You can't step on a Minecraft cube barefoot or have a brick dig into your knees because you were playing on the floor and didn't pick up all the pieces.
Modded Minecraft is the serious shit, though. SO many mods. Many make the game such a super, super grind. Did a mod pack called "Sevtech Ages" that makes you progress from the stone age until later stuff. At first, to craft things, you literally need to smack them with a rock. After about a week playing this with my cousin, we'd finally managed to have what we needed to tan leather. No more living in holes in the ground for us, no sir! Now it was Teepee Time!
It's not for everyone, but some of it is pretty nifty. Much, much more involved than the regular vanilla stuff.
I'm pretty sure it's got one of the space mods in it, so theoretically you could eventually get to the stage where you build a space program, make a space station, and then advance throughout the solar system to (at least) pluto. Might have Exoplanets, too, but I'm not sure. We didn't get too far.
After the Teepees, probably a month later, we'd advanced to basic bronze tech, but we were in an age of superstition and magic, and the WONDERFUL people who put the pack together threw Lovecraftian stuff in there, too and there was a bug (fixed shortly after it happened to us,) where if a Shoggoth killy you, the black ooze blocks it spawns on the ground can overwrite your gravestone block (a gravestone allows you to find where you died and get all your shit back, instead of the usual "all your crap scatters all over the ground, you have 5 minutes before it all despawns" shit.) Anyway, we needed Shoggoth Flesh to build statues of the elder gods to do... something involving magic, probably banishing them, before we could advance beyond the magic and stuff to the Iron Age. But we lost everything we had due to a particularly bad massacre when these bastards surrounded us and oozed our graves into nothing. Sure, our base was still there, with my domesticated Buffalo harnessed to simple grindstones and chopping machines that helped to automate the processing of materials (no more hacking at every single log block manually, just had the buffalo's rope raise the blade on the chopper as it went in one direction, and the blade fell when it went around the other side! No simple crafting a log to get planks in Sevtech!) and my wonderful, WONDERFUL Aqueduct to irrigate our farmland (can't just hoe dirt in Sevtech! Can't make water source blocks either!!!! AND NO IRON BUCKETS YET!!!! Hell, can't even mine normally, as the Ores don't spawn true until you discover the metal! It just looks like STONE until you do!!!) But all our tools, and bronze and leather armor, and everything was gone. It would literally be HOURS to make it all again, especially considering that each piece of leather took like a half hour, real time, to cure. Anyway, the one hosting the server got pissed at that and shut it down, possibly while it was saving, and our saved world got corrupted. So we stopped.
Terrible shame. But I really, REALLY liked how deliberately and purposely you had to do everything. Couldn't start a new world and a half hour later have a laser mining robot or whatever. When you first discover how to attach Flint shards to a stick, and make your first hatchet, you feel like you're the king of the forest. The first time you discover that holding a bone and right clicking on stone actually makes you sharpen the bone into a point, and now you have your first non-rock-in-your-hand weapon, now you're a warlord. Man, I miss having time to play Minecraft. Maybe one day I'll get back to it, another hardcore timesink mod.
Plus, I remember playing with friends and building a massive castle built into a side of a mountain that had all sorts of complicated minecart systems to take you pretty much anywhere.
I accidentally burned down a friend's house because I was experimenting with lava moats.
I played it for five minutes total and was like "Is this all you do? meh."
Maybe it's because I grew up playing with Legos and I moved on.
But Lego doesn't have those creeper things that come after you, so less risk
You can't step on a Minecraft cube barefoot or have a brick dig into your knees because you were playing on the floor and didn't pick up all the pieces.
Define risk.
Well, I suppose you could make Minecraft more exciting by actually surrounding yourself with Lego landmines
Modded Minecraft is the serious shit, though. SO many mods. Many make the game such a super, super grind. Did a mod pack called "Sevtech Ages" that makes you progress from the stone age until later stuff. At first, to craft things, you literally need to smack them with a rock. After about a week playing this with my cousin, we'd finally managed to have what we needed to tan leather. No more living in holes in the ground for us, no sir! Now it was Teepee Time!
It's not for everyone, but some of it is pretty nifty. Much, much more involved than the regular vanilla stuff.
Sounds pretty fun actually.
How far can you advance?
I'm pretty sure it's got one of the space mods in it, so theoretically you could eventually get to the stage where you build a space program, make a space station, and then advance throughout the solar system to (at least) pluto. Might have Exoplanets, too, but I'm not sure. We didn't get too far.
After the Teepees, probably a month later, we'd advanced to basic bronze tech, but we were in an age of superstition and magic, and the WONDERFUL people who put the pack together threw Lovecraftian stuff in there, too and there was a bug (fixed shortly after it happened to us,) where if a Shoggoth killy you, the black ooze blocks it spawns on the ground can overwrite your gravestone block (a gravestone allows you to find where you died and get all your shit back, instead of the usual "all your crap scatters all over the ground, you have 5 minutes before it all despawns" shit.) Anyway, we needed Shoggoth Flesh to build statues of the elder gods to do... something involving magic, probably banishing them, before we could advance beyond the magic and stuff to the Iron Age. But we lost everything we had due to a particularly bad massacre when these bastards surrounded us and oozed our graves into nothing. Sure, our base was still there, with my domesticated Buffalo harnessed to simple grindstones and chopping machines that helped to automate the processing of materials (no more hacking at every single log block manually, just had the buffalo's rope raise the blade on the chopper as it went in one direction, and the blade fell when it went around the other side! No simple crafting a log to get planks in Sevtech!) and my wonderful, WONDERFUL Aqueduct to irrigate our farmland (can't just hoe dirt in Sevtech! Can't make water source blocks either!!!! AND NO IRON BUCKETS YET!!!! Hell, can't even mine normally, as the Ores don't spawn true until you discover the metal! It just looks like STONE until you do!!!) But all our tools, and bronze and leather armor, and everything was gone. It would literally be HOURS to make it all again, especially considering that each piece of leather took like a half hour, real time, to cure. Anyway, the one hosting the server got pissed at that and shut it down, possibly while it was saving, and our saved world got corrupted. So we stopped.
Terrible shame. But I really, REALLY liked how deliberately and purposely you had to do everything. Couldn't start a new world and a half hour later have a laser mining robot or whatever. When you first discover how to attach Flint shards to a stick, and make your first hatchet, you feel like you're the king of the forest. The first time you discover that holding a bone and right clicking on stone actually makes you sharpen the bone into a point, and now you have your first non-rock-in-your-hand weapon, now you're a warlord. Man, I miss having time to play Minecraft. Maybe one day I'll get back to it, another hardcore timesink mod.
Eh, its not for everyone.
I enjoy it because I love building stuff.
Plus, I remember playing with friends and building a massive castle built into a side of a mountain that had all sorts of complicated minecart systems to take you pretty much anywhere.
I accidentally burned down a friend's house because I was experimenting with lava moats.
Good times.