How I fixed my BIGGEST ISSUE with Minecraft (with Datapacks/Plugins)

Today, we tackle what is my personal biggest issue with Minecraft; the progression from wooden tools to iron tools. It is far too quick and can make repeat playthroughs unchallenging, repetitive and boring. So... I'm gonna change that.

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[TheGeekFactor_]

Hey there! Thanks for watching this video! I’d love to hear some feedback here in the comments! The server is actively being worked on and Id love to hear your ideas!

Also, I’d like to take a moment to point out the criticism that the title of this video is clickbait because I “used mods” to make this. I did not. I used a plugin and my own datapack. A plugin is not a mod as it is server side, not client side. There are no modifications happening client side. This is done so that anyone can enjoy the server without having to install any mods.

So, if the semantics of mods vs plugin vs datapacks really bothers you, then I’m sorry. If the title was clickbait, I would have said “vanilla Minecraft.” Anyway, that’s my one nitpick about my own essay. Perhaps I could have conveyed that better, but hey, ya win some, ya lose some.

[captianblitz]

"9 Iron bits can be combined for one Iron ingot" so you invented iron Nuggets

[fredbronkema]

9:04 ah yes, my favorite healing potion: dandelion opium soup

[thehandon]

My mans is basically describing a slightly dumbed down Terrafirmacraft mod

[HoldenVontz]

...And the issue of inventory management grows

[unlucky_]

honestly my favorite part of mc is the exploration. then i settle down and things get really boring without someone to play with...

[Alguien_random_aqui]

my ass ain't surviving 10 seconds with 3 hearts

[NA-xbxu]

"Sharing your tools is banned"
"Theft and murder is legal outside of claims"

Oh no, I have stepped outsife my claim without my armor on and with my precious tools on my person! I sure hope my friend right here won't betray and kill me to get them!

[polishscribe]

While a lot of these ideas are creative, they just don't fit Minecraft.
Yes, the bed crafting is cool, but the progression seems overcomplicated.
I once opposed the idea of copper and bronze tools, but that's what we need.
Make iron appear less on the surface and require bronze, and add copper/bronze replacement for iron utilities
(Example: copper shield breaks super fast, copper bucket can't hold lava).
For insane regeneration speed, it shouldn't be disabled, or even slowed that much. Better idea is to make it consume more of your food bar, and speaking of it, it should drop quicker.

[drewdemers]

this definitely isn’t vanilla minecraft… that being said this is so awesome and I would love for this to be a game mode and I would totally play this as someone stuck in the instant progression burnout loop.

[kubistonek]

"Tedious" is the word you are looking for, not "difficult"

[NekuZX]

I mean I get it. I would've honestly just added copper tools and removed stone tools. But if you're adding shit like Zinc and Carbon into the number of resources you have to keep track of, you're commiting the exact same mistakes that make the one million and one tech mods suck ass. You understood the problem but the solution was misguided, and just made another bad tech mod.

[whyiwakeup]

I think your changes to the health system do not take into account the fact that it makes so many of the preexisting mobs insanely difficult to fight without any real armor or a shield in a way that is not positive for “true survival”

[DissonantSynth]

I like that flint is needed for the stone tool recipes. Great idea.

[joy]

I started playing Minecraft 5 years ago, it was introduced to me by my son who's been playing it for the past 15 years old. At the age of 26, my son, and me at 45, We absolutely love this game. I choose not to fight the ender dragon, haven't even made an attempt to go to the end. I really just love the survival aspect of minecraft. I don't do any Redstone automation, I don't do any mob farms, I like to go out and explore the world. I don't want the game to become too easy for me then I'll get bored. Eventually I'll visit the end, and eventually I might decide to go after ancient debris, but until then, I'm just enjoying playing Minecraft like it's 2011.

I like the challenge that you presented in your video. I've been playing games since I was 13. I played the games that had no checkpoints or saved files.

[Erynash]

I feel like this time around you took a good segment of progression and overcomplicated it needlessly. I like the way Iron is now. I play survival, yeah, but I'm a builder. If I wanted to spend 4x as long making a single tool, I'd play a different game. In Minecraft it makes sense you get Iron tools fast because anything below is borderline unusable for anything larger than a starter hut.

[Chris_Elric]

I need to make a second comment because I just finished the video
This is not Minecraft anymore. This is a separate game entirely. Like what you said about the wiki thing, it's very reminiscent of Terraria, which is infamous for people relying on its wiki. By fundamentally changing the game in the ways you have (complicating everything, like beds, armor, tools, health), you're basically forcing players to play one way, which is your way. By discouraging players to play how they want, it sort of kills the game for them, like famers, explorers, redstoners, etc. It's a sandbox game, not a survival game. I know you've gotten many comments like this one, so I'm sorry if it's repetitive, but I had to say something.

[powerrangerroy]

Something I usually do is pretty simple. Having a mod which changes the stone tool recipe to use actual stone and iron smelting into nuggets

[Handles_AreStupid]

Did you just "muh society" in a video about block game being to easy? It isn't a "societal norm" to want the best stuff you can get, it's an innate human trait. Do you really think cave men were sat there, looking at their copper/bronze adorned neighbours and thinking "I don't need earthly possessions"?

[thgeneration]

Keep in mind the recipes are simple for a reason, back 14 years ago no one knew anything and there was no recipe book.
Minecraft's progression was you figuring out how to craft wood/stone tools. And figuring that out from scratch was HARD.