Are you Bored of Minecraft?

I just accept that sometimes I won't want to play Minecraft for months at a time, but I will eventually get back to it, in sort of waves

"A base that feels alive is much better than a mega base that feels dead." I think probably the best possible example of this is Grian's season 8 base compared to his season 7 base. His alley wasn't big at all, but had so much detail and life. In comparison, his mansion was massive, but felt dead.

This feels like a "how to play minecraft with depression" video and im all for it

As a player for 12 years and a builder for 10, I absolutely agree on building in chunks or stages. Don't try to do all of it at once and if you're playing survival, then always try to condense your builds as much as possible, if you're not comfortable doing singular projects over several years. Cause the reality of mega builds like thatoldkid - Center of Valhalla is that those kind of projects take 3 months to do, full time, 12-15 hours a day, every day and still needs a helping hand from WorldEdit to complete on time. You're not gonna be able to do the same in the weekends over a couple months. Even servers like SciCraft and Hermitcraft would take months of full time work to replicate such a massive project in survival. So I guess the 4 core rules for doing builds in general are: 1, Build in stages. Always. Long time builders typically start with the blocks that make up the majority/foundation of the overall build and then add details in layers. Think of building like painting, but in 3D. It's a lot like that. 2, Scale down your ideas. It's super easy to find inspiration for epic builds, but super hard to actually accomplish them. Scale them down and do a little bit at a time. If you dream of a mega base, start with your entrance, or your storage room, or something entirely else. If you want to build a city, do one house at a time. Don't try to do it all at once. You will burn out. 3, Use a building palette. All builders use a building palette. The vast majority use a visible one, but there are builders like myself who uses an invisible one, aka our palette is in our heads and it changes according to the style we build our build in. Say you have an idea to start a medieval build, but while you build it, you find yourself wanting it to be more fantasy inclined. Here an invisible palette is easier than a visible, as you simply change the blocks in your palette in your head, rather than having to replace them in-world. It is though a bit hard to learn, so if you're new in building, then always use a visible palette. It makes it a lot easier to accomplish your dream. 4, take breaks. Don't try to stress things through. Take your time and take breaks. Your breaks doesn't necessarily have to be breaks from the game, just breaks from building. Go on an exploration. See other places of your world seed, maybe get some inspiration from there. Or go on a resource gathering spree, a mob grinding/killing spree, whatever you feel like doing to get some off time from building. If you want a good example of what burnout of mega projects looks like, I have a video of an update I did to my cathedral project, 7 years ago. I still haven't progressed that project any further than it was 7 years ago. Instead, I started another build project (that have yet to be released) and which I have been building on progressively over the past 7 years. It's gotten so close to completion, but I need a new PC to complete it. As of right now, my FPS drops to a complete slideshow the moment I attempt continuing the build. And that's despite giving it 16 GB of RAM and running a rig with an i7 6700K CPU (granted, it's a bit dated now) and a 2060 GPU. I'm confident it would fry the average laptop.

This guy went from a redstone engineer to a philosopher.

I feel like Mumbo has personal experience in this subject Edit: sarcasm

It's funny because you can use his advice for pretty much everything in the real world... not just in the game

Changing the random tick speed to quicken things up helped me invest more time into my world. I know it sounds counterintuitive, but it helped me achieve my own goals quickly and motivated me to move up to bigger and better projects

Mumbo’s tips feel a lot more different than most, considering most YouTube videos on this topic recommend either making entire cities or interdimensional conquest.

I started playing in peaceful survival mode because I like working for things in a way that creative really removes the point of, but I was so tired of mobs. I realized my experience is my own and I don't have anything to prove by playing on actually difficult modes. Being able to enjoy the night in Minecraft without ensuring proper lighting is up everywhere and worrying about my freeroaming villagers has been a wonderful experience.

I just wanna say, one of my favorite things about Mumbo is his integrity. I’m p sure without fail, every time I’ve watched a mumbo vid and thought “well, that kinda missed the mark”, he either revisits the concept having felt the same, or if it’s a series or whatever just does better in future parts. Like, just constantly seeking to improve and wanting to deliver quality content to the audience

honestly i turn on keep inventory every time bc running back to get my stuff before it disappears is just not my idea of a fun time also using chunkbase to look around the seed i’m in has been some of the most fun to me, it makes me more excited to look around and go out to travel and find new areas. it also made me start using maps more which is another fun extra thing to do

7:14 what my friends and I have always done is similar but more harsh - we'd take only necessities with us (food, maybe a stack of dirt, stone tools, just enough to survive the journey), then leave our old base behind and wander until a new place looked super cool, then start anew. Doing that a few times meant we had multiple cool bases strewn across the land over the years, and it was always nice to stumble across old builds vs a new world every time.

I’m very glad he said something about alternate crafting recipes for things like elytra! I’ve used two for fun. First I make a “Herobrine Altar” to sacrifice the items for the good thing. I will take lingering potions of regen, health, and fire res plus a diamond and a golden apple for an enchanted apple as one of the ideas I use. The other that I want some help with is a spawner+egg. I think it needs iron ingots/bars and I’m not sure about the center item. I don’t want to do netherite ingots, but I do think it should be moderately expensive. Eggs I’ve just grabbed for free, and I’ve used an enchanted apple in the past for the center, but I’d like your thoughts too!

I liked the tip to make things easier for yourself if it makes your gameplay more pleasant. The only way I ever cheat is to give myself a lot of torches when I go caving the first time because I've found the experience of being jumpscared by mobs in the dark simply unsustainable for my enjoyment of the game. After that point I can collect my own coal and make my torches legitimately, but for the sake of not playing in a way that's literally detrimental to my mental health (my startle response is extreme and can have long-term effects on my mood for the rest of the day if triggered severely enough) I always cheat myself the first batch of torches. I've always felt a little guilty for doing this, like it takes away from my legitimacy as a minecraft player, but when it comes down to it, my ability to play the game in a way that isn't harmful to me is more important than a fake and arbitrary rules system perpetrated by people who think they're better than me for how THEY play the block game.

Just seeing Grian, Scar, and Iskall in the "play with your friends" step warms my heart <3 Love watching Mumbo and Iskalls old end bust livestreams and all other shenanigans these block boys get up to. Great video, Mumbo. Feel inspired to open Minecraft or even just write something after watching this :D

i started playing with keep inventory on and it immediately brought back a ton of my minecraft motivation. i’m an overly cautious person, and i realized i wasn’t being as adventurous as i ought to because i was worried about losing the gear and resources i’d worked super hard to get. there’s no wrong way to play minecraft!! do what makes it FUN for you!

i remember traveling over 30000 blocks away from my base to find a goat horn, and i ended up in the most beautiful mountain range with a village i’ve ever seen. all i did out there was sit in a tent i made for a couple hours and sing to my friends.

Love this video very educational in general. I just got back into Minecraft after maybe 5 years. Last time I played it was so different and at first it was daunting, like I tried playing a few years ago after the nether and aquatic updates and I was overwhelmed by new mechanics I hated how much the game changed. Now I'm enjoying the learning and seeing how the new things work through YouTube.

I'm struggling to study for a linear algebra final, and in procrastinating I started watching this video. This advice can be applied to most anything, and now I'm a touch less likely to fail this one. Thanks, Mumbo.