Does anybody else get this strange vibe when it comes to dead minecraft servers? Like, they used to be so full of life, players interacting with each other, making jokes, exploring the map, mining, crafting, trading and now there's not a single soul in sight. Farms are all grown but there's nobody to collect them, all the pet dogs or cats endlessly awaiting the return of their owners. All the empty mineshafts, all the mined ores or blocks that will never be put to use.
Does anybody else get this strange vibe when it comes to dead minecraft servers? Like, they used to be so full of life...
Austin Rodriguez
William Gutierrez
Yeah, Minecraft's an existential game. One reason they hate Notch; they'd rather no one dare oppose the materialist narrative.
Ayden Adams
well obviously once the game is figured out there is not going to be the same energy from the players
Levi Roberts
The effect applies to all abandoned servers of any game, really. MC and such just have the added benefit of everything being more or less forged by the players. This makes them into digital ruins of sort.
Been watching Holo-live's videos recently. They got their own server with a town pretty much like in the OP picture. Vids from a year or two ago has the group having blast, building places together and trolling each other. The slow progress is inspiring to look at.
Fast forward to present day, with individual videos of some of them visiting the now deserted server for the first time in ages. Yeah, the structures are still there, telling a story of their own, but they're pretty much just husks without players.
Jason Perry
>Tfw no games that emulate the feeling of joining an empty server other than No Players Online
Elijah Nelson
I got this feeling after launching animal crossing after a couple months of not playing.
John Miller
Should I launch the minecraft server I had with my ex and walk around in it
Sebastian Taylor
Yes and post vids
Blake Lee
I just want to play on an actual server with actual people that doesn't die after a few days
Brayden Barnes
i feel this way in MC regardless. a huge world where you can build stuff but not really interact with anything unless you have mods installed. i still have no idea why they don't implement more complex stuff than fucking redstone.
Evan Harris
I miss playing with my friends our castle. Good times. Now playing it's like a single player game, but it was better when we could kill each other.
Julian Watson
>play in a little server that had like 20 people max for months
>server eventually shuts down
>admin uploads the map in case someone wants it
>tfw I still walk arround these towns at least two times per year to remember good times
Dylan Scott
I know that feel, i still have tons of screenshots from 5-6 years ago, i look at them every so often and think about how fun playing with my friends was back then
Adam Cook
i still have the map we've been building with my friends.. simpler times. sometimes I play it by myself, walk through the streets and wonder where they all are
Mason Russell
Play on 2b2t and explore the thousands of ruined and abandoned bases
Nicholas White
is there a mod that makes every block look old/rusty/dirty based on how long it's been there?
Grayson Wilson
Same except the owner was a dick and refused to share the map because the highest donating players didn't want others to know where and how they hid their bases and vaults.
Jonathan Harris
You can’t even get in these days, the queue lasts for hours
John Russell
I usually queue before I go to work and It'll be done when I get home
Easton Rivera
I kinda got that feeling of melancholic decay and emptiness from Dark Souls, early on, before it turned into le hard game meme
My earliest sense if this though was inheriting an old computer as a child, a very ancient dos only floppy disk drive and all ibm. Exploring the system through the command line felt like combing through a dead city. It even had some games on it, like this one helicopter rescue side scroller.
Since then, I've always been kind of struck occasionally by that strange sensation when contemplating my own insignificance, or in quiet moments of isolation. I think the Germans call it Sonder.
Leo Ramirez
Play haven and hearth. Most players burn out after a few months and there's player made ruins everywhere
Nathaniel Bailey
It is sad. Even a world of only 10,000 blocks or so will be forgotten one day. All the work will fade away, all the art, even the memories may disappear in time. Every idea that remained will not be realized.
Blake Collins
But that's okay! We'll come back and play again soon!
Henry Baker
What baffles me is that the server I played on they were willing to take the plots we had as long as we signed up for it and left specific coords for a corner, put them up for download... And then refused to give us the seed so we couldn't really make use of them.
I'm not just going to plop my plots into a random world. Why even waste several hours and upload/download traffic doing that if you weren't going to allow us to do this?
I kept them (and they were on a backup that didn't die when both my main drive and a backup which had most of my MC stuff at the time died a few years back) but they're rather pointless.
Asher Morales
I wish there was an optional feature that enables deterioration, so that if you abandonen a server, it'll actually start to look like ruins and be slowly overtaken by plants. Would make for some kino screenshots.
Angel Williams
mods do that.
Elijah Fisher
I know, but I'm taking about adding it into the base game.
Julian Kelly
Yeah it can be pretty spooky.
Even on servers that aren't completely dead, but parts of the servers that are dead.
Like civcraft when I played had like 125+ people on at all times, at one point the Zig Forums town had 100 players online at the same time.
I made a trip once to some mountains where iron was clustered(since resources were clustered like that on this map), and I went past several dead towns, some half raided.
Tyler Diaz
That's what a mod is, mate. An optional feature added to the base game. It's optional because you only download the mod if you want it.
Juan Gray
god that would kill me
Gavin Wood
>Play on a server that cannot be mentioned here solely because i'm lonely and a friend plays on it
>30+ people online at literally any time of day
>Two worlds, a freebuild world and a second with official builds built by teams handpicked by staff
>Fantastically friendly community
>Server dies due to admin bullshittery but girth of community moves on to a new server
>Server lasts for about 5 years with a population of about 80 people that played regularly
>Map was saved, occasionally walk through the ruins of an abandoned world
>Miss my friends
>Learn last year a new new server was started once again
>Don't have the energy or the care to try joining again
Evan Hernandez
I think there's something really special about minecraft towns that I can never quite pin down that I love. There's this sense of love and care in the buildings, but it's also organic, how you can see everyone clustering together making the most of what space they have is so cool to me