That is part of the game, the monster attacks definitely keep you on your toes when you're exploring. Most of the crafting recipes however, are for tools and decorations. The recent update has introduced 15 different coloured dyes to dye your woollen blocks. You can craft minecarts and paintings. I've pretty much been able to avoid most monster encounters now and spend a lot of my time on home improvements.
There isn't really any point. There's no plot, there's no fancy AI, there's only you, a massive randomly generated world, some monsters and a whole lot of digging. I would tentatively suggest that it's like Ray Mear's Bushcraft. If you can run any modern games at decent speeds, Minecraft should run ok. @cmdrmonkey, Online play is pretty much identical to singleplayer, except there are more of you. But there's just something fun about creating in a group, most servers will have people building villages and towns. Our server just happens to have a giant skull.
Anything that you can think you can make out of blocks, you should be able to build in this. You also get a bevy of switches and other stuff so you can make circuits. The only things you can build that move, however are minecarts and boats, both craftable items.
So I could create a island in the middle of a lake with a penis and balls shaped tower for my evil deeds? If so, count me in when I have the time.
@both you penis fixated people Yes, you can build yourself a giant penis with or without balls. You'll have to work hard for it though.
Could I make it shoot urine into a moat of pee? What about a butt? Could I make a butt that poops into a giant toilet? Or better yet, a giant mouth?
There are formulas for creating items and you can only create items and materials that are allowed. Once you have a material like cobble stone you can build any structure you want with it. Some materials like metal are rare and hard to find.
The only fluids in the game are water and lava. Luckily for you, I found a picture that may be up your alley.
That program works well. Like you said I need to build a big beacon to figure out where I am. Looks like I wondered a long ways a way.
@bfun Glad I could help, getting lost is no fun whatsoever. I must've tunnelled everywhere that wasn't the way back.
Monkey! We could team up and create a giant penis shooting hot sticky magma towards a giant bearded face of monsly!!
Monsly doesn't have a beard, his face is like an egg. You're thinking of grim, he has the beard of a savage
He will do after all that sticky Magma. Anyway, this game seems really cool actually and could be a great "boredom filler". I will definitely try it at some point.
Just had a neat idea. How about glass walk ways that go out over the land? I'm lighting up my island like a Christmas tree. Might be cool to have a glass web over the top. Spider would be an issue and I'd need lots of sand. Perhaps getting lost wasn't so bad. Now I know where the desert is.