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Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

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  1. lukan · · focus · HN ↗
    "I started playing Minecraft, man, when my kids were young,” Tomlin said. “I have a Minecraft city in creative that I’ve been working on for like 12 years."

    Yeah, it is fun exploring dungeons with my kids. But it seems he clicked the city together? That part always bothered me with minecraft to build anything big, or repetitive.

    Well, I love automation, and AI is awesome for that. So now my kids can add details to castles or railwails build by algorithm (But using commands is a big temptation to destroy game balance in survival mode).

    1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
      The surprising thing about Minecraft is it's less fun when you make building easier. My friends and I played on a survival mode server from middle school until college. Any of us could sit for hours building on that, but trying to do the same in creative mode would get boring after a few minutes.

      Some people are fine with creative mode. The coach wanted a modern city, which is prohibitively difficult in survival mode because of how the ingame materials work. But in that case, it's not fun to use WorldEdit.

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