lego. I like that and I'm still playing it obsessively (big projects take months or years to build unless you hack, so I can see myself playing it for a while yet).

Terraria focuses more on the exploration/gear/adventure elements and less on building. It has a far greater array of droppable/craftable/mineable items and a more complex gear/stats system. But you can't really build anything amazing in it like Minecraft (since it's 2D). There's also some identifiable 'end game' goals which MC doesn't really have, and the world is finite etc.

They are superficially similar games, but in reality, made for two different types of gamer. If you prefer adventurey spelunking elements without having to just sit there mining huge amounts of resources to build stuff, Terraria is great. If you don't really care too much for hacking monsters up and finding items, but just want to build some awesome structures, Minecraft.

I like both TBH, but I think Minecraft will have more long-term appeal.

Re:Terraria

[k8to]

I think you just proved the point.

Minecraft isn't interesting. The people who play minecraft are interesting.

Re:Minecraft vs. Terraria

[mark-t]

...but after a while, you kind of get bored of building stuff...

One word. Lego.

Building new stuff never gets old for someone who has a passion to create.

Re:Minecraft vs. Terraria

[guruevi]

I think it gets boring in single player but when you play online and can share your 'inventions' or collections with others, it becomes much better. You can also make it reflect real world if you want to and build mock-ups of your real-world ideas. I'm building my basement to scale (1m per block) for fun right now but I'm planning on converting it into a man-cave so I could use it to mock-up my placement ideas.