A PSA: It's okay to play.
There is a common trend I've noticed, especially in Discords for various mods, where people will come in and post questions about how to craft certain things or how to build certain setups or use certain blocks in the mod at their most basic functional level -- often stuff that is already covered by in-game documentation, or they really ought to just install JEI/REI/EMI.
This is a message to many of those players:
It's okay to just play.
You're a living, thinking person with your own brain and your own creativity. You can figure things out. You don't need a 50-step block-by-block tutorial baked covering every nuance baked into item denoscriptions. It's okay to try things out. It's okay to make mistakes and not be optimal. If you're worried about wasting resources, it's okay to have a creative test world, even more than one, and even to delete them and make new ones!
Part of playing a sandbox game is that it is a sandbox. Trying stuff and and trying to make stuff work is part of it. That applies to all aspects of the game:
- Not sure how to build stuff? Try building stuff. You have an eye for what you like, and even if you're not good now you can get good through practice.
- Now sure how to wire redstone? Try wiring redstone. See how the different components interact, build a knowledge of how the systems work and eventually you too can put together complex machines.
- Not sure what's the best way to run pipes for some machines, or the right ratios for processing? Throw those machines down, see how much they make and how much it costs! If you've got a creative world, lots of big tech mods even add creative item sources you can pull from infinitely, just for this exact use case of trying stuff out!
- And a specific one for Create addons, since that's what triggered my rant: if the ponder shows one way to build a contraption, I guarantee you there's probably more than one. Throw some blocks together. If you have technical questions you can't figure out, like exactly how certain blocks and lengths factor into output or cost, that's the best time to come asking in Discords, with your cool build you're making and your desire to see it to completion.
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What do you think? Is there a way modders or the modding community can better reach these players? A way of writing documentation that helps people help themselves that maybe we aren't doing? Is it even worth it to try?
https://redd.it/1p1c4cb
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There is a common trend I've noticed, especially in Discords for various mods, where people will come in and post questions about how to craft certain things or how to build certain setups or use certain blocks in the mod at their most basic functional level -- often stuff that is already covered by in-game documentation, or they really ought to just install JEI/REI/EMI.
This is a message to many of those players:
It's okay to just play.
You're a living, thinking person with your own brain and your own creativity. You can figure things out. You don't need a 50-step block-by-block tutorial baked covering every nuance baked into item denoscriptions. It's okay to try things out. It's okay to make mistakes and not be optimal. If you're worried about wasting resources, it's okay to have a creative test world, even more than one, and even to delete them and make new ones!
Part of playing a sandbox game is that it is a sandbox. Trying stuff and and trying to make stuff work is part of it. That applies to all aspects of the game:
- Not sure how to build stuff? Try building stuff. You have an eye for what you like, and even if you're not good now you can get good through practice.
- Now sure how to wire redstone? Try wiring redstone. See how the different components interact, build a knowledge of how the systems work and eventually you too can put together complex machines.
- Not sure what's the best way to run pipes for some machines, or the right ratios for processing? Throw those machines down, see how much they make and how much it costs! If you've got a creative world, lots of big tech mods even add creative item sources you can pull from infinitely, just for this exact use case of trying stuff out!
- And a specific one for Create addons, since that's what triggered my rant: if the ponder shows one way to build a contraption, I guarantee you there's probably more than one. Throw some blocks together. If you have technical questions you can't figure out, like exactly how certain blocks and lengths factor into output or cost, that's the best time to come asking in Discords, with your cool build you're making and your desire to see it to completion.
---
What do you think? Is there a way modders or the modding community can better reach these players? A way of writing documentation that helps people help themselves that maybe we aren't doing? Is it even worth it to try?
https://redd.it/1p1c4cb
@MinecraftModded
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Made a mod that lets you keybind common commands (and command shortcuts)
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