@redweasel
 
There’s also memory leaks (where the game will slowly use more and more ram), and all sorts of glitches and crashes (don’t pick up Botonia’s mana pool with the focus of picking things up (the one that allows you to pickup monster spawners and is a mod of a mod, it kills Minecraft). Other than that and eating up personal time like it’s nothing, Mods are awesome and fun but dangerous.
 
Reminds me of a fimfiction where twilight and Ponyville are transported to Minecraft via a block looking thing (never read the whole plot), it was pretty good for the most part and very long. Their reaction to all the weirdness is what got me, “oh no! somepony died, finds out they can come back to life (respawn), oh, they’re still alive what a relief!” and such.

@stemo
 
yeah that’s why I like open source. modding is great, but it gets so painful when I know how much the people creating those mods had to bleed to reverse engineer minecraft’s code.
 
plus it kind of bugs me that I have to run the server on my own dime, so the company doesn’t have to lift a finger, yet they’re the ones getting paid.
 
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oh plus it’s a horribly addictive, deliberately cruelly manipulative game that ruins my life even more and makes me forget to eat or sleep when I try to play it.  

@redweasel
 
Soo many lost diamonds! That is one reason why I love modded Minecraft, played a lot of yogbox and in that the enchanting table is no longer random and you can un-enchant your items (for some exp if I remember right too) and re-enchant them with more powerful enchants! So much fun getting them and what not I had.
 
I used to play diep.io as well, very fun tank game, in any case some good stuff!

@stemo
 
I only play open source games, so… not a big video game player, myself. but if I ever could play minecraft, I’d… probably make a creeper farm and go tnt mining.
 
but fortune 3 is good too. I do hate minecraft’s magic system though. so many diamonds wasted on picks with efficiency III just cluttering up chests. makes it more like work than a game.

@redweasel
 
Yeah, sucks that you aren’t guaranteed to get fortune 3, now-a-days I play mod-packs of Minecraft to spice things up a bit or play terraria. It can be fun the first few times you play but vanilla never really entertained me after a while. Whish there was better and more stuff to the vanilla experience, not what Microsoft is doing with it, I mean having auto jump on automatically? really? Who’s idea was that?!

@stemo
 
the real secret is to fast track your way to enchant a diamond pick with fortune III. if you don’t do that, you’ll spend your diamond pick digging faster than you actually find diamonds. so get a papyrus farm going, and find a skeleton spawner to build a mob farm with.
 
or do something fun instead of playing minecraft.

@redweasel  
Also, generally a good idea in Minecraft to place torches on either the right or left side of your mine consistently so that when you need to go back to the surface you know da way! Another orientational issue is if you fall just within your no damage from falling height when spelunking you will find you can’t find your way back, so either look up/down every time you find paths of torches leading nowhere or make the path easier to spot. After a few hundred runs the caves in Minecraft (from what I can tell) become much easier to remember (not sure how this happened), you gain a better ability to keep track of where you are and going despite the cave being quite different from any other, it is a bit weird.

step 1: dig deep  
step 2: plant torches  
step 3: avoid falling  
step 4: repeat until your eyes bleed  
step 5: maybe find a diamond if you’re lucky